The search for cleaner translations was now underway, but the Biblical world would not see the fruits of these efforts for another 350 years. What was available to them then was a very degenerated copy, a copy of copies of copies of copies, up to one hundred generations long, having been exposed to slips of the pen, tampering and correction. Inevitably with this study the thirst from discerning scholars for more accurate translations emerged. At last, after more than a thousand years the opportunity to read, study and verify the word of God had arrived.
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As far as lay people were concerned any Bible, even one full of errors, was better than none at all. The door had now been forced open, the censorship stranglehold released, and the cost of individual copies began to drop dramatically. They had done their best to repair their major doctrines and insert verses which might later be used to validate them, however, many large discrepancies still remained, and their "correction" of the text had also had the side-effect of generating many more "trivial" and "inconsequential" discrepancies in the details. In spite of this, when their approved text was finally released to the public in the fifteenth century it still contained massive discrepancies and numerous errors and contradictions between one book and the next, or at times even within the same book itself. This total unrestrained freedom continued for many centuries. This would later become known as the "Dark Ages" and Kings and rulers were subject to the Church which could appoint or remove them as it saw fit. It had taken close to 1,300 years, however, a light could now definitely be seen at the end of the tunnel and everyone began running towards it. However, the ball had been set in motion in a chain of events that would soon force the Bible out of the hands of the Church and back into those of the people. Due to the novelty of this new process it commanded an exorbitantly high price per copy which only the wealthiest of the wealthy could afford. The first book to be printed on this new press was the Bible. This was how censorship was imposed by the Trinitarian Church even upon their own chosen scriptures, and this is how they managed to secure the freedom they would need over the coming centuries in order to refine, correct, and re-write even their own scriptures in order to "clarify" their doctrines in the Bible and then correct the resultant discrepancies, and so on in a never ending downwards spiral.Īll of this began to change in 1453 when Johann Gutenberg invented the first printing presses.
It was no longer the property of the people, rather it became the exclusive property of the Church, to do with as they pleased, with no one to answer to nor anyone to see their actions.
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