In this short text, Luther discusses three virtues of faith. The three virtues are: faith gives Christian freedom, which means we are free from the law, faith honors God, and thirdly, faith unites the soul to Christ. Politically, the virtues of the Christian faith are questionable because many may not agree with it. For example, Luther states: “He suffered and rose again for you, that, believing in him, you might, by this faith, become another man, having all your sins remitted and justified by the notion of another, i.e. of Christ alone." .”(page 1 paragraph 13) This quote speaks of the baptism of a man who passes from his old life of sin to a new life in Christ. On the political scale of the law, an individual cannot erase his or her sins or crimes by baptism alone. According to others, giving your old life to Christ and receiving a new one does not make an individual pure or sinless. However, for the Christian religion, baptism erases all harmful or cruel things a person has ever done. The political debate about whether baptism erases one's sins is different for each religion. Christians firmly believe that Christ has the power to take away one's sins, while many argue that you cannot make your sins vanish because they have shaped you into the sinful person you are. Another example that shows the effects of religion and politics is the virtue that faith gives Christians the freedom to be free from the law. “But if he has no need of works, he has no need of the law; and if he has no need of the law, he is certainly free from it, and the saying is true, the law is not made for the just. This is Christian freedom, our faith, the effect of which is not that we should be careless or lead a bad life, but that no one needs the law or works for justification and salvation." (page 2 paragraph 22) This quote