Quickfire,Martin Luther caused division because of the false and unbiblical practices of the catholic church.The Catholic Church began charging money for novenas, and charging money to get souls out of Purgatory, when there's no such thing as a Purgatory in the Bible. The Roman pope began to sell "indulgences" to rich individuals, offering positions in the church in exchange for properties, gold and land.The Roman catholic church began acquiring properties from the people in exchange for spiritual favors. The Roman catholic church started to weigh the goods that she can get from the people and made salvation an expensive "commodity". They turned religion into a big business and were teaching creeds and dogmas out of man's ideas instead of the pure Bible. They taught that people can only be saved by "works" and "obedience" to the tenets of the Catholic church, rather than by believing by faith in the Word.God showed Martin luther that 'the just shall live by faith' and that people should not have to pay for salvation.It was the catholic church that was greedy not Martin Luther.