Is it true that Martin Luther was a Jewish before he became a Christian?

Answer 1

No, why do christian keep accusing everybody of being Jewish, as if that was a bad thing.
He was born as a Catholic like almost everybody else in Europe was back then.

Answer 2

Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German monk,[1] 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 life and work are closely connected to the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Era in the West. His translation of the Bible furthered the development of a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation.[2] His translation significantly influenced the English King James Bible.[3] Due to the recently developed printing press, his writings were widely read, influencing many subsequent Reformers and thinkers, giving rise to diversifying Protestant traditions in Europe and elsewhere.[4] Luther's hymns, including his best-known "A Mighty Fortress is Our God", inspired the development of congregational singing within Christianity.[5] His marriage on June 13, 1525, to Katharina von Bora reintroduced the practice of clerical marriage within many Christian traditions.[6] Today, nearly seventy million Christians belong to Lutheran churches worldwide,[7] with some four hundred million Protestant Christians[8] tracing their history back to Luther's reforming work.

Luther is also known for his writings about the Jews, the nature and consequences of which are the subject of much debate among scholars, many of whom have characterized them as anti-Semitic[9] or anti-Judaic. His statements that Jews' homes should be destroyed, their synagogues and schools burned, money confiscated, and rights and liberties curtailed were revived and given widespread publicity by the Nazis in Germany in 1933–45.[10] As a result of this, coupled with his revolutionary theological views, his legacy remains controversial.

Answer 3

Luther was a Catholic priest in the 1500's before he broke away from the church and was excommunicated.

He is credited with being the first to teach that salvation can be obtained solely by belief - not being a person of good works. Ironically, Christians today think this is the way it has always been.

Answer 4

Dr. Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic Augustinian Monk and Professor. On October 31, 1517 he nailed his 95 theses titled Power and Efficacy of Indulgences in Wittenburg Germany. This is looked upon by the Protestant Church as Declaration of Independence from the Roman Catholic Church. It started a movement known infamously as the Protestant Reformation.

One note, it was not Dr. Luther's intention to leave the Roman Catholic Church. His wish was to correct the abuses of the Church in Rome by confronting the pope and his agents of violating God's Word at several points of doctrine. He was trying to reform the Roman Catholic Church, thus the term The Reformation.

Of course he was unable to convince Rome of their wrong doing. So the Protestant Church was born.

Answer 5

I would same your answer is NO he was German
Fast Facts on Martin Luther

Name: Martin Luther
also known as: Martin Luder
Born: November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany
Died: February 18, 1546 in Eisleben, Germany
Buried: Eisleben, Germany
Language: German
Vocation(s): Monk, priest, professor, theologian, reformer
Title(s): Father of the Reformation
Turning points: Ordination as monk (1506)
Doctor of Theology (1512)
Religious awakening (c. 1515)
95 Theses (October 31, 1517)
Diet of Augsburg (1518)
Leipzig Disputation (1519)
Excommunication (January 3, 1521)
Diet of Worms (April 17-18, 1521)
Wartburg Castle (April 1521 - March 1522)
Peasants' War (Summer 1524)
Marriage to ex-nun Katerina Von Bora (June 1525)
Diet of Speyer (1526)
Marburg Colloquy (October 1529)
Augsburg Confession (1530)
Religious Peace of Nuremburg (1532)
Wittenberg Concord (1536)
major works: 95 Theses (1517)
Freedom of a Christian (1520)
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520)
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
German New Testament (1522)
Bondage of the Will (1525)
"A Mighty Fortress is our God" (1527)
Large Catechism (1529)
related places: Eisleben, Wittenberg, Leipzig, Worms
related people: Archbishop of Mainz, Albert of Brandenburg, St. Augustine of Hippo, Count Albrecht of Mansfeld, Girolamo Aleandro, Theodor Bibliander, Martin Bucer, Cardinal Cajetan, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, John Eck of Ingolstadt, Desidirius Erasmus, Frederick the Wise, Count Gebhard of Mansfeld, Jan Hus, Karlstadt, Pope Leo X, Hans Luther, Margarethe Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Thomas Muntzer, Philip of Hesse, Georg Spalatin, Johann von Staupitz, Johann Tetzel, Gabriel Zwillig, Ulrich Zwingli

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 6

Ummm, not really. He was a Catholic cleric. Then he got fed up with the traditions which were replacing the truth of Scripture, so he did the unthinkable and broke away from the One True Church of God.
This had to be Satan's greatest victory: the breakup of Christianity into many fragments. But it did serve the purpose of returning people to God's plan of salvation, and it gave stiff-necked mankind an alternative to the highly structured Catholic Church.

Answer 7

I have no reason to believe he was ever anything but Catholic before he broke away and became Protestant. He always claimed to be Christian.

Answer 8

No,He left the Catholic Church and started the Lutheran Religion.

Answer 9

No, he was Catholic and began protestantism. He hated Jewish people and was quoted often by the Nazis in their early works.

Answer 10

No he was born, raised Catholic and became a monk. Later he became a Christian...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther