You have your Bible in English today because - on this day, October 6, in 1536, William Tyndale was burned at the stake for disobeying the authorities.
It was deemed a danger to society for individuals to read the Bible themselves. If an individual wanted to learn more about the Bible, they needed to join a congregation, have it read to them by an ordained priest, and in the Latin language.
William Tyndale was considered selfish and dangerous for putting the individual over the group.
@sinbach High time to spread scriptures using printing hard copies as well as digital means including pill Bible. The relevance of using MP3 players and simple audio bibles in 3rd world countries; only a person like you who had travelled extensively through some of those most needy places on earth can explain to our brothers and sisters in the West. Slowly the 'World rulers' are forcing people to use cloud storage, etc. Which can be wiped out any time they wish.
@Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter none of our digital Bibles are connected to a cloud service. both our printed bibles and digital bibles are 'hard copy' in that way. but for printed bibles, we print anywhere from 200k - 1 million Bibles per year and pay for the distribution.
@sinbach “William Tyndale was considered selfish and dangerous for putting the individual over the group” sounds like a justification for a bad behavior instead of an accurate description of causality. Shrug.
@Elecnurs3 translating the Bible into another language and distributing it without authorization was bad behavior and yes, I justified it.
Shrug.
@sinbach lol. I was saying that the church saying they were putting the group over the individual was a petty justification for killing Tyndall and not the real reason he was killed. He was killed for disrupting the church monopoly on truth in my opinion. I’m probably wrong…
@sinbach Quite a few verses I prefer in the Tyndale version (1534).
@sinbach a danger to the established religious order
@sinbach Yep!