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Date Posted: 18:46:43 01/16/03 Thu
Author: Sola Scriptura
Subject: Because Jesus Said: "IT IS FINISHED!!!!!"
In reply to: Sola Scriptura 's message, "Because Jesus Said: "IT IS FINISHED!!!!!"" on 12:27:06 01/16/03 Thu

In the early 1500s, God raised up William Tyndale to translate the first English Bible that was taken directly from Hebrew and Greek and that was published via the printing press. William Tyndale was born in 1484.

William Tyndale Was Burned at the Stake by Catholic Authorities for His "Crime" of Translating the Bible.

The Translator was also born to a time of great change. When he was eight years old, Columbus discovered America. When Tyndale was fourteen, Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India, and the great era of world exploration had begun. Just three years before Tyndale was born, the Spanish Inquisition was established, and by the time Tyndale was fifteen years old, 8,800 had been burned to death and 90,000 imprisoned under the pope�s Inquisitor General in Spain, Thomas de Torquemada. In 1492, when Tyndale was a young boy of eight, 500,000 Jews had been driven out of Spain and their wealth confiscated. As Tyndale learned his letters and grew to manhood, terrible persecutions were being poured out upon the Waldensian Christians in Bohemia and Moravia. Just twenty-four years before his birth, the 3,000 inhabitants of the valley of Loyse were destroyed by the Roman Catholic armies. When Tyndale was four, an army of 18,000 Catholics made war against the Waldensian Christians of Piedmont.

The popes of Tyndale�s day, (dori�s successors to her �first pope, Peter as she recently posted) were very powerful and very wicked. Let�s look at some of her wonderful inerrant popes:

Sixtus IV (1471-1484) established houses of prostitution in Rome.

Innocent VIII (1484-1492) had seven illegitimate children, whom he enriched with church treasures.

Alexander VI (1492-1503) lived with a Spanish lady and her daughter, and reveled in the grossest forms of debauchery. "The accounts of some of the indecent orgies that took place in the presence of the pope and [his daughter] Lucrezia are too bestial for repetition" (Kerr, pp. 228,29). He had five children, and his favorite son, Caesar Borgia, murdered his brother and his brother-in-law.

When I saw the transfixing photo of The Doors of the Wittenberg Church it was spell bindingly powerful. I fell still and just stared at it. What an image. Anyone not sensing emotion looking at it has not read Foxe. Nor have they taken their Laodicean warm fuzzies beyond their ice cream socials. And by the looks of some of the photos of the banana splits and nuts hollie-rolling in Moore, and Pocono � they and their wives definitely look to need exhibit some restraint at the local ice cream buffets. LOL!

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