Posted on 02/10/2014 8:17:44 AM PST by cleghornboy
Dr. David Jeremiah, senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California, in his book entitled "I Never Thought I'd See The Day," which is listed as a "# 1 New York Times Bestseller," engages in historical revisionism as he attempts to portray William Tyndale as a "martyr" for the Bible.
On page 161 of his book, Dr. Jeremiah asserts that, "..because TYndale believed that every English-speaking person deserved to have access to the Bible in English, he labored to produce the first complete New Testament (and part of the Old Testament) in English translated directly from the original Hebrew and Greek texts. Finding no support for his efforts in England, the Oxford and Cambridge trained scholar, fluent in no fewer than eight languages, left for Germany in 1524, never to see England again..."
What a blessing for England! Let's begin with Dr. Jeremiah's asinine claim that William Tyndale was a "trained scholar." Actually, Tyndale was a mediocre scholar at best. He described himself as, "evil favoured in this world, and without grace in the sight of men, speechless and rude, dull and slow witted." In other words, he had no special qualifications for the monumentally important task of translating God's Holy Word. To put it mildly.
Of course this doesn't concern Doctor Jeremiah. But then why should it? As with many other anti-Catholic propagandists, Dr. Jeremiah cannot afford to let the truth get in his way or produce the slightest crack in his wall of conviction. He implies in his book that the Catholic Church didn't want the people to have access to the Scriptures.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasalettejourney.blogspot.com ...
Over the years I have varying estimates, but I believe the number is well into the millions. For the sake of argument, however, let’s stipulate long dead historians grossly overstated the numbers. Let’s say the real number was 100,000, would that change a thing? Would that change the reality of what happened? Would that demonstrate what Rome did was right? NO and NO
The truth is this: The blood of countless Christian saints is on Rome’s hands and the Lord remembers each one by name.
Ping for later
Yes, I have decided you are right...the mud slinging is disturbing.
Yes, they have a sad history of using historical revisionism, forgeries (e.g., 'Donation of Constantine', 'Isidorian decretals', etc), and the like to keep people in the dark.
I'm still not sure why this guy went after Tyndale. Tyndale just gave his life to give the Bible to people in their common language. I suppose anyone with a blog and an axe to grind can spew what they please - but probably not worth the time analyzing his purpose.
And agreed, God Bless William Tyndale!
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