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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: Pedophilia isn't the beginning of anything. It's the end of a long, long pornographic conduct trail. You don't start there. You end there. That's how it goes. You know, you take what's there, at first. And then the deviation demands more and more aberrant behavior, and it moves down younger and younger and younger. In fact, one of the people in law enforcement said to me pedophilia is the caboose on a long train. So it's easy to see why this happens in this terrible, terrible system. And yet, they can't change it. Can't change it, because there is an inerrancy and an infallibility in the church. And one of the elements of that is that if you're a priest, you're a priest. And it can't be reverted or rescinded. And that as long as you don't get married, all you have to do is confess to another priest. And that perpetuates the power of the system. That's why you can see the cardinals all go over to Italy and come back. And what happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing happened, because nothing can happen. The Pope, what did he say? Nothing. There's nothing to say. One of the things that we, you know, just kind of a -- I've got more than I can give to you. But one of things has to be talked about. It's not just the immorality of the monasteries and the convents, which is legendary. It's legendary everywhere. I was reading an article that talked about how many kids in the small towns in Italy and so forth are the children of the priests, whom they call "uncle;" they're calling him "father" wouldn't reveal anything. Forced celibacy is conducive to sexual perversion. You know, John Calvin dealt with it. He said this in The Institutes: "In one instance they are too rigorous and inflexible, that is, in not permitting priests to marry. With what impurity fornication rages among them." John Calvin. He went on to say: "Emboldened by their polluted celibacy, they have become hardened to every crime. This prohibition has not only deprived the church of upright and able pastors, but has formed a horrible gulf of enormities and precipitated many souls into the abyss of despair." Henry the VIII of England in 1535 appointed commissioners to inspect all monasteries and nunneries. "And so terrible were the cruelties and corruptions uncovered," writes Boettner, "...so terrible were the cruelties and corruptions uncovered that a cry went up from the nation that all such houses without exception to be destroyed." |