Forbidden Book

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A local Bible study group is ending their current semester with a public presentation entitled “The Forbidden Book - or - how we got the English Bible”. I’m assuming they’ll be using all the usual suspects; Wycliffe, Tynndale, et al. But, it appears that part of the presentation will be a video by a Dr. Craig Lampe with a similar title. Is there any online source (I’m lazy) that gives specific refutations of Lampe’s particular ideas? (I haven’t seen the video nor read any of his stuff).

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Search google, if you haven’t already. Search Catholic answers, and search in general for anything (on CA) about the history of the Bible. It sounds like it may be a “Catholics hid the Bible but the reformers freed it” kind of thing.
 
Here is what I found on Amazon.com abot the DVD. You are correct in your assumptions

Description
DISCOVER THE FASCINATING STORY BEHIND THE PRESERVATION OF THE BIBLE.

During the Dark Ages, superstition and ignorance controlled the minds of the masses.
A few brave men obeyed God and brought the Scriptures to the world.
(Includes new footage and a closed-caption version for the hearing impaired)
  • John Wycliffe, the brilliant 14th century Oxford scholar, translated the Bible from Latin into English in order to enlighten the masses oppressed through ignorance. His work was so despised by the established church, that Pope Martin V ordered Wycliffe’s bones to be dug up and burned forty years after his death.
  • Martin Luther was one of the few who challenged church authority in the 16th century and lived to tell the tale. In exposing the folly of indulgences (paying money to the church in order to obtain favor with God), he revealed what had always been written in Scripture, that justification was through faith and faith alone.
  • William Tyndale was not spared like his friend Luther. Tyndale spent the last 500 days of his life in a cold castle dungeon. He was then tied to a stake, strangled, and burned. His crime?.. printing Bibles in the English language!
 
BillFL said:
Here is what I found on Amazon.com abot the DVD. You are correct in your assumptions

Description
DISCOVER THE FASCINATING STORY BEHIND THE PRESERVATION OF THE BIBLE.

During the Dark Ages, superstition and ignorance controlled the minds of the masses.
A few brave men obeyed God and brought the Scriptures to the world.
(Includes new footage and a closed-caption version for the hearing impaired)
  • John Wycliffe, the brilliant 14th century Oxford scholar, translated the Bible from Latin into English in order to enlighten the masses oppressed through ignorance. His work was so despised by the established church, that Pope Martin V ordered Wycliffe’s bones to be dug up and burned forty years after his death.
  • Martin Luther was one of the few who challenged church authority in the 16th century and lived to tell the tale. In exposing the folly of indulgences (paying money to the church in order to obtain favor with God), he revealed what had always been written in Scripture, that justification was through faith and faith alone.
  • William Tyndale was not spared like his friend Luther. Tyndale spent the last 500 days of his life in a cold castle dungeon. He was then tied to a stake, strangled, and burned. His crime?.. printing Bibles in the English language!
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I’m tired of hearing these accusations. If the Catholic Church really hated the Bible, why would she have diligently preserved it for centuries? What these people fail to mention is that these “reformers” got their bibles from Catholics.
 
sterryfamily said:
A local Bible study group is ending their current semester with a public presentation entitled “The Forbidden Book - or - how we got the English Bible”. I’m assuming they’ll be using all the usual suspects; Wycliffe, Tynndale, et al. But, it appears that part of the presentation will be a video by a Dr. Craig Lampe with a similar title. Is there any online source (I’m lazy) that gives specific refutations of Lampe’s particular ideas? (I haven’t seen the video nor read any of his stuff).
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Aelfric’s translation of Genesis is sufficient refutation of the idea that there were no English versions of the scriptures in the Dark Ages.

However generally religious literature was in Latin, just as almost all scientific literature is now in English. An international enterprise needs a common language for internal use.
 
So, which “spanish” translation is the forbidden book? which french, german, hebrew, indian, polish, etc.,? Why would God only preserve God’s word in an English translation?
 
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