Dr. John Bergsma

The Holy Spirit is the internet for all Christians.

We're all bound together by it.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

That's beautiful.

Yeah, yeah.

So thank you for your beautiful question.

Yeah.

I agree.

That's a beautiful soul, seeking for the truth in honesty and humility.

And I just want to respect that.

Yeah, so the Reformation was a very confusing time.

And religious interests got tied up with political interests, and there were a lot of atrocities on both sides.

And typically what happens, Matt, is we only hear about the atrocities that the other side would commit.

So I grew up with like Fox's Book of Martyrs, hearing about these terrible things that Catholics did.

Never heard about atrocities that Protestants committed, monks and nuns being slaughtered and things like this.

So there's a lot of bad behavior to go around on both sides.

I would say that in brief.

Now, I'm not a church historian, so I can't go blow by blow through the Reformation and explain how it all unfolded.

I can address, though, her question about folks being burned for translating the Bible.

And I can affirm completely that nobody was ever burned just for translating the Bible.