2. The Protestant Pioneer
The Monk Who Shook the World
The Protestant Provision
The Bible; A Book for Everyone
The Protestant People
Liberated by the Great High
Priest
The Protestant Preaching
Justified by Faith in Christ
Alone
WHAT IS
PROTESTANTISM?
4. 1st Peter 1:25
“But the word of
the Lord endureth
forever. And this is
the word which by
the Gospel is
preached unto you.”
5. THE BIBLE; A BOOK FOR EVERYONE
1: INSPIRATION
2: PRESERVATION
3: TRANSLATION
6. THE BIBLE; A BOOK FOR EVERYONE
1: INSPIRATION
2: PRESERVATION
3: TRANSLATION
7. INSPIRATION
The Miracle
“And that from a child thou hast known
the Holy Scriptures which are able to
make thee wise unto salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus. All
scripture is given by inspiration of God”
2nd Timothy 3:15-16
8. INSPIRATION DEFINED
“The ‘breath of God’ is in Scripture just the
outflow of His prophetic power, the bearer of His
creative word…God’s breath is the irresistible
outflow of His power. When Paul declares, then,
that ‘every scripture’, or ‘all scripture’ is the
product of the Divine Breath, is ‘God-breathed’, he
asserts with as much energy as he could employ
that scripture is the product of a specifically
Divine operation.”
BB Warfield
9. INSPIRATION
The Method
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place, until the
day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts:
knowing this first, that no prophesy of the
scripture is of any private interpretation. For
prophesy came not in old time by the will of
man: but holy men of God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost”
2nd Peter 1:19-21
10. The Penmen
“You see then, it was sometimes the artless and
sublime simplicity of John: sometimes the
impassioned elliptical, rousing and logical energy
of Paul, sometimes the fervour and solemnity of
Peter: it was Isaiah’s magnificent and David’s
lyrical poetry. It was the simple and majestic
narratives of Moses, or the sententious and royal
wisdom of Solomon – yes it was all this; it was
Peter, it was Isaiah, it was Matthew, it was John,
it was Moses, yet it was God”
L Gaussen
(The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures)
15. PRESERVATION
The Scribes
A Clean animal skins were used to write on and bind the
manuscripts.
B Each column contained between 48 and 60 lines.
C The ink was black, made from a special recipe.
D Each word was pronounced as it was recorded.
E The pen was wiped and the body was washed before
“Jehovah” was recorded.
F The work was reviewed within 30 days. If 3 pages required
correction the entire manuscript was redone.
G Letters, words and paragraphs were counted. If any letters
touched each other the document was invalid.
H The documents were stored in sacred places.
I Old and worn documents were ceremonially buried. No
manuscript containing God's Word could be destroyed.
16. PRESERVATION
The Scholars
• Alexander and Greek
• The Septuagint
• Romans and Latin
• Jerome’s Vulgate
• Venerable Bede (674 – 735)
• King Alfred (849 – 899)
17. PRESERVATION
The Schoolmen
• System of learning
• Reason above Scripture
• Tradition and the Church Fathers
• Origin of many unscriptural practices
• Bible was kept from the people
• A new dawn was needed
18. THE BIBLE; A BOOK FOR EVERYONE
1: INSPIRATION
2: PRESERVATION
3: TRANSLATION
22. TRANSLATION
Regeneration
• Luther’s Wittenberg
Lectures
• Psalms, Galatians, Romans
• Faith Alone in Christ Alone
“This passage from
Paul became a gate to
heaven...I found
myself reborn”“…whenever I had
time, I went back
to the library and
sought solace in the
Bible”
24. SCRIPTURE
PARAMOUNT
“If, then, I am not convinced by proof from Holy
Scripture, or by cogent reasons, if I am not satisfied
by the very text I have cited, and if my judgment is
not in this way brought into subjection to God’s
word, I neither can nor will retract anything; for it
cannot be either safe or honest for a Christian to
speak against his conscience. Here I stand; I cannot
do otherwise; God help me! Amen.”
25. SATISFYING THE GREATEST NEED
“…the books that show
you Christ, and teach you
all that is necessary and
salvatory for you to know,
even if you were never to
see or hear any other
book or doctrine”
(Luther on John’s Gospel and 1st
Epistle, St Paul’s Epistles and 1st
Peter.)
• 1st Print Run of 3-5,000
sold quickly
• Lufft eventually produced
over 100,000 Bibles
26. “I would rather prefer that they would
all be forgotten…For the Church is full
of books while the Bible is neglected”
LUTHER COMPARES HIS OWN
WRITINGS WITH SCRIPTURE
27. THE FATHER OF THE
ENGLISH BIBLE
• A Bible for the Ploughboy
• Visited Wittenberg
• Formulated some of the greatest
phrases in the English Bible
• Burnt to death in Belgium, 1536
William
Tyndale
28. THE GREAT BIBLE
• John Rodgers
• Miles Coverdale
• 1539
• Tyndale’s prayers
answered
Thomas Cromwell