(US) Hitler's Plans for the Bible

                         Hitler's Agenda for the Bible....

Hitler, during the 1930's, had his own agenda for the future of the Church (National Church), to be implemented when he gained control of the government. There were 30 points. Here are a few:

13. The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany.

14. The National Church declares that to it and therefore to the German nation, it has been decided that Fuhrer's Mein Kampf, is the greatest of all documents  It...not only contains the greatest but it embodies the purest and truest ethics for the present and future life of our nation.

18. The National Church will clear away from its altars all crucifixes, Bibles, and pictures of saints.

19. On the altars there must be nothing but Mein Kampf (to the German nation and therefore to God the most sacred book) and to the left of the altar a sword.

30. The Christian Cross must be removed from all churches, cathedrals and chapels...and it must be superseded by the only unconquerable symbol, the swastika.

I read this list in Eric Metaxas' book, Bonhoeffer.

I decided to do some research and find out what happened to the Bible after Hitler's death.

This is what I found out about the German Bible Society:

1. Though its roots go back to 1710, the modern German Bible Society was officially organized in 1965.

2. The purpose of the GBS is twofold: (1) publishing the Bible and important Bible studies
and (2) spreading the message of the Bible.

3. At this time the GBS publishing operations cover more than 700 books and other products, of which 300 are Bible editions.

4. It distributes more than 400,000 Bibles annually, mainly Martin Luther's translation of the Bible and the modern Good News Bible.

5. The GBS also publishes internationally accepted base texts for Bible translation.

6. The GBS also publishes children's Bibles, electronic Bibles and Bibles in all other modern formats, with the intention of providing new ways to access the Bible.

7. The GBS, along with 145 other Bible societies around the world, works to translate, publish and distribute the Holy Scriptures throughout the world.

8. The GBS World Bible Support initiative has been raising funds in Germany to support projects in less wealthy countries that make God's Word available to all people.





"...I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Mathew 16:18).

"..so is My word that goes out from My mouth: it will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." (Isaiah 55:11.)

I challenge myself to remember to thank God every day for our country, for the freedom that allows us to gather and study God's Word openly and publicly.

One of the 145 Bible societies that works with the GBS is the American Bible Society, founded in 1816.

Its first president was Elias Boudinot, who had served as the president of the First Continental Congress. Other people of note who worked in the early days of the ABS were John Jay, John Quincy Adams, James Fennimore Cooper, Dewitt Clinton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, Francis Scott Key...and many more....

In 1776, the year of our nation's birth, an atheistic leader of France, Voltaire, predicted, "100 years from my day, there will not be a Bible on earth, except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker."

After his death, the presses used to print his books began printing Bibles, and Voltaire's house was used by the Geneva Bible Society to distribute Bibles.

 In 1876, one hundred years after his prediction, the first edition of his work sold for 11 cents in Paris, but the British government paid the Czar of Russia half a million dollars for an ancient Bible manuscript.

            And the gates of hell shall not prevail...