Such irony. William Tyndale, who translated the New Testament into English, managed to print 18,000 copies of the New Testament, and was working on translating the Old Testament into English when he was captured — by authorities of the church and accused of heresy — was executed by strangulation and then burned at the stake at Vilvoorde in 1536.

William Tyndale knew the Word of God was so important that he was willing to die for the Word to be given to Everyman to read, to come to an understanding of Who Jesus is, Who God is, Who the Holy Spirit is, and how vital Scripture is to life. To life eternal in faith and obedience to the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach.

While almost every home in America has at least one copy of the Holy Bible, many homes have more than one copy, and the Word of God sits idle. Closed. Collecting dust. Its cover never grasped by a human hand, it pages never touched and turned, its words never absorbed into the human spirit, mind, and soul through human eyes and heart.

Such irony.

As almost 6, 7, out of every 10 Americans profess to be Christian.

Wow.

Holy, holy, holy ‘R U.S.?

Hardly.

Yes, Scripture alone. Sola Scriptura. Christ alone. By faith alone.

We all need to repent and live in the Word daily. Daily. Eating, drinking, ingesting, living on the Word of God!

In such a time as this.

Yes, “Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” For Your Word is the only truth, the only real light in this world, and without us carrying it daily, always with us, in us, we are in the darkness of this world.

Your Word is also UNCHANGEABLE. Let none of us for a moment think Scripture is irrelevant to the times, antiquated. It is we who do not keep pace with the Word, not the Word that does not keep pace with us.

We allow the world to muddy the connection, the communication, and fail to understand that we must keep pace with the Word of God, not the world, and we haven’t been doing so.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Tuesday, May 19th, 2026

Why Scripture Alone? — Sola Scriptura

When the Locked Door Opens

May 19, 2026

Reprinted from Bible Portal

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. — Psalm 119:105

Into the Word

There was a silence that lasted a thousand years.

Ordinary believers in medieval Europe had never held a Bible in their hands. The Scriptures, written in Latin, belonged to the priests alone. Worship was conducted in a language no one could understand. To encounter God, you had to go through a priest. To know the truth, you needed the Church’s permission. For a thousand years, the Bible was kept under lock and key.

And yet that lock should never have existed at all.

One Word Changed a Thousand Years

When Jesus began his public ministry, the first words he proclaimed were these: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” In the original Greek, the word for repentance is metanoia (μετάνοια) — to turn around, to change direction. It describes a fundamental inward transformation: turning away from sin and toward God.

But the Latin Bible used by the medieval Church translated this word as “do penance.” A change of heart became an outward religious act. One word shifted, and the entire meaning of salvation shifted with it. Instead of meeting God directly, people were required to pass through a system the Church had built.

The man who discovered this was a Dutch scholar named Erasmus. Comparing the Greek original with the Latin translation, he confirmed the error. That discovery became one of the sparks that ignited the Reformation.

Without Scripture, We Cannot Know Jesus

When the Reformers cried Sola Scriptura, it was not simply an anti-Catholic slogan. It was an answer to the most fundamental questions of faith.

How do we know who Jesus is? How do we know what salvation means? How do we know what God requires of us?

There is only one answer. Scripture alone. No tradition, however ancient. No voice, however persuasive. Nothing can stand above Scripture. The moment we drift from it — no matter how moving, no matter how compelling it sounds — we have left the ground of truth.

The Day the Lock Broke Open

When Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1450s, the first book printed in mass quantities was the Bible. When Luther translated the New Testament into German in 1522, an ordinary German farmer could read Scripture for himself. Once the Bible was open, people began to see with their own eyes how far what the Church had been teaching had drifted from what Scripture actually said.

The cost was high. William Tyndale, who translated the Bible into English, was put to death for it in 1536. To him, Scripture was worth more than his own life.

In 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd discovered ancient manuscripts in a cave near the Dead Sea, in the wilderness of Qumran. Among what would later be called the Dead Sea Scrolls was the complete book of Isaiah. When scholars compared it to the Isaiah we read today, the result was stunning. A scroll copied in the second century BC had been preserved with virtually the same content and meaning as the Bible in our hands today.

Empires fell. Wars came and went. Persecution never stopped. And yet the Word survived. This is not something human effort can explain. It is evidence that God himself has guarded his Word.

Conclusion

We live in a time when anyone, anywhere, can read the Bible on a smartphone. The same Scripture that William Tyndale gave his life to translate is now sitting in the palm of your hand.

And yet this is precisely where the crisis of today’s Church lives. Not in a lack of access. In a loss of conviction. Scripture has been quietly moved from the center — replaced by the logic of growth, the pull of trends, the comfort of what we already believe. The result is a church that looks full but has lost its power. That looks large but has lost its roots.

This is why the Holy Bible exists

The one source that has outlasted every empire, survived every attempt to silence it, and arrived in our hands virtually unchanged after twenty-five centuries.

Scripture alone. Not as a slogan. Not as a theological badge. But as the living conviction that shapes everything we do here — every word written, every devotion sent, every morning we open this page together.

The Word has kept itself. Now it keeps us.