Posted on 12/14/2014 11:57:21 AM PST by ealgeone
The reason for this article is to determine if the worship/veneration given to Mary by the catholic church is justified from a Biblical perspective. This will be evaluated using the Biblical standard and not mans standard.
Rather, while Rome most manifestly largely did apostatize, in progressive deformation , the church of Matthew 16:18 is the body of Christ which alone consists 100% of believers, and is visible wherever it worships and works gather, and which has always continued as a relative remnant. While Rome grew in pretense and pomp, and much becoming as the gates of Hell for multitudes, yet enough of the truth was preserved so that the body of Christ continued, though often the remnant were more like those in the OT, who
were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. (Hebrews 11:37-38)
until a Catholic priest rebelled against the Catholic Church, ending up a notorious anti-Semite that re-formed the religion.
You keep trying the anti-Semite card only to be shown how much popes were like Rome in this attitude, to which they added actions. Do you want to see it again?
And then you have the church leading up to the Reformation.
.Part of the tragedy of the Reformation is that the Church before 1517 was unable to reform itself or to set in motion events or changes that would have led to a reform in the Church that would have satisfied its members and really affected change....
To...Boniface IX, goes the unenviable distinction of probably having begun the papal sale of offices...
..Sixtus IV was completely a worldling. He is best known perhaps for the chapel that he built which was later decorated by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel. His successor Innocent VIII had an illegitimate family. Alexander VI, who was Spanish, was perhaps the worst of them all. He had many illegitimate children, but he was a good political candidate. But his reign as pope did more to weaken the moral prestige of the papacy than almost anything imaginable...
And if we go to the clergy, to what we can call the lower clergy or the ordinary priests, we can say that one vice that many of them had was immorality. Many of them had women that they kept in their rectories by whom they had children, so they had families to support. Maurice W. Sheehan, O.F.M. Cap., Lecture 2: Prelude-Causes, Attempts at Reform to 1537; International Catholic University http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c01802.htm
Referring to the schism of the 14th and 15th centuries, Cardinal Ratzinger observed,
"For nearly half a century, the Church was split into two or three obediences that excommunicated one another, so that every Catholic lived under excommunication by one pope or another, and, in the last analysis, no one could say with certainty which of the contenders had right on his side. The Church no longer offered certainty of salvation; she had become questionable in her whole objective form--the true Church, the true pledge of salvation, had to be sought outside the institution. "It is against this background of a profoundly shaken ecclesial consciousness that we are to understand that Luther, in the conflict between his search for salvation and the tradition of the Church, ultimately came to experience the Church, not as the guarantor, but as the adversary of salvation. (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for the Church of Rome, Principles of Catholic Theology, trans. by Sister Mary Frances McCarthy, S.N.D. (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1989) p.196). http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2012/06/13/whos-in-charge-here-the-illusions-of-church-infallibility/) More
But which presumes that perpetual magisterial infallibility is essential for this, such as to discern which writings are of God and preserve faith. And thus exclude the possibility of valid dissent in important cases.
It seems to me...
Tell us/show us why a perpetual infallible magisterial office is essential in the light of your list in order to provide and preserve Truth and faith.
Who Will Crush the Serpents Head?
- St. Jerome himself quotes the Old Latin (pre-Vulgate) version of the text, in which the masculine pronoun ipse is used.
- Elsewhere, he also translates it from the Hebrew with the masculine pronoun ipse.
- Various manuscripts of the Vulgate also include ipse.
- Therefore, it is improbable that Jerome used the feminine form of the pronoun (ipsa) in his original edition of the Vulgate.
- Therefore, the use of the feminine form in some editions of the Vulgate is due to an early copyists error.
My hypothesis is still valid: whether upstream from Jerome (as I hypothesized) or downstream from him (as seems to be the case) the sheer improbability of seed crushing something lead some copyist to a false correction, which just seemed right to everyone.
Exactly what do you mean "You keep trying the anti-Semite card ?" Do you have something to say ? Martin Luther, who wrote On the Jews and Their Lies, which had a seven point plan to destroy the Jews which the Nazi Party incorporated ? Is that the "anti-Semite card" you wish to argue ? Do you wish to defend Luther ? Go for it. Do you wish to defend Sola Fide that a man can viciously hate the Jewish people and plot against them until his dying day and go straight to heaven ? Go for it. DR. MARX: Apart from your weekly journal, and particularly after the Party came into power, were there any other publications in Germany which treated the Jewish question in an anti-Semitic way?
STREICHER: Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution. In the book The Jews and Their Lies, Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent's brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them...
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DR. MARX: Now I come to the picture books which appeared in Der Stuermer publishing house. You know that two picture books were published, one with the title, Trust No Fox in the Field, and the other one with the title, The Poisonous Toadstool. Do you assume responsibility for these picture books?
STREICHER: Yes. May I say, by way of summary, that I assume responsibility for everything which was written by my assistants or which came into my publishing house.
DR. MARX: Who was the author of these picture books?
STREICHER: The book Trust No Fox in the Field and No Jew Under His Oath was done and illustrated by a young woman artist, and she also wrote the text. The title which appears on the picture book is from Dr. Martin Luther.
You are right, the ending nun indicates masculine object of action. But it is still heel, not the owner of the heel, — who can be either physiological gender. There is an anatomical joke in here somewhere...
However, I never claimed that the Vulgate translation is rooted in the Hebrew text. I still think it is corrupted simply because it is easier to think of the passage in terms of the woman and her heel because of the leading statement of enmity between the woman and the serpent.
Yes, as warned, your own popes had an attitude against Jews anbd advocated ill treatment.
Do you wish to defend Luther ? Go for it. Do you wish to defend Sola Fide that a man can viciously hate the Jewish people and plot against them until his dying day and go straight to heaven
That is not the argument at all, and resorting to try to make it that is a specious argument against Protestantism, and indicates desperation or a preoccupation with anti-antisemitism which you seem blind to in your own church.
Do you wish to defend Sola Fide that a man can viciously hate the Jewish people and plot against them until his dying day and go straight to heaven ?
Do you think Luther always had this bitterness, which developed as a result of continual rejection and hardened blasphemy that his RC contemporaries testified to. Moses was provoked by them to speak unadvisedly with his lips,(Ps. 106:33) but how much more Luther, and inexcusably so.
Do you think Luther even taught such a faith as salvific, and know that passionate Luther did not repent? "For it is impossible for him who believes in Christ, as a just Savior, not to love and to do good. If, however, he does not do good nor love, it is sure that faith is not present.." [Sermons of Martin Luther 1:40]
For if your heart is in the state of faith that you know your God has revealed himself to you to be so good and merciful, without thy merit, and purely gratuitously, while you were still his enemy and a child of eternal wrath; if you believe this, you cannot refrain from showing yourself so to your neighbor; and do all out of love to God and for the welfare of your neighbor. Therefore, see to it that you make no distinction between friend and foe, the worthy and the unworthy; for you see that all who were here mentioned, have merited from us something different than that we should love and do them good. And the Lord also teaches this, when in Luke 6:35 he says: "But love your enemies, and do good unto them, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil." [Sermons of Martin Luther 2.2:101]
Do you as a RC argue that the iniquities of a leader impugn all the beliefs of that church? Do you even think we follow Luther as a pope? Do you think the words and actions of popes did not also contribute to antisemitism in Germany and elsewhere? Do you think Rome is more pro-Israel than evangelicals, and not for eschatological reasons?
Just what is your problem that you seem to inevitably resort to the "Luther was an anti-Semite" screed to deal with the Reformation. Are you acting out of being a victim of anti-antisemitism that prevents you from dealing with this issue objectively and in context?
Do you wish to defend Sola Ecclesia as meaning men can require physical extermination of people even such as me as well as manifest hate of the Jewish people and work against them and end up in heaven without repentance?
The crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.(Pope Innocent III, Epistle to the Hierarchy of France, July 15, 1205)
It would be licit, according to custom, to hold the Jews in perpetual servitude because of their crime. (St. Thomas Aquinas, De Regimine Judaeorum)
In The Popes Against the Jews : The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, historian David Kertzer notes,
the legislation enacted in the 1930s by the Nazis in their Nuremberg Laws and by the Italian Fascists with their racial lawswhich stripped the Jews of their rights as citizenswas modeled on measures that the [Roman Catholic] Church itself had enforced for as long as it was in a position to do so (9).
In 1466,
in festivities sponsored by Pope Paul II, Jews were made to race naked through the streets of the city. A particularly evocative later account describes them: Races were run on each of the eight days of the Carnival by horses, asses and buffaloes, old men, lads, children, and Jews. Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them, and at the same time, more amusing for the spectators. They ran from the Arch of Domitian to the Church of St. Mark at the end of the Corso at full tilt, amid Romes taunting shrieks of encouragement and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily. Two centuries later, these practices, now deemed indecorous and unbefitting the dignity of the Holy City, were stopped by Clement IX. In their place the Pope assessed a heavy tax on the Jews to help pay the costs of the citys Carnival celebrations.
But various other Carnival rites continued. For many years the rabbis of the ghetto were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the streets to the jeers of the crow, pelted by a variety of missiles. Such rites were not peculiar to Rome. In Pisa in the eighteenth century, for example, it was customary each year, as part of Carnival, for students to chase after the fattest Jew in the city, capture him, weigh him, and then make him give them his weight in sugar-coated almonds.
In 1779, Pius VI resurrected some of the Carnival rites that had been neglected in recent years. Most prominent among them was the feudal rite of homage, in which ghetto officials, made to wear special clothes, stood before an unruly mob in a crowded piazza, making an offering to Romes governors.
It was this practice that occasioned the formal plea from the ghetto to Pope Gregory XVI in 1836. The Jews argued that such rites should be abandoned, and cited previous popes who had ordered them halted. They asked that, in his mercy, the Pope now do the same. On November 5, the Pope met with his secretary of state to discuss the plea. A note on the secretary of states copy of the petition, along with his signature, records the Popes decision: It is not opportune to make any innovation. The annual rites continued.
When all is said and done, the [Roman Catholic] Churchs claim of lack of responsibility for the kind of anti-Semitism that made the Holocaust possible comes down to this: The Roman Catholic Church never called for, or sanctioned, the mass murder of the Jews. Yes, the Jews should be stripped of their rights as equal citizens. Yes, they should be kept from contact with the rest of society. But Christian Charity and Christian theology forbade good Christians to round them up and murder them.
Canons of the 4th Lateran Council
Text. The more the Christians are restrained from the practice of usury, the more are they oppressed in this matter by the treachery of the Jews, so that in a short time they exhaust the resources of the Christians. -http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.html
In 581 the Synod of Macon enacted in canon 14 that from Thursday in Holy Week until Easter Sunday, .Jews may not in accordance with a decision of King Childebert appear in the streets and in public places. Mansi, IX, 934; Hefele-Leclercq, 111, 204. In 1227 the Synod of Narbonne in canon 3 ruled: "That Jews may be distinguished from others, we decree and emphatically command that in the center of the breast (of their garments) they shall wear an oval badge, the measure of one finger in width and one half a palm in height. -Mansi, XXIII, 22; Hefele-Leclercq V 1453. - http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Popes%20Against%20the%20Jews
HMMMmmm...
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
We DO have visions by three Portuguese children. Does THAT count?
And all Catholics do is continue to deny that fact.
From wherever did you get a copy of that Real Bible.........Oh that's right, you got it from the Catholic Church.......say thanks!!
That Felix Manalo was a confused man, there is no doubt. Or is there? I have a family I am friendly with, who knew Manalo personally. They were on a first name basis with him. Their opinion is, and it is just their opinion, is that Manalo was not confused at all. He knew exactly what he was doing. They said his intent, was to get in on the ground floor of a new money making business, and he called it the INC. It appealed to Philippine nationalism. They were tired of Rome interfering with their lives, as they put it, and the people responded to it, because the "only true church" as they put it, was was started by one of their own. Manalo is not the first one to make merchandise of the people, and probably won't be the last, but most of these cult leaders live in luxury, while the people worry about where their next meal is coming from. The point being, the RCC is not the only church claiming to be the "only true church." The INC people I have met, are far more rabid in their claims to be the ONE, than the RCC. I got to a point, that I would not even discuss spiritual things with them anymore. No one can seem to tell them the truth. Now, to be fair, most of them are extremely nice people, as long as you don't talk about religion.
and protestants have been around since day 1,601 and haven't been right PERIOD
talk about being misguided....you leave the true church of Jesus Christ, the one that He Himself founded on His Apostles, the one which encompasses the seven Sacraments that He instituted, the only one that has existed from the time of Christ, the only one that He promised to be with until the end of time, the only one which repeats on a daily basis the Eucharist which is one of His greatest gifts, and you say that you have "come to know the truth"....when you decide, on your own, what the truth is....it can be anything that you want it to be and can include all the unicorns that you need.
That is, of course true.....however, every Christian that is not a Catholic is, indeed, a protestant....that is the very definition of what a protestant is.....a non-Catholic Christian.
No they didn't....they, of course built buildings to meet in, libraries to hold their documents and hand copied Bibles, monasteries to train their followers and future leaders in, Cathedrals to establish local bishops who would oversee a group of parish churches and a normal method of growing a worldwide church....as Christ commanded....to better spread His word. Worked real good....churches in every country in the world and about 1.3 billion members....
LOL, here we go again. Unicorns you say? Are you a fan of the Irish Rovers? That is the only time I have ever heard anyone say anything about unicorns. I did not decide on my own what the truth is. I got help from those EXTREMELY gifted and SUPER wonderful people with the NAVIGATORS. I love them and they helped me learn the truth, which is why I left the RCC. They never told me to do anything about a church, they let me discover it on my own, and yes, I am perfectly capable of figuring it out for myself, and I love to figure things out by myself, and I enjoy it. I went to mass about 3 more times after my conversion experience, like other former RCs have had, who will remain unnamed for now, but they know who they are. After that, I kept reading my DR Bible, I no longer felt comfortable in with them. Then I ditched my DR Bible for a KJV and never looked back. I am SUPER comfortable with that. Sorry you don't like it, but you will just have to learn to live with it. Thanks for your concern, but I am happy with my faith, which happened in 1970. I will pray for you too.
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Half a century???I have 2 cars and a bedroom set older that that....and I myself exceed that by another quarter of a century....meaningless.
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