One of the most significant points of contention between William Tyndale and the Catholic authorities was his choice of certain words in his English Bible translation, which challenged the Church's theological control. A key example is Tyndale's use of the word **"congregation"** instead of **"church"** to translate the Greek word *ekklesia*.### Context and Disagreement:- **Theological Implications**: The Greek term *ekklesia* in the New Testament refers to a gathering or assembly of believers. The Catholic Church preferred the term "church," which had come to signify the institutional hierarchy and authority of the Catholic establishment. Tyndale's choice of "congregation" emphasized a community of believers rather than a centralized, hierarchical institution, aligning with Protestant Reformation ideas that prioritized scripture and individual faith over ecclesiastical authority.
- **Challenge to Authority**: By using "congregation," Tyndale's translation suggested that the true "church" was the body of believers, not the Catholic Church's institutional structure. This was seen as subversive because it undermined the Church's claim to be the sole mediator between God and the faithful.
- **Other Terms**: Tyndale also used terms like **"elder"** instead of **"priest"** (for the Greek *presbyteros*) and **"repentance"** instead of **"penance"** (for *metanoia*). These choices further shifted focus away from Catholic sacramental practices and clergy authority toward personal faith and scripture-based worship.### Why It Mattered:The Catholic Church and English authorities viewed Tyndale's word choices as deliberate attacks on their doctrine and power. At the time, translating the Bible into the vernacular was already controversial, as it allowed laypeople to interpret scripture directly, bypassing the Church's control. Tyndale's translations, with their Protestant-leaning terminology and critical prefaces, were seen as heretical and a threat to the established order.### Outcome:This disagreement over key terms contributed significantly to Tyndale's condemnation. His translations were banned in England, and copies were publicly burned. The authorities accused him of heresy, not just for translating the Bible but for the theological implications of his word choices, which fueled Reformation ideas. This was a major factor in his arrest, trial, and execution in 1536.Tyndale's linguistic choices had a lasting impact, as his translations influenced later English Bibles, including the King James Version, and helped shape Protestant theology.
1:19:00 Communism
1:20:00 Dialectical/historical materialism
1:21:00 The Koran is fair enough.
Muslims are not using the Koran as a manifesto.
1:23:00 Hypocrites go to hell.
Christianity is just a cultural and class affiliation for white middle class people.
1:25:00 Thomas Jefferson
Progressive ideologies of Liberalism and Communism v believing in God and the afterlife
1:27:00 Marx's parents converted to Lutheranism.
1:28:00 Are we living better than our ancestors?
1:29:00 Our ancestors were more obedient to God's laws than us because they took marriage seriously.
1:30:00 The failure of Christo-Liberalism
1:31:00 Christendom ended in 1918.
1:32:00 Absolute monarchs still exist in Islam.
1:33:00 Sunni Muslims are leaderless.
1:34:00 Judicial independence is necessary for justice.
1:35:00 Jews were left alone to speculate on the nature of God while Islamic jurists had to make political decisions fearing the punishment of an absolute monarch.
1:36:00 Muslims are discouraged from discussing race, religion and royalty in their Muslim countries.
Kabbalah blah blah
1:37:00 The Zohar and the London Kabbalah Centre
1:38:00 Spirituality is vaguely comforting.
1:39:00 Unmarried women and authoritative men
1:40:00 Idolatry is not taken seriously by hypocrites calling themselves Jews, Christians and Muslims.
1:42:00 Manis Friedman's heresy
1:44:00 Kabbalah blah blah
1:46:00 We choose to believe government policy.
1:47:00 The moral standard of the law must not be too low.
"What is the truth?"
"Truth is the opinion of the powerful."
1:48:00 Kabbalah blah blah
1:40:00 Allah is Zionist.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/allah-is-a-zionist
1:50:00 Israeli Jews must live under sharia if they are to enjoy peace in the Middle East.
1:51:00 Techno-Liberalism
1:52:00 Israeli is an American colony.
1:53:00 Britain had its eye on Israel for centuries.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
1:55:00 British Israelism
1:58:00 Australians
1:59:00 Iceland and Greenland
2:00:00 Israel is the unsinkable aircraft carrier of America.
Kabbalah blah blah
2:01:00 Martin Luther
2:02:00 Oliver Cromwell
E Michael Jones
2:03:00 Why some people prefer the road of Christianity
2:05:00 Kabbalah blah blah
Varieties of Zionism
2:09:00 Islamic scholars have no understanding of political theory.
Jewish parents can more easily bring up believing Jewish children in Iran than in Israel.
2:10:00 Chief Rabbi of Iran
Golda Meir
2:13:00 Nayib Bukele is Muslim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayib_Bukele
2:15:00 Islam will fill the vacuum of Christianity.
2:16:00 Liberalism leads to sexual liberation from the rules of marriage and good parenting.
2:19:00 Women should keep out of politics.
2:21:00 Christians are really atheists.
2:22:00 Does God if He exists only want us to have sex with our spouse?
What happens if we break the rules of marriage and good parenting?
2:23:00 The father is only a sperm donor under feminism.
2:24:00 Western men can't get it together to abolish no fault box.
2:25:00 Gender roles will only be taken seriously by people who want to become married parents.
2:27:00 Good parenting
2:28:00 Weapon words provided by schools and universities for children against their parents
Friends and family
2:30:00 Reading from The Technological Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technological_Society
2:33:00 Neurosis
2:34:00 Lived experience is holy writ to atheists.
2:39:00 Fake debates
2:40:00 Difference between valid and sound arguments
2:45:00 Theocracies
2:46:00 The trial of Jesus
2:47:00 https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=18&verse=4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_of_the_mubahala
2:48:00 Paul of Tarsus
2:50:00 Romans 13
2:51:00 Defending the divine right of kings
2:52:00 Muslims rejecting monarchy
2:53:00 Lord Acton on absolute power
2:56:00 Our attachment to our phones
3:03:00 Feminism is divide and rule.
3:05:00 Apps for our phone for good or ill
3:06:00 Idolaters v Muslims
3:07:00 Humility as a virtue
3:08:00 Values of liberty and obedience
3:09:00 Free will
3:11:00 Liberty is what we ought to have after all the necessary laws are in place.
God knows better than liberals and libertarians what are the necessary laws.
3:13:00 The Koran says we have free will.
Compatibilism
While the Quran doesn't have a single verse explicitly stating "free will," several verses indirectly support the concept by emphasizing human responsibility and choice. One key verse is Surah Al-Kahf (18:29), which states, "And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve." This verse highlights that individuals have the power to choose their belief.
Other verses that support the idea of free will include:
Quran 76:30:
"And you do not will except that Allah wills". This verse is often cited to show the interplay between divine will and human will, suggesting that while Allah's will is overarching, human beings still have a degree of choice and agency.
Quran 18:29:
"And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills – let him believe; and whoever wills – let him disbelieve." This verse explicitly gives humans the choice to believe or disbelieve.
Quran 41:40:
"Do whatever you will...". This verse implies that humans have the freedom to act as they choose.
Quran 8:53:
This verse speaks about how God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves, further emphasizing individual agency.
These verses, among others, suggest that while Allah's knowledge and will are comprehensive, humans are still endowed with the capacity to make choices and are held accountable for their actions. The concept of free will in Islam is often discussed in relation to divine decree or predestination (Qadar), and the Quranic verses are interpreted to show how these two concepts coexist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
3:19:00 The physical and metaphysical universe
3:21:00 A theopolitical state
3:22:00 Monoculture
3:23:00 The divine narratives
3:24:00 Why Jews, Christians and Muslims suffer
3:25:00 The solution
3:26:00 Why the Caliphate crashed
3:27:00 Caliphates cannot be kings.
The Balfour Declaration
3:28:00 Lenin
Theodore Herzl
3:29:00 AI
3:30:00 Banning sex bots, porn etc
3:31:00 It's better to know we are the slaves of God than to not know.
3:32:00 Being a happy slave
3:33:00 God as a constitutional monarch
3:35:00 The rules must be fair enough.
3:36:00 Successful and unsuccessful imperialism
3:37:00 Stupid, evil or mad neocons on both sides of the Atlantic
3:38:00 Ukraine and Iran
Liberal democracy should be abandoned.
3:39:00 Trump supporters
3:40:00 British dominions and British Commonwealth
3:42:00 The Crown by Netflix
The Americans want monarchies to remain monarchies.
3:43:00 Suez Crisis
3:44:00 Punch and Judy Show
3:46:00 Emmanuel Macron
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