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1. Yes, he seems to have fallen in line with the Hewitt analysis: you don’t have to vote for Romney, but don’t write him off just because he’s Mormon. But what I’m really curious about is what Beckwith and his move to Catholicism has to do with your choice to use the Geneva Bible for reading and study.

2. Dave, I am being reactionary just for the summer. I want to root my church family in Idaho Falls thoroughly in church history. The Geneva Bible was the beloved scriptures of the persecuted English Protestants and Puritans.

   Queen “Bloody” Mary burned John Rogers in front of his wife and eleven children as her first martyr. Many fled England to Geneva. Under William Whittingham, the Geneva scholars finished what William Tyndale almost accomplished before he was imprisoned . . . a direct translation from the Greek and Hebrew. He had been stopped in Chronicles.

   The Church of Rome despised the Geneva Bible, hated the marginal notes. The pope was called a beast from the pit of hell. Not too flattering.

   In response, the Church of England put forth the Bishop’s Bible. It was a flop with the people.

   Finally, some moderate Puritans suggested a new version . . . so Anglicans and Puritans worked together in compromise on the King James Version.

   But the Geneva Bible is the Bible of the zealous Puritans and pilgrims. They hated being bound with Romanish trappings for worship.

   I believe strongly that there are huge differences between historical evangelicalism and contemporary Roman Catholicism.