Charlie (@clong5604)

#On_This_Day 504 years ago December 10, 1520, the deadline for Martin Luther’s recantation, students and professors at the University of Wittenberg gathered around Luther at a city gate. Because Luther’s books had been burned in other cities, Luther and his friends built a fire into which they cast works of scholastic theology. Finally, Luther took the pope’s bull and threw it into the flames. This was his answer to Leo. Luther would not recant. These three beliefs: Salvation comes by faith only (sola fide). Scripture alone is the source of divine revelation (sola scriptura). Only by God’s Grace can one be saved from eternal punishment (sola gratia). Were the foundations of Luther’s teaching.