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I tend to say he was just a loose canon.
He believed some very strange stuff :
-that the sacraments of the church were rendered ineffective by unworthy ministers (Luther and Calvin would disagree here for sure)
- that the Church was purely invisible. (again, Luther and Calvin did not agree)
-"God ought to obey the devil" (?)
-that any civil authority or church authority living in mortal sin was not to be obeyed.
-that prayer concerning the future was useless because everything was predestined
- that it was perfectly OK to steal from men of the Church that sinned.
- Augustine and Jerome were in Hell because they were monks (where does it teach this in the Bible?)
His views of predestination and human nature were so extreme as to be dehumanizing.
The only thing he had going for him, he translated the Bible into English. But the rest of his theology sounds like so much raving nonsense and not reasonable.
I believe Wycliff is honored by some Protestants not because his teachings were sound or true, but because he was excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/wycliffe.htm
He believed some very strange stuff :
-that the sacraments of the church were rendered ineffective by unworthy ministers (Luther and Calvin would disagree here for sure)
- that the Church was purely invisible. (again, Luther and Calvin did not agree)
-"God ought to obey the devil" (?)
-that any civil authority or church authority living in mortal sin was not to be obeyed.
-that prayer concerning the future was useless because everything was predestined
- that it was perfectly OK to steal from men of the Church that sinned.
- Augustine and Jerome were in Hell because they were monks (where does it teach this in the Bible?)
His views of predestination and human nature were so extreme as to be dehumanizing.
The only thing he had going for him, he translated the Bible into English. But the rest of his theology sounds like so much raving nonsense and not reasonable.
I believe Wycliff is honored by some Protestants not because his teachings were sound or true, but because he was excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/wycliffe.htm