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Adoniram Judson - Term Papers

Adoniram Judson

Arik Akerberg
Church History
November 18, 2013

Adoniram Judson

Adoniram Judson was born on August 9[th], 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts. Adoniram graduated from Brown University in 1807. While in college, Judson abandoned the Christian faith for Deism. After graduation from Brown, Judson moved to Massachusetts and started a school, he also published several books. Judson liked to travel and did so often. While on one of his trips, Judson stayed at an inn, in the room next to him he could hear someone dying. The next morning he found that the dying man was a former classmate from Brown. This man was actually the one who encouraged Judson to turn from the Christian faith. Judson was ...

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Judson decided the only way to do this was to start his only missionary organization.
On February 19[th] 1812, Adoniram and his wife, Ann, set sail from Salem, Massachusetts to India. During the voyage, Judson began translating the New Testament into English from Greek. During his work translating the Bible, Judson found that the Baptist view of Baptism was scriptural. Judson decided to leave the Congregationalist denomination and he became a Baptist.
Judson decided that the best way to reach the people would be to dress like a Buddhist priest, and take some traditional things of the culture and adapt them to be used to teach Christianity. Judson spent up to twelve hours a day studying the Burmese language, because he realized he could not reach the people until he understood the language. In 1817, Judson completed the translation of the gospel of Matthew. The next year Judson began his public ministry. In 1819 the first believer was baptized, and by 1822 Judson had converted ...

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Added: 12/2/2013 09:08:01 PM
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Category: Biographies
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