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>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
Thanks for joining me.
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Up until the 16th
century the Bible was not a book
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that you could have owned.
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It wasn't
available in local languages.
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It was written in
Latin. And owing to printing
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being a labor-intensive
and time-consuming business,
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Bibles weren't
printed in any real number.
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Even when the moveable
type printing press came to be,
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thanks to a German goldsmith
named Johannes Gutenberg,
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printing was still a slow and
extremely expensive enterprise.
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But the
Reformation began, and it grew.
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And while we tend to
think of the Reformation
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in terms of Germany and Luther
and his partner in ministry,
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Melanchthon, and
the city of Wittenberg,
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the Reformation grew and spread:
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Switzerland, under
Ulrich Zwingli in the north
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and John Calvin in the south,
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France, the Netherlands,
Belgium, Scandinavia--
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all impacted
strongly by the Reformation.
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The Reformation gained
momentum early in Great Britain.
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Years before Luther, John
Wycliffe translated the Bible
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into English in the 1300s.
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He was known as "the Morning
Star of the Reformation."
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Wycliffe was really the
sign that the Word of God
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simply couldn't be stopped.
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Later, the Reformation
was kicked into high gear
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in Britain when the Bible was
translated into English again.
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Dr. Michael Hasel is
a university professor,
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a noted archaeologist,
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and the director of the Lynn
H. Wood Archaeological Museum
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on the campus of
Southern Adventist University,
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just outside
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Dr. Hasel and I discussed
an exhibit of rare books
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that told the story of
the rise of the Reformation
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and the
advancement of the Reformation,
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which brought the
light of the Bible,
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the teachings of
Scripture to the world, broadly,
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for the first time
in hundreds of years.
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Dr. Hasel and I discussed
the English Reformation,
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which was as influential
as what was taking place
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in Wittenberg,
Germany, 550 miles to the east.
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>>Dr. Michael Hasel: You
know, the English Reformation
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was happening
almost at the same time
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as Luther was
working in Germany.
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In fact, many of these people
communicated with each other
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and knew each other.
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Tyndale, for one,
went to Wittenberg
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to talk to Luther at one point
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about his translation
of the Bible and so forth,
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and he was one that began the
work of translating in England.
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>>John: How was
society affected by the Bible
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becoming so much
more readily accessible?
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>>Dr. Hasel:
Well, like in Germany,
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the Bible had a tremendous
impact in England as well.
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When Tyndale was finally
caught in Belgium and executed
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by Henry VIII, the last
prayer that he prayed was,
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"Lord, please open
the eyes of the monarch."
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And for the first time
the king's eyes in England
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were opened, and he considered
the Protestant Reformation
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as a viable, uh, reaction
to things that were going on
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in his household, and,
you know, there were a lot
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of other aspects
that were going on,
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but he sent this
response that we have here
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to the pope in 1536.
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That was only two years after
Luther finished translating
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the entire Bible in Germany.
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Now, before Tyndale was killed,
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he had completed the entire
New Testament translation.
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He had also done
part of the Old Testament
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but wasn't able
to complete that.
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And so it was
Coverdale, Myles Coverdale,
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that finished the Old Testament
and was able to publish it.
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And that's what we
have here is one page
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of the famous Coverdale
Bible published in 1535,
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the year after
Luther's Bible was published.
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>>John: This page
itself dates back to 1535?
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>>Dr. Hasel: It's a first
edition page; that's correct.
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And the Coverdale Bible
was not the best translation
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into the English language.
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And later on there
was the Great Bible;
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there was the Bishops' Bible.
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There were other
Bibles that came along.
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Just a couple of years later in
1537, we have this Bible here,
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known as the
Thomas Matthew Bible.
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But Matthews knew what
had happened to Tyndale,
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and so Matthews
is not his real name;
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he used a pseudonym
to publish this Bible.
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His real name was John Rogers.
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He says, "I'm not
going to take the risk
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of having my life taken."
He knew the risk was there.
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He knew that while
Henry VIII was leaning
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more towards
Protestantism as time went on,
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things could
change very rapidly.
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The political
dynamics could change.
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He knew that the first daughter
of Henry VIII, Princess Mary,
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could be the
next queen eventually,
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and she was a staunch Catholic.
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She was the daughter
of Catherine of Aragon,
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who was the daughter of the
king and the queen of Spain.
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So they were staunch Catholics.
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And this was all a
very, very important element
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in the back of his mind.
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But he produced this Bible;
it's a beautiful Bible, 1537.
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The sad thing was
that as things progressed,
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his fears were
actually realized.
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Henry VIII died; his son King
Edward VI came to the throne.
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He was a young, young boy.
And he was not, uh, very well.
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He was known to be
a sickly individual.
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He didn't live a very long time.
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But he lived long enough to
publish this very fine work,
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entitled "Arguments
Against the Pope's Supremacy."
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You can still look
this up online today
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and read through it. It's,
has very cogent arguments, um,
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about, um, the authority of
Scripture and allowing Scripture
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to really be
the basis for faith.
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He published this,
and on his death bed,
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he changed his will
and pronounced his cousin,
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Lady Jane, as the heir
to the throne of England
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as the next queen, knowing that
his half-sister Mary would turn
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everything around and
make it Catholic again.
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Lady Jane came to the throne,
and a few, uh, days later
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Mary comes down from
the north with her armies.
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The Privy
Council switches sides,
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and it's the shortest reign in
history of any queen of England.
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Uh, Lady Jane only
lasts for nine days.
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And Mary is inaugurated as
queen in Westminster Abbey.
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And the first thing that
Mary does, once she is queen,
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is put to death John
Rogers-- or Thomas Matthews--
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who had translated this Bible.
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And that begins a series of
persecutions during her reign
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that would continue for
the next five years or so.
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She became known, of
course, as Bloody Mary.
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>>John: A couple of
things come to mind here.
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One, there's a
tendency to forget our history.
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Two, it's easy to forget
just what a big deal this was.
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>>Dr. Hasel: Mm.
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>>John: This is
how we got the Bible.
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Without the Tyndales, uh,
and the Rogers of the world
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willing to almost, you
know, to stick their neck out,
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put their life on the
line, uh, things would look
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very different today.
>>Dr. Hasel: That's right.
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>>John: I mean, one could
argue the Bible would eventually
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bubble to the surface,
but you know what I mean.
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These people paved
the way for people like us
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to have faith in God
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by delivering the Bible to
us. >>Dr. Hasel: That's right.
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>>John: It wasn't
readily available.
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It speaks to that sacrifice
and the importance of the Bible.
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How do you not value the Bible
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when you consider what
people have done to preserve it
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and deliver it to us today?
>>Dr. Hasel: That's right.
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>>John: It was
a... fascinating time.
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People were being put to
death for their faith in God.
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The authorities did not
want the Bible to be circulated.
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Monarchs were ascending the
throne and executing the people
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who didn't agree with
them on religious matters.
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As the church
began to lose ground,
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it was recognized that
something had to be done
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to preserve its power.
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The church began to push
back, and it all affected
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how people would relate
to the Bible even today.
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I'll be right back.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
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When Martin Luther
nailed his 95 Theses to the door
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of the Castle Church
in Wittenberg, Germany,
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it was a case of
an obscure priest
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in a nothing-sort-of-a-town
speaking out about what
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he believed was inconsistent
with genuine faith in God.
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But people
noticed what Luther wrote,
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and his 95 points of protest
were distributed far and wide.
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As providence would
have it, the printing press
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had been invented just
in time for the Reformation
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to really kick off.
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What began in
Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517,
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today a city of
about 50,000 people,
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50 miles or so from
Berlin, quickly spread as others
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took up the cause of sharing
the Bible and teaching salvation
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through faith in Jesus Christ.
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The teachings of the reformers
were radically different
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to what the ruling Catholic
Church had been teaching.
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Understandably, the church
was not favorably disposed
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to what Luther and
others were proclaiming.
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So the church fought back,
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and the Counter-
Reformation was born.
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>>Dr. Michael Hasel:
Well, the Counter-Reformation
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was the response by
the church to Protestantism
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and to the threat of
splitting the church, uh, apart.
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Um, they saw this as
real, and they met in Italy
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at the Council
of Trent in Trento
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for a series of many
years, uh, from 1545 to 1563.
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This was a multi-year event.
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But there they really
formulated their response.
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And this was where
the church had, uh,
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a possibility actually
to respond even positively
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to the Reformation, to
maybe, uh, reform themselves
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from within, which really
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originally was
Luther's intent. >>John: Right.
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>>Dr. Hasel: He wasn't
intending to leave the church.
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He was a, a very faithful
Catholic who wanted to stay
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within the church, but felt it
needed to have some reformation
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from within. But
they, they didn't.
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They took a very, very
hard line on many of the things
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that were criticized by Luther.
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Here we have the canon,
uh, of the Council of Trent.
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This is the basic
declarations that came out
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after the council
stopped meeting in 1563.
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This is a first
edition published in 1564.
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And here we have a
complete reaffirmation again
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of many of the doctrines
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that the Protestants
had brought into question.
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>>John: It would've been really
difficult for the church of Rome
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to have
reformed, as Luther said,
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because they would
have had to have said,
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"We were wrong about
this. We were wrong about that.
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We see new light here."
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That would've been
very difficult, wouldn't it?
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>>Dr. Hasel: Yes, absolutely.
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And so what
happened as a result, really,
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was that they just sunk
their heels in even deeper.
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And one of the things that
came out of the Council of Trent
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actually had to
do with the Bible
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and the authority of
Scripture. What is Scripture?
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You see, the Protestants
had taken the position that, uh,
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the Bible produces the church.
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The Catholics had always taken
the position that the church
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produced the Bible. These are
very different understandings.
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>>John: Sure.
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>>Dr. Hasel: And so one
sees the Bible as the inspired
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Word of God that
then inspires Christians
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to become
Christian, to gather together,
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to begin to fellowship
together, to work together.
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The other sees the authority
primarily as the church.
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And so that was
reaffirmed here as well,
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and so what they
decided there, too,
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was that the apocryphal books,
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these books between the new and
old, the Old and New Testament,
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that had been in the
Bibles all through the centuries
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since Jerome had translated
into the Latin The Vulgate,
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that was always there,
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but that was always given
with a caveat ahead of time,
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a kind of declaration that these
books are not at the same level
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doctrinally as the
other books of the Bible.
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>>John: And we're talking
about books like Wisdom, Tobit,
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Judith, First
and Second Maccabees,
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and so forth. Yep.
>>Dr. Hasel: Exactly. Exactly.
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They had been in
those Protestant Bibles,
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but they were
always, you know, in between,
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and they were not
regarded the same.
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The Council of
Trent changed all that.
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It put them at the
same level canonically
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as the rest of Scripture.
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And in a sense
they needed to do that
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because it was some of those
books that were fairly obscure
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and were not necessarily
originally part of canon
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that helped support
some of their traditions.
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>>John: Such as purgatory.
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>>Dr. Hasel: Correct.
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>>John: So talk to me
about this "Spiritual Exercises"
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and the role of the
Society of Jesus, the Jesuits,
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and Ignatius Loyola.
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>>Dr. Hasel: Well,
"The Spiritual Exercises"
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were probably his
most important book.
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It's a tiny, little
book, but, uh, he believed
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that through meditation, through
these spiritual exercises
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that really emptied
oneself and focused on God,
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one could come closer to God,
and one could really develop
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the kind of, uh, discipline
to, to really go through
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and become a, a
very good Catholic
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and a very good, uh,
defender of the faith.
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>>John: Well, where's the
harm in spiritual disciplines
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and spiritual exercises?
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That--I think
Protestants agree with that
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sort of thing as well.
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>>Dr. Hasel: We do,
absolutely. >>John: Yeah.
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>>Dr. Hasel: But we
don't want to empty our mind;
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we want to dwell on Scripture
and allow Scripture to be
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the impetus for, for
those inspirational thoughts.
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>>John: Very
significant difference.
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>>Dr. Hasel: That's
right. >>John: Very significant.
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So where did the
Counter-Reformation go?
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Did, did it, did it peter out?
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Did it, did it
triumph? Is it active today?
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What, what does
this indicate to us?
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>>Dr. Hasel: Well, it, it was,
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it continues to
be a movement today.
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It has shifted today
in the sense that, uh,
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with the Vatican
II, another council
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like that, in the
1960s-- >>John: Sure.
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>>Dr. Hasel: ...the decision was
made not to attack Protestantism
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directly, not to attack
Protestantism doctrinally,
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but to engage in
worship like the Protestants
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and to kind of join
in with that movement
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in a more ecumenical way.
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And so there's been
a shift in that sense.
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But I think the
determination is still the same.
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And the word "heresy" is still
used in Catholic publications
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today to, to describe anything
outside of the Catholic faith.
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So what we have here,
the Douay-Rheims version
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of the Bible, was a Catholic
translation of The Vulgate
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into English to counteract the
Protestant Bibles of that time--
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before the King James Bible,
of course, but--the Great Bible,
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the Bishops' Bible,
the Coverdale Bible,
00:15:09.27\00:15:11.11
those Bibles that we've
already talked about before.
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And this was a counteraction
on their part to influence
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and to change, uh, that.
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This was, uh, printed in
1582, so it came sometime later,
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but it was very important, and
it was published and translated
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just across from the
English Channel in France.
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>>John:
Christianity was presented
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with a golden opportunity.
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Here were scholars, teachers,
theologians rising up to say,
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"We can do this better." But
human nature being what it is,
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it was determined that such an
approach would not be adopted.
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But as Paul wrote to
the church in Corinth,
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"We can do nothing against
the truth, but for the truth."
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The Bible would be
translated into English
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and go to the world.
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And because it did, we hold
the Bible in our hands today.
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We'll look at
that in just a moment.
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>>John Bradshaw: He had
it all: extravagant wealth,
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immense power, and wisdom
far greater than any person
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before him. He'd
seen the glory of God,
00:16:54.38\00:16:57.41
had spoken personally with God,
00:16:57.45\00:16:59.45
and was told by God he
could have anything he wanted.
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But as his focus shifted
over time, his life collapsed.
00:17:02.88\00:17:07.59
As he
contemplated his existence,
00:17:07.62\00:17:09.32
he concluded
that all was vanity.
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Don't miss "Great Characters
of the Bible: Solomon,"
00:17:12.96\00:17:16.80
as we look at the story of
the wisest man who ever lived,
00:17:16.83\00:17:20.30
a man who wrote
three books of the Bible,
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a man who was
revered by monarchs
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and feared by his enemies,
00:17:24.37\00:17:26.31
the man who
constructed what may have been
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the most
beautiful temple ever built,
00:17:28.18\00:17:30.35
and yet turned away
from faithfulness to God.
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But God didn't turn from him.
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The story of Solomon is
a tragedy and a victory.
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Don't miss "Great Characters
of the Bible: Solomon,"
00:17:39.12\00:17:42.82
brought to you
by It Is Written TV.
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>>John Bradshaw: I met
recently with Dr. Michael Hasel,
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the director of the Lynn
H. Wood Archaeological Museum
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in Collegedale, Tennessee.
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We looked together at a
collection of rare books
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from the time
of the Reformation,
00:17:58.64\00:18:01.14
among them a very early
copy of the Bible that guided
00:18:01.18\00:18:05.88
Protestant Christianity
for hundreds of years.
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>>Dr. Michael
Hasel: So here we're coming
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to the largest object
that we have on display,
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the largest Bible and perhaps
the most important Bible,
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at least as far as
the English language
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and history of
Scripture is concerned.
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>>John: The King James
Version of the Bible from 1611,
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and so what edition is this?
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How close to original is
this particular book itself?
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>>Dr. Hasel: This
is a first edition.
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Up to this point in time
we had the Coverdale Bible,
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which was Tyndale and
Coverdale working together.
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It was an inferior
version of the Bible
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in terms of the
English language.
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It wasn't really
worked out that well.
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Then we have the Great
Bible, the Bishops' Bible,
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other Bibles, but finally
at the time of King James,
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it was decided that
we really needed to have,
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the English-, uh,
speaking people needed to have
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a very, very fine translation.
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So they brought, uh, 47
different scholars together--
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>>John: Mm-hmm. >>Dr.
Hasel: ...split them up
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in six different groups
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so that they could work
independently of each other,
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so that they wouldn't bias
one another, and they worked
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for, uh, quite some time
to produce this translation.
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>>John: What is it about
the King James that made it
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the standard and
makes it really a reliable
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and solid translation?
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>>Dr. Hasel: Well, it had
the most support, I think,
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at the time in the
English, um, realm of any Bible
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that had come before it.
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The king put his
full support behind it.
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It, uh, it, it had the financial
backing of the kingdom as well.
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And the product is
just absolutely stunning
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and, and beautiful.
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Uh, what we have here
is really a Bible that,
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like Luther and like the
French Bible of Olivétan before,
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really galvanizes and brings
together the English language.
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There's three writings
that do that for English:
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the King James Version Bible,
the Common Book of Prayer,
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and the writings of Shakespeare.
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So, that cannot
be overestimated.
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This, this is
really an amazing work.
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Now, this was done on a
moveable type printing press,
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as we've already discussed
with Gutenberg's press in 1455,
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and even though this
is almost 200 years later,
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the same process is involved,
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which means that every
single letter needs to be placed
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into the, uh, flat part
of the press individually
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to make each page, or two
pages, whatever the case may be.
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This is a very, very rare Bible,
but there's 160, about 160
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of these left in the world
in complete condition like this.
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Um, but let me show
you something that is even
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much older than 1611
and that really goes back
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to the very beginning of
this moveable type technology.
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>>John: Yeah, so
important because without it,
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the Bible wouldn't have been
distributed as widely as it was.
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>>Dr. Hasel: Exactly.
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So here we come to
the father, if you will,
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of all printed Bibles, or the
mother of all printed Bibles:
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This is the
famous Gutenberg Bible,
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printed in
Mainz, Germany, in 1455.
00:21:02.62\00:21:06.76
We only have one leaf,
front and back, of this Bible,
00:21:06.80\00:21:09.76
but this is an original leaf.
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This is, of course, The Vulgate,
00:21:11.73\00:21:13.23
the Latin
translation of the Bible.
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And of the original 160 to
200 Bibles that were published
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by Gutenberg, of those,
00:21:22.34\00:21:24.85
only 21 complete Gutenberg
Bibles still survive today.
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>>John: That's not
many. And where are they?
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>>Dr. Hasel:
They're all in institutions.
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Nobody privately owns
one. They're very expensive.
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They're at the
Library of Congress;
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they're at the J. P.
Morgan Library in New York,
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uh, various
libraries around Europe.
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This is just a
breakthrough in technology
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because for the first time,
00:21:47.27\00:21:48.30
rather than
handwriting out Bibles,
00:21:48.34\00:21:51.87
which would take a
year to a year and a half,
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suddenly you could print one on
a moveable type printing press,
00:21:54.18\00:21:56.81
like this one.
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>>John: You know, it's so
interesting that this came
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on the scene, you know, just at
about the same time as Luther--
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I mean, a little before--but
in preparation for Luther
00:22:03.92\00:22:06.76
to come on and really use this
to, to spread the Word of God.
00:22:06.79\00:22:10.33
>>Dr. Hasel: That's
right. >>John: Amazing timing.
00:22:10.36\00:22:11.79
>>Dr. Hasel:
It's amazing timing.
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And these Bibles, by the
way, even when they were printed
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en masse like that at 200
of them, they still cost--
00:22:15.83\00:22:20.07
in today's dollars, each
Bible would have cost $93,000
00:22:20.10\00:22:23.84
in today's currency.
So, think about that.
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Who could afford
a Bible like that?
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>>John: Right. Very
few. >>Dr. Hasel: Very few--
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institutions again,
universities, monasteries,
00:22:30.81\00:22:34.02
churches. And so, just amazing
to see something like this here.
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Gutenberg was
called, of course--
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Time magazine called him
"the Man of the Millennium."
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We have "the
Man of the Century,"
00:22:44.86\00:22:46.19
we have "the Man of the Year,"
00:22:46.23\00:22:47.50
or "the Person
of the Year" today,
00:22:47.56\00:22:49.43
but Gutenberg was called
"the Man of the Millennium"
00:22:49.46\00:22:51.67
because this was such a
groundbreaking, uh, event
00:22:51.70\00:22:54.74
in history, in the
history of communication.
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>>John: Mmm. Yeah,
amazing. Changed the world.
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>>Dr. Hasel: Changed the world.
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>>John: It changed the world.
00:23:00.68\00:23:03.31
But the question for us today
is, will it change your world?
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In a time of
great spiritual darkness
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.89
when the governing church
dictated to kings and kingdoms,
00:23:10.92\00:23:14.82
a truly biblical
faith simply wasn't known.
00:23:14.86\00:23:17.93
People were taught that they
were saved through the church.
00:23:17.96\00:23:21.13
Luther's teaching of
salvation by grace alone,
00:23:21.16\00:23:24.73
through faith alone, in Jesus
Christ alone was revolutionary.
00:23:24.77\00:23:30.71
Luther survived the
attempts made on his life,
00:23:30.74\00:23:33.84
but many others
were not able to escape
00:23:33.88\00:23:35.64
the wrath of the church.
00:23:35.68\00:23:37.55
Tyndale, the
English Bible translator,
00:23:37.58\00:23:39.61
was burnt at the stake.
00:23:39.65\00:23:41.45
John Hus and his
ministry partner Jerome
00:23:41.48\00:23:43.89
met the same fate
a century earlier.
00:23:43.92\00:23:46.89
Wishart, Latimer, Ridley,
Cranmer, considered heretics
00:23:46.92\00:23:51.53
for their stand on the
teachings of the Bible,
00:23:51.56\00:23:54.03
lost their lives, as
did countless others.
00:23:54.10\00:23:57.30
But nothing could stop
the advance of the Bible.
00:23:57.33\00:23:59.83
Millions of copies are
now printed every single year.
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So let me ask you: What
are you doing about the Bible?
00:24:04.31\00:24:10.08
This great book,
this remarkable document,
00:24:10.11\00:24:13.35
which details the love of God,
00:24:13.38\00:24:15.42
it, it tells the
plan of salvation.
00:24:15.45\00:24:18.02
It recites the great
histories of the people of God
00:24:18.05\00:24:20.62
in antiquity and
the early church.
00:24:20.66\00:24:23.36
It's not just ancient
wisdom; it's present power.
00:24:23.39\00:24:27.86
David was able
to write that it was
00:24:27.86\00:24:29.30
"a lamp to [his] feet
and a light to [his] path."
00:24:29.33\00:24:31.47
Paul wrote that the
"Scriptures...are able
00:24:31.50\00:24:32.93
to make you wise for salvation."
00:24:32.97\00:24:35.37
Peter wrote of the "exceedingly
great and precious promises,"
00:24:35.40\00:24:39.11
through which "you may be
partakers of the divine nature."
00:24:39.14\00:24:43.85
I want to encourage you to read
the Bible. Listen to the Bible.
00:24:44.85\00:24:48.42
Let God's Word get off
the pages and into your heart,
00:24:48.45\00:24:52.75
into your mind, molding you
and forming you for eternity.
00:24:52.79\00:24:57.69
This is a book that
will change your life.
00:24:57.73\00:25:02.50
If you've not been a Bible
reader, let's change that today.
00:25:02.53\00:25:06.47
Pick it up and start reading--
00:25:06.50\00:25:08.80
a few verses a day, a chapter
a day, several chapters a day--
00:25:08.84\00:25:12.81
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and then pause to consider
what it is you've been reading.
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Listen for the voice of God.
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Ask God to help
you to hear from Him
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as you read what He inspired.
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Now, if your
reading has been shallow,
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if you've been a surface reader,
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let's decide right now
that through God's help
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you're going to go deeper.
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It might be time to
begin memorizing verses
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or passages of the Bible,
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and to start not only
reading or hearing the Bible,
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but to start trusting it,
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believing that God can
do what He says He can do,
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and believing that God will
work with power in your life.
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There is no other book
like it. It's the Word of God.
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Allow God's Word into your life,
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and you'll never
be the same again.
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>>John: Thank you for
remembering that It Is Written
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of people just like you.
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To support this international
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or you can visit us
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Our number
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or you can visit us
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>>John: Let's pray together now.
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Our Father in heaven,
we thank You for the Bible,
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and I'm praying right now
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that You will unleash
Your Word in our lives.
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There is somebody right
at this moment who is saying,
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"I'm going to pick up
that Bible and read it."
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Help her, help him to develop
a habit of reading the Bible
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that would never die.
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Somebody right now
is experiencing weakness
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and not strength
in his experience.
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There's somebody
looking for a miracle,
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somebody needing a breakthrough,
00:26:57.88\00:26:59.21
somebody
desperately desiring victory,
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and, Lord, it is there
in the pages of Scripture.
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Lord, let this not
only be ancient wisdom,
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but present power in lives
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across the fruited
plain and around the world.
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May we experience
the power of Scripture.
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Might we be born again through
Your Word, as the Bible says.
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Heavenly Father,
through Your Word,
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have Your way in our lives.
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Let it be the bedrock,
the foundation of our lives,
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we pray. And we
thank You in Jesus' name.
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Say with me now: amen and amen.
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Thank you so
much for joining me.
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I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember:
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"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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