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Why Rome's gospel is NOT the true gospel in the Bible Sacerdotalism is a term that means that salvation is mediated through the priesthood. Rome claims it is by giving the Eucharist that gives salvation, which comes by the hands of their priests, which came to them through a bakery. Peter who they claim is their first Pope said “Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit ….having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:22-23). Instead of being regenerated by the Word, the Spirit of God, Roman Catholics are taught a completely different approach to salvation that uses biblical words and items. They combine elements from the Old Testament (ie. priesthood, rituals etc.), as the means of grace which is dispensed by their priest through their church. Canon 4 “If anyone shall say that the sacraments are not necessary for salvation, but are superfluous, and that, although all are not necessary for every individual, without them or without the desire of them, through faith alone men obtain from God the grace of justification; let him be anathema.” Did the theif on the cross take the sacraments to be in paradise with Christ on the day he died? No, and we do not find these mentioned as a necessity anywhere in Scripture by the apostles. In John 6:54-59 Jesus teaching of who He is and what he is to do states “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. That the living Father sent him, and “so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven--not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” This is long before the pesach meal, the last supper. He clearly says He Himself is the bread. John 6:33 “the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." V:41 “I am the bread which came down from heaven." Meaning the person who was among man nearly 2,000 years ago. The bread baked on earth does not come from heaven! The truth is different from Roman Catholic Error The true believer holds to the belief in the deity of Christ and His work of sacrifice based on their faith being in the Scripture. We believe Him to be the Son of God because we accept the teaching of Holy Scripture and its statements about Him. When we assert belief in the deity of Christ we mean that the person known in history as Jesus of Nazareth who existed as God, as Spirit in eternity before, became man. As the infinite and eternal God, he is the second Person of the Trinity who is called the Son of God. It is he who gave himself on the Passover as the lamb of God for the sins of humanity, (not before when he held up the symbols of bread and drank the third cup of the Pesach meal that Isreal kept 1,500 year before.) “The very basis of Christianity is that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16). If that assertion can be overthrown, then the whole superstructure of Christianity crashes to the ground, and we are bound to assume that Jesus was either a shameless impostor or that He suffered from a delusion." (The Incomparable Christ J. Oswald Sanders p.53) the Eucharist becomes the incarnate Christ “…the true body of Christ the Lord, the same that was born of the virgin…”(Catholic Catechism 1106,1374) This means Jesus continues to incarnate in a bread that is baked by man. “In the Eucharist Christ is present and is offered as the sacrifice which made our peace.” (Vatican 2 vol.2) Eph 2:14-15 “For He Himself is our peace,... v.15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity” It is by his own flesh given once and for all that one receives salvation. When any church substitutes faith in what the Word says, and misuses the word they are misleading their people away from the savior and what he said of himself. The Roman Church is not speaking of the actual event but the symbols of the event, giving them power. Which is liken to mysticism.
St. Augustine (354-430), Bishop and Doctor of the Church: St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226): "All who have not believed that Jesus Christ was really the Son of God are doomed. Also, all who see the (Catholic) Sacrament of the Body of Christ and do not believe it is really the most holy Body and Blood of the Lord . . . these also are doomed!" Rome reinterprets the word teaching those who will listen that Christ then gave His body and blood to the apostles to eat, instructing " them, "Do this in remembrance of Me (Luke 22:19), by those words, according to the Church, Christ ordained His apostles "Priests of the new covenant”(Council of Trent session 22) and commanded them and their successors in the priesthood" to continue the offering of the Eucharist (1337). So then Christ... “instituted a new passover, namely the offering of himself by the church through its priests under visible signs, in memory of his own passage from this world to the Father....”(Council of Trent session 22 teachings and canons on the most holy sacrifice of the mass chpt.1) The problem is that passover was fulfilled by him being the sacrificial lamb, on the day the lamb was sacrifices. They change the place power to symbols that are made by mens hands. “For in the sacrifice of the Mass Our Lord is immolated when "he begins to be present sacramentally as the spiritual food of the faithful under the appearances of bread and wine." (Second Vatican Council sacred Liturgy” Instruction on the worship of the eucharistic mystery no.3b) “the Mass...[is] a sacrifice in which the sacrifice of the cross is perpetuated...in the sacrifice of the Mass our Lord is immolated...the eucharistic sacrifice is the source and the summit of...the Christian life....In the sacrifice of the Mass in fact, Christ offers himself for the salvation of the entire world” (Vatican II, Eucharisticum) The Jesus of the Eucharistic communion host is a different one than the Bible. The Bible says Christ died and rose from the dead, once. He is not to die again, in fact he says I live forevermore! (Rv. 1:18) He sits at the right hand of God in heaven. His sacrifice does not continue by ‘mens hands,’ you cannot call the savior down to earth (Rom.10:6) Where does the bible teach any of this?This is traditions of a certain wayward church that has changed God’s way of salvation. According to Roman Catholic belief, every time a priest offers the Mass, the wrath of God against sin is soothed. The Mass is an unbloody sacrifice which atones for the sins of the living and the dead. (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1367,1371, 1414). this sacrifice of the mass they call divine wis the very same Christ is contained and offered in bloodless manner who made a bloody sacrifice of himself once for all on the cross. ( -)Council of Trent session 22) Is it the same without blood? Heb 9:22 without shedding of blood there is no remission. " Heb 9:26-28 He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. v.28 Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.” We are told by God Jesus ‘himself’ was sacrificed once which put away sin. "The Eucharist is above all else a sacrifice. It is the sacrifice of the Redemption and also the sacrifice of the New Covenant ...." (Vatican Council II Vol. 2, p. 75) The Eucharist that is made in a bakery, it is not alive, never was, never will be, Christ said He is the sacrifice, he is the living passover lamb that shed blood. What chicanery of words is this from a church telling the world that they alone have the way of salvation “the Eucharist is the Lord Jesus who gives himself 'for the life of the world' (Jn 6: 51). In every time and in every place, he wants to meet human beings and bring them the life of God. And this is not all. The Eucharist also has a cosmic property: the transformation of the bread and the wine into Christ's Body and Blood is in fact the principleof the divinization of creation itself." (Pope Benedict XVI. "Ecclesia in Medio Oriente." The Holy See. The Holy See, 18 June 2006. ) This in no way should be confused with what Jesus did on Passover, and there is nothing to substantiate this as having his life when he gives one the spirit to indwell when they believe the gospel to be saved. The Council of Trent (1545-63) stated that while Christ "merited for us justification by His most holy passion... the instrumental cause [of justification/regeneration] is the sacrament of baptism .... If anyone says that baptism is . . . not necessary for salvation, let him be anathema." Vatican II (1962-65) reconfirms all of Trent's laws and reiterates the necessity of baptism for salvation, as does the universal Catechism of the Catholic Church released by the Vatican in 1993: "Baptism is necessary for salvation . . . the Church does not know of any [other] means . . . that assures entry into eternal beatitude ....” “baptism is birth into the new life, in accordance to the Lords will, it is necessary for salvation as is the church herself, which we enter by baptism.” (P.324 Catechism of the catholic church (1994 Liguori publications) Then one is being convinced they are saving themselves by a work. By a BAKER nd now add Baptism, water which never saved anyone. They are circumventing faith in the death of the person, the shed blood of the Son of God, the deity of Christ is not involved in water, for it came by his blood, he being God incarnate. Roman Catholicism is a religion of rituals, ceermonies, these are not the same as faith. The Second Vatican Council confirms: 'The bishops, successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord . . . the mission of teaching all peoples, and of preaching the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments,'" (CCC, par 2068). None of this is surprising as they have mixed faith with works. The problem is spelled out in Scripture, that if you use works it negates faith, you can’t have both at the same time. Rom 4:4-5 “Now to him who works , the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness” Gal 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ,...nor by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.” We are to trust in Christ who did the work for us, which can only be done by faith. Who will you believe? God or a church that has been misleading for over 1,600 years. If you trust in the church than throw away your bible, its become useless. Job 15:31 “Let him not trust in futile things, deceiving himself,For futility will be his reward.” Ps 118:8 “It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man .”
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