Pope Alexander IV's Decree Against Lay Persons

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Bro. Gerry Soliman of Solutions Finder Apologetics revealed this statement by the late Alexander IV:

We furthermore forbid any lay person to engage in dispute, either private or public, concerning the Catholic Faith. Whosoever shall act contrary to this decree, let him be bound in the fetters of excommunication.

By looking at this,  this may have been the ground of the Inquisition later on and two, this has managed to keep the critics against the Roman Catholic institution "silenced" and later Popes to have their grounds to condemn the Reformation brought forth by pre-Reformation heroes like John Huss and Girolamo Savonarola (who was executed by Pope Alexander VI of the corrupt Borgia family) as well as the condemnation of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, John Calvin's persecution and the deaths of many Baptists before and after the Reformation.  But as said, God's Word is not bound (2 Timothy 2:9) and the Council of Trent members are no better than the Pharisees in terms of religious hypocrisy rejecting God's Word in favor for manmade traditions that go against the Word of God (Mark 7:8-9) when they declared themselves the final authority above the Scriptures.  Charles Haddon Spurgeon who preached 3,000 sermons is still heavily condemned today in many of the Roman Catholic websites.  I will not even link them here, I don't want to give them any more traffic than they already do.  In fact, I really believe that this blog has already reached the Vatican.

In fact, while the Popes of the past have managed to ban Bible reading from the laymen, they couldn't stop anybody from preaching the Word of God.  The Baptists had a reputation of coming down from the mountains to preach God's Word even before Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, thus they were massacred.  The Dominicans set up the Spanish Inquisition hoping to silence the people with various tortures, the Jesuit Order by Ignatius of Loyola did all they can but God's Word still prevailed.  The bloodier the persecution, the more it made Christianity grew instead.  Burning William Tyndale didn't stop the Bible from being published, it instead made Christianity grow all the more instead!