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Show 36: The truth about the Bible and no, the KJV is not a good one · The Uncensored Catholic

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Y'all welcome today's show. I hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend and
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week. I actually do not like to call this the fourth of July.
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I like to call it Independence Day, and the reason for that is that
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thousands of men gave their lives and women and children struggle along with them to
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give us our independence, and I think just calling it the fourth of July
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kind of takes away from that. So tomorrow I'm gonna have sort of a
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special show for you. It may you almost become like an annual feature.
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As I mentioned before, my ancestor is Charles Carroll, the only Catholic signer
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of the Declaration of Independence. He was a really great man, terrible tragic
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story. I mean it lost everything because he signed the Declaration in opposition to
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the British, killed before his eyes. Actually lived to be the oldest of
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all the signers of the Decoration of Independence, and one of his I think
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it was a nephew. I'm gonna have to look that up, became the
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first first Catholic bishop in the United States, and another one was one of
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the representatives from Maryland that ratified the Constitution. So I'm going to tell you
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a little bit about our Catholic heritage, because actually we don't have a lot
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in the United States. It actually really comes through just one signer, without
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whom it may not have been legal to be Catholic in America. I mean,
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Benjamin Franklin talked a lot about religious freedom, but Catholics weren't really welcome
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in Pennsylvania. Thomas Jefferson, my hero, personal hero, talked a lot
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about religious freedom, and Catholics weren't really welcome in Virginia, Dido, Massachusetts,
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Elgue in North Carolina and several other states to be Catholic. So we
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do have, you know, a great Catholic hero, essentially a martyr for
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the faith and for the cause of American independence. And I think tomorrow I'm
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going to dedicate the show to Charles Carroll of Carol to Maryland, the one
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who was not only the only Catholic, but in pure Irish swagger, signed
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his address by his name, knowing exactly what that meant, knowing exactly what
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they would face. So let's get into today's show. You know a lot,
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there's a lot of controversy around the Bible itself. Okay, The Protestant
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myth is that the Catholic Church wouldn't allow people to read the Bible. Okay,
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it is a complete myth. First of all, without the Catholic Church,
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there is no Bible. The Apostles of Christ, who were the first
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Catholic bishops and priests, the founders of the Catholic Church, I mean,
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Jesus founded the Catholic Church upon Saint Peter and its first officers. Its first
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officials were the apostles, and they wrote the books of the New Testament.
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They then and their immediate successors and followers set about compiling the Bible as we
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know it. There were so many sacred scriptures in the Jewish tradition. Many
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of them are very focused on legal points in history and all that, and
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some are a little off base actually. And the early Church, through the
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authority given to it through Jesus Christ to bind and loose and to clear what
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is doctrine and what is truth and not, had to sort through all of
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them and decide which ones belonged in the Christian Bible, which Jewish s pures
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belonged to the Christian Bible. You know, the Church says that the Old
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Testament foreshadows the New Testament, and the New Testaments actually explains the Old Testament.
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All the properties prophecies of the Old Testament are fulfilled in the New Testament,
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and one can't really understand the Old Testament without the New Testament. Guided
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by the Holy Spirit. The prophets of the Old Testament were full of the
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spirit, but were rejected by everyone. They were killed, they were beaten,
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they were you know, I was awful. The New Testament Holy Spirit
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guided apostles and their immediate successors, and their successors, the disciples of the
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apostles, the first bishops and priests, and you know, scholars of the
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Catholic Church, the fathers of the Church for the first three hundred years,
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sorted through it all and said, this is inspired by the Spirit, and
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this belongs in the Bible, and this does not They alone have the authority
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to do that. Okay, Then you have the issue that many of the
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Old Testament scriptures were in Hebrew. Most of the New Testament was written in
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Greek. Meanwhile, Jesus spoke Aramaic, and you had three languages. The
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most common of the time would have been Greek. But this was now in
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the Roman era. Rome had taken the place of Greece. And ruled the
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world. Essentially, this book had to be in all other major powers would
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have spoke, would have been able to speak Latin because they had to communicate
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with Rome. You know, if you were in Persia, for instance,
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well you had to be able to communicate with Rome in Latin because there were
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treaties to work out. The educated people of the time spoke Latin, and
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so it had to be translated from you know, an ancient language. Actually,
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Hebrew is much older than Greek. Saint I think was Saint charm No,
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Saint Justin Martyr got into this very specifically, explaining how the Hebrew language
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was older than the Greek language, that the letters of the Greek alphabet did
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not exist as far back as Egypt and ancient Israel. That really the alphabet
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and the language, the written language of the Greeks was derivative of really what
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they got through Egypt and was heavily influenced by by Hebrew and you know,
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Babylonian Syriac. I mean, there's so many Um, yeah, these are
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old, old, old languages. So we're far older than the Aramaic Jesus
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was speaking. He was speaking the modern language of his people or the Greek
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that several of the Apostles spoke, or the Latin that at least we could
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say Saint Paul and Saint Peter spoke. Probably a couple of others as well
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well. Actually, the Apostles were given the ability to speak all languages.
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Now, whether they could write or not, no one knows. It seems
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Saint Paul dictated most of it. Seems most of the Apostles dictated their works
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to someone who was adept at writing. There were several versions, several copies
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of each one, and Saint Jerome was the one who began to translate all
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these languages into the common language of the day, which was Latin. Now.
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Unfortunately, now this is around three d. You know, when the
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modern version of the Bible is finished published, begins to be copied out by
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hand, so people can have copies of the Bible. Each church could have
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a copy of the Bible. This had not happened before. It was impossible.
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Many Protestants, especially Southern Baptists, for some reason which I really don't
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understand, will say the only Bible they believe is the King James version,
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And they say it's the authorized version. But who's it authorized by the Anglican
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Church. You know, okay, this is the day before Independence Day.
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As someone whose ancestors one were Catholic Kings of England and the House of Wessex,
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yes, I can date my heritage directly back to King Richard Lionheart,
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Saint Edward the Confessor, King Saint Edward the Confessor, what earl with and
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various ones I really can't pronounce their names, the first Kings of England,
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the Catholic Kings of England. As someone whose ancestors were Catholic British, who
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when King Henry the Eighth took over and said anyone who didn't swear allegiance to
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him would be beheaded, yeah, I don't have a lot of respect for
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the Anglican Church as someone who is also about a third Irish. The genocide
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of the English against the Irish is one of the greatest rarely told tragedies in
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history. They literally, the Irish are the most enslaved people in the population
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on the face of the earth. The English moved half the country the population
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of Ireland out of the country and put them in slavery at at least two
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separate times, both through military force and then later through the potato famine starved
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about half the country to death because they would not renounce Catholicism and accept the
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English, as if the English were the gods that walked on the face of
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the earth. But then my American ancestors, on several sides of my family
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fought heroically and died in the American Revolution and then again in the War of
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eighteen twelve. We fought two wars to get these jerks out of our country.
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I do not worship the English. I don't understand why someone would say
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the King James version of the Bible is the only correct version just because it's
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the English version. Okay, it was not written until hundreds of years after
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the Catholic Church published the Bible. Now let's look at this practically, and
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there are other Bibles. Of course, there are other Bibles. I mean
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the Hosts Witnesses have a version, and the Mormons. There's really one Bible,
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and it's the Bible that was translated by Saint Jerome somewhere around three two
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a D. Created two a D. He put the Bible in a common
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language that everyone could understand. In what was the modern world of the time,
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Latin was the universal language, although several revisions followed. The Bible of
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Saint Jerome, known as the Vulgate or the Biblious Sacra vo Volgada. The
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Bible for the common people was the widely accepted Bible in the early Church,
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and the original Bible, to which scholars term the Bible would be translated into
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many languages. The most beautiful in my period opinion, considering that I am
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a Carol and of Irish heritage, is the Book of Kills, which is
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just an incredible illustrated version of the Gospels created by Irish monks and the eight
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Hundreds. Paradestants say the Catholics kept the Bible away from the common people.
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No, no, it had to be handwritten, and by the eight hundreds
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it was written in the Irish language Gaelic. The mention of Catholics, the
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mention of illustrations is important because, as I mentioned, most people could not
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read. You know, not only could most people in Rome not read the
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most educated, sophisticated placed on the earth at that point. Not only could
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most people in Greece not read, most people in you name it, Israel,
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Turkey, Palestine, Germany, France. They couldn't read the written word.
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Had not yet become common. Protestants who accused Catholics of worshiping graven images
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failed to realize that those icons, painting statues, glass windows, etc.
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Were how the Bible was taught to illiterate people. They were given a picture
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book, a picture book on the walls and the windows, or even in
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a book like the Book of Kales. If you took away Catholic art,
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you would deprive the common man of the only Bible he could read. Yes,
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Protestants, as much as you hate the statues and the paintings and all
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that, that was a Bible that an illiterate man could understand. It's just
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like how we set up at a major scene or a Nativity scene, a
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Christmas crash as they call it in England, where we show Marion, Joseph
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and Jesus and the Manger and the animals and the shepherds and the three wise
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men. That is a Bible story an illiterate man can understand, he can
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see it. The written Bible is for the educated and most people, most
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people for most of the history of the world, and we're not educated.
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We make a huge mistake. Assuming that the past was like the present,
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the modern day is not the way things always have been. When Martin Luther
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told his followers that there was no need for a priest, he told a
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bunch of illiterate, uneducated people to stop listening to the very priests who read
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the Bible to them and explain it to them in every mass. Think about
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this now, Martin Luther fourteen hundreds is speaking to probably in ninety percent illiterate
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audience. His followers were probably more than ninety percent illiterate. And what does
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he tell them? The Bible allows the sole authority the Bible. You can't
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read the Bible. Only I can tell you what's in it. He then
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tells them that Jesus didn't say what he said. He cuts out whole books,
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He changes it to mean what he said it means he takes away every
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role that Jesus established in the priesthood and the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
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And people followed him because they believed a charismatic cult leader. And the irony
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is he said, and they won't let you read the Bible. This time
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there were so few bibles. Do you understand that for about a well over
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a thousand years, every single Bible had to be written out word for word
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by hand. It took years to make one copy of one Bible. In
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modern money, one Bible, even the most plain handwritten copy, and they
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all were, they were handwritten, would be worth more than fifty thousand dollars.
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No common person, no average person, could afford one. There's a
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group near me in the mountains in North Carolina called the Waldensians. Their big
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claim as they were a Protestant group from the an Alpine reach of Italy and
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there Lutherans essentially, and they say the Catholic Church kept the Bible chained up
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and they liberated the Bible. Well that's so stupid, but in faults and
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not I mean, it's not even historically accurate. First of all, they
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had a problem with the King of Italy, their region. Italy was not
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a unified country at that time, who said, e one who is a
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Catholic is a rebel and has to leave. Okay, that was part of
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the politics of the day. But the idea that the Catholic Church kept the
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Bible chained up in churches, think about do you remember when you're a kid,
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I mean, I'm you know, I'm forty five. I used a
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whole lot of pay phones. When I was a kid, before we had
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cell phones. You went in and there was the phone book on a heavy
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metal chord chaining it to the phone booth. That was not to keep you
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from having access to the phone book. It was to ensure your access to
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the phone book. If it had not been chained up, someone would have
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taken it and walked away with it. When every Bible had to be written
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by hand, and they were worth a minimum I mean, not even decorated,
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not even ornate, no drawings or pictures of anything. In today's money
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fifty thousand dollars, and most of the world wasn't Christian. In fact,
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Pagans were often raiding churches. The Germanic tribes were particularly the Arians were particularly
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vicious, and they would kill the priests. They'd steal the golden candlesticks and
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the chalice and anything that was worth anything. Chaining the Bible into the church
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and walking it in place allowed anyone who could read it the ability to read
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the only Bible they would probably find within one hundred miles or a thousand miles.
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I mean, this warped history started by Luther, who told lies to
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an illiterate people. It needs to be dispelled and set right. And I
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think even with just a little common sense and logic can do that. You
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know, in a Catholic Church, and it has been this way since the
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beginning of time, since the beginning of the Catholic Church, I should say,
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since the beginning of the time when there was a Christian church, the
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first and only Christian church being Catholic. The priest reads the scriptures, the
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Old Testament, the New Testament. He gives a homily explaining them. Then
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you have the Eucharist. The only way an illiterate person could understand what was
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in the Bible was for someone to read it to them, and then they
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would have representations visually around them, and they could hear the story of you
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know, and the flood right, and then they'd see a painting that would
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present it, and they had as much knowledge of that story as anyone who
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can pick up a book and read it, because there are different ways to
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understand the same information. When Martin Luther convinced a bunch of illiterate people that
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the Bible is the sole authority and the Catholic Church prevented them from having a
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Bible, which was untrue, and that everything they've been taught was false,
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which was untrue, and he alone had the truth. And he would then
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interpret the Bible to them and telling them what they really meant. He set
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up himself as a sole authority, not the Bible, he says, the
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Bible one. But he changed the words of the Bible, and when questioned
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about it, he just railed. He said, I know the papists accused
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me of changing the words of Jesus. Well I did. This is his
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actual words I can get. I don't have the footnotes right in front of
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me, but he said I did. And they say, on what authority
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did you do it? He said, I did it on the authority of
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doctor Luther, the only authority I respect. Martin Luther did not respect God
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or his church. He was his own authority, just as Satan was.
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Just as Satan said he would make himself his own God, Martin Luther made
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himself his own God. And seriously, I mean, I will get you
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the quote in a future show. I will give you that I actually included
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this. If you want to go to Missy O'Day and look for my gospel
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reflection of probably three weeks ago. I have the footnotes, and I tell
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exactly the writing where he said his only authority was himself. He did not
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respect God, he was not guided by the Holy Spirit. When Jesus asked
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him in a vision, why do you seek for my keys? I left
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him with Peter. Peter's mouth is my mouth, his tongue is my tongue,
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His mouth is my key case. Martin Luther knew what he was doing
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was wrong, but Martin Luther made himself his own God. And the Lutheran
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denomination puts the teachings of Martin Luther over God and his church because they have
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to admit that the that Martin Luther changed the words of the Bible to fit
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his own doctrine, walking away from the doctrines of Jesus Christ, the actual
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words Jesus taught. It is an apostate church and it is the foundation of
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Protestantism anyway, regardless, the King James version dates only to the early sixteen
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hundreds. That's well over well, that's thirteen hundred years or so. We're
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just going to be charitable and say twelve hundred years after Saint Jerome translated the
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Bible into Latin. And it's not the first English language Bible far from it.
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It's incomplete, it follows the heresies of Luther. It's not accurate or
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as complete as the dewey Rheims, an English language Bible that is about the
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same age. The dewey Rings was published about the same time and the King
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James has been And like I said, really the only reason they say that
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it's the authoritative Bible, well, it is beautifully written. It's Elizabethan English,
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but then again, so is the Dewey Rings. Elizabethan Adius is a
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very beautiful language. I mean, who doesn't love Shakespeare, right, But
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they say it's the approved version of the Bible. But again it's only approved
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by the Church of England. I mean, sorry, folks, Jesus was
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not English. Christianity did not originate in England. There is no need to
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worship the English with the pomposity of the English. I mean, I have
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nothing against the English people, but the Anglican Church is absolutely apostate and they
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really haven't been very all right. I'm just speaking in as Celtic person I
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can here. The English has been pretty nasty. When I get into tomorrow
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about what they did to Charles Carroll and his family, you're going to realize
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what monsters our founders were facing. They were not practicing Christian charity to say
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the least. You know, Um, I guess I use three Bibles.
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Really, I have taught myself to learn Latin, and I have a copy
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of the Biblious Sacravo God, the Biblious sacra Volgada. I use the Dewey
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Reams to double check my Latin, because you know, I am self taught
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on Latin, so I do have to double check it, and the Dewey
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Reams is like spot on. I use the Revised Standard Version when I went
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easy to read modern translation, and I really haven't found much difference between the
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Revised Standard Version and the Biblious sacra Volgada. I guess I have to say,
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if you can learn to read the Latin, read the oldest Latin version
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of the Bible you can find. If you read Greek, thank feel free.
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If you read Aramaic or Hebrew, go back and study the original texts.
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It's fascinating, really fascinating. But you know, when I guess,
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when the King James version was put together, they use something like thirteen Greek
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versions of the Bible. They were comparing it to, and they made a
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lot of mistakes. Saint Jerome was actually a man of the time in that
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world, and he was able to figure out the meaning of the words because
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again he was working with Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Latin. And I
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honestly, the King James version is just not It's a beautiful Bible, but
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it's by no means the most accurate version of the Bible. In fact,
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I would say the closer you get to the original, and for me,
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I mean I'm gonna go with the you know, the biblious acrical Gauda written
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in the late three hundreds if you can go a little further ago for it.
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But that's, you know, that's the Bible I go with, because
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it's the Bible. That there's the Church's Bible, the Catholic Church given the
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authority by Jesus Christ to bind and loose and decide what was right and wrong.
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The further you go back, go back to the original, don't go
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with one of these modern translations. I mean, like that awful good News
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Bible of the seventies and all that. The closer you get to the light,
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the brighter and warmer it is. You know, England separate itself from
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the light of God's Church or five hundred years ago, and is now nearly
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a godless nation whose empty churches are barely respected as museums. For an American
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proteddent to hold up the King James version is the only legitimate Bible is exactly
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to do what they accuse Catholics of doing. We follow sacred tradition. They
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say, we follow the traditions of men and not God. Well, who's
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actually following the traditions of men and not God? We're actually including the oral
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tradition of the Church, which came through the apostles. They hold up a
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Bible that was composed by the English and hold it as superior to everything,
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even though it's a pretty I mean in terms of history. I mean,
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the Catholic Church has been around around two thousand years. The King James Bible
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isn't even five hundred years old. I mean, come on, Yeah,
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it's in pretty language, and I'll give it that. It's a beautiful Bible,
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but it's not accurate the Bible. And you know they also when they
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say about how the Catholic Church didn't want you to have the Bible, you
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know, Guttenberg was Catholic the man who invented the printing press, and his
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first challenge. His first work was to begin printing as many Bibles as he
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could. Without the Catholic Church, you have no Bible. Not only did
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the Catholic Church right the New Testament published the New Bible, they kept it
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alive hand, copying for thousand, well over a thousand years before the first
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priest of church. Anyway, the Bible I use is written by, published
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by, and ensured by the power of God through the very church he founded.
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It's not authorized by an English king who founded a new church because the
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Catholic Church would not grant him multiple divorces or approve him murdering his wives.
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Basically, if you believe in the King James version only you honor a very
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evil man and not the word of God. And if you think Martin Luther
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got much of anything right, you're wrong. Second ten of E Chapter two,
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verse nineteen. However, God's solid foundation stone stands firm, and this
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is the seal on it. The Lord knows those who are his own,
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and all who call on the name of the Lord must avoid evil. In
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the words of Saint Jerome, a false interpretation of the scripture causes that Gospel
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of the Lord become a gospel of man or far worse of the devil.
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Let that sink in. A false interpretation of the scripture causes that Gospel of
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the Lord to become the Gospel of man Or, which is worse of the
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devil. Words of Saint Jerome, the man who translated the Bible. Anybodyle
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you have in your hand, you owe to Saint Jerome. And in three
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hundreds areas warning against false interpretations of the scripture, false translations which we're being
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circulated at the time by the followers of Simon, the magician who's mentioned in
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the Acts, who became one of the first false Christians. He set himself
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up as his own God. He was essentially a cult leader. We'll get
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into that another day. Very interesting story there. But your Bible comes from
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the Catholic Church, as translated by Saint Jerome. Why not get the most
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accurate one you can possibly find? All right, y'all? And through the
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centuries there were many false translations. Again, I think maybe it's the world
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did seence me was one of the Baptist groups. They get all upset saying
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that the Catholic Church took their Bibles from them and wouldn't allow them. It
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was an Apple State Bible. It was a Bible written by a cult leader,
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a false translation. And yes, the Catholic authorities in the area found
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out about it, and the church and state were very much combined at the
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time. And this happened in many different places. At maytimes, someone would
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come up and they wanted to found their own church, which was false.
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There a cult leader. They would take the Bible, they would change the
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words, just as Martin Luther did, and they would lead people astray.
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In this particular, it's to say often reference you know when Jesus said,
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don't swear to anything, let your sps and your nose by nose, but
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they had actually gone so far as to say. There was no such thing
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as a valid marriage. You couldn't take bowels to each other, you couldn't
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sign a contract to work for someone or to sell to someone. You wouldn't
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be a soldier, you couldn't take the oath to serve your country as a
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soldier. You couldn't be loyal to your country or own property. And obviously
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it seems like this was in the alpine regions, maybe up around Switzerland.
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The political authorities of the day said, if this takes hold, our country
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is going to turn into anarchy. And the Church said, well, this
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is absolutely false. This is not the actual, accurate, true teaching of
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God. This is some cult that has sprung up that is twisting and perverting
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the word of God. And they exercise their authority as the only church founded
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by God, to say no, this isn't right. And the political authorities
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exercised their authority to say, we're not having this in our country Europe spreading
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anarchy. And that's actually the ancestors of the Baptist denomination not real good people
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actually and actually what you would call like almost like a branch Davidian or even
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you know, further out cult. So not all Bibles are equal. Get
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the best one you can, and I would definitely if you just want it
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easy to read a good modern version of the Bible, go with the well
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mineus, the ignacious revised standard version. If you want a beautiful, accurate
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Bible, very every bit as pretty as beautifully written as the King James,
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but far more accurate, get the Dewey Rams. The Dewey Rams has literally
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been around for almost you know, four hundred years or so, and it's
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easy to read if you can read, you know, Elizabethan English. It's
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just very nice. And it actually has all the books of the Bible in
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it, and it doesn't. It actually actually has the words of Christ,
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not the words of Christ, all heard and changed by doctor Luthor, as
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he called himself. So anyway, y'all, in the words of Saint Padre
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Pio, pray, hope and don't worry, and I will talk to you
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next time.