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When mankind needs a nudge, God has many things in His arsenal to wake us up.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the fourteenth century, John Wycliffe was a \u201cthorn in the flesh\u201d of the established Church. William Courtenay, the Archbishop of Canterbury even went as far as to brand him a heretic. So what heinous doctrine was Wycliffe responsible for, to incur such ire?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was simply a person who said it how it was. He looked at the clergy and wondered why they were so well-off and comfortable. He looked at their teaching and asked where in the Bible was the veneration of saints, the use of sacraments, transubstantiation and other practices? His answer to this was to create a list of twenty four dodgy teachings promoted by the Church and <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When mankind needs a nudge, God has many things in His arsenal to wake us up. In the fourteenth century, John Wycliffe was a \u201cthorn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
then to produce a Bible that the common man could actually read, a Bible written in English. For this he was hounded by the authorities and declared a heretic. After all, if the ordinary person could see what the Bible actually said, then there would be a lot of the clergy with a lot of explaining to do.<\/p>\n