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The pages 87 108 are mainly about office. The heart of Luthers religion is the justification of belief. Luther writes about the different kinds of office and how they relate to God and Christ. Then Luther talked about Paul wanting to setup a doctrine of Grace. Then he jumps into the kinds of righteousness. Luther says that there is a political, ceremonial, human tradition, law, and assurance righteousness.(p.88) In Luthers own words the most excellent righteousness is faith, because it is not earned but given freely by God. The another(prenominal) kinds of righteousness are active and done by humans not given by God. Luthers reason for this if we earned grace then God would be in dept to us(97). Next he has 2 paragraphs on the Human weakness which is to do the active righteousness(89). Law until Christ is saying that we had to follow the laws given by Mosses because they were from God until Christ came along and broke away from those laws 2 worlds says that there is an earthly world, one with laws, and a heavenly world, infinite. The earthly world, which has, laws, the active righteousness, and is limited. While the celestial world is the ruler of the earthly not the other way around, and the giver of faith, but that faith most be accepted or rejected by us. Then Luther goes on to Jesus who is righteousness, a giver of wisdom and more. He then says that when you fear or conscience is present then grace is at peace(p) and God has hidden himself from us. On Page one hundred Luther writes about how if one does good works then God can infuse jack ladder into him. Next he writes about how Christ and God is the thing of our faith and that we are the faith.Q One of the few things that Luther said that I liked was the last define Christ and God is the thing of our faith and that we are the faith. How do you respond to that?First look at we are the faith, we are not the faith then there is no God or Christ. If you look at God is the thing of our faith, it mea ns to me is that this religion or any other would not be able to survive because it would hold no meaning or sway in their life. This also shows that What ever you chose to worship, like money or peoples thoughts, will run your life for good or evil who knows.