How to explain disbelief in the all-important Bible?

Hi there Amen,
I think your OP has been fairly well answered by others, so I respectfully suggest that you consider your question in reverse. Instead of

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So why was it so important to be translated, copied, and is found in every book store, library, etc?

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why not ask why the early attempts to translate the bible into English were suppressed by the church?

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Mutate and Survive

Hi jar,
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For most of the history of Bible of the Western Canon, it was not accessible to the majority of worshipers. Costs to create a hand drawn copy were simply too high for the average person to manage and frankly, production times were so long that the supply was severely limited.

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It was only after the invention of mechanical automated printing and the translations into the vernacular that the Bible became something that was distributed in any quantity or available to the general public.

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That is all quite true, but it glosses over events like the execution of William Tyndale, for the crime of printing English translations of the bible. I'm not arguing with your point, I just think it only fair to place these events in the context of the church's opposition to letting the laity get their hands on those holy books.

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Mutate and Survive

Fair enough, but you seemed (unintentionally I'm sure)to be giving the impression that the bible has always been as widely circulated as technology permitted, which would also be oversimplified.

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Mutate and Survive

I'm not sure about that. Most of the religious people I've spoken to believe not so much because "it is written", but out of a sense of personal revelation and/or closeness to "god". All the holy books do, IMHO, is give these feelings something to attach to.

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Mutate and Survive