Thursday, October 2, 2008

Different Problems

England was improving its condition and religion had become even more important than before. What I believed Jacob would be able to change like I mentioned in previous blogs “It became more important than ever that England, that upper, well lit country, needed a version of the scriptures that would bind together its people, its church and its king.” (pg. 107) he was not able to do. By the uniting of the people under one religion he gave himself great power but what he was missing was for the tolerations of other religions. This is a problem we have dealt with all our lives and there have even been wars because of ethnical differences.

During this time in England any religion that was not under the king became intolerable. The bible took all the power and how we interpret it became even more important. The people in charge of interpreting the bible for us were leading us to believe that "The words of the bible where the ultimate and encompassing truth itself (pg.182)." The bible is not only what it says it is very important to decrypt the real message and understand what it is that the religion states.

The King James Bible became the only bible in England and people were taught the wrong message in saying “listen to the words of the bible and you will be saved. (pg.175)” This was the message that started misleading people to interpret the bible in an effort to decrypt the real message and interpret it in the wrong way. James wanted the bible to be very clear and trusted in words. He only cared about words and with the different interpretations different beliefs of the bible started and with it different problems.

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