Bios

Question 1

Martin Luther

Answer 1

Pondered night and day how he a sinner could ever stand forgiven before God who is perfectly rightous and will one day judge all persons.

Deeply troubled in conscience and awaee of scripure of he depth of his sin, he wrestield with the words of Romans 1:17, The rightous will live by faith.

Through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us thorugh faith

Salvation is not by our good works or any othr merit of ourselves, our church, or our religoiun It is through Jesus Christ alone

The face of Europe was transformed by the Protestant Reformatoin that Luther helped launch.

Question 2

Augustine

Answer 2

Church leader (354-430)
Found new life in Romans after years of pagan philosophy
Augustine is known for writing ““most eagerly seized upon…the workds of the apostle Paul.” and in the midst of wreslting with a tortured conscience and profound doubt about his life’s direction, Augustine’s “bondage of…desire for sex” was broken when he read Romans
His writings exerted a profound infleunce on european civilaization for a thousand years, and his ideas still comman respect today.

Question 3

John Calvin

Question 4

Paul

Answer 4

DOB unknown.
Died a martyr in late A.D. 60s
Birthplace was the Hellenistic city of Tarsus
Paul was a Jew and called attention to his circumcision, Benjaminite lineage, Hebrew ancestry, and Pharisaic training

Paul was known by his Hebrew name Saul.

Educated from boyhood in jerusalem, not Tarsus

Studied under rabbi Gamaliel I

Trilingual

He knew Greek, Hebrew, Aramic, and maybe Latin

Knowledge of Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint,

On his wayto Damascux, jesus came to him and he got saved