Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives – William Tyndale and the English Bible – PART 3 of 11

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Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives William Tyndale and the English Bible – PART 3 of 11

Finding a new printer in 1526 in Worm, Germany; to the glory of God 3,000 English NT were translated from Greek and published. In 1530 he published his Pentateuch in 1531 his translation of Jonah 1535 ever the perfectionist a revision of his N; His 2nd Edition. William understood the seriousness of handling God’s word said: “I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God’s Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.”Just like God’s word declares in: Eph.2:10 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”William Tyndale did not seek his own fame and fortune he was merely carrying out God’s plan for his life.AND the well-being of many centuries of Bible teaching, Bible preaching, Bible-believing, Bible-practicing Christians down through the ages. God was going to supply every embassy of Christ (that is what an NT church is considered: an EMBASSY) we would receive the pure, inspired, perfect word of God! William Tyndale moved by the Holy Spirit of God took on the task of interpreting the Bible for the glory of God and to further advance the cause of Christ! His work on the OT books from Joshua to 2 Chronicles appeared in “Matthew’s Bible” (1537). Compiled by Tyndale’s associate John Rogers who rescued Tyndale’s work when the authorities arrested William. (More on that LATER)As quickly as Tyndale’s translations were smuggled into England, the authorities attempted to purchase, confiscate & burn them. RCC agents were in HOT pursuit to apprehend Brother Tyndale who was now residing in Antwerp, Belgium. Why such threats against Tyndale? Why was he deemed so dangerous? Among other things, his translation of the Greek text into English UNDERMINED the RCC theology built on the Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Jerome’s work was built on the underlying texts of the heavily redacted Greek of the Vaticanus by way of the Gnostic school in Alexandria, Egypt run by head heretic Origen & his successor, Eusebius. Neither are “fathers of the church” unless you are a Catholic. The true Bible not only exposes the Pope as ANTI-CHRIST but their false doctrinal stance on soteriology (salvation). Prepared by Thomas E. Kresal from my Sermons on Wm. Tyndale