Luther's Rose Long Sleeve Tee

When faced with legal and ecclesiastical conviction, excommunication and even execution as a heretic for his criticism of the Catholic Church in his 95 Theses, Martin Luther could not recant what Scripture, through the Holy Spirit, had convicted him of first. When asked at the Diet of Worms if he would recent he famously answered, “unless I am convinced by sacred Scripture, or by evident reason, I cannot recant, for my conscience is held captive by the Word of God, and to act against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.” “For Luther, however, much more important than the study of history and theology was the study of the Bible. As he liked to say, the church had made him a professor of the Bible and had made him swear to teach the Bible faithfully, and that was what he was doing and had always done. His conscience was captive to the Word of God, which was his only ultimate authority. By implication, he was teaching clearly that the Bible a