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Martin Luther was concerned about certain practices in the Catholic Church such as the selling of indulgences to free the soul from purgatory.

Martin Luther wrote the 95 Theses in Latin because that was another thing he thought was wrong with the Catholic Church and posted them on the door of the Schlosskirche (Palais Church) in Wittenberg because he wanted to correct what he saw as the church's mistakes. Two students Luther taught reprinted the complaints in German so everyone understood them.

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He wished to start a debate about certain ideas prevalent in the church at that time, principally that one could "earn" one's salvation, or the salvation of others, by good works and/or offerings to the church.

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Catholic AnswerSin, like every other man born on the face of the earth, save Our Blessed Lord, and His Mother, Martin Luther had a fallen nature. He saw problems that people were having in the Church and wrote about them. Unfortunately, he was remarkably ignorant about the issues he was writing about, and, instead of humbly accepting correction on many of the issues, he thought he knew better than everyone else, including Our Blessed Lord, and the Holy Spirit. When The Bible didn't agree with him, he rewrote the Bible.
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At that time, in Wittenberg, the church doors sometimes doubled as a community bulletin board of sorts. If Luther wanted to raise interest in a debate, the church door was the logical place to post the theses.

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He was unhappy with how the church handled certain things so he posted all of his complaints on the church doors.

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