On the contrary, Luther sought reform from real problems and abuses, and his doctrine was not radical, but was straight out Augustinianism. It was the church that turned on him.
“Judas,” Jesus said to him in the garden of Gethsemane, “would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” (Luke 24:48).
“Unfortunately, scandal is nothing new for the Church.
Martin Luther, an Augustinian priest, lived during the reign of perhaps the most notorious pope in history, Alexander VI. He had nine children from six different concubines. He put out contracts on the lives of those he considered his enemies.
Luther, like everyone, must have wondered how God could allow a wicked man to be the visible head of his Church. All types of moral problems confronted Luther even in his own country of Germany. Luther was scandalized, as anyone who loved God should have been. He allowed the scandal to drive him from the Church.”
As great as Luther is, he didn’t go back to the Bible.