http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:18:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2844 Amanda Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:35:29 +0000 http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2844 Thank you for this interesting information about Lady Jane Grey! I was very pleasantly surprised to find this article, and I really enjoyed reading it! I love history, and Jane Grey is actually one of my favorite historical women, so it was exciting to find out more about what she believed! Thank you for this interesting information about Lady Jane Grey! I was very pleasantly surprised to find this article, and I really enjoyed reading it! I love history, and Jane Grey is actually one of my favorite historical women, so it was exciting to find out more about what she believed!

]]> http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2820 Donald Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:47:08 +0000 http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2820 What a powerful piece of history! I find it painfully hard to give up my time, which is after all my life. Yet you wisely spent a good deal of time fully writing out the account of one who, also so wisely, gave up their time on the earth completely for a lasting heritage and testimony. I appreciate that Michael. May we continue, joyfully, to take the time to learn from history before it is actually too late. What a powerful piece of history! I find it painfully hard to give up my time, which is after all my life. Yet you wisely spent a good deal of time fully writing out the account of one who, also so wisely, gave up their time on the earth completely for a lasting heritage and testimony. I appreciate that Michael. May we continue, joyfully, to take the time to learn from history before it is actually too late.

]]> http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2809 Joshua, Jennifer, Sarah, & Daniel Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:30:49 +0000 http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2809 Thank you for the well written biography of a lady who indeed loved not her life unto death. It sparked some wholesome conversation in our midst. What an inspiration she is and what a role model for young people today! Thank you for the well written biography of a lady who indeed loved not her life unto death. It sparked some wholesome conversation in our midst. What an inspiration she is and what a role model for young people today!

]]> http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2807 Michael Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:58:01 +0000 http://www.staddonfamily.com/2008/07/23/who-wrote-this-letter-part-2/#comment-2807 This was posted a day late because our internet connection was out yesterday. :) So, folks, what do you think? There are some who would use the letter to Mr. Harding to claim that Lady Jane was intolerant of other religious beliefs and would have been as bloody as Queen Mary. However, based on her whole personality, as well as her reaction to Mr. Freckenham, this does not appear to be the case. If she had been cruel toward Catholics, she would have missed the whole point of Protestantism which is that people should be free to “go against the flow” and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and be brought to God through conviction and knowledge, not force or threat. I do not think that the goal of the letter was to pass hopeless condemnation, but to cry out to the recipient to realize the severity of his error and find life by returning to Christ, the once-for-all sacrifice for sin. This was posted a day late because our internet connection was out yesterday.
So, folks, what do you think? There are some who would use the letter to Mr. Harding to claim that Lady Jane was intolerant of other religious beliefs and would have been as bloody as Queen Mary. However, based on her whole personality, as well as her reaction to Mr. Freckenham, this does not appear to be the case. If she had been cruel toward Catholics, she would have missed the whole point of Protestantism which is that people should be free to “go against the flow” and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and be brought to God through conviction and knowledge, not force or threat. I do not think that the goal of the letter was to pass hopeless condemnation, but to cry out to the recipient to realize the severity of his error and find life by returning to Christ, the once-for-all sacrifice for sin.

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