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To: .45 Long Colt

The Catholic Church banned corrupted bibles such as the Tyndale and Wycliffe Bibles. These bibles contained not only gross translation errors, but they also contained heretical commentaries in an attempt to undermine the Church.
According to Saint Thomas More: “finding errors in Tyndale’s book (Bible) was like studying to find water in the sea.” King Henry VIII, himself, in 1531 passed an edict
prohibiting and expelling the Tyndale Bible from among his subjects.

At the time of the Reformation there were 14 translations of the Bible in German alone, all authorized and approved by the Catholic Church. In addition, the Church had also approved 11 Italian, 10 French, and 2 Bohemian translations,
and one Flemish and one Russian translation. The Catholic Church did all it could to prevent corrupted translations from spreading. The sole purpose was to assure that
people would know the Word of God and not that of mere men, just as today people reject the Jehovah’s Witness New World Translation. Luther’s Bible was heretical because: (1) he inserted the word alone in Romans 3:28 to distort the meaning, ie., he made it read “For we hold that a man is justified by faith alone apart from the observance of the law.” (Compare with James 2:24), (2) he rejected the Deuterocanonicals as uninspired, and (3) he eliminated the books of Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation.
Asked by whose authority he changed the Bible after 1500 years, Luther declared,“By my authority.” That is, he simply made it up!


68 posted on 07/14/2012 10:13:27 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet
"King Henry VIII, himself, in 1531 passed an edict prohibiting and expelling the Tyndale Bible from among his subjects."

Tyndale pissed off everyone in his day because he attempted to use Scripture to rationalize his political ambitions. Tyndale taught that all secular power and authority rightly proceeds not from a royal class, but from the biblically "elect", which he just happened to be.

What many people dismiss is that until the 16th century there was no "English" language. As divergent as regional accents are today within England they were even more so in the 1500's. People from as little as 50 miles away could not converse with each other. Even Tyndale had to publish his Bible in multiple English dialects.

Peace be with you.

70 posted on 07/14/2012 10:27:36 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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