Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: terycarl
uhhhh, the Catholic bible was about 1,600 years old when Luther was born, and there were millions of hand written copies in every country on Earth by the 1600's

Do you even proofread what you write? Millions of Bibles in every country in the middle ages? Liar!!! If you'll lie about something so easily proven wrong, why would anyone take your "supposed teaching" about the Catholic church seriously?

Read this article which totally disproves your comment.

History - Why didn't people in the Middle Ages read the Bible?"

Bible wasn't available - no printing presses

The Bible was on scrolls and parchments during the early centuries of Christianity. No one had a "Bible". In the Middle Ages, each Bible was written by hand. Most people were, at best, only functionally literate. That is partially why they used stained glass windows and art to tell the Bible story. The printing press was not invented until 1436 by Johann Gutenberg. Note: The Gutenberg Bible, like every Bible before it, contained the Deuterocanonical books - or "apocrapha" in Evangelical circles.


624 posted on 09/15/2019 2:11:25 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 584 | View Replies ]


To: terycarl; 2nd amendment mama
Correct link: "History - Why didn't people in the Middle Ages read the Bible?
627 posted on 09/15/2019 2:16:52 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 624 | View Replies ]

To: 2nd amendment mama
Do you even proofread what you write? Millions of Bibles in every country in the middle ages? Liar!!! If you'll lie about something so easily proven wrong, why would anyone take your "supposed teaching" about the Catholic church seriously?

No one here is a liar...Just that some are misinformed, like you are...

656 posted on 09/15/2019 3:48:26 PM PDT by Iscool
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 624 | View Replies ]

To: 2nd amendment mama
The printing press was not invented until 1436 by Johann Gutenberg

I was in Wiesbaden for 4 years, during my 20 years in the USAF. I went across the Rhine, to a museum in Mainz, and saw the original Gutenberg Bible. It’s all under glass. You cannot touch it, but I saw it up close. 👍👊

675 posted on 09/15/2019 6:16:29 PM PDT by Mark17 (Once saved, always saved. I do not care if some do not like that. It will NEVER be my problem)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 624 | View Replies ]

To: 2nd amendment mama
Do you even proofread what you write? Millions of Bibles in every country in the middle ages? Liar!!!

The sentence was misleading....by the 1600's there were many many bibles SPREAD throughout every country....not millions in each country and they were read by those who could read and were either in the homes of the very wealthy or libraries, or Catholic organizations or palaces.....but there were a lot of them. When Gutenburg invented the printing press, they became available to almost anyone who wanted one.

692 posted on 09/15/2019 6:41:17 PM PDT by terycarl (Notre Dame was God's way of pointing out that France has fallen from His favor....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 624 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson