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121 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52569 | ||
So you have this leader who has total power over the entire church; not in their view just those who are faithful Catholics, but anybody else who claims to be a Christian and has wandered astray. He has total power to judge over all matters of faith -- that's doctrine -- and morals -- that's conduct; all matters of discipline, all adjudications in the life of the church. And when he makes any such judgment at any point, he is infallible and God Himself in heaven confirms the Pope's judgment, because he is "preserved from error." And therefore, whatever he says stands permanently as the truth of God and cannot be reformed or changed. Under him are the bishops, and they possess divine right. But theirs is called an ordinary power of government over their dioceses; an ordinary power, rather than an extraordinary power, such as the Pope has, of infallibility. "They have an ordinary power," as their dogma says it, "of government over their dioceses. Only Popes and bishops possess this power by divine right. All others possess it by the church's granting it. It is therefore that the Pope and the bishops are like the apostles, appointed personally by Christ, and the priests and deacons appointed by the church." Bishops are seen as successors of the apostles, who receive their power not from Christ directly, but from Christ mediated to them through the Pope, who once was one of them. The Pope then acts for Christ, infallibly in all matters of the church, including appointing and empowering the bishops. And the clergy, as they're called, the priests, come along to obey this hierarchical structure. The bishops do not determine the dogma. In the end, it is the Pope and the collective council affirmed by the Pope that determine the doctrine. So you get down to the priests. The dioceses are broken down into parishes. And you're familiar with that, I think. And in the parishes are the priests, and they have responsibility to conduct seven sacraments. This is basically what they do. By law, there are seven sacraments and only seven: Baptism; confirmation, which is something that happens around the age of 12 when your baptism into the kingdom of God, your baptism, which is an expression of divine empowering grace, is confirmed. Then Eucharist, which is the communion, the mass. Then penance, which is the process by which you atone for your sins by the payment of some price or some act; extreme unction, which is what you give somebody when they're dying, and you see the priest rushing in; holy order. And holy order, one of the seven sacraments, is that sacrament by which the priests and bishops are set apart. The other one is matrimony or marriage. |
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122 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52568 | ||
The Pope, according to Catholic dogma: "Possesses full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole church, not merely in matters of morals" -- and I'm reading -- "and faith, and also in matters of discipline and government." Council of Trent says if anybody says he doesn't, "let him be anathema." "The Pope" -- I'll read it again -- "possesses full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole church." They would even look at the Protestant as disenfranchised brethren who should be lining up in submission to the Pope. "Supreme power is his," says Catholic dogma. "There is no greater power than his and there is no equal power. His power transcends both the power of each individual bishop or cardinal and also of all bishops put together. Collectively, they are not equal to the Pope. Singularly, they are not equal to the Pope. "The Pope can rule independently on any matter under the church's jurisdiction. The church rejects all attempts by the state to rule over the Pope and the church." That's why they created their own state, the Vatican, so that the Pope would be the king of his own empire. Quoting from Catholic dogma: "The Pope is judged by nobody." Now, that gives you a pretty clear idea of the role that he plays. He is unilaterally responsible to have jurisdiction over all matters of church life. The dogma says the Pope is infallible when he speaks "ex cathedra." Have you ever heard that expression? It simply means "out of the chair." All that means is when he speaks and it's not some kind of formal occasion, it means when he speaks in the discharge of his duties as pastor and doctor over all Christians. "He defines doctrine regarding faith and morals to be held by the universal church, and is possessed of that divine infallibility and, therefore, definitions by the Roman pontiff are irreformable. "He never makes a mistake, and nothing he says, therefore, can ever be altered. "The source of his infallibility," says the dogma, "is the supernatural assistance of the Holy Ghost, who protects the supreme teacher of the church from error. God in heaven will confirm the Pope's judgment. He is preserved from error." Quote. |
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123 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52567 | ||
The reformers rejected that in favor of the general priesthood of all believers. And the Council of Trent said that anybody who rejects the special priesthood, "let him be anathema," and pronounced the curse of damnation on that. They had to preserve their hierarchical structure. That was critical to them in order to preserve the power. Their view is that Christ, of course, is ultimately the divine head of the church, but he mediates his real authority through one man, who is the Pope, who then disseminates that down through the bishops, and the priests carry out the functions determined by that hierarchy. The Pope is where you start in the Catholic hierarchy, and the Pope is supposed to be the direct successor to the apostle Peter. Christ appointed the apostle Peter to be the visible head of the church, and then determined that that succession would pass down through Peter to a line of apostles, if you will, who would bear that same authority. Council of Trent said: "If anyone says the blessed apostle Peter was not constituted by Christ our Lord prince of all apostles and visible head of the church, a primacy of honor and true jurisdiction, let him be anathema." So you're damned if you assault the priesthood, and you're damned if you assault the papacy of Peter. According to Christ's law in their dogma -- and I'm drawing most of this from a book by Ludwig Ott. It's called Catholic Dogma. It is one of their own systematic theology books which I have read through the years. But according to Christ's law, Peter is to have successors in his primacy over the whole church for all time. And the Council of Trent says if anyone denies that, "let him be anathema." If anyone says that the Roman pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in the primacy, "let him be anathema." So the Council of Trent pronounced a hundred or more damnations on anybody who questioned anything about the Catholic church. And they were particularly concerned about anybody questioning the hierarchy, because if you question the hierarchy, you can -- you could literally bring down the system. |
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124 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52566 | ||
They also possess pastoral power, and the way they define that is quite interesting. In the Catholic dogma, it is refined as -- defined as legislative, judicial and punitive. Their idea of pastoral work is not comfort and care and compassion. It is legislative, judicial and punitive. They make laws to which they hold people. They adjudicate as to whether people have violated those laws, and they mete out punishment. And through the years, that punishment has been everything from excommunication to execution. Thirdly, they possess sacerdotal power. And what that simply means is the power to impart grace through the sacraments. They would say in their dogma that these three parallel the threefold office of Christ as prophet, priest and king. Now, their dogmas have been crystallized very well, thanks to the Reformation. It was the Reformation that caused them to pronounce anathemas. When -- we're all familiar with the whole story of the Reformation to one degree or another, when Martin Luther and Zwingli and Calvin and Malanchthon all came along and assaulted the system. The system had to respond. And one way it responded was by, of course, digging its heels in the ground, changing nothing, and affirming what it had always held to be true, and then damning everybody who didn't believe it. But out of that came some very clear articulation of their unchanging dogma. One of the primary things that they stood against with regard to the reformers was the priesthood. The reformers rejected completely the idea of a special priesthood. And with it, they rejected the Catholic hierarchy, which essentially is the Pope, and then the bishops, from whom the cardinals are chosen, and then the priests, and under them the deacons. |
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125 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52565 | ||
We are all very familiar with Catholic priests. We've grown up seeing them in our society, along with nuns, and we see them on the television all the time. We read about them in the newspaper before there were any scandals. We've been very much aware of them. Many of you in your youth were affected or impacted by the image of the priest in his black robe going through the machinations of ceremonies in the Catholic church that you attended as a kid. So we all know that. There's this sort of idea that there's a holy aura about these men; that somehow, they're almost unearthly and transcendent. And we need to kind of put that in perspective. So let me start by just talking about the divine origin of the hierarchy. There is in Catholic dogma the confidence that the hierarchy of the Catholic church is from Christ; that it is Jesus Christ Himself who granted to the Catholic church its hierarchical structure. And essentially, what that boils down to is an office of clergy, sort of across-the-board, that has three categories of power. Roman Catholics talk about teaching power. They talk about pastoral power, and they talk about sacerdotal power. Teaching power is what you would think it is. They speak authoritatively for the church; church being the only true interpreter of scripture. They don't speak for the scripture. They speak for the church. That is their teaching power. |
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126 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52564 | ||
Brian Brian Brian- Please read the sermon. Then come back and make comments upon the sermon. Let me help by giving you the intro........ http://www.biblebb.com/files/MAC/catholicscandal.htm The Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood Copyright 2002 by John F. MacArthur, Jr. All rights reserved. Well, thank you for coming tonight. I am going to put on the hat of sort of a professor and historian tonight. I am so used to getting up and saying "take out your Bible," but that wouldn't help, since the Catholic priesthood isn't found anywhere in scripture, so we can't start there. I want to talk about the scandal of the priesthood, because obviously we are all made very much aware of the tremendous tragedy that is playing out before us in the immorality of the Catholic priesthood. And what I would like to do is to give some historical perspective to that, some sense of the bigger picture of what's going on in the priesthood. And in order to do that, I have to talk a little bit about the scandal of the priesthood itself. So it's a bit of a play on words. It's a bit of a pun, if you will, when I talk about the scandal of the priesthood. I'm not just talking about the current scandal. I'm talking about the whole scandal of the priesthood itself, as the hierarchical structure of the Roman Catholic church. Let me give you a little bit of background. There's a lot that could be said about Roman Catholic theology. We could expose its errors, which are numerous; we could talk about its sources of revelation or divine truth that are outside the pages of scripture, or we could talk about the corruption of the mass. We could talk about the idea that Mary is the co-redemptrix which, of course, is really a blasphemous concept. We could talk about the idea that God is a tough guy, and if anybody wants grace out of God, it's only Jesus who could get it from Him; but you can't expect to go to Jesus because He's pretty tough himself, so you need to go to Mary, because nobody can resist his mother. And so she'll talk to Him and he'll talk to the father, and Mary will get you what you need, or some saint. We could talk a lot about those things; concepts of purgatory, concepts of the sinlessness of Mary, the virgin birth of Mary, a lot of things about Catholic theology that we could speak about; most notably their erroneous doctrine of justification, which cuts people off from the kingdom of God. But what I want to talk about is the scandal of the priesthood, and give you some sense of what the priesthood really is all about. |
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127 | Can a Christian dance? | Bible general Archive 1 | Jeshuafreak | 52490 | ||
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128 | How old is the earth scripturally? | Gen 1:1 | Jeshuafreak | 52481 | ||
My vote is for a young earth 6000 years. Science is even tracing all of the human race back to one woman 6000 years ago. That's more acurate than most thelogians. See Ken Ham in Answers in Genesis. His book One Blood. For an archived message go to Truths That Transform, D. James Kennedy's site archived broadcasts for 5/21-22 Ken Ham "One Blood; The Biblical Answer to Racism" great stuff |
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129 | what is a charismatic church | Bible general Archive 1 | Jeshuafreak | 52424 | ||
I completely agree with you about these word-faith teachers. They are heritics and false teachers. I was just saying not to broadbrush all Pentacostals/Charismatics with them. The Church universal (all believers in Christ/the bride of Christ ) is made up of imperfect fleshly individuals we are going to find extremes in all denominational camps, unfortunantely. The best thing to do is to find a healthy well balanced church home that preaces the word and faithfully administers the sacrements. We do not however have to listen to the false teachers or let them into our church or home via television. The best thing we can do is "become so familiar with the truth that when a counterfeit loomes on the horizon we wil know it simultaneously."-Hank Hanegraff's quote I suggest getting into the word of God.Don't worry bout the tares around you and be concerned with yourself, are you wheat or chaff. The tares will grow along with the wheat till Christ comes for His bride. The only one we can really be sure of is ourselves. Are we in a right relationship with God? Do we personally know His Son Jesus Christ? Are we talking to Him everyday? Are we reading His Word. Are we meditating on His Word? Are we letting it dwell richly in us? Is it changing us? We are constantly being renewed daily. Daily being conformed to the image of His Son Jesus. From glory to glory. There are some questionable individuals in my church home and at one time I was a little questionable myself. God is the Author and Finisher of my faith. Amen for that. I tried too long to do it on my own and didn't change anything. I only succeded in becoming legalistic and religious. Religiosity doesn't change people it pushes them away. Romans 8:29-31 says: 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. 31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? |
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130 | what is a charismatic church | Bible general Archive 1 | Jeshuafreak | 52396 | ||
If you aren't "100 percent" sure don't post it. It can be damaging to othere's reputation. Take on individual teachers within these denominations. Anyone anywhere can say that they belong to this or that and say whatever they want. Check your sources first next time. My church is New Song Community Church Portland Oregon. I can tell you that we definently believe in the Trinity. One what, and three whos. The Father The Son and the Holy Spirit. All three are God. The Watchman Expositor has a ver concise website on cults and fals teachings. http://www.watchman.org/cat95.htm Word-Faith Movement: A movement based in large part on the teachings of E. W. Kenyon (1867-1948) that became a distinct movement under the teaching and leadership of Kenneth Hagin, a Pentecostal faith-healing evangelist. God himself is said to have created the world and to do all that he does by speaking words of faith. Man’s creation in God’s image is commonly understood to mean that human beings are “little gods” capable of speaking creative words of faith. The fall of Adam into sin is interpreted as having transformed Adam (and all unredeemed people) into Satan’s nature and as having transferred Adam’s godhood or dominion on earth to Satan. Jesus is believed to have become man in order to restore human beings to godhood as renewed “incarnations” of God. He is said to have done this by dying spiritually as well as physically on the cross, suffering in hell, and then while in hell becoming the first person to be “born again,” before finally being raised from the dead. Those who believe in Jesus are supposedly empowered to speak words of faith again, especially in order to obtain bodily health and financial prosperity (both of which are supposedly guaranteed as present possessions in the Atonement). . In contrast, traditional Christian theology teaches that God and God alone can bring about whatever he chooses; that man was created to reflect God’s character and to implement his will, not to be little gods; that man is fallen but not Satanic in nature; that God is still in control of this world; that Jesus Christ alone is God incarnate; that Jesus died physically, not spiritually, to redeem us; that Jesus therefore was not born again; and that health and prosperity are promised to believers in the future resurrection. In the meantime God heals and prospers people providentially and miraculously when and as he sees fit. Most of the followers of the Word-Faith teachers are Pentecostals and other evangelical Christians. Profile available. |
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131 | Measure of maturity | Eph 4:13 | Jeshuafreak | 52204 | ||
I pray that, if the Lord tarries, 50 years from now I am still growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. | ||||||
132 | Is baptism required for salvation? | John 3:5 | Jeshuafreak | 52200 | ||
I was trying to make a point that NOT being baptized will not keep you from heaven. Another point I must make is that baptism doesn't guarantee that one is saved. Some have been baptized who are not yet saved, they did it for show, to please men rather than God, and they have not had a true conversion of the heart. It is ultimately down to an issue of the heart. "Man looks on the outward appearence but God sees the heart." "Confess Me before men and I will confess you before my Father in heaven"- Jesus said Confessing Christ before others is really what is at stake here. Yes, baptism is an essential part of your being born again. Don't anyone misunderstand me. Yes, I have been baptized. Three times in fact. I have been trice dipped and for three different occasions all as an outward sign of an internal conversion, or as a rededication of my life to Christ. Don't, by any many means, neglect being baptized if you are a born again believer. But if you know of one who has not yet been baptized, and they are a true believer in Christ, and for some odd reason they died before they had the chance to be baptized, they have not been disqualified for that reason. If they had a genuine faith they will see the kingdom of God. Now, if you are a true believer by all means get baptized, by submersion and not just a sprinkle...lol. Confess Jesus Christ openly to others, by this act. I got a few more things to say before I end this. St. Francis of Assisi said, "Preach Christ and if you have to, use words." I add to that in my words, NOTHING SPEAKS LOUDER THAN A CHANGED LIFE! Live your faith out in practical everyday living and don't forget to smile, laugh and touch others lovingly. It can make a world of difference in their lives and in yours. Be Jesus to them. To some, their only exposure to Christianity is you. Be loving, gentle and kind but never compromise on your convictions, stand up for truth and what is right. This will not make you popular but it will make you known for integrity, which is something lacking in this day and age. It's not "What Would Jesus Do", it's "what would Jesus have me" do that counts. In His service. Love and hugs.-Joshua Olinger |
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133 | Is baptism required for salvation? | John 3:5 | Jeshuafreak | 52153 | ||
If baptism was required for salvation the thief on the cross would not have been in paradise with Jesus. Also Jesus said, "It is finished." There is nothing else we have to do to be saved, except to believe upon God's Son Jesus Christ. As an outward expression and obedience to God we are baptized as an open profession of Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Get baptized out of obedience to Christ. |
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