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To: hosepipe; kosta50

***Kosta really, surely you know few could even write.. anywhere even in Isreal.. Especially during the dark ages.. In Europe some could barely write.. to transact business but little more..***

Then translating the Bible into the vernacular before widespread literacy would have done what?


2,284 posted on 02/19/2008 9:24:12 AM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
[ Then translating the Bible into the vernacular before widespread literacy would have done what? ]

It would have educated the educated and made possible the filtering down (of biblcal truths) to the uneducated.. Thereby educating them about education.. Which it did.. Many learned to READ just for this purpose of seeking God.. Which LIFTED the great unwashed.. Oh! and a plethora of OTHER reasons..

2,291 posted on 02/19/2008 9:47:49 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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