FROM N.T.E.B.
The Spanish Inquisition Was The Fruit Of A Religious System That
Feared The Bible, Hated Gospel Liberty, And Persecuted The Bible
Believers Who Rejected Rome’s False Doctrines.The issue was authority. Would the final authority be the words of God,
or would it be the decrees of Rome? Would salvation be by grace through
faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, or would it be dispensed
through sacraments, priests, masses, indulgences, confessions, penances,
and a church-state system that claimed power over both body and soul?
“These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.” John 16:1-3
John Foxe records the hatred that the religious
authorities had for the Bible in the common tongue. Concerning Tyndale’s
New Testament, Foxe says that the clergy were “not willing to have that
book to prosper,” and that some cried that it must be “utterly to be
suppressed.” That is Rome’s spirit in one sentence: suppress the Book,
silence the preacher, and keep the people in darkness. The issue was
never merely politics, though politics was often involved.
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