The Protestant Reformation Online Reading Investigation
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This document discusses criticisms of the Catholic Church's practice of indulgences during the Protestant Reformation. It argues that Christians do not need papal pardons or indulgences to receive God's blessings and that forgiveness comes directly from God's righteousness.
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It’s good that the Pope asks God to forgive sinners, but not that he acts as though he can do the forgiving. Christians don’t need pardons or indulgences to received blessings from God, they already have it It doesn’t make sense that money can allow an unrighteou...
It’s good that the Pope asks God to forgive sinners, but not that he acts as though he can do the forgiving. Christians don’t need pardons or indulgences to received blessings from God, they already have it It doesn’t make sense that money can allow an unrighteous man and his enemies to buy the forgiveness of a righteous man, when the man’s righteousness is enough to free him from sin.
