During this time, many people deserted their family and friends, including young children. The traditional funeral customs also collapsed and were replaced by new funeral customs and the writing of wills also began. People believed that the plague was God’s punishment for their sins. People where becoming unsure about their salvation. If God was supposed to be a loving, just God, then why had he done this?

People knew that God’s grace is absolutely necessary for salvation, and they thought that church was the only place for them to be saved, but during the late 1400’s, people where becoming skeptical about the church because of it’s materialism and corruption. At this time, before Luther’s reform, people based their salvation on achieving good works and people began questioning if they had done their very best or done enough to earn salvation.

3. Though shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain…

The primary purpose of the law is to restore relationship between God and man and establish the foundation for relationships with one another. According to Luther, “the commandments show us what we ought to do but do not give us the power to do it.” God realizes that humans do not have the capacity to obey all of his laws because we are born flawed with sin. When man realizes that he cannot follow God’s laws because of his sinful nature, he gets despaired and he realizes his helplessness. If he cannot follow God’s laws, how is he to be saved? Luther believes that the laws are impossible for us to follow but our salvation does not depend on our obedience of these laws, our salvation is dependent on faith alone in God.

5. Honor they father and they mother…

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