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The Bible’s chapter divisions were created in the early 1200s.  The Forbidden Book: History of the Bible, 2015

 

Jerome: In 382 he was commissioned to translate the Bible from the Greek into Latin: it became known as the Latin Vulgate.  ibid.

 

The Church in Rome allowed only one language and that language was Latin.  ibid.

 

The Pope was elevated to God’s sole agent to lead the Church.  ibid.

 

Over 100,000 prostitutes being employed by the Church.  ibid.

 

One such way was to extract enormous sums of money from parishes by granted pardon for penance to purgatory.  ibid.

 

 

It has sold billions of copies since it was published in 1611.  When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible, BBC 2013

 

This was a religious age deeply divided.  ibid.

 

There’s no hint in these rules of any divine inspiration.  ibid.

 

Puritans needed to be central to the process.  ibid.

 

This rare coming together of wordiness and monarchy.  ibid.

 

The Bible’s total failure to achieve James’s ambition of uniting the two sides of England’s religious divide.  ibid.

 

The most important book in the English-speaking world.  ibid.

 

 

The teachers, even of Christianity, are, in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach.  There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible.  To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar.  Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma

 

 

For me this is the triumph of the Reformation: the Luther Bible.  With his own notes hand-written in the margin.  Ann Widdecombe, Christianity: A History s1e5: Reformation, Channel 4 2009

 

 

There’s not a mention of antibiotics ... E=MC2 would have done.  Why I Am No Longer A Christian

 

 

I read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns, and I could vide myself helping in and even taking charge of the tolchocking and the nailing in, being dressed in the height of Roman fashion.  I didn’t so much like the latter part of the Book, which is more like all preachy-talking than fighting and the old in-old.  I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and then drink their Hebrew vino, and getting onto the bed with their wives’ handmaidens.  That kept me going.  A Clockwork Orange 1971 starring Malcolm McDowell & Patrick Magee & Michael Bates & Warren Clarke & John Clive & Adrienne Corri & Carl Duering & Paul Farrell & Clive Francis & Michael Gover et al, director Stanley Kubrick, Alex’s prison vision of Bible

 

 

His crime was translating the Bible into English.  His name is William Tyndale.  Melvyn Bragg, The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England, BBC 2013

 

William Tyndale was a matchless scholar whose heroic life of principle took on the great forces of Henry VIII with only an army of words.  ibid.

 

His act was thought to be a work of revolution.  ibid.

 

Luther’s study of the Bible led him to radical new beliefs which struck at the heart of the Catholic Church.  ibid.

 

In 1526 copies of Tyndale's translation began to arrive on English shores.  ibid.

 

 

For the first time people can read the Word of God in their own home.  Dr Ian Mortimer, The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England III: Brave New World, BBC 2013 

 

 

Instead [Isaac Newton] became obsessed with the Bible.  It seems an extraordinary change of tack.  Tristram Hunt, Great Britons: Isaac Newton, BBC 2002

 

 

There were all these books about apparent contradictions in the Bible.  Another 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God, Professor Alan Dundes

 

The Bible is the most ... misunderstood book in the history of civilisation ... If He meant to give us His very words, why didn’t He make sure we received them?  ibid.  Professor Bart Ehrman

 

 

For is it not written in the electronic Bible – the Iron shall lie down with the Lamp.  Red Dwarf s3e6: The Last Day, Kryten to Rimmer, BBC 1989

 

 

The quest to find ancient scriptures in support of the largest religion in the world – Christianity.  At stake – the faith of million and the Bible at its heart ... I’m following in the footsteps of the Bible hunters.  Bible Hunters I, BBC 2014

 

Scholars had the audacity to challenge the very word of God.  ibid.

 

There are 35,000 edits in the Codex Sinaiticus.  ibid.

 

 

For almost two thousand years they [Gospels] had the monopoly on the story of Jesus.  Until the discovery of the New Sayings of Jesus in 1897.  In Europe, the introduction of a new Biblical text caused a storm.  Bible Hunters II

 

Curzon’s cache of manuscripts included a surprise: a Christian text no-one had seen before: the Acts of Peter & Paul.  ibid.

 

The text was attributed to the Disciple Bartholemew but was not included in the Bible.  ibid.

 

The Gnostics were increasingly under pressure: their intellectual take on Christianity didn’t tally with the official Church doctrine.  ibid.

 

It was the Orthodoxs who would shape the future of Christianity.  ibid.

 

 

Around the world millions of people believe it to be the actual word of God.  The sacred scripture recorded in the Bible.  Bible's Secrets Revealed I: Lost in Translation, H2 2014

 

Most Biblical scholars have come to agree that the first of the Gospels to be written was the Gospel of Mark in approximately 70 A.D.  ibid.

 

‘There are human fingerprints all over it.’  ibid.  Professor Bart Ehrman

 

 

It’s considered one of the most sacred places on Earth  the Holy Land ... Fought over by three of the world’s great religions.  Bible's Secrets Revealed II: The Promised Land

 

What if the forty-year exodus as described in the Old Testament never happened at all?  ibid.

 

There's no mention of a promised land in the New Testament.  ibid.

 

 

What if there were chapters of the Bible still missing?  Stories that may have been censored.  Perhaps entire characters that were excluded.  Bible Secrets Revealed III: The Forbidden Scriptures

 

This so-called canonisation of the Bible led to bitter arguments about which Books should be included.  ibid.

 

The Gnostics were followers of Jesus who claimed to have secret knowledge.  ibid.

 

If Asherah was believed to be the wife of God, when did this change and why?  ibid.

 

 

Who was the man known simply in his lifetime as Jesus?  Bible Secrets Revealed IV: The Real Jesus

 

He didn't appear to have a job himself.  ibid.

 

 

They are the recorded visions of men and women reportedly chosen by God to witness the future.  Biblical prophecies have been preserved in the pages of the Bible.  Bible Secrets Revealed: Strange Prophecies V

 

Revelation: a world where a Satanic figure has risen to rule.  A terrible beast called the Whore of Babylon terrorises all.  And where four horsemen leave mountains of corpses in their wake.  ibid.

 

 

Hidden meanings about what is right and what is wrong especially when it comes to human sexuality.  Bible Secrets Revealed: Sex and the Scriptures VI

 

Adultery, eroticism, many so-called sinful acts are not only depicted in, but appear to be tacitly accepted in the pages of the Old Testament.  ibid.

 

 

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  

 

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.  And the evening and the morning were the first day.  Genesis 1:1&3&5 

 

 

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

 

And God called the firmament Heaven.  And the evening and the morning were the second day.  Genesis 1:6&8

 

 

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

 

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

 

And the evening and the morning were the third day.  Genesis 1:9&11&13

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