, Italian, French, Bohemian, Belgian, Russian, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, and many versions of Spanish.The preface to the 1611 King James Version of the Bible (written by Protestants) states (reluctantly) that translating the Bible into the common lanuage dated back to centuries before the Reformation.The Catholic Church does not respect the Bible as divinely inspired"Job . . . is merely the argument of a fable.""The book of Esther I toss into the Elbe. I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist, for it Judaizes too much and has in it a great deal of heathenish naughtiness.""The history of Jonah is so monstrous that it is absolutely incredible.""There are many things objectionable in this book [Revelation]. To my mind it bears upon it no marks of an apostolic or prophetic character."All of the above judgments were made by Martin LutherThe Catholic Church's opinion on Scripture:"Therefore since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation."Protestant Writer on Luther's view:Luther . . . freely charges the sacred writers with inaccurate statements, unsound reasonings, the use of imperfect materials and even urges the authority of Christ against that of Holy Writ. In a word, as is admitted by a recent Protestant writer: "Luther has no fixed theory of inspiration: if all his works suppose the inspiration of the Sacred Writings, all his conduct shows that he makes himself the supreme judge of it"When Scripture Scholars showed Luther he improperly added the word alone to his translation of Romans 3:28 he replied "You tell me what a great fuss the Papists are making because the word 'alone' is not in the text of Paul. If your Papist makes such an un...
