Why did Luther want the bible translated from latin into German?

Answer 1

Ordinary people could read The Bible, and no longer had to rely on the Church to interpret it for them.

Only the priests would be able to read and interpret the Bible and they could charge money for those services.
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Answer 2

So the common people could read and understand the Bible. Bibles were only written in Latin at the time, and only priests learned how to read Latin. The Church used this to its advantage, and sometimes lied to the people what the Bible said to work for the benefit of the Church.

Answer 3

Martin Luther translated the Bible into German claiming that the people should have the Bible in their native tongue. Unfortunately for him, there had been numerous translations of the Bible into German previously, the only difference from them for Luther's Bible, was that he edited the Bible to remove any books with supported Catholic doctrine, and revised the translation in the New Testament when he didn't remove the book. For instance, he put in the word "alone" at the end of Romans 3:28 so that it would read "... justified by faith alone..." Unfortunately for Martin Luther, the only time that faith alone appears together in the same sentence is in St. James: "You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone." (James 2:24). Unsurprisingly, the Letter of James is one of those books that Martin Luther removed from the Bible.

In other words, the reason Martin Luther made his own translation was that he wanted it to support his own beliefs, and NOT Christianity as it had been believed for the previous 1,500 years. Here are

comments from Beggars All from Martin Luther (see link below for the complete text) {note: Wikianswers will not allow me to put in M. Luther's language, you will have to supply the "a" for the * in the word p*pist}:

"Martin Luther ADDED words to the Bible that were not there. When he was confronted with this sin of adding to the Bible he replied:

"Because Dr. Martin Luther will have it so!" This man was one ego-maniac

with delusions of popehood."

"Romans 3:28 states, "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law" (NKJV). Martin Luther, in his German translation of the Bible, specifically added the word "allein"

(English 'alone') to Romans 3:28-a word that is not in the original Greek. Martin Luther reportedly said, "You tell me what a great fuss the P*pists

are making because the word alone in not in the text of Paul...say

right out to him: 'Dr. Martin Luther will have it so,'...I

will have it so, and I order it to be so, and my will is reason enough. I know very well that the word 'alone' is not in the Latin or the Greek text" (Stoddard J. Rebuilding a Lost Faith. 1922, pp. 101-102; see also Luther M. Amic.

Discussion, 1, 127). This passage strongly suggests that Martin Luther viewed his opinions, and not the actual Bible as the primary authority--a

concept which this author will name prima

Luther."

"By September 1522, Luther had translated the New Testament into his version of the German Bible. It is to be noted that Luther taught a false doctrine that man was saved by faith alone, and upon his own recognizance and without any authority, he added the word "alone" to Romans 3:28, ... thereby ignoring all of the verses which admonish anyone not to add to or take away from, the Holy Word of GOD. He displayed his inflated ego and total arrogance, when he wrote the following regarding his addition: "If your P*pist

annoys you with the word (alone), tell him straightway, Dr. Martin Luther will have it so: P*pist

and ass are one and the same thing. Whoever will not have my translation, let him give it the go-by:

the devil's thanks to him who censures it without my will and knowledge. Luther will have it so, and he is a doctor above all the doctors in Popedom.

"Amic.

Discussion, 1, 127. Demonizing again! My My, tsk

tsk,

such language Dr. Luther, and didn't he elevate himself above everyone on earth? This is the example set by the first Protestant, for his version of the command of Jesus Christ of, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Matthew 22:36-40)."