This is a load of non-factual bunkum Alfie. You need to toss those biased and bigoted “histories” that you have been listening to and get your facts straight.
You have been very badly decieved…
Better have a look at this chapter from
Where We Got the Bible on the vernacular translations before Wycliff. The allegation is historical bunkum.
You also need to get the Beginning Apologetics Series especially # 7 and have a look on page 38.
"Before Gutenberg printed the first Bible around 1455 (A Catholic version in Latin with 73 books)
there were already popular translations of the Bible and the Gospels in English, Spanish, Italian, Danish, French, Norwegian, Polish, Bohemiam, and Hungarian."
"**There were nine editions of the Bible in German by the time Martin Luther was born in 1493 and twenty-seven editions in German before Luther published his own in 1520.
Before** the first Protestant Bible was printed, more than 600 editions of the Catholic Bible had been printed in Europe, of which 198 were in the languages of the people."
(Where We Got the BIble, pages 69,74,& 75)
You can allege all that stuff if you want, but it’s just not true and that means you need to check out your sources against the facts of history.
Why would they tell you something that was wrong if they knew what they are talking about?
Latin was the language of scholars and for most of history those who went to school and
could read read Latin. The common people were not literate. They didn’t have the time or resources, much the same as illiterate common people in third world countries today do not.
Are we responsible for keeping the Word of God away from them too? Or is that
your fault because you have more than one Bible and have not shared that with them even though they do not speak, read, or write English, nor do they read or write their own native language?
How do you figure that the Word of God was copied Alfie? Do you suppose that the apostles just bopped down to the Jerusalem Kinko’s and zapped off copies of the Gospel of John for distribution?
The FACT is that the Bible was
hand copied by Catholic nuns and monks in Latin because that was the common language of the clergy and they could translate it and read it to the people. How long do ya think it’d take you today Alfie, if
you had to sit down and hand copy the entire Bible word for word accurately? Would you have time for anything much else? Well think about that because that is precisely what went on prior to Gutenberg’s printing press. It made Bibles rare, expensive, (since the copiests had to live too!) and so that meant that churches chained them to the pulpits…for the same reason that we chain pens to the desks at the bank and phone books to the booths. SO EVERYBODY CAN USE THEM.
Jesus didn’t speak English either Alfie… He spoke Aramaic like all the other Jews in Palestine at the time…why else did he call Peter “Cephas”, and cry out “Eloi eloi lama sabacthani” from the cross. That sure as vitam aeternam ain’t Greek!
So since you are wrong about all these things that must mean that there is good evidence of a couple of other important things:
- The folks who taught you all that didn’t really know what they were talking about, and might well be wrong about other important things as well, and,
- That the Catholic Church could indeed be the original church that Jesus founded and therefore the original and true Christian church, and that we could very well be right about other important things as well.
Pax tecum,
