[thomaswest]

That's part of the problem with the RCC. It's not a "protestant error" it's an error not to take God literally when appropriate.... It's a sin to eat human flesh and a sin to drink human blood. That NEVER changed and to have imaginary cannibalism must grieve Him deeply. Communion is symbolic - not literally imagining you literally drinking His blood and literally eating His body - imagining it transforms into this - gives me the creeps -

William Wycliffe translated the Bible into English, and one his followers, John Hus, actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution.

Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire. The last words of John Hus were that, “in 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention (a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes of the Roman Catholic Church) onto the church door at Wittenberg. The prophecy of Hus came true!

Martin Luther went on to be the first man to print the Bible in the German language. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs records that in that same year, 1517, seven people were burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church for the crime of teaching their children to say the Lord’s Prayer in English rather than Latin.

[nmh]

Catholicism isn't receptive to truth.

Similar to Muslim terrorists, in years past Catholics would as you say, literally burn you at the stake, torture you to convert to their beliefs ... sound familiar?

Who could forget "Bloody Mary" or the Inquisition and Crusades? Same thing is going on with the Muslims and neither is Christian or Biblically correct - yet people still follow the "leaders" of their "faith".


Recently released FOX journalist "converted" to Islam with a gun pointed at them ... history repeats itself and people still defend both "faiths". Go figure!

The Bible and what is says is the secular worlds biggest enemy. It always will be till Christ comes and claims His own.

[The Iguana]

Martin Luther went on to be the first man to print the Bible in the German language.

Actually, the first printed German bible came out in 1466 - the Mentel Bible, which went through 18 editions until Luther's superseded it in 1522.

Dozens more versions appeared in the decades after.

Luther's claim to fame was that his captured the hearts of so many of his countrymen, becoming interwoven into the language itself and its idioms.