“WHERE WAS THE
BIBLE BEFORE 1611?” (Part 2 of 2)
At Pentecost
in 33AD …there were dwelling at Jerusalem
Jews, devout men, out of every nation under
heaven. (Acts 2:5)
Paul writes in 57AD, By whom we have received grace and
apostleship, for obedience to the
faith among all nations, …:
(Rom 1:5)
Furthermore,
in prison for the first time in 62-64AD, Paul writes …the gospel; Which is
come
unto
you, as it is in all the
world; … (Col 1:6)
Indeed the
whole 27 books of the New Testament
were
canonized and accepted before the end
of the 1st century, and indeed, starting at
Pentecost, where
every nation under heaven is present, the dissemination of the
scriptures and
godly Bibles throughout the world has continued
unabated up to the present, despite
intense persecution by Rome.
MYTH
#7. “There were no scriptures and Bibles in the Dark Ages.”
Despite Rome’s
repeated and
determined efforts to kill Christians, and destroy once and forever
their
Bibles, God kept his godly line of Bibles alive from Matthew 37AD and
the
epistles of Paul from 51AD up to 1300AD.
*
Foxe
states that Britain received the gospel
in the time of Tiberius the emperor,
under whom Christ suffered.
*
William of Malmesbury writes
that Joseph of Arimathea with 12
companions, was sent by Philip the
apostle from France to Britain by at least 63AD.
*
Walter Scott
confirms that during the reigns of Nero
and Domitian, 54-68AD, 81-96AD,
numerous translated portions of the Vulgar Latin scriptures circulated
in Great Britain.
* Furthermore,
Bran, a British king, was converted by
Paul in prison in Rome, and returned
back to Britain, accompanied by certain Christian teachers among
whom was Aristobulus (Rom 16:10).
*
Origen
states that the unifying force in Britain
in century 1 & 2, was Christianity.
*
Foxe also
states that Simon Zelotes, the
apostle of Luke 6:15 and Acts 1:13, spread the gospel of Christ in Britain.
*
Patrick
records his salvation to Christ in Northern Ireland in
the 400’s and
categorically rejected the false gospel of Rome.
* In the 5th, 6th and 7th
centuries, British Christians and saved
Irishmen, swarmed all over France
and Germany with
their Bibles.
*
Bede in 565AD had the writings of the
prophets,
evangelists and apostles and his Saxon
Bible was translated into the vulgar
tongue of the day.
* In 678AD, King Wilfred had
a copy of the four gospels.
* In 871AD, Alfred the Great
says that churches were filled with books before destruction by the
Danes. His
children had learnt the Psalms by
heart.
In
summary:
The OT, the
gospels, the
apostles writings drenched England
and the continent during this time. Indeed, the Bible’s enemies are
testimony
to its existence, in that:
* History
records that the ten official persecutions by Romans Emperors during 67-313AD destroyed the
Christian
Bibles.
* Angles,
Saxons and Jutes destroyed Christian Bibles between 303-450AD.
* Danes
destroyed the Christian scriptures
between 450-late 800’s.
* The Normans destroyed the scriptures
between the late 800’s and 1066AD.
* The kings Henry IV, V, VIII and Bloody Queen Mary called for
the destruction of all Christian Bibles
between 1399-1558.
MYTH
#8. “God translated the King James 1611 Bible from the Greek.”
Knowing that
Greek
manuscripts do not have 1Jn 5:7-8
(Jesus Christ is God) and Acts 8:37 (eliminating water
baptism for
salvation), we understand why God would not
leave his final Bible up to the Greeks! Although the 1611 translators
laid down
a Greek Textus Receptus, it was then
further corrected in one thousand
places! by all the other language Bibles in the world, before being
translated into English. From Pentecost, the world has been soaked with
godly
Bibles in all languages, and so their distillation, the Authorized
Bible, is
truly the Bible from, and for, all nations! IT WAS ALWAYS AN EXISTING GEM - WITH A FINAL
POLISH!
So, the question is not
“Where was the Bible before
1611?”
But “Where wasn’t the Bible before 1611?”
Truly, God has preserved
his word (Ps 12:7)
Harley Hitchcock
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