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There were however many vernacular translations prior to Luther (Italian, French, English etc) for people to read if they could afford to pay a scribe to make them a copy, or were literate so they could read the chained copy (to stop it being stolen) at their local church. Until around 1440, there was no printing press to print the Bible. In the middle ages illiteracy rates were high. Further information: Even in the 18th century Latin was the language of the educated, of art and science and mathematics. He was not interested in rules and rituals: he was interested in making the Gospel of Salvation available to everyone.
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This action made the Bible accessible to all people, which was what Luther wanted. It was this action which gave Luther the foundation, and motivation, to translate the entire New Testament into German. A Catholic priest himself (again, like Luther) and a scholar of Latin and Greek, Erasmus carefully studied the original Greek texts and put together the first copy of the Greek translation of the Bible, which was published in 1516. Like Luther, Erasmus was critical of some Roman Catholic beliefs, abuses and practices. A Dutch scholar by the name of Erasmus (or Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus), who was a contemporary of Martin Luther, saw how the Bible was being withheld from the common people. The only copies that existed were in Latin, which most people could not read or understand, and it was left to the clergy who were educated in the Latin language to mete out their own explanations - a practice which tended to be subjective, rather than objective. For centuries, the Bible was out of reach of most Christians. Martin Luther did not write the German Bible, but he did translate it. My faith is in God and I do the research. I look and pray for myself that the Holy Spirit has led me the right way. I don't take any ones word for anything, I study for myself. Scripture? I have rad the books that were taken out and you can tell that they're in error and don't line up with the other books. You are putting your faith in books that don't line up with As he grew spiritually he discovered he needed to become protestant to continue growing in accordance to scripture. My dad has a good baptist friend who is a ver mature christian and the guy will tell you he knows he was saved in the catholic church. I know catholics who I believe are truly regenerate. So they do believe in justification by grace through faith but after that there is some bad theology involved. Catholics require that we add to that merit to stay in a state of grace. Through faith we get credit for the works of christ. Protestants technically believe in justification by works. Which is to imply that we can somehow add to the merit of christ. The problem is that once you sin after being saved you have to do works of satisfaction to get your merit back. The believe faith in the first instance is by grace alone. I will say though that most protestants slander catholicism. Also, if peter was a pope it discredits papal infallibility since paul showed peter to be wrong on a matter of faith and peter admitted as much. The papacy derived from the office of the bishop of rome and for the first several centuries he had no more power than other bishops. They claim apostolic succession from him but he wasnt the first pope. Re: Catholics are the Original Christians