Martin Luther discovered the catholic church and theological
Luther lived incognito at the Wartburg; he called himself Junker Jörg (Knight George) and "grew his hair and a beard." While he was hiding at Wartburg he supposedly translated the New Testament into German. The Bible that he was translating from was the Latin Vulgate.
That's easy: the Catholic Church has always - for two thousand years, or fifteen hundred at that point - received Our Blessed Lord's teaching and she has never thought that she could change it, but has been tasked with preserving Our Blessed Lord's teaching intact. As part of her preaching, she wrote the books of the New Testament, decided which ones were inspired by God, and collected them, preserved them, and kept them inviolate.Martin Luther, on the other hand, believed only in himself. He thought so much of his own opinion that he threw books out of The Bible - Old AND New Testament, and changed the wording in some passages to make them agree with what he thought they should be saying. Other reformers disagreed with him (to an extent) and put back the books in the New Testament, but not the ones in the Old Testament: they believed as well, that they knew better than 1,500 years of the Church, and Christ's guarantee to protect HIS Church until the end of the world.
The best place to go for the answer to this question is to surf to thewittenburgproject.org it has almost all the works of Martin Luther on the site for you to read for free. The short answer is that Martin Luther believed that the Bible is the infallible Word of the living God. He said in many of his sermons and writings that the Bible is the final written authority on almost all matters and that it should be consulted first and foremost when researching any question.
Martin Luther did not "split" from the Catholic Church, he left the Catholic Church and started his own. That is technically known as apostasy and heresy. The Orthodox Churches split from the Catholic Church, Martin Luther apostatized from the Catholic Church - two completely different things.
He thought that everyone should be able to read and interpret the Bible. This belief went against the teachings of the Catholic Church, in which only clergy could interpret the Bible.
He thought that everyone should be able to read and interpret The Bible. This belief went against the teachings of the Catholic Church, in which only clergy could interpret the Bible.
He thought that everyone should be able to read and interpret The Bible. This belief went against the teachings of the Catholic Church, in which only clergy could interpret The Bible.
Without going into too much detail, he held that people should base their beliefs and behavior directly on what it said in the Bible, and not on indirect knowledge such as the many (Catholic) treatises and interpretations about the Bible, so that they would end up believing more in Catholic Church teachings than in the Bible itself.
He thought that everyone should be able to read and interpret The Bible. This belief went against the teachings of the Catholic Church, in which only clergy could interpret the Bible.
The Catholic Douay version of the Bible contains many Books that were removed by Martin Luther leading to what became the Protestant Bible(s). of which there are now many versions.
The Pope and his cardinals are responsible for interpreting the Bible for Catholics. They publish their interpretation in The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Catholics consider the Pope to be God's representative on Earth. During the reformation some people decided that they didn't need a Pope and could interpret the Bible themselves. That was why Martin Luther translated the Bible from Latin into German
Bottom line? Because Martin Luther started his own church out of nothing, and to give it some semblance of authority, he has to come up with something, so he used the Bible. The only problem with this is that he completely ignored the fact that Jesus Christ never wrote the Bible. Jesus Christ founded a Church and commanded that they go out and convert people. As part of that work, their words were collected by the church and put into a book we now know as the New Testament - as part of her preaching the Gospel of Christ. Obviously, the Bible was never intended to be the complete Christianity, and it even says so! So Martin Luther editedthe Bible to take out the parts he didn't agree with and change the other parts to agree with him. His ideas differed from the Catholic Church since the Catholic Church only teaches the ideas that Jesus gave her, and Martin Luther taught only his own ideas.
John Wycliffe was dissident Catholic back in the 14th century, he translated that Bible into English and, in general, wrote against the Catholic Church. Martin Luther was a dissident in the 16th century who left the Catholic Church as a heretic and apostate and translated The Bible into German.
The Catholic version of the Bible is called the "Douay-Rheims Bible." It differs from other versions because it includes additional books known as the deuterocanonical books, which are not found in Protestant versions of the Bible.
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They differ in the number of books. Catholic has more number of books than Protestant. Protestant Bible only has 7 books while Catholic has 39. A catholic bible has Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur while a Protestant bible does not.