The study of William Tyndale’s life is an interesting one; he translated the Bible into multiple languages, ultimately started the reformation of the Catholic Church, and found a use for the printing press. It is hard for one to decide if what he did is ethical (there seems to be a lot of gray space). Nonetheless, he did however have a substantial impact on the social, religious, and in some areas political lives of people continuing until the present day. He also changed how the Church would forever go about its religious business, and he also helped to print the very first book ever printed rather than written: the Bible.
Tyndale translated many language differentiations of the Bible; the last one to be finished was the English edition. According to David Daniell author of William Tyndale A Biography, Tyndale was an extremely educated man and attended Oxford University. While there he studied many things, one of which was language; thus, allowing him to be able to translate the Bible into so many languages. Tyndale’s only problem was that he didn’t feel as though he was being an obedient christen. This is where the ethics of what he is doing comes in. When a man is torn between what he knows to be right and his religion, pain is only going to come from pulling either direction. Strangely enough, while Tyndale was attending Oxford University 30 years before he translated the Bible, lots of “semi-legal” Church documents were translated into multiple languages (Daniell 19). This is when Tyndale first had the thought of translating the Bible into another language, he only had the thought for a moment and let it go but it would come back to him in the future. The last Bible that Tyndale finished translating was the Englis...
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The man with the most impact that changed history was Thomas Paine. He created a pamphlet called Common Sense . Not only did he have an impact he had a somewhat negative life. His burial was very awful. Paines beliefs in religion was different from other people. That belief caused him to create a book the age of reason.
King James I was crowned and went on a journey to create a new English translation” (“Roots Of The King James Bible”). “The ground rules for the Bible were set by 1604: such as no contentious notes in the margins; no language inaccessible to common people; a true and accurate text, driven by an unforgivingly exacting level of scholarship” (“The Bible of King James.(cover story)”). “When creating the King James Bible, the translators had fifteen rules which they had to follow” (“The Making of the King James Bible--New Testament”). “The first rule the scholars’ were to follow was that they had to follow along with the Bishops’ Bible” (“The Making of the King James Bible--New Testament”). The only thing about the scholars’ following along with the Bishops’ Bible was that there were so many different versions that no one knows which was used. “The first publication of the King James Bible was riddled with mistakes and received some negative criticism” (“The King James Bible: A Short History From Tyndale/ Shaping The Bible In The Reformation”). “The phrases were not always called majestic, but they were indeed frowned upon by many of an 18th century writer” (“The King James Bible At 401”). Even though the bible received many negative comments from people after the Bible was first made it has turned out to have a great impact on many writers and
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The most troubling issue of these stories is the struggle to justify such grotesque atrocities as the will of the benevolent God Christians faithfully adore. Arthur Kinney grapples with the matter and wonders how Christians are supposed to believe:
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This shepherd boy had been clambering around the clefts and gullies of a rock face on Wadi Qumran, north of the Dead Sea hoping to find one of his lost lambs. Thinking that it could have taken refuge in a cave he threw stones at the opening. He heard a jar break, became fearful and ran to fetch his fellow tribesmen. What they discovered were written scrolls of ancient papyrus, stuffed in jars and wrapped in linen. The Bedouins thought that they could make money on the black market in Bethlehem so sold them for a few shekels. A bundle of four of these scrolls was purchased by “the Orthodox Archbishop of Jerusalem, Yeshue Samuel who then stored them in St. Marks Monastery”. (Albright, 1954, 403)
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