You wrote:
“500/600 years ago most people couldnt even READ..”
You’re right. And that in no way disproves anything I said. Most people can read today - and yet about half of them don’t believe Jesus is divine.
“It was those that read it to them that was burnt at the stake..”
No, again, no one was ever burned at the stake for reading the Bible since reading the Bible was not a crime. Reading the Bible aloud was not a crime either.
[ No, again, no one was ever burned at the stake for reading the Bible since reading the Bible was not a crime. Reading the Bible aloud was not a crime either. ]
Wrong..
http://babylon-the-great.xanga.com/675608011/item/
http://www.fpchurch.org.uk/News/view.php?id=26
Reading to others about how God changes your heart indeed did cause quite a few problems, not limited to forfeiting your life through fire at the stake.
No, again, no one was ever burned at the stake for reading the Bible since reading the Bible was not a crime. Reading the Bible aloud was not a crime either.
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English Protestants and French Huguenots were burnt at the stake, etc for reading the Bible...
Reading the Bible, even owning own was a crine...
Only the Catholic Church, and the nobility had Bibles...If the nobility were Protestants, or if anyone else had a Bible they were murdered...
In the 1680s 200,000 Huguenots fled from France...
Plus the thousands who left in the earlier pogroms...
They hid their Bibles by baking them inside loaves of bread...
If they were caught with a Bible they were murdered...
In one episode in 1572, alone, the St Batholomews Day Massacre, 30,000 French Huguenots were murdered ..