Feb 2

As science was on the up rising to be considered a "new religion" to some people during the scientific revolution, Christianity was steadily on the decline in the West. Places like North America, and even Europe were victimized by "an increasingly godless West". People in the west started to be more materialistic to which is still plaguing our societies today. Martin Luther came to realization that our connection to God and where ones soul goes after they have died is purely basis off faith and through faith alone. He states that faith is "Neither the good works of the sinner nor the sacraments of the Church had any bearing on the eternal destiny of the soul, for faith was a free gift of God". Your faith means more to God than all the worldly possession that you own. Luther realized that faith is the only  thing that matters to God when judging a soul's final destination.