Luther’s Bible: A Hierarchy in New Testament Books - David Bercot - Romans Series

Lesson Transcript

When Luther translated the Bible into German, he inserted an introduction at the beginning of the New Testament in which he created a hierarchy of New Testament books. He said they're not all on the same level. Certain books are higher up than other ones. Now, this is not something—and we're going to be looking at a lot of quotes—and I don't want you to think, "Oh, David must have found some anti-Martin Luther website." They came out of here.

I mean, back in the 1980s, I bought a set of Martin Luther's writings, not because I was against him; he was one of my heroes. You know, I knew I didn't agree with some of the things he taught, but yeah, he was someone I really admired.