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“When I enrolled at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1997, I was handed a form asking me to declare my Protestant denomination. My eyes glazed over as I looked over the list — there were two hundred options! Fortunately the list included “Independent,” which I checked. That was one of my first experiences of culture shock.”
― Bob Fu, God's Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom

“Priests often twisted and disobeyed God's Word, including the 10 Commandments. Many priests did not even know the 10 Commandments. In 1551, three decades after Tyndal's New Testament, a reforming bishop Hooper discovered that in Gloucestershire, one of the godliest places in England, [311 clergy were examined, and 79 were reckoned as satisfactory] Of the unsatisfactory clergy, 9 did not even know how many commandments there were. 33 did not know where they appeared in the Bible. The Gospel of Matthew was a favorite guess, and 168 could not repeat them. Tyndal first announced his resolve to make the Word of God available to the masses, when a priest advised him that we would better be without God's law than the pope's. Tyndal retorted: “[I defy the Pope and all his laws …] If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow, shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.”
― Vishal Mangalwadi, The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization