Well, one thing I forgot about this year: October 31 marks the 500th anniversary of the begging of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther had had enough of the nonsense of one fund raiser working for the Pope.
Among other things, Mr. Luther thought it odd that money could shorten one's stay in a place called Prugatory. Being a college professor, Martin had studied the Bible quite a bit. He could not find a lot of support for the doctrine of this "halfway house."
The whole idea about getting to heaven by one's on works didn't seem right to him. He had been teaching through the book of Romans and had embraced the idea of faith worked out in one's life was the way to get to heaven. Further studies lead him to the book of Ephesians.
It turned out that a key passage in that book removed all doubt: Ephesians 2:8-10. In those verses we find the truth that it is what and had who you BELIEVE rather than what you DO that gets you into heaven. After that, God works things out THROUGH you.
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