What did Martin Luther do in his lifetime, like important stuff, like rewriting the bible!!?

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Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German monk, priest, professor, theologian, and church reformer. His teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions, as well as the course of Western civilization. Luther's hymns, including his best-known "A Mighty Fortress is Our God", inspired the development of congregational singing within Christianity. His marriage on June 13, 1525, to Katharina von Bora reintroduced the practice of clerical marriage within many Christian traditions.

Martin Luther's translation of the Bible furthered the development of a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation. His translation significantly influenced the English King James Version of the Bible. Due to the recently developed printing press, his writings were widely read, influencing many subsequent Protestant Reformers and thinkers, giving rise to diversifying Protestant traditions in Europe and elsewhere. Today, nearly seventy million Christians belong to Lutheran churches worldwide, with some four hundred million Protestant Christians tracing their history back to Luther's reforming work.

Luther is also known for his writings about the Jews, in which he proposed that their homes be destroyed, synagogues and schools burned, money confiscated, and rights and liberties curtailed. These views were given "full publicity" by the Nazis in Germany in 1933–45.

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What did Martin Luther do in his lifetime, like important stuff, like rewriting the bible!!?

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What Did Martin Luther Do

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He didn't rewrite the Bible... but he did want to remove the book of James. (Bad idea!) As stated before, he started the Protestant Reformation, out of which a few good points were made about the Catholic Church, but opened a whole other can of worms.

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There was a great deal of corruption in the church and amongst the clergy; he left the Catholic Church, married a former nun and founded a Protestant movement, known today as Lutherans. He advocated many changes and was ordered put under arrest by the Church for some time. He was excommunicated. He wrote extensively and even advocated anti-Semitic sentiments, quite proper for a typical Christian who advocated a loving God and at the same time advocating burning and taking possesion of properties belonging to Jews because they would not convert to HIS new-founded religion!

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He posted his 95 theses on the door of the church in Wittenburg. These theses were the problems he had with the church, such as indulgences(letters of salvation for anyone who would pay for them), absentee beneficies( living in a different area than where your church office position was), tithes(money paid to the church that people working for the church could collect even if they weren't living near their job), conccubines(prostestutes that had sex with the priests, when priests weren't supposed to have sex), among many other things. When he was called on his criticism of the church, he went to Rome to find that he was basically on trial. He was questioned about everything he said against the church and when he refused to take back the things he said about the church, it sparked the Protesteant Reformation.

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he was a monk, posted 95 these when the pope sent someone to collect the indulgences in his town of wittenburg (indulgences were basically you pay and you dont have to go to purgatory, get straight into heaven) then became the 'father' of protestantism. The pope wasnt too pleased with him papal bull and all that, which he burnt. Translated the bible into german at the Wartburg Castle ( a big thing for the german language as it had just been lots of different dialects and he wrote it down in one language)
A fact often glossed over is that he was an anti-semite who wrote a book called 'on the jews and their lies'.

check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther for more

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He smuggled nuns in herring barrels.

Then there was the whole 95 Theses thing, and he translated the Bible into German, maybe that's what you're thinking of.

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He separated from the catholic church and was instrumental in starting the protestant movement which freed people from the oppressive control of catholicism. He kept many of the catholic traditions but at least it was a step in the right direction.

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Simply put, they didn't agree with his theology.