What is uncommonly known is the source of the freedom the United
States of America has had and spread across the globe in the last 500 years and
as to whether the world is heading to a reset as it was before freedom or
revival of the Reformation that brought freedom.
The truth is, the liberties and freedoms we have practically enjoyed
are to a greater extent owed the winds of Protestantism that brought to the
knowledge of people the tent of dark tyranny that the Roman Catholic Church had
covered the world with.
In summary, Protestantism
breeds republicanism and freedoms and liberties thereof while the opposite of Protestantism
is one man’s government who has the power to kill and seal whom he wants.
Many know that
when people are free to their conscience, civilisation sprouts and civilisation
is a threat to the individuals or institutions whose interest is power as we’re
going to see in the next few paragraphs.
Before the
rising of Protestant Reformation through Martin Luther in Germany and the subsequent
audacity by John Calvin, King Henry VIII in France and William Tyndale in
England, the Roman Catholic Church ruled the conscience of men including dictating
how to practice Christianity.
For a thousand years until the 1500s, the Roman Catholic Church killed fifty million people for not
being Christians or practicing Christianity differently from the way the popes dictated.
Because freedom of
conscience was held captive, there were no civil liberties and freedoms were
unheard of; civilisation fell at the blood-dripping paws of the Roman Catholic
Church during its rule also called the Dark Ages.
Martin Luther
wasn’t the first to resist the Roman Catholic Church; very many had tried but the
men in cassocks who had authority over state authorities condemned them to
death for defying the laws of the man who calls himself “holy”.
Martin Luther’s resistance
succeed as a Reformation mainly because it attracted the attention of state
authorities in England and France’s King Henry started refusing the Pope’s orders
for the first time in over 1000 years, a king murdered by a catholic monk.
But the English had already tasted freedom
and could not accept a setback and men such as William Tyndale discovered that
to know scriptures would liberate people from looking to the Vatican for God’s
message.
"I defy the
pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause
the boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scriptures than does
the pope" Tyndale once replied to a fellow
who had said that "We had better be without God's laws than the
Pope's.", to which Tyndale responded:
Tyndale ventured into translating the
Bible which further vexed the institution of the papacy, seeing that people
God’s Word would reveal the errors in the church’s syllabus and impart a sense of freedom of conscience.
All the men who pioneered
the Reformation and those who followed them were killed by strangulation and
being burnt on sticks, the same that way the Romans killed the resistant jews.
In fact, if Protestants
believed in the authority of the dead, they would have more million saints to
pray to than the catholic church.
About 100 years after the start of the Reformation in 1603, King
James ascended the English throne, endorsed and supported the translation of the Holy Scriptures into English,
an official translation named after him [King James Bible], translated by over
50 (some documents say 70) greatest scholars of the time for seven years.
This first official
Bible translation into the world was a sharp sword into the ribs of the Roman
Catholic Church which had condemned thousands of English men, women and children to death for only citing
Bible verses.
The Roman
Catholic Church, the oppressor, had lost grip over the English and was threatened to
lose in Europe and in the whole world as we’re going to see.
The Roman
Catholic Church had an important seat at Lisbon in Portugal until both earthquake
and tsunami ripped and swept the city on the day of the church’s cult, the
All Saints Day (November 1) 1755, another factor the decline of the popes’
influence in Europe.
The final
humiliating defeat came when Napoleon Bonaparte, having grown up in the grievances
the Catholic Bourbon Monarchy inflicted the Frenchmen, held the then pope captive
and died in prison in 1799, so ended the French Revolution.
Meanwhile, as
God did not permit King David to build his temple but his son Solomon, so did He
not permit England to lead in the dispensation of Freedoms in the world but
England’s son the United States of America.
It is 504 years since the course of civilisation in civil liberties and freedoms started with Martin Luther on 31st October 1517 when he protested against the Catholic Church that had oppressed the consciences of men.
Is the world heading to the great reset to be as it was before Reformation or do we expect the great awakening for the revival of the Reformation ideas?
By Kelly Rwamapera
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Faith Reporters
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