On October 31, 1517, A young Friar approached the doors of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg with a stack of papers in his hands which he promptly nailed to the doors. These pages contained a copy of his Ninety-Five These that he had translated into German. These writings were the beginning of the Reformation with ideas that were so radical that they shock the very foundations of the Roman Catholic Church. The young friars name was Martin Luther.   The Roman Catholic Church was teaching that you could use indulgence to reduce the amount of punishment one had to go through to be forgiven for their sins. The theory behind this was that it would only take one drop of Jesus’s blood to wash away all the sins of the world and the rest of his blood along with all the extra merit that Mary and all the saints had accumulated in their life that wasn’t needed to get into heaven was stored somewhere and you could pay a fee to lower or remove their punishment. It also allowed t...