Martin Luther: Great Translators of the Bible

Watch this short video history of Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation, and learn how he translated the Bible into German!

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[rumpustime]

The example of Martin Luther is an incredible counter to any who say the Church is hateful. Religion can be systematically misused for evil, but Scripture always holds the Truth that evil flees from.

[skyhr]

It's surprising how just one man, supported by many others, can really change the world.

[Micheleoneandonly]

💪🏽Martin Luther was a true Gangsta.💪🏽 imagine the courage to go against the mighty Roman Catholic Church of that time

[GentleGiant]

Luther: Scripture is infallible.
Also Luther: *Proceeds to Remove Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Macabees, Esther, Daniel, Jude, Hebrews and Revelation*

[danmathers]

He took 7 old testament books out of the bible and also wanted to take a few new testament books out including Apocalypse and James.

[sybillestahl]

"Legend has it that Luther nailed a document containing 95 theses..." Legend?

[endtimesareuponus]

He pinned "by faith alone".
That's NO WHERE in God's Word.

[doug]

Happy 500 th anniversary of the Reformation

[johnsteila]

Luther was a great perverter of The Bible. Please do your research.

[lundsteffen]

Actually there were many translations of the Bible before Luther's version.

[ivory]

BUt this is a good video i did not know about now i do ty

[immaculata]

Without Catholicism the West would not exist. Please read 'How the Irish
Saved Civilisation''. The Blessed mother Mary and St Michael are the
reason why I became Catholic. I was an intellectual pagan, into the
esoteric, and found myself enamoured with Mary and Michael. I wanted to
practice some sort of pseudo-santeria and worship them like a pagan
would Apollo. But in the course of a month after that point, I found
myself drawn to the Church and entered RCIA by January 2018. It's been a
huge change in my life, coming from a background not just of paganism,
but atheism and satanism before that. And I have Our Lady and St Michael
to thank for that. I sought to worship them in themselves, but, as the
saints all tell us, they pointed me directly to Christ. And now, I'm a
devout Latin Mass attending, rosary-slinging, Roman Catholic.

[radixreuel]

THIS LIFE
therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
-Martin Luther

[johnmarquardt]

This is an American evangelical explanation of Martin Luther and the Reformation -- many misleading points.

[cesarriojas]

Big question if not Catholic who’s translation out of the over 30, 000 Christian denominations are correct! Martin Luther changed Bible passages and the Protestant reformation also took out 7 books in the Bible! If I was a Protestant I would be very concerned! It crazy that after over 1500 years then you put the interpretation of the Bible into the hands of the layman and expect it to be true and be the real intent of God! False prophets and misleading dogma doesn’t seem very safe if the intent is to go heaven!

[pickleking]

whos here from mr rozo's seventh grade class

[ttenfctons]

Wasn’t there another guy before Martin as well that started Protestantism or something

[ivory]

Whos here because of there HIstory Teacher

[thomasfolio]

Luther was quite facile in Latin, but even his own fellow Protestant leaders had issues with his Translation from the Greek, which he was not well versed in. For some words he simply translated the wrong words, if the greek word he was translating looked similar to a German word.
Yes it's true that he deleted seven OT Books, and in his first NT seven from the New. It was his fellow Protestant leaders again who forced him to replace those seven books and remove the addition to Alone, changing the text to say that we are saved by Faith (Alone).
Another myth in this video is that Later the Bible was translated into French Spanish English and other languages because of Luther. The truth is there have been English Translations as far back as Venerable Bede and before him in the 600s Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne translated the texts, however monks had translated into Celtic and Old and Middle English prior to these. There were at the time of Luther's Birth 27 different translations of the BIble either in part or entire approved for Catholic readers in High Low and Middle German. (I have a page from one printed when Luther was only 4 years old framed on my wall, In Low German.) There were also editions in Spanish Italian and French, as well as Bohemian prior to Luther's birth. The Catholic Church did condemn the translating of the Bible by those not trained in the Latin and Greek as many were mistranslated, just as Luther's translation was.
For the illiterate, there were what were called the Pauper's Bibles. These were books of "Picture Bibles" which told the Bible stories both OT and NT in picture form. At the same time when the great Cathedrals of Europe were constructed and most of the Churches in Europe had pictural scenes of Bible Stories along the walls of the buildings. If you visit French and German Cathedrals in areas that did not become Protestant, you can still see remnants of the pigments if you get up close to the inside walls. In the Cathedrals and Churches of Protestant areas, you won't see them because they were either stripped from the walls, or painted over with whitewash. In Amsterdam you can see some of the Biblical and other religious paintings in the Old Cathedral that were painted over by the Protestants when they took possession of the Church. In the past 30-40 years they have been revealed, when some of the whitewash was removed.

[ivory]

o and this really help on my Test about M.L