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NASB | Jude 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jude 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed [just as if they were sneaking in by a side door]. They are ungodly persons whose condemnation was predicted long ago, for they distort the grace of our God into decadence and immoral freedom [viewing it as an opportunity to do whatever they want], and deny and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. |
Subject: Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood |
Bible Note: That just covers it all, doesn't it? It's the blanket provision. So if I could summarize, the teachings of the Roman Catholic church on the mass from the Council of Trent, which preserves the primary role of the priest, the summary would go like this: 1. Jesus Christ is truly, really substantially present in the sacrament of the eucharist. 2. Transubstantiation involves the change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of the Christ, change of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of the blood of Christ. 3. Since Christ is said to be really present in the eucharist, the elements themselves following consecration are worthy of worship. They worship them. 4. The sacrifice of the mass is properly called propitiatory, in that it brings about pardon of sin. 5. In the institution of the mass at the Lord's Supper, Christ offered His own body and blood to the Father in the signs of the bread and wine and, in so doing, ordained the apostles as priests of the New Testament, and they passed their priesthood on down. 6. The sacrifice of the mass is properly offered for sins' punishment, satisfaction and all other necessities not only for the living but for the dead as well. 7. Anyone who denies the truthfulness of any of those proclamations is cursed. Now, somebody's going to say, well, that's the Council of Trent; you know, that's 1500s. Is that still the teaching of the church? Absolutely. How could it not be the teaching of the church, because the church is infallible and irreformable? That is why in the history of the Catholic church, nothing ever changes. The church absorbs its dissidents. It absorbs its immoral. It absorbs its heretics. It absorbs everybody, and perpetuates the system. The one thing the Catholic church cannot tolerate is any kind of schism. And so it just keeps absorbing the dissidents in the perpetration of the system. And, therefore, it is full of all wretched kinds of beliefs, all levels of immorality and all different kinds of disregard for Catholic law down through the laity. |