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The Geneva Bible: The Reformers’ Bible
What exactly is the Geneva Bible and what is its significance? The Geneva Bible was first published in 1560. It was the first translation to use chapter divisions and numbered verses and became the most popular version of its time because of the extensive marginal notes and annotations. Some of those notes were very controversial.…
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The Glorious Protestant Reformation: Some Thoughts on Reformation Day
On this day, October 31st, in the year of our Lord, 1517, an Augustinian friar (monk) in the Roman Catholic church, Martin Luther (1483-1546), who was also a theologian, priest, and a professor at the University at Wittenberg, nailed his 95 theses, which were theological problems he saw with Catholic theology as well as practices…
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French Protestants Massacred by Papists
On August 24th, in 1572, about 70,000 Huguenots (French Protestants) were butchered in the streets of Paris, and other French cities. The elderly, women, and even children were not spared Rome’s Satanic blood lust!!! Roughly 20 years before, John Calvin wrote to the prisoners held captive in Lyon: “Remember to lift up your eyes to…
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Is radical Islam really so radical?
According to worldwide polling, the much-repeated minority of Muslims who are radical and extremists does not stand up to scrutiny. In fact, the majority of Muslims support extreme positions on select issues such as supporting Al-Qaeda, having a favorable view of Osama bin Laden, supporting apostasy laws and blasphemy laws, favoring sharia law, supporting dhimmitude…