THE ENGLISH BIBLE WAS DEVELOPED OVER A PERIOD OF APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED YEARS.THERE WERE SEVERAL MEN WHO LABORED VERY DILIGENTLY IN THE TRANSLATION WORK.DURING THEIR EFFORTS THESE MEN WERE PERSECUTED,OSTRACIZED,EXILED,IMPRISONED AND EVEN BURNED AT THE STAKE.THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF ROME HAD KEPT THE SCRIPTURES FROM THE COMMON MAN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS WHICH PLUNGED THE WORLD INTO THE DARK AGES.WILLIAM TYNDALE WHO WAS BORN IN 1494 BELIEVED IN THE AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES AND DID MORE IN THE WAY OF TRANSLATION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE THAN ANY OTHER MAN.TYNDALE ONCE TOLD A CHURCH BISHOP"I WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE BOY WHO DRIVES THE PLOW TO KNOW AS MUCH SCRIPTURE AS YOU DO".HE SPENT THE LAST FIVE HUNDRED DAYS OF HIS LIFE IN COLD,DARK,LONELY PRISON CELL.ON OCTOBER 6TH 1536 TYNDALE WAS TIED TO A BEAM IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE THEN STRANGLED AND BURNED TO DEATH.HIS LAST PRAYER WAS"LORD OPEN THE KING OF ENGLANDS EYES."THE LORD ANSWERED THAT PRAYER SIXTY EIGHT YEARS LATER.HE OPENED KING JAMES THE 1ST EYES AND HE AUTHORIZED THE TRANSLATION OF THE KING JAMES VERSION...MANY SUFFERED AND MANY GAVE THEIR LIVES SO THAT THE WORLD COULD HAVE THE TRUE WORD OF GOD,THEY LOST THEIR HEADS WERE IMPRISONED SUFFERED GREAT TORTURES...HISTORY SAYS THAT THE TRANSLATORS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE TOOK THEIR TASK SO SERIOUSLY THAT EVERY TIME THE SCRIPTURE MENTIONED THE NAME OF GOD(JEHOVAH) THEY REALIZED THAT IT SO HOLY THAT THEY WOULD STOP AND WASH THEIR HANDS BEFORE THEY WROTE HIS NAME

THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF 1611

IN 1494 THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK GATHERED THE CHURCH HIERARCHY AT OXFORD ENGLAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCREDITING AND BANNING WYCLIFFS BIBLE.HE SAID"WE THEREFORE DECREE AND ORDAIN THAT FROM HENCEFORTH NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSON SHALL TRANSLATE ANY PART OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES INTO ENGLISH OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE UNDER ANY FORM OF BOOK OR TREATISE".THIS WAS THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE PROHIBITION OF THE ENGLISH SCRIPTURES AND IT FORMED THE POWER BASIS FOR THE STATE CHURCH TO BRING PERSECUTION AND EVEN DEATH TO MANY.IT WAS THE INSTRUMENT OF TERROR SUSPENDED OVER THE HEADS OF ENGLISHMEN WHO WANTED A BIBLE IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE.
IN 1604 A GROUP OF SCHOLARLY MEN MET AT HAMPTON COURT TO MAKE A REQUEST OF KING JAMES THE 1ST.THEY PETITIONED THE CROWN KING TO AUTHORIZE A TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.THE KING AUTHORIZED THE TRANSLATION AND AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF LABOR THESE MEN,WHO WERE MOVED BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD PUBLISHED THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE..IN DIRECT REBUTTAL TO THE DECREE THAT NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSON SHALL TRANSLATE THE BIBLE,GOD GAVE THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE WORLD THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AUTHORIZED BY THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL KING.THE PURPOSE AND DESIRE TO THESE TRANSLATORS WAS NOT THAT OF FAME,FORTUNE,OR TO BE IMPERIOUS BUT THAT THE COMMON MAN MAY HAVE A COPY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES,WHICH HAD BEEN FORBIDDEN BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS...

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