... , a deep understanding for Scripture to be a devout Christian. Since Scripture was up to individual interpretation rather than through a priest, the reliance on priests for religious matters is minimized, and the translation of the Latin Bible to German allowed this to become a reality. But as the Reformation took hold, there was "growing resentment of clerical exemptions from rules binding ordinary people ... ...

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... of the Holy Bible so as to adhere to social values over time as well as addressing conflicts that have risen within this community. As stated in the New Living Translation Bible: "God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27) This alludes to ... ...

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... family; this role was reserved for men and a woman's and especially a Queen's role was to produce an heir. To Elizabeth as a strong and independently minded woman, who once changed a French translation she did as a child to have wives stoning their adulterous husbands instead of the other way round, any loss in power to a man was intolerable. However until she did marry ... ...

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... interpretation. As more people continued to become followers of Martin due to his teachings being simplified, he decided to even further make his teachings accessible by creating the first German translation of the Bible. Martin's ideas flourished throughout Germany and the rest of Europe, but by a copy of his German Bible being sent around, rather than his own religious documents, people ... ...

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... gospel. As the Pharisees had done in Jesus" time, the church had taken God's word and defamed it. They had essentially transformed it into something completely different through their erroneous translation of the Word. It was no longer a gospel that reflected God's grace and love. Rather, it was a legalistic system, based on good works and the purchase of indulgences. The way ... ...

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... Luther and tried to kill him. Saxony came to help him, and with their safety, Luther began to start his new church. He had the Bible translated into German. This translation of the Bible became a milestone in the production of modern German language. As time went on, many people began to convert into Lutheran. This religion was used by many to ... ...

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... shelter at the Wartburg Castle, where he was treated with class. There, he translated the Bible into German to make the scripture available to any reading person. He completed his translation in 1534. In 1529, Luther organized the Lutheran church, which was entirely separate from the old church of Catholicism. In June 1525, Martin Luther married Catherine von Bora. Martin married ... ...

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... . He advocated a simpler, personal religion based on faith, a return to the spirit of the early church, the centrality of the scriptures in the liturgy and in the Christian life. The translation of the New Testament into German led to the acceptance of Luther's dialect to become the standard version of German. Luther's insistence that everyone should be literate attracted much of ... ...

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... safe. God help me. Amen." Excommunicated and condemned by the Church, he sought refuge at Wartburg Castle, protected by the elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony. There, he began his translation of the Bible, an important step in the development of the modern German language" (Bainton 1997: 144-148). Perhaps one of the main key factors in the rapid spread of ... ...

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... so by scripture he would not "since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience." Perhaps Martin Luther's greatest attribution to the development of modern religion was his translation of the bible from Latin to German. This allowed nearly everyone the ability to read the bible for themselves and make there own conclusions on what the literary work meant ... ...

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... order for the organization of Holy Communion was published for placing into the Latin Mass in 1548, then the next year a complete Book of Common Prayer - which was a condensation and translation of the Sarum Rite - appeared. This put the worship of the Church into the common language for the first time in a thousand years. The men blessed as bishops deified during ... ...

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... died in Eisleben,Germany, the town of his birth, in February 1546. By order of the Elector of Saxony Luther was buried in the Castle Church in Wittenberg. With his translation of the Bible into German, Martin Luther attained a permanent legacy as Father of the Protestant Reformationand and as far as a unification of the German language was concerned. Today some 70 ... ...

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... and most took the translations literally as in Exodus 22:18. It did not matter that the translated version did not mean what it was originally intended to mean. The translation of it took on an entirely new meaning to which the word "witch" now meant a sorcerer that had made a pact with the devil from simply meaning someone who works in ... ...

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... the Pope, Christian dogma, and liberty of priests. On the other hand, their beliefs conflicted in the areas of: salvation and government. The two had many similar practices including: the translation of the Bible into vernacularism, the use of propaganda, the non-celibacy of the clergy, the denouncing of female priests, iconoclast activities, and the stale environment of the churches. However ... ...

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