Because of the powerful words of love, hope, peace, and comfort from the mighty author of all truth, the Bible has been the guide to …
Bible history
Because of the powerful words of love, hope, peace, and comfort from the mighty author of all truth, the Bible has been the guide to billions of hearts and minds. It has taught & enlightened both learned and ignorant; comforted the sad & lonely; strengthened the weak; given direction and discipline to the lost and destitute; brought peace to the repentant; filled countless hearts with love & joy; & has been the hope of all generations – before, during, and after the lifetime of Jesus Christ. Thanks to the miracle of the King James Bible and men like Wycliff, Tynsdale, Purvey, Erasmus, Luther, Jerome, and others who sacrificed to translate and bring the word to the common people, we can continue to study and learn all we can (with our own Bibles) throughout our lives so that we can endure to the end, guard against the temptations of Satan and draw closer to Him daily.
A certain Christian man laboring in India offered to give interested natives a copy of the Bible. After hearing of its message, many eagerly responded. One old man, looking upon the Bible with reverence, asked, “How long has this book been in the world?” When he learned it had existed for centuries, he sorrowfully shook his head. “I am an old man. All my friends have died hopeless. … And all this time the book was here and nobody brought it to me.” 1 How quickly he sensed the worth of his new possession: a record of God’s dealings with man from the time of the Creation. The Bible is indeed a book of immense consequence.
Surely the sacrifices the Jews have made in bringing forth and preserving precious records through many centuries of trials and tribulations are immense. Yet that is only a part of the story. The whole history of the formation of the Bible, Old Testament and New, and of the efforts to preserve it and to place it in the tongues of common men is a fascinating story both of special blessing by God and of utmost sacrifice by man.
The English Civil War took place 1642 to 1651 between Royalist Anglican supporters of King Charles I and the Puritan Parliamentarian supporters led by Lord Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. The Puritans won, and Oliver Cromwell had Charles I beheaded. Anglican ministers were demoted, including Rev. Lawrence Washington, the great-great-grandfather of George Washington. This led Rev. Lawrence Washington’s son, John Washington, to become a merchant and sail ...
Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World requiring that children be taught to read and write. The Massachusetts School Laws were three legislative acts of 1642, 1647 and 1648 enacted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with he most famous by far, the law of 1647, also known as the Old Deluder Satan Law (after the law's first sentence). The English Puritans who ...
John Rogers burned to death at a stake at Smithfield, England on this Monday morning, February 4,1555. Among the onlookers who encouraged him were his own children. What monstrous crime had earned him this cruel death? Born about 1500, Rogers was educated at Cambridge. He became a Catholic priest and accepted a position in the church at the time that the Protestant Reformation was in full ...
William Tyndale, 12 years after he left England, was led from prison to the stake where he was strangled, then his body burned. He had time to utter one last cry: “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.” Tyndale had suffered for the cause “poverty, … exile out of my natural country and bitter absence from my friends, … my hunger, my thirst, my cold, the ...
Sometime during October 31, 1517, the day before the Feast of All Saints, the 33-year-old Martin Luther posted theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. The door functioned as a bulletin board for various announcements related to academic and church affairs. The theses were written in Latin and printed on a folio sheet by the printer John Gruenenberg, one of the many entrepreneurs ...
Erasmus, with the help of printer John Froben, published a Greek-Latin Parallel New Testament. The Latin part was not the corrupt Vulgate, but his own fresh rendering of the text from the more accurate and reliable Greek, which he had managed to collate from a half-dozen partial old Greek New Testament manuscripts he had acquired. This milestone was the first non-Latin Vulgate text of the scripture ...
Though it is not certain, many scholars agree that the Gutenberg Bible was published in Mainz, Germany on this day. The printing of the Gutenberg Latin language Bible was one of the most significant events that took place in human history. Prior to 1455, books were mainly in possessions of very wealthy and influential people. The books were definitely not cheap. Copying was long, tedious work ...
Jan Hus, a Bohemian religious reformer, was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake for his belief that Christ alone was the head of the church and that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language and in their own homes. Manuscripts of Wycliffe's bible were used as kindling for the fire that burned him at the stake. Ryan M ...
Wycliffe had been born in the hinterlands, on a sheep farm 200 miles from London. He left for Oxford University in 1346, but because of periodic eruptions of the Black Death, he was not able to earn his doctorate until 1372. Nonetheless, by then he was already considered Oxford's leading philosopher and theologian. In 1374 he became rector of the parish in Lutterworth, but a year ...
Because of the powerful words of love, hope, peace, and comfort from the mighty author of all truth, the Bible has been the guide to billions of hearts and minds. It has taught & enlightened both learned and ignorant; comforted the sad & lonely; strengthened the weak; given direction and discipline to the lost and destitute; brought peace to the repentant; filled countless hearts with love & joy; & has been the hope of all generations – before, during, and after the lifetime of Jesus Christ. Thanks to the miracle of the King James Bible and men like Wycliff, Tynsdale, Purvey, Erasmus, Luther, Jerome, and others who sacrificed to translate and bring the word to the common people, we can continue to study and learn all we can (with our own Bibles) throughout our lives so that we can endure to the end, guard against the temptations of Satan and draw closer to Him daily.
