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William Tyndale's Death is NOT What You've Been Told

Gavin Ortlund

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Gavin Ortlund combats two false narratives about the death of William Tyndale, the Protestant theologian and Bible translator.

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00:00 Introduction
01:25 Two Preliminary Remarks
04:14 Tyndale's Story and Significance
08:10 Was Tyndale's Translation Heretical?
33:52 Did the Roman Catholic Church Kill Tyndale?
1:00:31 Concluding Thoughts

20 Comments

@allikirman2183 1 year ago

Thomas Bilney
John Oldcastle
William Tyndall
Richard Bayfield
John Tewkesbury
James Bainham
John Frith

Burned and humiliated for their “crime” of trying to make the Bible accessible to the common man. May they be an example to us all.

@fab7an758 1 year ago

I hate when apologists use the excuse: “the church didn’t kill anyone, it was the secular authority” as if at that time church and state were separated like it is today

@Cayday89 1 year ago (edited)

It’s just sad to think that the Catholic Church made Thomas More a canonized saint when he was heavily responsible for the torture and murder of Protestants.

@dominicwebb8 1 year ago

Thank you! Many years ago, there was a public poll in the UK about whoo was considered "The Greatest Briton". Tyndale was my vote.

@litigioussociety4249 1 year ago

Your closing thoughts made me realize how much I take for granted the blessing to read the bible each day in English.

@Knewms 1 year ago

I feel sick watching this. I can’t even imagine what these brave Christians were going through. Thank you for sharing Tyndale’s story Dr. Gavin. We have it so easy today and yet a lot of us (myself included) don’t take advantage of the religious freedom we have to spread the gospel. Let Tyndale’s death remind us of the cost many men before us paid to pave the way for God’s truth to stand.

@morninglory576 1 year ago

I can't imagine never reading my Bible. Thank God it was made available to us all!

@innocentssemanda9646 1 year ago

Watching from Uganda. Your videos have been a blessing to me as I struggle with many questions you have laboured to respond to. You introduced me to church history and I love the way you present your arguments. May the good lord above bless your ministry.

@KYWingfold 1 year ago

I am a descendant of John Rogers, who completed the editing and compiling of Tyndale’s Bible with Coverdale’s remaining OT translation and was burned in 1555.

Funny enough, I learned about this relation through my RC father.

I take great comfort in the faith of our fathers. Thanks for telling their story, and may we be found faithful as they were!

@julesgomes2922 2 years ago

What a gloriously inspiring video! I had the privilege of doing a doctorate in Cambridge while living and studying in the library at Tyndale House with the original Tyndale Bible just a few feet away from me.

@raphaelfeneje486 1 year ago

The more you go deep into history without bias, the more you'll be thankful that the reformation did happen.

@merrygrammarian1591 1 year ago (edited)

I was thrilled to see this great tribute to one of my heros in the faith. I'm now working in Bible translation, specifically to get Scripture into languages that have no translation yet. Praise God for giving Tyndale a heart and a passion for the transmission of the Word of God in language that was understood by the common person. His legacy lives on in our work today!

@WildeChildRose 10 months ago

I wept so many times listening to this. Christians are STILL being persecuted for the crime of having professed faith in Jesus. We must not take things for granted.

@Christian-ut2sp 1 year ago

One of the reasons I’m so grateful about your Ministry is you just tell us the facts. There have been so many misrepresentations of church history that you’ve addressed. Hopefully this improves the discourse on these issues.

@NoahRichardHarris 1 year ago

A great quote from Tyndale I often look to when I feel drawn to despair:

From his Obedience of a Christian Man (1528)

"If God promise riches, the way thereto is poverty. Whom he loveth, him he chasteneth: whom he exalteth, he casteth, down: whom he saveth, he damneth first. He bringeth no man to heaven, except he send him to hell first. If he promise life, he slayeth first: when he buildeth, he casteth all down first. He is no patcher; he cannot build on another man's foundation. He will not work until all be past remedy, and brought unto such a case, that men may see, how that his hand, his power, his mercy, his goodness and truth, hath wrought altogether. He will let no man be partaker with him of his praise and glory."

@jotink1 1 year ago

When I hear and read the testimonies of these great men I am humbled by their faith. The power of the Gospel through being read in your own language and the joy it brought to these men is also very humbling.

@Hillbillywayfarer 1 year ago

This gave me courage. Although I am incredibly thankful that we are no longer burning heretics or burying them alive, I have a genuine fear of modern day heresy hunters in this increasingly divided culture and the social and psychological torture they can inflict. It was refreshing to be reminded of those who suffered so greatly for their convictions and for the promulgation of the Word of God.

@jemeyezedten3930 1 year ago

Really makes the bridge-buildy "nooooo we never said there was no salvation outside the church. Anathemas? Never heard of them. Youre just a seperated brother!" Shtick really really gross. The same church lying to me about their own positions killed pious men in the name of God for the purpose of maintaining a human power structure. Despicable.

Next time a roman catholic asks me where I get my Bible I'll be sure to say William Tyndale. Seems without him and his fellows Christendom would have been at best stunted and at worst all but extinguished.

@tategarrett3042 1 year ago

Also, this video did really make me reflect on how many things I take for granted, particularly the legal availability of the Bible in my own language, and at an affordable price.