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To: John Leland 1789

You teach Church History?

One couldn’t tell by these revisionsit gems you’ve tossed about:

1) “What we do discover is that there is a lot of revisionist history from the Roman Church, especially from the time of Augustine. Everything must be made to appear to have an origin in what was created after Nicea (325 AD)”

Huh? What was created after 325? Such as? Show examples of revisionism. Please document them. Can you? Or will this be an empty assertion?

2) “What is really amazing is how that the “Catholics” admire the “Protestants” (of course, there are millions of Christians who have never been either one) for their attention to Bible reading and study, when several of their own councils had put a ban on personal Bible reading.”

Really? No ecumenical council ever banned personal reading of the Bible. Do you mean regional councils fighting heretics like the Lollards and Albigensians? Were those bans on personal reading of the Bible or on specific translations? Please document. Can you?


8 posted on 01/05/2009 3:52:48 AM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: vladimir998
Both Catholics and Protestants have sought to control access to the Bible and authorized translations and forbidden translations and sought to determine who was allowed to read it or read it aloud to people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale

Burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_for_the_Advancement_of_True_Religion

Henry VIII’s law against reading the Bible. He wanted to keep the “lower sort” from reading it.

Who did Jesus minster to again? ;)

41 posted on 01/05/2009 4:45:18 PM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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