HOW DARK WAS IT?

The Dark Ages is a term applied to the years 476 AD to 1300 (ca.) because during that era, there was, as one history wrote, a lack of any intellectual progress and a surplus of brutality. The Dark Ages were a time when Europe fell into a swamp dominated by the iron fist of the Roman Catholic Church.

LOCK IT UP!

The Dark Ages were a time when the the Roman Catholic Church locked the Bible away from the common man and even if he somehow could come across a Bible, he couldn't read it because it was in Latin. He was dependent on what his priest told him the Bible both said and meant.

Roman Catholic theology of the Dark Ages manipulated the people through fear and hope, a control that made the Dark Ages exceptionally dark as the following narrative will attest.  Countries and cultures go dark where there is no Bible.

 If we begin with what the people were taught about the Trinity, we find that they were told that God the Father was all about thunder and judgment. But His Son was One who could intercede on one's behalf and make His Father not quite so stern and unbending.

But the Son might be found to be implacable at times, so He would need to be softened up by Mary, His mother. And if the supplicant played his cards right, Mary might cheat God the Father and the Devil on behalf of the one who prayed to her. But if Mary was remote at the time, there was Anna, her mother, and a person could go to her for help. Wait. What?

THE BIBLE NOWHERE SAYS

Is any of that in the Bible? Oh, we forget; as far as the people were concerned, there was no Bible where the common man might go and search and find the truth. It had been locked away. If he could have gone to the Book, he would have found that he was being fed lie after lie after lie by the very ones he trusted. That's why hierarchy of the swamp fought hammer and tong to keep the Bible locked up.

But if the could only have a Bible he could read, he would find the truth that God the Father and God the Son have the same essence of love, holiness, and justice (et al.); the truth that Mary is not an intercessor; the truth that Mary was not a perpetual virgin (from Jerome, 383 AD); the truth that Mary was not bodily taken to heaven (Defined as dogma by the Pope; Nov. 1950); the truth that Anna had not and has no part in such a  lineup. They would come to understand that Mary was not and is not the Queen of heaven, has no exalted place in Heaven, and does not enjoy the closest access to Jesus and God the Father. Such concepts are nowhere taught in Scripture.

THE DAWN

The Roman Catholic system's hold on the people of Europe and England began to shatter when Tyndale, Wycliffe, and Luther took up their quills and began to translate the Bible for the common Englishman and German.

As those three men began to move quills across paper, the Light was coming into the Dark Ages!