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To: MarkBsnr
Rom 3:28
For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Martin Luther added ‘alone’ after faith, and interpreted works of the (Mosaic) law (such as diet, circumcision etc) as meaning ‘good works’.

Changes the entire meaning; no wonder some generations appear to have been seriously misled.

Is there an official Lutheran Bible? I "googled" but could find none. Perhaps you can help.

I have posted Romans 3:28 from a variety of Protestant and Catholic Bibles and can find no significant difference.

ROMANS 3:28

(RSV) For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.

(IGNATIUS) For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law

(KJV) Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

(NAB) For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

(DOUAY-RHEIMS) For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law

(NAS) For F63 we R151 maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of F64 the Law.

(ASV) We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

What's your beef?

4,798 posted on 06/11/2008 7:59:33 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know no thing.)
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To: OLD REGGIE

Did you google Luther’s German translation of the Bible?


4,801 posted on 06/11/2008 8:03:26 AM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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To: OLD REGGIE

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/l/luther/luther-idx?type=DIV2&byte=4456364 gives Romans 3:28 as

So halten wir nun dafür, daß der Mensch gerecht wird ohne des Gesetzes Werke, allein durch den Glauben.

Allein.

What’s my beef?

Even though it is not in most English translations, many act as if it were there.


4,813 posted on 06/11/2008 8:30:10 AM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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