Posted: Mar 14, 2018 10:37 pm
Chris Putnam wrote:Thank you Thomas Eshuis. Martin Luther stated that many before him laid the groundwork for what he did.
That's true for virtually any 'great' historical figure.
Ideas don't arise in a vacuum.
Chris Putnam wrote: Jan Hus was burned at the stake 102 years earlier for teaching his "heresies".
And Cathars were burned by the hundreds even earlier.
Chris Putnam wrote: It is reported that he said to his executioners as they were about to light the fire "Now we will cook the goose." (Huss in Bohemian means goose.) "Yes", replied Huss, "but there will come an eagle in a hundred years that you will not reach." Martin Luther believed he was the fulfillment of this prophesy.
People all around the world have and continue to claim they fulfill prophecies. Doesn't mean they actually do.
Chris Putnam wrote:
But the purpose of my starting this thread was to see if others had anything to add about William Tyndale.
He's one of the many people who tried to make the bible accesible and criticise the Catholic church.
Chris Putnam wrote: I know there are several documentaries about him on youtube, but I have not watched them. His story is one of great courage,
Not particularly. Again, many people have preceded him.
Chris Putnam wrote: which anyone should be able to respect.
Not really.
Chris Putnam wrote: At his execution he was strangled with a chain before he was burned, a courtesy the Church extended to great scholars who were to be burned at the stake. What remained of him was blown to bits with gun powder.
And Jeanne d'Arc was burned on the stake for wearin men's clothes.