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The Reformation gave the church back the Bible In 1519, six men and a woman were burned at Coventry for teaching their children the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer and the Apostle’s Creed in English. Nothing seems to have alarmed and enraged the Roman priesthood as much as the spread of Bibles in the local language. It was for the crime of translating the Bible into English that the Reformer, William Tyndale, was burned at the stake. Of all the aspects which combined to make up the Reformation, no other aspect received such bitter opposition as the translation and circulation of the Scriptures. The translation of the Bible struck a blow at the root of the whole Roman Catholic system. The Bible, as the only rule of faith and conduct, freely available in the local languages, was a threat to all the superstitions and abuses of the medieval Roman popery. With the Bible in every parish church, every thoughtful man soon saw that the religion of the priests had no basis in Holy Scripture.

Quite the reaction from some church which claims to have WRITTEN the very Bible it kept from the people.

What I find very interesting, is that many of the very reforms that Luther wished to have instituted in the Catholic church indeed HAVE been made. And we now find Catholics bragging about the very things existing in their church that Luther was ex-communicated for advocating.

I agree with Rnmom. I'm still waiting for some Catholic some where to actually address the topic of the article instead of deflecting and making personal attacks.

It would be nice to see some Catholic actually condemn the Inquisition for the abomination that it was, rather than long for the day of its return and try to provide Scripture to justify the murder of those who it deems heretics.

And we now find Catholics bragging about the very things existing in their church that Luther was ex-communicated for advocating.

Exactly!!! And ex-communicating him was the least of it.

It would be nice to see some Catholic actually condemn the Inquisition for the abomination that it was,

They can't, they aren't allow to go against their manipulative church. These wimps are afraid of being condemned by the church and go to hell or something. Then can go against The Word but not their church. That's why Luther stands out - he did what he could in that environment for THE TRUTH! What a testimony he and Tyndale left with us.