God of word : The Christian Doctrine of God

WORDS OF GOD

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Some of the Psalms are very specific as to who wrote them and why, but the words expressed are universal to the sinfulness, and hopefully, the repentance of humanity.

remorse

"To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan The Prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy steadfast love; according to Thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in Thy sight, so that Thou art justified in Thy sentence and blameless in Thy judgment [see When Will You Be Judged?]. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom [see God's Wisdom] in my secret heart.

Purge me with Hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me [see Living Waters], and I shall be whiter than snow. Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which Thou hast broken rejoice. Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy holy Spirit from me [see also The Holy Ghost and The Holy Spirit]. Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Then I will teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners will return to Thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness [see Why Blood?], O God, Thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of Thy deliverance. O Lord, open Thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise. For Thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, Thou wouldst not be pleased. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

Do good to Zion [see Zionism] in Thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, then wilt Thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Thy altar." (Psalm 51:1-19 RSV)

Psalm Chapter 52

The Psalms are also a historical record of specific events, such as David's experience with the treachery of Doeg the Edomite.

Jerusalem

"To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech." [see The Civil War]

Why do you boast, O mighty man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. But God will break you down for ever; He will snatch and tear you from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]

The righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, "See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!"

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever. I will thank Thee for ever, because Thou hast done it. I will proclaim Thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly." (Psalm 52:1-9 RSV)

Psalm Chapter 53

Although all humans, "good" and "bad," are sinners (ironically, it's a sin to claim to be without sin i.e. "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." 1 John 1:8-10 RSV), Christian Living is about living a life as a repentant sinner.

The Ten Commandments

"To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.

God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God. They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.

Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God? There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.

O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of His people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad." (Psalm 53:1-6 RSV)

God's Plan

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[Christ speaking] "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly" [that it might be full and meaningful] (John 10:10).

God's Love

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"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16 NIV).

Church Of God International

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Just as there are physical laws that govern the physical universe, so are there spiritual laws which govern your relationship with God.

Jesus Christ is God Incarnate

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"...they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, GOD WITH US."
--MATTHEW 1:23

"...if ye believe not that I am he,
ye shall die in your sins."
--JESUS CHRIST, JOHN 8:24

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GODSWORD

2007-11-25T21:44:00.000-08:00

"A person cannot live on bread alone but on every word that God speaks."
[Matthew 4:4]

Jesus Reveals God's Love

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God's Love

God's love impelled him to take action to help his creatures gone astray so when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman (Gal 4:4) Jesus is the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, who was sent for love of mankind:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.... The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (Jn 1:1-5,9-14)

In the last three years of his life, Jesus taught the truth behind the Jewish law (cf. Mt 5:17): the fullness of the truth about man and his place in creation. The morality of Christ is not a set of arbitrary laws designed to keep people from enjoying life. Quite the contrary. Jesus' teachings reveal who man is, and by accepting the truth about oneself, one becomes truly free. This is why Jesus himself proclaimed, ``You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.'' (Jn 8:32)

Jesus' teachings unleash life from endless pursuit of self, the cycle of violence of the law of vengeance (`An eye for an eye...') and the exacting observances of Jewish ritual. Christ's shows the purpose of the Jewish law to be service to the truth about man and his life. Jesus thus channels life back to its true and original direction: love of God and love of neighbor. That is why St. Paul says that he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law (Rom 13:8)

It is a great tragedy that many non-Christians see slavery, not freedom in the truth of Christ. Perhaps they see Christ presented as an angry, exacting judge and condemner of sinners. The contrary is true, for God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him (Jn 3:17, cf. Jn 12:47). Jesus associated himself with sinners despite the reproach of the `good people' of the time (cf. Mt 9:10-13, 11:19, 21:31; Mk 2:15-17; Lk 5:30, 7:34). Among the most moving words of Jesus is the parable of the prodigal son, which portrays God as a loving father welcoming home the wayward son who squandered his share of the family fortune (cf. Lk 15). So while it is true that those who remain in their sin until death will suffer eternally after, Jesus extends his hand to help those who are in sin to repent. Jesus condemned sin, not the sinner. His call is an invitation to reconciliation and to God's love.

Jesus himself became a perfect sign of God's overwhelming mercy by taking on the punishment due to man because of sin and he became the perfect example of his own teaching of the truth about man by embracing the wood of the cross. He emptied himself, becoming weak, taking the form of a slave--abandoning for a little while his radiant, overwhelming majesty-- to win us (individually and collectively), to woo us, to take us to himself and become one with us, to abandon his life for us and to hand over his life to us.

Let's try to be impartial in out reasoning: Could God go further in His stooping down, in His drawing near to man, thereby expanding the possibilities of our knowing Him? In truth, it seems that He has gone as far as possible. He could not go further. In a certain sense God has gone too far! Didn't Christ perhaps become ``a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles'' (1 Cor 1:23)? Precisely because He called God His Father, because He revealed Him so openly in Himself, He could not but elicit the impression that it was too much.... Man was no longer able to tolerate such closeness, and thus the protests began.

This great protest has precise names--first it is called the Synagogue, and then Islam. Neither can accept a God who is so human. ``It is not suitable to speak of God in this way,'' they protest. ``He must remain pure Majesty. Majesty full of mercy, certainly, but not to the point of paying for the faults of His own creatures, for their sins.'' (Pope John Paul II, ``If God Exists, Why Is He Hiding?'' Crossing the Threshold of Hope, pp. 40-41.)

God has revealed himself to the world through the person of Jesus Christ, whose entire life, but especially his passion and death, stand as the archetype of complete self-gift.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. (1 Jn 4:9-10)

Jesus' sacrifice, his passion and death on Calvary, exemplify love. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us (1 Jn 3:16). He gave his life for us freely: ``No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father.'' (Jn 10:18) In following the example of Jesus' love we become truly human.

The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man, was a figure of Him Who was to come, namely Christ the Lord. Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear. (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, 22)

...man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself. (Gaudium et Spes, 24)

This is not an evanescent love the waxes and wanes with the whims of emotion. This is everlasting love that gives itself completely, that costs the lover everything, like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. (Mt 16:45-46).

The promise of Christ is that if we die to ourselves, we will rise to live eternally with him: unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit (Jn 12:24). The sign of his veracity is his rising from the grave to a new and radically better life. The entire Christian faith hinges on this historical fact, because if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain (1 Cor 15:14). It is the assurance Jesus has overcome the world (Jn 16:33), that love is as strong as death (Song 8:6), that we will find the most profound peace and happiness in sacrifice, that we need not be afraid (cf. Mt 28:5,10).

House of Prayer

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And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought. Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves. And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him: And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him
Luke 19:45-48 (Douay-Rheims Bible)

LOVE GOD

God's Wonderful Love

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Life

And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him, Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. And the next took her to wife, and he also died childless. And the third took her. And in like manner all the seven, and they left no children, and died. Last of all the woman died also. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be? For all the seven had her to wife. And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, shall neither be married, nor take wives. Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed, at the bush, when he called the Lord, The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him. And some of the scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well. And after that they durst not ask him any more questions.
Luke 20:27-40 (Douay-Rheims Bible)

Bible God Word

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Is the Bible truly God's Word?

Answer: Our answer to this question will not only determine how we view the Bible and its importance to our lives, but also it will ultimately will have an eternal impact on us. If the Bible is truly God’s Word, then we should cherish it, study it, obey it, and ultimately trust it. If the Bible is the Word of God then to dismiss it is to dismiss God Himself.

The fact that God gave us the Bible is an evidence and illustration of His love for us. The term "revelation" simply means that God communicated to mankind what He is like and how we can have a right relationship with Him. These are things that we could not have known had not God divinely revealed them to us in the Bible. Although God’s revelation of Himself in the Bible was given progressively over approximately 1500 years, it has always contained everything that man needed to know about God in order to have a right relationship with Him. If the Bible is truly the Word of God, then it is the final authority for all matters of faith, religious practice, and morals.

The question we must ask ourselves is how can we know that the Bible is the Word of God and not just a good book? What is unique about the Bible that sets it apart from all other religious books ever written? Is there any evidence that the Bible is truly God’s Word? These are the type of questions that must be looked at if we are to seriously examine the biblical claim that the Bible is the very Word of God, divinely inspired, and totally sufficient for all matters of faith and practice.

There can be no doubt about the fact that the Bible does claim to be the very Word of God. This is clearly seen in verses like 2 Timothy 3:15-17, which say, “. . .from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

In order to answer these questions we must look at both the internal and external evidences that the Bible is truly God’s Word. The internal evidences are those things internal to the Bible itself that testify of its divine origin. One of the first internal evidences that the Bible is truly God’s Word is seen in its unity. Even though it is really sixty-six individual books, written on three continents, in three different languages, over a period of approximately 1500 years, by more that 40 authors (who came from many walks of life), the Bible remains one unified book from beginning to end without contradiction. This unity is unique from all other books and is evidence of the divine origin of the words as God moved men in such a way that they recorded His very words.

Another of the internal evidences that indicate the Bible is truly God’s Word is seen in the detailed prophecies contained within its pages. The Bible contains hundreds of detailed prophecies relating to the future of individual nations including Israel, to the future of certain cities, to the future of mankind, and to the coming of one who would be the Messiah, the Savior of not only Israel, but all who would believe in Him. Unlike the prophecies found in other religious books or those done by Nostradamus, the biblical prophecies are extremely detailed and have never failed to come true. There are over three hundred prophecies concerning Jesus Christ in the Old Testament alone. Not only was it foretold where He would be born and what family He would come from, but also how He would die and that He would rise again on the third day. There simply is no logical way to explain the fulfilled prophecies in the Bible other than by divine origin. There is no other religious book with the extent or type of predictive prophecy that the Bible has.

A third internal evidence of the divine origin of the Bible is seen in its unique authority and power. While this evidence is more subjective than the first two internal evidences, it is no less a very powerful testimony of the divine origin of the Bible. The Bible has a unique authority that is unlike any other book ever written. This authority and power are best seen in the way countless lives have been transformed by reading the Bible. Drug addicts have been cured by it, homosexuals have been set free by it, derelicts and deadbeats have been transformed by it, hardened criminals reformed by it, sinners are rebuked by it, and hate has been turned to love by reading it. The Bible does possess a dynamic and transforming power that is only possible because it is truly God’s Word.

Besides the internal evidence that the Bible is truly God’s Word there are also external evidences that indicate the Bible is truly the Word of God. One of those evidences is the historicity of the Bible. Because the Bible details historical events its truthfulness and accuracy is subject to verification like any other historical documentation. Through both archaeological evidences and other written documents, the historical accounts of the Bible have been proven time and time again to be accurate and true. In fact all the archaeological and manuscript evidence supporting the Bible makes it the best documented book from the ancient world. The fact that the Bible accurately and truthfully records historically verifiable events is a great indication of its truthfulness when dealing with religious subjects and doctrines and helps substantiate its claim that it is the very Word of God.

Another external evidence that the Bible is truly God’s Word is the integrity of the human authors. As mentioned earlier, God used men from many walks of life to record His Words to us. In studying the lives of these men, there is no good reason to believe that they were not honest and sincere men. Examining their lives and the fact that they were willing to die (often excruciating deaths) for what they believed in, it quickly becomes clear that these ordinary yet honest men truly believed that God had spoken to them. The men who wrote the New Testament and many hundreds of other believers (1 Corinthians 15:6) knew the truth of their message because they had seen and spent time with Jesus Christ after He had risen from the dead. The transformation of seeing the Risen Christ had a tremendous impact on these men. They went from hiding in fear, to being willing to die for the message God had revealed to them. Their lives and deaths testify to the fact that the Bible truly is God’s Word.

A final external evidence that the Bible is truly God’s Word is the indestructibility of the Bible. Because of its importance and its claim to be the very word of God, the Bible has suffered more vicious attacks and attempts to destroy it than any other book in history. From early Roman Emperors like Diocletian, through communist dictators and on to modern day atheists and agnostics, the Bible has withstood and outlasted all of its attackers and is still the most widely published book in the world today.

Throughout time, skeptics have regarded the Bible as mythological, but archeology has established it as historical. Opponents have attacked its teaching as primitive and outdated, but its moral and legal concepts and teachings have had a positive influence on societies and cultures throughout the world. It continues to be attacked by science, psychology, and political movements and yet remains just as true and relevant today as it was when it was first written. It is a book that has transformed countless lives and cultures throughout the last 2000 years. No matter how its opponents try to attack, destroy, or discredit it, the Bible remains just as strong, just a true, and just as relevant after the attacks as it was before. The accuracy which has been preserved despite every attempt to corrupt, attack, or destroy it, is clear testimony to the fact that the Bible is truly God’s Word. It should not surprise us that no matter how the Bible is attacked, it always comes out unchanged and unscathed. After all, Jesus said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away” (Mark 13:31). After looking at the evidence one can say without a doubt that “Yes the Bible is truly God’s Word.”

God is Love

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How do we Define Love?

"God is Love", but how do we define it? The American Heritage Dictionary defines love as "an intense affection for another person based on familial or personal ties". Often this "intense affection" stems from a sexual attraction for that other person. We love other people, or we say we love other people, when we are attracted to them and when they make us feel good. Notice that a key phrase in the dictionary definition of love is the phrase "based on". This phrase implies that we love conditionally; in other words, we love someone because they fulfill a condition that we require before we can love them. How many times have you heard or said, "I love you because you are cute;" or "I love you because you take good care of me;" or "I love you because you are fun to be with"?

Our love is not only conditional, it is also mercurial. We love based on feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next. The divorce rate is extremely high in today's society because husbands and wives supposedly stop loving one another-or they "fall out of love". They may go through a rough patch in their marriage, and they no longer "feel" love for their spouse, so they call it quits. Evidently, their marriage vow of "till death do us part" means they can part at the death of their love for their spouse rather than at their physical death.

Can anyone really comprehend "unconditional" love? It seems the love that parents have for their children is as close to unconditional love as we can get without the help of God's love in our lives. We continue to love our children through good times and bad, and we don't stop loving them if they don't meet the expectations we may have for them. We make a choice to love our children even when we consider them unlovable; our love doesn't stop when we don't "feel" love for them. This is similar to God's love for us, but as we shall see, God's love transcends the human definition of love to a point that is hard for us to comprehend.

God is Love: How does God Define Love?
The Bible tells us that "God is Love" (1 John 4:8). But how can we even begin to understand that truth? There are many passages in the Bible that give us God's definition of love. The most well known verse is John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." So one way God defines love is in the act of giving. However, what God gave (or should we say, "who" God gave) was not a mere gift-wrapped present; God sacrificed His only Son so that we, who put our faith in His Son, will not spend eternity separated from Him. This is an amazing love, because we are the ones who choose to be separated from God through our own sin, yet it's God who mends the separation through His intense personal sacrifice, and all we have to do is accept His gift.

Another great verse about God's love is found in Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." In this verse and in John 3:16, we find no conditions placed on God's love for us. God doesn't say, "as soon as you clean up your act, I'll love you; " nor does He say, "I'll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love Me." In fact, in Romans 5:8, we find just the opposite. God wants us to know that His love is unconditional, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us while we were still unlovable sinners. We didn't have to get clean, and we didn't have to make any promises to God before we could experience His love. His love for us has always existed, and because of that, He did all the giving and sacrificing long before we were even aware that we needed His love.

God in Early Christian Theology

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The early Greek fathers made extensive use of reason and philosophy in their attempt to defend Christianity in the cultured world around them. Justin Martyr, influenced by Platonism, emphasized the ineffability, omnipotence and impassibility of God, while Athenagoras and Theophilus focused on God's simplicity, indivisibility and universal providence.

Irenaeus developed his doctrine of God in reaction against the Gnostics, and thus emphasized the self-sufficiency and perfection of the one God. By the time of the Council of Nicea, the chief divine attributes of eternity, immutability, omniscience and omnipotence were undisputed by all Christians.

God in the New Testament

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The authors of the New Testament took for granted the existence of the God of the Old Testament. They believed in Yahweh, "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," whom the Jews worshipped as the one true God (Ac 13:32; Ro 3:29, 4:3).

Like the Old Testament, the New Testament teaches that there is only one God (Mk 12:29; Eph 4:6; Jas 2:19), who is pure spirit (Jn 4:24; 1 Jn 4:12), the creator of the world (1 Ti 4:4; Heb 3:4), holy and good (Ro 3:4; Eph 4:24; Rev 4:8), all-powerful (Mt 19:26; Mk 2:7, 10:18) and worthy of mankind's worship and love (Mt 6:24; Mk 11:22; Lk 2:14).

God expects ethical behavior (Jn 6:29; Ac 8:21, 24:16; 2 Co 9:7; 1 Th 4:9; Jas 1:27; 1 Jn 3:9) and will judge wrongdoers (Ro 2:16, 3:19).

The New Testament especially emphasizes God's love for the world and his desire to save all people (Jn 3:16; Ro 5:5,5:8; Php 4:191 Jn 4:7-9).

Where the New Testament differs from the Old Testament in its teachings about God is in its proclamation that God has chosen to reveal himself to mankind through Christ, the Incarnation of God. Especially in the Gospel of John, it is emphasized that Jesus alone knows the Father completely and he came to help humans know God ("the Father") better:

John 3:35 - "The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands." (John the Baptist)
John 7:16: "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me."
John 14:9-10: Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father?' Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?"
Romans 1:17: "For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed."

Is the Bible Really God’s Word?

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Why do we believe that the Bible is the Word of God?

This is a critical question, and one that we ought to seriously consider. After all, as Christians, we base not only our lives on the Bible, but our eternities. We believe it to be the very Word of God. But what are the reasons we do so?

Not everyone, of course, believes that the Bible is truly God’s Word. Andy Partridge (lead singer of XTC) would be one such example. “I don’t believe the Bible,” says Partridge. “I believe most of the Bible is not lies, but fantasy based on a tiny thread of something maybe not so fantastic after all.” Captain Sensible (guitarist and founding member of the punk band The Damned) concurs: “There’s also no mention of dinosaurs in the Bible either. Perhaps it’s not inspired by an all knowing being after all and is, after all, just a cracking good work of fiction?”

Actor Bruce Willis (from a July 1998 interview in George Magazine) also agrees:

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that’s the way.

In an increasingly skeptical world, we (as Christians) must be ready to give good reasons for our faith (1 Pet. 3:15), including why we believe the Bible really is what it claims to be. The Christian faith, more than any other belief system, is a reasonable faith; it makes claims that correspond to testable facts, gives compelling evidences for its own truthfulness, and presents a worldview that is consistent with reality. Thus, when we are confronted by detractors, we can give a reasonable defense, knowing that the truth will ultimately prevail.

R. A. Torrey took this very approach when confronted with his own personal doubts. Nearly a century ago, Torrey wrote this:

I was brought up to believe that the Bible was the Word of God. In early life I accepted it as such upon the authority of my parents, and never gave the question any serious thought. But later in life my faith in the Bible was utterly shattered through the influence of the writings of a very celebrated, scholarly and brilliant skeptic. I found myself face to face with the question, Why do you believe the Bible is the Word of God?

I had no satisfactory answer. I determined to go to the bottom of this question. If satisfactory proof could not be found that the Bible was God’s Word I would give the whole thing up, cost what it might. If satisfactory proof could be found that the Bible was God’s Word I would take my stand upon it, cost what it might. I doubtless had many friends who could have answered the question satisfactorily, but I was unwilling to confide to them the struggle that was going on in my own heart; so I sought help from God and from books, and after much painful study and thought came out of the darkness of skepticism into the broad daylight of faith and certainty that the Bible from beginning to end is God’s Word.

As a result of his scrutiny and study, Torrey produced “Ten Reasons I Believe the Bible Is the Word of God” — a helpful survey of the reasons that compelled Torrey to believe the Bible. Over the next few days, we are going to survey a similar list (in part based on Torrey’s work), in the hopes that you will be encouraged in your own reading and study of the Scriptures.

Word of God - word for word

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As I began reading through the bible this year, I realized the importance of having the right tools available to help me understand what scripture is saying and the signifacance of each and every word. Unfortunately, I’m not much of a theologian so my skills and resources are kind of limited. No matter, all understanding comes from the Holy Spirit but luckily, God has provided several good tools to help me along the way.

PREACH THE WORD AND KEEP THE FAITH!

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The apostle Paul encouraged his fellow believers to preach the word, in season and out of season, because he knew the destructive power of false doctrine would lead many astray. Tune in to this message as I expound on the scriptures from 2 Timothy 4:1-8. Be Blessed in Jesus Christ.

THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING GOD’S WORD!

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The apostle Paul told us that the Spirit declared that in the latter days some shall “depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” [1 Timothy 4:1]. This is a message for the believer in Jesus Christ and an encouragement to know the Word of God for themselves. We are living in a time of great apostasy and it is of utmost importance that we know the scriptures so that we are able to discern the false teachings when they come along. Be Blessed as you listen to this important message.

THE AUTHORITY OF GOD’S WORD

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People such as the prophet Isaiah and the prophet Jeremiah, valued the Word of God. Jesus Christ Himself used the Word of God to rebuke the devil, preceding the scriptures with “It Is Written! Tune in to this podcast with speaker Bill White as he speaks on the authority of God’s Word.

GOD’S PURPOSE GUARANTEES THE MANIFESTATION OF HIS LOVE

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God’s eternal purpose (Eph. 3:11) guarantees that eternal love will be manifested (Jer. 31:3). Eternal election is the first step of eternal love. God’s elective grace flows from eternal love. It provides eternal salvation through the eternal covenant (Heb. 13:20, 21). The eternal covenant is fulfilled in the Person and Work of the eternal Son. Thus, the eternality of Divine love is manifested not only in God’s love for the elect, which is without beginning, but through the reciprocal action of the redeemed and regenerated, whose love for God will be without ending.

A statement by religionists that is frequently repeated is “God is a gentleman, He lets you make your own choice.” Other statements are made by religionists: “By faith, you breathe Him (God) into your life, and He gives you spiritual life,” and “By faith you control your own destiny.” Three important questions are in order: (1) Is the way of man in himself? (2) Who first breathes in whom? (3) Is man the author of his own destiny? Solomon was inspired to write, “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps” (Prov. 16:9). Man may consider and purpose to himself what he will do, but God directs his steps by overruling and disposing all of man’s designs and actions according to His foreordained plan. Who will you believe, God or man? The purpose of God preceded the foundation of the world (Eph. 3:11). By providence, He executes the foreordained plan in time. In other words, the purpose of God draws an outlined picture of human history; and providence lays on the colors, thus completing the picture. Hence, what one designs, the other completes; what one ordains, the other executes:

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will (Eph. 1:11).

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? (Dan. 4:35).

Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places (Ps. 135:6).

God’s purpose is executed irrespective of man’s will: “So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Rom. 9:16). God is subject to no man; furthermore, He is influenced by none. Being absolutely independent, God does what He pleases, to whom He pleases, and as He pleases.

God’s eternal love may be described as follows:

Love for Enemies

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You have heard that it was said, 'Love your friends, hate your enemies.' But now I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that! And if you speak only to your friends, have you done anything out of the ordinary? Even the pagans do that! You must be perfect - just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
(Luke 6.27, 28, 32-36)

God

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Conceptions of God vary widely. Theologians and philosophers have studied countless conceptions of God since the dawn of civilization. The Abrahamic conceptions of God include the trinitarian view of Christians, the Kabbalistic definition of Jewish mysticism, and the Islamic concept of God. The dharmic religions differ in their view of the divine, ranging from the almost polytheistic view of God in Hinduism to the almost non-theist view of God in Buddhism. In modern times, some more abstract concepts have been developed, such as process theology and open theism. Conceptions of God held by individual believers vary so widely that there is no clear consensus on the nature of God.[13] The contemporaneous French philosopher Michel Henry has however proposed a phenomenological approach and definition of God as phenomenological essence of Life.

GODOFWAR

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Godofwar : God of war

Goliath Challenges the Israelites

The Philistines gathered for battle in Socoh. a town in Judah; they camped at a place called Ephes Dammim, between Socoh and Azekah. Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in Elah valley, where they got ready to fight the Philistines. The Philistines lined up on one hill and the Israelites on another, with a valley between them.

A man named Goliath. from the city of Gath, came out from the Philistime camp to challenge the Israelites. He was Over nine feet tall and wore bronze armor that weighed about 125 pounds and a bronze helmet. His legs were also protected by bronze armor, and he carried a bronze javelin slung over his shoulder. His spear was as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom, and its iron head weighed about fifteen pounds. A soldier walked in front of him carrying his shield. Goliath stood and shouted at the Israelites, "What are you doing there, lined up for battle? I am a Philistine, you slaves of Saul! Choose one of a nice, good-looking boy. He said to David, "What's that stick for? Do you think I'm a dog?" And he called down curses from his god on David. "Come on," he challenged David, "and I will give your body to the birds and animals to eat."

David answered, "You are coming agains me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the Israelite armies, which you have defied. This very day the Lord will put you in my power; I will defeat you and cut off your head. And I wil give the bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and animals to eat. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a God, and everyone here will see that the Lord does not need swords or spears to save his people. He is victorious in battle, and he will put all of you in our power."

Goliath started walking toward David again, and David ran quickly toward the Philistine battle line to fight him. He reached into his bag and took out a stone, which he slung at Goliath. It hit him on the forehead and broke his skull, and Goliath fell face downward on the ground. And so, without a sword, David defeated and killed Goliath with a sling and a stone! He ran to him, stood over him, took Goliath's sword out of its sheath, and cut off his head and killed him.

When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they ran away. The men of Israel and Judah shouted and ran after them, pursuing them all the way to Gath and to the gates of Ekron. The Philistines fell wounded all alogn the road that leads to Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron. When the Israelites came back from pursuing the Philistines, they looted their camp. David got Goliath's head and took it to Jerusalem, but he kept Goliath's weapons in his own tent.

David Is Presented to Saul

When Saul saw David going out to fight Goliath, he asked Abner, the commander of his army. "Abner, whose son is he?"

"I have no idea, Your Majesty," Abner answered.

"Then go and find out," Saul ordered.

So when David returned to camp after killing Goliath, Abner took him to Saul. David was still carrying Goliath's head. Saul asked him, "Young man, whose son are you?"

"I am the son of your servant Jesse from Bethlehem," David answered.

(1 Samuel 17:8)

GODOFWORD

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WE ARE TO LIVE TO HIM
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Rom 12:1

You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body. 1Cor 6:20

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:14. That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. Luke 1:74-75

So, Since Christ suffered in the flesh, for you, arm yourselves with the same thought and purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having the mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God], So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills. 1Peter 4:1-2

god

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Names of God

The noun God is the proper English name used for the deity of monotheistic faiths. Various English third-person pronouns are used for God, and the correctness of each is disputed.

God is not like people

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God is not like people, who lie;
He is not a human who changes his mind.
Whatever he promises, he does;
He speaks, and it is done.
(Numbers 23:29)

We Must Receive Christ

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'As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name' (John 1:12).

ASSOCIATED AUTHORITIES

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The clerical state (deacons and priests – known as elders or presbyters) is given only to those who have been specifically selected and have been affirmed (commonly signified by the laying on of hands) by those authorized to elevate them to the indicated office (always by one who was in at least legal unison with a successor of one appointed by Jesus).

They presented these men to the apostles who prayed and laid hands on them. [Acts 6:6] First deacons of the Church

Do not neglect the gift you have, which was conferred on you through the prophetic word with the imposition of hands of the presbyterate. [1 Tim. 4:14]

Do not lay hands too readily on anyone, and do not share in another's sins. Keep yourself pure. [1 Tim. 5:22] Paul's instructions to the presbyter Timothy

For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. [2 Tim. 1:6] Paul speaking of Timothy's ordination at his hands

For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might set right what remains to be done and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you, [Titus 1:5] Conditions have been established in regard to those who are to hold clerical office at the hands of duly authorized men validly holding office.

You can receive Christ right now.

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Remember that Jesus says, "I'm standing at the door and I'm knocking. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in."15 Would you like to respond to his invitation? Here's how.

The precise words you use to commit yourself to God are not important. He knows the intentions of your heart. If you are unsure of what to pray, this might help you put it into words:

"Jesus, I want to know you. I want you to come into my life. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin so that I could be fully accepted by you. Only you can give me the power to change and become the person you created me to be. Thank you for forgiving me and giving me eternal life with God. I give my life to you. Please do with it as you wish. Amen."

If you sincerely asked Jesus into your life just now, then he has come into your life as he promised. You have begun a personal relationship with God.

What follows is a lifelong journey of change and growth as you get to know God better through Bible reading, prayer and interaction with other Christians.

I just asked Jesus into my life (some helpful information follows)...

I may want to ask Jesus into my life, but I have a question
I would like answered first...

Principle Four

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Principle Four: We must individually accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

The Bible says, "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God."10

We accept Jesus by faith. The Bible says, "God saved you by his special favour when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it."11

Accepting Jesus means believing that Jesus is the Son of God, who he claimed to be, then inviting him to guide and direct our lives.12 Jesus said, "I came that you might have life, and have it more abundantly."13

And here is Jesus' invitation. He said, "I'm standing at the door and I'm knocking. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in."14

How will you respond to God's invitation?

Consider these two circles:

Self-Directed Life

Self is on the throne

Jesus is outside the life

Decisions and actions are solely directed by self, often resulting in frustration

Christ-Directed Life

Jesus is in the life and on the throne

Self is yielding to Jesus

The person sees Jesus' influence and direction in their life

Which circle best represents your life?

Which circle would you like to have represent your life?

Begin a relationship with Jesus...

Principle Three

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Principle Three: Jesus Christ is God's only provision for our sin. Through him we can know and experience God's love and plan for our life.

We deserve to pay for our own sin. The problem is, the payment is death. So that we would not have to die separated from God, out of his love for us, Jesus Christ died in our place. On the cross, Jesus took all of our sin on himself and completely, fully paid for it. "For Christ also died for sins...the just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God."4 "...he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy."5 Because of Jesus' death on the cross, our sin doesn't have to separate us from God any longer.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."6

Jesus not only died for our sin, he rose from the dead.7 When he did, he proved beyond doubt that he can rightfully promise eternal life--that he is the Son of God and the only means by which we can know God. That is why Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life; no one can come to the Father except through me."8

Instead of trying harder to reach God, he tells us how we can begin a relationship with him right now. Jesus says, "Come to me." "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me... out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."9 It was Jesus' love for us that caused him to endure the cross. And he now invites us to come to him, that we might begin a personal relationship with God.

Just knowing what Jesus has done for us and what he is offering us is not enough. To have a relationship with God, we need to welcome him into our life...

Principle Two: All of us sin and our sin has separated us from God.

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We sense that separation, that distance from God because of our sin. The Bible tells us that "All of us like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way."2

Deep down, our attitude may be one of active rebellion or passive indifference toward God and his ways, but it's all evidence of what the Bible calls sin.

The result of sin in our lives is death--spiritual separation from God.3 Although we may try to get close to God through our own effort, we inevitably fail.

This diagram shows the great gap that exists between us and God. The arrows illustrate how we might try to reach God through our own efforts. We may try to do good things in life, or earn God's acceptance through a good life or a moral philosophy. But our good efforts are insufficient to cover up our sin.

How can we bridge this gulf?...

Principle One

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Principle One: God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.

God created you. Not only that, he loves you so much that he wants you to know him now and spend eternity with him. Jesus said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."1

Jesus came so that each of us could know and understand God in a personal way. Jesus alone can bring meaning and purpose to life.

What keeps us from knowing God? ..

Knowing God Personally

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What does it take to begin a relationship with God? Wait for lightning to strike? Devote yourself to unselfish religious deeds? Become a better person so that God will accept you? NONE of these. God has made it very clear in the Bible how we can know Him. This will explain how you can personally begin a relationship with God, right now...

Why Jesus is the Way to Union with God

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For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach,
because we trust in the living God,
who is the Saviour of all men,
specially of those that believe.
1 Timothy 4:9-10

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Almost everyone has heard that Jesus said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except by me.' And no one can come to him in this life, unless the Father draws them; but they must come to the Father through the example, teachings, and help of Christ, including the mystical missing cross. But make no mistake, he is not a license for immorality; whatever label people claim, they must be holy to have any part of him. The sects of christendom claim in error that he came to set them free them from guilt of sin, rather than to set them free from sin by destruction of the sinful nature. (You tender hearted souls, who thought he was, but still wish him to be your Lord, will find encouragement below on how he can destroy the sinful nature; for Jesus said, I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. John 8:34. If you are a slave to sin, then sin is your master; and Jesus can't be your Lord, because you cannot serve two masters. Luke 16:13. Click here to jump to how to destroy the sinful nature.)

Christ's teachings are the ultimate in the way to become holy and become one with God; classic challenges to those who would be his followers are:

So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:33
And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:27
He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it. Matthew 10:39
For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. 2 Tim 2:11-12

Of all the guides and teachers in history, Christ stands far above in holiness and perfection. His death on the cross is the physical example that we must follow with the inward cross of self-denial to find God, to have God dwell in us, to be with God, to have union with Christ and the Father, while on earth, and to live with Him now and forever.

He has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them
you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 2 Peter 1:4

Scriptures regarding the divinity of Christ, and showing that before he came to earth in the flesh, Christ created the universe, in his heavenly glorious form:

* In the beginning was the Word, and the Word [Jesus] was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:1-14

* He [Jesus] is the sole expression of the glory of God , and He is the perfect imprint and very image of nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. Hebrews 1:3

* Who [Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature, Colossians 1:15

* For by him [Jesus] all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together - so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself (God the Father) all things, whether things on earth or in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Col.1:16-20

* Who, [Christ] although being essentially one with God and in the form of God, did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, but stripped Himself, so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being. And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:6-8

* Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father; then we shall be satisfied. Jesus replied, Have I been with all of you for so long a time, and do you not recognize and know Me yet, Philip? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say then, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? What I am telling you I do not say on My own authority and of My own accord; but the Father Who lives continually in Me does the (His) works (His own miracles, deeds of power). John 14:8-10

* In the last of these days He has spoken to us in Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time. Heb 1:2

* As the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them, even so the Son quickens whom he will; for the Father judges no man; but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that does not honor not the Son, does not honor the Father which has sent him. John 5:21-23.

* Speaking at the last supper, just before his crucifixion, Jesus said: And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. John 17:5

God is light. God is a consuming fire. God is a spirit. In the beginning, the light, fire, and spirit called God, had a firstborn (Jesus) of every creature, for all his fullness to dwell in him, and then by him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together - so that in everything he might have the supremacy. He is essentially one with God and in the form of God. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.

And through him [Jesus] to reconcile to himself (God the Father) all things, whether things on earth or in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Col.1:5-20.

(See Is There Hope for All Men and Women for more on his reconciliation of all things back to God the Father).

There are many, many prophecies of scriptures regarding the details of Jesus' life, made hundreds of years before his birth, and fulfilled in his lifetime. Click Here to See Them. These fulfilled prophecies not only show Christ's Divinity and Him being the promised Messiah, but also demonstrate the validity of the Bible, (despite the gross misinterpretations so prevalent in Christendom today).

Jesus was not a man of war like Mohammed and Krishna; nor was Jesus just a man like Buddha, who became enlightened, though never acknowledging God. Christ walked the earth as a man, but before and after his earthly life, he reigned in the heavens, King of the Angels, creator of all things, including the heavens and earth and all in it. Although he ruled the heavens, he stripped himself of his glory and godhood to humble and abase himself, becoming human form to dwell in a tabernacle of flesh and die on the cross; so that he could reconcile man back to the Father through love; the ultimate gift, his life, for all the errant children of his creation. But in this life on earth he seeks to reconcile as first fruits, only those followers who wish to become like him, in union with him - because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

John says: "In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The true light that gives light to every man coming into the world." John 1:1-9. So the Light of all men is Christ, the Light that many meditation-based religions seek.

So, since he created us, it stands to reason that he is the one to reconcile us back to himself and to the Father. But the Father is logical. He doesn't just make a rule unless it is necessary. I can accept the rule, but I always wondered why good people from other faiths were not able to find union with God in this life. Somehow it just didn't seem fair when some of the other faiths stressed peace, love, holiness, purity, enlightenment, and less materialism than 'christians,' who used Jesus as an excuse to live in sin without repentance to purity. My question was answered with the following understandings:

First, those who live in sin without the fruit of repentance to purity, calling themselves 'Christians,' do not find unity with God or true salvation. So, he doesn't discriminate on the basis of a technicality.

Second, remember Christ is the light that enlightens all men. Remember the Spirit of God has been poured out on all mankind. Anyone who totally follows the Light of their conscience can attain union with God. So, people from some other faiths can get very spiritual in meditation; like all men, they have the spirit within them chained down waiting for liberation from prison. They can become more enlightened and more spiritual than 'christians' of the various 'christian' deficit sects. Some of the other religions strive for the death of the ego, rejection of materialism, attaining inner peace, reaching enlightenment, and call for more holiness from their believers; all as necessary to please God. They find today's 'Christianity' unacceptable, because the 'christian' sects use the death of Jesus as an excuse to live in sin without guilt; the opposite of holiness and instead, an embrace of hypocrisy. As reported, when Gandhi was asked why he couldn't accept Jesus, he said, "I too will become a Christian, when I meet a Christian like Jesus."

Third, the Light in all men, which is the only teacher anyone needs, will eventually reveal its identity as Christ to some such individuals of other religions in their meditations. They then have the choice whether to accept him or not. Unfortunately they often decline, because of their loyalty to the teachings of their faith and because of the poor record of most 'christians' around them and throughout history. They may live a very peaceful life where they don't judge good vs. evil, they may reach the point of great peace, but their progress stops. They cannot get to total union with God to live in the Kingdom of Heaven, unless they accept Christ - the only way to enter the spiritual dimension in this life. Rejecting Christ, they have thrown the proverbial baby out with the dirty bath water. They have rejected Christ, because of 'churchianity.'

We know people who have gone into the Light by a variety of meditation methods; one person using TM had the Light tell her that He would heal her. It was revealed to her that the Light was Christ, but that person rejected the Light to be Christ, because she had rebelled from a condemning fundamental christian sect. Rejecting the Light to be Jesus, she missed the opportunity to be healed of her sickness and the opportunity to attain union with God in his Kingdom.

So if he reveals himself to you in your meditations, this is not the Jesus of the deficit sects, who claim him as an excuse for an unholy lifestyle while condemning others living similarly, but this is Christ, the life which is the light of men. He said, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. Believe in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light.

Christ said to, "pray that you will have the strength to stand before the Son of Man." It refers to conviction. While sitting quietly waiting on the Lord, (meditation), which is necessary to attain purity, the Light shows us the evil that is in our heart. Our tendency is to deny it and to run from the light which shows us our condition. Christ is our excuse for the unholy thing we are, and our lifeline to stay or "stand," (not flee). We can't do it without him; it is too humiliating to accept without knowing that he died to be our savior and helper; he says PEACE, don't worry. He is our pass for being the way we are as we seek peace and enlightenment. Without the knowledge of a friend and savior, our meditations only go so far, because we draw back in fear of ourselves compared to God.

So, if when meditating, and you are shown something ugly about yourself by the Light, don't draw back; recognize it is the Light showing you your condition, and it is doing this to help us be rid of it and become a better person; and that Christ has died for us, so that we need not panic and draw away, but remain to focus on the Light that shows us our condition; we can claim his help by just believing in his name. And then, just when you don't expect it, strength will come; and whatever we have been shown as a defect in our heart, we will have strength to be different from then on. By loving the Light and feeling regret for what it is showing you while standing and not fleeing, you are receiving Christ, the Light. This doesn't commit you to 'churchianity' or attending one of the deficit sects' services; to the contrary, he would keep you out of them.

His good news that he was sent to the world to announce was: Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is near; repentance being change in the light to purity; after purity, to enter paradise, the Kingdom of Heaven within and among us, our consciousness and sight translated to the spiritual dimension, living in union with Christ and God, but walking on earth by the light of God, as children of the light. For God is not far from each one of us and hopes that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him; for in him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:27-28. These writings show the way out of darkness to light. (Click for more.)

He created you. You are on the earth in the midst of evil. You were born in it. You are part of it. He doesn't blame you. He forgives you. His beloved first born Son has paid the price of all your sin. He wants you back with him. He wants to be with you. He wants to love you, and he wants you to love him. He wants to give you riches beyond your imagination, but a different kind of riches than what you know on earth. Trust him. He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him. He asks you to please listen to his Son in the Light and keep his commands. So he can give you his peace. Follow his commands; be free from worry, doubt, fear, agitation, uncontrolled emotion, habits - all of which disturb your peace. There is peace between God and you. Accept this peace and seek Him through the Light, Jesus. Who had the joy of creating you, and now has the joy of reuniting you with the Father. The Light awaits you. See Meditation for more.

If you've arrived at this site, still curious why Jesus is necessary, I have a challenge for you. Pick up a Bible (or click) and read the book of Matthew; it won't take long. If you've been seeking, it will ring beyond true. If you like it, read the book of John next. John identifies the beauty of the promises to us, particularly John 17. All of Jesus' commands only to all and his criticisms of religious leaders are on the side bar. I believe you will find Christ's teachings so superior to anything you have read, that you will want to learn more; this happened to me. Jesus said, If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. John 7:17

The 'christians' of today are not examples of his teachings. The different deficit sects fight over the interpretation of the recorded words of the saints, (the interpretations of the Bible), without seeking the same Spirit that spoke the words; as He told me,"they fight over the husks, without ever discovering the corn."

Instead look through the rest of this site, including Coming out of the World, Meditation, and Christian Freedom; and read the main attraction on this site, the Letters and Journal of George Fox, the original Quaker, who in the 17th century England led tens of thousands to holiness and oneness with God; this people exhibited their moral ethnicity while they testified against all the "deficit sects" of christiandom as Godless. And they were reviled and persecuted for it; just as Jesus predicted would happen to his true followers! They also showed a remarkable love and their ministry exhibited power. Christ came so we could be one, with Him and the Father, on the earth in this life; so we could enjoy the Kingdom of Heaven here and now, after we go to him for his purification.

See Meditations for details on the lost way to union with God.

For those 'Christians' who want rid themselves of their sinful nature:

We must die to self on the missing cross before he can rule us as our true lord. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Gal 5:24. Without having mortified the deeds and habits of the flesh, you have no part of Him; for without holiness, none shall see God. Hebrews 12:14. You were sold the false grace which says do nothing, just continue to live in your sinful nature. You have been cheated of true peace and from knowing that you could live in the Kingdom of Heaven within you, while on earth, which does not come with outward signs and visible display; he has already returned to thousands of believers who produced the fruit of repentance, who purified themselves to get ready for him.

And unto them that look for him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Heb 9:28

When he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure. 1 John 3:2-3
For the pure in heart see God; the pure in heart experience the appearance of Christ, his return.

Jesus said: Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' Matthew 7:22-3. Obviously they called him Lord, and they had enough faith that he was the son of God to perform wonderful miracles in his name; but that was not enough - they were evildoers! Jesus is saying that they have not made them their Lord in practice, who controls their lives in their actions and words; he doesn't know them to be his subjects as their ruling Lord. They say Jesus is Lord with their lips, but keep him far removed from their hearts to really be their Lord and King. To make him Lord, he has to first cleanse us of our sinful nature that makes us unruly, incapable of being subject to a Lord or King. Until he cleanses us, we are a slave to sin, incapable of being subject to a Lord or King. Jesus himself said, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. John 8:34. So we have to seek him to purify us by destroying our selfish, unruly, sinful nature; we have to sit quietly so that he, the Light and the Word, can teach us about himself and search our heart to show us our conditions; lead us to repent, and then cleanse us to be governable so he can truly rule us as our King and Lord. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 10:27

Jesus came so he could destroy the the works of the devil in us - if we go to him.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, [in us] that he might destroy the works [sin] of the devil. 1 John 3:8

Jesus said: If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me. John 13:8 (This is not the ritual water baptism.)

If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Rev 3:20. Sitting quietly while thinking on his name is how we learn from Him, get cleansed by Him, be led by Him, and come to know Him. Hearing his voice is not reading the Bible, it is hearing his voice. To hear someone, we have to listen; to listen we have to stop talking, reading, and racing our mind.

For everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and does them, ...
He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; securely.. Luke 6:47-48

He is extraordinarily patient toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

Do not fear, you can experience the joy of real fellowship with Christ. I am not recruiting for any sect. I seek no followers; you have no need of any teacher but the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, 1 John 2:27; Christ in you, the hope of glory. I do not want your money. Everything on this site is free. Nothing is for sale. I only want you to know the freedom from the distress of sin. I want you to know that you can be so filled with love, that you go through the rest of you life obsessed with loving others and loving God. You can be full of everlasting joy and peace. You can know the Father. You can become pure in heart and see God. You can have the Kingdom of God and the glorious Christ established in your heart. But, you must pick up you cross daily and crucify your flesh's affections and lusts to be with God. Be of good courage and have faith, for compared to his cross, your burden is light and easy. The cross simply is to go to him. He said, " Take my yoke upon you and learn from me." This is how you learn from him, (you will be taught, shown your condition, and you will receive personalized commands from Him to you):

* seeking the Kingdom of God, as your first priority, is an act of repentance and a cross to your selfish will
* turning away from evil, as you understand it, is an act of repentance and a cross to your selfish will
* you don't want to sit quietly every day to listen and watch, but if you do - it is a cross to your selfish will
if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Rev. 3:20
* you don't want to obey his commands that you hear, but if you repent- it is a cross to your selfish will
* you don't want to forgive injustices done to you, but you repent and forgive - a cross to your angry self
* you don't want to admit and regret what the Light shows your condition to be, but if you repent - it is a cross to your will
(this is the place where you get changed, where your peace increases; in the Light)
* you don't want to give to others from your excess, but if you repent from your selfishness and give- it is a cross to your will
* you don't want to defer (deny self) to others, rather than insist on your way, but if you repent and defer - it is a cross to your will

This is the Inward Cross of Self-Denial

If any will come after me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23

Jesus said: except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3,5

Those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Gal 5:24

See How to Benefit from the Changing Power of God for more detail.

He wants us to come to him so we can be taught and he can show us our condition; and by us repenting and obeying his commands, he purifies us until he and the Father come to establish their Kingdom in our hearts and translate us to paradise, all by grace; a grace that teaches us to live godly and righteously in this present world. Contrasted with the deficit sects' false, instant grace, Paul describes the true grace in letter to Titus stated below:

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world,
looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:11-4

(This is not instant grace; this is a teaching grace, a purifying grace; in this world. This takes time. You must be quiet to listen to be taught by grace, resulting in the appearance of God and Christ and leading you to good works.)

See True Grace vs. False Grace for more.
If you think believing or baptism is all you need, see The Fallacy of John 3:16 Taken out of Context, and the The Missing Cross.
See How to Benefit from the Changing Power of God for how to get started listening.

You might be asking, how could this be true? Everyone believes that there is nothing I have to do but believe in Jesus, and maybe get baptized in water. The answer is in the Bible; countless examples in the history of Israel where they forgot the requirements of righteousness and became comfortable in their flesh. In cycles, a prophet would arise, point out their universal error and then get persecuted or killed; then they got punished, they repented and lived correctly until they drifted back into a false religion. The same thing happened in the early church; Jude wrote in 1:4, For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality. All the deficit sects of today are simply variations on the doctrines established by the Roman emperor, and of course saint, Constantine in 325 AD regarding salvation and Christianity; the doctrines were further standardized by later Roman emperors, including the sainted despot, Justinian. Within sixty-five years the true church, with its correct doctrines, was stamped out by the deceptive lure of their doctrine of instant, ritualized salvation, coupled with the Roman Empire's crushing boot of persecution for any deviation from their authorized, state religion. As predicted in the Bible's Book of Revelation, the church had adulterated with the Kings of the earth. For 1260 years the true church was banished to the wilderness, to appear again in 1650 with the breakthrough of the early Quakers - only to die again by 1880 due to the deception of presumptive salvation. People are eager to embrace the broad, easy way.

Even Adolph Hitler said Jesus was his Lord and Savior; but you saying so, doesn't make him your Lord in control of your words and deeds.

Read George Fox's Journal, and you will know for sure; just as they were surrounded by godless deficit sects, so are we today in an age of universal apostasy: false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing, blind guides, minster's asking for your money, countless thousands of blind ministers taught by colleges instead of Christ, millions of blind followers in the ditch, still subject to rage, lusts, anger, greed, envy, emotions; with no purity, no peace, false hope, false gospels, false salvation, the missing cross, and no one entering the Kingdom. In response to a question, would many be saved? Christ said, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many will go in there: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few will find it." Paul said, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (quaking)." So salvation is not as easy as you have been led to believe. You have been misled. It is easy to go with the herd; but beware, for Paul said, They that are in the flesh cannot please God. See the Missing Cross for more.

Christ is eager to help you enter by the narrow gate and for you to receive his Kingdom; but you must go to him. To learn to live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. You must go to Him for the purpose of loosing your fleshly life to gain your spiritual Life; to attain purity through his grace and your faith in the power of the true gospel, the power of the cross, and the power of his name, Jesus Christ; all the power of God. Remember, all things work together for good for those who love God, to them who are called according his purpose. You have nothing to worry about. Even the things you did wrong in your life, worked to bring you to God, to be reunited with Him, to learn to love, to learn of God's love for you, to love God, to be loved by God, to become a son of love, to become love too. If you love Him, you will seek Him by going to him and getting quiet to hear his very soft voice. "Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10

To enter Heaven, you have to be purified. You can be purified on earth by grace through repentance, or you can be purified in the next life, through Hell to Heaven. Everyone will be purified eventually and receive right standing with God to live in Heaven; but purification in the next life is far harder and the subsequent life is far less. See Is There Hope for ALL Men and Women for more information. For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. 1 Timothy 4:9-10

See the Home Page and How to Benefit from the Changing Power of God for more.

This web site's purpose is to show how to become
free from sin
by benefiting from the changing power of God through the cross,
which leads to union with God and his Kingdom.

God Loves You!

2007-10-25T00:22:00.000-07:00

The Bible says, "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life"

The problem is that . . .

Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul IV,

2007-10-24T23:42:00.001-07:00

"Cum ex Apostolatus Officio"

15th February 1559
(Roman Bullarium Vol. IV. Sec. I, pp. 354-357)

By virtue of the Apostolic office which, despite our unworthiness, has been entrusted to Us by God, We are responsible for the general care of the flock of the Lord. Because of this, in order that the flock may be faithfully guarded and beneficially directed, We are bound to be diligently watchful after the manner of a vigilant Shepherd and to ensure most carefully that certain people who consider the study of the truth beneath them should be driven out of the sheepfold of Christ and no longer continue to disseminate error from positions of authority. We refer in particular to those who in this age, impelled by their sinfulness and supported by their cunning, are attacking with unusual learning and malice the discipline of the orthodox Faith, and who, moreover, by perverting the import of Holy Scripture, are striving to rend the unity of the Catholic Church and the seamless tunic of the Lord.

1. In assessing Our duty and the situation now prevailing, We have been weighed upon by the thought that a matter of this kind [i.e. error in respect of the Faith] is so grave and so dangerous that the Roman Pontiff,who is the representative upon earth of God and our God and Lord Jesus Christ, who holds the fulness of power over peoples and kingdoms, who may judge all and be judged by none in this world, may nonetheless be contradicted if he be found to have deviated from the Faith. Remembering also that, where danger is greater, it must more fully and more diligently be counteracted, We have been concerned lest false prophets or others, even if they have only secular jurisdiction, should wretchedly ensnare the souls of the simple, and drag with them into perdition, destruction and damnation countless peoples committed to their care and rule, either in spiritual or in temporal matters; and We have been concerned also lest it may befall Us to see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, in the holy place. In view of this, Our desire has been to fulfill our Pastoral duty, insofar as, with the help of God, We are able, so as to arrest the foxes who are occupying themselves in the destruction of the vineyard of the Lord and to keep the wolves from the sheepfolds, lest We seem to be dumb watchdogs that cannot bark and lest We perish with the wicked husbandman and be compared with the hireling.

2. Hence, concerning these matters, We have held mature deliberation with our venerable brothers the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church; and, upon their advice and with their unanimous agreement, we now enact as follows:-

In respect of each and every sentence of excommunication, suspension, interdict and privation and any other sentences, censures and penalties against heretics or schismatics, enforced and promulgated in any way whatsoever by any of Our predecessors the Roman Pontiffs, or by any who were held to be such (even by their "litterae extravagantes" i.e. private letters), or by the sacred Councils received by the Church of God, or by decrees of the Holy Fathers and the statutes, or by the sacred Canons and the Constitutions and Apostolic Ordinations - all these measures, by Apostolic authority, We approve and renew, that they may and must be observed in perpetuity and, if perchance they be no longer in lively observance, that they be restored to it.

Thus We will and decree that the aforementioned sentences, censures and penalties be incurred without exception by all members of the following categories:

(i) Anysoever who, before this date, shall have been detected to have deviated from the Catholic Faith, or fallen into any heresy, or incurred schism, or provoked or committed either or both of these, or who have confessed to have done any of these things, or who have been convicted of having done any of these things.

(ii) Anysoever who (which may God, in His clemency and goodness to all, deign to avert) shall in the future so deviate or fall into heresy, or incur schism, or shall provoke or commit either or both of these.

(iii) Anysoever who shall be detected to have so deviated, fallen, incurred, provoked or committed, or who shall confess to have done any of these things, or who shall be convicted of having done any of these things.

These sanctions, moreover, shall be incurred by all members of these categories, of whatever status, grace, order, condition and pre-eminence they may be, even if they be endowed with the Episcopal, Archiepiscopal, Patriarchal, Primatial or some other greater Ecclesiastical dignity, or with the honour of the Cardinalate and of the Universal Apostolic See by the office of Legate, whether temporary or permanent, or if they be endowed with even worldly authority or excellence, as Count, Baron, Marquis, Duke, King or Emperor.

All this We will and decree.

3. Nonetheless, We also consider it proper that those who do not abandon evil deeds through love of virtue should be deterred therefrom by fear of punishment; and We are aware that Bishops, Archbishops, Patriarchs, Primates, Cardinals and Legates, Counts, Barons, Marquises, Dukes, Kings and Emperors (who ought to teach others and offer them a good example in order to preserve them in the Catholic Faith), by failing in their duty sin more gravely than others; since they not only damn themselves, but also drag with them into perdition and into the pit of death countless other people entrusted to their care or rule, or otherwise subject to them, by their like counsel and agreement.

Hence, by this Our Constitution which is to remain valid in perpetuity, in abomination of so great a crime (than which none in the Church of God can be greater or more pernicious) by the fulness of our Apostolic Power, We enact, determine, decree and define (since the aforesaid sentences, censures and penalties are to remain in efficacious force and strike all those whom they are intended to strike) that:-

(i) each and every member of the following categories - Bishops, Archbishops, Patriarchs, Primates, Cardinals, Legates, Counts, Barons, Marquises, Dukes, Kings and Emperors - who:

(a) hitherto (as We have already said) have been detected, or have confessed to have, or have been convicted of having, deviated [i.e. from the Catholic Faith], or fallen into heresy or incurred schism or provoked or committed either or both of these;

(b) in the future also shall [so] deviate, or fall into heresy, or incur schism, or provoke or commit either or both of these, or shall be detected or shall confess to have, or shall be convicted of having [so] deviated, or fallen into heresy, or incurred schism, or provoked or committed either or both of these;

(since in this they are rendered more inexcusable than the rest) in addition to the aforementioned sentences, censures and penalties, shall also automatically, without any exercise of law or application of fact, be thoroughly, entirely and perpetually deprived of:- their Orders and Cathedrals, even Metropolitan, Patriarchal and Primatial Churches, the honour of the Cardinalate and the office of any embassy whatsoever, not to mention both active and passive voting rights, all authority, Monasteries, benefices and Ecclesiastical offices, be they functional or sinecures, secular or religious of whatsoever Order, which they may have obtained by any concessions whatsoever, or by Apostolic Dispensations to title, charge and administration or otherwise howsoever, and in which or to which they may have any right whatsoever, likewise any whatsoever fruits, returns or annual revenues from like fruits, returns and revenues reserved for and assigned to them, as well as Countships, Baronies, Marquisates, Dukedoms, Kingships and Imperial Power;

(ii) that, moreover, they shall be unfit and incapable in respect of these things and that they shall be held to be backsliders and subverted in every way, just as if they had previously abjured heresy of this kind in public trial; that they shall never at any time be able to be restored, returned, reinstated or rehabilitated to their former status or Cathedral, Metropolitan, Patriarchal and Primatial Churches, or the Cardinalate, or other honour, any other dignity, greater or lesser, any right to vote, active or passive, or authority, or Monasteries and benefices, or Countships, Baronies, Marquisates, Dukedoms, Kingships and positions of Imperial power; but rather that they shall be abandoned to the judgement of the secular power to be punished after due consideration, unless there should appear in them signs of true penitence and the fruits of worthy repentance, and, by the kindness and clemency of the See itself, they shall have been sentenced to sequestration in any Monastery or other religious house in order to perform perpetual penance upon the bread of sorrow and the water of affliction;

(iii) that all such individuals also shall be held, treated and reputed as such by everyone, of whatsoever status, grade, order, condition or pre-eminence he may be and whatsoever excellence may be his, even Episcopal, Archiepiscopal, Patriarchal and Primatial or other greater Ecclesiastical dignity and even the honour of the Cardinalate, or secular, even the authority of Count, Baron, Marquis, Duke, King or Emperor, and as such must be avoided and must be deprived of the sympathy of all natural kindess.

4. [By this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity, We] further enact, determine, decree and define:-]

that those who shall have claimed to have the right of patronage or of nominating suitable persons to Cathedral, Metropolitan, Patriarchal and Primatial Churches, or to Monasteries or other Ecclesiastical benefices which may be vacant by privation of this kind (in order that those which shall have been vacant for a long time may not be exposed to the unfit, but, having been rescued from enslavement to heretics, may be granted to suitable persons who would faithfully direct their people in the paths of justice), shall be bound to present other persons suitable to Churches, Monasteries and benefices of this kind, to Us, or to the Roman Pontiff at that time existing, within the time determined by law, or by their concordats, or by compacts entered into with the said See; and that, if they shall not have done so when the said period shall have elapsed, the full and free disposition of the aforesaid Churches, Monasteries and benefices shall by the fulness of the law itself devolve upon Us or upon the aforesaid Roman Pontiff.

5. [By this Our Constitution,] moreover, [which is to remain valid in perpetuity, We] also [enact, determine, decree and define:-]

as follows concerning those who shall have presumed in any way knowingly to receive, defend, favour, believe or teach the teaching of those so apprehended, confessed or convicted:
(i) they shall automatically incur sentence of excommunication;
(ii) they shall be rendered infamous;
(iii) they shall be excluded on pain of invalidity from any public or private office, deliberation, Synod, general or provincial Council and any conclave of Cardinals or other congregation of the faithful, and from any election or function of witness, so that they cannot take part in any of these by vote, in person, by writings, representative or by any agent;
(iv) they shall be incapable of making a will;
(v) they shall not accede to the succession of heredity;
(vi) no one shall be forced to respond to them concerning any business;
(vii) if perchance they shall have been Judges, their judgements shall have no force, nor shall any cases be brought to their hearing.;
(viii) if they shall have been Advocates, their pleading shall nowise be received;
(ix) if they shall have been Notaries, documents drafted by them shall be entirely without strength or weight;
(x) clerics shall be automatically deprived of each and every Church, even Cathedral, Metropolitan, Patriarchal, Primatial, and likewise of dignities, Monasteries, benefices and Ecclesiastical offices, and even, as has been already mentioned, of qualifications, howsoever obtained by them;
(xi) laymen, moreover, in the same way - even if they be qualified, as already described, or endowed with the aforesaid dignities or anysoever Kingdoms, Duchies, Dominions, Fiefs and temporal goods possessed by them;
(xii) finally, all Kingdoms, Duchies, Dominions, Fiefs and goods of this kind shall be confiscated, made public and shall remain so, and shall be made the rightful property of those who shall first occupy them if these shall be sincere in faith, in the unity of the Holy Roman Church and under obedience to Us and to Our successors the Roman Pontiffs canonically entering office.

6. In addition, [by this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity We enact, determine, decree and define:-] that if ever at any time it shall appear that any Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, or, as has already been mentioned, any legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, prior to his promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy:

(i) the promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and worthless;
(ii) it shall not be possible for it to acquire validity (nor for it to be said that it has thus acquired validity) through the acceptance of the office, of consecration, of subsequent authority, nor through possession of administration, nor through the putative enthronement of a Roman Pontiff, or Veneration, or obedience accorded to such by all, nor through the lapse of any period of time in the foregoing situation;
(iii) it shall not be held as partially legitimate in any way;
(iv) to any so promoted to be Bishops, or Archbishops, or Patriarchs, or Primates or elevated as Cardinals, or as Roman Pontiff, no authority shall have been granted, nor shall it be considered to have been so granted either in the spiritual or the temporal domain;
(v) each and all of their words, deeds, actions and enactments, howsoever made, and anything whatsoever to which these may give rise, shall be without force and shall grant no stability whatsoever nor any right to anyone;
(vi) those thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived automatically, and without need for any further declaration, of all dignity, position, honour, title, authority, office and power.

7. Finally, [by this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity, We] also [enact, determine, define and decree]:- that any and all persons who would have been subject to those thus promoted or elevated if they had not previously deviated from the Faith, become heretics, incurred schism or provoked or committed any or all of these, be they members of anysoever of the following categories:
(i) the clergy, secular and religious;
(ii) the laity;
(iii) the Cardinals, even those who shall have taken part in the election of this very Pontiff previously deviating from the Faith or heretical or schismatical, or shall otherwise have consented and vouchsafed obedience to him and shall have venerated him;
(iv) Castellans, Prefects, Captains and Officials, even of Our Beloved City and of the entire Ecclesiastical State, even if they shall be obliged and beholden to those thus promoted or elevated by homage, oath or security; shall be permitted at any time to withdraw with impunity from obedience and devotion to those thus promoted or elevated and to avoid them as warlocks, heathens, publicans, and heresiarchs (the same subject persons, nevertheless, remaining bound by the duty of fidelity and obedience to any future Bishops, Archbishops, Patriarchs, Primates, Cardinals and Roman Pontiff canonically entering).

To the greater confusion, moreover, of those thus promoted or elevated, if these shall have wished to prolong their government and authority, they shall be permitted to request the assistance of the secular arm against these same individuals thus promoted or elevated; nor shall those who withdraw on this account, in the aforementioned circumstances, from fidelity and obedience to those thus promoted and elevated, be subject, as are those who tear the tunic of the Lord, to the retribution of any censures or penalties.

8. [The provisions of this Our Constitution, which is to remain valid in perpetuity are to take effect] notwithstanding any Constitutions, Apostolic Ordinations, privileges, indults or Apostolic Letters, whether they be to these same Bishops, Archbishops, Patriarchs, Primates and Cardinals or to any others, and whatsoever may be their import and form, and with whatsoever sub-clauses or decrees they may have been granted, even "motu proprio" and by certain knowledge, from the fulness of the Apostolic power or even consistorially or otherwise howsoever; and even if they have been repeatedly approved and renewed,have been included in the corpus of the Law or strengthened by any capital conclaves whatsoever (even by oath) or by Apostolic confirmation or by anysoever other endorsements or if they were legislated by ourself. By this present document instead of by express mention, We specially and expressly derogate the provisions of all these by appropriate deletion and word-for-word substitution, so that these may otherwise remain in force.

9. In order, however, that this document may be brought to the notice of all whom it concerns, We wish it or a transcription of it (to which, when made by the hand of the undersigned Public Notary and fortified by the seal of any person established in ecclesiastical dignity, We decree that complete trust must be accorded) to be published and affixed in the Basilica of the Prince of the Apostles in this City and on the doors of the Apostolic Chancery and in the pavilion of the Campus Florae by some of our couriers; [we] will [further] that a quantity of copies affixed in this place should be distributed, and that publication and affixing of this kind should suffice and be held as right, solemn and legitimate, and that no other publication should be required or awaited.

10. No one at all, therefore, may infringe this document of our approbation, re-introduction, sanction, statute and derogation of wills and decrees, or by rash presumption contradict it. If anyone, however, should presume to attempt this, let him know that he is destined to incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul.

Given in Rome at Saint Peter's in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1559, 15th February, in the fourth year of our Pontificate.

+ I, Paul, Bishop of the Catholic Church…

SUMMARY

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We are left then with this:

The infallible, sovereign God of Scripture can speak only am infallible Word, and this is what He has done. There is no other word possible from such a God. Humanism, whether secular or religious, requires a god who cannot speak, or who speaks with little authority, or with a confused tongue. The God of the Word, beloved, is not such a God. He is the Lord, the Sovereign King over all creation. His Word is the Creating Word, the Infallible Word, the Inerrant Word. When we affirm the Word of God as infallible, we affirm our faith that the God of Scripture -- the God of the Word – is He Whom He says He is, and that we believe His every Word, and by His grace, hope to live our lives based upon it.

Is this the God you worship today, beloved? I sincerely, prayerfully hope it is, for there is no other. If you have questions about the condition of your soul or your relationship with this God of the Word, please don’t leave this place without speaking to one of our Elders, they will be more than happy to speak with you about these or any other issues which may weigh upon your heart today.

THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE GOD OF THE WORD

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The infallible God of the Word, then, is our Sovereign Lord. This is the basis of Biblical faith – this is the Reformed Faith. The God of the Word, is our Sovereign Lord. No theology has done more to champion the Biblical principle of Sovereignty, and infallibility, and inerrancy, than good, old fashioned Calvinism. In order to have a high view of Scripture, we must have a High view of God. If we have a small, impotent God, it follows that we will have a small, impotent Bible. (Repeat!). The reason we exalt the Scriptures all boils down to this: God is the Lord, He is Sovereign.

So, what happens when men reject the sovereignty of God? (pause) It is no mystery, beloved, they simply accept the sovereignty of man. Man’s reason then prevails over faith and the Lordship of God and Christ. Remember – there is no neutral ground, beloved. A rationalism then too prevails over Biblical presuppositions, and the Bible is replaced with what we confront today, namely a destitute, hopeless, futureless humanism. This is the world we live in today – a world where God is outlawed by a supposedly sovereign man.

IMPOSTERS

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Now, let’s look at how the nature of God effects the claims of what I believe are the only two major written works – other than our Bible – that have adherents who believe these works are in some sense "inspired."

We are talking about Mormonism and the Book of Mormon, and Islam and the Koran. Both of these works are given as true and historical. Both have much criticism with which to deal and with which we have no intention of examining today.

But, both works claim to be in harmony with the Bible, so both begin by making a claim to a "final" place in the history of revelation. This means they claim that the final truth in history is in them or will come through them.

Islam declares a great prophet yet to come, a king or warrior king known as an "emahdi." Mormonism teaches that continuing revelation comes through the twelve apostles who, at any given time, rule the Mormon church. So, the finality of revelation (in both instances) is denied. Instead of final truth resting in the enscripturated Word of God, it rests in the hands of MEN! This is truly a monumental, dramatic alteration in the faith – this is a total shift in the source of authority. In the place of the infallible work, we now have the binding authority of a group of men. "New revelations" supplant the Biblical one. Imagine, beloved, coming to church one fine Sunday morning and discovering that your Pastor, or Session, or Presbytery, or General Assembly, or Whatever – has decreed a New Revelation. It makes no difference at all how ridiculous or sublime the revelation may be, THIS IS HORRIFYING. And yet, millions of people all over the world are in exactly this situation every day of their lives. Suddenly, the idea of committing ourselves to the authority of the Bible is not merely rational – but essential. The Word of God is the final revelation because it was authored by the God of the Word – and reveals the consummation of the ages.

A Biblically orthodox theology, which we must all pursue, says the Bible is "verbally inspired," meaning that every single word is God-breathed; it says that the inspiration of the Bible is "plenary," meaning that the sum total of the Scriptures is God-breathed – there is no Book of the Bible that shouldn’t be there, there are no portions of Scripture which are not God-breathed. This means that God, who cannot lie, who IS truth, has spoken to us "Covenantally." We can depend on Him to keep His Word to us, because He is the God who keeps His Word – He cannot lie. So when God covenants with Abraham and says in Genesis 12:1-3

1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.

2 "I will make you into a great nation

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you."

… we can depend on His Covenant Word to be true.

C. Van Til, a modern theologian to whom we owe a great debt, puts it this way:

"… we may thus call this view of God and His relation to the world the covenantal view. As such it is exhaustively personal. There is no area in which man can find himself confronted with impersonal fact or law. All so-called impersonal laws and all so-called uninterpreted facts are what they are because they are expressive of the revelation of God’s will and purpose." (The Doctrine of Scripture, 1967, p. 37)

What Van Til is saying here is that in all of Creation there is no such thing as "nuetral" facts or events. Everything exists as an expression of what and who God is, and that He covenantally (He cannot lie, and He is truth) relates to all Creation, including you and me.

INFALLIBILITY

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One of the distinctives of our Christian faith is our doctrine of infallibility. So much so that the only religions on earth that have any doctrines of inerrancy or infallibility are those which imitate or borrow from the Bible. Christianity, though – the religion of the Book – mandates it. Why so? Because we have a high regard for ancient religious literature? Not hardly. Christianity is the religion of the Book (that’s with a capital ‘B’), because God, our God, is the God of the Book. The God who speaks in and through the Bible speaks a "necessarily" infallible word.

God is God through and through, beloved. What do I mean by that? Simply this: God is internally and eternally God, all knowing, all wise, all perfect IN ALL OF HIS BEING. 1 John 1:5 says this: And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. God, beloved, is God (with all of His attributes!) through and through.

This means that the perfection of God in all that He is, is also manifested morally. He is morally perfect. This is why God is able to be without sin. Understand that this doesn’t mean God is simply so clever that He can appear to us to be perfect when He really is not. God cannot lie, ergo God cannot sin. Many religions claim a god or gods who are very smart. Very many religions claim a god or gods who are not only morally inadequate, but morally reprobate -- and their adherents delight in these so-called Gods. The Christian doctrine you hear preached from this pulpit week in and week out is based on this one paramount fact: the Biblical doctrine of infallibility is an inescapable result of what the Bible teaches about who and what God is and His revelation to man. (Repeat?)

Our God, beloved, is the God of the Word. Psalm 138:2 says: "I will bow down toward Thy holy temple, And give thanks to Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth; For Thou hast magnified Thy word according to all Thy name." This says, beloved, that everything that God SAYS (that is, His Word) is backed up by everything that God IS. His name and His Word cannot be separated.

God is not a man

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Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

We read also, referring to Jesus Christ: John 14:6 6 Jesus *said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.

Again, we read in Malachi: (3:6) 6 "For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

With these three portions of Scripture we are confronted immediately with an astounding and multifaceted decree:

1. God speaks the truth, and the truth only;
2. access to God is through Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ only;
3. Jesus Christ is explicitly identified with the Godhead, and God, as The Truth; and,
4. these facts will not change because God is unchangeable.

These few sentences of the doctrine of God are extremely important for our proper understanding of the doctrine of Scripture. Essential, actually. God says He cannot lie, so He cannot. Jesus is the only way, the truth, and the life, so He is. God is immutable, so that settles it forever. There is nothing outside of God that can alter in the slightest the will and work of God – ever.

This is difficult for us to comprehend because neither you nor I are God. I know that sounds simplistic, but you and I are constantly acting as if we were God – amen? So, you can take this for a gentle reminder. As creatures, we are dependent, and interdependent, on a whole world full of other peoples and events created and orchestrated by God. We are constantly weighing options, considering uncertainties, changing our minds, and doubting decisions we have already made. Thankfully, God suffers from none of this, and even expresses His displeasure with all this sort of double mindedness in James, chapter one.

Understand that there is no such time as "before" God. There is nothing that can contribute to His being in any way. God is not a creation of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, but the cosmos so lovingly revered by Mr. Sagan is indeed the creation of almighty God.

When we see the photographs from the Hubbell telescope we are in awe of the vastness and the incredible beauty of the those areas of the universe that we had only supposed were even there! The great triune God, our loving heavenly Father, made it all, beloved – and He made it with the mere effort of speaking. The one and eternal God, who was, and is, and is to come; the Creator of the universe, is forever one, yet in three persons. This God who cannot lie is, therefore, forever truth, and everything that He is and does is truth.

Now, I have said all of that to say this: God therefore can speak only an infallible word.

SOME ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

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In order to know who God is, we must first know what God is. Actually, it is easier for most of us to understand the "who" part because "who God is" is in large part relational, i.e.: God the Father. We relate to the fatherhood of God.

What we do not relate to, are many aspects of what God is -- what His character is. Some of His attributes that He does not share with His creatures are so beyond us that we do not have a clue as to their real nature. We may define them, but we don’t share them. You’re familiar with the movie "Clueless?" That is the entire human race when we talk about the "incommunicable" attributes of God.

So, what is God that we should bother paying attention to anything He says?

Our confession is excellent on the subject:

"There is but one only,[1] living, and true God,[2] who is infinite in being and perfection,[3] a most pure spirit,[4] invisible,[5] without body, parts,[6] or passions;[7] immutable,[8] immense,[9] eternal,[10] incomprehensible,[11] almighty,[12] most wise,[13] most holy,[14] most free,[15] most absolute;[16] working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will,[17] for his own glory;[18] most loving,[19] gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;[20] the rewarder of them that diligently seek him;[21] and withal, most just, and terrible in his judgments,[22] hating all sin,[23] and who will by no means clear the guilty.[24]

"God hath all life,[25] glory,[26] goodness,[27] blessedness,[28] in and of himself; and is alone in and unto himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creatures which he hath made,[29] nor deriving any glory from them,[30] but only manifesting his own glory in, by, unto, and upon them. He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things;[31] and hath most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, for them, or upon them whatsoever himself pleaseth.[32] In his sight all things are open and manifest,[33] his knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature,[34] so as nothing is to him contingent, or uncertain.[35] He is most holy in all his counsels, in all his works, and in all his commands.[36] To him is due from angels and men, and every other creature, whatsoever worship, service, or obedience he is pleased to require of them.[37]

"In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost:[38] the Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father;[39] the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.[40]"

So, there – in a very well-put and concise nutshell – is what God is; His attributes, if you will. Now, let’s narrow our focus and look at some specific traits of God relating to His Word.

THE DOCTRINE OF SCIRPTURE

We read in Scripture that God cannot lie.

SERMON – "THE GOD OF THE WORD"

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INTRODUCTION

When I was a young boy I used to lay awake at night wondering about God. Not that I was a pious young man, by any stretch. I would contemplate what He must be like. In my young mind I would wonder whether He looked like me -- or whether His appearance was so huge and foreign that He couldn’t be seen from just one point of view. I was curious about where He came, whether or not He was a part of a race of gods, did He kind of float around in the universe or did He have a "place" of some kind. Yes, I was kind of weird – but, oddly enough, I never doubted the existence of God; I just didn’t know what He was. I didn’t know how to relate to Him.

I didn’t have what you would call a religious upbringing, but my parents belonged to big Methodist church in suburban central Ohio, and I must have been a member there because they gave me a Bible – it was a Revised Standard Version that I still have on my bookshelf. It has a presentation page dated September 8, 1957 and it is signed by Rev. Kenneth F. Clark, Jr.. I can’t remember who he is, I don’t even have a face in my memory associated with this name from my past. …But he gave me a Bible when I was 9 years old, like – I imagine—he gave to many other children who attended Worthington Methodist Church.

Being, I think, a fairly normal (though admittedly weird) young man I made attempts to read my Bible – I even dedicated myself reading it cover to cover, although I can’t remember getting farther than the story of Noah and the Ark. But again, oddly enough, I never doubted that the Bible Rev. Clark had given me was the Word of God; I just couldn’t understand it. I didn’t know it related to me.

So, without religious training and completely ignorant of the Scriptures, as a boy of 9 or 10 years I KNEW that God existed and that the Bible was His Book. And, you know – I don’t think my life experience has been that much different than anyone else, ever. I believe that all of us, being created as the image-bearers of God, carry in us the conviction that God is and that His truth is revealed to us in the Holy Bible. I hope to demonstrate that conviction in this message.

Today, I am going to try to make you better theologians. I say "better", because we are all theologians. We are not all equal as theologians, but we are all theologians.

So, today it is my goal to continue your theological education while inspiring you all to live godly in Christ Jesus. A lofty goal, admittedly. But it is the desire of every preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ to edify those who hear the message, and be some small means of God’s grace in bringing all of us to a more complete understanding of the Word of God – even though we who are privileged to preach the gospel know how profoundly we lack, and what sinners we are.

Now, we Evangelical types make much of our view of the Bible; and, we Reformed Evangelicals even more. This morning, I want to begin to help us see clearly the importance of not merely how we view the Scriptures, but how we use them, and apply them in our lives every day. However, in order to accomplish this goal we must first be able to view God correctly. The Word of God cannot be separated from the God of the Word.

Love Forgives

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In order to do what is right by another person we must first be grounded and rooted in love. It's out of love that we can forgive. We must first experience God's love by receiving His Son Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It's His love that gives us the strength to do what is right and forgive.

Do you love Me?

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Our Lord told us how our love for Him is to exhibit itself when He asked, "Do you love Me?" ( John 21:17 ). And then He said, "Feed My sheep." In effect, He said, "Identify yourself with My interests in other people," not, "Identify Me with your interests in other people." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 shows us the characteristics of this love— it is actually the love of God expressing itself. The true test of my love for Jesus is a very practical one, and all the rest is sentimental talk.

Faithfulness to Jesus Christ is the supernatural work of redemption that has been performed in me by the Holy Spirit— "the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit . . ." ( Romans 5:5 ). And it is that love in me that effectively works through me and comes in contact with everyone I meet. I remain faithful to His name, even though the commonsense view of my life may seemingly deny that, and may appear to be declaring that He has no more power than the morning mist.

The key to the missionary’s devotion is that he is attached to nothing and to no one except our Lord Himself. It does not mean simply being detached from the external things surrounding us. Our Lord was amazingly in touch with the ordinary things of life, but He had an inner detachment except toward God. External detachment is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner attachment to the things we stay away from externally.

The duty of a faithful missionary is to concentrate on keeping his soul completely and continually open to the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. The men and women our Lord sends out on His endeavors are ordinary human people, but people who are controlled by their devotion to Him, which has been brought about through the work of the Holy Spirit.

May Commitment As A Christian

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I'm a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy Spirit Power. The dye has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I'm a disciple of His. I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.

My past is redeemed, my resent makes sense, and my future is secure. I'm finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living and dwarfed goals

I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits or popularity, I don't have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded. I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lifted by prayer and labor by power.

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow my way rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity.

I won't give up, shut up, let up, until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, preached up for the cause of Christ. I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me. And when he comes for His own, He will have no problems recognizing me - my banner will be clear!

Written by a young African pastor and tacked on the wall of his house

The Sermon on the Mount

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Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
For they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
For they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven,
for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matt 5:3-12

challenging

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challenging times we live in. We need to have God's Word written upon our hearts. We who say we are followers of Jesus Christ should want the world to see Christ in us. To stand in this world for goodness even in the face of adversity. God's people can only win the war of good and evil when we are willing to sacrifice ourselves for God's goodness.
My heart is always with those searching for answers. I pray that as you read or listen to a sermon on my website that God will speak to you through me. All of my sermons contain spiritual tools that will teach you how to get God's power moving in your everyday life. So, that you may represent Him in this world. We do not have to wear special clothing to set ourselves apart from others. The armor of God is brilliant enough for the world to see Christ in His followers.

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News and Commentary

This section of our website will contain news updates and commentary that we feel are important for our readers to see. They will concern things that touch upon the Catholic Faith and the apostasy of the Vatican II sect, as well as some other items we deem significant. These news items and commentaries will provide corroborating evidence for what we have proven in our magazines and videotapes: that the worldwide structure under Benedict XVI, which follows Vatican II and the invalid New Mass (the Novus Ordo), and which claims to be the Roman Catholic Church, is actually a counterfeit sect of the last days that poses as the Catholic Church but is not. This column is updated frequently.

People see image of Antipope John Paul II in flames

People saw a miraculous image of Antipope John Paul II in flames. Is it not fitting that the other worldly image which they saw of him was one of flames? The flames of Hell are exactly what his antichrist reign and doctrines represented, and where they led. Notice also that the news person covering the story in the video unwittingly remarked that John Paul II left his “indelible mark” on the world – as in the “mark of the beast.” Interestingly, Benedict XVI recently said that John Paul II left his “mark” on history.

Benedict XVI, Speech, Sept. 7, 2007: “My great Predecessor of blessed memory, Pope John Paul II, visited Austria three times. Each time he was received most cordially by the People of this Country, his words were listened to attentively, and his apostolic journeys left their mark.” (L’Osservatore Romano, Sept. 12, 2007, p. 4.)

In fact, Benedict XVI said the same thing about the Antichrist reign of Antipope Paul VI.

Benedict XVI, Address, Sept. 26, 2007: “[Paul VI]… a great Pontiff who made a mark on the history of the 20th century.” (L’Osservatore Romano, Oct. 10, 2007, p. 2).

Related: John Paul II preached the Doctrine of the Antichrist [PDF file] (This article focuses in on one heresy that John Paul II preached: that every man is Jesus Christ. This article contains the shocking proof that John Paul II was preaching that every man is God right in the Vatican, and how it specifically fit the Bible’s definition for “Antichrist.”) For his other outrageous heresies and apostasy: John Paul II (manifest heretic who claimed to be pope 1978-2005). So, this image of John Paul II in flames is another example of the false signs mentioned in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 as part of the deception of the last days.

V-2 sect's head of the Cong. of Clergy caught making gay advances

Ireland lies spiritually devastated in the wake of Vatican II

From 1986-2000, divorce rates in Ireland are up 500% and co-habitation is up 400%. Once the land of saints, Ireland’s fall epitomizes the spiritual destruction wrought by the Vatican II sect and is a sign of the Great Apostasy we are now living through.

Media and Jewish groups in uproar because pundit dared to say that Jews should be Christian

A media pundit named Ann Coulter has caused an uproar because she dared to say that Jews should be Christians on CNBC’s “The Big Show” with Donny Deutsch. The host of the show, Donny Deutsch, “just happened” to be another Jew. No surprise there. Let’s get this straight: they are vigorously denouncing her comments as “anti-semitic” because she simply said that Jews should be converted to Jesus Christ! Here’s a disgusting headline from the Los Angeles Times, a very large newspaper: Coulter's anti-semitic comments too dangerous to ignore. “Anti-Semitic”? Give me a break. This is sickening and frightening and disgusting. Many of these people are calling for boycotts and for her even to be pulled off the air. They are anti-Christian bigots and their position is so illogical: they don’t accept a conservative “Christian” viewpoint, as is clear from their denunciation of Coulter, but they are denouncing her precisely because she doesn’t accept the Jewish religious viewpoint. Further, this means, of course, that they would have to say that Jesus and everyone in the world who purports to accept His teaching that Jews must believe in Him for salvation (Mk. 16:16; Jn. 3:36; Jn. 8:23-24; etc.) are “anti-semitic.” What’s so frustrating, however, is that very few of those who are embroiled in these public controversies, after having made such statements (e.g. Ann Coulter), have the courage or the recognition to simply point out the implications of such accusations. For instance, if Coulter forcefully pointed out that they are accusing Jesus and 70% of the country of being anti-semitic (about 70% of America claims to follow Jesus’s teaching), then this might put some of the anti-Christ Jewish attack dogs and their brainwashing media-organs on their heels. But no… people back down or fail to emphasize the main points. Hence, the Jewish groups and the media continue full speed with their illogical and hateful nonsense: anyone who doesn’t bow down to the Jews and agree that they cannot be insulted is an “anti-semite.”

Moreover, notice an important point: the entire controversy is about Jews. But Coulter said that everyone in America should be Christian. That insults Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, etc., not just Jews. So why are all the headlines about “anti-semitism” and Jews? The answer is obvious to those with eyes to see. It’s because the Jews dominate the media and they determine what will be in the focus of the media. This is definitely being added to our: Jewish Power and Control Watch.

Antipope aims to please Jews by attacking Iran at World Jewish Congress

He mentions his concern about the rise of “anti-semitism,” but nothing, of course, about the fact that the Jews need to convert to Catholicism.

SF "archbishop" gives "Communion" to transvestite nuns

We put “Communion” in quotes, of course, because the New Mass is not valid: The Invalid New Mass.

Even prominent Atheist forced to admit that Jews dominate American policy

Certain Jews and prominent Jewish organizations, of course, are complaining about it and falsely labeling the statement “anti-semitic”: Jewish groups falsely label a statement pointing out their domination "anti-semitic".

That’s quite a scam, isn’t it, when they can shout down and falsely label as a racist anyone who criticizes, questions or even factually points out the extent of Jewish influence/domination of American policy? This is one way that the Jews have achieved such a massive/dominating influence. Most are scared to question, let alone oppose, the Jewish domination because Jewish groups and the Jewish-dominated media will attack them and falsely label them as hateful. It’s quite a scam. This has been added to our Jewish Power and Control Watch.

San Diego Padres’ Gay Pride Night comes back to bite them?: Padres miss playoffs after losing in 13 innings

A few months back we posted an article about how the San Diego Padres hosted a “gay pride night” at their ballpark: San Diego Padres host "gay pride night" at ballpark. At the time the Padres were in position to qualify for baseball’s postseason playoffs. Qualification to the postseason could have occurred by winning their division or by getting the wildcard spot. Only four teams from each league qualify, so it’s a major achievement (in terms of baseball achievements). However, near the end of the season, with the Padres significantly ahead of the Colorado Rockies, the Rockies won an extremely unusual 13 of 14 games to storm back and tie the Padres for the wildcard and force a one-game playoff for the spot. Just before that one-game playoff, the Padres blew leads in two straight games which would have clinched the playoff spot. In the game just before the one-game playoff, the Padres’ closing pitcher (the all-time saves leader in Major League Baseball) blew a lead in a game that would have qualified the Padres for the spot.

The one-game playoff with the Rockies went into extra innings. In the top of the 13th inning, the Padres scored two runs. Having a formidable two-run lead and their closer on the mound, they looked again to be in great shape to win the game. But guess what? The Colorado Rockies scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 13th inning, winning their 14th game out of 15, stealing the playoff spot from the Padres and leaving them out of the post-season. Is this just a coincidence? Not in our opinion.

It must be said that such matters are unimportant in the grand scheme of things. God will punish people for all of eternity and doesn’t need to punish people on Earth. However, God sometimes acts to forbid those who commit outrageously sinful acts, which are abominable to Him, from achieving the success they aimed for. The amazing way that the Padres lost the spot shows, in our view, that it was not a coincidence. They were so tantalizingly close; they lost leads in their last three games. Further, the Rockies had to perform unusually well to take the spot from them. It’s almost as if God allowed the Padres’ organization, which had committed this abomination, to taste the post-season by having: 1) the big lead which the Rockies had to play amazingly well to overcome; 2) leads in their last 3 games; and 3) the 2-run lead in the last inning of the very last game – all lost in heartbreaking fashion (especially the last game) in punishment for the organization’s endorsement of abomination.

Firemen demoted and fined for shining light on gays

"Dominicans" of the V-2 sect propose "Masses" without priest; already under way in Holland

The article mentions that it’s common now in Holland for “Masses” to be said without a priest. It also says that the “faithful” of the Vatican II sect generally don’t see a difference between the ones which have a priest and ones that don’t. (In truth both are invalid, since the New Mass is not a Mass either.) The “religious” who are doing this say they are doing it in fidelity to Vatican II. It should also be pointed out that this article was written by a person named Sandro Magister. While that’s not really important and isn’t particularly relevant to this article, we felt like mentioning it because Magister is a horribly heretical and dishonest defender of the Vatican II sect. When Benedict XVI does or says something “conservative” on occasion, Magister is apt to drastically distort what he said by making it seem (with a big headline that doesn’t accurately reflect what he said) about five times more conservative than it was. When you examine what he actually said, it’s not what Magister had in the headline. We just thought we’d give readers a heads up about that kind of distortion among deceived heretics of the Vatican II sect. They are desperate to make a Catholic out of the apostate Antipope Benedict XVI and will use distortion to attempt to do so.

SF "archbishop" to celebrate "Mass" at drag queen parish

Related: The Apostasy of the Hierarchy and prominent members of the Vatican II sect - is this your hierarchy? [PDF File]

"Catholic" Holy Cross College hosts on-campus Planned Parenthood workshops and gives award to pro-abort

Homeland Security gives funds to mostly Jewish non-profit groups

It’s important to remember that Homeland Security is headed by Michael Chertoff, who is Jewish and the son of a rabbi. (The Federal Reserve is also headed by a Jew, Ben Bernanke, whose grandfather was a professional Torah reader and Hebrew teacher.)

Also, some people were probably puzzled recently when two internationalists, Alan Greenspan and Henry Kissinger, came out and admitted that the war in Iraq was about oil. Alan Greenspan claims war in Iraq was really about oil.

Why would these two people, who are so wrapped up in the international conspiracy in the opinion of many, have offered such an assessment of the war in Iraq? That they said this was probably surprising to many. The reason they did say this, in our view, is found in the fact that they are both Jewish and supporters of Israel. They want to deflect attention away from the Jewish/Israeli domination of America’s foreign policy, and they want to pin the blame instead primarily on oil interests. They want to move the focus away from Israel and on to oil, especially if they have information that the U.S. is planning war in Iran on behalf of Israel. This has been added to our Jewish Power and Control Watch.

"Catholic" Univ. of San Diego Conf. will feature Buddhist monk and pro-abort

This is a related link.

Vatican approves Communist bishop of Communist Government approved Church

This means that the Vatican is giving official recognition to a bishop of the schismatic and Communist-controlled “Catholic Patriotic Association.”

"Catholic" Bishops approve the use of emergency contraception

Israel restricts visas for "Christian" clerics

European Court upholds decision to penalize Poland for pro-life law

This also shows, once again, that the European Union has authority over all nations in the EU.

Miller Brewery funds Gay Sadomasochistic orgy on San Fran streets

As usual, the miraculous liquefaction of St. Januarius's blood occurred on his feast day

San Diego City Council votes to support same-sex "marriage"

The “city council” voted for this abomination even though 62 percent of the voters were against it.

US Conference of "Catholic" bishop appoints woman with pro-abortion ties

NZ Airline comes out with gay-themed flight

Santa Rosa Diocese of the Vatican II sect gives out 5 more million for sex abuse

Vatican II sect's "Cardinal" celebrates Rosh Hashanah with the Jews

He is just following the lead of Benedict XVI and John Paul II, who committed similar acts of apostasy.

Benedict XVI's act of Apostasy in the German Synagogue in 2005, as covered in our file: The Heresies of Benedict XVI [PDF file]

Pro-Abortion John Kerry to speak at "Catholic" University of America

A related article: One can be pro-abortion and part of the Vatican II sect at the same time [PDF File]

More schools offer "Gay Studies" classes

This article mentions that DePaul University, a “Catholic” university, offers “Gay Studies.” Homosexuality is gravely sinful and is condemned throughout the Bible as an abomination. People can be delivered from this evil spiritual affliction by conversion to the true faith, a change of life, a strong prayer life and a good and valid confession. Some related articles: The Idolatry of the Vatican II sect is connected with its rampant homosexuality [PDF File] Does God Create Homosexuals? No. The Deplorable State of "Catholic" Colleges and Universities [PDF File]

More sin and violence programmed into TV's "family hour"

Proposed law for Chile would destroy right to oppose homosexuality

Homosexual activists assault ex-gay man

Vatican II sect "priest" sets up "confessional" for "sins" against the environment

Heresy and apostasy aren’t sins in the Vatican II sect, but failing to recycle is.

Brutal forced abortion in China as part of its "planning"

Here again is Benedict XVI recently praising the “social justice” and “planning” of China:

Benedict XVI, Letter to the Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China, May 27, 2007, paragraph 3: “As I turn my attention towards your People… I am pleased to note how, especially in recent times, it has also moved decisively towards achieving significant goals of socio-economic progress, attracting the interest of the entire world. As my venerable Predecessor Pope John Paul II once said, ‘The Catholic Church for her part regards with respect this impressive thrust and far-sighted planning, and with discretion offers her own contribution in the promotion and defense of the human person, and of the person’s values, spirituality and transcendent vocation. The Church has very much at heart the values and objectives which are of primary importance to modern China: solidarity, peace, social justice, the wise management of the phenomenon of globalization.” (L’Osservatore Romano, July 18, 2007. p. 3.)

This is found permanently in the file: Some other recent heresies from Benedict XVI.

Buddhist monk spreads his poison at "Catholic" universities

His nonsensical message includes: “do not be bound to any doctrine… All systems of thought are guiding means, not absolute truth.” The Vatican II sect thinks that’s important for people to hear.

Valedictorian threatened with loss of diploma for mentioning Jesus

Sales soar for "morning after pill" abortifacient

This is another sign that we are in the final days.

An exorcism was performed on Mother Teresa during her life

“The letters' release comes days after the archbishop of Kolkata, the city formerly known as Calcutta, said church officials performed an exorcism on Mother Teresa at a hospital later in her life.”

This is fascinating. We’ve always exposed Mother Teresa as an apostate and a major false prophet because of her complete religious indifferentism. (Her apostasy is exposed here: The Religious Orders in the Vatican II sect: Totally Apostate [PDF File].) Keep in mind that the Vatican II sect is extremely reluctant to give permission for exorcisms. One can only imagine their reluctance in the case of Mother Teresa who, being a major false prophet of the Vatican II sect, had the reputation of a “saint.” The fact that “church officials” did attempt an exorcism on her is very significant. In all probability, they would have done this only because Mother Teresa was manifesting the demonic in ways that were never reported. Some people scoffed at our strong denunciation of Mother Teresa as a heretic. They shouldn’t have, of course, since it was based on solid Catholic grounds. So, this headline is just another instance in which those who hold uncompromisingly to the dogmas are proven correct again; while those who go by appearances, instead of adhering to the hard truths of the faith, are proven wrong again.

In the picture on the left we see Mother Teresa worshipping Buddha in 1975. In the left corner of the left side of that picture she is kneeling. In the other picture we see Mother Teresa venerating the Hindu Gandhi.

"Priest” of the Vatican II sect arrested for jogging nude

This is another story that could only come from the counterfeit Vatican II sect. Anyone who would do such a thing is obviously an evil sexual pervert.

Apostate interreligious prayer meeting at L.A. "Catholic" church of the Vatican II sect

This kind of activity is exactly what Antipope John Paul II did many times and what Pope Pius XI condemned as a complete rejection of the Catholic Faith. The Counter Church shows again its true nature by its apostate practices at the local level, which implement Vatican II and the religious indifferentism of the apostate Vatican II antipopes.

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 2), Jan. 6, 1928: “For which reason conventions, meetings and addresses are frequently arranged by these persons, at which a large number of listeners are present, and at which all without distinction are invited to join in the discussion, both infidels of every kind, and Christians, even those who have unhappily fallen away from Christ or who with obstinacy and pertinacity deny His divine nature and mission. Certainly such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little, turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion.”

Rabbi new head of "Catholic" interfaith center

It’s also very interesting that the rabbi said that one of his biggest past “accomplishments” in interfaith work with members of the Vatican II sect was "we really dealt a mortal blow in the United States to the divestment campaign against companies doing business with Israel, generated by a number of liberal churches, universities, and labor unions." In other words, he notes with great satisfaction that, through his interfaith cooperation with the heretics of the Vatican II sect, he killed off a movement which was being promoted by various “churches” to attempt to limit the incredible power of the State of Israel. Once again we see that any opposition to Israel is put down by Jewish maneuvering and pressure – this time with the help of the apostate members of the Vatican II sect. Hence, the Jewish State of Israel maintains its strangehold over America and especially its foreign policy.

Abominable: Lessons on homosexuality move into the classroom

Lawyers bill Vatican II sect's Portland diocese 19 million

Dutch Bishop of the Vatican II sect says pray to Allah

Jewish Kaddish prayer read at "Cardinal" Lustiger's funeral

Abortionists now using shots to kill fetuses

Firefighters were ordered to ride in "gay pride" parade

Apostate Vatican II "Cardinal" Lustiger of Paris dies at 80

“Cardinal” Lustiger, who was raised a Jew, stated in a 1981 interview: “I am a Jew. For me the two religions are one.” Lustiger was also chosen by Antipope John Paul II to bestow the Vatican Knighthood on Jewish maestro Gilbert Levine. Levine, a Jew, became a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great. The honor that John Paul II had Lustiger bestow on Levine is one of the very highest that can be received by laymen.

Man cuts off hand as part of offering to Hindu goddess

Sacred Scripture is clear that the gods of these false religions are devils (Ps. 95:5; 1 Cor. 10:20). Since we’re talking about Hinduism and the area around India, there is an interesting story which confirms the truth of Sacred Scripture about the satanic nature of Hinduism. Fr. Roberto de Nobili was a Jesuit missionary to India in the 1600’s. In attempting to bring Christianity into the interior of India, he came face to face with the wicked Caste System. It was difficult for Nobili to even communicate with the members of the “higher” castes until he adapted his ways to make himself appear not to belong to a lower caste; for the high caste members wouldn’t respect him and would shun him. The Brahmins were the spiritual leaders of the false Hindu religion. They actually maintained (or purported to maintain) a monastic-style of existence. They were among the high caste members of Hindu society, and only they knew the language in which the Hindu “holy books,” the Vedas, were written. This knowledge gave them much influence over the people. The Vedas constituted the most ancient collection of Hindu scriptures. The esoteric language in which they were written is called Sanskrit.

Through a series of actions, including things which were considered by some to be unacceptable compromises, Nobili gained the confidence of one higher-caste Hindu and became the first European to learn the esoteric language, Sanskrit. This enabled him to read their “holy books,” the Vedas. In reading these Nobili discovered that the central truth of the “holy books” – and thus the deepest “truth” hidden at the heart of Hinduism, resting beneath its innumerable idolatries and ridiculous myths – is that each man is God. We will quote a passage from the biography of Nobili to demonstrate the point. The passage introduces, and then quotes, a teaching-story from the Vedas about a father addressing his son, who is named Svetaketu:

“The religion of the Vedas had been developed… into a system called the Vedanta… The central doctrine of the higher truth is summed up in the formula ‘That art Thou,’ explained as follows in the Chandogya Upanisad…[It reads]: … ‘Bring hither a fig from there.’ ‘Here it is, sir.’ ‘Divide it.’ ‘It is divided, sir.’ ‘What do you see there?’ ‘These rather fine seeds, sir.’ ‘Of these, please, divide one.’ ‘It is divided, sir.’ ‘What do you see there?’ ‘Nothing at all, sir.’ ‘Then he said to him, ‘Truly, my dear, that finest essence which you do not perceive – truly, my dear, from that finest essence this great sacred fig tree thus arises. Believe me, my dear,’ said he, ‘ that which is the finest essence – this whole world has that as its self. That is Reality. That is Atman. That art thou, Svetaketu.’… Then he said to him: ‘That salt you placed in the water last evening – please bring it hither.’ ‘Then he grasped for it, but did not find it, as it was completely dissolved. ‘Please take a sip of it from this end,’ said he. ‘How is it?’ ‘Salt.’ ‘Take a sip of it from the middle,’ said he. ‘How is it?’ ‘Salt.’ ‘Set it aside. Then come unto me’… Then he said to him: ‘Truly, indeed, you do not perceive Being here. Truly, indeed, it is here. That which is the finest essence – this whole world has that as its self. That is Reality. That is Atman. That art thou, Svetaketu.’ In other words, Thou, the individual soul, art God, contained within Him in absolute absorption.” (Vincent Cronin, A Pearl to India: The Life of Roberto de Nobili, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1959, pp. 92-93)

So, at the core of Hinduism’s most ancient texts – some of the most ancient expressions of religious thought known to man – is the satanic lie that man is God. It’s also very interesting that the story above contains a prominent reference to the “sacred fig tree.” Some Biblical scholars believe that the original tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God forbade Adam and Eve to eat from, was a fig tree. Satan promised Eve that they would become “as Gods” if they ate from it (Gen. 3:5). It’s almost as if this ancient Hindu text, in inculcating the satanic lie at the heart of its religion (that man is God), took it directly from the serpent in the Garden who lied about the tree! That’s why Hinduism is idolatrous; that’s why the cultures which are infested with it are evil and dominated by something as heinous as the Caste System. It’s because Satan is ultimately behind it all. This simply demonstrates once again that the gods of the heathens (Ps. 95:5; 1Cor. 10:20) are truly lying devils, and they’ve been lying to man from the beginning. Keep in mind that Hinduism is a religion praised by the Vatican II sect.

Vatican II document, Nostra aetate # 2: “Thus in Hinduism the divine mystery is explored and propounded with an inexhaustible wealth of myths and penetrating philosophical investigations, and liberation is sought from the distresses of our state either through various forms of ascetical life or deep meditation or taking refuge in God with loving confidence.”

Antipope Benedict says there is proof for evolution

LA diocese of the Vatican II sect to pay $660 million for sex abuse

Antipope Benedict XVI, in a calculated move, expands use of Latin Mass to lure people back into the Counter Church

As we’ve pointed out in the past, this has only been done because Antipope Benedict XVI knows that almost all the priests are invalid anyway. Furthermore, the apostasy is so well in place at the Vatican II churches and the time is so short that the Devil can make his final surge – his final assault – through conservative and deceptive measures in order to sweep the final conservative-minded professing Catholics into full acceptance of the Counter Church and therefore into a compromise of the Catholic Faith.

Antipope Benedict XVI confirms his commitment to the apostate Second Vatican Council at the beginning of this letter. He then emphasizes that he considers Vatican II “binding.” We will have more commentary on this in the coming days.

San Diego Padres will host "gay pride night" at ballpark

Heretical "Bishop" of Boston admits that the expansion of the Latin Mass is an attempt to bring traditionalists into union with the Counter Church

Look at the seventh paragraph from the bottom.

ACLU sues city over Jesus painting

Chicago Vatican II "priest" sentenced to 5 yrs for sex abuse

Belgian man faces criminal charges for calling homosexuals "abnormal"

“Homophobia” is actually a crime in Belgium.

New Church "theologians": cohabitation not a sin

This article utilizes the definition of cohabitation which presupposes fornication. Fornication is almost always committed when two unmarried people of the opposite sex live together. The Catholic Church, contrary to this outrageously heretical article, has always taught that fornication is a mortal sin.

1 Cor. 6:9- “Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.”

July 7 is newest date given for the release of document on the Latin Mass

Accused Novus Ordo "priest" jumps from bridge to his death

Novus Ordo church holds gay pride brunch

Portugal now offers free abortions

This confirms the opinion we have expressed about the last words which precede the undisclosed Third Secret of Fatima. Those words, “In Portugal the dogma of faith will always be preserved, etc.,“ which are completed by the undisclosed Third Secret, must mean the following or something very similar: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will always be preserved in a faithful remnant…” Or: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will always be preserved among those truly devoted to me…” Or: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will always be preserved until the Great Apostasy…”

Drunken Novus Ordo priest drives car into restaurant

Counter Church will build $190 million Cathedral "of Light" in Oakland

"Catholic" parish builds Protestant church

Ancient tomb in Mexico reveals mass child sacrifice

Bill in Congress makes it a crime to speak against homosexuality!

Related: Jews pressure Bush to sign "Hate" Bill

Related video: (scroll down some): Hate Laws: Making Criminals out of Christians

Public school students taken to abortion center

Muslim mystics defile Vatican by prayer dance

"Muhammad" now second most popular name in UK

Pope Benedict XIV, Quod Provinciale, Aug. 1, 1754:

“The Provincial Council of your province of Albania… decreed most solemnly in its third canon, among other matters, as you know, that Turkish or Mohammedan names should not be given either to children or adults in baptism… This should not be hard for any one of you, venerable brothers, for none of the schismatics and heretics has been rash enough to take a Mohammedan name, and unless your justice abounds more than theirs, you shall not enter the kingdom of God.”

More desolation: Novus Ordo church will be leveled, merged with others

Giuliani's abortion answer zapped by lightning [video]

Irish Novus Ordo Church appoints first open non-Catholic to senior post

Cleveland Diocese could close 23 parishes

Antipope reinstates Islam department

Pro-abortion politician Pelosi honored at "Catholic" university

Check out our related article:

One can be pro-abortion and part of the Vatican II sect at the same time [PDF File]

Chinese villagers riot over one-child-per-family policy

Spokane Novus Ordo Diocese asks people for 10 million to pay for abuse

Hospital removes crucifixes to please Muslims

Rudy Giuliani donated six times to major abortion provider

Counter Church broadcasts a "gay Mass" from San Francisco

Son of JFK-conspirator makes stunning revelation that is completely ignored by the mainstream media

The fact that this huge story has been completely ignored by the mainstream media is just another example of how the mainstream media is completely controlled.

UN officials argue for Abortion at Nicaragua Supreme Court

"Catholic" Univ. holds pro-gay conference

Scandals of Portland Diocese only cost it 75 million to get out of bankruptcy

Checks will begin flowing out to victims in May. So, here’s how it works: he gives his money to the Vatican II sect, it teaches him heresy, gives him invalid sacraments, and gives his money away to the victims of its pervert “priests” – a staggering 75 million from just one scandal-ridden, heresy-filled, spiritually-empty diocese of the Counter Church. Get your copy of the The Truth about What Really Happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican II today!

Vatican backs down from boycott threat and attends "Holocaust" memorial.

“The Vatican's ambassador to Israel attended a Holocaust memorial service on Sunday, reversing an earlier decision to boycott the event that threatened to upset fragile ties between Israel and the Holy See. Monsignor Antonio Franco said last week he would skip the ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial marking the beginning of Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day because Catholics were offended by a caption at the museum describing the wartime conduct of Pope Pius XII. The caption next to the picture of Pius reads, "Even when reports about the murder of Jews reached the Vatican, the pope did not protest," refusing to sign a 1942 Allied condemnation of the massacre of Jews.”

The fact that the Vatican representative backed down to Jewish pressure is not surprising. It’s not surprising even when it concerns an issue the Vatican claims to feel very strongly about, namely, that Pius XII has been calumniated by Jewish claims that he did nothing to stop the murder of Jews. This news item represents, once again, the Vatican II sect’s utter inability to oppose false religions or the members of false religions (especially Jews), even when they offend it and publicly contradict what it claims to hold dear.

Supreme Court narrowly upholds ban on partial birth abortion

We think that this shows us how truly hideous partial birth abortion is – and how obviously it constitutes the murder of a child – that even today’s Supreme Court felt compelled to uphold the ban on it.

"Danza Liturgica" - another shocking Novus Ordo outrage [video clip]

"Catholic" school libraries stock pro-gay books and videos

Ireland's Christian culture is gone

Of 15 to 24 year-olds in Ireland, more than 50% cannot name the Trinity or the first book of the Bible; 1/3 cannot say what is celebrated on Easter.

Move to "canonize" Antipope John Paul II takes step forward

The Vatican II sect now has the “miracle” it needs to proceed with his “beatification.” It needs only one more for his “canonization.” Of course, any such “signs” would fall into the category of the false signs and wonders spoken of in Mt. 24 to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect. It would also fall into the category of those spoken of by St. Paul in 2 Thess. 2, which deceive those who “receive not the love of the truth.”

This development is another reason to obtain our new book, The Truth About What Really Happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican II, if you don’t have it yet. The book contains a history of John Paul II’s worst heresies and actions: page after page about his actions of false ecumenism, his innumerable denials of Christ, his trips to non-Catholic temples, etc., in undeniable documentation and photos.

Note well that, as we and others have speculated, Antipope Benedict XVI’s act of “canonizing” Antipope John Paul II will be so significant that it might represent the second beast of Apoc. 13 causing all to worship the first beast, who received a deadly wound (i.e., John Paul II’s shooting of May 13, 1981). It will be so evil, and the acceptance of it so much a denial of Jesus Christ, that it might be, for those familiar with John Paul II’s life, almost equivalent to worshipping the Devil. In fact, when you think about it, it’s really not much different. To universally venerate and honor a man as a model of holiness and godliness, and to agree that all should give veneration to this man – a man who not only partook of, but constantly praised and glorified the worship of false gods, and who actually taught that man is Christ, and declared that man is the Christ of Mt. 16 and that the Gospel is the amazement at man – is to equate Satan’s work with God’s work, and Satan with God.

So the question is: will John Paul II’s “canonization” (which will so clearly prove that the Vatican II antipopes are not true popes) be a wake-up call for the hardened false traditionalists who, up to that time, will have resisted the truth that the Vatican II antipopes not true popes? Unfortunately, we don’t think so. Though one such false traditionalist did tell us that if it ever happened it would prove that Benedict XVI is not the pope, another (Michael Matt) said on a tape a few years back that we might see the canonization of Martin Luther. In other words, a Vatican II antipope could even canonize Luther and this blind apostate would still accept him as a true pope. But if you can accept as Catholic a man who kisses the Koran and agrees with the Lutherans on Justification, then you will accept almost anything.

"Catholic" parish in Germany takes up its collection for the construction of a mosque

Wow… this is really bad. And the parish board approved it unanimously. These people are such faithless apostates – they’re so dark and devoid of any real faith in Catholicism or in Jesus Christ – that we don’t even know why they bother to go to what they think is a Catholic church. They think they’re doing a good deed, but God has allowed them to be so darkened and deceived because they reject true faith in Christ and hold it to be meaningless. All of them who approved of this are headed straight for Hell, unless they repent and convert. And they’ve become such apostates by following the Vatican II antipopes.

Police send four officers after 11-year-old boy who called classmate "gay"

Don't believe U.S. Media on cause of British Hostage Crisis

It turns out that the British maritime border map, which the British say justifies their claim that their soldiers taken hostage by Iran were in Iraqi not Iranian waters, has no legal force. Former British Ambassador Craig Murray says: “The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree their bilateral boundary, and they never have done this in the Gulf, only inside the Shatt because there it is the land border too. This published boundary is a fake with no legal force.”

The map in the article linked to above shows that the soldiers were taken hostage in waters that are closer to Iran than Iraq. Even the British hostages have said that they were in Iranian waters – but oh, I almost forgot, the Jewish media told us that that testimony was almost certainly coerced and is to be dismissed.

Now, we’re obviously no fans of the infidel Muslim regime running Iran, but are they supposed to let foreign soldiers travel into what can legitimately be argued is their water? It’s quite obvious what is going on here, and people need to get it. This is how it works: The U.S. and England obviously want to go to war with Iran, desperately. The U.S. just recently made its case against Iran before the U.N, in an obvious attempt to up the pressure and take the steps which eventually lead to military aggression. Most importantly, Israel wants the U.S. to go to war with Iran. That’s why the Jewish-dominated U.S. media will spin everything against Iran, portraying its president as the next Hitler, and playing the drumbeats for war as loud as it can.

So, just as some said that lies were used to justify going to war in Iraq, now the British are obviously manufacturing a crisis by deliberately putting their soliders into what can legitimately be argued is Iranian water so that Iran can take them hostage; and, when that occurs, it will “justify” military action against Iran. It’s so obviously a calculated incitation maneuver to justify military aggression against Iran that it screams out. And the U.S. media – thinking of Israel – will continue to brainwash the American people so that they continue to buy this latest move with the Iran-as-hostage-taker theme. It’s also interesting that it looks like the British will be the ones who start this war, even though England going to war is essentially the same thing as the U.S. going to war (the U.S. and England being inextricable allies). By setting it up so that British, not American, soldiers were taken hostage, it can take some of the heat off the U.S. The U.S. obviously took most of the heat for starting the war in Iraq. It’s sort of like: we started the last one, so you find a way to start this one, England.

"Jesuit" university promotes abortion and contraception

Brazilians could face jail for preaching against homosexuality

Alaskan "bishop" headlines Gay "Catholic" conference [link moved]

Britney Spears draws 666 on her head and says she's the Antichrist

Perhaps some more people will now be able to see that popular culture and its stars are under the control of the Devil.

Archaeologists call "Lost tomb of Jesus" a publicity stunt - Jewish power update

Many of our readers have, by now, probably heard about the most recent attempt to attack Our Lord. This article reports that this newest attempt to attack Our Lord in a “documentary” about the “Lost tomb of Jesus” is so ridiculous that even non-Christian archaeologists are calling it an absurd publicity stunt. Simcha Jacobovici is the Jewish, Israeli-born director of the new “documentary” which attacks Our Lord. Jacobovici is the same Jew who “also said tests on the patina, or surface residue, of the "James Ossuary,'' which surfaced in 2002, indicate that it also came from the Talpiyot tomb. Israeli authorities have pronounced the James Ossuary, which purportedly held the bones of a brother of Jesus, a forgery and are prosecuting its owner. Jacobovici, who made a 2003 Discovery Channel film about it, maintains it is real.”

In other words, to get this straight: even Israeli authorities declared that the previous “find” on which this Jew Jacobovici made a documentary was a forgery. One would think, therefore, that that would prevent mainstream networks from hyping up Jacobovici’s newest publicity stunt. But no, the Jewish-controlled networks, such as ABC, are promoting and hyping up the newest fraudulent “documentary” of this Jew because they want to attack public faith in Our Lord. ABC’s website features interviews, etc. (which we don’t recommend anyone to watch) about this new “film.” (The Jew Michael Eisner is in control of ABC.) Can you imagine if a documentary concluding that six million Jews didn’t die in the “Holocaust” were shown or promoted prominently on one of the main networks, such as ABC. That would never happen, of course, since the networks are controlled by Jews. But if such a thing did happen the Jews would probably call for the U.N. to intervene and stop the “state of emergency.”

This isn’t the first time in history Jews have used fraud to attack faith in Our Lord. Recall that in Matthew 28:13-15, after the Resurrection, when the Jews were confronted with the miraculous fact of the Resurrection, Jews paid the guards of the tomb to say that Jesus’s disciples stole Him away:

Matthew 28:13-15- “Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away when we were asleep. And if the governor shall hear this, we will persuade him, and secure you. So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.”

And after Our Lord raised Lazarus from the dead, the Jews thought to kill Lazarus in order to prevent more people from seeing Lazarus alive and believing in Our Lord. Perhaps a more graphic description of bad will has never been seen in human history:

John 12:9-11-“A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also: Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away, and believed in Jesus.”

And so it continues in our day. The fact that this blatant attack on Our Lord and His Resurrection is being hyped up on national television for hundreds of millions to see and imbibe is another sign of where we are in history. By the way, any sincere person can purchase the DVD we sell on the Shroud of Turin and see that the Shroud of Turin itself provides undeniable and miraculous evidence of the Resurrection. This has been added to our Jewish Power and Control Watch.

Another one down: San Diego Diocese files for bankruptcy [link repaired]

"Catholic" principal sentences students who chanted "we love Jesus" to sensitivity training, says it's anti-semitic

Menorahs OK for Christmas, but not Nativity

"Catholic" college promotes abortion agencies with Planned Parenthood as career opportunity

Video of rabbis blessing Antipope John Paul II

What complete apostasy… and an abomination.

First Australian "Catholic" crematory to operate in Sydney

Close friend of John Paul II was a Communist informant

Portugal will legalize abortion on demand

This confirms what we said in our article on the consecration of Russia: that Our Lady of Fatima’s words about the faith being preserved in Portugal don’t mean that in Portugal the Faith will generally be preserved. A quote from that article:

“Q. What do you think is the meaning of the words: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will always be preserved, etc.” which come just before the third secret?

“A. Since we don’t have the complete sentence, we cannot say for sure, but it could be: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will always be preserved in a faithful remnant…” Or: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will always be preserved among those truly devoted to me…” Or: “In Portugal the dogma of Faith will always be preserved until the Great Apostasy…” The third secret undoubtedly deals with the present apostasy of the Vatican II sect.”

SF "archbishop" very happy about homosexual adoption plan

Vatican II sect's Diocese of Davenport goes bankrupt over sex abuse

The diocese will go up for auction. The bishop’s home will be sold. This is highly symbolic of the fact that the diocese has been taken over by the Devil and a counterfeit Church, which is completely devoid of the true Catholic Faith. Nothing is left except one big scandal and some property, to be taken by the Church’s enemies.

Italy about to outlaw Holocaust denial and send violaters to prison - Jewish power watch

This is scary. The Jewish version of history (essentially an article of faith in their false religion) is becoming the law in country after country. Under the new law it will be a four year prison sentence to deny the Holocaust in Italy! Germany, France, Spain, Austria and Belgium already have similar laws. And if their control in America continues, it will soon be a crime to deny the Holocaust here, too. The union of Synagogue and State is slowly spreading around the globe. The article also has a link to another article which mentions that the UN is denouncing Holocaust denial and screening films about it. This has been added to our Jewish Power and Control Watch. The fact that the union of Synagogue and State is occurring now in Italy – which was once the heart of Christendom – is a major sign of how short the time is and where we are in history.

Antipope John Paul II might be "canonized" by the Counter Church within 18 months

If these are indeed “miracles” which are helping pave the way for the “canonization” of the heretic John Paul II, then they are some of the false signs prophesied in Matthew 24 and 2 Thessalonians 2.

NJ Diocese becomes first to build crematory

This is truly a new religion. Here’s a related passage from one of Benedict XVI’s heretical books.

BENEDICT XVI ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE VATICAN II SECT HAS ABANDONED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TRADITIONAL PROHIBITION OF CREMATION

Benedict XVI, God and the World, 2000, p. 436: “Q. Is it permissible to have dead bodies cremated, or is that just a heathen ritual? A… Right up to the Second Vatican Council, cremation was subject to penalties. In view of all the circumstances of the modern world, the Church has abandoned this. ”

Benedict XVI is acknowledging the radical teaching of John Paul II’s 1983 Code of Canon Law in this regard.

1983 Code of Canon Law, Canon 1176 § 3: “The Church earnestly recommends that the pious custom of burying the dead be observed; it does not, however, forbid cremation unless it has been chosen for reasons which are contrary to Christian teaching.”

So, as long you claim that you are not getting cremated for the express purpose of contradicting a dogma – but rather, for instance, because you want your ashes to rest on your favorite golf course – cremation is allowed by the Vatican II sect. This is a very serious issue because the traditional practice of the Catholic Church, as reflected in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, forbids cremation under pain of mortal sin and further stipulates that those who requested it cannot receive Christian burial. This shows us a clear difference between the two religions.

1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 1203 § 1-2: “The bodies of the faithful departed shall be buried, their cremation being reprobated. 2. If anyone by any manner orders that his body be cremated, it is illicit to execute that desire; and if this was added to any contract or testament or any other act.”

1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 1240 § 1-5: “Unless they gave before death a sign of repentance, the following are deprived of ecclesiastical burial: 1. Notorious apostates from the Christian faith, or those who notoriously gave their name to heretical sects or schismatic or Masonic sects, or other societies of this sort; 2. Excommunicates or those under interdict after a condemnatory sentence; 3. Those who killed themselves by deliberate counsel; 4. Those who died in a duel, or from wounds related thereto; 5. Those who ordered that their body be handed over for cremation; 6. Other public and manifest sinners.”

"bishop" defends covering crucifixes in "Catholic" hospital

Fired prominent publisher asserts that there's a Jewish cabal in the Book Industry

A cabal is a group of secret plotters. The fired publisher named Regan, who worked for pro-Israel billionaire Rupert Murdoch, surely saw firsthand how Jews dominate the industry.

Toronto judge orders Christmas Tree out of lobby

Guess what? The name of the judge is Marion Cohen. Cohen is a very common Jewish name. The decision was so ridiculous that even Ontario’s premier slammed it, but the almost-certainly-Jewish judge deemed that it needed to be removed.

Apostate Vatican speaks out on Iran's Holocaust Conference

Isn’t it interesting that the apostate Vatican immediately speaks out in defense of the Jewish view of the “Holocaust,” but does nothing about pro-abortion politicians receiving “Communion”? That’s quite telling.

Related: check out our new feature (which we will update from time to time) called Jewish Power and Control Watch. We have three new updates.

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Archaeologists unearth St. Paul's tomb

Antipope Benedict XVI is covering it all on his trip to Turkey: mosque, rabbi, schismatic church, etc. [link to his itinerary of apostasy]

As far as true Catholics are concerned, this week will be one of the most significant in the anti-pontificate of Antipope Benedict XVI. He’s pulling it all out on this trip, taking part in joint worship and a joint declaration with the schismatic patriarch inside the schismatic cathedral; he’s actually going to the Blue Mosque; he’s meeting with the Grand Rabbi of Turkey. This is high-level heresy and apostasy – actions which will serve as proof of his apostasy throughout his anti-pontificate, just like John Paul II’s kissing the Koran, Assisi prayer-meetings, etc. did. These actions show that Antipope Benedict XVI is every bit the false ecumenist and apostate that Antipope John Paul II was. Antipope Benedict XVI is also venerating the tomb of the infidel Ataturk on his trip.

People who haven’t yet come to the conclusion that Benedict XVI is an antipope have to ask themselves: what’s his message in doing all these things? If they consider this question honestly and deeply, they will realize that his message is respect for false religions and schismatic sects, and respect and esteem for the followers of these false religions. His message is to confirm them in their false paths. His message is a new gospel and total apostasy from the Catholic Faith.

CBS News: "Anti-Pope Rally precedes visit to Turkey” – Expect another major heresy from Benedict XVI soon

Antipope Benedict XVI is going to Turkey this week. In Turkey he will, among other things, meet with the schismatic Patriarch of Constantinople, the biggest Eastern Orthodox schismatic in the world. Expect Antipope Benedict XVI to utter some major heresy in his meeting with the schismatic patriarch. Expect him to praise their sect, indicate that they don’t need to be converted (in words such as that unity with them is “neither absorption nor fusion”), condemn the mutual excommunications of 1054 or say that they are part of the Catholic Church. Almost certainly you will see the “gestures” of ecumenism with the schismatics (i.e. statements and actions which indicate that Benedict XVI holds that the schismatics are just fine right where they are). As we proved in the questions and answers section of our debate, Benedict XVI admitted that these gestures toward the schismatics and their leaders signify a denial of the necessity for the schismatics to accept the Papal Primacy as defined by Vatican I.

It’s interesting that CBS News ran the headline: “Anti-Pope rally precedes visit to Turkey.” This headline has more truth to it than they realize.

On his trip, expect Antipope Benedict XVI to also commit some statements or acts of apostasy by endorsing Islam.

Baby born alive, killed after surviving abortion

This is a horrifying story which reveals what abortion is really all about.

New Padre Pio book can now be read online [pdf file, and it takes 1-2 minutes to load]

More scandal from the Novus, not Catholic, "Jesuits"

What a mockery of this incredible religious order – the order which produced amazing saints, such as St. Isaac Jogues, St. Francis Xavier, St. Aloysius, St. Ignatius, etc.

Another one down: Davenport Diocese of the Vatican II sect files for bankruptcy due to Scandals

A few weeks ago it was: Spokane Archdiocese Auctioning Off Chancery

Philadelphia, the city of homosexual abomination, vigorously promotes Gay Agenda to children in its schools

Visual proof that there is no Catholic bishop in Buffalo! The “Bishop” of Buffalo gets vested by the Dalai Lama in a massive ecumenical service which expresses his complete apostasy from the Catholic Faith

“The remarkable service brought the red-and-gold robed Dalai Lama on a dais with a Muslim imam, Catholic bishop, Baptist preacher and Jewish rabbi, as well as 10 other clergy and area religious leaders…There were readings, prayers and chants from sacred texts, as well as a ritual gonging and three minutes of meditative silence.” (from the article)

People ask us all the time, “what diocese are you under?” “Are you under the bishop?” If we were part of the Vatican II sect, we would be in communion with “Bishop” Edward U. Kmiec, the putative “Bishop” of Buffalo. In the link above you can see “Bishop” Kmiec of the Vatican II sect – the putative head of the diocese where our monastery resides – taking part in an interreligious prayer service with the Dalai Lama, a Muslim imam, a Protestant heretic, and a rabbi. This is exactly the type of interreligious prayer service which Pope Pius XI condemned in Mortalium Animos, and which Pius XI said represents apostasy from the Catholic Faith. (By the way, the Dalai Lama – in addition to being the spiritual leader of a pagan religion which leads souls to idolatry and to Hell – actually claims to be an incarnation of God; he literally represents antichrist). So, who is in communion with the Catholic Church? “Bishop” Kmiec? Or is it those who reject him and hold fast to the fullness of the Faith? Of course, it’s not “Bishop” Kmiec and his false-religion-loving sect. He is outside the Catholic Faith and part of a religion of apostasy. Hence, we can truly say with Catholics of the past, who cried out similarly during the Nestorian heresy (see below): A state we have (New York), “but no bishop!”

St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, lib. II, cap. 30: "Finally, the Holy Fathers teach unanimously not only that heretics are outside of the Church, but also that they are "ipso facto" deprived of all ecclesiastical jurisdiction and dignity.”

It’s important to emphasize once again the teaching of the Catholic Church that bishops who become heretics immediately lose all authority and any office they might possess.

This is clearly illustrated by the case of the 5th century heretic, Nestorius, who was Patriarch of Constantinople. On Christmas Day in the year 428, Nestorius denied that Mary was the Mother of God from his pulpit. A simple layman named Eusebius stood up and protested the public heresy. This resulted in the Catholics of Constantinople breaking communion with Nestorius, their (former) bishop. They recognized that since he was a public heretic he had no authority in the Church: they recognized that by virtue of his heresy he lost his office automatically. They even chanted: “An emperor we have, but no bishop.” This reaction was praised by councils and popes, as we see described below. Notice that Pope St. Celestine says that Nestorius had no power to excommunicate after he began to preach heresy. This confirms the fact that heretical bishops lose their offices ipso facto (by that very fact) when they become heretics. And this teaching on the loss of Episcopal office due to heresy applies precisely to the manifestly heretical “bishops” of the Vatican II sect: they have no authority and are outside the Catholic Church, even though they hold the buildings and possess the appearance of holding the authority of a diocese.

Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year, Vol. 4 (St. Cyril of Alexandria), p. 379: “It was then that Satan produced Nestorius… enthroned in the Chair of Constantinople… In the very year of his exaltation, on Christmas Day 428, Nestorius, taking advantage of the immense concourse which had assembled in honor of the Virgin Mother and her Child, pronounced from the Episcopal pulpit the blasphemous words: ‘Mary did not bring forth God; her Son was only a man, the instrument of the Divinity.’ The multitude shuddered with horror. Eusebius, a simple layman, rose to give expression to the general indignation, and protested against this impiety. Soon a more explicit protest was drawn up and disseminated in the name of the members of this grief-stricken Church, launching an anathema against anyone who should dare to say: ‘The Only-begotten Son of the Father and the Son of Mary are different persons.’ This generous attitude was the safeguard of Byzantium, and won the praise of popes and councils. When the shepherd becomes a wolf, the first duty of the flock is to defend itself.”

To summarize: the faithful actually anathematized their bishop, Nestorious – or, more precisely, declared that he and anyone who would hold his heresy was already anathema. If they were anathematizing Nestorius for deviating from a truth about Our Lord, can you imagine what they would say about these apostate “bishops” who actually promote religions which totally reject Our Lord altogether? Can you imagine what they would say about Antipope Benedict XVI, who signs documents which say that Jesus doesn’t even have to be seen as the Messiah?! The Catholics, fathers, and popes of those days would absolutely reject them as outside the Church and hold their sees to be vacant.

Pope St. Celestine, quoted by St. Robert Bellarmine:
"The authority of Our Apostolic See has determined that the bishop, cleric, or simple Christian who had been deposed or excommunicated by Nestorius or his followers, after the latter began to preach heresy shall not be considered deposed or excommunicated. For he who had defected from the faith with such preachings, cannot depose or remove anyone whatsoever." (Quoted by St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30.)

To summarize: Pope St. Celestine confirms that Nestorius lost his office by declaring that he had no authority to excommunicate.

Also, notice that “Bishop” Kmiec is clothed ROUND ABOUT (i.e. around his waist) in purple.

Apocalypse 17:4-
"And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold, and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication."

The woman is the false Church, which is clothed in the colors of the true Church (purple for bishops; scarlet for cardinals), but inwardly is an apostate fraud meant to deceive the true faithful in the final days.

Vatican II sect to host interreligious meeting to emphasize its respect for false religions

Study shows that when laws against Sunday shopping are eliminated drug use goes up

Mother jailed for homeschooling kids in Germany

Atlanta Novus Ordo "archbishop" to attend Conciliar-Lutheran service

This is to partake in Lutheran worship at a Lutheran church. This is formal heresy by deed. It’s another action which proves that the hierarchy of the Vatican II sect is not Catholic, but formally heretical. The “archbishop” doing this, Wilton Gregory, was actually the head of the Novus Ordo Conference of “Catholic” Bishops just a few years ago.

Novus Ordo “Church” in Milwaukee to pay out 13.3 million to settle sex claims

This is just another prime example of exactly what we were discussing in the second radio program: the Vatican II sect lacks the mark of the Catholic Church’s holiness, but rather exemplifies almost inexhaustible scandal.

Finally a little outrage over sexually provocative baby dolls

Things are so bad and dark now that the Devil has been successful in getting his hands into almost everything – corrupting the youths from their earliest years and attempting to steal and pervert their innocence. This is happening on an almost universal scale by, among other things, the aforementioned dolls being given to children all over the world.

“Woe to the earth, and to the sea, because the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.” (Apoc. 12:12)

Soccer Star warned by police for making sign of Cross

"Catholic" Colombia allows its first abortion

This is a further sign of where we are in history.

Did you know that the U.S. State Department has an Office of Global Anti-Semitism?!

This is an actual office of the state department – the U.S. government – to officially oppose “global anti-Semitism”! The Jew Gregg Rickman was sworn in by Condoleezza Rice. This is a union of Synagogue and State. This is a total outrage, and very revealing about the full scope of Jewish control. It is to, in effect, make Judaism a religion that is specially protected by our government – which is a violation of the constitution.

“Several years ago the State Department claimed it already adequately monitored global human rights abuses and promoted Holocaust remembrance. Yet Jewish lobbyists persuaded Congress 18 months ago to create a special federal agency dedicated solely to silencing "virulent criticism" of Israel and matters Jewish or questioning the six million figure of alleged Holocaust victims.”

Jews have already succeeded in Germany and other countries in making it an actual crime to deny the Jewish “Holocaust.” We’re heading in that direction. The union of Synagogue and State is here.

Novus Ordo"Jesuits" have a peace monument to false religions – an expression of the apostasy and religious indifferentism of the Vatican II sect

The Vatican under Benedict XVI issues a positive announcement that the Methodists are about to sign the Joint Declaration on Justification [link]

The Joint Declaration with the Lutherans on Justification is arguably the worst and most notorious single act of the Vatican II sect. It completely repudiates the Council of Trent. Since Antipope Benedict XVI and his Counter-Church have recently brought this incredibly heretical agreement back into the news via the above announcement (which communicates their excitement that Methodists are now going to join this Council-of-Trent-trashing agreement), we have made available a new article that summarizes this (arguably worst) act of the Vatican II sect in just a few pages. We did have a much longer article on this issue in a magazine (and that particular article is still on our website), but the article below gives a person all he needs to know about the incredibly heretical Joint Declaration in just a few pages. Read it, familiarize yourself with it, and spread it because the Joint Declaration with the Lutherans on Justification is utterly indefensible manifest heresy which has been fully endorsed – and is still readily promoted (as we see above) – by the post-Vatican II antipopes and the Counter-Church.

The Vatican II sect’s Protestant Revolution: the 1999 Joint Declaration with the Lutherans on Justification exposed in just a few pages

Benedict XVI asks all “believers” to pray for peace

This is religious indifferentism – another expression of his apostasy. This is to ask people to pray to false gods and practice false religions.

Jews say John Paul II was their “pope.”

NEW MHFM BOOKLET ON PADRE PIO NOW AVAILABLE FOR ORDER

We are very pleased to announce that we have a new 88-page book entitled Padre Pio: A Catholic priest who worked miracles and bore the wounds of Jesus Christ on his body. One copy is $2.00. See the order form for more details about incredible pricing for extra copies.

We feel that this book is definitely our strongest tool for converting Protestants and non-Catholics and getting uninterested pagans to look at the Faith.

Here is a PDF of the pictures and just a few stories that are in the book (those with slower connections may have to wait about 3-4 minutes as the pictures download)

Once this book is in his hands, a non-Catholic (no matter how opposed or uninterested) will definitely have his curiosity piqued by the striking photographs, including the cover shot, which will hopefully cause him to peruse the contents and see the startling conversion stories and miracles attributed to this Catholic priest. The book also contains quotes from Scripture which are relevant to refuting main Protestant beliefs. It also shows that Padre Pio held to the necessity of the Catholic Faith and rejected religious indifferentism, despite what some have claimed. The book is based on research of over 25 books on Padre Pio.

Our order form also indicates that we have some new combo DVDs. You can now get all 10 programs that we have produced on 3 DVDs. See order form for details. We also have a larger book (on a different topic) that is coming soon; hopefully it will be available this fall.

Catholicism in UK 'Faces Biggest Crisis Since Reformation'

Antipope Benedict XVI’s Nuncio Gives “Communion” to John Kerry

“During the Mass, Kerry, who supports keeping abortion legal, received Communion in the hand from Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States and Pope Benedict XVI's representative to the U.S. bishops. Archbishop Wuerl distributed Communion alongside the nuncio.”

As we’ve pointed out before, one can be pro-abortion and part of the Vatican II sect at the same time. That’s just a fact. But you cannot consecrate bishops for the spread of the Traditional Latin Mass without being excommunicated within 48 hours.

7-Year-Old Beaten at School for Father's Stand Against Homosexual Activism

"Cardinal” McCarrick Endorses Homosexual "Civil Unions"

An alleged “cardinal” of the Catholic Church endorsing homosexual unions... people need to just think about this a little; let it sink in.

And if we’re aware of what McCarrick said, then certainly those in Rome, including Benedict XVI, know about this. But he does nothing to censure or excommunicate McHeretic, of course. By the way, we read Benedict XVI’s speeches: we cannot think of one time so far where he has mentioned souls being lost to Hell, can you? If you don’t talk about Hell, people forget about it and conclude it doesn’t exist. But that’s exactly why he never talks about it – he’s an apostate.

Exciting truth about earth and the Biblical Flood

MHFM: As our order form indicates, we’re selling a book entitled In the Beginning – Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood by Dr. Walt Brown. This book refutes the theory of evolution from all aspects of science and scientifically shows how the Biblical Flood occurred. To give our readers a taste of what this book covers, here’s a link to a picture of the bulge in the earth that is formed by the Mid-Oceanic ridge.

Bulge in the earth formed by the Mid-Oceanic Ridge

The Mid-Oceanic Ridge, which is actually the world’s longest mountain range, wraps around the earth but is not generally known since most of it lies on the ocean floor.

Here’s an illustration of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge - notice the large portion in the center of the Atlantic Ocean

The Hydoplate Theory asserts in tremendous detail (to which this very brief attempted description doesn’t remotely do justice) that during the flood the “fountains of the great deep were broken up,” as the Bible says (Gen. 7:11), meaning that the crust of the earth was broken apart in what is now the area of the Atlantic Ocean, launching subterranean water violently into the air.

here’s a figure of the water shooting violently out of the subterranean chamber – SEE THE 2 ND ONE DOWN

As this water continued to shoot out, the crack in the crust of the earth continued to spread and move and rip the crust of the earth, eventually encircling the earth to become what we now see as the Mid-Oceanic Ridge (second link above). The waters violently shooting out of the broken crust caused the continental plates to drift apart and move away from the crack in the crust of the earth where the “fountains of the great deep” had broken, as we see here.

This drift of the plates away from the ridge ended with the violent compression event that squeezed up the earth’s major mountain ranges. Moreover, consider ocean trenches. Ocean trenches are depressions or ditches on the floor of the ocean. Most ocean trenches are concentrated in the western Pacific, as we see in this diagram here.

figure of ocean trenches which are concentrated in the western Pacific

Think of the earth as a globe (Isaias 40:22), rather than as a flat map, so that as inner portions of the globe are pushed out in certain areas, the opposite side is sucked in in certain areas. The western Pacific, where most ocean trenches are located, is almost exactly opposite the center of the Atlantic Ocean, in both longitude and latitude! Ocean trenches were formed by the flood.

There is much more in the book which proves that the Biblical Flood is earth’s defining geological event – including the cause of almost all fossils, comets, coal, limestone, the jigsaw fit of the continents, etc., etc., etc. – but this should hopefully give the reader an idea of what the book is about. The book is somewhat deep and technical at times, and will appeal primarily to those who have a deeper interest in these matters.

Benedict XVI’s visit to Poland: more total apostasy with the Jews

During Benedict XVI’s visit to Poland he visited the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau where Jews were killed. Benedict XVI honored the monuments of those who died as Jews – he honored many who died rejecting Jesus Christ. This is religious indifferentism, and an act of heresy. Such a deed shows that, according to Benedict XVI, believing in Jesus Christ is meaningless.

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. II, Q. 12, A. 1, Obj. 2: “… if anyone were to… worship at the tomb of Mahomet, he would be deemed an apostate.”

Honoring the monuments or tombs of those who died rejecting Christ, as Benedict XVI did, falls into a similar category as worshipping at the tomb of Mahomet, which St. Thomas correctly says is apostasy. Further,

Saying that humanity walked through a “valley of darkness” at Auschwitz, Benedict ended his speech quoting Psalm 23, “one of the psalms of Israel which is also a prayer of Christians. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want,” he said. “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for you are with me.”

Benedict XVI quoted this psalm and applied it to the plight of Jews in the “holocaust.” Thus, according to him, the Lord is with the Jews even though they reject Christ. This is more heresy, apostasy and religious indifferentism.

Worst of all, Benedict XVI took part in another ecumenical inter-religious prayer service with rabbis. A rabbi prayed the Jewish prayer for the dead in the presence of Antipope Benedict XVI. This is also apostasy, for by allowing this Benedict XVI is acknowledging by his deed that the practice of the Jewish religion is valid and acceptable – indeed, that it belongs right alongside “Catholic” worship. Commenting on the murder of Jews, Benedict XVI also asked: “where was God.”

Final thought: many readers of this website undoubtedly recognize that Benedict XVI is very evil, but for those who don’t: If Benedict XVI is a spiritual man of God, why would he talk only about the earthly deaths of Jews (as sad as it is), and nothing about them needing to convert to save their souls? Isn’t the loss of their souls infinitely worse? Of course it is. All who die as Jews are lost, according to Jesus Christ (Mk. 16:16) and Catholic dogma (de fide, Council of Florence). They need to be converted and saved. So why would Benedict XVI, unless he’s mired in the darkness of the devil, speak only about their loss of earthly life, and the horrible earthly tragedy of the holocaust, in the face of the fact that all these Jews are suffering an infinitely worse tragedy right now in the eternal holocaust of hell for rejecting Christ? Not only did he mention nothing about Jews being lost for rejecting Christ, since he doesn’t believe it, but he contradicted it by justifying Jews in their false religion.

Benedict XVI giving El Diablo satanic sign

Below we see Benedict XVI giving El Diablo (the devil) sign. This satanic gesture is popular among Satanists and satanic rock groups. Many give this satanic hand gesture without knowing it because they’re taken over by the evil spirit. Some point out that the devil sign is similar to the hand gesture for “I love you” in sign language. That’s true, but that’s probably because the inventor of the deaf signing system, Helen Keller, was herself an occultist and a Theosophist. She wrote a book called My Religion in which she explained her occult views. (Texe Marrs, Codex Magica, Austin, TX: Rivercrest Publishing, 2005, pp. 120, 134.) Some believe that she designed the “I love you” sign to correspond with the devil sign so that one making it would be saying that he or she loves Satan.

Regardless, we believe that below Benedict XVI is giving the devil sign – the double devil sign, in fact – and that he knows what he’s doing. We believe that he privately worships the devil. We say this because, having read many of his books, we can say that he is clearly one of the most intelligent men in the world, in addition to having an encyclopedic knowledge of matters Catholic. Thus, when he repeatedly says in his books that one is free not to see Jesus as the Messiah (as we’ve documented), Benedict XVI (being a brilliant man) knows very well that he is preaching a new anti-Christian Gospel from inside the physical structures of the Catholic Church, all the while posing as the Pope who is supposedly dedicated to the Gospel. Thus, he is fully aware of the evil deception which he is pulling off. Only a person who knowingly worships Satan or is fully controlled and possessed by Satan could do such a thing. That he knowingly worships Satan or is fully possessed by Satan explains, in our view, why he is giving the double El Diablo sign in the photo below.

Here is the “Rapping Priest” giving the devil hand gesture

The “Rapping Priest,” “Fr.” Stan Fortuna, is promoted even by “conservative” sectors of the Vatican II “Church,” such as EWTN and “Franciscan” University. Stan has stated publicly that he was “inspired” to his current activity by John Paul II’s promotion of Rock Music. One of his songs is called, “Say Yes to Sex (Theology of the Body).” Notice that in the photo “Fr.” Stan also seems to be giving El Diablo (the devil sign), which is popular among Satanists and satanic rock groups. As stated above, many give this satanic hand gesture without knowing it because they’re taken over by the evil spirit, as unfortunately the “Rapping Priest” was at this time.

Other People giving the devil sign

Head of Vatican Commission says one may watch The Da Vinci Code for entertainment as long as one doesn’t believe it

“‘Cardinal’ Paul Poupard [fourth paragraph], head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, told Europe 1 radio he had no objection to people seeing the film if they understand it is fiction, but many would watch this “nonsense” and think that it was true.”

So, according to the “head” of the Pontifical Council for Culture, “Cardinal” Poupard, who is the highest authority on such issues in the Vatican II sect outside of Antipope Benedict XVI, for entertainment one may view a film which attacks Our Lord and the Catholic Faith in the most blasphemous ways… oh as long as one thinks it is fiction. This is just ridiculous and outrageous. And this is from one of the “conservatives” of the Vatican II sect, one of the few who is actually criticizing the film in certain ways. If the Vatican II sect were Catholic, it would excommunicate any “Catholic” who took any direct part in the promotion, distribution or work on the film, such as Fr. Richard McBrien, who also helped with it. By the way, the “very strong” “Bishops” of the Philippines didn’t even call for the movie to be banned.

Major Flooding hits New England

Probable Connection with The Da Vinci Code: There is probable link between the flooding that has just hit New England and The Da Vinci Code. Major flooding has hit New England just as The Da Vinci Code is about to be released this week. Why is this significant? New England is where author Dan Brown lives and went to high school; it’s where he masterminded The Da Vinci Code, and it’s where National Amusements (in Dedham, MA), the company primarily responsible for putting it in movie theatres across the country, is stationed. In other words, New England is where this monumentally blasphemous filth was born, and from there it will be spread all over the earth to corrupt souls. Although it’s not certain, we believe that it’s not just a coincidence that the flooding is hitting New England now. To show how close to home this is for Dan Brown, here is an interesting link to the flood warnings issued by Phillips Exeter Academy, the place where author Dan Brown attended high school.

Some more comments on The Da Vinci Code hoax

We must say that it’s quite a sad commentary on the spiritual situation of our world and the incredible bad will of men when we consider that the totally ridiculous, absurd, blasphemous and utterly stupid work called The Da Vinci Code is a gigantic blockbuster. No doubt, the Jewish media’s promotion of this work is a big reason for this; but if “Christians” didn’t accept it in large numbers it would never be this popular. Did you know that one of the characters in The Da Vinci Code novel states that for the first 300 years of Christianity everyone considered Jesus to be a mortal prophet, and that the idea that Our Lord is God and the Son of God was invented?!

"My dear," Teabing declared, until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet...a great and powerful man, but man nonetheless. A mortal."
"Not the Son of God?"
"Right," Teabing said. "Jesus' establishment as 'the Son of God' was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea." (page 233)

This claim is an important part of the book! Author Dan Brown claims that the emperor Constantine declared Jesus to be divine in order to consolidate power and repress women. Obviously this is utterly false, as the divinity of Jesus was held since the beginning, as proven by many scriptural passages and the testimony of the early Church fathers.

From AD 108, Ignatius to the church at Ephesus: "Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to her who has been blessed in greatness through the fulness of God the Father, ordained before time to be always resulting in permanent glory, unchangeably united and chosen in true passion, by the will of the Father and of Jesus Christ, our God, to the church which is in Ephesus of Asia, worthy of felicitation: abundant greetings in Jesus Christ and in blameless joy." (Ephesians 1)

Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

In other words, in order to devastate The Da Vinci Code for those who accept the Bible all you have to do is crack open the first passage of the Gospel of John: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1.) – or one of the many other passages which clearly prove Our Lord’s divinity, such as John 8:58; Luke 20:28; John 14:9; Titus 2:13; Acts 3:15; etc., etc., etc., etc. In order to devastate it for those who don’t accept the Bible one merely needs to show that the fathers of the Church accepted Christ’s divinity or that the four-fold Gospel was known to be authentic prior to AD 300, such as by St. Irenaeus (AD 180).

Thus, the only people who would be taken in by The Da Vinci Code hoax are people who have almost zero interest in, and knowledge of, Christianity. Unfortunately, this includes almost all who profess to be Christians. This shows how little people care about God and Christianity (Catholicism), and how few value truth. It’s a mind-boggling outrage that countless professing “Christians” have bought this ridiculous work as if it were true, and will attend the movie in droves. It’s almost as outrageous that the mainstream media critics have not blasted the gross inaccuracies and falsehoods in the novel (now film), but instead have treated it as if it were an impeccably documented work of genius based on facts.

Lack of interest in the important matters of Faith is one of the biggest problems today. I guess it’s the same reason why people can be followers of the Anglican or Episcopalian religion and not care enough to ever find out that their religion was founded simply because King Henry VIII wanted a divorce. I guess it’s the same reason why millions can follow the Mormon religion. The Mormons claim to be the “Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints.” Their religion was founded by Joseph Smith who claimed revelations from heaven, among which was the necessity to institute polygamy. Well, anyone who reads the Bible knows that Jesus condemned polygamy, and said that anyone who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery. We wonder if the contradiction between the teaching of Jesus Christ and the teaching of their founder, Joseph Smith, ever crosses the minds of these Mormons?

Jewish Day at "Catholic" Primary School

This is so evil and so sad; they’re turning these young kids into apostates. But again, all of this apostasy at the local level is simply the implementation of Vatican II, which teaches that Jews should not be presented as rejected by God. See: The Most Specific Heresy in Vatican II.

A comment on The Da Vinci Code and Jewish control

As the Da Vinci Code movie is released, did you notice that the mainstream news media has made very little protest or controversy about this film? This film wages an all-out assault on Our Lord Jesus Christ and Christianity, but very little protest or controversy is coming from the mainstream media. That’s quite interesting, isn’t it? Do you remember how the media reacted to a film which they perceived to be a threat to Judaism, such as The Passion of the Christ. You see, it’s not a big deal if you attack Christianity, but if you repeat the Gospel which doesn’t paint Jews and Judaism in a very good light… oh boy. This should remind us once again which religion is in charge of the mainstream news organs. The mainstream media is Jewish-dominated (see The New Jerusalem).

For instance, U.S. News and World Report has a prominent link on its website to “The Secrets of the Da Vinci Code” (seen on the left-hand side when one scrolls down). Could the reason that U.S. News and World Report is so vigorously promoting this anti-Christian work be that U.S. News and World Report is owned by Mortimer Zuckerman (The New Jerusalem, p. 132), a Jew who also owns the NY Daily News?

Jewish-owned U.S. News and World Report prominently promotes “The Secrets of the Da Vinci Code.”

By the way, for those who like sports: did you know that of the four major North American Sports Leagues (the NBA, the NFL, MLB, and the NHL), three out of the four commissioners have what are almost certainly Jewish names? David Stern is the commissioner of the NBA, Bud Selig is the commissioner of Major League Baseball, and Gary Bettman is the commissioner of the NHL. Jews are only 2% of the American population, so what are the chances that three out the four commissioners are almost certainly Jewish? Stern recently had to fill the position for Deputy Commissioner of the NBA. This will be the man who will almost certainly replace him as commissioner once he’s done. Well, he appointed Adam Silver, almost certainly another Jew. No surprise there. The man who announced the promotion of Silver, by the way, was Micky Arison, Jewish millionaire and owner of the Miami Heat (The New Jerusalem, p. 74). The article also mentions that Stern gave a promotion to Joel Litvin. Gee… I wonder what religion he is…

Stern appoints Adam Silver Deputy Commissioner

As the last item for this update on Jewish control, did you know that while we’re currently at war supposedly because Iraq had nuclear weapons, no one knows how many nuclear weapons are possessed by Israel. Israel has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, so it’s not subject to inspections or sanctions by the United Nations.

Creation dismissed as paganism by Vatican’s astronomer

Novus Ordo “Cardinal" Cheong sends greetings for Buddha’s Birth and says: "We need Buddha's teaching more and more"

Wow, that’s some apostasy… Oh, but the “Cardinal” is just following the lead of the Vatican Antipopes. Remember this one:

Antipope John Paul II, May 6, 1984: "…the world looks to Korea with particular interest. For the Korean people throughout history have sought, in the great ethical and religious visions of Buddhism and Confucianism, the path to renewal of self… May I address a particular greeting to the members of the Buddhist tradition as they prepare to celebrate the festivity of the Coming of the Lord Buddha? May your rejoicing be complete and your joy fulfilled." (L’Osservatore Romano, May 14, 1984, p. 7.)

These statements are right there with the worst of the Vatican II apostasy. I mean, come on, greetings for the “Coming of the Lord Buddha”!

Interfaith Luncheon of Apostasy at the non-Catholic University of America

“Catholic” University of America is supposedly the center for Catholic higher education in America. It’s not Catholic at all, but rather it’s part of the non-Catholic Vatican II sect. It recently held an interfaith luncheon of apostasy:

“Approximately 100 guests, representing Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox/Oriental Christian, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Eastern faith groups, participated in a 1 p.m. luncheon hosted by Very Rev. David M. O’Connell, C.M., President of Catholic University. In his welcoming remarks to those assembled, Father O’Connell reflected that religion has always played a significant role in the development of world cultures,” as if their false religions of the devil were a positive and God-willed aspect of the establishment of cultures.

“Fr.” O’Connell also encouraged the Muslims, Jews, pagans and heretics in their own prayers, commemorated the spirit of Assisi, and “joined together in prayer” (see third to last paragraph) with these infidels, pagans and heretics.

Buddhist Ritual in Novus Ordo Cathedral

So-called “Catholic priest” denies that Jesus even founded a Church on Larry King Live’s (CNN’s) promotional for “God or the Girl”

KING: And Father Manning, did Christ in fact form a church?

MANNING: Not necessarily.

KING: Did he die a Jew?

MANNING: As the church -- he was very much that. We started to move later on in that -- certainly there were the apostles, there were the group. But, yes, no I agree, yes.

KING: You can chime in, too. You're more than a student.

DEMATTE: Christ -- the Catholic Church does not believe that Christ did not start a church. The Catholic Church teaches -- we proclaim every day in the creed, we believe in one holy Catholic apostolic church. We believe in one church, founded by Christ, and that church was founded in Matthew Chapter 16, where Jesus gave Peter the keys to the kingdom of God.

And with that, it goes back to the Old Testament where the Old Testament kings would hand over the keys to the kingdom to the prime minister went that king was going to leave.

And so while Jesus was leaving our kingdom here on earth, he was going to the kingdom of God and he gave his keys over to Peter, the prime -- with primary lead in our church and that's where our papal primacy comes from. That's where our authority comes from. And that's where Jesus establishes the church.

“Larry King Live” hosted a program called “God or the Girl” about young men torn between choosing the Novus Ordo “priesthood” or marriage. It was a promotional for a program by the same title that will appear on another network. As part of the panel, Larry King had so-called “Catholic priest” Fr. Michael Manning, the host of “The Word in the World.” Fr. Manning is frequently shown on “Larry King Live” supposedly to give the official “Roman Catholic” perspective. Well, as we can see above, when asked whether Jesus even founded a Church, Fr. Manning said “not necessarily,” and that this was formed much later on! This is such an outrage and an abomination one doesn’t know what to say. One of the young men on the show named Dematte – who is considering the Novus Ordo “priesthood” – actually chimed in, to his credit, and refuted the heresy, as we see in the transcript above. Perhaps our readers can say a Hail Mary for this young man so that he finds the true traditional Catholic Faith, for his words on the program demonstrated more good will than the other guests; yet, at the same time, his promotion of certain aspects of the Vatican II religion demonstrated very much that he was mired in the false Vatican II religion. Perhaps one can say a Hail Mary for Larry King as well.

But this tells us where we are in history, and how far from Catholic the Vatican II sect is: a supposed Catholic priest, featured by CNN to give the official “Catholic” line to millions of viewers, denies that Jesus even founded a Church. What an outrage.

A link to the official transcript for those interested

French Novus Ordo Bishops want SSPX Reconciliation, but only if SSPX accepts Vatican II

This just proves once again – contrary to the claims of many independent “traditionalists” who accept the Vatican II Antipopes, but reject Vatican II – that Vatican II is the official and binding teaching of the Conciliar Church, so that if one accepts the Vatican II Antipopes and their Bishops one must accept the teaching of Vatican II.

Vatican Sources: Universal Approval of 1962 Missal could be underway

It looks as if Benedict XVI is going to pull out all the stops to bring people back to the Vatican II sect. If he does give permission for universal use of the 1962 Missal, it will be because – as we and many others have said – the devil knows that there are almost no more valid priests. (Contrary to what some on the internet might think, neither this concept – that the devil knows there are almost no more valid priests left, and therefore could grant permission for the Latin Mass – nor the prediction that Benedict XVI would reach out to traditionally-minded groups, was any great prophecy or insight; it was a very obvious possibility, which we discussed at the Monastery shortly after his “election,” and mentioned in so many words in our first article on his heresies, More than 30 Astounding and Amazing Heresies of Benedict XVI from his 1982 book Principles of Catholic Theology, which was posted very shortly after his “election.”)

However, there is another aspect that is sometimes overlooked in this regard. If the devil, I mean, if Benedict XVI allows the Latin Mass to be used universally, it will not only be because there are almost no more valid priests, but also because the new religion has already been thoroughly imbibed throughout the Vatican II sect. We’re so far along in the Vatican II apostasy that it’s now “understood” by groups seeking approval from Benedict XVI that it’s okay to attend the Synagogue; Assisi is “understood”; the religious indifferentism is “understood”. Thus, the devil can afford to give back the Latin Mass since all of this is now “understood” by groups putting themselves under Benedict XVI and his “Bishops.”

To put it another way: the New Mass had to be imposed near the beginning of the Vatican II religion because it was an integral part of establishing the ecumenical mindset; it was an integral part of destroying Faith, devotion and traditional spirituality. The invalid and sacrilegious New Mass provided the proper ambience and milieu for the acceptance of false ecumenism and religious indifferentism. But once the apostasy has been established – once the Faith has been destroyed, the religious indifferentism and the new religion implanted and, of course, the priests invalidated – the New Mass has served its purpose, and can be dispensed with. Although even if permission for the 1962 Missal is given, it is our opinion that the New Mass will remain the norm alongside the optional 1962 Missal. (As the prophet Daniel says, the abomination of desolation [the New Mass] will continue even to the consummation, “and to the end.”)

Here is what we had in our first article on Benedict XVI’s heresies, very shortly after his “election,” concerning him possibly giving back the Latin Mass:

Benedict XVI hates the Church and the doctrine of the Church. In our view, Benedict XVI does not have the charism to attract and deceive the pagan world that John Paul II had. However, he has a stronger charism and pull with the so-called “conservatives” and false traditionalists. In this way, he may have a more disastrous and evil effect in keeping people in – and luring people back to – the Vatican II sect. As the apostasy and the apostate Vatican II sect continue, it will be an ever-growing test of people’s Faith. They will ask themselves: could this really be happening? How long will this continue? They will see the apostasy in front of them, and have the ability to see that this is not the Catholic Church, but they will see the buildings, the structure and the externals of the apostate Church (which has stolen the buildings of the Catholic Church) and they will be tempted to rejoin it or stay in it. They will stifle their recognition of the apostasy, and convince themselves that it is not actually a new religion. They will stay in the false Church or re-enter it and deny Jesus Christ. I believe that, in the coming days, many weak souls will lose the Faith and enter back into the apostate Vatican II sect.

Our Lady of La Salette, Sept. 19, 1846: “Rome will lose the faith and become the Seat of the Antichrist… the Church will be in eclipse… Who will be the victor if God does not shorten the length of the test?... It is time; the sun is darkening; only faith will survive.”

Luke 18:8 “But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?”

Benedict XVI, with his reputation as a “traditionalist,” is the man who is just right for the devil’s job of keeping these souls in – and leading them back to – the apostate Vatican II sect, which is eclipsing the true Church which has been reduced to a small, but still visible, remnant. Benedict XVI has deceived the false conservatives and traditionalists that he is a pillar of orthodoxy – something that the facts in this article prove is such a lie that almost no words can describe how much of a lie it is – and he may do other conservative things with the goal of deceiving people. He may even excommunicate some pro-abortionists or possibly make the Latin Mass more widely available – all in order to keep people in and lure people back to the Vatican II apostasy and the counterfeit Vatican II Church. And while he throws in a few conservative statements or actions, he will, of course, proceed full speed ahead with preaching and implementing the Vatican II apostate religion.

Circus “Mass"

“Traditionalist” website defends membership in Freemasonry

Many of our readers are familiar with the traditio website. It purports to be the most widely read “traditionalist” website. Well, in the March 5, 2006 commentary – in a question about whether Mozart was a Freemason – this website stated that membership in Freemasonry is compatible with the Catholic Faith.

“But whenever the name of Mozart comes up, someone always asks, but wasn't Mozart a Freemason? The answer is a qualified yes. Mozart was influenced by the ideas of the eighteenth century European Enlightenment as an adult and became a Freemason in 1784. However, his lodge, the same one in which his devout father Leopold and his mentor Joseph Haydn were both members, was a specifically Catholic rather than a deistic one. Both composers were at the time furnishing church music in the court of the Catholic Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg.

According to Msgr. Philip Hughes, one of the most noted Catholic historians of the first half of the 19th century, Freemasonry in Mozart's time, before the French Revolution, which intervened five years later, didn't necessarily include the anti-Catholic fanaticism, which after the Revolution became obligatory and was later universally condemned by the Church, but could be considered, at least in the Catholic lodges, as an humanitarian work compatible with the Faith.”

Notice that the website not only states that membership in Freemasonry was something “compatible with the Faith,” but that Mozart was a Freemason just like his “devout” father. In other words, one can be a “devout Catholic” and a Freemason at the same time! This website is very evil and heretical. It was in 1738 that Pope Clement XII, in the Bull “In Eminenti,” declared that anyone who is a member of Freemasonry – or who even favors it – is automatically excommunicated. Besides the promotion of Freemasonry, this website is probably the biggest exponent of false traditionalist blasphemy and schism – the type discussed in this week’s Heresy of the Week on the Joint Declaration of CFN and The Remnant.

The aforementioned website holds that Benedict XVI is the Pope, but constantly condemns and mocks his “Church” (in other words, the Catholic Church, according to the website, since it holds Benedict XVI to be Pope) as a non-Catholic, counterfeit, false New Church that Catholics should completely reject. (So, it rejects the New Church but is in communion with the head of the New Church, Benedict XVI.) The concept that one must be in communion with the “Pope” and “Bishops” one recognizes is utterly destroyed by this website (schism). The concept that the Catholic Church cannot be a non-Catholic sect rife with heresy and apostasy is also totally rejected. It levels one insult after another against what it deems to be the Catholic Church. Not surprisingly, therefore, the website also promotes the wicked heresy that a Catholic can reject the solemn Canonizations of Pope, thus calling into question all Saints in history. It attempts to justify this heretical position based on misinformation (see our article “Canonizations are infallible”). Its heresy on Canonizations has been picked up and duplicated by hordes in the SSPX and other like-minded false traditionalist groups. The website also denies the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation by reducing it to a vain formula, but that’s not really a surprise.

A positive aspect of this website is that it holds the New Mass to be invalid. It repeatedly (and correctly) calls the invalid Novus Ordo host a “cookie.” But presenting the truth on this matter serves to convince some that its other positions may be correct.

Some have speculated that the reason that this website has become such a powerhouse, and has effectively drawn much “traditionalist” resistance to itself, is that its operator(s) is a deliberate conspirator (a Freemason?) who is knowingly serving as a false opposition to lead “traditionalists” astray and into confusion. While this might be true (and its promotion of Freemasonry as acceptable, as covered above, would lend credence to this), we personally don’t hold that this website is deliberately conspiratorial. Rather, the devil uses it as a false opposition to mislead and confuse Catholics with schismatic and heretical conclusions, such as that Freemasonry can be compatible with the Catholic Faith.

Vatican OKs Islam Class in Schools

Bush is pro-abortion

NBC calls it the Torino Olympic Games, not Turin, for a reason

As many of you know, the Winter Olympics are currently underway in Turin, Italy. For some strange reason, however, NBC doesn’t call it the Winter Olympics at Turin, but rather the Olympics at Torino. Turin is the English translation of the Italian word Torino. (Torino is the Italian word for the city.) Since NBC is broadcasting to an American audience, it would only make sense that NBC would call it the Turin Olympics, not Torino – just like it would call it the Rome Olympics, not Roma, and the Munich Olympics, not Munchen.

But NBC insisted on going with Torino. The Chairman of NBC Sports, Dick Ebersol, liked Torino better. In our view, it’s obvious that the reason NBC decided to go with Torino, and not Turin, was to avoid reminding the country of the Shroud of Turin. The Antichrist network NBC, heavily influenced by Jews (as are all the major networks), didn’t want the country to be reminded of Our Lord via the most famous religious artifact in the world: His holy Shroud, which provides further proof of His Resurrection.

An Article on no Mention of the Shroud by NBC

If you want to learn more about the amazing Shroud of Turin, see the end of our Creation and Miracles DVD, or for only $7.00 get Jesus and the Shroud of Turin (which we sell), the best single tape done on the Shroud.

Jewish Power - Man gets 3 years for denying "Holocaust"

New Novus Ordo "Archbishop" of San Francisco finds Gay Comboy movie “Very Powerful”

Fellay seems to deny a coming reconciliation with apostate Rome

So, according to Fellay, they will not budge from their schismatic position. No, they will maintain their schismatic position interminably – rather than opting for the more heretical one that fully endorses the Vatican II apostasy – until Rome (the hierarchy they recognize as the Catholic hierarchy) bends to their demands. Notice that Fellay says:

"We are not opposed to agreements. But it has to be made possible. To make a deal possible, Rome must change its stance, because we will not budge; we want to remain Catholics."

… as if the SSPX wouldn’t be Catholic if they joined up with the hierarchy and the “Pope” they recognize as Catholic! What schismatic nonsense.

“Catholic" University to Offer Minor in “Queer Studies”

Fr. Fessio makes sure to clarify his remarks on Islam

Of course, Fessio wouldn’t want to give the people the impression that he condemns Islam as a false religion, no… not at all…

For those who don’t know, Fr. Joseph Fessio is the editor of Ignatius Press, the publisher of most of Benedict XVI’s books. Thus, Fessio is one of the few people who has also read many of Benedict XVI’s incredibly heretical books. He is extremely familiar with their content. What always boggles my mind is how people like Fr. Fessio can actually read the following lines in, for instance, Benedict XVI’s book God and the World and not recognize that Benedict XVI is denying that Jesus Christ must be seen as the Messiah. Does he even have a problem with the following incredible heresy? Fessio is considered a conservative, but he is actually an apostate. (By the way, one can find an advertisement for this very book in the article linked to above.)

“Cardinal” Joseph Ratzinger, God and the World, 2000, p. 209: “It is of course possible to read the Old Testament so that it is not directed toward Christ; it does not point quite unequivocally to Christ. And if Jews cannot see the promises as being fulfilled in him, this is not just ill will on their part, but genuinely because of the obscurity of the texts and the tension in the relationship between these texts and the figure of Jesus. Jesus brings a new meaning to these texts – yet it is he who first gives them their proper coherence and relevance and significance. There are perfectly good reasons, then, for denying that the Old Testament refers to Christ and for saying, No, that is not what he said. And there are also good reasons for referring it to him – that is what the dispute between Jews and Christians is about.”

Vatican newspaper agrees that Intelligent Design should not be taught in schools

What more proof could one possibly need that we are in the Great Apostasy, and that Rome is occupied by a counterfeit non-Catholic sect, than the fact that the official Vatican newspaper agrees that Intelligent Design should not be taught in schools? Wow!

Ads Anger pro-abortionists

Yes, the evil pro-abortionists must act when they see abortion being attacked. They cannot contain themselves; they must come to its defense. They must deface and attack these ads, since they are evil and the truth convicts them. But to every kind of filth that is peddled in the stores, they offer no objection.

With the “Bishop’s” permission, Novus Ordo “priest” announces he’s gay during the Novus Ordo “Mass,” and declares that he will leaving to pursue a gay relationship

The apostate Novus Ordo “Bishop” also said that he “admires” the priest’s decision.

Archdiocese of Los Angeles officially invites all to ecumenical Taize prayer services

This is apostasy, a completely new religion. But it’s just another day at the office for those in a diocese of the Vatican II sect.

As usual, the world marks the new year with partying and sinful revelry. Why?

Jan. 1 marks the beginning of the new year, and there is nothing wrong with marking it in a fashion that is wholesome and Catholic, should one be so inclined.

But what explains the tradition of the modern pagan world to bring in the new year with riotousness and sinful revelry? Why is the change in the Calendar a reason for them to act in this fashion? Why do they do it? Why is more sin probably committed on this night than on any other? The explanation for this is found in the satanic philosophy: “do what thou wilt.” The famous satanist, Aleister Crowley, summed up the satanists’ philosophy as: “do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” The people who celebrate the new year with riotousness and sinful revelry are celebrating another year of “doing their own will.” Whether they realize it or not, the reason much of the world is compelled to “celebrate” the new year in this fashion is because they are led by the evil one to celebrate the beginning another year of their rebellion against God – doing their own will to the max.

But after their momentary partying is over, deep down in their souls they can feel the emptiness and pointlessness of their lives – a void that can only be filled with the knowledge of the true Catholic Faith, the eternal heaven above and the eternal hell below.

Evidence that Christianity reached China as early as the 1st or 2nd Century

USCCB BISHOPS CHANGES ITS RATING ON THE GAY COMBOY MOVIE!

One day after we posted the link below, mentioning how the USCCB gave an “L” rating to the Gay Cowboy Love Story (which means that some could reasonably view it), the USCCB changed its rating to the Movie and now gives it an O.

Novus Ordo Bishops give a positive Review of the New Gay Cowboy Movie

I don’t know who is worse, the apostate Novus Ordo Bishops who gave this abomination a positive review or the scumbags who acted in it.

Novus Ordo Bishops’ Official Website says about the movie:

“Director Ang Lee tells the story with a sure sense of time and place, and presents the narrative in a way that is more palatable than would have been thought possible. Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana's screenplay uses virtually every scrap of information in Proulx's story, which won a National Magazine Award, and expands it while remaining utterly true to the source. The performances are superb…”

And get this: if you look at the rating system the “Bishops” have at the bottom, you can see that “O” is their rating for morally objectionable – that’s the worst rating a movie can get. They gave this movie an “L,” which means that some people could go see it! They didn’t even give it an “O” for morally objectionable! What an abomination!

Muslims are going to Heaven, says EWTN priest

So much for the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation… I don’t know why people like this even claim to be Catholic.

Historian says John Paul II was Jewish

The evidence seems clear now that John Paul II, like Paul VI, was Jewish.

The Vatican says that Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Bible are compatible

Another Rabbi Made a “Papal” Knight by the Vatican II sect

Novus Ordo “Priests” seek to adopt Hindu rituals

Benedict XVI says Jews and Catholics must give common witness of Faith

This is apostasy.

Novus Ordo Diocesan Agency helps Gays Adopt Children

Another Novus Ordo Diocesan Bishop declares that the SSPX is not in communion with “the Church”

The SSPX is not in communion with the Novus Ordo Bishops. Ordinary after Ordinary of the Novus Ordo Church declares it. Yet, the SSPX obstinately affirms that these very “Bishops,” who declare that the SSPX is not communion with the Church, constitute the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. These men constitute the authorities and representatives of the Catholic Church in their respective dioceses, with whom Catholics must be in communion, according to the SSPX. The SSPX thus condemns its apostolate out of its own mouth. The SSPX’s position is impossible, untenable, totally contradictory and schismatic. They act like sedevacantists, but are too dishonest to take the position.

The same goes for all who obstinately support independent chapels while rejecting sedevacantism. Any person who supports the SSPX or another independent chapel, but obstinately rejects sedevacantism, is a hypocrite and a schismatic. Such a person is a sedevacantist in reality (rejecting the Novus Ordo Church as not the Catholic Church), but is too dishonest to take the position.

For instance, a young woman wrote in to The Remnant praising the heretic Chris Ferrara’s attack on sedevacantism. The young woman also revealed that she is a supporter of the SSPX. So, she is a supporter of the SSPX and the attack on sedevacantism. (She fails to realize that her position is schismatic). Okay, young woman, if you want to declare that you are not a sedevacantist and recognize Benedict XVI’s hierarchy, head back to your local diocesan chapel and leave the SSPX or shut your mouth. You have no right to be at the independent chapel unless you are a sedevacantist.

We say the same to every single person reading this website who obstinately rejects sedevacantism, but who is a supporter of an independent chapel. Your position is definitely schismatic, and every time you support your independent chapel, every time you attend it, every time you recommend a friend to it and shun the diocesan chapel, you are proving the sedevacantist position.

Guardsmen sense Ghostly presence in New Orleans

The official website of the Novus Ordo "Bishops" officially pays homage to pro-abortion and pro-homosexual Rabbi Balfour

It is also declares that this Jewish Rabbi may rest in peace with the Lord, and that his name may forever be a blessing. If this isn’t apostasy then nothing has ever been apostasy.

Lutheran funeral service for non-Catholic Rehnquist to be held in Novus Ordo Cathedral

Benedict XVI says Protestant heretic is in Heaven

Does anyone not yet understand that this means that the Catholic Faith is completely meaningless, according to Benedict XVI? You would have to be a complete idiot to enter a Seminary under Benedict XVI. You might as well join the non-Catholic, Protestant, ecumenical Monastery of Taize. Either way, you are going to heaven, according to Benedict XVI.

“Cardinal” Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), Principles of Catholic Theology (1982), p. 304: “For more than a decade, Taize has been, without a doubt, the leading example of an ecumenical inspiration, emanating from a local center inspired by a particular ‘charism’. Similar communities of faith and of shared living should be formed elsewhere….”

Antipope Benedict XVI is not a Catholic, and he is not the Pope. Who does not yet understand this?

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, ex cathedra:

“… no one, even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”

Pope Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio, May 27, 1832:

“Finally some of these misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.”

Benedict XVI entered the Jewish Synagogue on Friday at noon, the same day and hour that Jesus was crucified

Lightning strikes Novus Ordo church and Masonic Hall, but only the statue of the Blessed Virgin is unharmed

The Apostate Novus Ordo "Bishop" of Melbourne gets invited to speak at a Muslim Event on Mohammed

I don’t think that he will be repeating the dogmatic Council of Vienne’s teaching on Mohammed at the event…

Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312:

“It is an insult to the holy name and a disgrace to the Christian faith that in certain parts of the world subject to Christian princes where Saracens [i.e., the followers of Islam, also called Muslims] live, sometimes apart, sometimes intermingled with Christians, the Saracen priests, commonly called Zabazala, in their temples or mosques, in which the Saracens meet to adore the infidel Mahomet, loudly invoke and extol his name each day at certain hours from a high place… This brings disrepute on our faith and gives great scandal to the faithful. These practices cannot be tolerated without displeasing the divine majesty. We therefore, with the sacred council’s approval, strictly forbid such practices henceforth in Christian lands. We enjoin on Catholic princes, one and all.. They are to forbid expressly the public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Mahomet… Those who presume to act otherwise are to be so chastised by the princes for their irreverence, that others may be deterred from such boldness.”

Interfaith Chanting at Novus Ordo Cathedral

By their fruits you shall know them: scandals of the Novus Ordo sect could amount to 3 billion dollars

Antipope Benedict XVI will say prayers in Hebrew at Synagogue

The Vatican II sect may declare Antipope John Paul II a martyr

Air Force Names Rabbi as Adviser on Religion

Phoenix Novus Ordo "Bishop" Restores Latin Mass

As we pointed out, this is the type of thing that will happen under Benedict XVI that will keep people in and lure peole back to the Vatican II sect, while he continues to preach his apostasy. And since most people care only about the Mass and not the Faith, they will fall for it and accept the apostate Benedict XVI.

In Protestant vs. Vatican II “Catholic” Debate, the "Catholic" holds Non-Christians Can Enter Heaven

This is an abomination. They are mocking Catholic teaching and disgracing the Catholic Church before the Protestants. The Catholic Church alone is faithful to all the truths of Jesus Christ, including that only Christians (Catholics) can be saved. This instance just shows us again that the Vatican II religion is not the Catholic religion. It rejects what Catholics must hold “by divine faith.”

Pope Leo XII, Ubi Primum (# 14), May 5, 1824:

“It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members… by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.”

Process for “Canonization” of John Paul II moves forward

What will people do when this actually happens? Will they reject Christ and actually accept the “canonization” of the devil-worshipping apostate, Antipope John Paul II? Or will they wake up and realize that the Vatican II Antipopes are not true Popes?

St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Great Means of Salvation and Perfection, 1759, p. 23:“To suppose that the Church can err in canonizing, is a sin, or is heresy, according to St. Bonaventure, Bellarmine, and others; or at least next door to heresy, according to Suarez, Azorius, Gotti, etc.; because the Sovereign Pontiff, according to St. Thomas, is guided by the infallible influence of the Holy Ghost in an especial way when canonizing saints.”

Kasper the friendly apostate praises Benedict XVI’s commitment to ecumenism

Incorruptible Saints

Jewish State of honors John Paul II with Stamp and Park

Antipope Benedict XVI to Visit the Jewish Synagogue in August

Antipope Benedict XVI Starts Beatification Process for Antipope John Paul II

No comment necessary.

Canadian Novus Ordo Diocese to Sell All of its churches to pay Sex Abuse Claims

Antipope Benedict XVI Sends Birthday Greeting to Rabbi

Diocese Settles Lawsuit over accused molestation by “traditional” Society of St. John priests

This was the Latin Mass society under the Vatican II sect which, when it came out, was being vigorously promoted and supported. People were falling over themselves because they offered the Latin Mass; they provided them with externals they so longed for. No matter that they accepted false ecumenism and the apostate Vatican II religion. No matter… because they offered the Latin Mass and provided them with externals. So, when it turned out that this pack of heretics was actually a “homosexual cult,” as one informed commentator on the group notes, one can only say that those people who unhesitatingly poured their support into this heretical group got what they deserved. (Here is a link for more information exposing this disgusting group: The Case Against SSJ)

45% of "Catholic" Hospitals in US Dispense Abortion Drugs

"Cardinal" Ratzinger gave “Communion” to two known Protestants at Funeral Mass for JP2

"Catholic" University promotes open Lesbianism

This is actually a Novus Ordo “church”

You’ve got to be kidding

Jew explains how Ratzinger said Jews' Rejection of Jesus Christ is not a Rejection of God

Ratzinger “argued that this position is also part of the divine plan," explains Rosen, who now heads the American Jewish Committee's Interreligious Affairs department, "and the fact Jews don't accept Jesus must not be seen as an act of rejecting God, but as part of God's plan to remind the world that peace and salvation for all humanity has not yet come.”

Antipope Benedict XVI Invites Rabbi of Rome to Installation

This is an act of apostasy.

Ratzinger is credited with saving the totally heretical Lutheran Agreement on Justification

11 paragraphs from the bottom of this article it states:”Those who know Ratzinger, however, say few figures have exercised greater influence on him than Luther. In a 1966 commentary on Vatican II’s “The Church in the Modern World,” Ratzinger said that the document leaned too heavily on Teilhard de Chardin and not enough on Luther - a remarkable comment in an era with no official Lutheran-Catholic contact, when many Catholics still branded Luther a heretic.”

For a short article dealing with the heresies in this outrageous document that Ratzinger “saved” (which blatantly rejects the Council of Trent and teaches Justification by faith alone), click here Heresies of the Week of John Paul II and the Vatican II Sect regarding Heretics and Schismatics and then scroll down to 2/13/04. For a longer expose, see the article from issue 4 available on our site.

Antipope Ratzinger immediately affirms his false ecumenism and his commitment to the apostasy of John Paul II and Vatican II

Jewish Freemasons Mourn the Death of John Paul II

They call it a "Crucifix" at the Milwaukee Cathedral

"Just Do It"

EWTN accepts the heresy that there are Protestant “Saints”

They are just following the teaching of Antipope John Paul II.

Novus Ordo Football "Rosary"
(Soccer Rosaries, too.)

New Crucifix for a new religion

Rock/Rap Music in "Catholic" Church in Switzerland

Partial Solar Eclipse on Day of John Paul II's Funeral
John Paul II was also born on day with Partial Solar Eclipse

Our Lady of La Salette said: “Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist… the Church will be in eclipse.”

Confirmation that John Paul II suffered in death and was completely unable to speak

Contrary to some myths that are floating around that John Paul II did not suffer at death and that he did speak the word “Amen,” here is the confirmation that Antipope John Paul II suffered a slow and painful death and was completely unable to speak just before death.

AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR, April 5, 2005: “… The pope's doctor gave an interview to an Italian newspaper. In that interview he said, quote, "The pope passed away slowly, with pain and suffering which he endured with great human dignity." And then the doctor added that for the last couple of days, the pope was in fact unable to speak at all.

So whatever last words there were -- and I think there's been, since we arrived here now on Saturday, great speculation as to what his last words may or may not have been and whether in fact he said amen, which was how it was originally reported -- whatever it was that was said was said several days, two days perhaps, before he in fact died.” (Click here for link to the official transcript to prove this)

The fact that Antipope John Paul II died in great torment almost immediately after being struck so that he could not speak a single word, just like Alcimus, confirms again that he parallels Alcimus, the fourth false High Priest at the time of the Abomination of Desolation. It lends further credence to our argument that the New Mass is the Abomination of Desolation; and that we are definitely in the last days and the Great Apostasy.

In Visible Pain and Unable to Speak,John Paul II Gives Easter Blessing in Silence

1 Machabees 9:55- "At that time Alcimus was struck: and his works were hindered, and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak a word, nor give order concerning his house. And Alcimus died at that time in great torment.”

The above is just confirmation (for those who aren’t yet aware that John Paul II cannot speak) of what we proved in the article below – that John Paul II parallels Alcimus, the fourth false High Priest at the time of the Abomination of Desolation in the Machabees.

The New Mass is the Abomination of Desolation - and the Four Vatican II Antipopes parallel the Four False High Priests at the time of the Abomination of Desolation in the Machabees

Fr. Benedict Groeschel’s Apostasy

On the EWTN show Sunday Night Live, on March 27, 2005 – which we saw – the well-known Novus Ordo priest Fr. Benedict Groeschel said (basically word for word):

“I respect everyone’s Faith. I hope they practice whatever Faith they have well, because that is what God will judge them on.”

This is apostasy from one of the most “conservative” and “well respected” Novus Ordo priests in the country, a favorite of that bastion of “Catholic orthodoxy” EWTN.

3 Main Networks Slanting News Against Terri Schiavo

Those who don’t understand that the Major Media is totally controlled and biased will continue to be brainwashed.

ABC's Peter Jennings dismissed one of the Schindlers’ worries: "They also say that she will die a painful death, though there does not seem to be any support for that argument in the medical community." This is nothing but pure nonsense. The study found that none of the news stories examined whether or not Michael was acting in Terri's best interests…The Media Research Center study also found that none of the broadcast networks included any medical experts who dissent from the view that Terri is PVS and has no chance of recovering -- even though dozens of doctors and neurologists have come forward stating otherwise.

Apostate Novus Ordo “Bishop” of San Diego Apologizes for Not having Catholic Funeral for Gay Nightclub Owner! He now agrees to have “Mass” in memory of the Sodomy promoter!

Michael Schiavo Contradicts himself in CNN interview and reveals the truth

On the March 18, 2005 show Larry King Live, Michael Schiavo, who is presently trying to starve his wife to death, blatantly contradicts himself and reveals the truth. Early in the interview, Michael Schiavo says: “this is what Terri wanted.” Later on, however, Larry King asks him:

KING: Do you understand how they [the parents] feel?

M. SCHIAVO: Yes, I do. But this is not about them, it’s about Terri. And I’ve also said that in court. We didn’t know what Terri wanted, but this is what we want…

The truth always seems to come out. Click here for a link to the whole transcript of the interview: Larry King interview on CNN (the Schiavo part is more than half way down).

St. Petersburg's "Bishop" Lynch Favors Starving Terri Schiavo

The Novus Ordo Presider’s Chair

More False Ecumenism: Ecumenical Vespers at Novus Ordo church

“Cardinal” Would Allow Pro-Abort "Catholics" to Speak at “Catholic” Colleges

England's Novus Ordo “Bishops” Adopt Gay Equality Agenda

They gather Around the Novus Ordo false religion

Check out the third picture on the left.

Boy Is Aborted 3 Times and Lives

Novus Ordo Archbishop was Communist Agent

Carnival “Mass" at the Novus Ordo

Novus Ordo “Mass” with firecrackers, drums, gongs and a costumed dragon dance

Novus Ordo “Church” giving up the Catholic Faith for Lent – and admitting it!

New Video on Paul VI

Only in the Novus Ordo: Man Hid in Novus Ordo church roof for Seven Years!

This is actually a Novus Ordo church

It is “Heart of Jesus” “Catholic” church in Munich, Germany.

Another Novus Ordo

No comments necessary

Another "Sodomy Mass" in the Novus Ordo

Apostate Novus Ordo “Archdiocese” of San Francisco Greets "Spirit of the North, South, East and West"

Star of David on Novus Ordo Stole

Novus Ordo Nuns Pray that Jews remain Jews

Aboriginal Apostasy Garden

For Clowns, heretics and blasphemers

John Paul II, he’s really making an impression upon people

Public Reading of Scripture brings Criminal charges in Philadelphia

EWTN Priest says that it’s okay to attend Protestant services!

Notice that this apostate even agrees that it’s okay to attend a JW service, which I would assume means a Jehovah’s Witness service! Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the Most Holy Trinity. But, if you believe that John Paul II is the Pope, don’t complain! This apostate priest is just following what is officially taught by John Paul II in #118 of the incredible Directory for the Application of the Principles and Norms of Ecumenism:

In # 118, the Directory says that Catholics who attend non-Catholic churches are "encouraged to take part in the psalms, responses, hymns and common actions of the Church in which they are guests."

On March 25, 1993, Antipope John Paul II "approved this Directory, confirmed it by his authority and ordered that it be published. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding." (Directory for the Application of the Principles and Norms of Ecumenism, by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Boston, MA: St. Paul Books & Media, p. 124.)

This is why a heretic like John Paul II cannot be the Pope. These people are following his official teaching and they are following it right to hell! The official teachings of a true Pope don’t lead one to hell!

Applying the religion of Vatican II: idolatry, apostasy and sacrilege at another Novus Ordo church

This is unbelievable apostasy; notice that a place is made even for the Unitarian (who denies the Holy Trinity) to carry her light of Lucifer into the Novus Ordo church.

More Apostasy at the Novus Ordo: Kickapoo Tribe member preaches at another apostate interfaith service

Novus Ordo “Carmelites” Offer Yoga Retreat

"Catholic" University of Notre Dame has Sodomite Celebration

Hundreds of Baptisms Invalid at Novus Ordo church

Novus Ordo "Archbishop" of Dublin favors Homosexual Spousal Rights

Yeah, he’s Catholic…sure

Vatican's "Cardinal" Sodano Awards Knighthood to Pro-Abortion Politician

Novus Ordo Chaplains will be combined with Protestant Chaplains

U.N. Demands that Poland Allow Abortions

Novus Ordo “Archbishop” in UK shows his apostasy with the Muslims

Novus Ordo “Catholic Bishops” Celebrate Anniversary of Protestant Revolution with the Lutherans!

The question must be asked: Is this your hierarchy? If you are a Catholic the answer must be a resounding no. The apostate “Catholic Bishop” of Bismarck also made sure to quote the incredible Joint Declaration with the Lutherans on Justification.

Even the Secular papers can see the hypocrisy and falsity of the Novus Ordo Sect on Abortion

Vatican publishes handbook which says nothing about not voting for pro-abortionists

It is a fact that one can be in John Paul II’s “Church” and be pro-abortion. An honest person cannot deny this. John Kerry is a case in point: the Vatican and his Bishops have been fully aware of his obstinate pro-abortion stand for a long time, and yet he has not been excommunicated. Thus, those who continue to say that John Paul II is the real Pope and his Bishops the legitimate hierarchy, but that one still cannot be a Catholic and be pro-abortion, are liars. The “hierarchy” of John Paul II recognizes him as a Catholic. Thus, it is a fact that one can be a part of the sect of John Paul II and be pro-abortion. This alone proves that the Vatican II sect is not the Catholic Church. The false traditionalists who obstinately accept the apostate John Paul II – and his disgusting, apostate Bishops – mock the Catholic dogma which condemns abortion by recognizing as Catholic a hierarchy which recognizes pro-abortionists as Catholics. The disgusting, phony hierarchy of the Vatican II sect and John Paul II are so heretical and such a sick joke that they cannot even bring themselves to excommunicate the execrable John Kerry.

Total Apostasy: “Cardinal” of Mexico unveils plate commemorating Dalai Lama’s visit

Buddhists Defile Mexico City Cathedral
And here's the "Cardinal" happy to be there

Please notice the striking contrast in the second picture with the “Cardinal” and the Dalai Lama. Above, we see the large Crucifix of Our Lord Jesus, while below – like the serpent slithering on the ground – we see his enemy the Dalai Lama invading His space and corrupting the children, with the Novus Ordo “Cardinal” looking on, encouraging and enabling him. This picture captures in one shot the striking reality of what has occurred: a phony, Antichrist, non-Catholic sect has arisen with Vatican II, and attempts to eclipse the true Church of Christ (the true Catholic Church), which has been reduced to a remnant of faithful Catholics.

Our Lady of La Salette, Sept. 19, 1846: “Rome will lose the faith and become the Seat of the Antichrist…the Church will be in eclipse.”

Novus Ordo church or planetarium?

3 USCCB Review Board Members Donated to John Kerry’s Campaign

"Catholic" School Has "Sikh Day"

What an abomination… they are turning these children into apostates.

Novus Ordo "Benedictines" accept Presbyterian "Ministress" as Nun!

You know, those Novus Ordo “Benedictines” are quite “Catholic,” aren’t they?

Socialist Government in formerly Catholic Spain removes Crucifixes from public buildings and more

More than 10,000 Quit the Novus Ordo diocese of Vienna over the incredible sex scandals

One Man Band at the Novus Ordo

Novus Ordo Nun Obsessed with Elvis

Get the 3 ½ hour video we sell called “Rock and Roll Sorcerers of the New Age Revolution” to see Elvis – and all the other satanically inspired major bands of the last few decades – exposed in jaw-dropping fashion. The video is available from us for $15.00 (price includes shipping) and it exposes The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, just to name a few. This video has been responsible for many people ceasing to listen to the Satanically inspired popular music of our day, which gains such a pernicious hold over countless souls without them even knowing it. This is by far the best video we’ve ever seen exposing Rock Music – and the mainstream music of the last few decades – and it will convince any good willed person that the devil exists.

Here is a testimonial that we received in April from someone who viewed this tape with her son.

“I had viewed the video "Sorcerers of Rock and Roll" with my son; he wanted to watch the 2nd part since he had listened to and collected the 80s and 90s music. That evening, when I walked past his bedroom, he was just finished praying, kneeling by his bed. The very next day he removed all of the rock and roll music from our house. We truly have had a miracle in our home.”- P.C. 4/27/04

Another Novus Ordo Abomination

Two Novus Ordo Hospitals Commit Live-Birth Abortions

Apostate Loyola University Chicago Invites Howard Dean to speak

Making a mockery of the Mass again at the Novus Ordo abomination

Another Satanically designed Novus Ordo “church”

This is a Novus Ordo “church” in Austria! Inside the “church” one will find traffic lights and a space-rock altar! Click on “Group of pictures” to see the traffic light and the space-rock altar. And here is another shot of this sickening, diabolical “church.”

Novus Ordo “Archbishop" Burke says that Catholics can vote for pro-abortion politicians

This is the supposedly “conservative” Novus Ordo Bishop Burke. This just shows again that the Novus Ordo “Bishops” are apostates – all of them.

Check out this Novus Ordo Tabernacle

Check out this Novus Ordo “Baptismal Chapel"

Occult-like practices spilling over in the Novus Ordo

Check out these pictures from a Novus Ordo “Meditation” room in a retreat house in the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany. And click on “Weiter” for more pictures. The first picture is occultic, the second picture is Islamic/occultic, and the third shows a woman meditating upon a painting of another secular woman.

Aborted baby’s head left inside woman after abortion!

Novus Ordo Girl's "First Communion" Declared Invalid

They don’t realize that all the New Masses are invalid.

Refusal to Remove Anti-Abortion Sign could bring fines and jail

New Novus Ordo "church" dedicated in a fitting pagan fashion

Apostate Novus Ordo “Benedictines” promote earth worship, yoga and celebrate the heretic John Wesley!

If you scroll down to the April section, you will see them having a celebration of the arch-heretic John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist sect.

Novus Ordo Stained Glass Windows

The emptiness of its stained glass windows reflects the emptiness of its religion and its false, invalid “Mass.”

A woman celebrating the Novus Ordo?

SSPX followers get Barred from Colorado Shrine

The Novus Ordo/Vatican II sect of Antipope John Paul II considers the SSPX schismatic. This instance in Colorado just confirms this again. Yet, the SSPX continues to recognize this false, non-Catholic hierarchy (Antipope John Paul II and his apostate Bishops) as the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, despite the fact that the SSPX operates a world-wide apostolate which is completely independent of John Paul II’s Bishops. The point is this: If the Novus Ordo/Vatican II sect is so bad and non-Catholic (which it is) that the SSPX must be independent of it (as it should), then the SSPX cannot recognize this hierarchy as the Catholic hierarchy. On the other hand, if the Novus Ordo/Vatican II sect is still Catholic and therefore the true hierarchy (as the SSPX says), then the SSPX has no justification for operating independently of them and is therefore truly schismatic. The SSPX cannot have it both ways.

Man Jailed for Offending Homosexuals

Stirring up the spirits in the Novus Ordo

“Cardinal” Ratzinger admits that he is in line with the Novus Ordo “Bishops” position to do nothing about pro-abortion politicians

The Errors of Russia in North Korea: the horrors of the North Korean Communist Regime

St. Joan of Arc Novus Ordo Parish Wins Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Pride Award!

The Novus Ordo Sect Allows Divorce and Re-marriage

The Novus Ordo Sect granted 49,000 annulments in the year 2000 alone.

Only 8 Novus Ordo “priests” to be ordained in all of Ireland

And there is only one seminary left in the entire country; all the rest have been closed.

Only 18 Novus Ordo “priests” to be ordained in all of England and Wales

Portuguese Novus Ordo Bishop to have “Mass” on the Beach

Novus Ordo “Bishops” Say Yes to Gay Predator Priests

"Cardinal" Law's prestigious new role in Rome

Thanks to John Paul II, “Cardinal” Law of Boston, one of the most abominable men in the Novus Ordo sect – the man who shuffled pedophile “priests” from parish to parish in Boston, including the founder of the unspeakable man-boy love association – is now on Commissions overseeing the appointment of bishops and the oversight of priests. Also, “He is the titular head of two significant churches here: the Basilica of St. Mary Major, one of the four patriarchal basilicas of the Catholic Church, and Santa Susanna, an ancient parish now dedicated to serving Americans in Rome. He is seen about town with some frequency, patronizing some of the same restaurants he preferred when Rome was just a place he visited, and sitting in the front row at important Vatican events.”

Novus Ordo Parish Has a Wednesday “Mass” to Fulfill Sunday Obligation

Total apostasy from the Irish “Jesuits”

Just read the first paragraph, “No service of faith without…openness to other religious experiences.” This is from the General Congregation of Irish Jesuits.

Woman in China is Killed for Distributing Bibles

More apostasy and idolatry from Novus Ordo nuns

An image of a serpent encircles the children’s playground at the L.A. Cathedral!

You’ve got to see this picture. It’s the second picture from the top, but read the first one to get a little background.

Jews in Russia file anti-semitism suit against The Passion

Man Tortured by Muslims in Saudi Arabia for preaching Christianity

John Paul II’s good buddy, Rowan Williams of the Anglican Sect, Agreed to Appoint Sodomite "Bishop"

This is the Anglican “Bishop” whose ring John Paul II kissed and to whom he sent a telegram of congratulations (see Heresy of the Week, 10/17/03).

Novus Ordo Molesters Were Moved From Country to Country

“Cardinal” Ratzinger does not instruct Bishops to deny pro-abortion politicians “Communion”

“Cardinal” Ratzinger is the head of the Congregation for the destruction, I mean Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Just look at the third paragraph of this article. So, this means that the official position of the Vatican is that “Communion” should not be denied to pro-abortion politicians.

Bike auction at the Novus Ordo?

“Cardinal” Egan of New York isn’t sure when life begins and says pro-abortion politicians are within their rights

“Cardinal” Maida of Detroit OK's Tridentine Mass only to keep people away from independent Traditional Masses

This is an interesting article. It shows how evil the Novus Ordo Bishops are. Maida is concerned that too many people in Detroit are going to the Traditional Mass because they see the Novus Ordo for the joke that it is. This he must stop, while he allows all kinds of other sacrileges and abominations and every heresy under the sun.

A new ritual in the Novus Ordo?

Scranton Seminary closes

Why would it remain open? According to the Vatican II sect, Islam should be protected, Protestant religions are a means of salvation, Eastern Schismatics should not be converted, and Christ is united with everyone because of the Incarnation.

Denver Apostate “Archbishop” Charles Chaput won’t deny “Communion” to pro-aborts

Just read the second paragraph of this article. Chaput is considered to be one of the most conservative (if not the most conservative) Novus Ordo “Bishop” in the country. But he won’t even deny pro-abortion politicians “Communion,” but he didn’t rule it out! What a sick joke. He is a complete phony who stands for nothing.

Apostate “Bishop” Mengeling of Lansing, Michigan, flatly refuses to censor pro-abortion governor

The heretic who wrote this article says that “Bishop” Mengeling has broken with Rome (John Paul II). Not so, for Antipope John Paul II has done nothing and does nothing to stop pro-abortion politicians from receiving the Novus Ordo cookie. Antipope John Paul II could very easily and immediately excommunicate John Kerry and all pro-abortion politicians, but he deliberately chooses not to – because he is an apostate who is not really opposed to abortion, as proven by his inaction. It only took him 48 hours to “excommunicate” Bishop Marcel Lefebvre for consecrating Bishops without a Papal mandate, because more Latin Masses would be available to people which he desperately wanted to stop. If he wanted to stop abortion, he would have excommunicated pro-abortion politicians immediately, but he doesn’t. The facts prove abundantly that being against abortion is not something that must be held to be a part of the Vatican II sect of Antipope John Paul II.

The apostate “Cardinal” of Baltimore, William Keeler, says Kerry should not be denied Communion

Don’t confuse this apostate with “Cardinal” McCarrick of Washington, D.C, who has also said Kerry should not be denied the Novus Ordo cookie. I know… it’s easy to get these apostates confused. Keeler is the apostate who said that we shouldn’t convert Jews… but then again, that’s basically every Novus Ordo “Bishop”!

The Pittsburgh Apostate, "Bishop" Donald Wuerl, also won't deny pro-aborts Communion

John Paul II names "Cardinal" Law Archpriest of Basilica in Rome

Antipope John Paul II is just laughing in the faces of those who are following him. “Cardinal” Law was the apostate in Boston who shuffled pedophile priest from church to church. Antipope John Paul II knows this, so he is trying to mock the Catholic Church again by rewarding this most notorious and despicable of men – even by Novus Ordo standards – with a position of honor. He is laughing in their faces.

“Cardinal” Mahony, the apostate phony, says Rainbow Sash Protesters OK to receive Communion

This article also mentions that “Cardinal” George, the apostate Archbishop of Chicago, has instructed the Novus Ordo “priests” to deny the Rainbow Sash Protesters (active homosexuals) Communion. The Novus Ordo “conservatives” are really emphasizing this fact – George is considered to be an “ultra-conservative” among the pack of heretics that makes up the Vatican II sect. Yet George recently celebrated the Muslim holyday of Ramadan in a Mosque together with a group of priests and nuns from his diocese. The Chicago Tribune noted that George “was the first Chicago archbishop to attend such an event,” and that “as the last verses of the Imam Senad Agic’s melodious prayer resonated under the white and gold dome… clerics and laypeople of both faiths bowed their heads.” (Chicago Tribune, “George Breaks Fast with Muslims, Jan. 21, 1998, Section 2, p. 3.) This is utter apostasy, of course.

“Cardinal” George in his diocesan newspaper also wrote that “The Church has also sinned against the Jewish people, first of all, in teaching that God’s covenant with Israel is no longer valid…” (Cardinal Francis George, “The Sins of the Church: God’s Forgiveness and Human Memories, Catholic New World,” March 19, 2000.) This means that George holds that the Jews have a valid covenant with God and don’t need to convert to the Catholic Faith or Jesus Christ for salvation.

Updated pictures of the Novus Ordo “Bishop” who threw his election party at a Masonic Temple!

Arizona “Bishops” Won't Deny Communion

This article also shows that “Bishop” Olmsted of Phoenix, who is considered to be one of the most conservative “Bishops” in communion with Antipope John Paul II, won’t deny Communion to John Kerry. Olmsted has since responded to this article, wherein he says that pro-abortion politicians should refrain from Communion, but his response mentions nothing about him taking steps to deny them Communion – because the apostate simply will not refuse them the Novus Ordo cookie.

John Paul II Applauds the Charismatic Religion

Boston “Archdiocese” will close 65 Parishes and 60 churches

“Bishop” Nevins of Venice, Florida Won't Deny Communion to pro-aborts

Novus Ordo Priest Denies "Holy Communion" to Pro-life Politician because he was kneeling!

Another Novus Ordo abomination

This is getting evil

Forced Islamization fatal for young man

And John Paul II has said, “May St. John the Baptist protect Islam”! (March 21, 2000)

More than 12 "Catholic" Colleges Invite Pro-Abortion Graduation Speakers

Refusal to Print 'Same-Sex Wedding' Invitations Ends With an Apology and Agreement!

“Archbishop” Pilarczyk of Cincinnati says Kerry should be given 'Benefit of the Doubt' and Communion

What an abomination!

“Jesuit” University offers benefits to homosexual couples!

Gymnastics inside this French Novus Ordo parish!

I guess they figure that they might as well train for the Olympics inside this church, because they certainly aren’t practicing Catholicism or receiving valid Communion.

Novus Ordo “Bishop” of Albany Diocese Won't Refuse Communion to Pro-Aborts

Let’s get this straight: the Novus Ordo Bishops utterly reject Outside the Church There is No Salvation; they reject the necessity of the conversion of the Jews and the schismatics; they hold that basically everyone will be saved; they hold that non-Catholics can receive Communion, etc., etc., etc. Basically the only issue, at least on paper, that they claim to stand for is the abortion issue, yet they won’t even refuse “Communion” to those who are in favor of it – murder. This is an unspeakable abomination! This means that the Novus Ordo Bishops believe that the abortion issue, i.e. murder (which is basically the only issue they claim to stand for while they deny the rest of the Faith and the total necessity of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith) is also completely meaningless. They basically all hold that one can be a Catholic and in the state of grace while in favor of abortion. They would not refuse “Communion” to anyone. What kind of jackass would actually remain in communion with such a non-Catholic sect of apostates?

Some liberals may think this language is too strong. No, if Our Lord Jesus Christ casts those who die in mortal sin into the eternal pool of fire (Apoc. 20:15), and has them tortured day and night forever and ever, what does He think of this activity, and what does He think of those who remain in communion or compromise with it (e.g., the false traditionalists who refuse to denounce JP2 and his apostate hierarchy as non-Catholics)? He will vomit them out of His mouth.

Antipope John Paul II's Envoy Favors Recognition of Sodomite Unions!

“Departing from his prepared speech, the ‘papal nuncio’ added that although the law in Spain, and many other countries, defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman, ‘there are other forms of cohabitation and it is good that they be recognized’.”

Britain left desolate by the Vatican II sect

The Evil Face of the Pro-Abortion Movement

This article is not very long and it’s worth reading. It’s an interesting exposé of the evil pro-abortion movement and their recent march.

“Cardinal Archbishop” of D.C., Theodore McCarrick, "Not Comfortable" Denying “Communion” to anyone

The notorious apostate Theodore McCarrick, the Vatican II sect’s leader in Washington D.C., said that he is not comfortable denying Novus Ordo “Communion” to John Kerry, but that Kerry might actually risk lesser sanctions such as not getting honorary decrees or speaking offers from “Catholic” Universities! What a (sick) joke!

Most of the Vatican II sect’s bishops probably believe in universal salvation. Regardless, they are all apostates of the most disgusting kind. They do nothing, they believe in nothing, and they stand for nothing, except heresy, apostasy and paying off the sexual scandals of their apostate “priests.” Those who defend or remain in communion with such men and such a false counterfeit “Catholic” sect (the sect of Antipope John Paul II) are just as disgusting.

Toronto "Catholic" University Alumni Magazine Boasts of Homosexual "Marriage"

Compare the Lutheran church with the Novus Ordo church:
Lutheran church
Novus Ordo church

The Novus Ordo “Benedictine” Nuns; need one say more?

This Novus Ordo “Benedictine Nun” invokes the “Cosmic Christ,” whom she says spoke through the apostate Teilhard de Chardin, the infidel Mahatma Gandhi, and the heretic Martin Luther King, Jr, among others. She is the executive director of an alliance which links 200 Novus Ordo “Benedictine” and “Cistercian” communities. And to think that people ask us why we are not in communion with the Novus Ordo “Benedictines.” Those who accept persons such as this as Catholics are not in communion with the Catholic Church. (Go half way down the article to see her poem)

Jewish dominated Networks don’t want The Passion

Is this really a surprise? The author of this article says that the main Networks are skittish about the violence. This is pure nonsense. The Main Networks don’t want The Passion simply because of the fact that the Networks and the media are dominated by Jews. The Jewish control of the media and the main networks is simply staggering, especially when we consider that Jews constitute only 2% of the American population.

When the director of The Passion was interviewed by Diane Sawyer, almost the entire interview was about the Jews. Why is this? Why does one particular group’s concerns dominate so much of the Media’s attention? Why was almost the entire discussion around this movie about the Jews? Why do we give something like $3 billion a year to Israel, when it is illegal in Israel to hand a New Testament to a Jew? Does this make any sense, considering the fact that more than 70% of Americans claim to be Christians? Why did the Jewish movie, Schindler’s List, get an unheard of commercial-free showing on Network Television? How did the Jews manage to get The Passion not to be shown in Germany? The Jewish control of the media is simply incredible and Catholics must be aware of it.

Ontario "Catholic" Teachers' Union Website Promotes Transvestites and Drag Queens!

“The conference keynote address, titled Loving the Difference: Drag Queens, Transvestites and Me, will be given by professed transvestite Sky Gilbert. The occasion also features such offerings as: Enhancing sexual empowerment: Therapeutic use of sex toys; Tantra: Ancient sex for modern times; and Outside of the boxes: Youth perspectives on gender and sexual identities.”

Apostate “Archdiocese” of New York orders “pastor” to reinstate “Catholic” school teachers whom he fired for supporting Gay Marriage!

Just look at the fourth paragraph from the bottom of this article, starting with “Sign of the times…”

Stained-Glass Windows to be Removed from Baltimore Cathedral

This Novus Ordo “church” is spending 32 million dollars(!) in a “restoration” that includes removing the Stained-Glass windows and replacing them with clear ones. What an abominable waste… what mindlessness. I guess the devil had enough of the Stained-Glass windows because it reminded people that this Cathedral used to be Catholic.

The New Religion on full display in this “Catholic" Sanctuary

What an abomination! The only “Catholic" College in New Jersey honors evil Pro-Abortion Judge

Interreligious Abomination in Arcadia Parish

New Spanish Government to Legalize Gay "Marriage"

Archheretic "Cardinal" Martini says his “Catholic Church” should abandon the Papal Monarchy and become a democracy

Martini, now retired, was actually one of the most prominent “Cardinals” in the world as “Archbishop” of Milan. The article indicates that he favors women deacons, laymen selecting bishops, and a governing Council to rule his “Church” along with the “Pope.”

Apostate John Kerry Receives "Communion" and is applauded!

Look at this Novus Ordo "church" in Poland

Just look at the second picture.

Invalid Matter?... to go along with the already invalid form

Boston “Archdiocese” officially gives John Kerry approval to receive “Communion”

This is just another of the many official statements by which the Vatican II sect under Antipope John Paul II has publicly declared itself to be a non-Catholic sect (a sect of non-Catholics which is in communion with non-Catholics). You can deny absolutely any teaching of the Catholic Church, and even be a vigorous proponent of infanticide (partial birth abortion), and are welcome to come to “Communion” in their sect.

Demons starting fires in Sicily?

Novus Ordo Priest's New Way of Praying the Rosary: Focus on Yourself, Not Christ

From the third paragraph of this article: “The focus, however, will not be on events in Jesus’ life but on the joyful, sorrowful, light-giving and glorious events in our personal life.” He understands the message being preached by Antipope John Paul II, such as that which is exposed in #24 of our new article.

Novus Ordo “Paulists” Have No Problem with Kerry receiving “Communion”

Just read the last paragraph of this article. It shows how the “Archbishop” of Boston has confirmed that the apostate Kerry is not prohibited from receiving “Communion” and the Novus Ordo “Paulists” have no problem with it, of course.

The Chilling Testimony of Abortionists

What a Surprise: Pro-Abort Politician Durbin Receives “Communion” in the Novus Ordo

More Paganism in the Novus Ordo: Kansas City members celebrate the ‘Year of the Monkey’

The “Cardinal Archbishop" of Paris, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Condemns The Passion

“Cardinal” Lustiger, who was raised a Jew, stated in a 1981 interview: “I am a Jew. For me the two religions are one.” (Romano Amerio, Iota Unum, 1998, p. 578.) So the Vatican II sect has two openly Jewish Bishops, Gourion in Jerusalem (See Heresy of the Week from 1/23/04) and Lustiger in Paris. What an absolute joke that this man is the head of the Vatican II sect in Paris, an archdiocese which is one of the largest and most prominent in the world. The Vatican II sect is a sick joke.

The Vatican II sect is the “Church” of Sodom

Here is a partial list of “Gay Friendly” Parishes in the Vatican II sect.

Novus Ordo “Priests” dying of AIDS all over the place

Former Anglican “Archbishop” of Canterbury, who is a non-Catholic layman, teaches Ecumenism at Rome's Jesuit-Run Gregorian

Scroll down to the seventh storyline from the top. This means that a non-Catholic heretic is teaching heretical Ecumenism to Novus Ordo Seminarians and Clergy at what is generally considered the most “prestigious” University in the Vatican II sect (the Gregorian).

John Kerry Receives "Communion" in Ski Outfit

The article mentions that the apostate John Kerry has a 100% pro-abortion voting record.

The “Pastor” at St. Anne’s Novus Ordo church in Oakland is more evidence of the Great Apostasy and the Homosexual Hierarchy of the Vatican II sect

National Right to Life sides with pro-abortionists in opposing abortion ban!

Novus Ordo “Franciscans” welcome homosexuality

St. Anthony's will hold a gay and lesbian Sunday brunch Dec. 8, which it calls an "Afternoon of Reflection: Body, Mind & Spirit."

Antipope John Paul II has “Canonized” and “Beatified” more people than all the Popes combined since the formal process was created

Antipope John Paul II does this in order to demean the significance of Sainthood and in order to make the road to heaven seem very wide, so that not only are all men saved (as he repeatedly teaches), but basically everyone is a Saint. Fortunately for Catholics, Antipope John Paul II has no authority to Canonize or Beatify anyone, since he is neither a Catholic nor the Pope.

The Novus Ordo is for clowns

This is an unbelievable abomination.

Novus Ordo “Franciscan” Friars in Boston angrily oppose the distribution of flyers against homosexual “marriage”

Hmmm, I wonder why….

The Novus Ordo “Archbishop” of Johannesburg, South Africa, supports the offering of the blood of sacrificed animals during the Novus Ordo

Here is another article reporting the same

“Archbishop” Buti Tlhagale proposes that the blood of the slain animal – be it goat, chicken, sheep or cow – can be presented during the Mass as "a gift to the ancestors..." He also asserts that "Animal sacrifice has a special place in the scheme of things and is celebrated in almost all African families. We have kept it out of God's Church for too long." This is Satanism. But, again, this wicked “Archbishop” is just following Antipope John Paul II’s lead, who is a good buddy of the voodooists and allows them to preach from “Catholic” pulpits, such as on the World Day of Prayer for Peace, Jan. 24, 2002.

Partial Birth Abortion advocates, such as the apostate John Kerry, receive “Communion” all the time in the Novus Ordo

This article shows that one can believe absolutely anything and not be refused “Communion” in the Novus Ordo. (By the way, the Novus Ordo is not valid, so it is just a piece of bread; it is not Our Lord. See “Is the New Mass Valid?”) But this issue, like the rest, traces itself back to Rome and Antipope John Paul II, who, if he were a Catholic, would simply state that any Bishop or priest who knowingly gives the Eucharist to a pro-abortion politician is excommunicated. That would cease the practice immediately. But he does nothing, of course, and yet the useful heretics (or rather, idiots) continue to laud the apostate as “John Paul the Great.”

Picture of a hideous Novus Ordo church in Vienna

A Witch gets Novus Ordo Burial

The Scandals of the perverse and homo hierarchy of the Novus Ordo/Vatican II sect

Look at this article beginning ¾ of the way down, beginning with the headline: Here is a list of the major scandals involving American bishops since 1990.

L.A. Cathedral features a liturgy with 50-foot dragons representing the god of rainfall!

The “Cardinal Archbishop” of Los Angeles, Roger Mahony, was in attendance, while “the program handed out before the Mass dedicated the first page to justifying the presence of the dragon and lion dances. The dragon, according to the program, is a legendary animal in Chinese mythology, signifying power, prosperity, fertility, majesty, and regal dignity. Believed to be the governing god of rainfall, and China being traditionally an agricultural country, the ‘veneration to the dragon,’ read the program, ‘slowly evolved as a cult.’"

Those who consider Antipope John Paul II as the Pope must recognize Roger Mahony as the leader of the “Catholic Church” in Los Angeles. But such an idea is obviously insane.

The New Religion: Novus Ordo Priest commemorated by liturgical dancers with face paint during Sunday “Mass”

Perversion Out in the Open at ‘Jesuit’ Seattle U

The third paragraph from the bottom of this article reveals that “Jesuit” Santa Clara University featured speakers promoting the acceptance of Lesbianism.

“Catholic” Loyola University Chicago Welcomes "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" Actor

After clicking on this link, click on the “Queer Guy Loyola Guy” link that is given to see Loyola University Chicago – “Chicago’s Jesuit University” – prominently advertising this on its own website! This is incredible!

Behold the Hawaiian Novus Ordo

Masonic Family Meal Service, also called the Novus Ordo “Mass”

Hebrew "Shalom" Over Novus Ordo Church Doors

Another Masonic Novus Ordo church
Check out their "tabernacle" here

A Novus Ordo tabernacle? - Click here

Bishop of San Jose Denies Historical Accuracy of the Gospels

This “Bishop’s” name is Patrick McGrath. It doesn’t tell you until the end of the article that he is actually the leader and head of the Novus Ordo sect in San Jose. Pope St. Pius X condemned anyone who would deny the historical accuracy of the Gospels in "Lamentabili Sane," #’s11,14 and 16. Besides all of the other heresies, when we consider the fact that the Novus Ordo Bishops publicly deny one of the foundations of divine revelation (Sacred Scripture), what more proof is necessary to show that the Novus Ordo/Vatican II sect is not the Catholic Church?

"Judicial Vicar" of the Novus Ordo sect in Los Angeles says Catholics can "probably" become Freemasons

Crowd Erupts into wild frenzy as 6 Novus Ordo "Priests" sing love songs

Picture Comparison between Novus Ordo churches, Masonic Temples and Anglican churches

These pictures show how the Novus Ordo churches are just Masonic Temples.

Penn State "Catholic" Campus Ministry Finds space for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender “Catholics”

The Vatican II sect has basically eliminated the Catholic Faith from Ireland

Apostate University of Notre Dame Sponsors a Gay Film Festival!

Novus Ordo "Church" in Australia openly promotes Occultism and Witchcraft

This article shows how the Australian Novus Ordo “Church” is rife with occultism, witchcraft and goddess worship.

Michigan Basilica Features Buddhist Prayer Chants

Certain people who protested this abomination were opposed by angry members of the Novus Ordo who said that, “maybe you should take it up with John Paul II – he's a good friend of the Dalai Lama."

Diocese of the Vatican II sect in Cleveland is Worried about Mel Gibson's "The Passion"

This is the mission of the apostate Vatican II sect of Antipope John Paul II: to worry about anything that might be good and Catholic and allow everything that is evil and non-Catholic.

29 "Catholic" Colleges Scheduled to Show "V***** Monologues"

This is an absolute abomination! Antipope John Paul II’s apostate Bishops do nothing.

“Traditionalist” priest denies the dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation publicly in the Miami Herald

This heretic would have us believe that the defined dogma Outside the Catholic Church There is No Salvation actually means outside the Church there is salvation. His heresy, however, is held by basically every single “traditionalist” priest today – which is why no Catholic can support any such priest (which, as stated already, includes almost every “traditionalist” priest today) under pain of grave sin. It was heretical priests such as this who were the cause of the Great Apostasy that is now upon us.

Toronto Novus Ordo "Catholic" Priest Files Supreme Court Affidavit Supporting Gay Marriage

This priest is “highly credentialed” and is in good standing in the Vatican II sect in Toronto.

Novus Ordo "Priest" has Puppet "Masses"

Apostate Georgetown University is doing Research on Aborted Children's Cells

Break-Dancers Perform For Antipope John Paul II and Get His Blessing (click here to see pictures)

VATICAN CITY – “In an unusual spectacle at the Vatican, Pope (sic) John Paul II presided Sunday over a performance of break-dancers who leaped, flipped and spun their bodies to beats from a tiny boom box.

“The 83-year-old pontiff seemed to approve, waving his hand after each dancer completed a move, then applauding for the entire group. He watched the performance from a raised throne. For this creative hard work I bless you from my heart," he said.”

Lyrics of the Rapping "Priest," Fr. Stan Fortuna

This Rapping “Priest” is promoted by EWTN and Franciscan University. Stan has stated publicly that he was inspired to his current activity by Antipope John Paul II’s promotion of Rock Music. One of his songs is called, “Say Yes to Sex (Theology of the Body).”

This German Diocese Offers Zen Meditation

The bulletin is in German, but you can see the promotion of Satanic Zen Meditation at the top.

Novus Ordo Priest says, "I hate the Rosary."

Here is an article about a Novus Ordo priest who carries off statues to the trash and dresses up as superman or the grinch for "Mass," and much more. The quote on the Rosary can be found at the end of the article, but you will probably want to read the whole thing. What is perhaps almost as bad as this Satanic (obviously possessed) priest is that he operates in good standing in his diocese. His wicked Bishop and the Antichrist Vatican do nothing, not surprisingly. He presides over a large Novus Ordo congregation and the numbers of his "church" are growing. Here are a few quotes from the priest: On life after death, in a 1981 interview:``There's just God and me and you. No devil. No angels. But there is a heaven, and Jesus is in it. And I can't wait to get there.'' On the Rosary: ``I hate the Rosary.'' On himself: "I hope I haven't scandalized you. I wouldn't mind if I did." On the design of his last church: ``I hired a Jewish architect. I told him, "If you make it look like a church, I'll kill you.'' This article not only reminds us how wicked the apostate religion of the Novus Ordo is (something one can tend to forget if one has been removed from this for a long time), but the article shows how (sadly) most of the people are almost as bad as the priest for accepting and even embracing his antics. The fact that these people consider themselves "Catholics" and still attend this man's "church" is actually mind-boggling. In fact, the article points out how this priest's parishioners are the most dedicated donors in the diocese!

More Apostasy in the Novus Ordo: St. Louise Novus Ordo church Conducts Interfaith Service at a Synagogue With Jews

This is total heresy, abomination, apostasy and rejection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. But the priests of this church are just following Antipope John Paul II’s lead.

Novus Ordo Nun who is responsible for education for a Parish of 3000 says that she is happy that she has homosexuals at her Parish

“This parish of 3,000 is diverse, friendly and welcoming,” says Holy Names Sister Dolores Barling, responsible for RCIA, adult education, liturgy and Bible study. "It's a wonderful parish," she adds, praising the parish's outreach to the poor. "We have elderly, lesbians, gays and a variety of ethnic backgrounds --- lots of diversity." "I love the people. I think sometimes that I am surrounded by saints."

The Official Website of the Novus Ordo Bishops Endorses Teilhardian Pagan Spirituality (Look at “Cosmic Artist”: Sister Blanche Marie Gallagher)

www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com