It's amazing how everyone gets the faith all wrong. Just... be a good person; trust on Jesus to save you. That's it. Nothing more to it. Get baptized, because it's a command, and take communion because it's our sacrifice.

I don't think it's a myth. If I had to choose a faith between the Inquisitors or those being Inquired, I'd choose the Anabaptists. Just like Sir Thomas Moore and Joan of Arc were true martyrs, so was John Bunyan and many of the Anabaptists put to death.

Reading it, you start to understand the faith a bit more. It's not Dogmas and Heresies that damn you, but rather your actions toward your fellow man. Many of the Inquisitors had perfect Theology, but they put men to death who were living the Gospel better than anyone had since the days of the Apostles.

Many were put to death too. It wasn't only the Government putting people to death. Catholics in Germany and Spain used to mob Protestants, and Catholics in England used to be put out onto the street, and killed and martyred. 

I stand on the side of the Christian who's on the receiving end of abuse. Protestant, Catholic or Orthodox, what have you.

[T]hey did persecute people for making translations. Let's not throw away our history for politics. The exact quote was they didn't want Bibles translated into "Vulgar tongues."

“Christ gave His Gospel to the clergy and the learned doctors of the Church so that they might give it to the laity and to weaker persons, according to the message of the season and personal need. But this Master John Wyclif translated the Gospel from Latin into the English—the Angle not the angel language. And Wyclif, by thus translating the Bible, made it the property of the masses and common to all and more open to the laity, and even to women who were able to read … And so the pearl of the Gospel is thrown before swine and trodden underfoot and what is meant to be the treasure both of clergy and laity is now become a joke of both. The jewel of the clergy has been turned into the sport of the laity, so that what used to be the highest gift of the clergy and the learned members of the Church has become common to the laity.” -- Henry Knighton

“That pestilent and most wretched John Wycliffe, of damnable memory, a child of the old devil, and himself a child or pupil of Antichrist, who, while he lived, walking in the vanity of his mind—with a few other adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, which I shall not give—crowned his wickedness by translating the Scriptures into the mother tongue.” -- Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel.

Fox's book of martyrs says that reading the Bible to the Papacists was akin to Witchcraft and Heresy.

"The principal accusation against those who are subject to this tribunal is heresy, which comprises all that is spoken, or written, against any of the articles of the creed, or the traditions of the Roman Church. The inquisition likewise takes cognizance of such as are accused of being magicians, and of such who read the Bible in the common language, the Talmud of the Jews, or the Alcoran of the Mahometans." - Fox's Book of Martyrs  Chapter 5 par. 8.

{...}His heritage was Jewish. He was pure blood Jewish, being born from both lines of the King David. He was a full blood Jew. But, you’re right, that did create confusion when He lived in Galilee.

“Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?”

“They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.”

“Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?”

"And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see."

It’s a good thing, because it shows the Gospels aren’t forgeries. Had they been, they would have hidden this, and made Jesus a resident of Bethlehem. However, there’s good reason to believe Mary is the one who accounted where Jesus was born, just based on how memory works, and what the Gospel of Luke says.

That’s probably also why Jesus had such a soft spot for Samaritans, as Galilee was their historical residence. Jesus is a nuanced Person, and seeing the Gospel of John, you see an incredible picture of Who Jesus was, and how He was perceived, it can only be from a witness.

But we know He was a full Jew, or He wouldn’t have been allowed in the temple, where we know He taught.

I’d honestly say the person who doesn’t believe in God knows the same morals as the one who does. God’s not there to define right from wrong—as if He were, then there’d be no such thing as right from wrong.

Inherently, a way is going to be the best way, that gives everyone a shot at life, gives everyone satisfaction, and gives everyone a pathway to a better life. What way is that? The Ten Commandments. The first five are spiritual laws, giving reverence to the Judge and our stewards, and also telling us to forgive debts and rest. The last five are telling us how to treat our neighbor, so as not to take from them or deprive from them things that make people happy.

And when you know that, you start to see the beauty of the Scripture, in all that it says. The Prophets are the Heaven and Hell you get from obeying or disobeying the Law of Christ, the New Testament is the New Law of Conscience, and the Means by which God has forgiven us. The Old Testament—the Torah and History—is man’s failure to accomplish salvation for the Earth, and also the Law that condemns the world for its iniquity.

Understanding that, you start to see God is very fair, giving you an out as the world was too hard for us to do it on our own. We needed God’s help from the beginning, so therefore, God gave us His only Begotten Son, and He died on a Roman Cross in Crucifixion, was Buried in the tomb, raised on the third day, and then ascended into heaven after bodily manifesting to thousands of people, of which those people who sometimes knew Him as intimately as a Brother or Best friend, died believing this.

So, yes… Genesis is hard to understand. Yes, we’re not going to have all the answers, but even Genesis has important laws that make sense. The first chapter, tells us all things had a beginning, and God was that beginning, and He created the world, through whatever means He did, LORD Jehovah-Jireh Jesus Christ is the God of All Creation. Adam and Eve are a parable about the age of accountability, and how we need to be tender toward the youth and their sins, and not punish them with the full weight of their sins. As they don’t become accountable for their crimes, until they have knowledge of it, and full knowledge of it. That’s also why we’re a little laxed toward people in the 14 - 23 year category, as they’re not fully developed yet, either, though they receive less scrutiny than someone who is a full grown adult. The flood teaches us that Man has a bad streak, and their thoughts are evil, and God was sorry for making us because humanity was just so wicked and cruel—and He says He’ll never destroy the Earth again, which you have to think maybe it’s man and his sin nature that will destroy it, and that’s actually the book of Revelation and what it’s about.

And that’s the whole of it… scripture has a lot of important things to say about life, and what’s required of us. Like Cain and Abel, Cain is a gardener, and tries to please God through his sweat, while Abel pleases God through the activity of Love and Shepherding His flock, and nurturing them. As Abel’s sacrifice is better, because it comes from genuine love, and not from will wishing, or self willed motives. And also we understand why Jesus says “Judge not lest you be judged,” because it’s the knowledge of Good and Evil—judgment—that man attained from eating the fruit, and why we inherited destruction. Or Sodom and Gomorrah, tells us about licentious cities where every crime exists, and their judgment. The Tower of Babel tells us about how people have different philosophies, languages and narratives, that makes them unable to understand each other, and also Pentacost teaches us, that being Christians, we can have access to all knowledge, language and truth and be able to bridge the gaps through truth. Abraham’s story is about faith, and teaching us that God does not demand Human Sacrifice, as He’ll provide a sacrifice, Jacob’s story teaches us that you don’t have to be remarkable to be loved by God, and can actually live a very passive life. Isaac too. Joseph teaches us about the victim, being badly treated for nothing he did wrong, and how women can have absolute power over a man in this way, to destroy him utterly, but God will raise him up above his enemies. It also teaches us to be wary of women who lie about rape.

There’s a ton of stuff in the story of Exodus, too… How God will deliver the oppressed and set them free, even when they don’t deserve it. As God says to Israel, “It’s not for your righteousness I give you these lands, but for the nations dwelling among it, and their sin.” Of which, you can read about their sins, that the nations practiced all lying abomination, and that’s why God delivered it into the hands of Israel. The parable of Babylon sacking Jerusalem, is about a nation favored by God, losing its favor, and being punished for its crimes as it no longer has equity, and dishonors its sabbaths by making everyone work to the bone and have no rest, as that’s the only way they have an economy. That and also rampant sexual perversion and they sin by giving their good freely to the surrounding nations, which they gave their property and money and trade to the other nations for nothing, and this made them poor and susceptiable to Babylonian Rule. Something the US is doing, too, which it shouldn’t be.