THE RELIGION OF THE BIBLE IS NOT BASED ON ALLEGED JUDEO-CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

THE RELIGION OF THE BIBLE IS NOT BASED ON ALLEGED JUDEO-CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES

Here’s why: “There is a striking similarity between the Church of Rome [who claims to be the “Mother” of all Christian religions] and the Jewish Church [of Judaism] at the time of Christ’s first advent.

While the Jews SECRETLY trampled upon every PRINCIPLE of the law of God [Decalogue], they were OUTWARDLY rigorous in the observance of its precepts, LOADING it down with [man-made] exactions and TRADITIONS that made obedience painful and BURDENSOME.

“As the Jews professed to revere the LAW, so do ROMANISTS claim to reverence the CROSS. They exalt the SYMBOL of Christ’s sufferings, while in their LIVES they deny Him who it represents.

“Papists place crosses upon their CHURCHES, upon their ALTARS, upon their GARMENTS. Everywhere is seen the INSIGNIA of the cross. Everywhere it is outwardly honored and exalted.

“But the teachings of Christ are BURIED beneath a mass of senseless traditions, false interpretations, and rigorous exactions. The Saviors words concerning the BIGOTED JEWS, apply with still GREATER force to the leaders of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: ‘They bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them in men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.’ Matt. 28:4.

“Conscientious souls are kept in constant terror, fearing the wrath of an offended God, while many of the dignitaries of the church are living in luxury and sensual pleasure.

“The worship of images and relics, the invocation of [dead] saints, and the exaltation of the popes [as the vicegerent of Jesus instead of the Holy Spirit, and claiming to be “verily God on earth”], are DEVICES of Satan, to attract the minds of the people from God and from His Son Jesus Christ.” – E. G. White, Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 568.
Bless all, NMF