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We'll continue now where we left off yesterday in the book, A Woman Rides a
Beast by Dave Hunt.
We're on page 477, index A in the book.
We're talking about purgatory, this fictitious cash cow for the Roman
Catholic Church, a perversion of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our sins are paid in full.
We have Christ to thank for that, and purgatory is a fiction.
We've been redeemed by the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and no works could save us
but that of the perfect Lamb of God.
Purgatory is a fabrication, a purposeful fabrication by the Roman Catholic Church
to deceive the whole world and to make them slaves to the Roman Catholic Church.
Beginning at the subtitle near the bottom of the page where it says the origins,
development, and purpose of this doctrine of purgatory, it says, The idea of
purgatory, a fictitious place of final purgation, was invented by Pope Gregory
the Great in 593 A.D.
There was such reluctance even in the Roman Catholic Church to accept this idea,
since it went contrary to the scriptures, that the idea of purgatory did not become
an official Roman Catholic dogma for nearly 850 years at the Council of
Florence in 1439.
No doctrine has so increased the Roman Catholic Church's power over its members
or added so much to its income.
To this day, the threat of purgatory hangs over every Roman Catholic, who therefore
give repeated offerings to the Roman Catholic Church, cash offerings to the
Roman Catholic Church, land offerings, material wealth to the Roman Catholic
Church, for its help in getting them out of this fictitious place of torment.
Now, continuing, he says, Rome promises that if its decrees are followed,
one will eventually be released from purgatory and enter heaven.
Yet, the Roman Catholic Church has never been able to define how long any person
must spend in purgatory, nor how much time is shortened by any means it offers.
It is utter folly to trust one's release from purgatory to a church which can't
even define how long one must spend there for each sin, or how much each ritual or
act of penance reduces purgatorial suffering.
They say you must go to purgatory, and that works, prayers, masses,
can be said to get you out of purgatory, but they can never tell you how much.
How much it will take to get you out of purgatory, or how long you are going to be
in purgatory, or how much each act of works reduces one's time in purgatory.
He says, nevertheless, offerings are given by Catholics to the Roman Catholic Church,
and large sums left in wills, that's right, entire estates, are left to the
Roman Catholic Church so that masses may be said in perpetuity to get you out of
purgatory.
The author reminds us of the case of Henry VIII of England, who rebelled against the
papacy, left an incredible sum of money, or perpetual masses to be said,
to help spring him from this fictitious jail, this fiery prison, called purgatory.
And it says, that process never stops, quote, just in case, unquote, more masses
are needed.
So, one may leave an entire kingdom, if one were a king, one may leave an
entire kingdom to the papacy, in order that the church might say masses in
perpetuity for that particular king.
Now do you see how the Roman Catholic Church is the wealthiest institution on
the planet?
It has been said in other works that we've read here on Inquisition Update,
from a quarter to one-third of all the tillable land in England was possessed by
the Roman Catholic Church, because of such things as purgatory.
People giving their wealth, their land, their property, their estates,
entire tracts of land given to the Roman Catholic Church to help spring them out of
purgatory.
And Rome owned so much of the land, not just in England, but of all Europe,
that the people were starving to death.
Most of the people worked for the church, or tilled the land that was owned by the
church.
And that's the old world order, that's how things were.
And again, that's what Rome intends for the new world order as well.
Now he says,
That's right, this is not an old tenet of the Roman Catholic Church.
This is a current law within the Roman Catholic Church.
Masses, prayers for the dead, indulgences bought and sold to get people out of this
fictitious place.
And every case, every transaction enriches the Roman Catholic Church.
Here's a quote, it says,
In other words, when a Roman Catholic dies, the Roman Catholic Church is ready
to start saying Mass.
Just bring us your Mass cards, they're on sale at every church,
you can buy a Mass card and have a Mass said for your relatives.
Look, imagine yourself a Roman Catholic believing in this.
And you've got an uncle that has recently died, and he lived a sinful life.
Everybody in the family knew he lived a sinful life.
He was, according to the Roman Catholic Church, outside of the state of grace.
And you just know that all the things that you've been taught in the Roman Catholic
Church, your uncle is destined for an extremely lengthy stay in this fiery place
called Purgatory.
And if you could start immediately saying Masses for the dead, you would have to go
the rest of your life in order to say enough Masses to spring your uncle from
Purgatory.
But you dearly love your uncle, and you wince every time you consider the
fact that he's in this fiery place.
There's no quench of one's thirst, the pains of the flangs are indescribable.
The horror that your uncle is now experiencing.
And so you're desperate, desperate to come up with enough money or cash or property
or any such like thing to cover the cost of the Masses to be said for your uncle.
You might even consider robbing a bank to have Masses said for your uncle.
And of course, the Roman Catholic Church isn't going to ask where you got the
money.
You see how this goes.
Now some Roman Catholics are going to reel and say, nobody ever robbed a bank in
order to have Masses said for the dead.
Well, kings gave away kingdoms that belonged to the people to have Masses said
for them who owned the land.
As far as bank robbery goes, much, much worse has occurred all throughout the
old world order in order that Masses would be said for the dead.
Remember, Rome controlled a quarter to a third of all the tillable land in England
and in Europe.
Is that not bank robbery?
A major developer of this horrible, false, but ingeniously profitable doctrine
was an Augustinian monk named Augustino Trionfo.
In his day, the 14th century, the popes ruled as absolute monarchs over both
heaven and earth.
So says the Roman Catholic Church.
By their power to bind and loose, they not only established and deposed
kings and emperors, but it was believed they could open and shut the gates of
heaven to all mankind at will.
Trionfo's genius extended his authority at the behest of the Pope John XXII to a
third realm.
Now the Pope's realm has been expanded to a third.
Not only is he God of this earth and God of heaven, he's now God of the underworld.
Here's the quote from Von Dollinger, the historian.
Quote, it had been said before that the power of God's vicar, that is the Pope of
Rome, extended over two realms, the earthly and the heavenly.
From the end of the 13th century, a third realm was added, the empire over
which was assigned to the Pope by the theologians of the Curia, purgatory,
hell itself.
And this is why the Pope wears the triple crown.
The papal tiara has three crowns, the top one representing his jurisdiction
over heaven, the middle crown, the one just beneath it representing his
authority over earth, and the lower crown representing his authority over hell
itself.
Blasphemy of blasphemies, displayed for all the world to see when the Pope wears
his papal tiara.
Now, under the subtitle, Problems with Support from 2 Maccabees, yes,
this whole idea of purgatory is found not in the Bible, as is readily admitted,
but it's found from an apocryphal work, one that is admittedly not canonical,
a portion of scripture.
It's an extra-biblical work that does not carry the weight of scripture.
The author says, Anthony Gavin tells how in his day, the early 18th century,
it was still commonly taught that there were eight levels in purgatory.
The poor were in the lowest level, where the fire was the coolest,
with kings in the highest levels, where the fire was hottest.
God in his goodness had supposedly planned it that way because kings and nobles were
able to pay more to the church to get their souls out, whereas the little poor
people had very little to pay.
He tells of poor people who, upon being told that a relative who had just died was
among the beggars in purgatory, scraped together the money to say enough
masses to get them moved up to a higher level.
Though the torment was greater, they would be in better company.
So the priests charged money, both to make the torment in purgatory greater,
and to get the poor souls out of it.
You see the fabrication of all this.
How utterly ridiculous.
How utterly shameful to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
How counterproductive it is to the truth.
These lies, from the father of lies.
It says neither the word purgatory itself nor any idea of purgatory is to be found
even once in the entire Bible.
Nor is it so much as hinted at by Jesus or the apostles.
Roman Catholic apologist Karl Keating admits that the doctrine is not explicitly
set out in the Bible.
In other words, you have to make it up.
The one verse always cited by Roman Catholics in support of purgatory comes
from the Apocrypha.
It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they might be loosed
from their sins.
2 Maccabees 12.46 Remember, this is a non-canonical book.
This is an extra-biblical writing.
An ancient writing.
The author continues, he says there are three obvious problems with this verse.
First of all, there is not one example in the entire Bible of anyone praying for the
dead.
The Bible clearly states that, quote, It is appointed unto men once to
die, but after this the judgment.
Unquote.
Hebrews 9.27 It is too late for prayer after death.
All that follows is judgment according to the scripture.
Therefore, this verse contradicts the Bible.
And we should expect that being a non-canonical book.
Secondly, those of whom this was said, had been guilty of idolatry.
Quote, But under the tunic of each of the dead, they found amulets sacred to the
idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear.
Unquote.
2 Maccabees 12.40 And this quote taken from the New American Bible.
Now, idolatry was a mortal sin, and according to Roman Catholic doctrine,
would have landed these men not in purgatory, but in hell.
This is according to Roman Catholic teaching.
That this is a mortal sin, not a venial sin, but a mortal sin, which payment for
is hell, not purgatory.
You just go right straight through purgatory and right straight down into
hell for eternity.
No salvation for you if you commit idolatry.
Imagine the Roman Catholic Church, the church of idolatry, condemning
idolatry.
Out of their own mouths they are condemned.
Idolatry in the Roman Catholic Church was a mortal sin, and according to Roman
Catholic doctrine, would have landed these men not in purgatory, but in hell,
from which there is no release.
Thus the idea of praying for them was both blasphemous and a waste of time.
Hardly the basis for accepting the doctrine of purgatory.
So the very text that they use in 2 Maccabees is laughable, if one were to
assume that it supports the idea of purgatory.
Finally, the very book of Maccabees itself declares that there were no prophets at
this time, and thus the inspiration of God had ceased.
Quote, there had not been such great distress in Israel since the time prophets
ceased to appear among the people.
Unquote.
1 Maccabees 9.27.
And again, quote, the Jewish people and their priests have therefore made the
following decisions.
Simon shall be their permanent leader and high priest until a true prophet arises.
Unquote.
1 Maccabees 14.41.
Thus the two books of Maccabees can only be regarded as historical accounts at
best, but certainly not as scripture, inasmuch as God was not inspiring anyone
among his people at this time.
Obviously then, one cannot support any true doctrine by a quote from this source.
No wonder it contradicts the Bible.
And admittedly, the priests and prelates of the Roman Catholic Church say this is
the only writing that seems to support purgatory.
It's not supported in the scripture.
They admit this.
Yet it is the single most wealth-generating doctrine of the Roman
Catholic Church, purgatory.
All of its wealth, or a good portion of it, comes as a result of this fabrication
called purgatory.
All the money that has ever throughout history been given, all the lands,
all the castles, all the kingdoms, all the sheep and cattle and horses and
souls of men that have been given to the Roman Catholic Church to pray one's soul
out of purgatory, was theft by the Roman Catholic Church.
Now what about Paul's sufferings?
Catholic apologists attempt to be biblical by basing the doctrine of purifying
sufferings upon Colossians 1, verse 24, where Paul says, "...who now rejoice in my
sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the affections of Christ in
my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church."
Now let me read the quote again.
This is from Colossians 1, verse 24, "...who now rejoice in my sufferings for
you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for
his body's sake, which is the church." That Paul's suffering, however,
had nothing to do with purging sin, either his own sin or anyone else's,
is clear from the fact that Christ's sufferings had completed that work.
Only a sinless sacrifice and the shedding of blood would avail.
Paul simply didn't qualify for that, so that's not what he was talking about.
Then what did Paul mean?
Rather than suffering to effect the purification of his or anyone else's soul,
Paul was suffering for the sake of bringing the gospel to others.
"...my suffering for you." He referred to the persecution which "...all that live
godly in Christ Jesus..." would suffer.
2 Timothy 3.12 Jesus told his disciples that they would be hated and persecuted by
the world.
John 15, verses 18 and 19 There is "...an offense of the cross..." Galatians 5.11
And Paul said we must be willing to "...suffer persecution for the cross of
Christ..." Galatians 6.12 It is not that Paul, like Christ, was suffering for sins
in order to make up for what Christ's sufferings upon the cross lacked.
For there was no lack thereof.
No lack at all.
Paul was not making up for anything lacking in the blood of Jesus Christ.
The suffering that Paul endured and all other Christians true to the Lord must
endure comes because we identify ourselves with Christ and live Christ-like lives
that condemn the world and reveal its evil.
And we are hated for it.
Persecution comes naturally to a blood-bought child of God.
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We'll continue where we left off in the book.
It says the suffering that Paul endured, and all other Christians true to the Lord
must endure, comes because we identify ourselves with Christ and live Christ-like
lives, which condemn the world and reveal its evil.
Therefore, the world hates us as they hated Christ.
In fact, Christ said that Paul must suffer greatly, quote, for my namesake,
unquote, Acts chapter 9 verse 16.
In Acts chapter 5 verse 41, the disciples rejoiced that they, quote, were counted
worthy to suffer shame for his name, unquote.
The suffering that true Christians endure is at the hands of those who hate their
Lord and are offended by his cross.
Do you ever walk into a room of sinners, and the moment they recognize you,
you walk into the room, their countenances change.
All of a sudden, they try to change the subject to whatever it was that they were
talking about.
Your very presence is an offense to them.
They can't go on with those conversations with you in the room.
Their consciences won't permit it.
And that's common among God's people.
But that's the easy part.
It gets a lot worse than that.
When the persecution of God's people is sanctioned, both by the Roman Catholic
Church and by the governments over which she rules, then this persecution becomes
bloody.
Bloodshed enough to turn rivers red.
And that defines all of history.
All those who live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.
They will suffer persecution.
Because the world hates the gospel.
The world hates Jesus Christ.
They hate being convicted of the sins that they so much love by your very presence.
And so they simply desire to remove your presence.
Not just from the room, but from the world.
Philippians chapter 1 verse 29 says it is a privilege to suffer because of the
hatred the world has toward Jesus Christ.
Quote, unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him,
but also to suffer for his sake.
Unquote.
Second Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 5 speaks of, quote, the kingdom of God for
which ye also suffer.
Unquote.
First Timothy chapter 4 verse 10 says that we, quote, labor and suffer reproach
because we trust in the living God.
Unquote.
Peter also referred to the suffering that comes to every Christian who is true to
the Lord.
First Peter chapter 3 verse 14, chapter 4 verse 13 and 16.
Many other verses express the same thought.
In Philippians chapter 3 verse 10 Paul expresses his passion to know Christ,
quote, and the fellowship of his sufferance.
Unquote.
Which he says helps to bring him into conformity with the death and character of
Christ.
It is clear that Paul referred to sufferings for Christ's sake here upon the
earth at the hands of sinners, not to suffering in a future purgatory to
be cleansed of one's sin.
Paul writes in Romans chapter 8 verse 18 that, quote, the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in
us.
Unquote.
Certainly there is no thought of purgatory.
We go from the sufferings of this world into the presence and the glory of Christ
and of God.
What other serious problems are there with this false doctrine of the Roman Catholic
Church called purgatory?
The doctrine of purgatory errs in a number of other ways.
It forgets that we have offended God's infinite justice.
James says that even the smallest sin makes a sinner, quote, guilty of breaking
all of the commandments.
James chapter 2 verse 10.
Why?
Because any sin is rebellion against God, which separates the sinner from God for
eternity.
We are finite beings and could never pay the infinite penalty demanded by God's
justice.
Consequently, there is no escape from hell.
But the sinner must suffer there eternally.
To expiate one's sins by suffering is therefore impossible.
Of course, in theory, God could pay the infinite penalty demanded by his justice
against sin, but that wouldn't be just because he isn't one of us.
So God became man through the virgin birth.
Being a sinless man, an infinite God in one person, Christ was able to satisfy the
claims of his own justice so that, quote, Whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3 16.
The only expiation of sin comes as a free gift of God's grace.
Any attempt to earn or merit it constitutes a rejection of God's gift
offer of mercy to unworthy sinners.
Moreover, the thought that there is any suffering at all left for a Christian to
endure in payment for his sins, after Christ suffered the full penalty and
cried, It is finished.
John 19 30.
It is blasphemous denial of the redemption that Christ effected and the salvation
that he offers.
If you say that you must pay for your own sins, then Christ's blood is of no effect.
If you say that you must pay for your sins in purgatory, then you simply rejected the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
In the teaching of purgatory, we see once again that Roman Catholicism does not
accept God's offer of salvation by his grace, but insists upon adding human works
to what Christ has done.
Although Catholicism does affirm that salvation is ultimately by grace through
faith, it also states that good works, though by God's grace operating in the
individual, are essential for salvation.
We quote again from Vatican Council 2, From the most ancient times in the church,
good works were also offered to God for the salvation of sinners.
By the prayers and the good works of holy people, the penitent was washed,
cleansed, and redeemed.
Following in Christ's steps, those who believe in him have always carried their
crosses to make expiation for their own sins and for the sins of others,
to help their brothers to obtain salvation from God.
In other words, to earn salvation from God.
Look, if you have to earn it, it's not a gift.
But God says it's a gift.
So if you offer earnings or merit for salvation, you've simply rejected the
gift.
If I offered you a gift, and you insisted upon paying for it, it's not a gift,
it's a purchase.
And you can't buy your way to heaven.
It's as simple as that.
But Rome teaches, yes, we're saved by grace through faith, but you have to work
for it, you have to pay for it.
By suffering in purgatory.
It's not a gift.
Salvation is not a gift.
It's a purchase.
And they've simply excluded themselves from God's grace by that doctrine.
A fatal contradiction, says Dave Haunt.
Only blind submission to the church prevents the Roman Catholic adherent from
seeing that the doctrine of purgatory contains an obvious and fatal
contradiction.
On the one hand, we're told that the sacrifice of Christ is not enough to get
one to heaven.
But in addition to Christ's sufferings on the cross, the forgiven sinner must
himself suffer torment to be purged of his sin.
On the other hand, however, and in direct contradiction, it is said that the mass,
which is the representation or perpetual renewal of Christ's sacrifice,
reduces, by some unknown amount, one's suffering in purgatory.
Presumably, if enough masses were said, one would be purged by the expiation of
all sins without any suffering at all.
So one doesn't have to suffer after all to be purged.
If one truly had to suffer before heaven's gate could open, the church would have
nothing to offer and would lose a major means of its income.
The same would be true if Christ's sacrifice for sin, as the Bible teaches,
were enough to purge the sinner.
The Catholic Church would again be out of business.
Therefore, to keep the church operating, the Roman Catholic Church operating,
and its coffers full, it is taught that one may be purged of sin by certain means
which the church can provide, and that Christ's suffering on the cross was
insufficient to purge of sin, so that the mass for which the church receives income
can be credited with reducing suffering in purgatory and opening the gates of heaven.
How amazing that what Christ's suffering on the cross could not effect,
the alleged repetition of that suffering, reenacted on Roman Catholic altars many
times all over the world, can accomplish.
It defies common sense, ladies and gentlemen.
It defies the gospel.
It defies salvation by grace through faith in Christ.
Moreover, the sufferings of others also are said to reduce the time needed for
purging in purgatory.
The stigmata of Pedro Padre Pio and the sufferings of the quote-unquote saints can
thus accomplish what the sacrifice of Christ on the cross could not.
Here it is again, quote, following in Christ's steps, those who believe in him
have always carried their crosses to make expiation for their own sins and for the
sins of others, unquote.
Christ's cross could only forgive, but could not purge sin.
Yet the crosses carried by others can purge sin and thus can do more than the
cross of Christ.
What Dave Hunt is speaking of are those many of you have probably seen.
Television images of Filipino Roman Catholics carrying crosses, wearing crowns
of thorns upon their heads, stripped down to their skivvies, and literally being
nailed to that cross to crucify themselves.
To pay for their own sins, to expiate their own sins.
They allow needles to be driven through their hands and into the wood of the cross
in their hands and their feet.
Trying to imitate what Christ did on the cross, what the sinless spotless lamb of
Christ did on the cross for all of our salvation.
These Filipino Roman Catholics try to reenact it by allowing themselves to be
crucified.
Certainly not unto death, of course, but to reenact for all practical purposes
that which Christ accomplished on the cross.
To purge their own sins and for the sins of others.
That is just how ridiculous and how damnable this doctrine of purgatory is.
So the doctrine of purgatory contains a fatal contradiction.
It declares that one must suffer in order to be purged of one's sins, yet at the
same time it says one need not suffer if certain rules are followed.
Rules written by the Roman Catholic Church, of course.
The major means of escaping suffering is through the repetition of the Mass.
But there are many others.
The reduction or elimination of suffering in purgatory is also effected through
indulgences.
That doctrine is explained in Appendix B.
Now we are going to talk about the other cash cow of the Roman Catholic Church.
One can hardly call it a cow.
It would be a behemoth if it was fully comprehended by the world.
This cash behemoth of the Roman Catholic Church, indulgences.
I've only told you part of the story thus far about how Rome accrues so much gold,
land, wealth, and power.
We are going to talk about indulgences now.
That issue which is credited for bringing about the Protestant Reformation in the
first place.
This portion begins with quotes just as all other previous portions in this book.
Here is a quote from the Code of Roman Catholic Canon Law.
An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment for sin,
the guilt of which is already forgiven, which a properly disposed member of the
Christian faithful obtains under certain and definite conditions with the help of
the Church, which, as the Minister of Redemption, imagine that, the Church,
the Minister of Redemption, with the help of the Church, as the Minister of
Redemption, dispenses and applies authoritatively the treasury of the
satisfactions of Christ and the saints.
An indulgence is partial or plenary in as far as it frees from the temporal
punishment due to sin, either partly or totally.
The faithful can gain partial or plenary indulgences for themselves or apply them
for the dead by way of suffrage.
What Roman Catholic Canon Law is here describing is this bank of merit.
That the merit that was earned by Jesus Christ on the cross, that was in excess,
is simply stored in this bank.
And also the merits earned by Mary, the mother of God, according to the Roman
Catholic Church, were more than necessary to save her soul, so her excess merits and
graces are also accrued to this bank account, from which the Pope, or the
Church rather, or both, can make a withdrawal and pay to someone else,
a sinner.
An unrepentant sinner, by the way, who thinks that he must also merit
salvation, but simply doesn't possess enough merit on his own.
So he must make a withdrawal from this bank of merit and grace that is in excess,
that the Church holds the key to, and can open that treasury of merit and
grace and apply it to whomever applies for it, if it meets certain rules and
regulations of the Church.
This is another fabrication of the Roman Catholic Church, none of it is even
mentioned in the Bible.
Another quote from Vatican Council 2,
so that they may distribute it to the faithful for their salvation.
Quoting further, it says,
This is truly immense, unfathomable, and even pristine in their value before
God.
In the treasury, too, are the prayers and the good works of all the saints,
who attain their own salvation, and at the same time cooperated in saving
their brothers.
So here's another quote from the Roman Catholic Church, this is Roman Catholic
canon law, again, in other terms, and in another time, expressing this bank
of merit and graces, that is owned and controlled by the Roman Catholic Church,
that can be dispensed to certain unworthy members of the Roman Catholic Church,
but for a fee.
Indulgences.
Dave Hunt writes, Can Bible-believing Christians really accept such an obviously
false gospel, and join with those who preach it in evangelizing the world?
Can evangelicals in good conscience direct inquiring souls to the Roman Catholic
Church, which preaches purgatory and indulgences, and agree that its members
are Christian and not to be evangelized?
A church which claims to control the gate to heaven, and opens it to those who put
themselves in her hands?
That's the question.
A legitimate question that Dave Hunt offers to all evangelicals who have
embraced ecumenism, and now place themselves under the authority of the Pope
and the Roman Catholic Church.
Because that's what they did when they embraced ecumenism.
They placed themselves spiritually and temporally under the authority of the
Roman Catholic Church.
And they, by that very unity, have partaken in the sins of Rome.
The Bible clearly says that they will also partake of her plagues.
Ecumenism is to acknowledge, accept, and sanction all of the Roman Catholic
Church, and her blasphemies, and her purgatory, and her indulgences,
and also the crimes that she committed throughout history, the shedding of the
saints, the shedding of the blood of the saints, and the martyrs of Jesus.
That's what they bought when they joined the ecumenical movement.
To reunite with the Roman Catholic Church.
I don't see how it can be described any other way than rejecting the gospel.
And subjecting themselves to the plagues that God has in store for the whore church
of Revelation 17.
He says, in fact, she glories in her claim to be, quote, the minister of redemption.
The Roman Catholic Church calls itself the minister of redemption.
Is not Jesus Christ the minister of our redemption?
Isn't he the one who administered his blood to the mercy seat in heaven,
and paid our sin debt?
But the Roman Catholic Church calls itself the minister of redemption.
That's Roman Catholic Canon Law 992.
Rome unashamedly admits that salvation she offers must be received in partial
installments, and that its efficacy is derived not only from Christ's merits,
but from the surplus, quote, good works of all the saints, unquote, beyond what they
needed to, quote, attain their own salvation, unquote.
So you're beginning to get a better picture of what this bank that the Roman
Catholic Church...
You know, we've all heard of the Vatican Bank, the one that deals in, you know,
laundering money.
Well, the Vatican has another bank, too, called the Bank of Graces,
the Bank of Merit.
Indulgences.
That's how you access these.
It's diabolical, to say the least.
And Rome depends on it.
This is virtually how she traffics in the souls of men.
We'll talk about it more on the broadcast tomorrow.
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