Good morning.
Welcome to Inquisition Update.
My name is Tom Peres and I'll be your host for the next hour.
You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com.
Thanks for tuning in.
And we'll continue where we left off in the book, A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave
Hunt.
We concluded Appendix A of the book.
Now we're going to go on to Appendix B, dealing with indulgences.
First we talked about this imaginary place of suffering called Purgatory that was
created out of thin air by the Roman Catholic Church.
And then, after creating this fictitious place of torture, then they created
indulgences so one may buy his way out of Purgatory.
Money-making like you cannot believe.
That's why the Roman Catholic Church is the most wealthy institution on the
planet.
Appendix B, indulgences, Dave Hunt begins by saying, 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 Christians and not to be evangelized?
A church which claims to control the gates of heaven and opens it to those who put
themselves in her hands?
In fact, the Roman Catholic Church glories in her claims to be, quote, the minister
of redemption, unquote, see Canon Law 992.
Rome unashamedly admits that the salvation she offers must be received in partial
installments, and that its efficacy is derived not only from, quote, unquote,
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 what Dave is describing here is an imaginary bank of merit that is in the
complete control of the Roman Catholic Church, and in that bank is all the
spiritual merits earned by Jesus Christ, by Mary, and all the saints in the Bible,
or all the saints of the Roman Catholic Church, and it is by their good works or
their merits that were in excess of their own salvation that are held and accrued in
this bank of merit and then may be dispensed by the Roman Catholic Church to
apply to anyone who can afford it.
The Bible says nothing of this.
Complete fabrication.
Now Dave continues, he says, How astonishing that evangelical leaders could
credit Roman Catholicism with being Christian and propose to evangelize the
world as partners in the gospel with the Roman Catholic Church.
We can only assume that they are ignorant of the Roman Catholic Church's true
teachings and have been deceived by the many misrepresentations emanating from
Roman Catholic apologists.
How else could those who otherwise seem to be stalwarts of the faith say that
evangelicals and Catholics are in agreement on the fundamentals of the
gospel?
Let me just simply add that the Roman Catholic Church rejects the gospel and
presents to the world another one.
It rejects Jesus Christ and presents to the world another Christ.
What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
We're not to be a part of this.
We are to be separate.
Touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you, Jesus said.
Dave continues, he says, Vatican Council 2 goes on to say, To gain indulgences,
the work prescribed must be done.
In other words, to buy merit or to get, to receive some merit out of this bank of
merit controlled by the Roman Catholic Church, you have to perform certain work.
It's a transaction.
It's purchasing salvation.
It's purchasing merit.
So that you may have a rightful claim to heaven.
No need for Christ.
You can buy your way to heaven.
You can earn your way to heaven.
And if you can't earn your way to heaven, if you haven't stored up enough of your
own merits to get you into heaven, then you can, well, make a withdrawal from
the bank of the excess merits of Christ and Mary and the Saints.
That's the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
He says, here is proof, if it were needed, that Rome preaches, promises and practices
salvation by works.
And yet, oddly enough, the person himself doesn't have to do the good works.
The good works of others may be credited to one's account in Rome's contrived
ledger, which, when balanced out by its specious reckoning, opens the gate of
heaven.
It's like the New York Stock Exchange of grace, filthy lucre for the Church,
and an imagined salvation for Roman Catholics.
Under the subtitle, The Origin and Development of the Doctrine of
Indulgences, Dave writes, the very concept of indulgences comes from paganism.
The idea that the infliction of pain, the recital of formulas, or the
pilgrimages to shrines and sacrifices to the gods are meritorious and influences
the gods in one's favor.
The idea that saying so many Hail Marys or kissing a crucifix or repeating a formula
could reduce purgatorial suffering, which Christ's sacrifice on the cross
could not reduce, is bad enough.
But the teaching that an indulgence may be applied to the dead carries this
blasphemous absurdity a quantum leap further.
The idea that, quote, time off for good behavior, unquote, could be credited to
someone in purgatory who has not done the necessary, quote, work prescribed,
unquote, betrays again the fraud of Romanism.
Anything is possible for a financial offering to the church.
The gospel of indulgences is one of Rome's most blatantly unbiblical and illogical
doctrines coming out of the Middle Ages, and it's still in force today.
The pagan concept of indulgences gradually became defined as part of Roman
Catholicism over the years, and eventually became the papacy's greatest money-making
scheme.
Theoretically, it should take only one mass to release every soul from purgatory.
Mary, whose power, they say, is infinite, could do it in a moment.
And the popes, whose power is also unlimited, could empty purgatory with the
stroke of his pen, but simply devising an indulgence to do so.
By simply devising an indulgence.
By simply writing a pardon.
You know, the presidents of the United States have the power to pardon prisoners.
That's just a model for what power the popes have.
For a president of the United States to just arbitrarily release from prison the
most hardened political criminals is a power that he should not have.
And neither should the pope.
Now, do they have no love for souls?
If the pope is such a loving individual, the dispenser of all graces, and truly
loves the sinner, or truly loves the Christian in purgatory, why wouldn't he
just write a plenary indulgence to every soul in purgatory and spring them?
The answer is obvious.
The historian Von Dollinger writes, quote, Augustino Trionfo, commissioned by
Pope John XXII to expound the rights of the popes, showed that, as the dispenser
of the merits of Christ, he could empty purgatory in one stroke by his indulgences
of all the souls detained there, on the sole condition that somebody
fulfilled the rules laid down for gaining those indulgences.
But, he advised the pope not to do this, though the pope's power was so
immeasurably great that no pope can ever know the full extent of it.
In other words, the pope's power is so immeasurably great that nobody can even
quantify it.
But, even though the pope had plentitude of power to spring free every writhing
Christian in purgatory from the flames of torment, he's best advised not to do it.
That's the love of the gospel of the Roman Catholic Church.
Now, to empty purgatory would stop the inflow of offerings for masses and endless
graces and favors from the church.
Instead, the requirements of getting out of purgatory were made ever more complex,
necessitating ever greater services from the church.
The doctrine of indulgences was at last declared an official church dogma by Pope
Clement, I would say, Antichrist Clement VI, in 1343.
Clement reasoned that, quote, one drop, just one drop of Christ's blood would have
sufficed for the redemption of the whole human race, unquote.
But the remainder of that blood shed on the cross, its virtue, quote, increased by
the merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the supererogatory works of the saints,
unquote, which is above and beyond the good works and the deeds necessary for
their own salvation, constitutes the treasury, the bank, the bank referred to
above.
By papal bull of 1476, Pope Pius IV, quote, excuse me, Pope Sixtus IV,
quote, extended this privilege to the souls in purgatory, reducing their time of
suffering there, provided that their living relatives purchased indulgences for
them, unquote.
Ka-ching!
You got a relative in purgatory?
No problem.
You just go to the Roman Catholic Church and give them everything you can spare,
and they will say a certain amount of masses for your dead relative.
Now, how many masses it's going to take to get him out of purgatory, nobody knows.
So to play it safe, you better ring the cash cow several times, as many times as
possible.
Since your dead relative didn't leave the farm and the house and the kids to the
church, you descendants of this dead person can...
well, get an extra job if you care that much about your beloved relative in
purgatory.
Get an extra job.
And give us your wages, your extra wages, and we'll save masses until the cows come
home.
Ka-ching!
Now you know why Roman Catholic Churches are gold-plated.
Because you believed in this imaginary purgatory, and this imaginary indulgence
that you can buy to release your friend or family member from purgatory.
He says out of this quote-unquote treasury of the church, salvation or redemption is
dispensed a bit at a time by the Roman Catholic clergy through the seven
sacraments.
Remember the seven sacraments, the mass being the major one.
Baptism, marriage, holy orders, extreme unction.
You participate in all these sacraments, and each time you participate in these
sacraments, another coin of merit drops into the bank to get you out of purgatory.
Ka-ching!
It says there is no way to know how much credit is granted for each deed,
each ritual, or each indulgence, or how long this process must continue.
In other words, you are on the hook for the rest of your life.
And after you die, your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren
can continue to pay the church to get you out of purgatory.
That means you better stay in pretty good standing with the rest of your family.
If nobody says any masses for you after you die, you just stay in purgatory.
Until all of your sins have been, well, burned away.
Dave says, never is sufficient grace given to assure one of heaven in the Roman
Catholic Church.
Always more rosaries must be said, more masses performed, more offerings
given to the church in order to obtain more grace from the church.
Peter, whom Roman Catholics say was the first pope, warned of such, quote-unquote,
false teachers who would, quote, bring in damnable heresies.
And through covetousness, that is, greed for someone else's property,
shall they feign words, shall with feigned words, with phony words, flattery,
and other such like, shall with feigned words make merchandise of you.
Buying and selling the souls of men.
Perfectly fulfilled in the Roman Catholic Church.
Still people argue with me, oh, the Roman Catholic Church is a Christian
church, Tom.
The pope's a holy man, he preaches Jesus, doesn't he?
Why do you criticize the Roman Catholic Church all the time?
You might ask the same question of Dave Hunt and Thomas Harris and all the other
authors that we've read on Inquisition Update over how many years now?
Seven?
They all said the same thing.
You know, if it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck, and it poops like a
duck, it's probably a duck.
Well, the Roman Catholic Church is the synagogue of Satan, and the papacy is the
biblical, historical, and prophetic Antichrist.
And there's so much evidence to prove it that it would take, well, it's taken me
over seven years just to read the books of proof.
And I haven't even gotten a good start yet.
Merchandise, indeed.
No gold mine could compare with the merchandise and the gold that is created
by the Roman Catholic Church through the sale of indulgences to spring one's soul
from purgatory.
In Roman Catholicism, one never passes from death unto life as Christ promised in
John chapter 5 verse 24, but is always in the process of earning salvation with the
Church's help, and with the expectancy of finishing the purging process in
purgatory.
In fact, excommunication is the penalty for a Roman Catholic to say he is saved,
and knows that he has eternal life through faith in Christ's finished work.
That's right, if you stand up in a Roman Catholic Church and declare yourself
saved, blood bought by Jesus Christ, redeemed by the precious blood of the
Lamb, and your home is already being built for you in heaven, you're ipso facto
excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
Because you've sprung yourself free of the bondage of Rome, and you might lead
everyone else out the door.
So they just damn you, and kick you out of the Church.
He says the very heart of the gospel that evangelicals affirm is denied by Roman
Catholicism in its official catechisms, its official canon laws, its official
decrees, and its official dogmas.
And those who dare to affirm the biblical gospel are anathematized and damned,
and as history records, are mercilessly tortured, even burned alive at the stake.
And Rome calls that evangelism.
Under the subtitle, Meriting Grace, Dave Haunt says, there's almost no limit
to the ingenious means of grace, the ingenious means of grace which popes
and their assistants have imaginably invented.
One of the most popular ways to merit grace, a contradiction in and of itself,
is through wearing the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, to which we've
already referred.
The Sabatine, that is, the Saturday Privilege, they call it, is based on a
Roman Catholic papal bull allegedly issued on March 3rd, 1322 by Pope John XXII,
declaring that those who wear the scapular and fulfill two other conditions will be
freed from purgatory by the Virgin Mary on the first Saturday after death.
So where do I go to buy my scapular?
Ka-ching!
You buy it from the Roman Catholic Church.
And if you pay enough, you get your little two pieces of cloth tied together with a
string to throw over your shoulder underneath your undershirt so nobody sees
how ridiculous you are.
You can send that scapular to the Pope and have it particularly blessed.
And then it has the power of kryptonite against Satan, right?
You throw this thing over your shoulder, you cover it all up so nobody can see it,
and Mary's graces protect you day and night.
That is, as long as you're wearing the scapular.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Oh, and by the way, if you belong to this cult in the Roman Catholic Church that
wears the scapular, it guarantees you that you will be sprung from purgatory the
first Saturday after your death.
So you want to make arrangements with God or whoever to make sure you die just
before midnight Friday night.
So that you're immediately, come midnight Saturday morning, you're sprung from
purgatory.
See if you can arrange that for me.
Now in spite of the heresies and evil of Pope John XXII, which are legion,
many other popes such as Antichrist Alexander V, Antichrist Clement VII,
Antichrist Pope Pius V, Antichrist Gregory XIII, etc.
etc.
have confirmed this Pope's teaching about the brown scapular, which in itself is so
obviously contrary to Scripture.
Pope Pius X declared, quote, I wear the cloth, let us never take it off,
unquote.
He was a poet, didn't know it, right?
He was also Antichrist, and he knew that.
He says, I wear the cloth, let us never take it off.
I wonder if this is where we get the expression, a man of the cloth.
Did anybody ever do any research on that?
How did the expression, a man of the cloth, ever get coined in the world?
One of my listeners that loves the program and loves me, I don't have very many
lovers, but if you can do this research for me, I'd sure appreciate it.
Where did the phrase, man of the cloth, come from?
I suspect, I don't have any proof at all, but I suspect it may come if you wear the
cloth of Mary, the scapular.
You become a man of the cloth.
Help me out, will you?
You've got a little extra time today.
Do a little hustle for me and see if you can find out the origins of the coined
phrase, man of the cloth.
I'd love to hear this one.
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Okay, welcome back from the break.
You're listening to the second half hour of Inquisition Update on First Amendment
Radio.
By the way, if you're rising to the challenge to discover for me the root of
the coin phrase, man of the cloth, send me your information.
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tom at cwaves.us Anyway, we're talking about one of the many indulgences that you
can purchase from the Roman Catholic Church with money or land, property of any
kind, or services that you can rent to the church, such as burning a heretic,
a Protestant.
It's called the brown scapular.
And it's worn by Roman Catholics who belong to this scapular cult.
And they use it to ward off evil and to gain access to heaven and skip purgatory
altogether.
You know this thing must be real expensive.
Anyway, it says Pope Pius XI joyfully confessed, quote, I learned to love the
scapular virgin in the arms of my mother, unquote.
In other words, his mother perverted him into this Marian cult.
Pope Pius V affirmed that, quote, the Blessed Virgin will aid the souls of
the brothers and sisters of the confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
of Mount Carmel after their death, unquote.
Now, if you wear the brown scapular, you are a member, you are a brother or a
sister of the confraternity of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel.
Wow!
Where do I get mine?
Pope Benedict XV offered a, quote, partial indulgence for kissing the
scapular, unquote.
Yes, that's right.
You can pull off your shirt and your undershirt and remove the scapular from
around your neck and kiss it.
You get extra graces applied to your account.
That's right.
And in 1950, quote, Pope Pius XII wrote the now famous words concerning the
scapular, quote, Let it be your sign of consecration to the immaculate heart of
Mary, which we are particularly urging in these perilous times, unquote.
You might be asking yourself, where is any of this found in the gospel?
Well, it's not.
It's Rome's gospel.
We've already noted the fatal contradiction that indulgences are
designed to shorten suffering in purgatory.
Yet that very suffering is supposed to be essential in order to be purged from
entrance into heaven.
It makes no sense.
Moreover, one can only wonder how and why an indulgence obtained by means of adoring
a crucifix or having a mass said is even more potent than Christ's actual death on
the cross and how such representations of Calvary can accomplish what Christ's death
could not.
That's right.
It wasn't enough for Jesus to die on the cross to shed his blood.
The perfect Lamb of God was not sufficient.
You've got to buy an indulgence from the Roman Catholic Church.
See what you got when you sign the agreements of capitulation at Vatican
Council II's ecumenism?
You've united yourself with the whore of Revelation chapter 17.
She's for sale to the highest bidder.
And she'll sleep with anybody, even a heretic Protestant if he's got
enough money.
That's what Vatican Council II did.
It polluted those who once called themselves Protestants.
And God is furious.
Again, it makes no sense.
But the Catholic has been taught not to reason.
Not to reason why.
Not to ask questions.
But simply to accept what the church says.
Check your brain, your Bible, and your coat at the door.
Come in and listen to your priest and just mindlessly do whatever he says.
And you know, our once Protestant churches are the same way.
Man, you don't even have to bring your Bible to the church.
It's just dead weight.
Just put on your best clothes, your shiniest shoes, all your bling bling.
You can even wear your Masonic ring.
Come to the church.
The beautiful church that your money has paid for.
Your hard earned money has paid for.
The central air, the cushioned pews, the red carpet on the floor, the stained
glass windows, and that beautiful steeple on top of the church.
Wear your Sunday best.
And if you don't have adequate clothing, please go to the best clothiers.
Because we want all of our slaves to look real nice when they come to worship us.
That's what God's house has become.
A den of thieves.
You know, Jesus, when he walked the streets of Jerusalem, saw what was going
on.
What the church was doing.
Making merchandise of men.
Selling indulgences in front of God's house.
He made a whip.
A scourge.
And he whipped them.
He said, you've turned my father's house into a den of thieves.
Den of thieves.
Ecumenical evangelicalism.
And if you criticize it, you must be a heretic.
You must be punished.
You must be jammed and maliciously interfered with.
You must be columniated and criticized by pious Christians thinking they're doing
God's service by driving you off the air.
That's what you get for telling the truth.
Kicked from your house.
Made a pariah in the community.
Denounced as a radical religious fundamentalist.
That's what you get when you tell the truth.
Can you pay the price?
Well, look, I don't pay this price to enter my way into heaven.
To buy my way into heaven.
I've already been sprung.
My home is in the making.
In my father's house are many mansions.
If it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there ye may be also.
No charge.
I've paid it all.
So, if that's what I believe, and I do, I'll pay whatever price the bloodsuckers
want.
Because for me to die is gain.
Vatican Council 2 has a large section containing 20 complex provisions,
revising previous rules concerning when, how, and why an indulgence may be
obtained.
Yeah, Rome made a mistake.
Rome had to rewrite the rules regarding indulgences.
You know how this mistake was found, that was discovered?
By the Protestant Reformation.
You see, the Protestant Reformation started as a protest against indulgences,
the buying and selling of salvation by the Roman Catholic Church.
That's what started the whole thing.
So, Rome had to revise her teaching on indulgences.
One is reminded of Christ's denunciation of the rabbis in Matthew chapter 23 for
devising a labyrinth of rules that kept the people dependent upon their spiritual
guidance.
Rome has done exactly the same thing.
It would take a lawyer specializing in Roman Catholic canon law to unravel the
intricacies of how and when to maximize the various offers of grace from the Roman
Catholic Church.
The following is illustrated.
Listen.
Quote, the faithful who use with devotion an object of piety, an object of piety,
that's an image or an idol, strictly forbidden in God's holy law, the first
commandment, the second commandment, it says the faithful who use with devotion
an object of piety, whether it be a crucifix, a cross, a rosary, a scapular,
or metal, after it has been duly blessed by any priest, can gain a partial
indulgence.
But if this object of piety is blessed by the pope or any bishop, the faithful who
use it with devotion can also gain plenary, that is, full indulgence,
on the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul, provided they also make a profession
of faith using any approved formula.
Quoting further, they say, quote, the way, that is, partial indulgences,
the way have been determined hitherto by days and years, is abolished.
Instead, a new standard for measuring them has been laid down.
From now on, a partial indulgence will be indicated only with the words,
quote, unquote, partial indulgence, without any determination of days,
unquote.
So for your money, you buy your scapular, you get your plenary, or you get your
partial indulgence, but it doesn't tell you how partial it is.
In other words, you don't know if it's a day, or an hour, or a month, or a year,
or a century, or a millennium, that it buys you out of purgatory.
It's like going to the store and saying, I'll give you ten bucks for a bag of
beans, and they sell you a bag of beans, but you are not allowed to weigh it,
you're not allowed to know how many beans are in the bag.
Sound like a deal?
Well, how would you like it to go to the store to buy a bag of beans, pay ten
dollars for a bag of beans, you get home, there's a half a dozen beans in it.
You just have to take the church's word.
That's a full bag of beans.
Rome won't even put a label on her packages telling you what you're getting
for your money.
Kind of like going to Las Vegas, right?
Keep chinking your money in, maybe you'll win a prize.
Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
Dave continues, If Rome was wrong in its rules concerning indulgences in the past,
how can anyone be certain that she's correct now?
And what of those who relied upon the previous rule?
Of course, knocking off so many days or years in the past didn't really mean
anything, because the Roman Catholic Church can never say in the first place
how much time had to be spent in purgatory.
Nor does an indulgence under the new rules have any understandable significance
today.
And what kind of God would bend his justice for such contrivances,
measuring out grace, depending upon whether the deed was done on a certain
feast day, or whether a priest or a bishop had blessed the supposed sacred object?
They made merchandise of you.
Why don't you come out of the Roman Catholic Church and meet Jesus,
I'll introduce you.
The major means of acquiring an indulgence of unknown benefit is, of course,
through the Mass.
Canon number 904 states, Remembering that the work of redemption is continually
accomplished in the mystery of the Eucharistic sacrifice, that's the Mass,
Priests are to celebrate frequently, that you don't know how much grace is
infused in you when you eat the Jesus cookie, you better eat a whole bunch of
them.
And you've got to pay for those, they're not free.
As we've already noted, instead of being a memorial to an accomplished redemption,
praise his holy name, each Mass takes another tiny step toward full redemption.
No one knows how tiny that step is.
But it must be miniscule indeed, judging by the millions of Masses that
continue to be celebrated in every Roman Catholic Church, every day, all around the
world, with uncertain results.
Look, Jesus paid it all.
He owns the earth and everything that's in it.
He created it, by himself.
Why go to the Roman Catholic Church and gamble?
Why not just become a child of the King?
A child of the Creator?
The decision seems to be so easy to make.
Instead of accepting a full and unconditioned pardon by the one who paid
it all, a sure thing, they go to Rome like they go to Las Vegas and keep plunking
their coins in the money monster.
And go home hoping that they bought something.
Unbelievable.
Salvation for sale.
It was the sale of indulgences more than anything else that roused Martin Luther's
ire to such an extent that he nailed his 95 feces to the door of the Wittenberg
Castle Chapel and sparked the Protestant Reformation.
As we've seen, salvation was sold in many other ways besides indulgences,
and it still is today.
Rome is still in the business of selling salvation.
Though the fee is today called an offering, in fact, money changes hands
with the promise of salvation as the incentive for the gift.
Historian Will Durant comments are interesting.
He says,
Large sums were devoted to this purpose by pious people, either to relieve a departed
relative or a friend, or to shorten or annul their own purgatorial probation
after death.
The poor complained that, through their inability to pay for masses and
indulgences, it was the earthly rich, not the meek, who would inherit the
kingdom of heaven.
And Columbus ruefully praised money because he said, He who possesses it has
the power of transporting souls into paradise.
What fraud!
As though God could be bought off with money.
In Spain, the annual papal bull of the crusade had to be purchased by everyone of
seven years and older at least once a year.
No one could be buried without the current bull in the coffin with the body.
You could call this a burial tax, if you want to, that you have to buy every
year.
And if you didn't have the current issue, the current certificate, the current bull
from the pope, they couldn't bury you.
It says, upon purchase of the bull, the pope immediately granted indulgences
and absolution from all sins except heresy and the vow of chastity.
A Roman Catholic observer in the 18th century Spain, with reference to this
diabolical bull, made his damning comment, Let us say that we may suspect that this
bull sends more people into hell than it can save from it.
For it is the greatest encouragement to sin in the world.
A man says, I may satisfy my lusts and passions, I may commit all wickedness,
and yet I'm sure to be pardoned of all, by the taking of this bull for two reels
of silver.
By the same rule, their consciences cannot be under any remorse nor trouble.
For if a man commits a great sin, he goes to confess, he gets absolution,
he has by him this bull for permission to sin, and his conscience is at perfect
ease, insomuch that after he gets absolution, he may go and commit new sins
and go again for absolution.
See what these indulgences do?
They promote sin.
And that's what Rome is all about.
Because it's not the church of Jesus Christ.
It's the church of Satan.
Well-known Roman Catholic apologist Peter Kreef claims that, quote, the church soon
cleaned up its act and forbade, shortly after Martin Luther's defection,
forbade the sell of indulgences, unquote.
Charles Coulson, Chuck Coulson as I call him, 33rd degree Luciferian Chuck Coulson,
erroneously claims the same.
Of course, that simply isn't true.
But even if it were, one cannot dispense so easily with the gross deceit that
milked the faithful of their money and robbed them of salvation at the same time.
The sale of salvation had deceived millions for centuries by the time of the
Protestant Reformation.
Were there any refunds given by the Roman Catholic Church to those they built for
indulgences?
Of course not.
Any remedy for those who had passed into eternity thinking they had bought their
salvation?
No.
Tragically, the fraud continues to this very day, and there's nary a Protestant
voice raised in opposition to it.
Kreef, like other Roman Catholic apologists, omits the fact that the false
and evil doctrine of indulgences remains an integral part of present Roman
Catholicism, and that money is still given to secure salvation.
As we have earlier noted, Vatican Council 2 declares, The Church commands that the
usage of indulgences should be kept, and it condemns with damnation those who
say that indulgences are useless, or that the Roman Catholic Church does not
have the power to grant them for the task of winning salvation.
It's no good to plead that the abominations of the past are no longer
practiced by Rome.
Of course they are, and quite openly, especially in Roman Catholic countries,
though less so in the United States of America, where there might be a few
Protestants that might protest.
Yet even here, salvation, in baby steps towards heaven, of course, may be
purchased by offerings to the Roman Catholic Church.
One friendly of the author, whose father died recently in the United States,
said that more than $2,000 was extended for Mass cards at his father's funeral,
which would allow for a number of Masses to be said on his behalf to help get him
out of purgatory.
$2,000 at the funeral was collected by the Roman Catholic Church.
$2,000 for Masses to be said on this man's behalf.
To spring him from this imagined place called purgatory.
You talk about extortion?
It's robbery.
And it denies Christ.
Rome has given her people a gospel of despair.
Multitudes of Roman Catholics live in dread of committing a mortal sin,
of failing to reveal all in their confessions, of falling short of the rules
and regulations of the Roman Catholic Church, which it has set for their
salvation.
As a consequence, they are completely at the mercy of their church.
Looking to it, looking to it for salvation, rather than resting in the
assurance of God's grace through Jesus Christ's finished work at Calvary.
Roman Catholicism is another Christ, another gospel.
We must condemn it and back away from Rome's ecumenical table.
It's polluted.
Thanks for listening.
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