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We'll continue now in the book by Dave Hunt entitled, A Woman Rides a Beast,
on page 400.
Where yesterday we concluded our discussion of the reign of Bloody Mary and
the martyrdom of Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer, true Bible-believing
Protestants.
And the memorials included an X in the street marking the very spot of their
martyrdom and the plaque associated with their martyrdom.
And the statement that the persecutions against true Bible-believing Protestants
by Bloody Queen Mary prepared England to receive the true faith of the Gospel.
And her immediate successor was her half-sister, Elizabeth I.
And that's where we begin our discussion this morning.
Under the subtitle, Rewriting History, Dave Hunt writes, Mary was succeeded on
the throne.
This is Bloody Mary, the persecutor of the saints of God in England.
Bloody Mary was succeeded on the throne by her half-sister, Elizabeth, who turned
England back to Protestantism, ending the Pope's power on English soil.
A refreshing breath of freedom was blowing across the land, and it had to be stopped.
The Pope vented his rage from Rome, confident that his vast army of loyal
subjects, reinforced with promises of plenary indulgences, would do his bidding.
As already mentioned, on February of 1570, Pope Pius V pronounced Queen Elizabeth a
heretic, deprived her of her kingdom, forbade her subjects to obey her,
and excommunicated all who remained loyal to her.
But Elizabeth, and most of England, simply ignored the Pope's fulminations.
Wouldn't it be wonderful?
Wouldn't it be a blessing from God if the truth finally soaked in, and all the
people and all the kings of the earth just simply ignored the Pope's fulminations?
What could the Pope do?
Nothing.
But the world has rejected the Gospel.
The world seeks religion, and they find it in the Roman Catholic Church.
And so the horrors and persecutions of Rome continue to this day, only on such a
scale that no one recognizes it for what it is.
World wars.
That's how Rome does her biddings today.
Continuing, he says, Many of Rome's fanatical zealots, however, were inspired
to attempt to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I.
The plot was uncovered, the conspirators were arrested, and about 120 priests and
60 laity were executed.
These were not persecuted believers, martyred for their faith, but
revolutionaries, executed for treason.
Ironically, these traitors are honored each year as the English Martyrs,
as they are called, while the hundreds consumed in the flames for their faith in
Christ under Catholic monarchs are forgotten.
To mention evangelicals martyred for their faith would offend Catholics and threaten
the ecumenical dialogue with Rome.
So history is being rewritten.
The martyrs of the Reformation are, in effect, being mocked by evangelical
leaders who now join with Rome in a new spirit of mutual trust and cooperation.
Author Michael Disemlian writes with passion from England.
Listen to what he says.
I've read his book right here on Inquisition Update.
I highly recommend it.
Quote, Many of us were brought up to believe that the martyrs of our faith were
those who died in the fire, unwilling, unable, and unwilling to compromise their
trust in the scriptures.
But in November of 1987, in uncharacteristic fashion, the serious
newspapers, TV, and radio were giving prominent coverage to, quote, the honoring
of English martyrs, unquote.
We were startled to discover that they referred to 85 Roman Catholic,
quote, heroes of resistance to the Protestant Reformation, unquote.
These men were beatified by the Pope in Rome in the presence of the Anglican
Bishop of Birmingham, Mark Santer, unquote.
Disemlian informs us that, quote, At the time of the extensive press
coverage in 1987, the beatification of the 85 English martyrs, the London-based
United Protestant Council sent the following to all English newspapers,
yet none printed any part of it.
Now look, the mainstream media lauded these traitors, Roman Catholic traitors,
who intended to overthrow the legitimate government of Elizabeth I.
They were championed as martyrs.
They were not martyred for their faith.
They were executed for treason.
And when the Protestants tried to set the record straight, the press wouldn't cover
it.
Control the press in England.
Now here's what they said.
Here's what the Protestants said.
No one who is concerned for historical truth can be satisfied with the claim by
the Roman Catholic Church that the 85 English subjects that have been beatified
by the Pope were martyrs, which means that they suffered for their faith alone.
They were not martyrs.
They did not suffer at all for their faith alone.
They suffered because they were treasonous.
They attempted to overthrow the legitimate monarch of England.
Not for their faith.
They were not martyrs.
And yet they were portrayed in the mainstream media as martyrs.
It continues, he says, The 288 martyrs who were put to death during Queen Mary's
first five-year reign suffered solely for their faith.
They were condemned on purely religious charges, being principally that they
refused the doctrine of transubstantiation.
They never denied that Mary was the lawful Queen of England, nor maintained any of
her open foreign enemies, nor procured any rebellion or civil war.
They did not sow sedition in secret places.
Such charges of treason, however, were legitimately brought against those
Roman Catholics who were put to death under the reign of Elizabeth I and
succeeding monarchs, and whose names are included in the recent list of those
beatified by the Pope of Rome.
No Roman Catholic was executed in the first 11 years of Elizabeth I's reign,
prior to Pope Pius V inciting all Roman Catholics to rebellion, commanding them
not to obey her on pain of excommunication.
It's an unchallengeable fact that no Roman Catholic was executed solely on account of
his religious beliefs.
The truth is that most of those laymen beatified were put to death for assisting
the seminary priests in their design to bring down the throne.
63 of the 85 English martyrs, as they are called, were seminary priests trained
abroad and sent back to further the plots of the Pope to undermine the English
throne.
These had been stepped up after Pope Gregory XIII's sanction of the
assassination of Elizabeth in 1580, and the organization of the Spanish Armada
invasion of England in 1588.
With this background in mind, it's impossible to agree that these men were
martyrs in any proper sense of the word.
On the contrary, what the Church of Rome is engaged in doing is glorifying
traitors, spies, and conspirators.
That's the truth of history.
The Protestants who died in England died for their faith, for denying
transubstantiation, the so-called power of the priest to change the wafer into the
literal blood, body, soul, and divinity of Christ.
It's an abomination, and they rightly refused it, and denounced it, and
condemned it as heresy.
They were burned for their speech, religious speech.
But the martyrs that are glorified in the press in England today were traitors,
pure and simple.
And now they're rewriting history.
Under the subtitle, The Reformation Betrayed, Dave Hunt says, It seems
inexplicable that the English, of all people, carefully avoided any
mention of genuine martyrs, and instead honored seditious traitors.
When George Carey was enthroned as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1991,
he reached far back into England's pre-Reformation past to praise by name
some of the Catholic Archbishops of Canterbury.
In doing so, he deliberately passed over many of his predecessors in that office
who had firmly stood against the evils of Rome.
Most conspicuous by its absence was any mention of the first Protestant Archbishop
of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, martyred for the very faith which Carey
had sworn to defend.
History is sacrificed on the altar of ecumenism as an oblation to Rome.
No sacrifice is too great to further the quote-unquote unity movement that is
drawing the non-Catholic Church back under the authority of the Pope.
Recently, the Duchess of Kent, seven Anglican bishops and more than 700
English clergymen converted to Roman Catholicism.
The same historical revisionism is being practiced by American evangelical leaders
who dishonor the memories of those who preserved the gospel with their own blood.
Catholic apologists in America promote the same revisionism.
Peter Kreeft writes of the noble Catholic martyrs, but doesn't explain that they
were executed for treason, not for their faith.
And he never mentions the far more numerous martyrs slain by Catholics,
an omission all the more inexcusable when found in a book that purports to argue for
the truth.
Such an omission is scarcely recognized by one in a thousand Protestants for the
misinformation it is, and is instead passed on as truth by evangelical leaders.
While Rome pretends to have changed, and thereby deceives many evangelicals,
Roman Catholic apologists like Carl Keating, Jerry Metathyx, Scott Hahn and
Thomas Howard, and others, are stepping up their efforts to educate Roman Catholics
against what they boldly claim are errors of the evangelical gospel.
The Pope himself is in the forefront of the denunciation of the evangelical faith
to Catholic audiences, while he tells the so-called separated brethren of his love
and desire for unity with them.
What about this lovey-dovey dialogue now established between the ecumenical
evangelicals who have renounced Christ and made their bed with the whore of Rome?
What about this lovey-dovey dialogue?
Dave says we are told to love one another as Christ has loved us.
Pop psychology trivializes that command by equating it with a quote-unquote positive
attitude.
Forgotten is the first duty of love.
What is the first duty of love according to the scriptures?
The first duty of love is to speak the truth.
Ephesians chapter 4 verse 15.
You know, I'm speaking to my listeners now.
So many people criticize me.
They say, Tom, you just don't sound very loving.
But that's because I tell you the truth.
And that is the first duty of love as God defines love in the scriptures.
To tell the truth.
Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is needed, but points out the
error which is blinding and harming the loved one.
Jesus Christ said, quote, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.
Be zealous, therefore, and repent.
Revelation chapter 3 verse 19.
Instead, the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth,
and seeks unity at any price.
Only disaster can result.
And you know what that disaster is?
The ecumenical movement.
And you know what that is in God's heavenly house?
It's the last straw.
The last straw.
Eugene Daniels, World Vision International Senior Advisor for Church Relations
recently said, quote, We discovered that we could work with the Roman Catholic
Church in terms of the spiritual needs of the people in much the same way that we
have traditionally worked with the Protestant churches.
Unquote.
Other major evangelical ministries that have been working with Catholics as fellow
Christians include Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Charles Colson
Prison Fellowship, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Campus Crusade for Christ,
Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship, Youth with a Mission, Wycliffe Bible
Translators, and others.
Obviously, this recent development, peculiar to our generation, peculiar to
our generation, is extremely significant and is gaining momentum as Rome increases
its campaign to present itself as evangelical.
Trust me, Rome is not evangelical.
You know how Rome promotes her religion?
Not by reasoning in the scripture, but by getting a hold and control of the
governments of the nations and then forcing Roman Catholic law upon the people
and making Roman Catholicism the state-sponsored religion to the exclusion
of all others.
That's evangelism from Rome.
It's not included in the gospel.
God is not a tyrant.
And this evangelism by Rome has been demonstrated all throughout her history.
It defines her.
Convert or die.
That's Rome.
That's what's going to happen in this country.
Convert or die.
You either sign up to the Pope's New World Order or you're going to die.
That's what Rome has in store if God doesn't intervene.
That's Rome's evangelism.
Now, why would any clear-thinking, Bible-knowledgeable Christian have
anything whatsoever to do with the beast?
A Christian with the love of Christ in his heart would be willing to forgive past
history, even of oppression, torture, and death.
But forgiveness has not been asked, nor has any wrong been admitted by the
Roman Catholic Church.
As for the present, Rome's dogmas have not changed, and her false gospel is still
sending souls to eternal judgment by the millions.
The salvation of souls is the great issue.
How man can be forgiven and assured of eternity in heaven.
All else is secondary.
Catholicism is a counterfeit gospel.
No amount of dialogue can change that fact, but only set the stage for the
eventual compromise.
That's what ecumenism is.
And you know what's compromised?
The gospel of Jesus Christ, the very means for salvation.
Dialogue.
What a word.
Dialogue is the proper, or rather the popular folly, unheard of in the days of
the martyrs.
Dialogue?
It was either bow to Rome's imperious authority and accept her false gospel
without question, or else die at her hand.
Nor has Rome changed in her dogmas.
Though she has had to change her tactics, Vatican Council 2 clearly states that
Rome's teachings are irreformable.
That's right, in the very ecumenical council that is lauded as peace and unity
with Protestants, Rome redoubled her insistence that she is irreformable.
That's because she is the synagogue of Satan, and the pope is the vicar of Satan
himself.
He's not the vicar of Christ.
This is a counterfeit Christianity.
It's the great apostasy, the great delusion, the strong delusion,
and we must recognize it for what it is.
Let her dogmas and laws and her popes and her history and her bloodshed define her
just exactly the way the scriptures do.
And what unity or dialogue should there be between God's people and the whore of
Rome?
Her agents in these dialogues insist that in the final analysis, the Roman Catholic
Church is the only true church.
That it has the sacraments which lead to salvation, and that it can never share
this distinction with others.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
I don't want to share the distinction of the Roman Catholic Church.
The purposes of dialogue is to draw, is to lure, to woo the separated brethren
back under the pope.
Clearly the road upon which evangelicals have set foot.
In January of 1986, the Roman Catholic Church and 29 Protestant denominations
announced, quote, plans for a nationwide evangelistic effort called Congress 88,
unquote.
The steering committee included members from many Protestant denominations.
Listen to this.
Would the Apostle Paul have joined the Judaizers in evangelization?
In 1992, an ecumenical team of 19 U.S.
religious leaders met with Pope John Paul II, quote, to explore possibilities for an
international interfaith effort to combat child and hard pornography, unquote.
Would Luther and Calvin have joined the Papists to fight immorality?
Of course not.
Because morals, and even the solution to social ills, cannot be divorced from the
gospel.
Two major articles, 13 pages in total, in the February 1992 Bookstore Journal,
the official publication of the Christian Booksellers Association, urged members to
cultivate Catholic customers as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Tragically, this will prevent the gospel Catholics need to hear from being given to
them.
Even some leading evangelical watchdog groups, which otherwise do a commendable
job of warning the Church of false doctrines and cults, lose their cutting
edge when it comes to Roman Catholicism, and Christian media is becoming a major
promoter of compromise.
On Trinity Broadcasting Network, the largest Christian television network,
network founder Paul Crouch, recently deceased, and popular televangelist and
faith healer Benny Hinn, declared that Roman Catholic doctrine is no concern.
For after all, Catholics, quote, love Jesus, unquote.
But then, so did Gandhi, and so do many Muslims, to say nothing of Mormons and
Jehovah's Witnesses.
But what Jesus?
The Bible warns of another Jesus, and another gospel, and Rome surely has
both.
On another program, Crouch told two priests and a leading Roman Catholic
laywoman who were guests, and I'll give you the quote after the break.
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For those of you who ever watched Paul Crouch, you realize that he had on his set
regularly Roman Catholic priests.
Whether they were in front of the cameras or not, there were regularly Roman
Catholic priests on his set.
Almost like overseers of the program.
Now Paul Crouch, who is recently deceased, had on one of his programs two priests and
a leading Catholic laywoman who were guests.
And here's what he said.
In the essentials of our theology, speaking of Evangelicalism and Roman
Catholicism.
In the essentials of our theology is basically the same.
Some of these so-called doctrinal differences are simply matters of
semantics.
One of these things that has divided us, and in direct reference to
transubstantiation, that which always resulted in martyrdom for those who
denounced it.
One of these things that has divided us, transubstantiation, all these years,
shouldn't have.
We were really meaning the same thing, but just saying it a little differently.
So I say to the critics and theological nitpickers, be gone in Jesus' name.
Let's come together with Rome in the spirit of love and unity.
And with that, all the audience applauded.
Even such admired evangelicals as J.I.
Packer and Os Guinness have embraced Roman Catholicism as basically Christian.
And advocate working with Catholics and evangelizing the world together.
As is evidenced by their recent signing of the Evangelicals and Catholics Together
document.
One of the most highly regarded evangelical apologists, Norman L.
Geisler, stated recently that Catholics quote, believe in justification by grace,
unquote.
And that differences between Roman Catholics and evangelicals, quote,
are not as great as generally perceived.
And they are not crucial, nor do they involve heresy.
The whole theological core of historic Christianity is held in common,
unquote.
We've demonstrated that that is not indeed the case at all.
One is Christ, the other is Antichrist.
There should be no dialogue.
The Bible says we should have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness.
But rather we should reprove them.
But there's no reproof against Rome in the Christian churches of this country today.
What a horror.
It's going to have consequences that are scarcely perceived.
And we're seeing those consequences today.
And people never make the connection that this country is being judged by God
because we've made our bed with His mortal enemy.
Roman Catholicism, the biblical, historical, and prophetic Antichrist.
What blindness.
And God's simply not going to tolerate it.
The martyrs of Jesus demand God's retribution against those who have
repudiated the faith of Jesus Christ and the gospel.
Ecumenism is the destruction of the United States of America because it is the
destruction of Protestantism.
Under the subtitle, The Unchanging Issue, Salvation of Souls, Dave writes,
Some evangelicals, including Billy Graham and Louis Palau, have long pledged not to
attempt to proselytize Catholics who, quote, usually make up the largest single
denominational group, unquote, at Billy Graham's crusades.
That certainly makes sense if Catholics are now considered to be Christians.
The names of Catholics who come forward are turned over to local Roman Catholic
churches for follow-up.
Catholic bishops across the country announce that such crusades are the best
means they know of to bring lapsed Catholics back into the Roman Catholic
Church once again.
Did you realize that Billy Graham was an operative for the Roman Catholic Church?
That he would attract lapsed Catholics, seeking the gospel and the truth of Jesus
Christ.
He would draw them into his crusades, give them the gospel message, and then
send them back to their Roman Catholic Church.
Unbelievable.
It would be unbelievable if it weren't so demonstrably true.
I've told the story before, and I'll tell it again because it's very pertinent to
this portion of the book.
I was encouraged by my mother to go to a big meeting down in Des Moines,
a place called Kingsway Cathedral, supposed to be an evangelical church,
Pentecostal, and I was pressured by my mother because I was attending a Baptist
church, and of course she thought I needed to be saved, and that means I needed to
speak in tongues, and she desperately wanted me to go to that church,
to that meeting.
Well, I went to that church to satisfy my mother, and I heard a wonderful
evangelical, or Protestant, Bible message.
And I was moved in the Spirit.
And I went forward with everyone else to support the gospel.
And while I was at the front, they prayed for me.
They singled me out, prayed for me, laid His hand upon me, tried to slay me in
the Spirit, and my legs didn't crumble.
And having failed in His attempt to slay me out in the Spirit, He then prophesied
over me and said, You've been called into the ministry.
Of course, He didn't bother to tell me at the time that the church actually had a
college trying to recruit me into the college, obviously for pecuniary interests
more than anything else.
And I became more and more disillusioned, but nonetheless, after prophesying over me
and calling me into the ministry, He gave me a card and said, Now go to the
back of the church and meet with counselors at the back of the church and
they'll help you.
Assuming I was going to get signed up for college.
Well, I went back to the back of the church, turned the corner through the door
at the back of the church, and guess who met me?
A fully frocked Roman Catholic priest.
Stuck out his hand to shake my hand, and I began, as is my custom, to return
the gesture and realize what I was doing.
Withdrew my hand, spun around on my heel, and went out the door.
Well, it turns out, after going to the car and sitting there, just trying to grasp
what had just happened, I reached into my pocket and I drew out the program that I'd
been handed when I entered the church for the meeting.
I read the thing to find out what it was really all about.
And at the very bottom were the initials of Billy, sponsored by the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association.
Billy Graham didn't only evangelize Catholics and send them back to the Roman
Catholic Church, but Billy Graham was sponsoring other evangelical churches to
take lapsed Protestants, as it were, and send them to the Roman Catholic
Church.
Billy Graham was an operative.
Billy Graham was a wolf in sheep's clothing, and I saw it with my own eyes.
And I'm horrified that my mother was used in an attempt to Catholicize her son.
Says Billy Graham, quote, We're delighted that the Roman Catholic Church now
cooperates with us wherever we go, unquote.
That cooperation involved about 400 Roman Catholic counselors in Billy Graham's
mid-September 1990 crusade at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island.
Roman Catholic counselors at a Billy Graham crusade?
You must be kidding!
I saw it with my own eyes.
It's true.
It's no calumniation.
I saw it with my own eyes.
When I came out of Kingsway Cathedral in Des Moines, Iowa, met face-to-face with a
fully-frocked Roman Catholic priest, a Roman Catholic priest counselor at an
evangelical assembly, and Billy Graham sponsored it.
It says, The Local Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office.
Charismatic Renewal Office?
Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office?
You mean Roman Catholics are saved because they speak in tongues too?
Well, Roman Catholicism must be God's religion then, right Mom?
Sorry to be disrespectful to my mother, but charismatism is not a sign of the Holy
Spirit.
The Local Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office announced that the crusade would,
quote, provide opportunities for Catholics who attend to be reconnected to their
parishes via Catholic Bible study, unquote.
Catholic Bible study?
If they studied the Bible, they would recognize, as did the Protestant
Reformers, the Roman Catholic Church is the synagogue of Satan, and the Pope is
the man of sin, the son of perdition.
Why would any evangelical study the scriptures with Roman Catholics,
who obviously are deceived, who have obviously twisted the scriptures,
who obviously, whether they speak in tongues or not, do not possess the Holy
Spirit, and cannot interpret the scriptures, cannot know the scriptures.
The 1991 St. Louis Crusade was sponsored by the St. Louis Archdiocese, and involved
300 to 400 parish volunteers.
Upon receiving an honorary doctorate at Belmont Abbey, a Jesuit college,
a Jesuit college, Billy Graham said, quote, the gospel that built this school,
and the gospel that brings me here tonight, is still the way of salvation,
unquote.
Did anybody ever tell you that brother Billy Graham received an honorary
doctorate from a Jesuit university?
Do you know that Jesuit universities don't hand out honorary doctorates, unless the
recipient of those doctorates have benefited in a signal way, the Roman
Catholic Church?
I've said this privately among friends.
I'm coming out publicly with it now.
I believe that after Billy Graham dies, some hierarch of the Roman Catholic Church
in the United States is going to suggest to the Vatican that Billy Graham be the
first evangelical beatified and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
I'm not a prophet.
I'm speculating.
But based on what I've seen in the career of Billy Graham, and the incalculable
benefit that he's brought to the Roman Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church
owes it to Billy Graham to put him through the beatification process.
To mark him for what he was.
A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Satan is transformed into an angel of light, and so are his ministers
transformed into ministers of righteousness.
Billy Graham did not work for Christ.
He worked for Antichrist.
He said, the gospel that built this Jesuit school, and the gospel that brings me here
tonight to this Jesuit school, is still the way of salvation.
Still, it seems to me the way of salvation preceded the Roman Catholic Church and the
Jesuit order.
The way of salvation was Jesus Christ and him alone.
Certainly, both those who were martyred and those who consigned them to the flames
were convinced there was a great difference between Roman Catholic and
Protestant views of salvation.
There is a great difference.
They are mutually exclusive, and neither can be reformed.
No compromise can be made to the gospel, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
It will prevail even against the gates of hell, and the gates of hell is the Roman
Catholic Church.
Charles Dulia, a Jesuit and Vatican official, assures Catholics attending
Graham's crusades, A Catholic will hear no slighting of his church teaching or
authority, nor of papal or episcopal prerogatives, no word against the mass or
the sacraments or Catholic practice.
That's what they said of Billy Graham's crusades.
The Roman Catholic Church will not be slighted, neither will its teachings,
neither will its sacraments.
Billy Graham was no Protestant.
He says in parenthesis here, yet the Pope and his apologists denounce fundamentalism
and the evangelical gospel.
The Vatican has financed construction of the most powerful radio transmitter in
South America to be used specifically to combat evangelicals.
Rome hasn't changed, not one whit.
Other evangelicals have adopted the same stance toward Rome.
A Southern California newspaper recently noted, Puerto Rican-born evangelist Dr.
Raimundo Jimenez is back on television in Los Angeles with a unique multilingual
gospel outreach to both Spanish and English-speaking communities of this huge
area of some 17 million people.
The broadcaster says that he realizes that most Hispanics are nominally Roman
Catholic.
Quote, in fact, in Southern California, about 6 million Hispanics, there are said
to be less than 200,000, that's only 3%, evangelicals, unquote, said Jimenez.
Quote, however, we do not allow any attacks on the Roman Catholic Church.
We just present the positive gospel of Jesus Christ, unquote.
The positive gospel of Jesus Christ?
You know what the positive gospel of Jesus Christ is?
Salvation by faith alone.
By grace alone, by Jesus Christ alone, and by the scriptures alone.
Roman Catholicism teaches a work salvation.
And it replaces Christ with Antichrist, the Pope of Rome.
It replaces the Holy Spirit with Mary and the saints.
It replaces the gospel of Jesus Christ with another gospel.
Catholicism is a counterfeit Christianity, which in some respects so closely
resembles the truth that unless a clear distinction is made, one presents the
positive gospel of Jesus Christ in vain.
A major problem is that while Catholics believe so much of the gospel,
they also believe much that has been added, which destroys the gospel.
Paul, quote, disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with devout persons and
in the market daily with them that met with him, unquote.
Acts chapter 17, verse 17.
Where's the contention between the followers of Paul, the followers of Jesus
Christ, with the synagogue of Satan today?
Jesus firmly corrected the rabbis and those deluded by them in his day.
Shouldn't we do the same?
It's no kindness to Catholics to leave them doomed in their error.
So we go back to the scripture.
What is love?
Love is to tell the truth.
Do we have the courage?
Do we have the compassion for the lost?
Then we should tell the truth and expose the error and with grace suffer the
consequences.
Just like all Protestant reformers of previous generations.
Under the subtitle, more than a misunderstanding, Dave says, Even worse
than not pointing out Roman Catholicism's errors candidly and with love is accepting
Catholics as Christians and denying that they need the gospel at all.
Such is the grievous error of the joint declaration to which we referred at the
opening of this book titled, Evangelicals and Catholics Together, the Christian
Mission of the Third Millennium.
That historic document, signed by evangelical leaders, implies that the
reformers must have been deluded.
That all active Catholics then, as presumed today, were saved,
but just didn't know it.
And that Rome's gospel of transubstantiation, sacramental rituals,
prayers to the saints, good works, indulgences, and purgatory saved souls.
If that is true, then the martyrs mistakenly opposed a gospel they were
convinced came from hell, but which were and are now assured is actually from
heaven.
The tens of millions of Catholics who since the reformation have received Christ
by faith alone, and left the Roman Catholic Church, have also been deceived
according to them.
The whole evangelical church of today is totally deluded about what it means to be
a Christian.
Rome has been correct all along, and we must join her in evangelism.
Yet even Catholic apologist Peter Kreeft admits, listen to this Roman Catholic
priest, quote, over the past 25 years I've asked hundreds of Roman Catholic college
students the question, if you should die tonight, and God asks you why he should
let you into heaven, what would you say?
The vast majority of them simply do not know the right answer to this.
The most important of all questions, the very essence of Christianity.
They usually do not even mention Jesus.
Unquote.
What does that say of Roman Catholicism?
Here we have an admission that the Catholic Church does not teach salvation
by grace through faith in such a manner that most Catholics understand it.
Luther, Calvin, and the other reformers did not come to know the biblical gospel
from their many years as devout Catholics.
In fact, they claimed that Rome didn't teach this truth, and they appealed to her
to do so.
Her answer?
No.
In the same book, Kreeft claims that Rome has always taught and still teaches the
true gospel, and that the Reformation was based upon an unfortunate
misunderstanding.
Yet that misunderstanding, by his own admission, persists to this day in the
minds of intelligent Roman Catholic college students who have grown up in the
Roman Catholic Church.
Why?
Because it's not a misunderstanding.
Rome has added to justification by faith a complex system of religion by which
Catholics embrace a false gospel and a false Jesus.
This is the very perversion of the gospel that Paul cursed in Galatians chapter 1,
verse 6-9.
That's all I have for Inquisition Update this week.
Please, if you have questions, comments, suggestions, please email me tom
at cwaves.us.
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