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Martin Luther And The Sacraments

            The first sacrament that I found to be rejected by both Martin Luther and the peasants was penance. Martin Luther wrote: "absolutely none among outward things has any influence in producing Christian righteousness or liberty." What this quote means is that any outside force has no bearing on matters of the soul. This would void penances because the main idea behind them was to have a priest (an OUTWARD force) administer them to you. By having an outward thing deal with matters of the soul one is giving up their Christian liberty to someone who does not have an affect anyway. The peasants would reject the idea of penance because it goes against their third article which says: "it is consistent with the Scripture that we should be free and under no authority." The act of penance would not jive with this article because the act of penance puts your soul into the hands of the priest.
             The second sacrament that both Luther and the peasants rejected was the holy order. Luther wrote: "it will profit nothing that the body should be adorned with sacred vestment- The quote basically says that there is no reason to spend obscenely. Many people of the holy order spent lavishly on themselves and their surroundings. This spoke against it. The peasants would reject the idea of the holy order because of their second article. It says: "we are ready and willing to pay the fair tithe of grain what remains shall be given to the poor." The holy order would not flow with article two because much of the money went to the order itself with little going to the poor, if any.
            


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