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Saturday, February 13, 2010

A TIME WHEN THE BIBLE WAS BANNED AND BURNED



"When the early church departed from God and imbibed pagan errors, she became Babylon."
--Quoted From -- the International Sabbath School Quarterly, Feb. 29, 1896.

"It was by departure from the LORD, and alliance with the heathen that the...church became a harlot."
--Quoted From--The Great Controversy, Pg 382



The Latin language, as the language of prayer and worship in churches, was imposed by Pope Gregory I, 600 years after Christ

The Word of God forbids praying and teaching in an unknown tongue.


Thus, two Scripture verses to be kept in mind when reading this post:

1 Corinthians 14:9 (King James Version)

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

2 Timothy 3:16 (King James Version)

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:


Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A TIME WHEN THE BIBLE
WAS BANNED AND BURNED -
By The Apostate Christian Church



 [The church of Rome was NEVER Christian!]


A TIME WHEN THE BIBLE
WAS BANNED AND BURNED -
By The Apostate Christian Church



Many people are unaware of the fact that there


was a long period of time, when the Church of


Christendom - forbid the reading of the Bible.


Not only did she forbid the reading of the Bible,


but she also forbid having possession of a Bible


in one's own home.


These were called the "Dark Ages" for obvious


reasons. The Apostate Church of Christendom was


at the peak of her power, and was afraid that if


her subjects owned and read Bibles, that they might


question some of the Church's actions and teachings.


"During the Dark Ages (A.D. 500-1500),


Rome burned Bibles along with their owners."


-The Baptist Pillar


CANADA'S ONLY TRUE BAPTIST PAPER


Published by Bible Baptist Church



This was a time, when not only was the Bible banned,


but literacy in general was prohibited and frowned


upon. Very few people during this time knew how to


read or write. Again, the Apostate Church was


determined that the less knowledge that people had,


the more easy it would be to rule them.


"Only ten percent of people


in the Roman Empire could read...


and those were generally in the wealthy


upper classes."


-River of God,


Gregory J. Riley, pp. 66



The Church admits this in her own Laws :



"Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should


not be permitted to have the books of the Old or


New Testament; we most strictly forbid their having


any translation of these books."


- The Church Council of Toulouse 1229 AD


Source: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe,


Scolar Press, London, England


copyright 1980 by Edward Peters,


ISBN 0-85967-621-8, pp. 194-195



The Council of Tarragona of 1234,


in its second canon, ruled that:


"No one may possess the books of the Old


and New Testaments, and if anyone possesses


them he must turn them over to the local bishop


within eight days, so that they may be burned..."


- The Church Council of Tarragona 1234 AD;


2nd Cannon - Source : D. Lortsch,


Historie de la Bible en France, 1910, p.14.


"Opened on Thursday alongside the Inquisition


archives was the infamous Index of Forbidden Books,


which Roman Catholics were forbidden to read


or possess on pain of excommunication. They showed


that even "the Bible" was once on the blacklist.


Translations of the holy book ended up on the bonfires


along with other ``heretical'' works...The Index


of Forbidden Books and all excommunications relating


to it were officially abolished in 1966. The Inquisition


itself was established by Pope Gregory IX in 1233...."


-Vatican archives reveal Bible was once banned book


By Jude Webber


ROME, Jan 22, 1998 (Reuters)



"Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should be


permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament;


...we most strictly forbid their having any translation


of these books."


- ITEM #2 COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE - 1229 A.D.


Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe,


Edited with an introduction by Edward Peters,


Scolar Press, London, copyright 1980


by Edward Peters, ISBN 0-85967-621-8, pp. 194-195


--After the death of Innocent III, the Synod of Toulouse


directed in 1229 its fourteenth canon against the misuse


of Sacred Scripture on the part of the athari:


"prohibemus, ne libros Veteris et Novi Testamenti


laicis permittatur habere"


(Hefele, "Concilgesch", Freiburg, 1863, V, 875).



ITEM #3 THE COUNCIL OF TARRAGONA - 1234 A.D.


The Council of Tarragona of 1234, in its second canon,


ruled that:


"No one may possess the books of the Old and New


Testaments in the Romance language, and if anyone


possesses them he must turn them over to the local


bishop within eight days after promulgation of


this decree, so that they may be burned...."


- D. Lortsch, Historie de la Bible en France, 1910, p.14.


ITEM #6 THE BIBLE PROHIBITED BY


THE INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM

Pope Pius IV had a list of the forbidden books compiled


and officially prohibited them in the Index of Trent


(Index Librorum Prohibitorum) of 1559.


This is an excerpt :


"Whoever reads or has such a translation in his


possession... cannot be absolved from his sins


until he has turned in these Bibles...Books in the


vernacular dealing with the controversies between


Catholics and the heretics of our time are not to be


generally permitted, but are to be handled in the


same way as Bible translations..."


- Rule IV & Rule VI


Die Indices Librorum Prohibitorum des sechzehnten


Jahrhunderts (Tübingen, 1886), page 246f.


Source: The Reformation, by Hans J. Hillerbrand,


copyright 1964 by SCM Press Ltd and Harper and Row,Inc.,


Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-15480,


pages 474, 475.


History's Most Indestructible Book


Many dictators have attempted to wipe


the Bible from existence. Yet it has


withstood all these attacks, remaining


the most popular book in the world.


More copies of the Bible are sold every year


than any other book, despite its image as


being "out of date."



Christendom Becomes - An Enemy of the bible

Christendom - as a political power


Unfortunately, this ultimately led to


persecution again as the church quickly


became a powerful political force, used to


control public opinion and political ambitions.


The Bible continued to be attacked, now from


within the church. Bibles in common languages


such as Greek were outlawed. The Latin Vulgate


Bible was produced and carefully controlled,


readable only by specially trained representatives


of the church. Laws were issued making it illegal


for any Christian to possess a Bible. Penalties


included burning at the stake. During the Dark Ages


even priests were unable to read the Scriptures


for themselves. As a result, they were unable to


compare the false doctrines sweeping through the


Roman church against the doctrines of the


Word of God. In Italy, it was still illegal to


own a Bible until 1870!


Political ambitions led to such crimes as the


Crusader Wars, purported to be in the name of


Christ but having no relationship with any


Christian doctrine. Christianity was primarily


an excuse used to give them credibility. Since


the people had no Bibles to check such things for


themselves, they were at the mercy of the corrupt


religious leaders behind these efforts.



"The Roman Catholic Church has traditionally


suppressed, opposed, and forbidden the open use


of the Bible. It was first officially forbidden


to the people and placed on the index of Forbidden


Books List by the Council of Valencia in 1229 A.D.


The Council of Trent (1545-63 A.D.) also prohibited


its use and pronounced a curse upon anyone who would


dare oppose this decree. Many popes have issued


decrees forbidding Bible reading in the common


language of the people, condemning Bible societies


and banning its possession and translation under


penalty of mortal sin and death. The Roman Catholic


Church has openly burned Bibles and those who


translated it or promoted its study, reading, and use.


(John Hus, 1415 A.D.; William Tyndale, 1536 A.D.)"


-Christian Equippers International,


2941 Lake Tahoe Blvd,


South Lake Tahoe 96150



1525: Six thousand copies of William Tyndale’s


English translation of the New Testament were


printed in Cologne, Germany, and smuggled into


England—and then burned by the English church.


"Tyndale wrote that the Church authorities


banned translation into the mother tongue


“to keep the world still in darkness,


to the intent they might sit through vain


superstition and false doctrine, to satisfy


their filthy lusts, their proud ambition,


and insatiable covetousness, and to exalt their


own honour... above God himself.” "


--William Tyndale’s New Testament.


Worms (Germany), 1526


British Library C.188.a.17


Copyright © The British Library Board


ONLINE GALLERY


LANDMARKS IN PRINTING


"Tyndale’s New Testament was the first to be


printed in English. There are only two complete


copies surviving from the 3,000 or more printed


in 1526 by Peter Schoeffer in the German city


of Worms. Tyndale’s translation was pronounced


heretical in England, so his Bibles were smuggled


into the country in bales of cloth. Those discovered


owning them were punished. At first only the books


were destroyed, but soon heretics (those found with


the Bibles) would be burned too - including Tyndale


himself in 1536."


-William Tyndale’s New Testament.


Worms (Germany), 1526


British Library C.188.a.17


Copyright © The British Library Board


ONLINE GALLERY


LANDMARKS IN PRINTING



"For 600 years the Roman Catholic Church


attempted to keep translations of the Bible


out of the hands of the people. Bible-believing


people were mercilessly persecuted and their


Scriptures were destroyed. Those who possessed


Bibles without a license were commanded to


deliver them up to the Catholic authorities


under threat of inquisition terrors. Booksellers


were forbidden to sell any Bibles except to


people who possessed a license from the Catholic


church. Huge quantities of Scriptures in English,


German, Italian, French, Spanish, and in other


languages, were confiscated and destroyed


throughout the 13th to the 19th centuries.


Bible translators and distributors were imprisoned


and burned. Even after the Catholic inquisition


was outlawed in many lands in the 18th and 19th


centuries, the popes continued to condemn the free


distribution of Scripture."


-ROME AND THE BIBLE:


TRACING THE HISTORY


OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH


AND ITS PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE


AND OF BIBLE BELIEVERS, by David W. Cloud,


Way of Life Literature, copyright 1996.


"In Roman-dominated lands, the Bible was almost


an unknown book among the common people. The Bible


in Rome is a strange and rare book. Indeed very few


of the common people know what we mean by the Bible."


-ROME AND THE BIBLE:


TRACING THE HISTORY


OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH


AND ITS PERSECUTION OF THE BIBLE


AND OF BIBLE BELIEVERS, by David W. Cloud,


Way of Life Literature, copyright 1996.



"Book burnings which included Bibles


were common after 1521. Sometimes the


translators and publishers themselves


were also burned. Possession of Bibles became


criminal offenses and often resulted in the


execution of the accused. There are cases on


record of people executed by order of church


for the "crime" teaching their children


the Lord's Prayer or the Ten Commandments


in their own native tongue."


-What Happened this Day in Church History


June 13, 1757 • The Bible in Many Tongues.


Christian History Institute



"In the two decades after Wycliffe’s death,


many Lollards were burned at the stake,


some even with their Bibles hanging from


their necks to be burned with them."


-Ron Minton,


The Making and Preservation of the Bible


(n.p.; November, 2000) 216.



"By 1408 even reading the Bible in English


was outlawed."


- F. F. Bruce, PP 20-23


History of the Bible in English, 3rd ed.


(New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)



"One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus,


actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas:


that people should be permitted to read


the Bible in their own language,


and they should oppose the tyranny


of the Roman church that threatened


anyone possessing a Bible with execution.


Hus was burned at the stake in 1415,


with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used


as kindling for the fire. The Catholic


Church excommunicated Hus in 1411 and


burned him at the stake in Constance on


July 6, 1415, having condemned him by


the Council of Constance, in an unfair trial."


-English Bible History; "John Hus"


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Burned at the Stake
For Owning A Bible


Burned at the Stake
For Owning A Bible



"During the Dark Ages (A.D. 500-1500),


Rome burned Bibles along with their owners."


-The Baptist Pillar


CANADA'S ONLY TRUE BAPTIST PAPER


Published by Bible Baptist Church


"In the two decades after Wycliffe’s death,


many Lollards were burned at the stake,


some even with their Bibles hanging from


their necks to be burned with them."


-Ron Minton,


The Making and Preservation of the Bible


(n.p.; November, 2000) 216.


"October 6, 1998 marks 462 years since another


Christian was burned at the stake for his


translation and distribution of the English Bible."


-The Bible Gateway;


Topic : "William Tyndale"


Bible.Org.com


Tom White and Steve Cleary,


“The Smuggler,” The Voice of the Martyrs,


October, 1998, pp. 3-4



"Owning a Bible in English,


or even quoting Scripture in English,


meant death for countless men and women of God."


-1376-Indestructible Book: Story of the Bible


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in English and Spanish Languages


Largest Roman Catholic Marian Resource



"Many people died at the stake


for owning a Bible, or for helping


to translate one, or for distributing


them to others."


- Sermon of


Rev. Orland Wolfram (1912-1987)


Pillar of Fire Church


Missionary to Guatemala



"The principal accusation against those


who are subject to... (the inquisition)


is heresy...of such who read the Bible


in the common language...


Upon all occasions the inquisitors carry on


their processes with the utmost severity,


and punish those who offend them


with the most unparalleled cruelty."


-Fox's Book of Martyrs; Chapter 5


An Account of the Inquisition


Author: John Foxe (1516-1587)




Taking the Bible for Granted

Many people today, ridicule those who search


the scriptures for truth. And even many of


my readers make fun of me and say that I should


not take the Bible so seriously. I am told


to lighten up. But I know that Jesus replied


to almost all of the questions that were


presented to him, by quoting from the Bible's


Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures). I know too,


that the apostles and early Christians died for


their belief in the Bible's laws and principals.




Through the centuries, courageous men and women


have treasured the Scriptures and have struggled


to preserve and disseminate them amid great


opposition. Some, as we have seen, have even died


to get the Bible into the hands of the common


person. Their sacrifices should inspire us to a


greater study and application of the Bible’s


teachings. Yet many today take owning a Bible


for granted. Nevertheless, surveys reveal that


fewer than half of Americans can even name the


first four books of the New Testament.


The words of the Bible are of no value as mere


letters on paper. They must live in the minds


of people through the Spirit of God.

The Bible is a precious heritage and a priceless


gift. It reveals the true God and his Son,


Jesus Christ, the Savior of all humanity.


Realizing that God inspired many dedicated


Christians to great personal sacrifices should


motivate us to value the precious heritage of


the Bible. The once-forbidden book now lies open


— to you!



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