By this he meant that the Catholic Church had placed so much emphasis on the Bible as the central religious authority and required people to follow its teachings. The other central belief of Martin Luther's document was that human beings can only achieve salvation through their faith and not through their actions. This notably triggered the Protestant Reformation. The ideology of the Catholic Church that faith and not works would mean salvation for believers was widely denounced and most people were of the opinion that both were the way to salvation. Although these two ideologies about the Catholic Church had been put forward before, Martin Luther wrote and presented them at a historical moment suitable for religious reform. Because of these documents by Martin Luther, the Catholic Church would soon split with Protestants leaving to form another denominational faith. Protestants were often guided by Protestantism which was shaped by Luther's ideas on the question of faith and the path to salvation which established that good deeds and faith were the factors that influenced salvation (Denis 28). His writings changed the course