[DarkSavant]

Luther taught that salvation is not earned but is free gift paid for by the sacrifice of Christ.

Basic Catholic theology.

He really upset the church by getting the bible translated to German rather than just Latin!! This really grew the protestant church and lead to the further translations to English, etc.

Wrong. There were 8 German translations of the bible before Luther entered the scene.

He got married too ... something the RCC should do ... maybe that will be an outcome of this !! Halleluea!!!

Christ said that those who can stay celibate for the kingdom of God should. Take it up with him.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“There were 8 German translations of the bible before Luther entered the scene.”

Actually there were more than that - if you mean before he made his own translation in the 1520s. There were at least 18 German language editions of the whole Bible, ninety German editions of the Gospels and the readings for Sundays and Holy Days, and some fourteen German language Psalters by the time Luther put out his New Testament translation in the 1520s.

Most Protestants are simply too ignorant about history - and specifically the history of the Bible - to know this. Perhaps, if most of them were not products of government schools, there would be less ignorance about these easily knowable historical facts.