You lead a busy life, Kevin. Your ability to balance work/preaching/life convicts.
Blessings --- Kevin Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Working - 40 hours and then some with 7X24X365 on > call > Preaching - in the last week have preached in > Columbus OH, NYC, Rochester, Olcott NY and numerous > times in Buffalo > This weekend JW district convention, Corn Hill Arts > fest, Mormon Hill Cumorah Pag > Living - Girls baseball games It is palyoof time! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Working?? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:33:48 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] All believers are ONE IN > CHRIST > > .AOLPlainTextBody { margin: 0px; font-family: > Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: > 12px; color: #000; background-color: #fff; > }.AOLPlainTextBody pre { font-size: > 9pt;}.AOLInlineAttachment { margin: > 10px;}.AOLAttachmentHeader { border-bottom: 2px > solid #E9EAEB; background: > #F9F9F9;}.AOLAttachmentHeader .Title { font: 11px > Tahoma; font-weight: bold; color: #666666; > background: #E9EAEB; padding: 3px 0px 1px > 10px;}.AOLAttachmentHeader .FieldLabel { font: > 11px Tahoma; font-weight: bold; color: > #666666; padding: 1px 10px 1px > 9px;}.AOLAttachmentHeader .FieldValue { font: > 11px Tahoma; color: #333333;}I do not have time > right now. > > David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I > suspected, Kevin, you are misapprehending the issue > here. The issue here was not someone HAVING a > Bible. The issue was translating the Scriptures > without the authority of the church. I do not agree > with what the RCC did to Wycliffe, Tyndale, and > others, but when we represent this as the RCC not > wanting people to have a Bible, we misrepresent > them. Such misrepresentation, whether intentional > or not, discredits our testimony. I don't know of > one person who was burned at the stake for having a > Bible. Check again and tell me if you find one. If > you do, I will change my mind (contrary to how some > have characterized me on this list). > > Peace be with you. > David Miller. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kevin Deegan > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:05 AM > Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] All believers are ONE IN > CHRIST > > > ?As his Bible aroused the English conscience, the > pope felt a chill; he heard unearthly sounds rattle > through the empty caverns of his soul, and he > mistook Wickliff?s bones for his Bible. The > moldering skeleton of the sleeping translator > polluted the consecrated ground where it slept. The > Council of Constance condemned his Bible and his > bones to be burnt together? (Armitage, A History of > the Baptists, I, p. 315). > > To the RCC: > ?You say it is heresy to speak of the Holy > Scriptures in English. You call me a heretic because > I have translated the Bible into the common tongue > of the people. Do you know whom you blaspheme? Did > not the Holy Ghost give the Word of God at first in > the mother-tongue of the nations to whom it was > addressed? Why do you speak against the Holy Ghost? > You say that the Church of God is in danger from > this book. How can that be? Is it not from the Bible > only that we learn that God has set up such a > society as a Church on the earth? Is it not the > Bible that gives all her authority to the Church? Is > it not from the Bible that we learn who is the > Builder and Sovereign of the Church, what are the > laws by which she is to be governed, and the rights > and privileges of her members? Without the Bible, > what charter has the Church to show for all these? > It is you who place the Church in jeopardy by hiding > the Divine warrant, the missive royal of her King, > for the authority she wields and the faith > she enjoins? (Fountain, John Wycliffe, pp. 45-47). > > Wycliffe also had copies of the hand-written > Scriptures produced and distributed not only in > England but also abroad in Europe. That these > multiplied widely is evident from the record that > still exists of the many copies that were > confiscated by the authorities: ?By reference to the > Bishop?s Registers it will appear that these little > books were numerous, as they are often specified as > being found upon the persons of those accused. > Sometimes the Gospels are spoken of either > separately, or together; or it is the book of Acts, > or the Epistle of James, or the Apocalypse that is > specified. It appears also from these Registers, > that many of those who possessed these little > volumes were either servants or tradesmen? (Condit, > History of the English Bible, p. 75). > > > David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin wrote: > > Who else burns people for having a BIBLE? > > Huh? I think you are mischaracterizing the truth > now. Can you name for me one person who was burned > for HAVING a Bible? > > Peace be with you. > David Miller. > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------- > Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great > items. > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail for Mobile > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your > mobile phone. ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. 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