The majority of cardinals gradually withdrew from the papal court and met at Anagni and declared Urban's election null and void because, they alleged, their votes had been made under pressure. They then elected one of their own as Pope Clement VII. For the next three decades the church was divided along national, political, and religious lines between the papal claimants - the Roman line of Urban VI, Boniface IX, Innocent VII, and Gregory XII, and the Avignon line of Clement VII and Benedict XIII. Finally, in the early 1400's, cardinals of both popes met in Pisa where they declared both current popes as "notorious schismatics and heretics." They elected a new pope, yet the schism continued until the Council of Constance removed all three claimants and elected the one pope accepted by just about all, Martin V. .
Another problem in the medieval church was that of indulgences. Indulgences were thought to be a means of redemption from sins and punishment. In reality the sales of indulgences were a means of raising funds to build and adorn cathedrals and palaces because offerings and feudal endowments were not raising enough money. By the late middle ages they were abused for the purposes of raising money and gaining social control. .
God's word includes Ten Commandments. They are: .
1. Though shall have no other God's before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image .
3. Though shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain .
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy .
5. Honor they father and they mother .
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shall not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet .
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.
