As stated in the New Living Translation Bible: "God created human beings in his own image. ... The Holy Bible is very clear of the expectations and divisions between men and women in the home and church, and because of these expectations, God has allocated certain roles for both to fulfil. ... The Bible places heavy emphasis on acting with humility and so, women are discouraged from wearing expensive jewellery or garments and rather, are instructed to dress "modestly, with decency and propriety." (1 Timothy 2:9) Furthermore, as God created Adam before Eve, and because the Bible...

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Despite all these changes, Protestants still wanted women to become devout house wives so they encouraged the education of girls to literacy, expecting that this would later model their lives on the Bible. But on the contrary, women found in the Bible itself, passages which suggested that they were equal to men. ...

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In the early Renaissance, monks would spend months, sometimes years, in rewriting scriptures form the Bible. ... Since lower classes were able to afford books of thier own, there was no necessity for monks to interpret the Bible for them. ... With this, books that were not involved with the Bible were being created. ...

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I strictly believe the Bible is God's word and I believe that the Bible was left so that we can come to know God's promises and his rules but I believe God's word is most importantly an instrument we can use to know who God truly is. ... I believe my God has the power to simply create a universe by saying the word, just as the bible says. ... The human being I believe was also created by God, exactly how the Bible portrays it. ... I began to understand the Bible I began to see fruit in seeking holiness. ... God left us the entire Bible to have as a model to follow. ...

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When I am not able to go to church I go to bible study every Wednesday to learn the Word of God. I now own my own bible that was given to me as a present for Christmas with my name engraved on it. I was very blessed to be given a bible to read and learn the word of God on my own spare time not only when I go to bible study. ...

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(Luther and the Reformation, 61) Martin's main concern was the Bible being published in only Latin and Greek. Luther wanted everyone to read the Bible for himself or herself to develop their own feelings and beliefs, yet most people in Germany could not read Latin or Greek. Presumably because of the lack of understanding of the language, people were forced to listen to how the priests interpreted the meaning of the Bible they worshipped. ... The Guttenberg press was invented in 1440 and initially printed the Bible. ... He not only achieved that, but he also married, translated th...

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He attacked several more aspects of established Roman Catholicism including indulgences: which Luther condemned the Roman Church for there was no "authority in the Bible to sell indulgences" . ... However, the Bible teaches that God chooses people of righteousness and seeks no other characteristic of a person: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled" (Matt 5:6) and happiness in heaven cannot be bought with money but by faith. ... Luther was convinced that because of these indulgences, people had forgotten the message of Jesus in the Bible, the sacra...

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The Protestant Reformation was a movement to get rid of the church of medieval abuses and to restore the belief and practices that the reformers believed conformed with the Bible. The movement ulitmately led to the freedom from dissent. The Reformation, in effect, split Europe into two ideological...

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It was founded by Martin Luther, a German monk, who observed some obvious contradictions between the Bible and the practices of the Roman Catholic Church of his time. ... He rejected the concepts of the role of priests, celibacy among priests, purgatory, transubstantiation, and the Latin Bible. ... This pietism was more focused on Bible reading, devotions, prayer, and works of love. ... The official statement of faith includes the following: the trinity of God; the authority of Jesus, God, and the Bible; the scriptures as the inspired word of God; acceptance of Unaltered Augsburg Confession as...

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Something that all Christians believe in is the bible. ... This would be due to Martin Luther's learning experience using the bible as a tool to learn about a God of love, forgiveness and grace. ... This differs from the Roman Catholics as they believe what they learn themselves which is strait from the bible not one mans teachings. ... Even though the bible speaks about women with less power, they believe it is the past and today it is no longer appropriate, identical to the Roman Catholics thought. ... The bible as the tool of the Lutheran religion to learn about God means t...

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The Renaissance was born around the 1300s when Europe experienced an explosion of creativity, a rebirth of art and learning. Its epicenter: northern Italy. Why? Other places in Europe were busy fighting wars, the Hundred Years" War, in particular. However, Italy had three very important advantages t...

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In 1456, Joann Gutenberg produced a bible made out of the printing press. The Reformation was lead by Martin Luther, a German monk who declared that the bible not the church was the true authority. ...

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Matthew was often used as the somewhat dubious theological basis for the sale of indulgences: "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (The Catholic Living Bible 1971: Matt. 16:19). ... For years, he was an outstanding servant of the Church, but his study of the Bible led him into conflict with the Church's sometimes-corrupt system of beliefs. ... To Luther the source of these beliefs, and of religious authority in general, was not th...

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I never knew that things like the pope, the bible, the issues of church and state, integration and other various subjects had such dominating impact on the way the church has evolved to the way it was today. ... I think of Sunday masses, bible study, and authority figures such as priests bishops and the pope. ...

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Upon this belief, John began to have ideas of reform and thought people should know what they were being taught by having their own Bibles in their own language. Back then, that was a big deal, but by this we are now entitled to our own Bibles. ... It seems like there was no hesitation from Huss though which is good because he was following God's leading and the teachings of the Bible. ...

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For instance, it was Prince Fredrick of Saxony who sheltered Luther, where he translates the Bible to German. ... Bibles in vernacular language were also spread around Europe, allowing many people to access the Bible for the first time. ...

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Therefore, bringing about a group of reformers who decided to take everything from the bible and interpret all of it as literal. ... The bible scholars read and believed that there was only adult baptism in the bible, so that they felt that this must be the correct way to truly profess the faith. ... Since the Anabaptists found explicit prohibitions in the bible against oath taking, they refused to ever take an oath. ...

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The church insisted that it alone had the authority to interpret the meaning of the Bible for people. However, John Wycliffe, an English priest and teacher at Oxford University, declared that people had the right to read the Bible and interpret it for themselves. ... Luther's decision to break away from the church enabled him to spread his teachings, which were primarily: salvation is achieved through faith, not money, the bible is the source of truth, and every town should be able to have a school of its own so that children would learn how to read, write, and think for themselves. ... H...

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In the Bible it is recorded to have officially begun in Acts, when the Holy Spirit, being promised to come by Christ, is thought to have ascended on the believers. ... He was devoted to the study of the Bible as well as other daily rituals, such as cleaning. ... However, as Luther continued to study the Bible, he made a discovery that would change all of Christianity. ... As Luther grew in knowledge through his diligent study, he soon was asked by his superiors to teach the Bible, and drew many people who sought to hear his lectures. ...

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In Doc. 3, Martin Luther's 95 Theses spread throughout Europe in many languages (along with the bible) so now the common man new that the church was lying to make money. ... It clearly showed that in the bible Jesus himself was against the sale of indulgences. ...

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Since the Bible was printed in Latin, only the priests could read and interpret it. ... However, as the Protestant Reformation began, Martin Luther printed the Bible in German in 1522 and completely changed the role of the Church in European society. Since then, a goal of the Protestant Reformation was to translate and print the Bible into the vernacular language. ... 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. ...

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Along with the doctrine of justification of faith, the reformation promoted a higher view of the Bible as Martin Luther said, the true is God's word shall establish articles of faith and no one else, not even an angel can do so. ... Then Johannes Gutenberg machine of 1455 also proved to be a turning point in history because it allowed reformers to quickly print and distribute thousands of the Bibles in vernacular languages. Furthermore, the invention of the printing made many Bibles to become easier to carry by hand as well as cheap since many were printed within a short period of time, a...

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So it was that in1450 the first bible was produced using the new method of printing with movable type invented by Gutenberg. ... Drama: Since the middle ages the only kind of drama people ever saw was the mystery play, in which local people would act out stories from the Bible in the streets of their town. ... Many Renaissance works of art show subjects taken from the bible. ...

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It also had to be signed because she was his dead brother's wife, and Levitical Law (laws in the book of Leviticus in the Bible) in the Catholic Church prohibited that. ... Henry began to read scriptures in the Bible to find anything that would back up the divorce he wanted from Catherine. ... Some changes were also made in the church services, the Bible was translated into English, and printed copies were placed in the churches. ...

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During his stay at the University of Erfurt, he was so engrossed with the university's study of the Bible, that he defied his father's wishes, dropped the study of law completely, and joined a monastery of Augustinian friars. ... Luther took this time in exile to translate the New Testament Bible to German. ... Martin Luther was a simple man fascinated with the study of the Bible. ...

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