[robroys woman]

This time I was smart. I scrolled down to see how long it was before I started reading. This post is a bookmark. :)

I will say I’ve been saying for over a decade now that just as the invention of the printing press gave us the reformation, the invention of the internet will further purify the church.

Old teachings that can’t really be supported biblically will fall away like scales - ARE falling away like scales from Paul’s eyes. We are living in interesting times.

[imardmd1]

I read it all, and it is a good and fair summary of what regenerated irreversibly committed servants trusting in the Jesus of the entire Bible ought to grasp, in their growth.

About the Reformation: yes, moveable print was invented a few years before the reform principle broke loose, but the access to information and raid communication of it hastened the modern age of Bible publication.

However, one must pay respects to Desiderius Erasmus (the illegitimate son of a Catholic priest) who researched and colllated the best manuscripts for a publication of the Byzantine/majority textform.

This Greek text gave Luther and then Calvin a true New Testament superseding the poorer and biased Vulgate Latin translation, which was not generally understood by populations conversing only in their particular vernacular languages.

It was the translations of Erasmus' Greek text that gave force to the public recognition of Romanism's many fallacies and led to reform both within and without the Catholic culture.

Thus Erasmus was the father of the reformation, with printing as its tool for multiplication of Bibles in the peoples' tongues.

[boatbums]

I would agree with that.