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From: bleahcim49@frontiernet.net
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 02:43:14 GMT, "Dore"
wrote:
> ONLY
>through faith and obedience to Him will any sins be forgiven.
>Dore
"Dearly beloved Friends, these things we do not lay upon you as a rule
or form to walk by, but that all, with a measure of light which is
pure and holy, may be guided: and so in the light walking and abiding,
these things may be fulfilled in the Spirit, not in the letter; for
the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life."
“you say … that God hath ordained the greater part of men for hell …
Doth not the Scripture say God would have all men to be saved ..
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Maybe the question arises: If you can prove, in a small paper like
this, that the New Testament is unreliable and leads to idolatry, then
how is it possible that for 2000 years all the Christians never
recognized this fact? --
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----In order to understand this, we must realize that for almost 16
centuries the Bible was not available to the common people. Only in
the middle of the 15th century was the technology to print books
invented. Before that time every copy had to be written by hand, which
made it very expensive, and absolutely un affordable for the common
people. After the invention of the printing press the Bible was almost
exclusively printed in Latin, so that it could not be understood by
the layman, but only by the clergy. The Roman Catholic Church did not
want the Bible to be available to the common people, because they were
afraid that when the people could read the Bible themselves, they
would realize how they were cheated, and stray away from the
mother-church. This was a justified fear, because as soon as the Bible
became available to the masses, a major Christian reform movement
arose. Hence the church used all means available to prevent Bible
translations from reaching the common people. ...
----..The first translation of the whole Bible into a spoken language
was into English, made by John Wycliff in 1380. But the church was not
as grateful as you would expect. Forty-three years after his death, in
1428, his bones were dug up and burned at the stake, by command of the
synod of Constance. Pope Martin V personally confirmed this order.
In 1525 William Tyndale gave the English people his translation of the
New Testament, and later of parts of the Old Testament.
On the sixth of October 1536 he was strangled to death, and afterwards
burned at the stake in Vilvorde near Brussels.WW
Luther, who translated the Bible into German, was excommunicated by
the church, a punishment that carried the death penalty on it, but
died a natural death before the church could get its hands on him.
.......In 1527 the Antwerp edition of Tyndale's New Testament was
burned at St. Paul's Cross, London, and a little later mass burning of
these works and the works of other translators began. (These facts and
dates can easily be verified by means of the New Catholic
Encyclopedia, by an editorial staff at the Catholic University of
America, Washington, or through the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church, by Cross and Livingstone.)
-------Later, when translations became widely available, the
translations were usually corrupted at critical points, as shown
before.
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A preacher is the blind
leading the blind...
The Last Church
http://www.thelastchurch.org
michael@thelastchurch.org
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