I assume this is why the current Pater of Rome has little use for knowing what is in the Bible as the Vatican heirarchy discovered long ago in this Martin Luther story.
"Anno 1530, at the Imperial Assembly at Augsburg, Albertus, Bishop of Mentz, by chance had got into his hands the Bible, and for the space of four hours he continued reading therein; at last, one of his Council on a sudden came into his bed-chamber unto him, who, seeing the Bible in the Bishop’s hand, was much amazed thereat, and said unto him, “what doth your Highness with that book?”
The Archbishop thereupon answered him, and said, “I know not what this book is, but sure I am, all that is written therein is quite against us.”
Martin Luther.
That Bible does seem to get in the way of religion and those who attempt to rule in regimes and the Vatican.
"Doctor Ussinger, an Austin Friar, with me in the Monastery at Erfurt, said once unto me, as he saw that I diligently read and affected the Bible, “Brother Martin, what is the Bible? Let us,” said he, “read the ancient Teachers and Fathers, for they have sucked the juice and truth out of the Bible. The Bible is the cause of all dissension and rebellion.”
This, said Luther, is the censure of the world concerning God’s Word; therefore we must let them run on their course towards that place which is prepared for them. (That place is hell.)"
In the discourse which has become the Lame Cherry blog in matter anti matter, I resolve from past experience that whenever the Holy Ghost starts me upon a path which seems off the road in the focus upon Asia and that road in a few years time became the Asian Barry Chin, that the discourses upon the lost American Virtue and now on Martin Luther to remind American Protestants what they were, portends some great cataclysmic events as this off road will become the main road of the world.
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