A Lamp in the Dark: The Untold History of the Bible
An exciting documentary that unfolds the fascinating untold history of the Bible, revealing critical information often overlooked in modern histories. Enter into a world of saints and martyrs battling against spies, assassins and wolves in sheep's clothing.
Throughout the Middle Ages, the Papal Inquisition forbade biblical translation, threatening imprisonment and death to those who disobeyed. Learn the stories of valiant warriors of the faith, such as John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, the ancient Waldenses, Albigenses and others who hazarded their lives for the sake of sharing the Gospel light with a world drowning in darkness.
Once the common people were able to read the Bible, the world was turned upside down through the Protestant Reformation. The Reformers subdued whole kingdoms by preaching the grace of God, and exposing the unbiblical doctrines of Rome. In response, the Vatican would launch a Counter Reformation to destroy the work of the Reformers, including the bibles they produced.
This video covers subjects ranging from the Gospels, to the Reformation with Martin Luther, the Counter-Reformation and the Jesuits (the Black Pope and Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta), and the fascinating story surrounding William Tyndale and the different Bible translations.
comes off as a paid advertisement to bash Catholics
Watch this is you want to sit for over an hour hearing how Catholics should burn in hell forever
dangerous video that clearly doesn't fit into today's culture of tolerance. I had to turn it off due to the absolute "hate speech" going on against Catholics. It was disgusting to think any of these so called "scholars" would go along with this. Shame on them!
Religion: an elaborate coping mechanism built on delusion and maintained with conformation bias.
You all get so worked up
It's ...............well,,,sad
One day we will all stand in judgement before God and I pray that i get to meet all of you haters of Jesus on that day.... You are going to be in for a massive surprise or a million.
I just watched all 3 hrs of it and found it very interesting! Makes me more greatful for even having my King James Bible...off to watch the sequel :)
It's just history people. You can't change if just because you don't like it. This is the churches history - true church & false apostate church. Learn a little!
Paul Leonard's problem is in his last paragraph.... "I'm a protestant seminarian".
The Jesuits took over the Seminaries long ago.
Though Paul may be well educated.... he is educated in the wrong stuff.
This Chris Pinto Documentary is VERY good... though a little dry.
I suggest watching number two in the three part series.... TARES AMONG THE WHEAT.... first.
THAT one is very fascinating and will peak your interest to then watch LAMP IN THE DARK.
I only hope that Chris survives long enough to produce #3 in this series.
Too much truth about the RCC will get a lot of attention from the Jesuits and another dead body means absolutely nothing to them.
@ Bob Roberts, thanks for this comment and I totally agree with your point. @truthquest absolutely right...I find amazing how can most of you guys post some comments without going through the whole doc. I have watched this one and the sequel - Tares amount the wheat (another 3 hours) and I just loved it and reminds me how the enemy has gone this far to twist the gospel and persecuted those who believed in it... Thanks to Christian pinto for this wonderful documentary..
And, btw, the Catholic church is NOT a Christian religion. It goes against so much scripture, which Catholics are told not to try to read or understand. That is because they want your faith to be in your priest, who is to teach you, and they know that if you get into scripture, and ask God to teach you, that you will find, that Most of what the Catholic church teaches comes from Scripture that they have mis interpreted and taken out of context. When you read scripture, Please read in context. There are some great internet tools, like blueletterbible.org where you can do word searches...if you come across a verse you don't understand, you can type in the keywords,and other verses with similar phrases will come up. YOu can also look up each word in the original Greek or Hebrew that Scripture was given to us in. (using Lexicon or Strong's in the tools section).
I am going to take one topic to show you what I mean about the Catholic church. You have priests. Who you deem as the nearest to God. But Scripture tells us that 'Christ is our high priest" (Hebrews) and there is "ONE mediator (go between) between man and God, the man Jesus Christ" (I Timothy 2:5). He is our go between...it is our sins that are placed on Him, and He presents us as forgiven before the Father.
My prayer is that everyone on this page becomes a seeker of truth, and not merely man's opinion.
So, I haven't seen this film. But I know of a few people who have dug into history to prove the Bible to be untrue. They found it, instead, to be quite true. Lee Strobel being one of them...he was an athiest and an investigative reporter for the Chigaco Sun (or Tribune...can't remember which).
I don't know where you get your ideas about Christianity...probably from the biased Media, or from extremists who I am embarrassed that I share the same name with, because that is NOT what Christ has called us to.
I am also not going to argue and debate with you, but I do know, that every time an archaelogist puts his spade in the ground and uncovers something from Biblical times, it ALWAYS, supports Scripture.
To the person who thinks that Christians are trying to achieve diety, you have your religions wrong. NO ONE can EVER achieve diety. That comes from Mormon ideology, and that whole religion is a cult. Christians desire to be more like Christ in character, but we will never achieve diety, and that is never taught in scripture that we will...the idea is there, because Satan himself wanted to be like God and was kicked out of heaven because of his pride and rebellion.
I am not a theologian, but I have spent my life studying and living by Scripture...and even when I questioned it most, I asked God Himself to reveal truth to me and He did. YOu cannot dispute my personal experience, and I am not exaggerating. God is a God of truth. And He promises in His word, the Bible, that if "you seek ME, you will find ME, when you seek for ME with ALL your heart."
So, if you are searching for truth, ask the author of truth to reveal Himself to you, to make Himself known, HE WILL, because that is what He is all about. And while there are times that He has poured out His wrath throghout history, what you find predominately about Him in Scripture, and in real time life, is that He is loving, forgiving, gracious and kind.
I don't know what all of you are out to prove to each other, but the God and 'religion' I KNOW, is NOT the god or the 'religion' that you all have been talking about.
God is not calling men to religion. When He was alive, on the earth, in human flesh, we call him, Jesus, he, in fact, rebuked the religion that He himself instituted because the leaders weren't getting it. They were leading their own people away from God because of the way they were practicing their religion ( in the spirit of it all). God wants a personal love relationship with you.
I highly recommend that you go to you tube and find "Church without Religion" or Andrew Farley and find the kind of Christianity that the Bible really teaches. A Christianity that is about love, forgiveness (complete), and grace.
And by the way...my guess is that each one of you are angry at God about something that has happened in your life. I have been there. But my conclusion, and Scripture teaches, that the bad things that happen in this world are because of sin which brings illness, death, tragedy. Those things are not part of God's plan. However, in spite of the terrible things that can happen in our world, He offers His hand to walk with us, to give us strength, to carry us when we are too weak to put one step in front of the other. So the evil is because of man's own sinfulness...that is something that we as a race brought upon ourselves. God's love and grace says, in spite of your sinfulness, I offer forgiveness, and I will be your strength and your rock.
So I ask you...are you really wanting to hang on to all the lies that you have been told about religion or by athiests, or are you TRULY wanting to embrace truth, whatever that is? Because you pray to and ask God to make HImself real to you, He will. He desires to have a personal relationship with you...no matter what your life history is, no matter how sinful you think you are. God is big enough and loving enough and gracious enough to forgive you of all you have ever done, no matter how bad. He tells us in His word that he removes our sins far from us, when we depend on Him for forgivenss... He will teach you how you can be forgiven, if you seek Him in sincerity.
There are two kinds of religions in the world.
One teaches that you have to do x,y,z to get to heaven, whether it's church attendance, tithe, religious journeys, cutting yourself, be good to others, etc. Almost ALL religions fall into this category.
Christianity, and the Bible, teach that we can do NOTHING to earn God's favor. That we are sinners, enemies of God. The ONLY thing we have to do, is trust Christ as our SAviour...His sacrifice on the cross satisfied the JUST demands of a Holy Judge (God) for sin...all sin. But it is only applied to you personally when you by faith, believe that the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus is the required sacrifice to pay the penalty for your sin. That's it. You can do nothing. You cannot be good enough ("all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags"). Only Jesus, the sinless sacrifice, was good enough to do anything about YOUR sin debt, because he lived a perfect sinless life. He was God in the flesh, come to pay a debt that you and I could not pay. And He did it, because He loves you and wants to have a personal relationship with YOU!
So...what are you going to do..are you going to continue to be angry at God, or will you seek Him in truth? He is faithful. He will teach you...He will guide you, if you ask Him.
By the summary, I know this documentary is fictional propaganda, based upon the foundation of bias rather than reality.. The Catholic Church never forbade someone from Reading the Bible- but the person would have to know how to read (& thanks to the Catholic Church, the poor gradually obtained literacy), & would have to read at the Church (as each Bible was meticulously hand written by monks, & reviewed by other highly educated monks for accuracy, as the printing presses did not yet exist, thus making a copy invaluable to a community).
It is also a lie to claim the Catholic Church forbade the translation in the vehicular, or that a translation in English did not yet exist - by the Long winded rhetoric preface in the King James Bible (which was included until the late 19th century/ early 20th), it even states that the Church had such translations, & was angry that England had to go through the Church for permission; which even that is hypocritical & obvious (again, by the preface words), as it was forbidden to translate w/o the King's authority the KJV. The Church gave permission for many translations in the vehicular, but the Church had to insure that no wolf changed the actual words or poor translation changed meaning. Pretty obvious WHY the Church would desire such oversight- look at the nonsense translations we have today, even a 'pro-homosexual' version. And we see how quickly Luther removed 7 entire books, & added "Authorized" to give the impression of authority that the lay people knew the Church had held for centuries..
All of these people would not have believed in Jesus or god had it not been for the indoctrination by the Catholic Church.
So they rise up and go against the Catholic Church. Calling it the anti christ. Solipsism at work by the masses of the brain washed.
The propaganda aspects of the first 24 minutes are pretty bad, the Albigensian’s are the Cathars… the guy also mentions Donatist as good guys, the Walensians are from the Middle Ages, etc. They try to make Protestants/ bible believers from heretics! I suggest skipping the first 24 minutes.
This is sad because Protestant Reformers themselves normally point to Benedict, Augustine, etc. and stress that they are simply aligning with the early church till 500 (which had Bibles in different languages). Honestly, I think the producers are some kind of Baptist/ Mennonites. Pointing out the humanistic pro-Classical era bias of the reformation could actually have nailed the pro-medieval Catholics a LOT harder, but have an anti-Catholic in bias that is too strong for them to see the separations pre- and post- Pope Gregory I.
I am all for sola-scriptoria, but the film is too biased and ignores that there where darn good non-biblical patristic theological and even some medieval theological arguments used by the Reformers and perhaps even more tellingly that there where Pro-Bible arguments among them too.
But the politics here won’t allow the producers to admit text criticism started in A.D. 300 etc. Google the producers and you see all kinds of meaningless junk documentaries like one against sinaiticus when ½ of the times I see “txt. א 1 “ in most Greek New Testaments anyways (that’s real technical, means they take the correction in the margin, not the original text). The whole “lets wail on the vulgate” section is also skewed a bit unfair, it wasn’t corrupt on purpose (at least not by the 15th century monks).
This really comes out when they blame bad vulgate readings for bad Catholic theology, when I think the Catholic theology is simply pure paganism given proof texts.
It just goes on and on.
I'm a protestant seminarian and don't dig rome, even think the Pope is an Anti-Christ, but these guys go to left field.
youtube walter Veith total onslaught series and see all your errors vanquished right before your ears and eyes . this is the only documentary that has the truth . while all the rest are fraudulent.
this video so well done and beyond that has instructed,captivated and opened my eyes those words describe in a minimum the power of the information provided ,it all makes sense now who is behind the ever darkening darkness quickly descending down upon us ...the evil would be incomprehensible but for the realization of "WHOM" is actually behind this grand scheme the sinister,demonic other-dimensional being ,the "mastermind" of upcoming fulfillment of prophecy rev.9/11 you've done quite a service GOD directed my friends thank you i eagerly await more material from you
Are there any Roman Catholics here who can tell me the offical Roman Catholic Church's position on this documentary?
Catholic Church/Papacy/Vatican is The Antichrist/Beast/Little Horn power of Revelation and Daniel
Who thought to change God's Holy Times and Laws
Who was drunk on the blood of Christs Saints and martyrs
Who wears Purple and Scarlet
Who Sits on 7 Hills & also many waters
Who's mouth speaks Great Blasphemy constantly (daily) towards God
Simon Magus is the Father and Mother of The ROMAN CATHOLIC SYSTEM
Simon Peter Never Went to Rome Jesus Commissioned Him to preach to the Jewish people
Simon Magus a Man Witch is Why The Catholic Church is Full of Every Pagan type of Worship Since Nimrod, in particular Sun Worship, Fertility worship and He married IT all to Christianity.
Simon Magus: Bones are The Bones in the Vatican Square worshiped as Simon Peter, Simon Magus Also claimed to be Christ Re-incarnated No-wonder The concept of a Vicar of Christ is still around today.....
The Catholic Church/Papal System/Vatican State is clearly the Antichrist/Whore 0f Babylon/Beast Power mentioned in the books of Daniel and Revelation
Drunk on the Blood of The Saints and Martyrs of Christ
Thought to Change God's Holy Times and Laws
Sits on 7 Hills
Controls and empowers the kings of the earth
Does Great Blasphemy in The sight of God
Home of every unclean Bird
Research Simon Magus The Man-witch who Married Paganism with Christianity He Is the Simon Peter who's bones are in The Vatican
Excellent...
The quick (Word) and the dead (religion).
Who is your Father?
Never ceases to amaze me how people
can be taken in by the fancies
of titles and garments.
Certainly not my idea of a documentary. It is clearly anti-catholic and makes claims in regard to Jesuits and even Abraham Lincoln which I suspect have dubious factual basis.
The roman catholics believe in salvation by Grace and works so its human and man working at salvation. The Bible teaches its by Grace through faith and this not of yourself it is the GIFT of God NOT by WORKS so no man can boast. -ephesian 2:8-9 so God the father calls you to the lord Jesus Christ, Jesus justifies you with his finished work on the cross and reconciles you to the Father, and at the same time the Holy spirit indwells you and seals you up. This is all Gods doing from begining to end and we get the benifit and he gets the Glory. I only boast in the Lord.
Salvation is free its a gift but it only comes through faith.....which he also gives you.
amen
The Dark Ages were the Dark Ages because of the hold of the bible, not in spite of it.
FILOSOFEM:
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
From: Julius Caesar
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
THE FAULT, DEAR BRUTUS, IS NOT IN OUR STARS,
BUT IN OURSELVES, THAT WE ARE UNDERLINGS. (1.2.135