The Reformation was an era of political, social, and religious unrest and many changes were made during this period. Peoples' eyes were opened to a lot of the practices and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, which before no one seemed to have thought about in a negative manner. The readings of the German, Martin Luther and Frenchman, John Calvin influenced many people to have questions about their church, its teachings and why one should believe in the theology of what they have been raised with. These two writers were undoubtedly, the main contributers in starting such a large religious revolution of turmoil and separation throughout Europe. They have changed society and the way people practice the Christian religion today.
             Although these two religious writers protested the corrupt, man-made rules and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, they surprisingly did not meet on the same level spiritually. They did not share the same beliefs about God and God's will for mankind and how to be saved so as to go to heaven, also known as salvation. Because of their contrasting views against the Catholic Church, they produced new denominations of Christianity called Calvinism and Lutherinism. Many other variations were to follow in the future.
             Only a few years after Martin Luther was an ordained priest in 1507, did he begin raising questions about what was being practiced. He dealt with the structure of the church and to what exactly its moral values were. There were too many rules and ways to get to heaven in the Catholic church which were to him, completely contrivances of man and not God's Biblical plan for salvation. Martin Luther knew that these rules were not of sound doctrine. He produced a list of new list of "laws" so-to-speak, called the
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