2007-05-02 06:40:49 · 12 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jill you are obviously shooting from the hip. Try reading about European history a little, then contribute.
2007-05-02 06:48:36 · update #1
Daisylilly.
In one sense you are right, they had sewers; open and running down the middle of city streets.
2007-05-02 06:50:34 · update #2
Hello, Realchurch...:
I would agree that printing God´s Word helped lift us out of the cesspool of ignorance. And it´s printing in over 2,000 languages helps fulfill Christ´s commission: And this Gospel will be preached to the whole world as a witness against them, and then the end will come.¨
It was with a tremendous cost that the Word was rescued from theologians who only knew the original languages and Latin. John Wycliffe was called the Morning Star of the Reformation because he worked on the first English Bible.
And as you may know, the Catholic hierarchy had his bones dug up, burned, and dumped into the sea--and his influence spread the world throughout the world. Tyndale is another translator that was burnt, but he was cremated alive.
Luther was in hiding under interdict while he translated the German Bible, and so the story goes.
Thank God for Bible truths, and the only part of His word that tells you it is closed until the end of the days is Daniel 12. It is now unlocked and you can read its warning and admonition at www.revelado.org/revealed.htm
Blessings and AGAPE love, One-Way
2007-05-02 06:45:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't know about it being a cesspool, because the sewers still would have been invented even without the Bible. But yes, it probably still would be a land of heathens and pagans. However, that may not necessarily have been a bad thing, because the pagans of today are intelligent, civilized people; not at all like the barbaric, sinful, wicked pagans of the pre-Christian era. The pre-Christian pagans sacrificed humans to their gods, had sex rituals with temple prostitutes, and had a convaluded sense of morality. Today's pagans aren't like that at all. They are decent people who respect human life and the sacred.
Then again, today's pagans may have borrowed the concept of "love your neighbor" and "do no harm" from Christianity. So it's hard to say for sure.
2007-05-02 06:47:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about that, but I do know that the Roman Catholic church would have a death grip on Europe if it were not for the translation into German and printing of the Bible for the common man.
The Crusades took place because the Roman Catholic Church translated the Bible into Latin, locked it up behind gates and said, "Thus and thus is what God says." From this we got inquisitions, crusades, indulgences and the like.
When the reformation translated the Bible into German and English, the average person could stand up to the evil popery and say "No!" for the Bible says thus and thus. Then the killing and fleecing soon stopped.
2007-05-02 06:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Europe and the rest of the world was ignorant long before the Bible was ever printed. And they are still ignorant today. Printing the Bible does not change that.
The only thing printing does is make the Bible more available and much more accessible to those who choose to read it and find salvation.
2007-05-02 06:51:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
So you mean that Europe is NOT an ignorant cesspool today?
I'm sure you've never been to a football match in Europe, for a taste of European "wisdom".
2007-05-02 06:44:12 · answer #5 · answered by Malcolm Knoxville VI 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can't blame a book on mans ignorance or not! The churches and the men that ran them, are far more accountable for ignorance and lack of education in the people. Even today there is a strong hold on what some religions are allowing there followers to do. Try not to be biased.
2007-05-02 06:53:26 · answer #6 · answered by My sage name 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible wasn't the only book ever written. So I seriously doubt it. Where ever humans have brains in thier head they will always ask questions and find answers. The Bible doesn't have much to do with that.
2007-05-02 06:44:13 · answer #7 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christianity did more to suppress civilization than to encourage it. While Europe was suffering under oppressive Christian rule China was developing gunpowder and paper and civil service. And the Arab powers we making great strides in astronomy, mathematics and architecture and putting street lights in cities.
2007-05-02 06:52:15 · answer #8 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
People would have the same nature with or without it.
2007-05-02 06:45:05 · answer #9 · answered by FooManChu 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
parallel between bible becoming more available and more knowledge.
2007-05-02 19:39:41 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋