Daniel+Troutman

95 thesis Daniel Troutman


 * 1) Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance. I think it means that believers should repent from their sins.
 * 2) Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon. I think this means that true Christians get to heaven even without the indulgences.
 * 3) Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better work than buying pardons; I think this means it is better to give than receive.
 * 4) Because love grows by works of love and man becomes better; but by pardons man does not grow better, only more free from penalty. I think this means if you serve others, you show that you love others.
 * 5) The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven. I think this means if you hate what you are doing and know it is wrong and you stop it, I think you have repented.
 * 6) They are enemies of Christ and of the pope, who bid the Word of God be altogether silent in some Churches, in order that pardons may be preached in others. I think this means that the pope is an enemy of Christ.
 * 7) St. Lawrence said that the treasures of the Church were the Church's poor, but he spoke according to the usage of the word in his own time. I think this means that the church was poor with money but rich with spirit.
 * 8) Injury is done the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or a longer time is spent on pardons than on this Word. I think this means that the pope is hurting the word of God.
 * 9) Therefore by "full remission of all penalties" the pope means not actually "of all," but only of those imposed by himself. This means that the people are forgiven for the sins
 * 10) The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are already dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be released from them. I think this means that that the dead are already saved.