The Popes and Inquisition forbade biblical translation, threatening imprisonment and death to those who disobeyed. Learn the lives of men like John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Myles Coverdale and others, who hazarded their lives to communicate the Bible in languages people could understand. With the Fall of Constantinople, ancient Greek manuscripts came into Europe, and with them, the clear streams of understanding that would bring about the Protestant Reformation.
Tares Among the Wheat will likely challenge what most scholars believe about Bible history, and the origins of the current wave of new translations that have flooded churches around the world.
In 1881, two scholars, Westcott and Hort published a revision of the New Testament. Their new textual theory declared that the King James Version was full of errors. The new theory claimed that recently recovered manuscripts revealed a truer version of Scripture. Yet others warned that these manuscripts were the creation of early Gnostic heretics that had been rightly abandoned. Follow the story of the Bible’s history into the twentieth century, as Westcott and Hort would transform biblical scholarship.
Expelled: No Inteligance Allowed, Shows how academic freedom is being suppressed. Professors from around the United States are being fired from their jobs for promoting, or even exploring the possibility of, intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinism. Ben Stein interviews the expelled academics and other supporters of intelligent design. He also interviews the scientists in the mainstream, who support Darwinism. Stein links Darwinism to Nazism, Communism, eugenics and abortion. Cast into a pit by his jealous brothers, they sell the boy into slavery. Joseph, the son of Jacob escapes from treachery and slavery using his gift of divining dreams to rise from a slave, to Pharaoh's most trusted aide, saving Egypt from seven years of famine. His brothers travel to Egypt in search of food, where Joseph declares "Forgiveness is greater than vengeance," & "Compassion more powerful than anger." as he forgives so grievous a wrong.