Martin Luther's actions and intentions have perplexed historians for centuries. Some believe that Luther was in fact a beneficent figure towards the Jews; however, based on various historical evidence, Luther was not favorable to Jews in history. Contrary to some opinions about Luther's kindness to the Jews, his propaganda and his great efforts to punish the people cast him as a deceitful man. Although Luther appeared to be inconsistent in his feelings towards the Jews, he was ultimately an anti-Jewish figure in his era. Luther's feigned benevolence toward the Jews obscures his underlying negative motivations. Luther's primary goal was to publicize his sect, and he saw the Jews as playing an active role in it, stating: "as long as we prevent them from loving and working among us, in our communities, and force them to practice usury , how can they come to us? We try to help them, it is the law of Christian love that we must apply to them.” Luther seems fair and just towards the Jews, but upon further examination, one can identify that the true intentions of Luther's intentions were not to represent the Jews in a positive way, but simply to convince the Jews to convert, and the false compassion was for his personal benefit for the prosperity of his new sect. Furthermore, Luther uses the Jews to demonstrate how much worse they are Christians and to demonstrate that Jews are also held in higher esteem than the Christians he despised. Luther uses Jews to his advantage to prove a point about Christians, declaring: "If I had been a Jew, I would have preferred to turn into a pig before. become a Christian". Forcefully, Luther shows his disgust towards the Christian religion and ranks it below a typically dirty and scary animal. He......middle of the paper......7. Accessed January 15, 2014. Gale Virtual Reference Library.Noble, Graham. 2002. “Martin Luther and German Antisemitism.” History Review No.42: 1. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed 12 December 2013). 1.Poliakov, Léon. The history of anti-Semitism. From the time of Christ to the court Jews. Translated by Richard Howard. vol. 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 2003. Probst, Christopher J. “Luther and the Jews.” In Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany, 39-58. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. Sherman, Franklin. "Martin Luther, the Bible and the Jewish People: A Reader / Martin Luther's Anti-Semitism: Against His Better Judgment." In Martin Luther's Antisemitism: Against His Better Judgment, 1-5. 1st ed. vol. 8. Studies on Christian-Jewish relations. Accessed in December 11, 2013. 1-5.