Marty didn’t fix the church.
He actually very well may have had a well-defined case of Asperger Syndrome as he hammered with an overly-focused solution trying to repair a very real set of problems that were however quite outside of his narrow approach. And he held to it like a maniac.
If salvation is as Marty defined it, you would see Jesus hammering on “faith alone” and “scripture alone” like Marty did. But open your Bible and study Jesus’ words and works. Study Paul’s words. Compare the focus of Jesus to Marty’s. Compare the focus of Paul to Marty’s
Certainly faith and scripture are indispensable in the road to salvation, but Marty Luther, although a man of high drama, unlike many canonized saints and the apostles, was not all that Christ-like.
No he didn't. If God gave up trying what chance did he have?
But open your Bible and study Jesus’ words and works.
That's what Martin Luther did and he saw the fallacy in trusting in Rome. If Rome is not the Whore of Babylon (Revelations), then she is a close runner up.
In other words - a true German.
Why do you listen to Paul any more than Luther? Neither one ever met Christ. One’s revelation from God seems as valid as the others. And I remember Christ saving a man on the cross who did nothing more than offer his faith in Jesus.