Another myth is the idea that Luther had any concerns about corruption or bad priests in the Catholic Church, and even if he did then he could've reported them to their higher ups in the hierarchy and got them expelled from the Church and then replaced with better clergymen, and that would've been the end of it. There was no need to start a revolution over it. The fact that he did decide to start a revolution shows that obviously he had a different goal in mind:
In his paper, De servo arbitrio (On the Bondage of the Will), Luther considered that "the dogma of free will" has no foundation in scripture and, therefore, has to be "completely abandoned and counted amongst fairy tales". In a letter to Erasmus of Rotterdam, Luther praises Erasmus for not afflicting him "with those strange things about the papacy, Purgatory, indulgences, and the like," but instead "detecting the CARDINAL POINT," and "attacking the MAIN THING itself." What is the "main thing" that Luther is talking about? It is Lutherβs opinion "that free will is a pure lie."
The idea that corruption or bad priests was a concern for him is one that was made up long after his time.
