2006-06-22 04:09:54 · 7 answers · asked by fuentes2513@yahoo.com 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no. they were mad that he took books out, changed some wording, and interpreted contrary to 1500 years of Catholic and Orthodox teaching.
Luther’s was not the first German translation of the Bible. Anonymous scholars had completed a Middle High German translation based on the Latin Vulgate in the 14th century. Subsequent German versions (the first printed German Bible, the Gutenberg Bible, appeared in 1466)***
Non-Latin bibles existed at that time and also the kjv is not the first English bible. The Catholic Douai-Reims Bible (English) predates the KJV and the KJV used it as a text source for its translation.
2006-06-22 04:22:21 · answer #1 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here we go again.....
It wasn't Luther's translation of the Bible into German (his was not the first to be translated from the Vulgate) but rather his posting of 95 theses, all of the points on which he disagreed with the Church. Many of these were good points and reflected in reforms taken over the following 500 years (it's an old institution that moves slowly).
What angered most Catholics was, instead of staying within the Church and working internally for reform, Luther split off and started his own. The regional princes saw the opportunity to grab power and began seizing land from Catholics. What followed were several hundred years of internecine warfare and strife.
Hence it was not Luther's actions but the way in which he went about them.
And Catholicism is 100% Scriptural. If the best any answerer can muster is "Catholics pray to the Pope! to Mary! to the Saints! They ignore Jesus!" they need to stop watching the bigoted televangelists and go to just one Mass to see that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, the center of our worship.
2006-06-22 04:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by Veritatum17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
they were mad that he did this b/c now the German people could see that the Catholic officials test motes were false and that's want mad them mad. also the people were sporting the build of Saint peters bug that is standing to day.so martin threatened the building of saint peters Burg.so to answer your question they were mad,and he did translate the bible from Latin into German.also before they said the indulges were in the bible and there not an martian said that the people should know . also it was just the new testament first and this also threatened his life because it was heresy to he Church. check out the movie Luther it will answer most of your questions.......
2006-06-22 04:24:53 · answer #3 · answered by ilovemydogs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gutenberg bible in german was the first to be printed with the full 73 books well before martin luther took out the 6 books in the mid 1500s.
2016-05-20 11:15:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were mad because it took away power from the pope. Remember that Catholicism is NOT truely based on the Bible. The ALWAYS put man's opinion above God's Word.
2006-06-22 04:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Finally Someone who understand s that Catholics do not base their beliefs in the bible.!
2006-06-22 04:14:42 · answer #6 · answered by Marillita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CONTROL! They wanted things done their way - period!
The Catholic Church lost control over Luther - he broke away and started the Lutheran church.
2006-06-22 04:22:58 · answer #7 · answered by GP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋