How to Bind a Perfect-bound Book

The Book - Introduction

      

     I have wanted to write an historical fiction taken from original documents housed in the British Museum; and letters of the era and some by the main character, as well as other original papers.

     The story would accompany a kid's history club of the founding of the United States, beginning when the Founding Father's ancestors held the first Bible, of their very own, in their own language, and did not fear death; the first Bibles translated into English for the common man.

     Many details, of course, will be educated guessing, but the main details come from the sources listed above.

     I would like to share the story with the Readers here, as it has to do with some lesser known details as to how we became a Free nation,

     The story begins in 1500s England because if we start at the American Revolution far too little is known of who these men were; what was their background; were they educated; was their belief in God some flash-in-the-pan fad and were they sincere; what authority did they have to put together a government and how good was that government; how much of that government survived until today?

     I promise no time frame as my hours are demanded elsewhere.

     My hope is that you will enjoy the reading as much as I have marveled in the research of these remarkably courageous men and women who gave more than their all to give us this nation. Their work and prayers were for us, their children's, children's, children, to live under a freedom the world had never before experienced, and their hope was that we would stay close to Almighty God who would lead us to retain and maintain this nation in Righteousness and Goodwill toward our neighbors, and give all honor to Him.

Scientific Revolution of the Reformation...Isaac Newton

ISAAC NEWTON

   The story of Isaac Newton learning the law of gravity when an apple fell on his head has been told for generations; however, behind this little tidbit of information is the story of one of the great geniuses, it is said, of all time. His life’s work has been the forerunner of our scientific leaps and bounds today, and would not have been possible with the 1450 invention of Gutenberg’s movable printing press, and the 1530’s translation of the Bible into the English language.

   Isaac Newton was born to a prosperous farmer in 1642 or 1643, in Lincolnshire, England, into the middle of Europe’s ‘’Scientific Revolution’’, whose masters of science had already included Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler; as if Galileo’s mantel had fallen on Newton, Newton was born the year Galileo died. The work done by these men, mainly Newton, made possible the bursting inventions of our time!

    Newton first attended the King’s School, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, founded in 1329; his uncle, a graduate of Cambridge, Trinity College, saw genius in him and suggested this college for his nephew.

   Newton interests and abilities were remarkably varied and mastered and he was often considered the most brilliant scientist who ever lived. He invented calculous, used his discoveries in physics to calculate the motions of the planets and earth-bound objects; found wonders in color and light in optics, invented a reflecting telescope; discovered interpreted laws of motion and gravity; and much more in the areas of math, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry. He often studied and wrote 18 hours a day for weeks at a time, eating and sleeping little, greatly affecting his health. It is said that he wrote upwards of 700,000 words on all his inventions and findings.

   As remarkable as all his works were, and the influence on so much until today, there is something nearly always ignored, yet extremely vital to knowing the man, the times, the influence on science, and the great destruction its absence creates, and that is the approximately 1.3 million words he wrote concerning the Bible and faith in Jesus Christ; nearly twice as much as his scientific works!  He read the Bible daily throughout his lifetime, and likely made notes every day.

   Directly because of the Reformation and the first readings of the Bible in English, our lives today have been impacted to the point of living in a nation of freedom and nearly unlimited opportunity; everyday conveniences, health care, manufacturing, and every other thing that touches our lives today.



Sources:   Kingdom Treasure Ministries:  http://reformation.org/newton.html

Christianity Today:  http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-1600/translator-william-tyndale-strangled-and-burned-11629961.html

Holistic Numerical Methods:   http://nm.mathforcollege.com/anecdotes/newton.html

Christianity.com:  http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-1600/translator-william-tyndale-strangled-and-burned-11629961.html

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What is it...really?

~~~ We don't understand the judgement of God. We think He is angry at us, and we think so because we read only superficially in the Bible. God hates sin, but He loves His humanity, His Precious Creation.
~~~ Judgement is a Great Grace and Mercy!
~~~ Sin in a person must be judged, and if a person rejects God's offer of salvation, that sin stays with the person who then must die because of his own choice. Do we agree with this, that if a person rejects Jesus that he will die in his sin, as Scripture says?
~~~ Judgement comes as a warning to Repent and turn toward His gracious and extreme Love! Look at the natural disasters in America lately...much disruption and loss of property...but extremely low loss of life!!
~~~ How full of Grace He is!! We have let Roe v Wade stand for more than 40 years, yet, He still sends us warning!!
~~~ We must now heed that warning, and pray for our nation, and for the Church to be awakened by His Gentle kiss for His Bride to walk with Him to bring Joy and Life to those who will listen!!!
~~~ Worship, and turn toward Him in certain Hope of Kindness and tenderness!!!

Tender and Healing Gifts of Friendship

    Life throws so much at us that it can, sometimes, become over-whelming. We can shut down our emotions and just go through the motions of doing what is necessary; we can perform our duties and if not careful, we can lose our sense of what our limits are mentally and physically, which can lead to a shutting down of some of our thought processes, or a physical exhaustion beyond what simple rest can provide, both of which can escape our understanding in the midst of it all.
   It was at this point in my life in which God sent me a Friend who walked with me for some years, never giving up, always caring, always praying, never walking away when I was so broken by decades of giving with too little given in return. No, I did not understand how broken I had become, and perhaps my Friend didn't either, yet there was a realization of a need of a loyalty that went beyond the comforts of mere acquaintance, and sometimes much more stable and solid to stand beside. Prayer, deep prayer, was, and is, the Greatest Gift, through the Eyes of Jesus.
   God sent someone through whom He could express His care, and His healing of my soul.
   I simply want to say that Friends are gifts of Kindness, Mercy, and Grace from our God; for God to express to us His infinite caring for us in ways we would not expect.
   I want to be that Friend in return. And want to encourage readers to understand the vital roles they can play in the lives of others. This Friendship has been God's means of turning my life from brokenness to knowing the Tender Grace of our God as a Living Reality, as a Life-Fountain of Grace that is Beautiful beyond what our imaginations can conceive in our world. Truly, God's Grace is of another world, it is of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, and His desire is that we love one another so deeply that we can see the Love God has for us. Self-sacrifice, as Jesus gave of Himself for us. This is His two Great Commandments played out in our lives, as His Holy Spirit is in us to will and to do of His Good Pleasure: ''Love God with all that is in us; and Love Others as we Love ourselves''. To let our hearts be opened to Jesus, to trust Him to Love us as we deeply desire to be loved. Jesus can and will and desires that emotional connection we all crave, yet find so elusive! We were meant to be Loved by Him in ways that fulfill our Greatest Longings! We were meant to be filled with Divine Love, then pour that Love into one another! Love, True Love, not lust. To give, not take.
   He just says, ''Trust Me, I deeply want to saturate you in my Love; Trust Me, I Am Gentle and Tender of Heart; I Long to Give Tender, Pure Love to you; I paid the Price for your sin with My Blood on the Cross; I long to pour out My Gentle Love on you like a refreshing, warm, life-giving  summer rain; Trust Me, I Love you!'' 
   Thank you, my Friend, for taking me closer to Jesus!

9/11: Without the Reformation there would be no America

Why does it even matter?
  Because if we don't know this history it will be much too easy to lose the treasure we have been given by Almighty God, Creator of the Universe!
  Jesus Christ is the True Founder of America, and the evidence is seen all through the original documents of our early history.
  Our 1600's Founding Fathers came to our New World shores from the abusive thrones of England, where kings did as they pleased with their subjects and demanded the people worship God as the state dictated, or suffer all levels of persecution.
  Once here, they wanted to start fresh with the Church as a place of worship in which the world would see people worshiping Jesus Christ apart from the demands of the state. The Puritan's formation came in the Awakening that took place after the Bible was translated into the language of the people, and its free distribution among all the people. This is the first time in history in which the people could have a Bible of their own.
  Our Puritan Fore Father's, before leaving England, formed a full central government then founded a city in the New World which they named Boston, after the town they left in England. This governing body was the first of its kind in America, and was so successful that it is still in use today, with few modifications, in our local, state, and federal governments. Every part of this government was taken from the Bible, even that which we call Greek in origin.
  Their sons and grandsons wrote our Constitution and formed our government. As their Father's had done, all of our Constitution and form of government came from the Bible, and some, it seems, from the Greeks, which were also from Scripture.
  Knowing this, and related history, will give us understanding of the importance of preserving our nation at any and all costs. Our country was formed for the blessing of God's people, for spreading this history of Jesus Christ all over the world, and for bringing freedom to all nations..
  We must, with all the power of God in us, bring this history back into our public schools, where it was originally meant to be, for the purpose of keeping this history alive in the hearts and souls of every American!

500th Anniversary of the Reformation...Why the Celebration?

   This year marks 500 years since the official beginning of the Reformation.
   But what does that even mean? What were our past generations re-form-ing from, anyway?
 The church at Rome, in the 1330's, and centuries after, was a place of some of the world's greatest opulence while the common people starved and continued putting their pennies into the coffers of the clergy; and in the Middle Ages, some of the greatest atrocities against humanity, known as the Inquisition, was carried out by the church in Rome.
   The church in Rome claimed to represent Jesus Christ, but their abuses against all people, including Christians who wanted to honor Jesus Christ and His written Word, the Bible, clearly showed that many in the church at Rome knew nothing of Almighty God.
   The church at Rome had made laws that demanded the Bible be in the Latin language only, giving the excuse that if the common people could read Scripture they would make it ordinary and misused, instead of revered. In reality, If the common people knew God's Holy Words for themselves, they would know how abusive the church had been and the church would lose their income and place of honor.
   The church at Rome, in time, made it a hanging, or burning, offense, to possess even a singe page of the Bible; as one example, a man who was teaching his children the Lord's prayer in English was burned alive.
   Needless to say, the deterrent to disobeying the church at Rome was extreme; there were, however, some who had the courage and will to do the right thing by standing up to the mega monster clergy inside of this church.  We have their names and their stories because they were highly educated, with the Bible as their main source of learning. Their education was far more extensive and deeper than most any we know of today, which included, and was perhaps the majority of their studies, history and the ancient historians of their time, with the Bible in Latin, as supreme.
   The first of these men was John Wycliffe, theologian, seminary professor, and Bible translator. Wycliffe wrote extensively against the clergy of the church at Rome, and against the powerful influence the church had over the kings and queens of Europe and Britain.
   Wycliffe was a strong advocate of translating the Latin Bible into the language of the people. While Wycliffe died of natural causes at age 64, Bohemian Jan Hus, who distributed Wycliffe's writings, was burned alive.
   Wycliffe, the first of the known advocates of having the Bible in the language of the people, and oversaw a translation into the English language, was called the Morning Star of the Protestant Reformation, eventually leading to our great privilege of owning our own copies of the Bible today, and the future cleaning up a great deal of abuse of the Church at Rome.
   This is the beginning of the story of why we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation!