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On today, 31st October 1517, a former Roman Catholic priest, Martin Luther left his 95 theses on the door of the Catholic church in Wittenberg, Germany. It led to sparkly "great chaos" in Western Christianity. Indulgence was the main of the biggest that Martin Luther believed that the Roman Catholic church to reform. He was a priest and saw what was Roman Catholic inside and created his famous 95 theses. He was initially to have a discussion with a pope, Pope Leon X, but the pope, unfortunately, had no time to hold a discussion with him and picked to arrest and punish him and his followers, in which the Roman Catholic church still supported the death penalty at that time, instead of forgiveness. Even though Martin Luther didn't really want to split and build his own church, he forcibly had to do as he thought it was the best for him and his followers as following his close theologians died by the death penalty and got caught by Roman troops. So, it was when latest since he left his 95 theses on the door and had never met with a pope. He married a former nun, Katherine von Bora, as well known as Katherine Luther. 

He led into Protestantism causing over 4,000 denominations across the world, such as evangelism, Lutheran, Calvinism, Anglican (established in the United Kingdom and main church across the UK), Baptist, Pentecostalism, etc. Martin Luther's teachings were at a Lutheran church that left his letter to encourage his followers to make the sign of the cross when praying, honour Mary, pray the Rosary, and never remove Catholic traditions, including what he wasn't anti statutes, despite he removed partially Bible and nearly removed the Revelation. You don't believe it? You should go to Germany where you should go to a Lutheran church that is still originally under his teachings. In Indonesia, we have GKI and GPIB which are claimed came from Martin Luther's teachings but those are actually untruthful. Both churches are a mix of Lutheran and Calvinism denominations. 

In a massively essential question that we want to know about him,

"If Martin Luther didn't agree with the Roman Catholic, why didn't he just go to Moscow to meet Orthodox priests by having a discussion, which was way better than splitting from the Roman Catholic church?" 

It was completely only what had for that time. If you did not agree with Roma, you just went to Moscow and met Orthodox priests because it was the only thing that you had. If you think so with Orthodox priests, you could be scheduled for catechism and baptism into Orthodoxy, then that was done! Way better than splitting from the church, that was something we didn't want to happen which led to sadly having so many denominations on this earth.

Yet, Orthodoxy, where Protestants claim, that's included as a denomination, even though we aren't. The Orthodox Christian is the oldest church that is still alive and unchanged. Yeah, we have two, Oriental and Eastern, but we are one, Orthodox. No different. We are the same. We still can receive the Holy Communion at least we tell the priest first before the liturgy begins. So, we are still one, Orthodox. 

And, the Orthodox those times where Martin Luther famously 95 theses, being a second-citizen class under the Ottoman Empire conquered Byzantium in 1453. Russia Orthodox was only still alive outside of the Ottoman Empire's control. Many churches became mosques under Ottoman rule, including the Hagia Sophia initially an Orthodox church, then Catholics came and became a Catholic church, and the Ottoman's first Friday prayer at Hagia Sophia then became a mosque. But God is greater, and Orthodox is still alive until now despite the patriarch having moved to Greece and Hagia Sophia is now officially a mosque. 

Highly strict restrictions under Ottoman rule, that led caused the gospel of Orthodoxy in the world to be limited and only reached its fellow Orthodox, which was compared to Roman Catholics and Protestants who were massively members in the world through education, colonialism, economics, social cultural, etc. Unsurprisingly, the Russian Orthodox did their ministry in Siberia and Alaska (now purchased and in a state of the United States), which was closer with.  

So, in which of what's true of Christianity based on history, that's something I love with. Protestants are good in studies and theology. I love how my Protestants love Jesus through powerful Bible-studying every day which we aren't allowed to share and interpret our Bible publicly. We are encouraged to read, but we just have different ways of understanding the word of God. We pray the best for Protestants that we want them to analyse Christianity, which is stuff, plenty of documents. We are deeply sorry about denominations that are increasingly out of control and leading its biggest chaos in Christianity which we don't want to happen. If a pope at that time had lovely heart to hold a discussion with Martin Luther, I think it wouldn't have happened to split and have a piece of many denominations that were unnecessary. As defined, the Roman Catholic church authorization should have never had a death penalty and more forgiveness, at the time was a country seen leading the whole of Italia, plenty of, wasn't considered a church before the French Revolution started in 1789 appeared the idea of secularism concept.

We do not want to have sadly seen such many denominations and are exhausted from hearing what their theology is. But I still consider that's how God clearly made it better than anything that was impossible, unpredicted, and unavoidable. Through this, civilians were allowed to read the Bible, which was at the time Catholic priests only allowed as the official language was the Latin language, which people did not know. They now have translations, NKJV, NLT, ESV, NIV, and different foreign and local languages. That's such a good thing! 

I hope along this people will be run by God to find what's true of Christianity. 

Orthodox is forever! Axios! ☦☦☦