Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man.
He paid with his life.
Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man.
He paid with his life.
I guess the Islamofacists are about 600 years behind us. Obama has a horse, and it is high.
I’ll give a listen to Dvorak’s Hussite Overture tonight in honor of Hus.
When churchmen use murder as a tool of persuasion, its a good sign that the Holy Spirit is no where present among them.
Can’t have all them christians getting uppity..
They could learn that they don’t even need an organized church..
Or Priests.. Cardinals or Popes.. Pastors or even Deacons..
or you know.. vestments, wafers, statues, pews or crosses..
sorry to say it.. BUT God would be enough..
“In 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” His ashes were gathered and cast into the nearby Rhine River.” - John Hus
“Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention”
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By then, the heresies of Rome had multiplied to include selling indulgences and church offices (simony).
Instead of repentance and change before the Father, they murdered Hus.
Instead of repentance and change before the Father, they tried to murder Luther.
Today, the beat goes on. No repentance and presiding over a membership that largely doesn’t attend. In South America, they are hemorrhaging members that are responding to God’s Holy Spirit as He calls them to Christ. Praise to God.
A very good reminder of a great man - Hus - and an evil church. May God protect us from hardening our necks to repentance before Him when we are led astray.
Not at all.
When Hus attacked the morality of Catholic priests and pressed for wider access to the scripture, he was not only accepted, but invited to the ecumenical synod of 1405.
He ran afoul of Church authorities on the doctrine of “impanation.” That is that the bread of the Mass remains bread, and the wine remains wine. Catholicism teaches that each the bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body, blood, soul and divinity.
This may seem like a fairly dry academic point to charge someone with heresy. But, on the basis of the heresy of impanation, Hus asserted that the Sacrifice of the Mass was invalid when communicants received only bread or only wine. Since only priests could handle the Holy Sacrifice, this meant that at least two priests were needed at any time to offer mass: one to distribute what was in the form of wine, the other to distribute what was in the form of bread. This in turn meant that according to Hus, only those in the great cities had access to salvation, while those in the parishes of solo priests were damned to eternal hellfires... including the priest.
This was shortly after the University of Prague expelled all foreign faculty.
Thus, Hus had a basis for claiming that only he and his university elite were saved, whereas all those in the countryside who clung to traditional Catholicism were damned to eternal Hell.
While various Hussites taught exactly that while in his company, and it’s the logical conclusion from his theology, Hus claimed he didn’t teach that per se. Thus, when sentenced by the Catholic Church, he claimed, “God is my witness that the things charged against me I never preached.” Maybe not, we’ll never know. But he hardly effectively opposed his own followers from drawing and promulgating those very errors.
If you knock off the year, I wonder how many students on college campus’ would sign a petition condemning it and to have him freed?
“Hus wanted to bring the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man. He paid with his life.”
That’s false. If you’ve read the charges against him - and I bet you haven’t - he was not accused, charged or anything else in regard to bringing “the Bible, the sacred texts of Christianity, to the common man” because there was no such “crime” or “heresy” for him to be charged with. Bible translation in Prague was not a legal issue.
His heresies concerned things like Utraquism - which no Protestant today believes in anyway - and Dominion.
I am in Prague right now, it’s a National Holiday here.
Thank you for posting this reminder. May I be as faithful as John Hus to the Word of God.