William Tyndale was an Evangelical Christian who translated the Latin Bible (which only the Catholic priests understood) into the English understood by the ordinary people of the England under the heel of King Henry VIII (who was Catholic in heart even though he opposed the Pope of Rome). The King ordered his soldiers to capture Tyndale for the crime of printing Bibles in the language of the ordinary people of the land. Tyndale managed to escape to Europe to live for many years until he was betrayed, taken back to England and burnt at the stake.
Tyndale was called "God's Outlaw" by the Catholic authorities. There is a time and place when you have to "obey God rather than men", like the apostles during the early days of the Acts when the Jewish authorities forbade them from preaching Jesus to the people of Israel. There is the Law and Will of God which is supreme and above the dictates of mortal tyrants and governments who forbide the preaching of the Gospel and the worship of the One and Only true God of all the Earth.
There are times when we are called upon to be "God's Outlaws" because man's laws oppose God's Law and Word. The book of Revelation shows that a day will come when the AntiChrist will outlaw all those who refuse to have the "666" mark of the Beast.
God's Outlaw is a movie / Dvd about William Tyndale - how he translated the Latin Bible into English and paid the price for printing Bibles for the ordinary English people to read.
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