“Humankind wasn’t ready.”
So humankind was ready for Jesus Christ, but not for a German monk? Your view makes no sense whatsoever.
>>So humankind was ready for Jesus Christ, but not for a German monk? Your view makes no sense whatsoever.
You don’t understand the work of Christ. He didn’t bring an intellectual understanding of god. He brought God himself. He brought Grace and delivered the Holy Spirit. That changed man forever, but even the Spirit-led man had to exist in a world of paganism that required a strong, centralized political church. Note that even that church split several times before the Reformation, so division was not an invention Luther.
IN fact, he did not split the church at the Reformation. It was the Roman Church that murdered (or more correctly, had papal-controlled secular leaders murder) Reformers and eventually the Roman Church expelled them all. Then, a short time later, that same church admitted that it was wrong and ENACTED many of Luther’s reforms.