FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 28
THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 8)
Edwardson says this of the gospel of Rome’s Antichrist:
“Here is this ‘dogma’ presented in authentic Catholic works:
‘We define that the Blessed Virgin Mary in the first moment of her conception. . . .was preserved free from every form of original sin.’
‘Unlike the most of the children of Adam, the SOUL [emphasis mine] of Mary was NEVER subject to sin.’ – ‘Faith of the Fathers,’ Cardinal Gibbons, pp. 203, 204. Baltimore: 1885.
“The Sainted Doctor Alphonsus de Liguori says:
‘The merits of Jesus, shall be dispensed through the hands and by the intercession of Mary.’ – ‘Glories of Mary,’ p. 180, New Revised Edition. New York: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1888.
‘God has chosen to bestow NO GRACE [emphasis mine] upon us but by the hands of Mary.’ – Ibid, p. 180.
‘Whoever asks and wishes to obtain grace without the intercession of Mary, attempts to fly without wings.’- ibid, p. 189.
‘Mary is the HOPE of all our salvation.’ – Ibid, p. 195.
‘Thou [Mary] art the ONLY advocate of sinners.’ – Ibid, p. 129.
‘All those who are saved, are saved SOLELY by means of this DIVIND mother; …..the salvation of all depends upon the PREACHING MARY.’ – Ibid, pp. 19, 20.
‘We ask many things of God and do NOT obtain them; we ask them from Mary and OBTAIN them.’ – Ibid, p. 150. Much more can be cited.
“A Protestant may ask if the merits of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross are not sufficient, so that we can receive grace DIRECTLY from Him. To this the [Roman] Catholic Church answers:
‘The merits and the virtue of the sacrifice are infinite, but that virtue and these merits must be applied, and this can only be done by CERTAIN MEANS.’ – ‘Doctrinal Catechism,’ S. Keenan, p. 129. NY. Kennedy & Sons, 1846.
[What are these ‘certain means?’]
‘The PRIEST has the power of the KEYS, or the POWER of delivering sinners from hell, of making them worthy of paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is OBLIGED TO ABIDE by the judgment of His Priests….The Sovereign Master of the universe ONLY FOLLOWS THE SERVANT by confirming in heaven all that the latter DECIDES in earth.’ ‘ – ‘Dignity and Duties of the Priest,’ St. Alphonsus de Liguori, pp. 27, 28. NY: Benziger Bros., 1888.’”- ‘Facts of Faith,’ Christian Edwardson, pp. 206, 207. (Revised) Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville 8 TN: 1943.
Only “the truth as it is in Jesus” can deliver the sinner-slave from the degradation of sin, the power of Satan, and the tyrannical rule of spiritual darkness of deep-seated “Christianized heathenism,” “tradition-over-Scriptures,” lying heresies of Spiritualism, abominations, antichristian-anti biblical, the Church-over-Christ doctrines and teachings!
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF