WEBVTT 00:31.460 --> 00:34.740 My name's Tom Friess, and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:35.080 --> 00:37.820 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:38.020 --> 00:39.380 Thanks for tuning in, everybody. 00:39.900 --> 00:41.320 It's my pleasure to be here. 00:42.260 --> 00:46.440 Yesterday on the program, we concluded with a chapter entitled, The Vatican 00:46.440 --> 00:47.200 Ratline. 00:47.340 --> 00:52.220 By the way, we're reading, as my regular listeners are aware, we're reading a book 00:52.220 --> 00:56.520 by Dave Hunt, a very popular book, entitled A Woman Rides the Beast. 00:57.280 --> 01:01.460 And yesterday, we concluded the chapter entitled The Vatican Ratlines. 01:02.260 --> 01:07.820 And we're going to continue now with the 22nd chapter of this book, entitled Sola 01:07.820 --> 01:08.660 Scriptura. 01:08.780 --> 01:16.720 But before I begin, I want to address a particular listener who sent me yesterday 01:16.720 --> 01:25.620 a very long email expressing his concern about many questions that he had, 01:26.220 --> 01:28.840 that he'd been a regular listener for some time. 01:29.840 --> 01:36.920 And the basis of many of his questions was, what church do I go to? 01:37.680 --> 01:43.020 If there's so much deception, what church would you recommend that I go to? 01:43.020 --> 01:46.800 And I intend to respond to that email directly. 01:47.200 --> 01:54.020 But I want to tell my listener that this chapter that we're about to talk about, 01:54.700 --> 02:00.540 chapter 22 in this book, entitled Sola Scriptura, will answer many of your 02:00.540 --> 02:01.060 questions. 02:02.200 --> 02:09.120 It's very timely, the questions that you ask me, with the next chapter in this 02:09.120 --> 02:09.400 book. 02:09.400 --> 02:16.100 And so I will dedicate the reading of this chapter for your benefit, your personal 02:16.100 --> 02:16.620 benefit. 02:17.160 --> 02:21.520 And I hope that you will find in it the answers to the questions that you pose to 02:21.520 --> 02:26.540 me in your very lengthy email, which I intend to answer in detail. 02:27.560 --> 02:34.300 Now, before we continue with the reading of the chapter, we'll read the quotes that 02:34.300 --> 02:38.840 are typical preceding each chapter. 02:39.360 --> 02:43.320 There are several quotes on this page. 02:43.880 --> 02:50.500 The first one is a quote from Psalm 119, verse 9 and verse 105. 02:51.600 --> 02:58.280 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way, by taking heed thereto according to 02:58.280 --> 02:59.400 thy word. 02:59.400 --> 03:05.120 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 03:05.820 --> 03:09.140 Another quote from 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verse 15. 03:10.140 --> 03:17.220 That from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee 03:17.220 --> 03:21.020 wise unto salvation through faith. 03:21.020 --> 03:29.480 Now this, a quote from one of the many Antichrist Popes of the Roman Catholic 03:29.480 --> 03:30.000 Church. 03:30.640 --> 03:39.220 This one, Pope Pius VII, in his encyclical letter of 1816, addressed to the primate 03:39.220 --> 03:39.840 of Poland. 03:40.760 --> 03:42.900 Listen to the words of Antichrist. 03:43.740 --> 03:50.880 Quote, it is evident from experience that the holy scriptures, when circulated in 03:50.880 --> 03:56.420 the vulgar tongue, that is the tongue of the people, have produced more harm than 03:56.420 --> 03:56.940 benefit. 03:57.800 --> 04:04.180 We have deliberated upon the measure proper to be adopted by our pontifical 04:04.180 --> 04:11.320 authority in order to remedy and abolish this pestilence, this defilement of the 04:11.320 --> 04:14.940 faith so imminently dangerous to souls. 04:15.760 --> 04:16.160 Unquote. 04:17.040 --> 04:20.120 Do you see the papacy's hatred for the word of God? 04:20.500 --> 04:25.480 Do you see Antichrist's loathing of the word of God? 04:26.280 --> 04:31.980 You must understand that if the Antichrist hates the Bible, the word of God, 04:32.520 --> 04:36.600 then there must be something in that word of God for us, right? 04:38.020 --> 04:42.460 Another quote from one of the great Protestant reformers, Ulrich Zwingli, 04:43.100 --> 04:45.280 dated August 13, 1522. 04:45.600 --> 04:53.080 Quote, If I am cast into prison, it will be easier to transport a rock from 04:53.080 --> 04:59.580 our alps than to move me as much as a hand's breadth from the word of Jesus 04:59.580 --> 05:00.220 Christ. 05:01.100 --> 05:01.600 Unquote. 05:02.560 --> 05:03.960 Sola Scriptura. 05:04.760 --> 05:06.420 Scripture alone. 05:07.180 --> 05:09.580 That's the title of the next chapter of this book. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.780 And a direct answer to my listener. 05:13.500 --> 05:21.000 Dave Hunt writes, The well-known axiom that power corrupts and absolute power 05:21.000 --> 05:27.440 corrupts absolutely is just as true in religion as in politics. 05:27.440 --> 05:33.260 In fact, religious power is even more corrupting than political power. 05:34.200 --> 05:41.100 Absolutism reaches its ultimate abusive pinnacle when it claims to act for God. 05:41.960 --> 05:48.580 Vatican Council too requires, quote, loyal submission of the will and the 05:48.580 --> 05:56.200 intellect, unquote, to the Roman pontiff, quote, even when he does not speak ex 05:56.200 --> 05:57.840 cathedra, unquote. 05:58.760 --> 06:04.840 No Catholic can presume to obey God and His word directly, but must give the 06:04.840 --> 06:11.960 absolute obedience to the Roman Catholic Church, which acts for God and thus stands 06:11.960 --> 06:14.820 between the individual and God. 06:15.520 --> 06:17.320 So says the Roman Catholic Church. 06:17.900 --> 06:21.540 But that is not what the Scripture saith. 06:21.540 --> 06:28.900 The corruption of power reaches its greatest height in Roman Catholicism's 06:28.900 --> 06:34.820 bold claim that its members cannot understand the Bible for themselves, 06:35.300 --> 06:41.240 but must accept unquestioningly the Roman Catholic Church's interpretation. 06:42.180 --> 06:48.440 Quote, The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the word of God has been 06:48.440 --> 06:54.560 entrusted to the living teaching office of the Roman Catholic Church alone, 06:55.080 --> 06:55.520 unquote. 06:56.300 --> 07:02.680 With that edict, God's word, the one repository of truth and liberty which is 07:02.680 --> 07:08.760 capable of destroying despotism, is kept under Roman Catholic Church 07:08.760 --> 07:12.240 control and shrouded in mystery. 07:12.980 --> 07:17.720 This leaves devout Roman Catholics at the mercy of their clergy. 07:18.560 --> 07:24.420 A clergy which, as we have seen, is all too readily corrupted. 07:25.260 --> 07:30.420 And I will simply say, is all too completely corrupted. 07:31.040 --> 07:37.040 Now under the subtitle, Blind Acceptance, Dave Hunt writes, To escape that 07:37.040 --> 07:44.040 destructive enslavement, the Protestant Reformers urged submission to God's pure 07:44.040 --> 07:50.380 word as the ultimate authority, rather than to the Roman Catholic Church 07:50.380 --> 07:51.280 or to the Pope. 07:51.620 --> 07:56.440 The basic issue that sparked the Protestant Reformation, and which remains 07:56.440 --> 08:02.960 the basic issue today, was whether to continue in blind submission to Rome's 08:02.960 --> 08:10.200 dogmas, even though they contradicted the Bible, or to submit to God's word alone as 08:10.200 --> 08:11.760 the final authority. 08:12.580 --> 08:16.440 Menno Simon's biographer relates the conflict that he faced. 08:16.560 --> 08:20.840 Listen to what he said, quote, The real problem came when Menno, 08:21.700 --> 08:26.980 having dared to open the lids of the Bible, discovered that it contained 08:26.980 --> 08:31.520 nothing of the traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on the Mass. 08:32.300 --> 08:39.880 By that discovery, his inner conflict was brought to a climax, for he now was 08:39.880 --> 08:45.860 compelled to decide which of the two authorities was to be supreme in his life, 08:46.180 --> 08:51.820 the Roman Catholic Church, or the Holy Scriptures, unquote. 08:52.400 --> 08:59.020 The Protestant Reformers made that choice in favor of the Scriptures, and their 08:59.020 --> 09:03.240 central cry became, Sola Scriptura! 09:03.980 --> 09:05.540 The Scriptures alone! 09:06.300 --> 09:08.720 The Scriptures alone! 09:09.620 --> 09:15.940 That liberating truth was rejected at the Roman Catholic Council of Trent by Roman 09:15.940 --> 09:20.760 Catholic bishops who were unwilling to surrender control of the people under 09:20.760 --> 09:21.020 them. 09:21.780 --> 09:27.140 It was even considered to be harmful for the people to possess the Bible in their 09:27.140 --> 09:33.860 own language, because they might take it literally, which Rome urges even today 09:33.860 --> 09:35.340 must not be done. 09:36.120 --> 09:42.160 From her viewpoint, only a specially trained elite can understand the Bible. 09:42.820 --> 09:51.040 Quote, The interpreter must go back wholly in spirit to those remote centuries with 09:51.040 --> 09:57.480 the aid of history, archaeology, ethnology, and other sciences accurately 09:57.480 --> 10:03.280 determine what modes of writing the authors of that period would likely to 10:03.280 --> 10:05.960 use, and in fact did use. 10:06.600 --> 10:07.000 Unquote. 10:07.500 --> 10:15.300 In other words, you can't understand the Bible unless you are an expert in history, 10:16.320 --> 10:24.060 archaeology, ethnology, and other sciences, and must also be expert in the 10:24.060 --> 10:25.480 languages of the Bible. 10:25.680 --> 10:27.800 Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic. 10:28.520 --> 10:30.210 In other words, you must be a seminarian. 10:30.700 --> 10:37.220 You must be a lifelong scholar before you are able to read and to understand the 10:37.220 --> 10:37.560 scriptures. 10:38.440 --> 10:45.260 In other words, you must be a graduate of a doctorate in divinity of one of the most 10:45.260 --> 10:51.000 prestigious Roman Catholic universities in all the world before you can read and 10:51.000 --> 10:53.340 understand and interpret the Bible. 10:53.960 --> 10:55.300 So it's hopeless. 10:56.180 --> 10:57.820 You just as well not even read it. 10:57.940 --> 10:59.620 You are not simply capable. 11:00.560 --> 11:02.440 Now let me ask the obvious question. 11:03.220 --> 11:09.700 Does God deal so treacherously with His beloved people for whom He died to make 11:09.700 --> 11:17.360 the scriptures inaccessible to His people that they must be spoon-fed by an elite 11:17.360 --> 11:21.840 priesthood who have a monopoly on understanding the scriptures? 11:22.180 --> 11:24.200 Is that what the Bible teaches? 11:25.660 --> 11:31.120 Dave Hunt continues, Transview that the authority of the Roman Catholic Church 11:31.120 --> 11:38.760 excuse me, Transview, that is the Council of Trent its view that the authority of 11:38.760 --> 11:43.940 the authority for the Roman Catholic is the Roman Catholic Church, not the Bible. 11:43.940 --> 11:47.080 And that view remains in force today. 11:48.080 --> 11:56.060 Only scripture scholars trained at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome with 11:56.060 --> 12:02.900 quote, a degree in theology and mastery of six or seven languages including Hebrew, 12:03.120 --> 12:07.560 Aramaic, and Greek unquote, are capable of understanding the Bible. 12:08.400 --> 12:16.340 Having earned quote, a licentiate in other words, a license in sacred scripture the 12:16.340 --> 12:22.700 Roman Catholic Church's license to teach scripture, unquote, they alone can teach 12:22.700 --> 12:23.200 the Bible. 12:23.900 --> 12:25.500 They alone can teach the Bible. 12:26.340 --> 12:31.500 No layman is qualified according to the official teaching of the Roman Catholic 12:31.500 --> 12:31.920 Church. 12:32.680 --> 12:39.320 Vatican Council too insisted quote, it is for the bishops with whom the 12:39.320 --> 12:46.320 apostolic doctrine resides suitably to instruct the faithful entrusted to them in 12:46.320 --> 12:52.160 the correct use of the New Testament by giving them translations of the sacred 12:52.160 --> 12:58.440 texts which are equipped with necessary and really adequate explanations. 12:59.400 --> 12:59.660 Unquote. 13:00.360 --> 13:02.600 In other words, it's only for the bishops. 13:03.540 --> 13:08.560 They are the only ones who can dispense the Word of God and give adequate 13:08.560 --> 13:09.420 explanation. 13:09.420 --> 13:12.120 But what does the Bible say? 13:12.940 --> 13:14.420 What does the Bible say? 13:15.180 --> 13:18.780 The Bible was given by God to all mankind. 13:19.360 --> 13:22.720 Not to an elite group to explain it to others. 13:23.520 --> 13:32.460 It is to be a lamp on the path that is, Psalms 119 verse 105, it is to be a lamp 13:32.460 --> 13:34.840 on the path of all who heed it. 13:35.560 --> 13:40.640 Moses proclaimed that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that 13:40.640 --> 13:42.200 proceeds from the mouth of God. 13:42.320 --> 13:44.240 Deuteronomy 8, verse 3. 13:44.980 --> 13:51.640 And not a whisper about that word being interpreted by an elite Roman Catholic 13:51.640 --> 13:52.320 hierarchy. 13:53.080 --> 13:59.220 Psalms 1 speaks of the blessed man who mediates upon God's Word, variously called 13:59.220 --> 14:04.520 the law, the statutes, the judgments, the commandments, etc., day and night. 14:04.520 --> 14:12.000 Quote, man surely includes woman, but cannot possibly be interpreted to mean 14:12.000 --> 14:18.520 only a special class of highly educated experts. 14:19.140 --> 14:25.780 Certainly, it does not include a quote unquote, clergy class. 14:26.500 --> 14:28.280 The Bible was given to mankind. 14:29.280 --> 14:36.700 The Bible was given to God's children to be read by them and to be understood by 14:36.700 --> 14:38.540 them through the Holy Spirit. 14:39.280 --> 14:40.960 You have a teacher within you. 14:41.620 --> 14:43.720 You are a temple of the Holy Spirit. 14:43.880 --> 14:45.060 He resides within you. 14:45.560 --> 14:47.800 And He has the mind of God. 14:48.520 --> 14:51.260 It is the mind of God within you. 14:52.120 --> 14:59.060 Trust me, you have more within you than any Roman Catholic priest. 14:59.820 --> 15:06.360 Dave Hunt says, we get the impression from reading Paul's epistles that those to whom 15:06.360 --> 15:09.520 they were written were expected to understand them. 15:10.220 --> 15:16.060 The epistles are not addressed to a bishop or to a select group of leaders, 15:17.060 --> 15:22.080 but to all the Christians at Corinth, Ephesus, etc. 15:22.820 --> 15:29.220 Each Christian is given an understanding by the indwelling Holy Spirit of the words 15:29.220 --> 15:36.280 which the same Spirit inspired, quote, holy men of God, unquote, 15:36.640 --> 15:37.200 to write. 15:37.900 --> 15:40.200 See 2 Peter 1, verse 21. 15:41.220 --> 15:43.460 All Scripture is given unto men. 15:44.320 --> 15:44.620 Alright? 15:45.540 --> 15:51.980 Scripture that men wrote under the unction of the Holy Spirit. 15:51.980 --> 16:00.400 He says every, excuse me, even a, quote, young man, unquote, is expected to 16:00.400 --> 16:03.380 heed God's word, Psalm 119. 16:04.160 --> 16:12.740 Again, not even a single hint is given that it must be explained to him by a 16:12.740 --> 16:13.260 rabbi. 16:14.080 --> 16:19.700 Christ, quoting Moses, I have a difficulty here with my headset. 16:19.820 --> 16:20.560 Hang on a second. 16:22.600 --> 16:26.200 Okay, obviously, I have a technical difficulty here I'm going to have to live 16:26.200 --> 16:26.540 with. 16:27.240 --> 16:30.960 I guess it's time to get a new headset, but we'll do the best we can with what we 16:30.960 --> 16:31.300 have. 16:31.920 --> 16:35.700 Now, even a young man is expected to heed God's word. 16:35.920 --> 16:37.480 See Psalms 119. 16:38.460 --> 16:43.000 Again, not a hint is given that it must be explained to him by a rabbi. 16:43.940 --> 16:50.720 Christ, quoting Moses, affirm that man is to feed upon the Bible for his very life. 16:50.840 --> 16:54.660 See Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 3 and Matthew 4 verse 4. 16:55.460 --> 17:02.000 Job considers God's word, quote, more than my necessary food, unquote. 17:02.280 --> 17:04.540 See Job 23 verse 12. 17:05.520 --> 17:09.740 Never a word is spoken about consulting a hierarchy for its meaning. 17:10.520 --> 17:15.300 Under the subtitle, trusting the church instead of the Bible, Dave says, 17:15.400 --> 17:21.480 the Pope, in his August 15, 1993 address to representatives of the Vietnamese 17:21.480 --> 17:27.240 community in Denver, told them, quote, the challenge before you is to keep 17:27.240 --> 17:31.680 pure and lively your Catholic identity, unquote. 17:32.480 --> 17:38.020 One seldom ever hears Catholic leaders exhorting the flock to be true simply to 17:38.020 --> 17:43.260 Christ or to God's word, but always to the Roman Catholic Church. 17:44.440 --> 17:52.520 Veritatis splendor, John Paul II's 1993 treatise on morals, refers to the truth 17:52.520 --> 17:56.380 taught by Christ and mediated by the church. 17:57.280 --> 18:02.440 Without that mediation, the Catholic cannot know God's truth simply by reading 18:02.440 --> 18:05.060 God's word according to the teaching of the church. 18:05.060 --> 18:11.420 Only by such a doctrine can Rome keep its adherents blindly following its corrupt 18:11.420 --> 18:13.200 and unbiblical teachings. 18:13.980 --> 18:20.600 Cardinal Ratzinger, watchdog of Orthodoxy, exemplifies this blind faith in Roman 18:20.600 --> 18:21.780 Catholicism. 18:22.080 --> 18:26.440 He tells of a theology professor who admitted that the assumption of the Virgin 18:26.440 --> 18:33.140 Mary, declared a Roman Catholic dog man in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, could not be 18:33.140 --> 18:37.800 supported by scripture, yet decided to believe it anyway because quote, 18:38.460 --> 18:41.700 the church is wiser than I, unquote. 18:42.460 --> 18:47.920 Sadly, he's actually acknowledging the Roman Catholic Church to be wiser than the 18:47.920 --> 18:56.680 Bible and thus capable of contradicting it because it does contradict the Bible and 18:56.680 --> 19:03.280 just like the assumption of the Virgin Mary dogma contradicts the Bible. 19:04.240 --> 19:10.940 Ratzinger has that same unwarranted total trust in Roman Catholicism and pledges, 19:11.400 --> 19:17.220 quote, to follow the Roman Catholic faith and not my own opinions unquote. 19:18.160 --> 19:24.400 Thus he guards the faith not by making certain that what is taught in the Roman 19:24.400 --> 19:29.640 Catholic seminaries universities and pulpits around the world agrees with the 19:29.640 --> 19:35.880 word of God, but that it conforms to Roman Catholic tradition taught by the popes, 19:36.040 --> 19:42.420 the councils, and the church fathers, and much of it within those false 19:42.420 --> 19:46.880 decretals called the pseudo-Isidorian decretals that we talked about, 19:47.660 --> 19:49.280 admitted forgeries. 19:50.060 --> 19:56.080 Vatican Council too says that quote, both scripture and tradition is to be 19:56.080 --> 20:01.760 accepted and honored with equal feelings of devotion and reverence, unquote. 20:02.000 --> 20:06.940 The new universal catechism of the Roman Catholic Church recently released by the 20:06.940 --> 20:08.140 Vatican states quote, 20:22.740 --> 20:26.540 and the Magisterium, unquote. 20:27.080 --> 20:31.640 So in Roman Catholicism, it's not sola scriptura. 20:32.200 --> 20:39.000 It's the Roman Catholic Church, it's tradition, it's Mary, or the saints, 20:40.040 --> 20:45.280 or all the other multitudes of things that the Roman Catholic Church has placed 20:45.280 --> 20:51.380 before, in front of, or instead of, the scriptures. 20:51.600 --> 20:56.640 In answer to my question, to the question posed to me by my listeners about what 20:56.640 --> 21:02.020 church to go to, the answer should be becoming more and more clear as we 21:02.020 --> 21:04.580 continue to reading of this book. 21:04.860 --> 21:07.420 The truth is not found in any church. 21:08.300 --> 21:10.240 The truth is found in the scriptures. 21:11.100 --> 21:17.440 And all men and churches will be judged solely by what is written in the 21:17.440 --> 21:18.140 scriptures. 21:18.900 --> 21:26.140 Don't look to a church to be your guide, and to exempt you from responsibility to 21:26.140 --> 21:32.760 your creator for how you rightly or wrongly divide the word of truth. 21:33.480 --> 21:35.820 That Bible is the truth. 21:36.440 --> 21:39.500 All else is second best. 21:40.280 --> 21:44.880 We've come upon the break, we'll return with the reading of the book A Woman Rides 21:44.880 --> 21:50.840 a Beast by Dave Hunt The church stands in the way of truth. 21:51.060 --> 21:53.240 We'll be back right after this. 22:17.460 --> 22:25.380 Hear it first on FirstAmendmentRadio.com and 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25:05.020 --> 25:07.340 We'll continue where we left off before the break. 25:07.900 --> 25:13.000 The subtitle of this portion of the chapter is The Church Stands in the Way of 25:13.000 --> 25:13.420 Truth. 25:14.180 --> 25:21.080 Don't, and this is particularly to my listener who wrote, don't let anybody or 25:21.080 --> 25:27.760 anything stand between you and your Messiah, Christ Jesus. 25:28.380 --> 25:38.520 Don't let any church or man or group of men or governments or principalities or 25:38.520 --> 25:45.240 powers or any other thing, not even an angel of heaven, stand between you and 25:45.240 --> 25:48.720 your Messiah and His holy book. 25:49.600 --> 25:56.640 Your instruction should come directly from God Himself, without any mediator, 25:57.540 --> 26:02.180 and that can only be done by reading and studying and meditating and praying on the 26:02.180 --> 26:02.860 Word of God. 26:03.640 --> 26:11.300 Jesus Christ declared, quote, if you continue in my word, then are ye my 26:11.300 --> 26:18.360 disciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth, not a single hint of another source 26:18.360 --> 26:18.780 of truth. 26:19.540 --> 26:25.640 The Bible, the Bible alone, sola scriptura, see John chapter 8 verse 31 and 26:25.640 --> 26:26.100 32. 26:26.980 --> 26:32.420 He did not make that statement to the twelve apostles, but to common people who 26:32.420 --> 26:35.320 had just, quote, believed on Him. 26:36.020 --> 26:43.280 Verse 30, He said nothing of His truth having to be interpreted by the rabbis and 26:43.280 --> 26:46.640 of course the Roman Catholic hierarchy didn't even exist then. 26:47.440 --> 26:51.380 You have to ask yourself, under the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church 26:51.380 --> 26:57.980 about its sole authority to interpret and to teach the Word of God, how was anyone 26:57.980 --> 27:00.260 saved before the third century? 27:01.100 --> 27:04.580 That's just how ridiculous the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church is. 27:05.320 --> 27:10.880 The Roman Catholic Church would have you believe that they have a monopoly on the 27:10.880 --> 27:16.440 Scripture and understanding and the imparting of the Holy Spirit or the 27:16.440 --> 27:17.800 indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 27:18.360 --> 27:22.640 The Roman Catholic Church says that it has a monopoly on God and the Scriptures. 27:23.400 --> 27:26.060 How could anybody of sane mind believe such a thing? 27:26.780 --> 27:30.520 And likewise of any other institution on the earth that claims such a thing. 27:31.160 --> 27:36.980 And I can think of many churches even some that I might even recommend that you would 27:36.980 --> 27:37.480 attend. 27:38.240 --> 27:43.180 They all claim that if you're not a member of our church, you can't go to heaven. 27:44.000 --> 27:45.820 That's not what the Bible says. 27:46.660 --> 27:52.740 God's Word was available to and was to be understood, believed and obeyed by even 27:52.740 --> 27:54.860 the newest converts to the faith. 27:55.620 --> 28:00.960 That was what Christ expected of his followers then and it is what he expects 28:00.960 --> 28:02.280 of us today as well. 28:03.180 --> 28:06.160 Rome blocks the individual's access to the truth. 28:06.980 --> 28:14.580 The Roman Catholic Church cannot learn directly from God's Word but only from the 28:15.480 --> 28:17.920 interpretation thereof by the church. 28:19.680 --> 28:24.280 In other words, the Roman Catholic Church is a mediator between God and man. 28:24.940 --> 28:31.940 The church thrusts itself between the believer and the throne of Almighty God. 28:32.640 --> 28:34.840 And we're not to believe such drivel. 28:35.660 --> 28:41.160 Christ said quote, come unto me I will give you rest. 28:41.760 --> 28:42.160 Unquote. 28:42.860 --> 28:51.380 Matthew chapter 11 verse 28 Rome allows no one to come directly to Christ but has set 28:51.380 --> 28:58.760 itself up as the intermediary channel of God's grace necessary for knowing God's 28:58.760 --> 29:00.660 truth and for salvation. 29:01.480 --> 29:07.560 On this point Rome is adamant otherwise she would lose her hold on the people who 29:07.560 --> 29:15.380 could then do without her just like the Protestant reformers did just like I do. 29:16.080 --> 29:24.220 Would God inspire infallible scripture and then deny to all except an elite few the 29:24.220 --> 29:26.000 ability to understand it? 29:26.760 --> 29:33.000 Requiring billions of people to surrender their minds to a Roman Catholic hierarchy 29:33.640 --> 29:37.860 by blindly accepting their interpretation of His word? 29:38.680 --> 29:43.340 If the Holy Spirit can convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of 29:43.340 --> 29:49.520 judgment, John chapter 16 verse 8 then surely He can teach all those in whom He 29:49.520 --> 29:50.500 dwells. 29:51.340 --> 29:56.940 John says that the Christians to whom He writes don't have to look to some special 29:56.940 --> 30:06.620 class of men for teaching but have an anointing within to teach them all things. 30:07.040 --> 30:14.940 First John chapter 2 verse 27 If all Christians are led by the Spirit of God, 30:15.140 --> 30:21.760 unquote see Romans chapter 8 verse 14 then surely all must be able to understand the 30:21.760 --> 30:25.060 scriptures which the Spirit of God has inspired. 30:26.120 --> 30:33.060 Christians, quote have received the Spirit which is of God that we might know the 30:33.060 --> 30:37.120 things that are freely given to us of God unquote. 30:37.560 --> 30:43.800 First Corinthians 2, 12 There's no hint that a group of clergy must interpret the 30:43.800 --> 30:47.440 scriptures for everyone else and why should they? 30:48.180 --> 30:53.740 All Christians, quote, have the mind of Christ verse 16. 30:54.540 --> 31:01.460 Rome dare not acknowledge this truth for then those under her would be set free. 31:02.260 --> 31:08.540 There's the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free free from men, from 31:08.540 --> 31:14.340 institutions from churches, from governments, from every bondage known to 31:14.340 --> 31:23.020 mankind but the world dare not acknowledge this truth or we would be set free Rome is 31:23.020 --> 31:29.600 still searching for the truth outside God's Word Consider Rome's Pontifical 31:29.600 --> 31:31.680 University of St. Thomas Aquinas. 31:32.040 --> 31:38.780 It's called the Angelicum Pope John Paul II is a graduate It's 1,200 students from 31:38.780 --> 31:43.860 135 countries have made, quote, the search for truth, unquote, 31:44.480 --> 31:50.420 through the thousands of volumes on theology and philosophy in its library and 31:50.420 --> 31:53.160 elsewhere their life objectives. 31:54.020 --> 31:59.500 These people make their entire life the study of these difficult subjects, 31:59.980 --> 32:05.180 non-biblical subjects and call themselves the dispensers of God's truth. 32:05.940 --> 32:12.860 When God made His Word available to every man contrast Christ's statement that by 32:12.860 --> 32:22.140 obeying His Word, one knows the truth with the complexity of the search for truth by 32:22.140 --> 32:23.200 Catholic scholars. 32:24.100 --> 32:25.180 Both can't be right. 32:25.880 --> 32:32.960 Both cannot be right There's a dead spiritual bondage in the Roman Catholic 32:32.960 --> 32:39.180 Church a deadly spiritual bondage and it has been passed down to the ecumenical 32:39.180 --> 32:40.060 churches today. 32:40.660 --> 32:45.320 They're all gearing themselves up, the preachers of the ecumenical churches 32:45.320 --> 32:50.280 are gearing themselves up to follow the model of the Roman Catholic Church 32:50.280 --> 32:57.780 including themselves in that priestly class that clergy class that is going to 32:57.780 --> 33:03.460 rule over the people as though they have no access to the throne of God but through 33:03.460 --> 33:09.640 them My listener asked me with all the deception, what church do I go to? 33:10.440 --> 33:13.680 The true church knows the scripture. 33:14.660 --> 33:20.220 You are the church When God dwells within you you are the church. 33:20.440 --> 33:23.840 You don't need a man to teach you. 33:24.620 --> 33:30.340 He says His ordinary Bereans check Paul's teachings not with a hierarchy in Rome 33:30.790 --> 33:34.620 which didn't even then exist but against the Bible. 33:34.940 --> 33:41.060 Acts chapter 17 verse 11 That practice was commended then and it's still each 33:41.060 --> 33:46.640 individual's responsibility to know God's word and to test every spiritual leader by 33:46.640 --> 33:53.060 it no matter who he may be This is what the Bible declares Roman Catholics 33:53.060 --> 33:58.840 however, just like the Mormons the Jehovah Witnesses and other various cults must 33:58.840 --> 34:02.500 accept not check their church's teachings. 34:02.960 --> 34:07.820 The very book that would bring life, light and freedom to individuals and 34:07.820 --> 34:14.640 nations is spiritually chained out of reach even as it once was literally 34:14.640 --> 34:17.000 chained by the Roman Catholic Church. 34:17.900 --> 34:23.540 Of course such withholding of God's word from the laity is consistent with Roman 34:23.540 --> 34:29.520 Catholicism's persistent suppression of the basic human freedoms of conscience, 34:30.220 --> 34:31.760 religion and the press. 34:32.620 --> 34:37.300 Among the crimes for which believers were committed to the flames in the Spanish 34:37.300 --> 34:42.480 Inquisition, listen to this was the distribution and reading of the Bible 34:43.260 --> 34:49.080 Smuggling Bibles into communist or Muslim countries such as China or Iran is 34:49.080 --> 34:49.900 understandable. 34:50.700 --> 34:56.300 But imagine having to smuggle Bibles into a quote-unquote Christian country such as 34:56.300 --> 35:03.360 Spain and being put to death for doing so yet in an auto-defay in Seville on 35:03.360 --> 35:10.660 December 22nd, 1560 Julian Hernandez, one of those burned at the stake on that 35:10.660 --> 35:16.680 occasion, was declared to be an arch-heretic because quote, through his 35:16.680 --> 35:21.640 great efforts and incomprehensible stealth, he introduced into Spain 35:21.640 --> 35:22.920 prohibited books. 35:23.880 --> 35:24.920 What were those books? 35:25.820 --> 35:32.160 Bibles and New Testaments that he brought from far away places like Protestant 35:32.160 --> 35:38.940 Germany where they gave protection to the ungodly that is Protestants. 35:39.540 --> 35:44.040 He firmly believes that God by means of the Scriptures communicates to the laity 35:44.040 --> 35:48.560 just the same as he communicates to the priests. 35:49.240 --> 35:56.320 Let me tell you, God communicates much, much better through the Scriptures to his 35:56.320 --> 36:01.580 own people than to any Roman Catholic priest. 36:02.380 --> 36:07.400 To believe that God could communicate his truth through the Bible not only to the 36:07.400 --> 36:13.220 clergy but to the ordinary believers was a crime punishable by death in Spain and 36:13.220 --> 36:14.700 other Roman Catholic countries. 36:15.620 --> 36:21.320 Rome has not changed, though the Bible is no longer banned overtly as in the past. 36:22.000 --> 36:27.720 To do so today would be the wrong tactic and likely to create the opposite reaction 36:28.120 --> 36:33.400 to the one desired, especially in Protestant countries. 36:34.080 --> 36:35.420 There's a better way. 36:36.320 --> 36:40.460 Let the people have the Bible in their hands and even encourage them to read it, 36:40.600 --> 36:42.620 but keep it from their hearts. 36:42.620 --> 36:47.080 By insisting that only the Roman Catholic Church can interpret it. 36:47.720 --> 36:52.520 At the same time confidence in Scripture is undermined by Rome's teaching that the 36:52.520 --> 36:56.280 Bible is not trustworthy in its pronouncements on history or science. 36:57.340 --> 37:02.080 Catholicism takes a symbolic meaning from the book of Jonah concerning the quote, 37:02.900 --> 37:08.080 the universality of salvation, unquote, and denies that a literal prophet 37:08.080 --> 37:10.740 named Jonah was swallowed by a literal fish. 37:11.620 --> 37:17.420 The early chapters of Genesis are likewise viewed as symbolic rather than accounts of 37:17.420 --> 37:22.640 actual creation of the world and man, leaving the door open to evolution. 37:23.540 --> 37:28.540 Even the rapture, now my apologies to my listeners, I don't believe the Bible 37:28.540 --> 37:29.700 teaches the rapture. 37:30.140 --> 37:36.740 This is part of Dave's futurism for which he never renounced before he died. 37:37.560 --> 37:44.120 We've dealt with this on previous chapters or on previous programs, but I'll read 37:44.120 --> 37:45.580 what's written in his book. 37:46.340 --> 37:51.020 It says, even the rapture is seen as symbolic and not referring to a literal 37:51.020 --> 37:55.740 catching up of the Christians to heaven, an idea which Catholics consider to be 37:55.740 --> 37:56.360 delusion. 37:57.260 --> 38:03.940 In 1964, instruction of the Biblical Commission declared that the literalist 38:03.940 --> 38:08.540 view of the Bible adopted by fundamentalists, that is Bible readers, 38:08.540 --> 38:13.300 quote, actually invites people to a kind of intellectual suicide. 38:13.900 --> 38:19.740 That's what Rome thinks of those of you out there who are expert in the Word of 38:19.740 --> 38:26.920 God, even you young boys who have been brought up in the Scriptures, that you are 38:26.920 --> 38:33.380 actually committing intellectual suicide by reading and understanding that Bible. 38:34.160 --> 38:38.310 Did the Roman Catholic Church give us the Bible as she claims? 38:40.330 --> 38:49.050 Excuse me, it is claimed that only the church can interpret the Bible because it 38:49.050 --> 38:52.550 was the church which gave it to us. 38:53.230 --> 38:57.110 Now that, my listeners, ought to be absurd on its face. 38:57.930 --> 39:01.910 That we got the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Church? 39:02.530 --> 39:05.770 What fool would believe such malarkey? 39:06.470 --> 39:10.850 He said that's like saying that because Paul wrote his epistles, we need him to 39:10.850 --> 39:11.510 interpret them. 39:12.310 --> 39:16.030 Furthermore, the church did not give us the Bible, certainly not the Old 39:16.030 --> 39:18.210 Testament, for there was no church. 39:18.530 --> 39:23.290 There was no Roman Catholic Church in those days, or any other church. 39:23.990 --> 39:27.570 And if the Roman Catholic Church was not needed to give us the Old Testament, 39:27.930 --> 39:32.050 then clearly it's not needed to give us the New either. 39:32.590 --> 39:37.930 A favorite question of Roman Catholic apologists is, quote, how do you know that 39:37.930 --> 39:41.510 Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke, or that Matthew wrote the Gospel of 39:41.510 --> 39:41.910 Matthew? 39:42.330 --> 39:42.830 Unquote. 39:43.590 --> 39:47.570 They claim that Roman Catholic tradition contains this information. 39:48.430 --> 39:54.650 Yet no tradition proves who wrote Hebrews, Job, Esther, or various Psalms. 39:54.990 --> 40:00.810 Nor does it matter that the authors were inspired by the Holy Spirit is what 40:00.810 --> 40:01.550 matters. 40:02.070 --> 40:08.350 This inspiration bears witness within readers who are themselves indwelt by the 40:08.350 --> 40:13.290 same Holy Spirit who inspired the writing of the Scripture in the first place. 40:14.390 --> 40:16.410 You want to be an authority on the Scripture? 40:17.310 --> 40:25.170 Accept Christ as your Messiah, your teacher, your rabbi, your priest, 40:26.010 --> 40:33.430 your all in all, and believe Him, and He will give you the Holy Spirit to 40:33.430 --> 40:39.570 live within you, so that when you read the words of His book, they are given to you 40:39.570 --> 40:42.850 in direct revelation from the Scriptures. 40:43.070 --> 40:47.910 The meaning will just jump out of the pages, and they won't bounce off your 40:47.910 --> 40:48.310 forehead. 40:48.730 --> 40:53.030 They will sink to the marrow of your bones. 40:53.650 --> 40:55.550 Those words will become a part of you. 40:55.650 --> 41:01.710 No Roman Catholic priest, or any other preacher who does not possess the 41:01.710 --> 41:06.350 indwelling of the Holy Spirit, can speak to the marrow of your bones. 41:07.250 --> 41:12.130 Catholicism's claim that the New Testament comes from the Church by decision of the 41:12.130 --> 41:13.970 councils is false. 41:14.630 --> 41:20.310 No early Roman Catholic Church council even ruled on what was canonical. 41:21.250 --> 41:26.070 Yet in these councils, to support their arguments, both sides quoted the New 41:26.070 --> 41:30.710 Testament, which had obviously been accepted by general consensus without any 41:30.710 --> 41:32.430 conciliar definition on the canon. 41:32.790 --> 41:38.870 Look, we don't need the Roman Catholic Church to tell us what is Scripture and 41:38.870 --> 41:39.670 what isn't. 41:40.250 --> 41:43.290 All we need is the book itself. 41:43.470 --> 41:45.970 It tells us what is Scripture and what isn't. 41:46.110 --> 41:52.310 All we need is the writings of the early church who quoted those Scriptures, 41:53.070 --> 41:58.590 who received them as Scriptures, who believed them to be inspired by the 41:58.590 --> 42:00.130 Holy Spirit of God. 42:00.850 --> 42:05.870 Who needs the Roman Catholic Church to tell us what is inspired and what isn't? 42:06.450 --> 42:12.190 God's book existed long before the Roman Catholic Church or any other church. 42:13.030 --> 42:15.350 He says the Synod of Antioch in A.D. 42:15.690 --> 42:22.290 266 denounced the doctrine of Paul of Samosata as, quote, foreign to the 42:22.290 --> 42:24.230 ecclesiastical canon, unquote. 42:24.910 --> 42:26.550 The Council of Nicaea in A.D. 42:26.550 --> 42:29.230 325 refers to, quote, unquote, the canon. 42:29.550 --> 42:33.210 And the Council of Laodicea in A.D. 42:33.210 --> 42:39.370 363 exhorted that, quote, only the canonized books of both the Old and New 42:39.370 --> 42:41.750 Testament be read in the church, unquote. 42:42.550 --> 42:48.970 Yet none, none of those councils deemed it necessary to list the canonized books, 42:49.690 --> 42:54.570 indicating that they were already very well known and accepted by the common 42:54.570 --> 42:58.150 consent of Christians indwelt by the Holy Spirit. 42:59.190 --> 43:02.690 Look, the Roman Catholic Church, to get the canon of Scripture right for 43:02.690 --> 43:07.970 us, would have had to consult those who were indwelt by the Holy Spirit and knew 43:07.970 --> 43:13.350 in the marrow of their bones what was Scripture and what wasn't. 43:13.950 --> 43:20.970 The Roman Catholic Church would have had to consult them to make up her canon and 43:20.970 --> 43:23.430 then distribute it to the rest of us. 43:24.250 --> 43:25.450 How absurd! 43:27.010 --> 43:30.210 Not until the Third Council of Carthage in A.D. 43:30.530 --> 43:34.330 397 do we have the first conciliar decision on the canon. 43:35.190 --> 43:39.290 That's rather late if without it Christians didn't know what books were in 43:39.290 --> 43:43.570 the New Testament and therefore couldn't use them as Rome claims today. 43:44.450 --> 43:48.590 History proves that the books of the New Testament were known and accepted by 43:48.590 --> 43:55.290 Christians and in wide circulation and used at least 300 years, three centuries 43:55.710 --> 43:58.010 before Carthage listed them. 43:58.710 --> 44:00.830 Historian W.H.C. 44:01.010 --> 44:06.530 Friend writes, quote, the Gospels and Epistles were circulating in Asia, 44:06.930 --> 44:13.690 Syria, and Alexandria, less certainly in Rome, and being read and discussed in the 44:13.690 --> 44:17.590 Christian synagogues there by about 100 A .D. 44:18.190 --> 44:23.170 In Polycarp's short letter, there's an astonishing amount of direct and indirect 44:23.170 --> 44:25.270 quotation from the New Testament. 44:25.450 --> 44:32.030 Books Matthew, Luke, and John, Acts, the letters to the Galatians, 44:32.390 --> 44:36.990 Thessalonians, Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Romans, 44:37.190 --> 44:45.170 the pastorals, 1st Peter particularly, and 1st and 2nd John are all used. 44:45.710 --> 44:51.410 The Christian scriptures were quoted so familiarly as to suggest that they had 44:51.410 --> 44:54.130 been in regular use a long time. 44:54.850 --> 44:59.990 Trust me, it was a long time before the Roman Catholic Church ever drew a breath. 45:01.290 --> 45:08.430 No rabbinical body decided upon the canon of the Old Testament. 45:08.650 --> 45:13.050 The canon was recognized by Israel and available as it was being written. 45:13.690 --> 45:19.950 Daniel, a captive in Babylon, had a copy of Jeremiah, written only a few years 45:19.950 --> 45:26.870 earlier, and was studying it as Scripture, see Daniel chapter 9 verse 2. 45:27.690 --> 45:33.130 We are certain that the entire Old Testament was well known when Christ was 45:33.130 --> 45:38.690 here and undoubtedly long before, for every Israelite was required to 45:38.690 --> 45:40.710 meditate upon it day and night. 45:41.450 --> 45:44.190 God's Word speaks directly to all. 45:45.090 --> 45:49.170 The Old Testament times the common people were expected to know God's Word, 45:49.310 --> 45:54.750 not through rabbinical interpretation, but for themselves, and were able to know 45:54.750 --> 45:55.130 it. 45:55.270 --> 46:02.110 In fact, as well as its availability to all, it is clear from Christ's rebuke of 46:02.110 --> 46:04.210 the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. 46:04.310 --> 46:09.790 Here's what he said, quote, old fools and slow of heart to believe all that the 46:09.790 --> 46:11.670 prophets have spoken, unquote. 46:12.330 --> 46:18.490 Luke 24 verse 25, he would not have used such harsh language in holding these two 46:18.490 --> 46:25.770 ordinary people responsible for their ignorance of prophecies had not all of the 46:25.770 --> 46:31.910 Old Testament Scriptures been readily available, familiar, and understandable to 46:31.910 --> 46:33.390 the ordinary Jew. 46:34.030 --> 46:40.330 He then expounded unto them in all the Scriptures, which must therefore have been 46:40.330 --> 46:45.590 known, quote, the things concerning himself, unquote. 46:46.050 --> 46:53.690 Luke chapter 24 verse 25 through 27, all of the Scriptures were even available 46:53.690 --> 47:02.910 to the faraway Bereans who dwelt north of Greece, who as we have seen, quote, 47:03.550 --> 47:06.530 searched the Scriptures daily, unquote. 47:06.670 --> 47:07.890 Acts 17 11. 47:08.750 --> 47:12.810 The same evidence is found in the fact that Timothy knew the Old Testament from 47:12.810 --> 47:13.730 early childhood. 47:13.950 --> 47:19.790 2nd Timothy 3 15, and that it was taught to him not by rabbis in the synagogue, 47:20.370 --> 47:26.250 but at home, at home by his mother and his 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