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spent more time writing anti-Semitic tracts. At first, he wished to see the Jewish people converted to
Christianity. But, when they seemed uninterested in conversion, he called for the force-able removal of Jews
from Germany. This strong anti-Semitic stance has colored his reputation as a reformer. Luther is much less
admired for his violent anti-Jewish sentiments, which were later used as anti-Semitic propaganda by the Nazis
and have been formally denounced by number of Lutheran bodies

However, by setting the seeds of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther had a huge influence on the
development of Western Society.

When Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door in Wittenberg, He knew he could be tried as a
heretic and burned at the stake. Yet he had the courage, even before those at his trail, to stand for
the truths of Scripture. How about you? Do you have this kind of courage?

Martin Luther, the Reformation and the nation

William Tyndale 1494 – 1536
(https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/scholarsandscientists/william-tyndale.html)
William Tyndale could speak seven languages and was proficient in ancient Hebrew and
Greek. He was a priest whose intellectual gifts and disciplined life could have taken him
a long way in the church—had he not had one compulsion: to teach English men and
women the good news of justification by faith.

Tyndale had discovered this doctrine when he read Erasmus's Greek edition of the New
Testament. What better way to share this message with his countrymen than to put an English version of the
New Testament into their hands? This, in fact, became Tyndale's life passion, aptly summed up in the words of
his mentor, Erasmus: "Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that

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