Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

During the Reformation, there were some controversial matters given to the emperor. It really started with Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses. This was in 1517 and the Theses was basically discrediting the pope during the time. Luther was claiming that the pope was taking money from the poor and building his own wealth from that. This was exposing the system in which peasants lived and Luther was stating that the right way to enter Heaven was to follow Christ the right way. In 1521, the emperor had their declaration of policy and was not astonished by Luther’s statements and forbid him to preach because it would incite the peasants to rebel. This led to the 12 articles of the peasants in March of 1525 where they declared what should happen and

For example, some of the articles dealt with land ownership and the peasants were stating their rights to the land. In a lot of circumstances, the peasants did not have the rights to hunt, fish, or even wood-cut. In the articles, Christ is mentioned with delivering us all the gifts of living by dying on the cross, so the peasants were saying that they should have the freedom of their property to do as they please in the right way. More grievances come economically and personally in the ending articles and the peasants were putting God on their side as why they should not be treated unjustly. The conclusion stated that the peasants would exercise their rights through Christian teaching and pray to God since he is the all mighty and can protect them with peace. The twelve articles should have made the German elite nervous because this meant that the people wanted change in their lives. If the elites did not change the ways the peasants were treated, then that could have caused a rebellion. The peasants ultimately justified their resistance by getting their voices out there in the