For the most part of church history the word of god was not avalible. but I will give you a breif history lesson from my very limited knowledge of bible. true enough the word of god was avalible in the greek and hebrew but the average person in the church didn't from my limited understanding have access to the word of god as we know it today (kjv). the first bible given out from my understanding was the wyncliffe bible but some scholars (tyndale) fond these copys to be inacurate for reasons that I don't remember and tyndale had to flee for his life to germany or switzerland or someplace like that (I apoligize for my poor mem.)because as I remember he was writing a bible that was contrary to the doctrin at that time(whether the cathlic church or the church of england I don't rem.)and what I would love for every one to remember is that the first bibles where hand written and prone to type errors (the inconsistancy of the humand).
After this tyndale also helped rewrite the bible with coverdale 10 years later after this 2 years later tynedale coauthered the mathews bible 2 years after this tyndale helped coauther the great bible but died before it was complete also keep in mind all this was done in secreat because these people where hiding from the hierarchy church. then the geneva bible came out 21 years later and 8 years later the bishops bible was produced and I believe that is the bible that came over on the Mayflower (could be the other way around). then in 1610 thdouay bible came out but i really don't think that it took to well and finaly in 1611 the king james.
now for Dr.B yes there where type'os in the king james but they where all (at first) hand written and when you take into consideration the other 14 books that are not in the current king james(and I did have a copy of the apocrypha's,you can get them on line) it would reason that you could or would find mistakes and also you have to take into consideration that the type setters of that time did all their type setting laborously by hand(not the spoiled gen. we are now with computers and such).
Now when you take all this into consideration I think that it would be very fair to say that for a large part of our christian history we where without the word of god (the general public that is) except for what they where told by the church authority at the time.
This is not as clear or as accuate as I would like for it to be but it is the best I cane do on the fly.
Peace and grace from our lord jesus christ
After this tyndale also helped rewrite the bible with coverdale 10 years later after this 2 years later tynedale coauthered the mathews bible 2 years after this tyndale helped coauther the great bible but died before it was complete also keep in mind all this was done in secreat because these people where hiding from the hierarchy church. then the geneva bible came out 21 years later and 8 years later the bishops bible was produced and I believe that is the bible that came over on the Mayflower (could be the other way around). then in 1610 thdouay bible came out but i really don't think that it took to well and finaly in 1611 the king james.
now for Dr.B yes there where type'os in the king james but they where all (at first) hand written and when you take into consideration the other 14 books that are not in the current king james(and I did have a copy of the apocrypha's,you can get them on line) it would reason that you could or would find mistakes and also you have to take into consideration that the type setters of that time did all their type setting laborously by hand(not the spoiled gen. we are now with computers and such).
Now when you take all this into consideration I think that it would be very fair to say that for a large part of our christian history we where without the word of god (the general public that is) except for what they where told by the church authority at the time.
This is not as clear or as accuate as I would like for it to be but it is the best I cane do on the fly.
Peace and grace from our lord jesus christ
