“If there is one more salient character of revealed religion than another, it is confidence, certainty-positiveness! “Thus saith the Lord”-“I have a message from God unto thee.” But this is just that spirit against which the public mind rebels,-it will have truth and falsehood-the revelation of God and the lubrications of men, dealt with alike-philosophically, liberally, without preference or partiality-as perhaps true, or perhaps false, but all alike to be regarded with a sort of Platonic composure-we will not say, indifference,-the result obviously being to enlarge the region of Doubt.” Page 2.
CLOSE, FRANCIS (The Footsteps of Error Traced Through Twenty-Five Years; Or, Superstition, The Parent of Modern Doubt by Francis Close. London. 1863. Hatchard and Co.)
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Sabbath Keeping or Lord's Day Worship?
Many Christians are being troubled by scruples ( and erring pastors) concerning the "correct" day of worship and whether or not Christians are obligated to observe the Sabbath in the same way as enjoined upon the Jewish nation (Exodus 20:8-11). The following correspondence exemplifies the nature of the question, and provides a response affirming the liberty of the Christian from the curse and dead works of the law.
Pastor Turner,
I have a question that you may have answered on your website (but I missed finding it if you did.) I was brought up accepting Sunday worship, and in some of my studies I see some things that lead me to believe we should be observing "the Sabbath" as well, at the very least. I've researched some books. There is “evidence” provided that the Catholic Church is responsible for dictating Sunday worship (dating from Constantine in the 300’s.)--pretty compelling comments from bishops, priests, and cardinals all the way back to the early centuries of Christianity.
I hoped you would give me your opinion on this, and if you disagree, maybe you can provide me the clear cut evidence for Sunday (as the day of worship for Christians)in your reply??
Thank you and God Bless,
R.G.
------
Dear R.G.:
Thanks for your most cordial inquiry.
#1) If a Saturday Sabbath observance is mandatory upon Gentile believers, "the church of the living God, which is the pillar and ground of the truth has been in error for 1900 and 70 or so years.
#2) If the supposition is true that the Church should keep the Sabbath as a day of Rest (that is what it was, a day of rest) and the Sabbath is Saturday, then it is not what Moses said it is in Exodus 31:17: "it (the Sabbath) is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever."
#3) There is no reiteration of the Sabbath commandment any place in the New Testament to a believer in Jesus Christ.
#4) IN Acts 13, four points -and four only - were enjoined on the Gentile who believed in Jesus: to abstain from things strangled; to abstain from the eating of blood; to abstain from fornication; and from meats offered to idols. The Sabbath was not enjoined on gentile Christians anywhere, though the other nine commandments are repeated variously in the gospels and elsewhere. Therefore, we must conclude that the Sabbath, is what God said it was, a sign between the nation of Israel and God of a perpetual nature. Hence it is that Jew, not Christians, gather on Saturdays.
#5) Every Sabbatarian I have met, without exception, seeks to put men under the law, to cause them to "fall from grace." The Sabbath keeping thing is the opening guns of those that would put man under the law, that is, under the curse.
#6) The words of the Bible take precedence over history. We are free from the law, dead to the law, and alive in Christ, therefore we follow the commandments of Christ and his apostles in the New Testament, serving in newness of spirit, not oldness of letter.
The greatest work I have read outside the Bible on this topic is SEVENTH DAY ADVENSTISM RENOUNCED by Elder Canright. It has never been refuted.
I trust this will help you as you seek the bottom line truth of the matter. We must go by Scripture. The Scripture mentions laying by in store offerings on the first day of the week (Paul said that), and though Paul disputed in the synagogues we do not find him anywhere telling Gentile Christians to worship on Saturday.
I have preached thoroughly on this, and have posted the sermon relevant to it which you can find at: http://av1611reformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-sabbath-pastor-nelson-turner-10-29-2002.mp3 .
God's blessings to you in the grace of Christ alone.
Pastor Nelson Turner
Pastor Turner,
I have a question that you may have answered on your website (but I missed finding it if you did.) I was brought up accepting Sunday worship, and in some of my studies I see some things that lead me to believe we should be observing "the Sabbath" as well, at the very least. I've researched some books. There is “evidence” provided that the Catholic Church is responsible for dictating Sunday worship (dating from Constantine in the 300’s.)--pretty compelling comments from bishops, priests, and cardinals all the way back to the early centuries of Christianity.
I hoped you would give me your opinion on this, and if you disagree, maybe you can provide me the clear cut evidence for Sunday (as the day of worship for Christians)in your reply??
Thank you and God Bless,
R.G.
------
Dear R.G.:
Thanks for your most cordial inquiry.
#1) If a Saturday Sabbath observance is mandatory upon Gentile believers, "the church of the living God, which is the pillar and ground of the truth has been in error for 1900 and 70 or so years.
#2) If the supposition is true that the Church should keep the Sabbath as a day of Rest (that is what it was, a day of rest) and the Sabbath is Saturday, then it is not what Moses said it is in Exodus 31:17: "it (the Sabbath) is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever."
#3) There is no reiteration of the Sabbath commandment any place in the New Testament to a believer in Jesus Christ.
#4) IN Acts 13, four points -and four only - were enjoined on the Gentile who believed in Jesus: to abstain from things strangled; to abstain from the eating of blood; to abstain from fornication; and from meats offered to idols. The Sabbath was not enjoined on gentile Christians anywhere, though the other nine commandments are repeated variously in the gospels and elsewhere. Therefore, we must conclude that the Sabbath, is what God said it was, a sign between the nation of Israel and God of a perpetual nature. Hence it is that Jew, not Christians, gather on Saturdays.
#5) Every Sabbatarian I have met, without exception, seeks to put men under the law, to cause them to "fall from grace." The Sabbath keeping thing is the opening guns of those that would put man under the law, that is, under the curse.
#6) The words of the Bible take precedence over history. We are free from the law, dead to the law, and alive in Christ, therefore we follow the commandments of Christ and his apostles in the New Testament, serving in newness of spirit, not oldness of letter.
The greatest work I have read outside the Bible on this topic is SEVENTH DAY ADVENSTISM RENOUNCED by Elder Canright. It has never been refuted.
I trust this will help you as you seek the bottom line truth of the matter. We must go by Scripture. The Scripture mentions laying by in store offerings on the first day of the week (Paul said that), and though Paul disputed in the synagogues we do not find him anywhere telling Gentile Christians to worship on Saturday.
I have preached thoroughly on this, and have posted the sermon relevant to it which you can find at: http://av1611reformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/the-sabbath-pastor-nelson-turner-10-29-2002.mp3 .
God's blessings to you in the grace of Christ alone.
Pastor Nelson Turner
"Holly-Days" Are NOT Here For Christians
The following sermons deal with the true origins of the "Christ-mass" phenomenon in Western culture, and the backstory to many holiday customs.
(Clicking on the links below will cause them to play in your browser's media player. If the file does not open and play, you can download the file to your computer by right clicking on the link and selecting "Save Target As". Save to a location on your computer from which you can open it, or transfer it to your .mp3 player.)
A Black Christmas - Pastor Nelson Turner - 12-25-2004
Deck the Halls - Pastor Nelson Turner
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:11
"...and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." 1 Corinthians 10:20
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" 2 Corinthians 6:14
"And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." Exodus 20:1-6
(Clicking on the links below will cause them to play in your browser's media player. If the file does not open and play, you can download the file to your computer by right clicking on the link and selecting "Save Target As". Save to a location on your computer from which you can open it, or transfer it to your .mp3 player.)
A Black Christmas - Pastor Nelson Turner - 12-25-2004
Deck the Halls - Pastor Nelson Turner
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:11
"...and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." 1 Corinthians 10:20
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" 2 Corinthians 6:14
"And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." Exodus 20:1-6
Contending for the Faith
Produce your cause, saith the LORD;
bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. Isaiah 41:21
In a sermon earlier this year, Pastor Turner presented a challenge to any minister or preacher (competent to accept it) to arrange for an open forum discussion of the following:
1) The indisputable evidence for "The Doctrines Of Grace" -- so-called five point Calvinism (TULIP) -- in the Bible.
2) The inerrancy, infallibility, and purity of the word of God in the English language as found in the AV1611 King James Bible.
3) The false religion, false Christ, false faith and false hope contained in modern translations of the Bible which have deliberately corrupted the word of God.
4) The impurity of the corporate "churches" (501-3c) which have become vassals of the state (and even more insidiously of the "Church of Rome").
To demonstrate his confidence in the truth of his position -- because it is revealed in the word of God and by indisputble evidence from history -- Pastor Turner offered to conduct his side of the discussion without directly consulting the Bible or other books.
A gentleman who visited the AV1611Reformation.com website and saw the challenge offered by Pastor Turner recently attempted to arrange such a forum featuring Pastor Turner and the following prominent internet "preachers" among others: David Cloud, Dave Hunt, Peter S. Ruckman, Gail Ripplinger.
Interestingly, none of those contacted was willing to accept the challenge as the correspondence below demonstrates.
Subsequent to the back-and-forth e-mails Pastor Turner preached the sermon "A New Generation" to specifically address how these preachers, and others like them harm the Church and deny God's word while embracing doctrines contrary to revealed truth. This subject was also covered in an audio sermon posted on this website "Message for Bashers of Calvinism" .
All visitors to this website are invited to review this material, and to come to a fair judgement regarding it.
The correspondence mentioned above is posted here for your review:
show details Oct 14
From: “joseph alexander”
To: “Nelson Turner”
Dear Sir,
I recently listened to your sermon on Calvinist bashers(relistened I should say). I was wondering if you had personally delivered that challenge to any prominent anti-Calvinists eg. Peter Ruckman,David Cloud, Dave Hunt etc. If you haven't I would like to deliver it personally to possibly all three of the above mentioned. I saw a Ruckman video some time ago, in which Ruckman was exulting that he had won a debate with a Calvinist: actually, no one had showed up for the debate, and Ruckman was declaring that he had won the debate. It would be great if a debate between yourself and the above mentioned could be posted on say You Tube.
Sincerely
Joseph Alexander
Joseph Alexander sent a message using the contact form at
http://www.thebereancall.org/contact/E-mail+Questions.
This is directed to Mr. Dave Hunt. Would you be interested in engaging in
debate with a Calvinist? This would be a public debate and will have to be
broadcast on the Internet. I am not the Calvinist debater but there is such
a Calvinist on the Internet,who is challenging all Calvinist bashers such
as yourself in open public debate. Please let me know.
From: "joseph alexander"
To: "Nelson Turner"
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:11:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: FW:
Dear Sir,
forwarding the great champion's response to my request. Seems like you are right,they will not engage in honest debate.
Joseph Alexander
----- Forwarded Message -----
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:49:22 -0700
From: customerservice@thebereancall.org
To: joseph alexander
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [E-mail Questions] Calvinism Debate]
Hello
It is difficult to see anything productive coming from a challenge highlighted by name calling: "there is such a Calvinist on the Internet,who is challenging all Calvinist bashers such as yourself in open public debate." It is indeed of concern that the admonition of Ephesians 4:29 seems to have been forgotten by many today. In truth, some have asked: Why does Dave Hunt refuse to debate publicly with James White? The book, "Debating Calvinism" is not a valid, helpful exchange. Is Dave afraid to have his views examined by Mr. White?”
Consider the reasoning. If Dave were afraid to have his views examined by Mr White, why did he invest months in a book that preserves his views, thoughts, and position for anyone to examine at length, repeatedly, and at their leisure? The reader can examine the statements, their sources, go back and forth between the two positions, and examine with greater depth than allowed in a live debate format. It is not reasonable, therefore, to state that the book "Debating Calvinism" is "not a valid, helpful exchange."
Due to its very nature a live debate may often give only a snapshot analysis of the issues involved. While it may prove a partisan crowd pleaser, it is simply incorrect to deem it a superior forum. For these reasons, Mr Hunt has decided that the book will stand as his response.
Further, Dave has previously replied to accusations that he has ducked debates in the past: http://www.thebereancall.org/calbook.htm
Finally, as Dave enters his 84th year, he believes the Lord would have him concentrate upon finishing the books he has before him. Some of these are projects which have been in process for several years. Consequently, he regrets that he can no longer reply regarding the many books, articles, and other materials he regularly receives. His speaking schedule has also been greatly reduced to a few meetings a year to those Dave has had a long time commitment.
Because of this, Dave has had to regretfully decline all requests for critique or comment.
Your understanding and prayers are certainly requested.
Thank you for writing.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: joseph alexander
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:41 AM
To: dcloud@wayoflife.org
Subject:
Dear Sir,
Would you be interested in debating a Calvinist? Please understand that I am not that person. I am simply conveying a message from a Calvinist on the Internet who has made an open challenge to all comers. Please let me know.
Sincerely
Joseph Alexander
From: “joseph alexander”
To: “Nelson Turner”
Here is the great "Baptist" contender of the faith's reply
Joseph Alexander
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: dcloud@wayoflife.org
To: joseph alexander
Subject: RE:
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:10:01 +0545
I am not a debater. D. Cloud
Pastor Turner's Reply (show details Oct 16)
drogheda@comcast.net to joseph, et al
This only highlights what I said in the message concerning Calvinist bashers. I am not a prophet, but I know that God has called me to preach the everlasting Gospel and earnestly contend for the faith. As God gives me grace, I will meet all challengers [who are in denial of the Doctrines of Grace and the infallibility of the King James Bible] as the providence of God allows. These men are reprobate concerning the faith, by their own testimony, and have shown us they have not the same spirit as Paul and the apostles. In spiritual warfare, there is no quarter, no holding back the sword of the spirit from blood. To the Lord Jesus Christ alone be all honor, praise, blessing glory and power, both now and forever more. Pastor Nelson C. Turner
bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. Isaiah 41:21
In a sermon earlier this year, Pastor Turner presented a challenge to any minister or preacher (competent to accept it) to arrange for an open forum discussion of the following:
1) The indisputable evidence for "The Doctrines Of Grace" -- so-called five point Calvinism (TULIP) -- in the Bible.
2) The inerrancy, infallibility, and purity of the word of God in the English language as found in the AV1611 King James Bible.
3) The false religion, false Christ, false faith and false hope contained in modern translations of the Bible which have deliberately corrupted the word of God.
4) The impurity of the corporate "churches" (501-3c) which have become vassals of the state (and even more insidiously of the "Church of Rome").
To demonstrate his confidence in the truth of his position -- because it is revealed in the word of God and by indisputble evidence from history -- Pastor Turner offered to conduct his side of the discussion without directly consulting the Bible or other books.
A gentleman who visited the AV1611Reformation.com website and saw the challenge offered by Pastor Turner recently attempted to arrange such a forum featuring Pastor Turner and the following prominent internet "preachers" among others: David Cloud, Dave Hunt, Peter S. Ruckman, Gail Ripplinger.
Interestingly, none of those contacted was willing to accept the challenge as the correspondence below demonstrates.
Subsequent to the back-and-forth e-mails Pastor Turner preached the sermon "A New Generation" to specifically address how these preachers, and others like them harm the Church and deny God's word while embracing doctrines contrary to revealed truth. This subject was also covered in an audio sermon posted on this website "Message for Bashers of Calvinism" .
All visitors to this website are invited to review this material, and to come to a fair judgement regarding it.
The correspondence mentioned above is posted here for your review:
show details Oct 14
From: “joseph alexander”
To: “Nelson Turner”
Dear Sir,
I recently listened to your sermon on Calvinist bashers(relistened I should say). I was wondering if you had personally delivered that challenge to any prominent anti-Calvinists eg. Peter Ruckman,David Cloud, Dave Hunt etc. If you haven't I would like to deliver it personally to possibly all three of the above mentioned. I saw a Ruckman video some time ago, in which Ruckman was exulting that he had won a debate with a Calvinist: actually, no one had showed up for the debate, and Ruckman was declaring that he had won the debate. It would be great if a debate between yourself and the above mentioned could be posted on say You Tube.
Sincerely
Joseph Alexander
Joseph Alexander sent a message using the contact form at
http://www.thebereancall.org/contact/E-mail+Questions.
This is directed to Mr. Dave Hunt. Would you be interested in engaging in
debate with a Calvinist? This would be a public debate and will have to be
broadcast on the Internet. I am not the Calvinist debater but there is such
a Calvinist on the Internet,who is challenging all Calvinist bashers such
as yourself in open public debate. Please let me know.
From: "joseph alexander"
To: "Nelson Turner"
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:11:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: FW:
Dear Sir,
forwarding the great champion's response to my request. Seems like you are right,they will not engage in honest debate.
Joseph Alexander
----- Forwarded Message -----
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:49:22 -0700
From: customerservice@thebereancall.org
To: joseph alexander
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [E-mail Questions] Calvinism Debate]
Hello
It is difficult to see anything productive coming from a challenge highlighted by name calling: "there is such a Calvinist on the Internet,who is challenging all Calvinist bashers such as yourself in open public debate." It is indeed of concern that the admonition of Ephesians 4:29 seems to have been forgotten by many today. In truth, some have asked: Why does Dave Hunt refuse to debate publicly with James White? The book, "Debating Calvinism" is not a valid, helpful exchange. Is Dave afraid to have his views examined by Mr. White?”
Consider the reasoning. If Dave were afraid to have his views examined by Mr White, why did he invest months in a book that preserves his views, thoughts, and position for anyone to examine at length, repeatedly, and at their leisure? The reader can examine the statements, their sources, go back and forth between the two positions, and examine with greater depth than allowed in a live debate format. It is not reasonable, therefore, to state that the book "Debating Calvinism" is "not a valid, helpful exchange."
Due to its very nature a live debate may often give only a snapshot analysis of the issues involved. While it may prove a partisan crowd pleaser, it is simply incorrect to deem it a superior forum. For these reasons, Mr Hunt has decided that the book will stand as his response.
Further, Dave has previously replied to accusations that he has ducked debates in the past: http://www.thebereancall.org/calbook.htm
Finally, as Dave enters his 84th year, he believes the Lord would have him concentrate upon finishing the books he has before him. Some of these are projects which have been in process for several years. Consequently, he regrets that he can no longer reply regarding the many books, articles, and other materials he regularly receives. His speaking schedule has also been greatly reduced to a few meetings a year to those Dave has had a long time commitment.
Because of this, Dave has had to regretfully decline all requests for critique or comment.
Your understanding and prayers are certainly requested.
Thank you for writing.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: joseph alexander
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:41 AM
To: dcloud@wayoflife.org
Subject:
Dear Sir,
Would you be interested in debating a Calvinist? Please understand that I am not that person. I am simply conveying a message from a Calvinist on the Internet who has made an open challenge to all comers. Please let me know.
Sincerely
Joseph Alexander
From: “joseph alexander”
To: “Nelson Turner”
Here is the great "Baptist" contender of the faith's reply
Joseph Alexander
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: dcloud@wayoflife.org
To: joseph alexander
Subject: RE:
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:10:01 +0545
I am not a debater. D. Cloud
Pastor Turner's Reply (show details Oct 16)
drogheda@comcast.net to joseph, et al
This only highlights what I said in the message concerning Calvinist bashers. I am not a prophet, but I know that God has called me to preach the everlasting Gospel and earnestly contend for the faith. As God gives me grace, I will meet all challengers [who are in denial of the Doctrines of Grace and the infallibility of the King James Bible] as the providence of God allows. These men are reprobate concerning the faith, by their own testimony, and have shown us they have not the same spirit as Paul and the apostles. In spiritual warfare, there is no quarter, no holding back the sword of the spirit from blood. To the Lord Jesus Christ alone be all honor, praise, blessing glory and power, both now and forever more. Pastor Nelson C. Turner
Militant Catholicism
Militant Catholicism
(The following quotes and images reveal the abominations of the Romish sect; its disorientation from the true faith founded by the Lord Jesus Christ; and the threats it poses to the God-given rights and freedoms of people throughout the world as it seeks to establish a world government under its pope along with his master, the “black pope” Superior General of the Jesuits.)
“We of the Catholic Church are ready to go to Death for the Church. Under God, she is the supreme object of our worship. Tell us that we think more of the Church than we do of the United States; of course we do. Tell us we are Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen afterwards; of course we are. Tell us, in the conflict between the Church and the civil government we take the side of the Church; of course we do. Why, if the Government of the United States were at war with the Church, we would say tomorrow, “To hell wit h the Government of the United States;” and if the Church were at war, we would say, “To hell with all the governments of the world.” They say we are Catholics first and Americans decidedly afterwards. There is no doubt about it. We are Catholics first and we love the Church more than we love any and all the governments of the world; and we love the Church more than we love our fathers and mothers, we love the church more than we love our children. Why? Because we are children of Jesus Christ, and He says, “Unless you leave father and mother, sisters and brothers, kinsfolk and acquaintances for My sake, you are not worthy of Me.” I love the people of America; I love the pe ople of every nation; I glory in their loyalty; but let the governments of the world steer clear of the Catholic Church; let the emperors, let the kings, let the Presidents not come in conflict with the head of the Catholic Church. Because the Catholic Church is everything to all the Catholics of the world, they renounce all nationalities where there is a question of loyalty to her. And why is it the Pope is so strong? Why is it that in this country, where we have only seven per cent of the population, the Catholic Church is so much feared? She is loved by all her children, and feared by everybody. Why is it the Pope is such a tremendous power? Why, the Pope is the rule of the world!&n bsp; All the emperors, all the kings, all the princes, all the Presidents of the world to-day are as these altar boys of mine. The Pope is the ruler of the world. Why? Because he is the ruler of the Catholics of the world, the Catholics of all the world would die for the rights of the Pope. He is the head of the Church, and they would de for the Church. And the Church is the Church of Jesus Christ, and they need not have any misgivings on that score; there need be no misconceptions there-the Catholics of the world are Catholics first and always; they are Americans, they are Germans, they are French, or they are English afterward.”” - Priest Phelan (Editor of THE WESTERN WATCHMAN, JUNE 27,1912 FROM THE ARTICLE “Catholics are Royal Now: They Will Be Divine” delivered in a sermon on June 30, 1912. Cited from THE POPE - CHIEF OF WHITE SLAVERS, by Jeremiah Crowley, self published.)
“LET THE PRIEST APPROACH THE ALTAR AS ANOTHER CHRIST.”
Click on link above to read Quotations from Alphonsus De Liguori from THE DIGNITY AND DUTY OF THE PRIEST, and closely read the content of his statements, which declare the priest to be the “soul winner.”
KJV Revelation 17:18 - And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
“The continuance of Popery depends upon this country alone. Extinguish it in the United States , and it dies everywhere. The old world is sick of it; it has cursed it long enough. It is for us alone to say whether it shall live or die. Americans alone can sound the death knell of Popery…”
(Statement by William Hogan, Esquire, ex-priest and champion for American freedom in the 1800’s.)
THE ANSWER TO THE ABOVE IS THIS:
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Ecclesiastes 1:9, 10: “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”
The truth of these verses is demonstrated by a comparison of the current behavior of the chief executive of the United States , and no doubt will apply to his successor as well. Eternal truth has its application and demonstration in every generation, and ours is no exception. From the seminal work THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND by James Hill Burton , we cite the following declaration by the representatives of the people of Scotland concerning the Jesuit, Papist, murdering reprobate James VII of Scotland (James II of England ). The past is alive today! (From book VII, Pages 285-286, The History of Scotland, James Hill Burton, Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1905.)
“On the 4th of April, the Estates passed a vote declaring that King James had forfeited his right to the crown, and that the throne had become vacant.
This Vote contains an arraignment of the fugitive monarch for the offences held to justify the doom pronounced on him. Among these, his efforts for the establishment of Popery are conspicuous. They are followed by a catalogue of outrages against the liberties and rights of the people of Scotland: He had converted the limited monarchy with which he was intrusted into an arbitrary despotism; he had imposed oaths and tests contrary to law; he had exacted money without the consent of Parliament; he had covered the country with an irresponsible and oppressive standing army not sanctioned by the constitution; he had made the soldiers of this army supersede the constitutional judges, and inflict penalties; he had extended the use of judicial torture beyond its legal limits; he had suppressed the privileges of the municipal corporations because they were a refuge from tyranny; he had corrupted and intimidated the bench, dictating the judgments they were to give, and altering the constitution of the courts to make them pliant. For all these offences, “The Estates of the kingdom of Scotland find and declare that King James the Seventh, being a profest Papist, did assume the regal power and acted as king without taking the oath required by law, and hath by the advice of evil and wicked councilors invaded the fundamental constitution of this kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power, and hath exercised the same to the subversion of the Protestant religion, and the violation of the laws and liberties of the nation, inverting all the ends of governments, whereby he hath FOREFAULTED the right to the crown, and the throne is become VACANT.””
To anyone familiar with the activities of the chief executive and recent chief executives, there should be no dispute concerning the correlation between the past and the present. “Outrages against the liberties and rights of the people” will continue to be perpetrated against the populace, until “the people” are willing to do whatever is necessitated to defend themselves and restore their civil and religious liberties. This is the American heritage bequeathed Americans by the nations founders, but will Americans lay their fortunes, lives and sacred honor on the line, or continue to grovel like whipped dogs in a Popish kennel?
Below see the photograph of Bush presenting JP II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
“Our public interest depends on private character.”
“Sometimes in life we are called to do great things. But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love.”
“I will bring the values of our history to the care of our times.”
“An angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.”
George Bush inaugural speech, 2001
The private character of a man is indicated by his public actions. Whose history is it that gives George Bush the values he possesses? Is it a small thing of great love to present a Medal of Freedom to an international megalomaniac and tyrant? What is the name of this angel of whom Bush speaks? Perhaps it is the angel “whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
It has often been said that a man is known by the company he keeps. Or, “Evil communications corrupt good manners.” Birds of a feather flock together. Proverbs 23:27-28: “For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.”
President George Bush presents the pontiff with some gifts at the Vatican Saturday, June 9, 2007 . The Vatican said Bush had warm talks with the Pope. Proverbs 7:10-14: And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Revelation 18:3 “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”
(The following quotes and images reveal the abominations of the Romish sect; its disorientation from the true faith founded by the Lord Jesus Christ; and the threats it poses to the God-given rights and freedoms of people throughout the world as it seeks to establish a world government under its pope along with his master, the “black pope” Superior General of the Jesuits.)
“We of the Catholic Church are ready to go to Death for the Church. Under God, she is the supreme object of our worship. Tell us that we think more of the Church than we do of the United States; of course we do. Tell us we are Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen afterwards; of course we are. Tell us, in the conflict between the Church and the civil government we take the side of the Church; of course we do. Why, if the Government of the United States were at war with the Church, we would say tomorrow, “To hell wit h the Government of the United States;” and if the Church were at war, we would say, “To hell with all the governments of the world.” They say we are Catholics first and Americans decidedly afterwards. There is no doubt about it. We are Catholics first and we love the Church more than we love any and all the governments of the world; and we love the Church more than we love our fathers and mothers, we love the church more than we love our children. Why? Because we are children of Jesus Christ, and He says, “Unless you leave father and mother, sisters and brothers, kinsfolk and acquaintances for My sake, you are not worthy of Me.” I love the people of America; I love the pe ople of every nation; I glory in their loyalty; but let the governments of the world steer clear of the Catholic Church; let the emperors, let the kings, let the Presidents not come in conflict with the head of the Catholic Church. Because the Catholic Church is everything to all the Catholics of the world, they renounce all nationalities where there is a question of loyalty to her. And why is it the Pope is so strong? Why is it that in this country, where we have only seven per cent of the population, the Catholic Church is so much feared? She is loved by all her children, and feared by everybody. Why is it the Pope is such a tremendous power? Why, the Pope is the rule of the world!&n bsp; All the emperors, all the kings, all the princes, all the Presidents of the world to-day are as these altar boys of mine. The Pope is the ruler of the world. Why? Because he is the ruler of the Catholics of the world, the Catholics of all the world would die for the rights of the Pope. He is the head of the Church, and they would de for the Church. And the Church is the Church of Jesus Christ, and they need not have any misgivings on that score; there need be no misconceptions there-the Catholics of the world are Catholics first and always; they are Americans, they are Germans, they are French, or they are English afterward.”” - Priest Phelan (Editor of THE WESTERN WATCHMAN, JUNE 27,1912 FROM THE ARTICLE “Catholics are Royal Now: They Will Be Divine” delivered in a sermon on June 30, 1912. Cited from THE POPE - CHIEF OF WHITE SLAVERS, by Jeremiah Crowley, self published.)
“LET THE PRIEST APPROACH THE ALTAR AS ANOTHER CHRIST.”
Click on link above to read Quotations from Alphonsus De Liguori from THE DIGNITY AND DUTY OF THE PRIEST, and closely read the content of his statements, which declare the priest to be the “soul winner.”
KJV Revelation 17:18 - And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
“The continuance of Popery depends upon this country alone. Extinguish it in the United States , and it dies everywhere. The old world is sick of it; it has cursed it long enough. It is for us alone to say whether it shall live or die. Americans alone can sound the death knell of Popery…”
(Statement by William Hogan, Esquire, ex-priest and champion for American freedom in the 1800’s.)
THE ANSWER TO THE ABOVE IS THIS:
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Ecclesiastes 1:9, 10: “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”
The truth of these verses is demonstrated by a comparison of the current behavior of the chief executive of the United States , and no doubt will apply to his successor as well. Eternal truth has its application and demonstration in every generation, and ours is no exception. From the seminal work THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND by James Hill Burton , we cite the following declaration by the representatives of the people of Scotland concerning the Jesuit, Papist, murdering reprobate James VII of Scotland (James II of England ). The past is alive today! (From book VII, Pages 285-286, The History of Scotland, James Hill Burton, Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1905.)
“On the 4th of April, the Estates passed a vote declaring that King James had forfeited his right to the crown, and that the throne had become vacant.
This Vote contains an arraignment of the fugitive monarch for the offences held to justify the doom pronounced on him. Among these, his efforts for the establishment of Popery are conspicuous. They are followed by a catalogue of outrages against the liberties and rights of the people of Scotland: He had converted the limited monarchy with which he was intrusted into an arbitrary despotism; he had imposed oaths and tests contrary to law; he had exacted money without the consent of Parliament; he had covered the country with an irresponsible and oppressive standing army not sanctioned by the constitution; he had made the soldiers of this army supersede the constitutional judges, and inflict penalties; he had extended the use of judicial torture beyond its legal limits; he had suppressed the privileges of the municipal corporations because they were a refuge from tyranny; he had corrupted and intimidated the bench, dictating the judgments they were to give, and altering the constitution of the courts to make them pliant. For all these offences, “The Estates of the kingdom of Scotland find and declare that King James the Seventh, being a profest Papist, did assume the regal power and acted as king without taking the oath required by law, and hath by the advice of evil and wicked councilors invaded the fundamental constitution of this kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power, and hath exercised the same to the subversion of the Protestant religion, and the violation of the laws and liberties of the nation, inverting all the ends of governments, whereby he hath FOREFAULTED the right to the crown, and the throne is become VACANT.””
To anyone familiar with the activities of the chief executive and recent chief executives, there should be no dispute concerning the correlation between the past and the present. “Outrages against the liberties and rights of the people” will continue to be perpetrated against the populace, until “the people” are willing to do whatever is necessitated to defend themselves and restore their civil and religious liberties. This is the American heritage bequeathed Americans by the nations founders, but will Americans lay their fortunes, lives and sacred honor on the line, or continue to grovel like whipped dogs in a Popish kennel?
Below see the photograph of Bush presenting JP II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
“Our public interest depends on private character.”
“Sometimes in life we are called to do great things. But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love.”
“I will bring the values of our history to the care of our times.”
“An angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.”
George Bush inaugural speech, 2001
The private character of a man is indicated by his public actions. Whose history is it that gives George Bush the values he possesses? Is it a small thing of great love to present a Medal of Freedom to an international megalomaniac and tyrant? What is the name of this angel of whom Bush speaks? Perhaps it is the angel “whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
It has often been said that a man is known by the company he keeps. Or, “Evil communications corrupt good manners.” Birds of a feather flock together. Proverbs 23:27-28: “For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.”
President George Bush presents the pontiff with some gifts at the Vatican Saturday, June 9, 2007 . The Vatican said Bush had warm talks with the Pope. Proverbs 7:10-14: And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Revelation 18:3 “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”
Friday, November 13, 2009
CONSTITUTIONALISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM
”The real struggle is…between constitutionalism and imperialism; between the effort to guarantee to every individual his inherent rights and the disposition to override, to ignore, or to deny them, no matter by whom it is entertained.”Democracy, as well as monarchy, may be imperial and unconstitutional. The will of many may be as arbitrary, as absolute, as unjust, and even as cruel as the will of one. Progress toward the recognition and the guarantee of all inherent rights can be made only by opposing imperialism in whatever guise it may appear, and by sustaining constitutionalism as a system of public guarantees. Imperialism and constitutionalism-these are the great landmarks. It is upon this frontier that the battle must be waged. What is the answer of democracy?”
“Regarded concretely, this conflict may be reduced to very simple terms. On the one hand are principles capable of clear statement and universal application-the immutable principles of justice based on mutual obligation. On the other hand are human personalities-often highly intelligent, plausible, eloquent, and sometimes personally attractive-who, in exchange for power promise to those who follow them rich rewards. Trust them, they pledge themselves, they will reapportion the wealth of the world, they will so reconstruct society, that those who have felt themselves outstripped in the race of life shall wear its laurels, shall rejoice in plenty, and shall rule where they have served.
Citations from The People’s Government by David Jayne Hill
(President of Bucknell & Univ. of Rochester (1850-1932); Assistant Secretary of State (1898-1903); Minister to Switzerland (1903-1905); Minister to Netherlands (1905-1908); and Minister to Germany (1908-1911).)
”The real struggle is…between constitutionalism and imperialism; between the effort to guarantee to every individual his inherent rights and the disposition to override, to ignore, or to deny them, no matter by whom it is entertained.”Democracy, as well as monarchy, may be imperial and unconstitutional. The will of many may be as arbitrary, as absolute, as unjust, and even as cruel as the will of one. Progress toward the recognition and the guarantee of all inherent rights can be made only by opposing imperialism in whatever guise it may appear, and by sustaining constitutionalism as a system of public guarantees. Imperialism and constitutionalism-these are the great landmarks. It is upon this frontier that the battle must be waged. What is the answer of democracy?”
“Regarded concretely, this conflict may be reduced to very simple terms. On the one hand are principles capable of clear statement and universal application-the immutable principles of justice based on mutual obligation. On the other hand are human personalities-often highly intelligent, plausible, eloquent, and sometimes personally attractive-who, in exchange for power promise to those who follow them rich rewards. Trust them, they pledge themselves, they will reapportion the wealth of the world, they will so reconstruct society, that those who have felt themselves outstripped in the race of life shall wear its laurels, shall rejoice in plenty, and shall rule where they have served.
Citations from The People’s Government by David Jayne Hill
(President of Bucknell & Univ. of Rochester (1850-1932); Assistant Secretary of State (1898-1903); Minister to Switzerland (1903-1905); Minister to Netherlands (1905-1908); and Minister to Germany (1908-1911).)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Ignatius, Spying and Sedition-From A Work in Progress copyright 2009 N.C.Turner
Ignatius, Spying and Sedition-From A Work in Progress
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The nativity of Ignatius in the mountainous Basque region of Spain would seem an unlikely place to produce a son that would go forth conquering and to conquer in the spiritual realm, though the physical situation of his birth leant itself to a hardiness of constitution in body and soul. The proponents and lovers of the system of Ignatius admit that he was a most unpromising student in academic and religious matters, passionate for personal glory, and desirous of the recognition of the great men of the world. Despite his own deficiencies of body and mind, he achieved the glory he sought and the notice he desired: a hero and saint to his friends and followers; a devil, liar and thief to his detractors. He had grown up in a home with a father and brothers (Inigo was one of nine sons in his family, all of whom entered military service) who had ties to the Spanish chivalric orders modeled upon the pattern of the Knights Templar, an environment that filled his head with the noble deeds of warriors of the faith, and likely exposed him to the esoteric arts and occult traditions preserved in the Templars. It was suspected by the Inquisition that Ignatius was a member of the “Alumbrados,” Ignatius was denounced to its courts, but was released from prison after forty days, and then jailed again for forty-two days. Charges against him by local operatives of the Inquisition appear to have been repeatedly overturned by their superiors. Ignatius seems to have been granted some preferment and protection from the highest levels of the Spanish Court and Catholic authorities that caused him to escape the clutches of the Inquisition. The definition of the term in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia is as follows: “Alumbrados-The name assumed by some false mystics who appeared in Spain in the sixteenth century and claimed to have direct intercourse with God. They held that the human soul can reach such a degree of perfection that it contemplates even in the present life the essence of God and comprehends the mystery of the Trinity. All external worship, they declared, is superfluous, the reception of the sacraments useless, and sin impossible in this state of complete union with Him Who is Perfection Itself. Carnal desires may be indulged and other sinful actions committed freely without staining the soul. The highest perfection attainable by the Christian consists in the elimination of all activity, the loss of individuality, and complete absorption in God.” This description of Illuminism is a description of the spiritual basis of Jesuitism. The principle that sin could be committed without fear or guilt was the doctrine of the Alumbrados, and became the doctrine of the Jesuits. Jesuit James Broderick states in his 1956 work “Saint Ignatius Loyola” that Ignatius saw “something in the air close to him, which gave him much satisfaction because it was exceeding beautiful…it seemed to somehow have the form of a serpent, with many things that shone like eyes, though they were not eyes.” (Page 92) It appeared to him for a “period of fifteen years,” concurrent with his visions of Mary, Jesus Christ, and “The Holy Trinity under the figure of three keys. This was accompanied with so many tears and so much sobbing that he could not control himself.” (St. Ignatius’ Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 22.) According to Catholic definition, Ignatius was an “Alumbrado” or Illuminist. The Society of Jesus is the repository of the ancient esoteric traditions, occult practices, and syncretistic practices of the Templars. These occult threads converge and intertwine in the Jesuit Order doctrinally with the teaching that absolute submission to a spiritual superior can and will result in a state of perfection where no action commanded and then committed can ever be sin.
Inigo was admitted to the Roman Catholic priesthood at “an early age” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913) and “tonsured” but was for some “unknown reason” released from his vows. (The release from or breaking of monastic and clerical vows is reprehended by all Romanist authors concerning Martin Luther and the other Reformers, but is passed over with a roaring silence by Catholic writers.) Subsequent to this, young Inigo was sent to the home of the contador mayor (chief treasurer) of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, where he served in their court in some capacity which is not agreed upon by the Catholic writers. It is certain that he learned something of his host’s book keeping and banking profession and this would well account for the later mechanical fashion and form of the Spiritual Exercises. This training would also familiarize the young Spaniard with methods of handling and increasing acquired wealth. His later history and that of his Order reveal an astuteness and acumen in dealing with money, lands, and properties endowed upon the Jesuits by their wealthy dupes. It is to be well remembered that every “religious” takes a “vow of poverty,” only to then precede living from the money and labor of others. Ignatius during his early years was a beggar, begging money from other men that he might devote himself to study and his spiritual pursuits. In rejection of the command, “That if any would not work, neither should he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10) he whole heartedly sought the wealth of others for his own benefit. The Jesuit painted picture of a disheveled itinerant wanderer and religious student begging along a roadside cannot be entirely correct or honest. “He went to great pains to find an employer.” (Ignatius’s Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 56.) Monks and friars of his acquaintance “found it impossible to get an employer for him.” (Ibid. Previous) One then suggested to him that he leave Paris to go beg in Flanders, where he could get enough money in two months to last him a year. “Once he went over to England and brought back a larger sum in alms that he had been accustomed to do in former years.” (Ignatius’s Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 53) In the summer of 1530, the supposed destitute, wandering hallucinating pilgrim student had the wherewithal and connections to visit “London” “for the purpose of collecting alms from the numerous Spaniards who at that time resided in the English metropolis. His visit appears to have been a very brief one, and very little is known about it.” (The Jesuits in Great Britain, 1903, Routledge, Chapter One, First Page.)
What can be known is that the cosmopolitan, wealthy Spaniards living in England would have been ill disposed to endow an un-introduced, ragged beggar with alms who only some short years before had been imprisoned twice in Spain (Alcala and Salamanca) on suspicions of heresy, being a spiritual deviant in violation of inquisitorial Canon Law. These Spaniards would have been merchant men and traders of wines, leather, cork and other Spanish commodities; or retainers and household members of the Spanish Ambassador, whose residence was a portion of the house occupied by the Austin Friars. It is even possible that Ignatius received money or jewels through an intermediary from Catherine of Aragon, the divorced ex-Queen of Henry VIII, a woman much acknowledged for her Popish devotion who still retained her own Spanish ladies in waiting. One Jesuit has stated in his writings that Loyola may have visited Thomas More to peruse his substantial library to enhance his studies and devotions. Sir Thomas More was Lord Chancellor of England at the time, Ignatius’s ability to utilize his library filled with Latin works could only have been rudimentary. Far more likely Ignatius was on a political and religious mission, not just a begging mission, and that he was getting first hand accounts of the doings of King Henry VIII in his government.
“That he would visit the famous and not yet desecrated shrine of Thomas of Canterbury, either on his way to London or on his return to France, we may regard as well-nigh certain; and as more certain that he would sometimes go to pray at the tomb of St. Edward the Confessor in the abbey of Westminster. It is probable, too, that he was hospitably received at the Charterhouse by the Carthusian monks, whose brethren in Paris were amongst his closest friends, and who ere long would, with one unhappy exception, choose death in it most revolting forms rather than admit Henry’s impious claim. Some were hanged under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. With all these devoted men Ignatius had probably held conference on the miseries and dangers of his time.” (St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits, by Stewart Rose. Burns and Oates, London, 1891. Pages 153, 154.) Ignatius would have visited the shrine of the traitor Thomas A Becket, spent time with the seditious Carthusian monks who would not recognize Henry’s supremacy, and in between feasted and begged in “the houses of the Spanish merchants, who were clustered together near the river, in the neighbor hood of the Old Broad Street.” (Ibid, Previous, Page154.) The Catholic author has conjectured a very likely, but probably not full itinerary of Ignatius’s foot travel in Britain. The same author said that the “apostasy” of Henry “must have been as gall and wormwood to the heart of St. Ignatius, filling it at once with a righteous indignation at the wickedness of Henry and his counsellors.” (Ibid, Previous, Page 153.) Loyola’s presence would have been a comfort and encouragement to these seditious monks who possessed no private religion or assurance of salvation apart from the Papal blessing. He would have urged them forward in the resistance to Henry, and would have approved the same in Thomas More. The seditious aspect of Jesuitism is rooted in the faith and practice of its founder; no Jesuit has ever denied that its principles come from him.
Prior to his journey across the English Channel, on his first begging journey to Bruges and Antwerp, Loyola encountered a Spaniard of high repute and learning. “He met at Bruges the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives, who had recently returned from his post in England.” (The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland and England 1541-1588 by Thomas M. McCoog. Page 12, published by Brill, 1996.) Vives was a professor at the Louvain who had come to England at the invitation of Henry, acted as tutor to Princess Mary (later “Bloody Mary”), but was forced to leave England because he had declared himself against the divorce of Catherine of Aragon. (Encyclopedia Britannica,11th Edition, Handy Edition, 1911, Vol. 28, Pages 152-153.) This Spanish Papist was a connection for Ignatius to the Spaniards in England. He was an excellent Catholic role model for Ignatius, having produced a most bigoted and fanatic, religious murderess in his education of Mary. His up to date knowledge of England, together with letters of introduction from him would have provided open doors for Loyola throughout all strata of Catholic and Spanish society in England. Ignatius also would have been easily able to serve as a courier, bringing messages in and then gathering information for his Lord, the Pope. The beginning of Jesuit espionage and counterintelligence began with the founder of the Order, a calculating militarist who well understood the importance of reconnaissance, logistics and planning.
This begging visit of Ignatius came at a crucial point in English history; just after Henry’s divorce of Catherine and subsequent to the fall of Cardinal Wolsey from the Lord Chancellorship. Thomas Cromwell, a man favorably disposed towards what became Protestantism, was rising in the King’s favor. The dissolution of the major monasteries of England was imminent, the monks and nuns of England were held in disrepute, and the gospel of the grace of God was being heard, read and received by many in England. Roman Catholicism was coming on hard times in the island, collapsing under the weight of its own evils, but even as it sunk, its future champion visited the city on the Thames. Ignatius, still a son of Spanish nobility, now loyal son of the Church, was received and funded by wealthy Spaniards and nobles. This indicates he bore with him some form of official sanction from Rome, Spain, or both. The same man whom women fled from and children stoned is found moving among well dressed, well mannered and wealthy people with guile and success. The mad ascetic moves from the cave to the cathedral with too much ease and too ready an acceptance-an acceptance that strains credulity. His brief but rather successful trip to London appears to have had the approval of some higher power, to have not been carried out on a fancy or whim, at pivotal point in his personal history and that of England. In light of his subsequent doings, it would be foolish to believe that begging was the sole purpose of this visit. Religion and politics converged into one at the onset of the Reformation; every religious change quickly brought political ramifications. Religion and politics was the program of Ignatius from the inception of his Order. There is no reason to think his mission to England was anything less.
The early training of Loyola would later bear fruit in the spiritual surveillance, physical espionage, and a “human resource” inventory system that was developed within the Society. “The detective system which prevails to so iniquitous an extent amongst the Jesuits must prevent friendship by destroying mutual confidence. Loyola was an admirable model for the imitation of his followers in this respect. When in the immediate vicinity of his brother’s castle, to which he was most cordially invited, he passed it coldly by without even a sigh for “auld Lang syne;” and long afterwards when a letter from his brother was placed in his hand, the wretch, proving himself to be a true apostate, as being “without natural affection” threw it unopened into the fire which was burning before him! Yet Loyola was often affected by a disease in the eyes, caused by excessive weeping while delivering his singularly pathetic and powerful discourse!” Full dictatorial surveillance based on the Jesuit model was openly implemented in Western Europe under the Gestapo, and this was improved and expanded upon to control and permeate the intelligence agencies of all nations. It has birthed as well a fraternity of men who have demonstrated the ability to amass the wealth of the nations in heaps and piles across the globe for use to achieve the designs for world domination.
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The nativity of Ignatius in the mountainous Basque region of Spain would seem an unlikely place to produce a son that would go forth conquering and to conquer in the spiritual realm, though the physical situation of his birth leant itself to a hardiness of constitution in body and soul. The proponents and lovers of the system of Ignatius admit that he was a most unpromising student in academic and religious matters, passionate for personal glory, and desirous of the recognition of the great men of the world. Despite his own deficiencies of body and mind, he achieved the glory he sought and the notice he desired: a hero and saint to his friends and followers; a devil, liar and thief to his detractors. He had grown up in a home with a father and brothers (Inigo was one of nine sons in his family, all of whom entered military service) who had ties to the Spanish chivalric orders modeled upon the pattern of the Knights Templar, an environment that filled his head with the noble deeds of warriors of the faith, and likely exposed him to the esoteric arts and occult traditions preserved in the Templars. It was suspected by the Inquisition that Ignatius was a member of the “Alumbrados,” Ignatius was denounced to its courts, but was released from prison after forty days, and then jailed again for forty-two days. Charges against him by local operatives of the Inquisition appear to have been repeatedly overturned by their superiors. Ignatius seems to have been granted some preferment and protection from the highest levels of the Spanish Court and Catholic authorities that caused him to escape the clutches of the Inquisition. The definition of the term in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia is as follows: “Alumbrados-The name assumed by some false mystics who appeared in Spain in the sixteenth century and claimed to have direct intercourse with God. They held that the human soul can reach such a degree of perfection that it contemplates even in the present life the essence of God and comprehends the mystery of the Trinity. All external worship, they declared, is superfluous, the reception of the sacraments useless, and sin impossible in this state of complete union with Him Who is Perfection Itself. Carnal desires may be indulged and other sinful actions committed freely without staining the soul. The highest perfection attainable by the Christian consists in the elimination of all activity, the loss of individuality, and complete absorption in God.” This description of Illuminism is a description of the spiritual basis of Jesuitism. The principle that sin could be committed without fear or guilt was the doctrine of the Alumbrados, and became the doctrine of the Jesuits. Jesuit James Broderick states in his 1956 work “Saint Ignatius Loyola” that Ignatius saw “something in the air close to him, which gave him much satisfaction because it was exceeding beautiful…it seemed to somehow have the form of a serpent, with many things that shone like eyes, though they were not eyes.” (Page 92) It appeared to him for a “period of fifteen years,” concurrent with his visions of Mary, Jesus Christ, and “The Holy Trinity under the figure of three keys. This was accompanied with so many tears and so much sobbing that he could not control himself.” (St. Ignatius’ Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 22.) According to Catholic definition, Ignatius was an “Alumbrado” or Illuminist. The Society of Jesus is the repository of the ancient esoteric traditions, occult practices, and syncretistic practices of the Templars. These occult threads converge and intertwine in the Jesuit Order doctrinally with the teaching that absolute submission to a spiritual superior can and will result in a state of perfection where no action commanded and then committed can ever be sin.
Inigo was admitted to the Roman Catholic priesthood at “an early age” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913) and “tonsured” but was for some “unknown reason” released from his vows. (The release from or breaking of monastic and clerical vows is reprehended by all Romanist authors concerning Martin Luther and the other Reformers, but is passed over with a roaring silence by Catholic writers.) Subsequent to this, young Inigo was sent to the home of the contador mayor (chief treasurer) of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, where he served in their court in some capacity which is not agreed upon by the Catholic writers. It is certain that he learned something of his host’s book keeping and banking profession and this would well account for the later mechanical fashion and form of the Spiritual Exercises. This training would also familiarize the young Spaniard with methods of handling and increasing acquired wealth. His later history and that of his Order reveal an astuteness and acumen in dealing with money, lands, and properties endowed upon the Jesuits by their wealthy dupes. It is to be well remembered that every “religious” takes a “vow of poverty,” only to then precede living from the money and labor of others. Ignatius during his early years was a beggar, begging money from other men that he might devote himself to study and his spiritual pursuits. In rejection of the command, “That if any would not work, neither should he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10) he whole heartedly sought the wealth of others for his own benefit. The Jesuit painted picture of a disheveled itinerant wanderer and religious student begging along a roadside cannot be entirely correct or honest. “He went to great pains to find an employer.” (Ignatius’s Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 56.) Monks and friars of his acquaintance “found it impossible to get an employer for him.” (Ibid. Previous) One then suggested to him that he leave Paris to go beg in Flanders, where he could get enough money in two months to last him a year. “Once he went over to England and brought back a larger sum in alms that he had been accustomed to do in former years.” (Ignatius’s Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 53) In the summer of 1530, the supposed destitute, wandering hallucinating pilgrim student had the wherewithal and connections to visit “London” “for the purpose of collecting alms from the numerous Spaniards who at that time resided in the English metropolis. His visit appears to have been a very brief one, and very little is known about it.” (The Jesuits in Great Britain, 1903, Routledge, Chapter One, First Page.)
What can be known is that the cosmopolitan, wealthy Spaniards living in England would have been ill disposed to endow an un-introduced, ragged beggar with alms who only some short years before had been imprisoned twice in Spain (Alcala and Salamanca) on suspicions of heresy, being a spiritual deviant in violation of inquisitorial Canon Law. These Spaniards would have been merchant men and traders of wines, leather, cork and other Spanish commodities; or retainers and household members of the Spanish Ambassador, whose residence was a portion of the house occupied by the Austin Friars. It is even possible that Ignatius received money or jewels through an intermediary from Catherine of Aragon, the divorced ex-Queen of Henry VIII, a woman much acknowledged for her Popish devotion who still retained her own Spanish ladies in waiting. One Jesuit has stated in his writings that Loyola may have visited Thomas More to peruse his substantial library to enhance his studies and devotions. Sir Thomas More was Lord Chancellor of England at the time, Ignatius’s ability to utilize his library filled with Latin works could only have been rudimentary. Far more likely Ignatius was on a political and religious mission, not just a begging mission, and that he was getting first hand accounts of the doings of King Henry VIII in his government.
“That he would visit the famous and not yet desecrated shrine of Thomas of Canterbury, either on his way to London or on his return to France, we may regard as well-nigh certain; and as more certain that he would sometimes go to pray at the tomb of St. Edward the Confessor in the abbey of Westminster. It is probable, too, that he was hospitably received at the Charterhouse by the Carthusian monks, whose brethren in Paris were amongst his closest friends, and who ere long would, with one unhappy exception, choose death in it most revolting forms rather than admit Henry’s impious claim. Some were hanged under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. With all these devoted men Ignatius had probably held conference on the miseries and dangers of his time.” (St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits, by Stewart Rose. Burns and Oates, London, 1891. Pages 153, 154.) Ignatius would have visited the shrine of the traitor Thomas A Becket, spent time with the seditious Carthusian monks who would not recognize Henry’s supremacy, and in between feasted and begged in “the houses of the Spanish merchants, who were clustered together near the river, in the neighbor hood of the Old Broad Street.” (Ibid, Previous, Page154.) The Catholic author has conjectured a very likely, but probably not full itinerary of Ignatius’s foot travel in Britain. The same author said that the “apostasy” of Henry “must have been as gall and wormwood to the heart of St. Ignatius, filling it at once with a righteous indignation at the wickedness of Henry and his counsellors.” (Ibid, Previous, Page 153.) Loyola’s presence would have been a comfort and encouragement to these seditious monks who possessed no private religion or assurance of salvation apart from the Papal blessing. He would have urged them forward in the resistance to Henry, and would have approved the same in Thomas More. The seditious aspect of Jesuitism is rooted in the faith and practice of its founder; no Jesuit has ever denied that its principles come from him.
Prior to his journey across the English Channel, on his first begging journey to Bruges and Antwerp, Loyola encountered a Spaniard of high repute and learning. “He met at Bruges the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives, who had recently returned from his post in England.” (The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland and England 1541-1588 by Thomas M. McCoog. Page 12, published by Brill, 1996.) Vives was a professor at the Louvain who had come to England at the invitation of Henry, acted as tutor to Princess Mary (later “Bloody Mary”), but was forced to leave England because he had declared himself against the divorce of Catherine of Aragon. (Encyclopedia Britannica,11th Edition, Handy Edition, 1911, Vol. 28, Pages 152-153.) This Spanish Papist was a connection for Ignatius to the Spaniards in England. He was an excellent Catholic role model for Ignatius, having produced a most bigoted and fanatic, religious murderess in his education of Mary. His up to date knowledge of England, together with letters of introduction from him would have provided open doors for Loyola throughout all strata of Catholic and Spanish society in England. Ignatius also would have been easily able to serve as a courier, bringing messages in and then gathering information for his Lord, the Pope. The beginning of Jesuit espionage and counterintelligence began with the founder of the Order, a calculating militarist who well understood the importance of reconnaissance, logistics and planning.
This begging visit of Ignatius came at a crucial point in English history; just after Henry’s divorce of Catherine and subsequent to the fall of Cardinal Wolsey from the Lord Chancellorship. Thomas Cromwell, a man favorably disposed towards what became Protestantism, was rising in the King’s favor. The dissolution of the major monasteries of England was imminent, the monks and nuns of England were held in disrepute, and the gospel of the grace of God was being heard, read and received by many in England. Roman Catholicism was coming on hard times in the island, collapsing under the weight of its own evils, but even as it sunk, its future champion visited the city on the Thames. Ignatius, still a son of Spanish nobility, now loyal son of the Church, was received and funded by wealthy Spaniards and nobles. This indicates he bore with him some form of official sanction from Rome, Spain, or both. The same man whom women fled from and children stoned is found moving among well dressed, well mannered and wealthy people with guile and success. The mad ascetic moves from the cave to the cathedral with too much ease and too ready an acceptance-an acceptance that strains credulity. His brief but rather successful trip to London appears to have had the approval of some higher power, to have not been carried out on a fancy or whim, at pivotal point in his personal history and that of England. In light of his subsequent doings, it would be foolish to believe that begging was the sole purpose of this visit. Religion and politics converged into one at the onset of the Reformation; every religious change quickly brought political ramifications. Religion and politics was the program of Ignatius from the inception of his Order. There is no reason to think his mission to England was anything less.
The early training of Loyola would later bear fruit in the spiritual surveillance, physical espionage, and a “human resource” inventory system that was developed within the Society. “The detective system which prevails to so iniquitous an extent amongst the Jesuits must prevent friendship by destroying mutual confidence. Loyola was an admirable model for the imitation of his followers in this respect. When in the immediate vicinity of his brother’s castle, to which he was most cordially invited, he passed it coldly by without even a sigh for “auld Lang syne;” and long afterwards when a letter from his brother was placed in his hand, the wretch, proving himself to be a true apostate, as being “without natural affection” threw it unopened into the fire which was burning before him! Yet Loyola was often affected by a disease in the eyes, caused by excessive weeping while delivering his singularly pathetic and powerful discourse!” Full dictatorial surveillance based on the Jesuit model was openly implemented in Western Europe under the Gestapo, and this was improved and expanded upon to control and permeate the intelligence agencies of all nations. It has birthed as well a fraternity of men who have demonstrated the ability to amass the wealth of the nations in heaps and piles across the globe for use to achieve the designs for world domination.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
A Historical Sketch Between the Jesuits and the Seculars in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Law, Thomas Graves (A Historical Sketch Between the Jesuits and the Seculars in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; 1889, Published by David Nutt, the Strand, London.)
(the Memorial Against the Jesuits, 1597, Drawn up by Bishop Fisher) “First their will is that in every Catholick house, (and such houses are in steed of a Church) either they themselves may be the pastor, or others deputed by them in their roomes…So holie, so godly, so religious would they seem to be; as nothing is holie, that they have not sanctified; no doctrine Catholick, and sound, that cometh not from them; no dispensation available, that is not granted by them; and which is worse, they have beaten into the heads of the most, that the Masse is not rightly, and orderly celebrated of any, but a Jesuit.”
“They use also to fawn upon men of noble birth, especially if they be rich, and inveigle them by all faire means to sell all they have, and enter into their Societe. Women also are induced by them to become Nunnes, and to leave such goods as they have to them. Which thing many that are godly-wise allow not.”
“but in this manner do they make merchandise of the conversion of England; thus they do dispose of the last wills of the sick; thus they do love to intermeddle with the marriages of many, with their temporal goods. And indeed with all things; Always taking that course with all men, that something happen to their share, having indeed in mind nothing, but their own gain. They scorn to come to anyone, exept they may be daintily and costly entertained; they look not after the cottage of the poor, nor minister their help to them, be there never so much need.”
Moreover, they are delighted with equivocation, or a subtle and dissembling kind of speech, as that to the scandal of others as that they are not ashamed to defend it in their public writings…They take pleasure also to scatter rumors, and to suggest certain novelties in the ears of the Catholicks, yea to forge and invent things that are not, insomuch as they are nowadays great liars; and it is come to pass, though they swear, men will not believe them.”
“ To conclude, omitting all other things (which are very many) I will only rehearse one, which I have heard many; that it is come to pass now, that the Catholicks stand I more fear of the Jesuits, than the hereticks. For the hereticks (say they) can but chasten the body only, but the Jesuits would wound both their bodies and their good name.”
(the Memorial Against the Jesuits, 1597, Drawn up by Bishop Fisher) “First their will is that in every Catholick house, (and such houses are in steed of a Church) either they themselves may be the pastor, or others deputed by them in their roomes…So holie, so godly, so religious would they seem to be; as nothing is holie, that they have not sanctified; no doctrine Catholick, and sound, that cometh not from them; no dispensation available, that is not granted by them; and which is worse, they have beaten into the heads of the most, that the Masse is not rightly, and orderly celebrated of any, but a Jesuit.”
“They use also to fawn upon men of noble birth, especially if they be rich, and inveigle them by all faire means to sell all they have, and enter into their Societe. Women also are induced by them to become Nunnes, and to leave such goods as they have to them. Which thing many that are godly-wise allow not.”
“but in this manner do they make merchandise of the conversion of England; thus they do dispose of the last wills of the sick; thus they do love to intermeddle with the marriages of many, with their temporal goods. And indeed with all things; Always taking that course with all men, that something happen to their share, having indeed in mind nothing, but their own gain. They scorn to come to anyone, exept they may be daintily and costly entertained; they look not after the cottage of the poor, nor minister their help to them, be there never so much need.”
Moreover, they are delighted with equivocation, or a subtle and dissembling kind of speech, as that to the scandal of others as that they are not ashamed to defend it in their public writings…They take pleasure also to scatter rumors, and to suggest certain novelties in the ears of the Catholicks, yea to forge and invent things that are not, insomuch as they are nowadays great liars; and it is come to pass, though they swear, men will not believe them.”
“ To conclude, omitting all other things (which are very many) I will only rehearse one, which I have heard many; that it is come to pass now, that the Catholicks stand I more fear of the Jesuits, than the hereticks. For the hereticks (say they) can but chasten the body only, but the Jesuits would wound both their bodies and their good name.”
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Statements of a Former Priest on How to Lose Your Country
Statements of a Former Priest
Posted by: Nelson Turner in Uncategorized
STATEMENTS OF WILLIAM HOGAN, ESQUIRE, EX-PRIEST OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CHAMPION OF AMERICAN FREEDOM
Hogan was active in the early to mid 1800’s and produced one of the most spiritual and violently verbose works about Popery. Possessed with knowledge and a view only an insider of the Catholic Church could have, Hogan gave repeated warnings to the nation of the bondage and moral corruption to come if the influence of Rome was not stopped. “He being dead yet speaketh.”
(From POPERY, AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS, AND AURICULAR CONFESSION AND POPISH NUNNERIES, published 1855 in Hartford by Silas Andrus and Son.)
“The continuance of Popery depends upon this country alone. Extinguish it in the United States, and it dies everywhere. The old world is sick of it; it has cursed it long enough. It is for us alone to say whether it shall live or die. Americans alone can sound the death knell of Popery…” Page 91
“The result of my experience is, that the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church are fatal to the morals of any people; at variance with sound national policy and pure religion. It is a rank and poisonous weed, which will flourish even in the soil of liberty. Would that I could eradicate it! Would that you would enable me to tear up this Upas, which is spreading its poison from one end of our land to the other! Would that you could aid me in muzzling those Popish bloodhounds, who are freely coursing over our eastern mountains and western valleys! Already they have scented blood, and I warn you to be on your guard or they will scent more.” Page 108
“He who argues with Catholic priests must have had his education with them; he must be of them and from among them. He must know, from experience, that they will stop at no falsehood where the good of the church is concerned; he must know that they will scruple at no forgery when they desire to establish any point of doctrine, fundamental or non-fundamental, which is taught by their church; he must be aware that it is a standing rule with Popish priests, in all their controversies with Protestants, to admit nothing and deny everything, and that, if driven into difficulty, they will have recourse to the archives of the church, where they keep piles of decretals, canons, rescripts, bulls, excommunications, interdicts, and c., ready for all emergencies; some of them dated three hundred to a thousand years before they were written or even thought of; showing more clearly, perhaps, than anything else, the extreme ignorance of mankind between the third and ninth centuries, when most of these forgeries were palmed upon the world. With the aid of these miserable forgeries, they attempt to prove, among other things, that the divine right of the Pope to the sovereignty of this world was acknowledged by the fathers of the church, in the earliest days of Christianity.” Page 10-11.
“A state of things may arise in this country, when its executive may be a Papist, its judiciary Papists, and a majority of its population may be Papists. These things are not beyond the range of possibility; and are you sure that your own descendants, and those of the pilgrim fathers, may not, one day or other, give this republic as a free gift to the head of the Papal church? You are strong-so was Rome. Your power now is irresistible-so was that of Rome and other countries. Your arms are invincible-so were those of Rome. You are now distinguished all over the world, for your progress in the arts and sciences; the world looks to you as models of patriotism and pure republicanism-so did the world once look at Rome. But what is Rome now, and what drove her from the high position she once occupied? I will tell you-the intrigues of the Popish church. And a similar fate awaits you, unless you cut off all connection, of whatever name, between the citizens of the United States and the Church of Rome. While this sink of iniquity breathes, it will carry with it destruction and death wherever it goeth.” Pages 14, 15.
“The history of the Popes, in all ages, shows that they never abandon any temporal or spiritual authority to which they lay claim; and had they the power of enforcing it now, they would exact from this country the same obedience which they did in the most benighted days of the middle ages.” Page 21.
“The Pope is a temporal prince. Like other kings and princes, he should never be permitted to meddle, directly or indirectly, temporally or spiritually, with this country. He should not be permitted to appoint bishop or priest to any church, diocese, living or office in the United States. The Pope’s bulls, rescripts, letters & c. should not be published or read from any pulpit this side the Atlantic; and though Roman Catholics should not be prevented from the free exercise of their religion, they should be compelled to do so without reference to foreign dictation. If they must have a Pope, let him be an American, and sworn to support our Constitution. Let him, and all Roman Catholics, be denied the right of voting, or of holding any office of honor, profit, or trust, until they forswear all allegiance, in spiritual as well as temporal affairs, to all foreign potentates and Popes. Until this is done, an oath of allegiance to this government, by a Roman Catholic, is entitled to no credit, and should not be received. This will appear evident to Americans, if they will turn their attention for a moment to the following oath, which is taken by every Romish bishop, before he is permitted to officiate, as such, in any of these United States: “I do solemnly swear, on the holy evangelist, and before Almighty God, to defend the domains of St. Peter against every aggressor; to preserve, augment, and extend the rights, honors, privileges, and powers of the LORD POPE, and his successors; to observe, and with all my might enforce, his decrees, ordinances, reservations, provisions, and all dispositions whatever, emanating from the COURT OF ROME; to persecute and combat, to the last extremity, heretics, schematics, all who will not pay to the sovereign pontiff all the obedience which the sovereign shall require.”
“While this oath is obligatory upon Romish bishops, they are not to be trusted. They should not be permitted to interfere, directly or indirectly, with the institutions, laws, or ordinances of any Protestant country. Their oaths should not be taken in courts of justice; their followers, every one of whom is bound by a similar oath of allegiance, should be excluded from our grand juries, from our petit juries, but more especially from the halls of legislation; for wherever and whenever the supposed interest of the Pope clashes with that of the civil authority, or even with the administration of reciprocal justice, a Papist, under the control of his bishop, will not hesitate to sacrifice the good of the country, the interest, life, and prosperity of his fellow being, for the good of the church. Of the truth of this, history abounds with examples, and Popish writers are replete with authorities.” Pages 22-23.
“Pope Boniface VIII says, “It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the Pope.” Bzovius, an orthodox Roman Catholic writer, whose authority no bishop or priest will venture to question, says of the Pope-“He is judge in heaven, and in all earthly jurisdiction supreme; he is the arbiter of the world.” Moscovius, another eminent Popish writer, informs us that, “God’s tribunal and The Pope’s tribunal are one and the same.”” Page 44
“Judge you, Americans, what safety there is for your republic, while you support and sustain among you a sect numbering two millions, who are sworn to uphold such doctrines as the foregoing. The very domestics in your houses are spies for the priests. Nothing transpires under your own roofs which is not immediately known to the bishop or priest to whom your servants confess.” Page 45
“Such is the avarice of the Popish church and Popish tyrants, that, if a farmer in Cuba kills even a beef for his own use, he must pay the government ten percent upon its value…..Do Americans desire this republic reduced to such a state of vassalage as this? Or will you profit by those lessons, which experience is daily teaching you? Wherever you turn your eyes, and see Popery in the ascendant, you will find it in the Pandora’s box, out of which every curse has issued, without even leaving hope behind. It should therefore be suppressed on its appearance in any country. It should be the duty of every good man to extirpate it, and sweep it, if possible, from the face of the globe. It is nothing better than a political machine, cunningly devised, for the propagation of despotism. It is the masterpiece of satanic wickedness. Execrated and exploded be this infernal machine! And thanks forever be to that God, who has shown me it intricacies, in time to save me from becoming what, I know of my own knowledge, what Roman Catholic priests are-hypocrites, infidels, and licentious debauchees, under the mask of sanctity and holiness. Their religion is supported by curses; as I have before stated, and will prove form the doctrines of their own church.” Page 64
“The Popish priests never deemed it prudent to pronounce this curse publicly, in the United States, but while I was among them, we never omitted to do so privately, on the morning of Thursday before Good Friday. It commences with the following words on the part of the Pope:- “We, therefore, following the ancient custom of our predecessors, of holy memory, do firstly-excommunicate, and curse, in the name of Almighty God, Father, son, and Holy Ghost, and by the authority of St. Peter and St. Paul, and by our own authority, all Heretics, Hussites, Wickliffites, Lutherans, Calvinists, Huguenots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, and all apostates from the faith, and all who read their books,” etc., etc. This curse includes every soul in the United States, who is not a Roman Catholic. Will you, Americans, give these men and their doctrines footing among you? Will they longer dare to curse you and your children with impunity?” Page 74
“I would again ask Americans whether Roman Catholic priests, or bishop, or the two millions of followers which they have in this country, are any longer to be trusted. I tell Americans, and I proclaim to the world, that they are spies upon our republic; they are the sworn foes of our laws, of our principles, and of our government; and they are untied by the most fearful oath never to rest while our religious liberty lasts, and to use every means which ingenuity can devise, and treachery and perjury can accomplish, to effect it overthrow, and substitute in its place, the religion of the Pope; a religion, if such a name can be given to a most infamous system of policy, which for sixteen hundred years has deluged Europe in blood.” Page 75-76
“This is the church, and her members are the men, whom you are countenancing among you. The Romish church never surrendered the right which she once claimed of destroying heretics. She only suspends it for the moment, until her strength and numbers shall enable her to enforce it. But there are some who will not believe this, especially when Catholic priests and bishops deny it. Many Protestants, who are natives of this country, and unacquainted with Roman Catholic doctrines, will not believe it. Many, even, of our Protestant clergymen will scarcely believe it: such is the craft and consummate falsehood of priests and bishops, that I have never met with one Protestant who entertained the most remote idea that keeping no faith with heretics, and persecuting them to death, formed any portion of the doctrine of the church of Rome.” Page 85
“The persecution and destruction of heretics, and the confiscation of their property, is an integral part of the Roman Catholic faith, and the watchword of Papists.” Page 89
“It was during this century, that the “GREATER EXCOMMUNICATION,” as it is called, was pronounced by the Pope, and the whole church, against all who should interfere with the clergy in the exercise of their temporal and spiritual rights. The curse was pronounced, by every parish priest, throughout the Papal year,-Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and All-Hallows day. The curse is in the following words, and is now repeated on the same days, by the Pope and all priests and bishops of the Romish church, not publicly, that they dare not do,-but in private. “Let them be accursed, eating and drinking, walking and sitting, speaking, and holding their peace, waking and sleeping, rowing and riding, laughing and weeping, in house and in field, in water and on land, in all places; cursed be their heads and their thoughts, their eyes and their ears, their tongues and their lips, their teeth and their throats, their shoulders and their breasts, their feet and their legs, their thighs and their inward parts; let them remain accursed, from the sole of the foot to the crown of their heads; and just as this candle (the curser has a lighted candle in his hand, which he extinguishes) is deprived of it present light, so let them be deprived of their souls in hell.” Page 94
“And as the Bible reading and Bible loving people now constitute a vast majority of our citizens, I call upon them to rise in the full force of their moral power and ward off from themselves and their children, the curse of Popery, or the fate of Wickliffe and his followers will most assuredly be theirs. Many of you Americans are followers of Wickliffe. You believe as he believed! You live as he lived! You love peace as he loved it. Do you wish to continue as you are now? Or, will you permit a flood of vile priests, monks, and nuns, to overrun your country, and seduce your children from the paths of virtue, in which your own example and the perusal of their bibles has aught them to walk?” Page 103
“The same power which authorizes them to officiate as priests empowers them to destroy heretics, whenever it is expedient; and is ready to absolve them from the commission of this foul deed. Thomas Aquinas, in his second book, chapter the third, page 58, says; “Heretics may justly be killed.” Page 112
“We know, from history, that Popery and liberty cannot co-exist in the same country. A Popish government has never advanced human happiness. It never promotes any object truly great or philanthropic. How deplorable would it be, did this country fall a prey to those who are trying to establish it among us. The truth is, Popish glory, the trappings of its court, have always been the silly objects of the Roman church, while the mass of her people has ever been left in the recesses of want, obscurity, and ignorance.
Americans, at present, seem sunk in a sort of political lethargy; and this taken advantage of, by foreign priests and Jesuits; but I would tell those disturbers of our peace, not to trust too much to this apparent sluggishness; a calm often proceeds a storm; the continued insolence, abuses, and threats of Papists, may arose a young lion, and, if I mistake it not-although appearances are at present against it-His HOLINESS and his minions, who are trying to set up a power in this country unknown to our constitution, and not enumerated in our bill of rights, may have occasion to tremble.
To effect this, however, without the shedding of blood, it is necessary-indispensably necessary- that no papist should hold office, or even vote, until he ceases to have any connection, or hold any alliance with the Pope, who is a foreign potentate, as well as head of the church. Let them come amongst us, if they will, but let it be with healing on their wings, and not to disturb our peace and tranquility. Let them prove themselves the friends of liberty, religion, and mankind, and Americans will receive them with open arms, admit them to a full participation in their own privileges, and extend to them the hand of friendship; but never let this be done, until they forswear expressly and without mental reservation, all allegiance, of whatever kind, and under whatever name, to the Pope of Rome, who is a foreign potentate, and acknowledged as such by the powers of Europe. When a Papist refuses to do this, trust him not. I repeat it, trust him not, Americans. He is a spy amongst you, a traitor to your country, and the sworn enemy of your religion and your liberties.”
Posted by: Nelson Turner in Uncategorized
STATEMENTS OF WILLIAM HOGAN, ESQUIRE, EX-PRIEST OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CHAMPION OF AMERICAN FREEDOM
Hogan was active in the early to mid 1800’s and produced one of the most spiritual and violently verbose works about Popery. Possessed with knowledge and a view only an insider of the Catholic Church could have, Hogan gave repeated warnings to the nation of the bondage and moral corruption to come if the influence of Rome was not stopped. “He being dead yet speaketh.”
(From POPERY, AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS, AND AURICULAR CONFESSION AND POPISH NUNNERIES, published 1855 in Hartford by Silas Andrus and Son.)
“The continuance of Popery depends upon this country alone. Extinguish it in the United States, and it dies everywhere. The old world is sick of it; it has cursed it long enough. It is for us alone to say whether it shall live or die. Americans alone can sound the death knell of Popery…” Page 91
“The result of my experience is, that the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church are fatal to the morals of any people; at variance with sound national policy and pure religion. It is a rank and poisonous weed, which will flourish even in the soil of liberty. Would that I could eradicate it! Would that you would enable me to tear up this Upas, which is spreading its poison from one end of our land to the other! Would that you could aid me in muzzling those Popish bloodhounds, who are freely coursing over our eastern mountains and western valleys! Already they have scented blood, and I warn you to be on your guard or they will scent more.” Page 108
“He who argues with Catholic priests must have had his education with them; he must be of them and from among them. He must know, from experience, that they will stop at no falsehood where the good of the church is concerned; he must know that they will scruple at no forgery when they desire to establish any point of doctrine, fundamental or non-fundamental, which is taught by their church; he must be aware that it is a standing rule with Popish priests, in all their controversies with Protestants, to admit nothing and deny everything, and that, if driven into difficulty, they will have recourse to the archives of the church, where they keep piles of decretals, canons, rescripts, bulls, excommunications, interdicts, and c., ready for all emergencies; some of them dated three hundred to a thousand years before they were written or even thought of; showing more clearly, perhaps, than anything else, the extreme ignorance of mankind between the third and ninth centuries, when most of these forgeries were palmed upon the world. With the aid of these miserable forgeries, they attempt to prove, among other things, that the divine right of the Pope to the sovereignty of this world was acknowledged by the fathers of the church, in the earliest days of Christianity.” Page 10-11.
“A state of things may arise in this country, when its executive may be a Papist, its judiciary Papists, and a majority of its population may be Papists. These things are not beyond the range of possibility; and are you sure that your own descendants, and those of the pilgrim fathers, may not, one day or other, give this republic as a free gift to the head of the Papal church? You are strong-so was Rome. Your power now is irresistible-so was that of Rome and other countries. Your arms are invincible-so were those of Rome. You are now distinguished all over the world, for your progress in the arts and sciences; the world looks to you as models of patriotism and pure republicanism-so did the world once look at Rome. But what is Rome now, and what drove her from the high position she once occupied? I will tell you-the intrigues of the Popish church. And a similar fate awaits you, unless you cut off all connection, of whatever name, between the citizens of the United States and the Church of Rome. While this sink of iniquity breathes, it will carry with it destruction and death wherever it goeth.” Pages 14, 15.
“The history of the Popes, in all ages, shows that they never abandon any temporal or spiritual authority to which they lay claim; and had they the power of enforcing it now, they would exact from this country the same obedience which they did in the most benighted days of the middle ages.” Page 21.
“The Pope is a temporal prince. Like other kings and princes, he should never be permitted to meddle, directly or indirectly, temporally or spiritually, with this country. He should not be permitted to appoint bishop or priest to any church, diocese, living or office in the United States. The Pope’s bulls, rescripts, letters & c. should not be published or read from any pulpit this side the Atlantic; and though Roman Catholics should not be prevented from the free exercise of their religion, they should be compelled to do so without reference to foreign dictation. If they must have a Pope, let him be an American, and sworn to support our Constitution. Let him, and all Roman Catholics, be denied the right of voting, or of holding any office of honor, profit, or trust, until they forswear all allegiance, in spiritual as well as temporal affairs, to all foreign potentates and Popes. Until this is done, an oath of allegiance to this government, by a Roman Catholic, is entitled to no credit, and should not be received. This will appear evident to Americans, if they will turn their attention for a moment to the following oath, which is taken by every Romish bishop, before he is permitted to officiate, as such, in any of these United States: “I do solemnly swear, on the holy evangelist, and before Almighty God, to defend the domains of St. Peter against every aggressor; to preserve, augment, and extend the rights, honors, privileges, and powers of the LORD POPE, and his successors; to observe, and with all my might enforce, his decrees, ordinances, reservations, provisions, and all dispositions whatever, emanating from the COURT OF ROME; to persecute and combat, to the last extremity, heretics, schematics, all who will not pay to the sovereign pontiff all the obedience which the sovereign shall require.”
“While this oath is obligatory upon Romish bishops, they are not to be trusted. They should not be permitted to interfere, directly or indirectly, with the institutions, laws, or ordinances of any Protestant country. Their oaths should not be taken in courts of justice; their followers, every one of whom is bound by a similar oath of allegiance, should be excluded from our grand juries, from our petit juries, but more especially from the halls of legislation; for wherever and whenever the supposed interest of the Pope clashes with that of the civil authority, or even with the administration of reciprocal justice, a Papist, under the control of his bishop, will not hesitate to sacrifice the good of the country, the interest, life, and prosperity of his fellow being, for the good of the church. Of the truth of this, history abounds with examples, and Popish writers are replete with authorities.” Pages 22-23.
“Pope Boniface VIII says, “It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the Pope.” Bzovius, an orthodox Roman Catholic writer, whose authority no bishop or priest will venture to question, says of the Pope-“He is judge in heaven, and in all earthly jurisdiction supreme; he is the arbiter of the world.” Moscovius, another eminent Popish writer, informs us that, “God’s tribunal and The Pope’s tribunal are one and the same.”” Page 44
“Judge you, Americans, what safety there is for your republic, while you support and sustain among you a sect numbering two millions, who are sworn to uphold such doctrines as the foregoing. The very domestics in your houses are spies for the priests. Nothing transpires under your own roofs which is not immediately known to the bishop or priest to whom your servants confess.” Page 45
“Such is the avarice of the Popish church and Popish tyrants, that, if a farmer in Cuba kills even a beef for his own use, he must pay the government ten percent upon its value…..Do Americans desire this republic reduced to such a state of vassalage as this? Or will you profit by those lessons, which experience is daily teaching you? Wherever you turn your eyes, and see Popery in the ascendant, you will find it in the Pandora’s box, out of which every curse has issued, without even leaving hope behind. It should therefore be suppressed on its appearance in any country. It should be the duty of every good man to extirpate it, and sweep it, if possible, from the face of the globe. It is nothing better than a political machine, cunningly devised, for the propagation of despotism. It is the masterpiece of satanic wickedness. Execrated and exploded be this infernal machine! And thanks forever be to that God, who has shown me it intricacies, in time to save me from becoming what, I know of my own knowledge, what Roman Catholic priests are-hypocrites, infidels, and licentious debauchees, under the mask of sanctity and holiness. Their religion is supported by curses; as I have before stated, and will prove form the doctrines of their own church.” Page 64
“The Popish priests never deemed it prudent to pronounce this curse publicly, in the United States, but while I was among them, we never omitted to do so privately, on the morning of Thursday before Good Friday. It commences with the following words on the part of the Pope:- “We, therefore, following the ancient custom of our predecessors, of holy memory, do firstly-excommunicate, and curse, in the name of Almighty God, Father, son, and Holy Ghost, and by the authority of St. Peter and St. Paul, and by our own authority, all Heretics, Hussites, Wickliffites, Lutherans, Calvinists, Huguenots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, and all apostates from the faith, and all who read their books,” etc., etc. This curse includes every soul in the United States, who is not a Roman Catholic. Will you, Americans, give these men and their doctrines footing among you? Will they longer dare to curse you and your children with impunity?” Page 74
“I would again ask Americans whether Roman Catholic priests, or bishop, or the two millions of followers which they have in this country, are any longer to be trusted. I tell Americans, and I proclaim to the world, that they are spies upon our republic; they are the sworn foes of our laws, of our principles, and of our government; and they are untied by the most fearful oath never to rest while our religious liberty lasts, and to use every means which ingenuity can devise, and treachery and perjury can accomplish, to effect it overthrow, and substitute in its place, the religion of the Pope; a religion, if such a name can be given to a most infamous system of policy, which for sixteen hundred years has deluged Europe in blood.” Page 75-76
“This is the church, and her members are the men, whom you are countenancing among you. The Romish church never surrendered the right which she once claimed of destroying heretics. She only suspends it for the moment, until her strength and numbers shall enable her to enforce it. But there are some who will not believe this, especially when Catholic priests and bishops deny it. Many Protestants, who are natives of this country, and unacquainted with Roman Catholic doctrines, will not believe it. Many, even, of our Protestant clergymen will scarcely believe it: such is the craft and consummate falsehood of priests and bishops, that I have never met with one Protestant who entertained the most remote idea that keeping no faith with heretics, and persecuting them to death, formed any portion of the doctrine of the church of Rome.” Page 85
“The persecution and destruction of heretics, and the confiscation of their property, is an integral part of the Roman Catholic faith, and the watchword of Papists.” Page 89
“It was during this century, that the “GREATER EXCOMMUNICATION,” as it is called, was pronounced by the Pope, and the whole church, against all who should interfere with the clergy in the exercise of their temporal and spiritual rights. The curse was pronounced, by every parish priest, throughout the Papal year,-Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and All-Hallows day. The curse is in the following words, and is now repeated on the same days, by the Pope and all priests and bishops of the Romish church, not publicly, that they dare not do,-but in private. “Let them be accursed, eating and drinking, walking and sitting, speaking, and holding their peace, waking and sleeping, rowing and riding, laughing and weeping, in house and in field, in water and on land, in all places; cursed be their heads and their thoughts, their eyes and their ears, their tongues and their lips, their teeth and their throats, their shoulders and their breasts, their feet and their legs, their thighs and their inward parts; let them remain accursed, from the sole of the foot to the crown of their heads; and just as this candle (the curser has a lighted candle in his hand, which he extinguishes) is deprived of it present light, so let them be deprived of their souls in hell.” Page 94
“And as the Bible reading and Bible loving people now constitute a vast majority of our citizens, I call upon them to rise in the full force of their moral power and ward off from themselves and their children, the curse of Popery, or the fate of Wickliffe and his followers will most assuredly be theirs. Many of you Americans are followers of Wickliffe. You believe as he believed! You live as he lived! You love peace as he loved it. Do you wish to continue as you are now? Or, will you permit a flood of vile priests, monks, and nuns, to overrun your country, and seduce your children from the paths of virtue, in which your own example and the perusal of their bibles has aught them to walk?” Page 103
“The same power which authorizes them to officiate as priests empowers them to destroy heretics, whenever it is expedient; and is ready to absolve them from the commission of this foul deed. Thomas Aquinas, in his second book, chapter the third, page 58, says; “Heretics may justly be killed.” Page 112
“We know, from history, that Popery and liberty cannot co-exist in the same country. A Popish government has never advanced human happiness. It never promotes any object truly great or philanthropic. How deplorable would it be, did this country fall a prey to those who are trying to establish it among us. The truth is, Popish glory, the trappings of its court, have always been the silly objects of the Roman church, while the mass of her people has ever been left in the recesses of want, obscurity, and ignorance.
Americans, at present, seem sunk in a sort of political lethargy; and this taken advantage of, by foreign priests and Jesuits; but I would tell those disturbers of our peace, not to trust too much to this apparent sluggishness; a calm often proceeds a storm; the continued insolence, abuses, and threats of Papists, may arose a young lion, and, if I mistake it not-although appearances are at present against it-His HOLINESS and his minions, who are trying to set up a power in this country unknown to our constitution, and not enumerated in our bill of rights, may have occasion to tremble.
To effect this, however, without the shedding of blood, it is necessary-indispensably necessary- that no papist should hold office, or even vote, until he ceases to have any connection, or hold any alliance with the Pope, who is a foreign potentate, as well as head of the church. Let them come amongst us, if they will, but let it be with healing on their wings, and not to disturb our peace and tranquility. Let them prove themselves the friends of liberty, religion, and mankind, and Americans will receive them with open arms, admit them to a full participation in their own privileges, and extend to them the hand of friendship; but never let this be done, until they forswear expressly and without mental reservation, all allegiance, of whatever kind, and under whatever name, to the Pope of Rome, who is a foreign potentate, and acknowledged as such by the powers of Europe. When a Papist refuses to do this, trust him not. I repeat it, trust him not, Americans. He is a spy amongst you, a traitor to your country, and the sworn enemy of your religion and your liberties.”
Pelagian Crypto-Catholic Dan Corner
Pelagian Crypto-Catholic Dan Corner
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CORNER, DAN (Cited from A CRITIQUE OF GAIL RIPLINGER’S SCHOLARSHIP AND KJV ONLYISM Evangelical Outreach, 1999.)
“KJV INACCURATE READINGS.” Heading on page 14.
“Again, there is no way to know how many people been misled by the KJV’s inaccuracies over the centuries. The truth is the Bible teaches a conditional security for the believer.” Page 40.
“In fact, our old Catholic bible doesn’t even provide marginal references back to the Apocrypha, like the 1611 KJV does! (I’m an ex-Catholic.)” Pages 41-42
“Furthermore, how many do you think were deceived into thinking Purgatory and praying for the dead are beliefs and practices from God based on this incredible 1611 KJV error? Do you think the KJV 1611 translators were led by the Holy Ghost to translate the Apocrypha?” Page 42.
“THE KJV, AN EXCELLENT CATHOLIC BIBLE- Besides placing the Apocrypha next to the word of God, the 1611 KJV also has marginal notes scattered throughout the Old and new Testaments that cross reference back to the Apocrypha! Even our old Catholic Bible doesn’t do this.” Page 44.
NOTICE THAT DAN CORNER TWICE CALLS WHAT IS OBVIOUSLY THE DOUAY-RHEIMS “OUR OLD CATHOLIC BIBLE.” This coupled with his doctrinal positions that are in line with Jesuit doctrine as espoused at Trent reveal him to still be a Catholic. Born again saved former Catholics I have known for years have all stated they would never speak in such a manner. Corner’s Freudian slip is showing here, and it got through all his revisions and corrections, providence blinding him so that the child of God could discern what he is.
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CORNER, DAN (Cited from A CRITIQUE OF GAIL RIPLINGER’S SCHOLARSHIP AND KJV ONLYISM Evangelical Outreach, 1999.)
“KJV INACCURATE READINGS.” Heading on page 14.
“Again, there is no way to know how many people been misled by the KJV’s inaccuracies over the centuries. The truth is the Bible teaches a conditional security for the believer.” Page 40.
“In fact, our old Catholic bible doesn’t even provide marginal references back to the Apocrypha, like the 1611 KJV does! (I’m an ex-Catholic.)” Pages 41-42
“Furthermore, how many do you think were deceived into thinking Purgatory and praying for the dead are beliefs and practices from God based on this incredible 1611 KJV error? Do you think the KJV 1611 translators were led by the Holy Ghost to translate the Apocrypha?” Page 42.
“THE KJV, AN EXCELLENT CATHOLIC BIBLE- Besides placing the Apocrypha next to the word of God, the 1611 KJV also has marginal notes scattered throughout the Old and new Testaments that cross reference back to the Apocrypha! Even our old Catholic Bible doesn’t do this.” Page 44.
NOTICE THAT DAN CORNER TWICE CALLS WHAT IS OBVIOUSLY THE DOUAY-RHEIMS “OUR OLD CATHOLIC BIBLE.” This coupled with his doctrinal positions that are in line with Jesuit doctrine as espoused at Trent reveal him to still be a Catholic. Born again saved former Catholics I have known for years have all stated they would never speak in such a manner. Corner’s Freudian slip is showing here, and it got through all his revisions and corrections, providence blinding him so that the child of God could discern what he is.
Gospel Liberty vs. Free Will
Gospel Liberty vs. Free Will
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GOSPEL LIBERTY VS. FREE WILL
KJV John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
KJV John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
“Salvation considered as derived from any power in man is the germinating principle of all errors and perversions.” (J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Preface to The History of the Great Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.)
True religion has as its source none other but the God that created the heavens and the earth. Righteousness, purity, holiness, and happiness cannot have as their source in whole or in part, anything from the corrupt, fallen, ruined and depraved creature of man. Man is shown in scripture to have a heart that imagines only evil continually and is desperately wicked. He is represented as being incapable of performing any spiritual good by his own means, and in fine, is said to be “altogether vanity.” Thus Christ declared that it was he who made men free, not themselves, and that those he makes free are free indeed. Free not in pretence, but in fact. Free not in name only, but in truth. Free not of themselves, but of God. Freed not by their own power, but by the power of God working in them to do his will, which becomes their will. Delivered by a strength not proceeding from within themselves, but by the might and outstretched arm of one who is “mighty to save” and “will do all his pleasure.” “The just shall live by faith,” and the faith by which the justified live is “not of themselves, It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” Freed from the chains of sin, self, and Satan, the Christian alone possesses anything remotely resembling a “free will” in the spiritual sense, for “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Cor. 3:17) This is the opening of the prison to them that are bound, the preaching of good tidings to the meek, the binding up of the brokenhearted, and the proclaiming of liberty to the captives. (Isaiah 61:1) This is the true gospel of Jesus Christ. This gospel when preached goes forth in power, accomplishing that which God pleases, prospering in the thing whereto he sends it. “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God,” so the word of God communicates and creates faith in those to whom God sends it, and they are “willing in the day of his power,” (Psalm 110:3) not the hour of their power. Therefore the very willing to be cleansed and free from sin derives not from within man but by an unction from heaven. The faith given by God to believe in the propitiating death, the burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ excludes any boasting on man’s part, it being the work of God. Therefore the Christian Bible doctrine is that God alone is worthy of praise, and that his work alone has merit. “Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” (Revelation 5:13)
Those that depart from “the faith once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3) were prophesied of long ago, and have a spiritual forefather in Cain. They “depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” and “by good words and fair speeches deceive the heart of the simple,” preaching that “gain is godliness.” These apostates are “reprobate concerning the faith” and bring in “damnable heresies” that are a denial of the Lord that bought them. They are reprobate concerning “the faith.” The faith they do not pass muster on is the saving, sanctifying, and justifying faith of the very Son of God, who is called, “The Author and Finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 13:8) Jesus Christ said plainly that believing on Him was not a work of man, but a work of God wrought in man. Those that come to God “must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6) “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:29) We see then that believing in and upon Christ is uniquely a work attributed to God, and is not a work born of the will or flesh of man. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14) “If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.” (Isaiah 7:9) Those that do not believe these and the other words of Christ and God’s prophets as given in the Bible will never be rooted, grounded and settled “in the faith.” In a very real sense they are “children in whom is no faith.” (Deut. 32:20) Faith in the word of God is faith in Christ himself. Unbelief in the word of God is a denial of Christ. While we must readily acknowledge that a new Christian (one who has believed on Jesus Christ and his work in redemption, one who is “born again” by “the spirit”) may not know, understand or believe these truths concerning the work of God, it should be said that those that steadfastly deny the power of God and proclaim the power of man are none of his. “Without faith it is impossible to please” God and those in such condition are “unto every good work reprobate.”
Cain sought to come to God by the works of his hands, walking in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity, supposing his un-ordained bloodless sacrifice should be accepted. He in a state of nature believed that he should be accepted based upon the merits of what he possessed and brought of his won will. By faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice, trusting in God’s word and believing in the Lord. The man who came without blood murdered his brother and was of his father the Devil, one who could not comprehend that “to obey is better that sacrifice.” The man who came to God through faith was justified, and the man that came by means that proceeded forth from himself was condemned. Abel being “dead yet speaketh” whereas self-sufficient and self trusting Cain is marked for all eternity as an example of wickedness and presumptuous self will. Cain believed he could achieve standing before God by climbing up some other way to heaven than by the merits of Christ. Cain believed he could gain recognition of his own through a work of the flesh. This is precisely the state of all unregenerate religious professors. They want to have some sort of claim on God through their works, thus making God their debtor. “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” (Romans 4:4) Therefore they betray unbelief in the statement of Christ to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) Not being recipients of divine grace, they go about to establish their own righteousness, “But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” (Isaiah 57:20-21) Hence a condemned conscience causes them to proclaim their works as a means of salvation or as the ground of being maintained in salvation. Scripture is plain: Christ came to give “everlasting life,” that live being communicated by the work of God to his own people, and they are “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1:5.
A church peopled with men that have any degree of trust or faith in their own power, ability, understanding, or wisdom in spiritual matters is not the church of Jesus Christ, but a synagogue of Satan. An organization (for that is what it is) that promotes man and his ability to choose to be saved, his power to be good, his power to “keep the commandments,” his power to come to God if he so chooses, and his power to resist God if he so chooses; this is the Church of Satan and not the Church of Jesus Christ. The church of Jesus Christ knows and confesses that God is above and they are beneath, that God is alone sovereign and that man is a helpless, destitute, spiritual and moral cripple incapable of making even one spiritually pleasing motion without the mere will and pleasure of God inciting that motion. This is the uniform testimony of every saint in both Testaments, the testimony of Jesus Christ in the Gospels, and the testimony of every true believer that ever lived. One who believes in Christ of necessity must believe in the doctrines of Christ. Christ never appeared on the earth in the flesh without his doctrines, nor does he now. Those that profess they know God must of necessity also know that God has declared he is the ruler of the heaven above and the earth below with all that therein is. Jesus Christ said of himself that the Father had given him power “over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many” as the Father has given him. This statement alone stands as the eternal testimony of the Everlasting God that the power to save and power to damn are in the hands of the Ancient of Days. This doctrine of Christ declares man to be a thing of nought, a powerless, hell deserving creature that has neither the desire or ability to be anything else unless the Spirit of God move upon the face of his deep and dark existence. The doctrines of the depravity of man and the sovereignty of God were the two salient points of the preaching of Christ, his apostles, and the godly of both Testaments. Recognition of the truth of justification by faith alone sprang forth in the Reformation subsequent to knowledge of the complete depravity and ruined spiritual and moral condition of man, and the understanding that Christ alone can save. These tenets have all been denied by the crypto-Catholic Protestant preachers of this day, as the final work of the Counter Reformation under the Jesuit Order nears its completion. They betray the son of Man with a kiss, preaching Judas and al like him into heaven, while relegating true Christians into hell. This issue is the fulcrum upon which all other matters of faith and practice rest.
Luther said, “The desire to justify ourselves is the spring of all our distress of heart, but he who receives Christ as Saviour has peace, and not only peace, but purity of heart. All sanctification of the heart is the fruit of faith. For faith is in us a divine woks which changes us, and gives us a new birth, emanating from God himself. It kills Adam in us; and through the Holy Spirit which it communicates, it gives us a new heart and makes us new men. It is not empty speculations, but by this practical method that we obtain a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.” “The point of dispute, then, is not, as has been commonly said, between liberty and slavery; it is between a liberty proceeding from man’s nature, and a liberty that comes from God. The one party, who call themselves the advocates of liberty, say to man: “Thou has the power to do right, thou hast no need of more liberty!” the others, who have been styled the partisans of slavery, say to him the very reverse. “True liberty is what thou needest, and it is what God offers thee in the Gospel!” On the one side, they talk of liberty so as to perpetuate servitude; on the other, they proclaim to us our bondage that we may obtain liberty….The one party, congratulating man on his freedom, would, in effect, reconcile him to slavery; the other, showing how his fetter may be struck off, are the true advocates of liberty.” (J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Page 200, The History of the Great Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.)
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GOSPEL LIBERTY VS. FREE WILL
KJV John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
KJV John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
“Salvation considered as derived from any power in man is the germinating principle of all errors and perversions.” (J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Preface to The History of the Great Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.)
True religion has as its source none other but the God that created the heavens and the earth. Righteousness, purity, holiness, and happiness cannot have as their source in whole or in part, anything from the corrupt, fallen, ruined and depraved creature of man. Man is shown in scripture to have a heart that imagines only evil continually and is desperately wicked. He is represented as being incapable of performing any spiritual good by his own means, and in fine, is said to be “altogether vanity.” Thus Christ declared that it was he who made men free, not themselves, and that those he makes free are free indeed. Free not in pretence, but in fact. Free not in name only, but in truth. Free not of themselves, but of God. Freed not by their own power, but by the power of God working in them to do his will, which becomes their will. Delivered by a strength not proceeding from within themselves, but by the might and outstretched arm of one who is “mighty to save” and “will do all his pleasure.” “The just shall live by faith,” and the faith by which the justified live is “not of themselves, It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” Freed from the chains of sin, self, and Satan, the Christian alone possesses anything remotely resembling a “free will” in the spiritual sense, for “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Cor. 3:17) This is the opening of the prison to them that are bound, the preaching of good tidings to the meek, the binding up of the brokenhearted, and the proclaiming of liberty to the captives. (Isaiah 61:1) This is the true gospel of Jesus Christ. This gospel when preached goes forth in power, accomplishing that which God pleases, prospering in the thing whereto he sends it. “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God,” so the word of God communicates and creates faith in those to whom God sends it, and they are “willing in the day of his power,” (Psalm 110:3) not the hour of their power. Therefore the very willing to be cleansed and free from sin derives not from within man but by an unction from heaven. The faith given by God to believe in the propitiating death, the burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ excludes any boasting on man’s part, it being the work of God. Therefore the Christian Bible doctrine is that God alone is worthy of praise, and that his work alone has merit. “Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” (Revelation 5:13)
Those that depart from “the faith once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3) were prophesied of long ago, and have a spiritual forefather in Cain. They “depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” and “by good words and fair speeches deceive the heart of the simple,” preaching that “gain is godliness.” These apostates are “reprobate concerning the faith” and bring in “damnable heresies” that are a denial of the Lord that bought them. They are reprobate concerning “the faith.” The faith they do not pass muster on is the saving, sanctifying, and justifying faith of the very Son of God, who is called, “The Author and Finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 13:8) Jesus Christ said plainly that believing on Him was not a work of man, but a work of God wrought in man. Those that come to God “must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6) “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:29) We see then that believing in and upon Christ is uniquely a work attributed to God, and is not a work born of the will or flesh of man. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14) “If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.” (Isaiah 7:9) Those that do not believe these and the other words of Christ and God’s prophets as given in the Bible will never be rooted, grounded and settled “in the faith.” In a very real sense they are “children in whom is no faith.” (Deut. 32:20) Faith in the word of God is faith in Christ himself. Unbelief in the word of God is a denial of Christ. While we must readily acknowledge that a new Christian (one who has believed on Jesus Christ and his work in redemption, one who is “born again” by “the spirit”) may not know, understand or believe these truths concerning the work of God, it should be said that those that steadfastly deny the power of God and proclaim the power of man are none of his. “Without faith it is impossible to please” God and those in such condition are “unto every good work reprobate.”
Cain sought to come to God by the works of his hands, walking in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity, supposing his un-ordained bloodless sacrifice should be accepted. He in a state of nature believed that he should be accepted based upon the merits of what he possessed and brought of his won will. By faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice, trusting in God’s word and believing in the Lord. The man who came without blood murdered his brother and was of his father the Devil, one who could not comprehend that “to obey is better that sacrifice.” The man who came to God through faith was justified, and the man that came by means that proceeded forth from himself was condemned. Abel being “dead yet speaketh” whereas self-sufficient and self trusting Cain is marked for all eternity as an example of wickedness and presumptuous self will. Cain believed he could achieve standing before God by climbing up some other way to heaven than by the merits of Christ. Cain believed he could gain recognition of his own through a work of the flesh. This is precisely the state of all unregenerate religious professors. They want to have some sort of claim on God through their works, thus making God their debtor. “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” (Romans 4:4) Therefore they betray unbelief in the statement of Christ to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) Not being recipients of divine grace, they go about to establish their own righteousness, “But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” (Isaiah 57:20-21) Hence a condemned conscience causes them to proclaim their works as a means of salvation or as the ground of being maintained in salvation. Scripture is plain: Christ came to give “everlasting life,” that live being communicated by the work of God to his own people, and they are “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1:5.
A church peopled with men that have any degree of trust or faith in their own power, ability, understanding, or wisdom in spiritual matters is not the church of Jesus Christ, but a synagogue of Satan. An organization (for that is what it is) that promotes man and his ability to choose to be saved, his power to be good, his power to “keep the commandments,” his power to come to God if he so chooses, and his power to resist God if he so chooses; this is the Church of Satan and not the Church of Jesus Christ. The church of Jesus Christ knows and confesses that God is above and they are beneath, that God is alone sovereign and that man is a helpless, destitute, spiritual and moral cripple incapable of making even one spiritually pleasing motion without the mere will and pleasure of God inciting that motion. This is the uniform testimony of every saint in both Testaments, the testimony of Jesus Christ in the Gospels, and the testimony of every true believer that ever lived. One who believes in Christ of necessity must believe in the doctrines of Christ. Christ never appeared on the earth in the flesh without his doctrines, nor does he now. Those that profess they know God must of necessity also know that God has declared he is the ruler of the heaven above and the earth below with all that therein is. Jesus Christ said of himself that the Father had given him power “over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many” as the Father has given him. This statement alone stands as the eternal testimony of the Everlasting God that the power to save and power to damn are in the hands of the Ancient of Days. This doctrine of Christ declares man to be a thing of nought, a powerless, hell deserving creature that has neither the desire or ability to be anything else unless the Spirit of God move upon the face of his deep and dark existence. The doctrines of the depravity of man and the sovereignty of God were the two salient points of the preaching of Christ, his apostles, and the godly of both Testaments. Recognition of the truth of justification by faith alone sprang forth in the Reformation subsequent to knowledge of the complete depravity and ruined spiritual and moral condition of man, and the understanding that Christ alone can save. These tenets have all been denied by the crypto-Catholic Protestant preachers of this day, as the final work of the Counter Reformation under the Jesuit Order nears its completion. They betray the son of Man with a kiss, preaching Judas and al like him into heaven, while relegating true Christians into hell. This issue is the fulcrum upon which all other matters of faith and practice rest.
Luther said, “The desire to justify ourselves is the spring of all our distress of heart, but he who receives Christ as Saviour has peace, and not only peace, but purity of heart. All sanctification of the heart is the fruit of faith. For faith is in us a divine woks which changes us, and gives us a new birth, emanating from God himself. It kills Adam in us; and through the Holy Spirit which it communicates, it gives us a new heart and makes us new men. It is not empty speculations, but by this practical method that we obtain a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.” “The point of dispute, then, is not, as has been commonly said, between liberty and slavery; it is between a liberty proceeding from man’s nature, and a liberty that comes from God. The one party, who call themselves the advocates of liberty, say to man: “Thou has the power to do right, thou hast no need of more liberty!” the others, who have been styled the partisans of slavery, say to him the very reverse. “True liberty is what thou needest, and it is what God offers thee in the Gospel!” On the one side, they talk of liberty so as to perpetuate servitude; on the other, they proclaim to us our bondage that we may obtain liberty….The one party, congratulating man on his freedom, would, in effect, reconcile him to slavery; the other, showing how his fetter may be struck off, are the true advocates of liberty.” (J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Page 200, The History of the Great Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.)
“Agency of Calvin in the Death of Michael Servetus?”
“Agency of Calvin in the Death of Michael Servetus?”
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Fox’s Book of Martyrs (H.T. Coates and Co., Philadelphia, undated, late 1800’s) Page 475
“AGENCY OF CALVIN IN THE DEATH OF MICHAEL SERVETUS” “It has long been the delight of both infidels and some professed Christians, when they wish to bring odium upon the opinions of Calvin, to refer to his agency in the death of Michael Servetus. This action is used on all occasions by those who have been unable to overthrow his opinions, as a conclusive argument against his whole system. Calvin burnt Servetus!-Calvin burnt Servetus! Is a good proof with a certain class of reasoners, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not true—that divine sovereignty is anti-scriptural,-and Christianity a cheat. We have no wise to palliate any acct of Calvin’s which is manifestly wrong. All his proceedings in relation to the unhappy affair of Servetus, we think, cannot be defended. Still it should be remembered that the true principles of religious toleration were little understood in the time of Calvin. All the reformers then living approved of Calvin’s conduct. Even the gentle and amiable Melanchthon expressed himself in relation to this affair, in the following manner. In a letter to Bullinger, he says, “I have read your statement respecting the blasphemy of Servetus, and praise your piety and judgment; and am persuaded that the council of Geneva has done right in putting to death this obstinate man, who would never have ceased his blasphemies. I am astonished, that anyone can be found to disapprove of the proceeding.” Farel expressly says, that “Servetus deserved capital punishment.” Bucer did not hesitate to declare, that “Servetus deserved something worse than death.” The truth is, although Calvin had some hand in the arrest and imprisonment of Servetus, he was unwilling that he should be burnt at all. “I desire,” said he, “that the severity of the punishment should be remitted.” “We endeavoured to commute the kind of death, but in vain.” “By wishing to mitigate the severity of the punishment” said Farel to Calvin, “you discharge the office of a friend towards your greatest enemy.” “That Calvin was the instigator of the magistrates that Servetus might be burned,” says Turritine, “historians neither anywhere affirm, nor does it appear from any considerations. Nay, it is certain that he, with the college of pastors, dissuaded from that kind of punishment.”
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Fox’s Book of Martyrs (H.T. Coates and Co., Philadelphia, undated, late 1800’s) Page 475
“AGENCY OF CALVIN IN THE DEATH OF MICHAEL SERVETUS” “It has long been the delight of both infidels and some professed Christians, when they wish to bring odium upon the opinions of Calvin, to refer to his agency in the death of Michael Servetus. This action is used on all occasions by those who have been unable to overthrow his opinions, as a conclusive argument against his whole system. Calvin burnt Servetus!-Calvin burnt Servetus! Is a good proof with a certain class of reasoners, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not true—that divine sovereignty is anti-scriptural,-and Christianity a cheat. We have no wise to palliate any acct of Calvin’s which is manifestly wrong. All his proceedings in relation to the unhappy affair of Servetus, we think, cannot be defended. Still it should be remembered that the true principles of religious toleration were little understood in the time of Calvin. All the reformers then living approved of Calvin’s conduct. Even the gentle and amiable Melanchthon expressed himself in relation to this affair, in the following manner. In a letter to Bullinger, he says, “I have read your statement respecting the blasphemy of Servetus, and praise your piety and judgment; and am persuaded that the council of Geneva has done right in putting to death this obstinate man, who would never have ceased his blasphemies. I am astonished, that anyone can be found to disapprove of the proceeding.” Farel expressly says, that “Servetus deserved capital punishment.” Bucer did not hesitate to declare, that “Servetus deserved something worse than death.” The truth is, although Calvin had some hand in the arrest and imprisonment of Servetus, he was unwilling that he should be burnt at all. “I desire,” said he, “that the severity of the punishment should be remitted.” “We endeavoured to commute the kind of death, but in vain.” “By wishing to mitigate the severity of the punishment” said Farel to Calvin, “you discharge the office of a friend towards your greatest enemy.” “That Calvin was the instigator of the magistrates that Servetus might be burned,” says Turritine, “historians neither anywhere affirm, nor does it appear from any considerations. Nay, it is certain that he, with the college of pastors, dissuaded from that kind of punishment.”
Encyclopedia of Quotations on Jesuits & Popery
Encyclopedia of Quotations on Jesuits & Popery
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“IS JESUITISM A TOLERABLE ELEMENT IN A CHRISTIAN STATE, OR AN UNDESIRABLE ALIEN?
It’s Head usurps Christ’s office as Priest, Saviour, King, and the Holy Spirit as Inspirer, Guide, Santctifier;
It substitutes a mere woman, the B.V.M., as Mediator and Saviour, and worships a wafer as very Christ;
It substitutes a clerical caste of unregenerate men for the “the Church; It claims Absolute power and Infallibility ofr its Head over every human being;
It denies the efficiency and sufficiency of Christ’s Atonement by “crucifying him afresh” in the Mass;
It claims to forgive Sin as God in the Confessional, and to create the Creator in the Eucharist;
It tampers with and tramples on the Ten Commandments;
It defeats God’s purpose of Redemption and Reconciliation by forbidding and burning his Revelation;
Its morality is wholly un-Christian and Satanic; it sanctions every sin and crime;
It poisons the wells of Salvation and the Water of life;
It commits wholesale murder to enforece its usurped authority, whose denial it calls heresy;
It emasculates mankind by Education and Direction. the better to exploit it;
It effaces the image of God in Man and blots out God;
Its rule has ever been and still is a Reign of Terror-physical, moral, spiritual.
ITS EDUCATION DESTROYS THE INTELLECT; ITS DIRECTION THE WILL; ITS AUTHORITY THE PERSONALITY; ITS CONFESSIONAL THE SOUL; ITS MORALITY THE CONSCIENCE; LEAVING THE MAN A SHELL, A CORPSE.
Its chief business is to teach, preach, and when possible, practice Treason.”
(L. K. Kentish -Rankin, M.A., in his masterful compilation called “CATHOLICS IN THE WITNESS BOX,” published in 1936 and now very rare.)
“The Jesuits have a special talent for ruining whatever they touch.” Cardinal Antonelli, Pius IX’s right hand man.
“To receive the Jesuites into a kingdome is to receive in a vermine which will knaw out the ehart of the State both spiritiual and temporal.” (1602, “THE JESUITES CATECHISME”)
“No country could ever yet tolerate Jeuits in its bosom without certain destruction.” (Quarterly Review, No. 134., p. 506)
“The happy day of our social and religious regeneration is not far off. The re-establishment of of the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition must soon take place. Its reign will be more glorious than in the past. Our Catholic het overflows with faith and enthusiaism…What a day of pleasure will that be for us when we see Freemasons, Spiritualists, Freethinkers, and Anit-Clericals writhing in the flames of Inquisition!” (La Bandera Catolica of Barcelona, July 29, 1883.)
“A CONVICTED HERETIC USED TO BE PUNISHED WITH DEATH. NOTHING HAS EVER APPEARED MORE NECESSARY. AFTER THREE CENTURIES WE ARE ON THE EVE OF A RE-COMMENCEMENT.” (L’UNIVERS, 1872)
“The General of the Jesuits insists on being Sovereign over Sovereigns. Wherever they are admitted they will be masters cost what it may. Their Society is the irreconcilable enemy of Constituted Authority. Every crime, however atrocious, is meritorious if committed for the interests of the Jesuits.” Napoleon Bonaparte in “Letters to Montholon.”
“Their order is now in the fullest sense the Urim and Thummim and Breastplate of the High Priest, the Pope-who can only then issue an oracular utterance when he has consulted his breastplate, the Jesuit Order.” (Quirinus in his “Letters from Rome,” 1870, p 79.)
“By their sophistries, subtleties, and hair splitting distinctions, they contrive to transmute every virtue of God’s tree of life, every doctrine and precept of the Gospel into a deadly poison to minister spiritual and eternal death to the nations-the very masterpiece of hell, the perfection of Devilism.” (Alexander Duff in “The Jesuits, p. 34-35.)
“In every well ordered kingdom heretics are always burned. You (Irish) have in four years slaughtered 150,000 Protestants…it remains to slaughter all that remain.” (C. O’Mahony, Disput. Apolog., 1645.
“He who thinks Rome can be healed knows little of her; the whole administration of the church is there converted into a great trading business, a traffic forbidden by all laws, human, natural and Divine.” Melchior Canus, 1550.
“The Combination of fiendish malignity with pretensions to piety are the peculiar growth of the Church of Rome.” (J.A. Froude, History of the English in Ireland, p. 482, vol. 1.)
“If there is ever to be either political or social regeneration of Europe…it must be by the ANNIHILATION of the whole ecclesiastical system of the Papacy. Roman Catholic doctrine practically BLOTS OUT God from the moral government of ALL who believe in it.” (P. Connelly, 1851, Reasons for Abjuring Allegiance to the See of Rome)
“The entire system of that Church is in the fullest sense AntiChristian. We can never have the remotest fellowship with the utters of that fearful falsehood and LIVE. I believe that the honour of England’s arms will be tarnished, her commerce blighted and her national character degraded until the Romanist is EXPELLED from the place which has has been impiously conceded to him among her legislators.” ( John Ruskin in the Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849, p.13.)
“Papacy’s practices since the Reformation for breaking up a Protestant kingdom are irreconcilable with ANY DEGREE OF FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST.” (Dean Goode in Rome’s Tactics ed. 1893, p. 65.)
“Protestantism and prosperity have always gone hand in hand in England’s history, while a pandering to Popery has invariably been either accompanied with or quickly followed by National calamities.” (Rev. Hely Smith)
“In the name of common sense and British freedom, how long are laws to be made for Protestants by Popish legislators? How long is our Religion to be held at the mercy of a system begotten in delusion, brought forth in inquity, and maintained by the fearless dissolution of every tie that binds man to man?” “We have adreadful enemy to contend with-Popery….A year of Popish supremacy would effect the total subversion of Church and State; full vengeance on all who had repressed its ambition; exile, confiscation and death for its particular enemies; ruin for Protestantism and the Constitution. With Ireland in Popish hands, what could save England? What could be our resistance with the Constitution against us?” Dr. Croly, 1837.
“While nothing can exceed the excellence of individual Jesuits, nothing can exceed the moreal turpitude of the corporate action of the Jesuits. No precept of Christ, no precedent of the Apostles, no principle of Christian morality has not been outraged by Jesuit policy and practice. ‘Jesuitry” has become the synonym for sanctimonious craft serving the purpose of merciless bigotry.” Bishop Hensley Henson cited in “John Calvin, Many Sided Genuis” by Alfred T. Davies.
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“IS JESUITISM A TOLERABLE ELEMENT IN A CHRISTIAN STATE, OR AN UNDESIRABLE ALIEN?
It’s Head usurps Christ’s office as Priest, Saviour, King, and the Holy Spirit as Inspirer, Guide, Santctifier;
It substitutes a mere woman, the B.V.M., as Mediator and Saviour, and worships a wafer as very Christ;
It substitutes a clerical caste of unregenerate men for the “the Church; It claims Absolute power and Infallibility ofr its Head over every human being;
It denies the efficiency and sufficiency of Christ’s Atonement by “crucifying him afresh” in the Mass;
It claims to forgive Sin as God in the Confessional, and to create the Creator in the Eucharist;
It tampers with and tramples on the Ten Commandments;
It defeats God’s purpose of Redemption and Reconciliation by forbidding and burning his Revelation;
Its morality is wholly un-Christian and Satanic; it sanctions every sin and crime;
It poisons the wells of Salvation and the Water of life;
It commits wholesale murder to enforece its usurped authority, whose denial it calls heresy;
It emasculates mankind by Education and Direction. the better to exploit it;
It effaces the image of God in Man and blots out God;
Its rule has ever been and still is a Reign of Terror-physical, moral, spiritual.
ITS EDUCATION DESTROYS THE INTELLECT; ITS DIRECTION THE WILL; ITS AUTHORITY THE PERSONALITY; ITS CONFESSIONAL THE SOUL; ITS MORALITY THE CONSCIENCE; LEAVING THE MAN A SHELL, A CORPSE.
Its chief business is to teach, preach, and when possible, practice Treason.”
(L. K. Kentish -Rankin, M.A., in his masterful compilation called “CATHOLICS IN THE WITNESS BOX,” published in 1936 and now very rare.)
“The Jesuits have a special talent for ruining whatever they touch.” Cardinal Antonelli, Pius IX’s right hand man.
“To receive the Jesuites into a kingdome is to receive in a vermine which will knaw out the ehart of the State both spiritiual and temporal.” (1602, “THE JESUITES CATECHISME”)
“No country could ever yet tolerate Jeuits in its bosom without certain destruction.” (Quarterly Review, No. 134., p. 506)
“The happy day of our social and religious regeneration is not far off. The re-establishment of of the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition must soon take place. Its reign will be more glorious than in the past. Our Catholic het overflows with faith and enthusiaism…What a day of pleasure will that be for us when we see Freemasons, Spiritualists, Freethinkers, and Anit-Clericals writhing in the flames of Inquisition!” (La Bandera Catolica of Barcelona, July 29, 1883.)
“A CONVICTED HERETIC USED TO BE PUNISHED WITH DEATH. NOTHING HAS EVER APPEARED MORE NECESSARY. AFTER THREE CENTURIES WE ARE ON THE EVE OF A RE-COMMENCEMENT.” (L’UNIVERS, 1872)
“The General of the Jesuits insists on being Sovereign over Sovereigns. Wherever they are admitted they will be masters cost what it may. Their Society is the irreconcilable enemy of Constituted Authority. Every crime, however atrocious, is meritorious if committed for the interests of the Jesuits.” Napoleon Bonaparte in “Letters to Montholon.”
“Their order is now in the fullest sense the Urim and Thummim and Breastplate of the High Priest, the Pope-who can only then issue an oracular utterance when he has consulted his breastplate, the Jesuit Order.” (Quirinus in his “Letters from Rome,” 1870, p 79.)
“By their sophistries, subtleties, and hair splitting distinctions, they contrive to transmute every virtue of God’s tree of life, every doctrine and precept of the Gospel into a deadly poison to minister spiritual and eternal death to the nations-the very masterpiece of hell, the perfection of Devilism.” (Alexander Duff in “The Jesuits, p. 34-35.)
“In every well ordered kingdom heretics are always burned. You (Irish) have in four years slaughtered 150,000 Protestants…it remains to slaughter all that remain.” (C. O’Mahony, Disput. Apolog., 1645.
“He who thinks Rome can be healed knows little of her; the whole administration of the church is there converted into a great trading business, a traffic forbidden by all laws, human, natural and Divine.” Melchior Canus, 1550.
“The Combination of fiendish malignity with pretensions to piety are the peculiar growth of the Church of Rome.” (J.A. Froude, History of the English in Ireland, p. 482, vol. 1.)
“If there is ever to be either political or social regeneration of Europe…it must be by the ANNIHILATION of the whole ecclesiastical system of the Papacy. Roman Catholic doctrine practically BLOTS OUT God from the moral government of ALL who believe in it.” (P. Connelly, 1851, Reasons for Abjuring Allegiance to the See of Rome)
“The entire system of that Church is in the fullest sense AntiChristian. We can never have the remotest fellowship with the utters of that fearful falsehood and LIVE. I believe that the honour of England’s arms will be tarnished, her commerce blighted and her national character degraded until the Romanist is EXPELLED from the place which has has been impiously conceded to him among her legislators.” ( John Ruskin in the Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849, p.13.)
“Papacy’s practices since the Reformation for breaking up a Protestant kingdom are irreconcilable with ANY DEGREE OF FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST.” (Dean Goode in Rome’s Tactics ed. 1893, p. 65.)
“Protestantism and prosperity have always gone hand in hand in England’s history, while a pandering to Popery has invariably been either accompanied with or quickly followed by National calamities.” (Rev. Hely Smith)
“In the name of common sense and British freedom, how long are laws to be made for Protestants by Popish legislators? How long is our Religion to be held at the mercy of a system begotten in delusion, brought forth in inquity, and maintained by the fearless dissolution of every tie that binds man to man?” “We have adreadful enemy to contend with-Popery….A year of Popish supremacy would effect the total subversion of Church and State; full vengeance on all who had repressed its ambition; exile, confiscation and death for its particular enemies; ruin for Protestantism and the Constitution. With Ireland in Popish hands, what could save England? What could be our resistance with the Constitution against us?” Dr. Croly, 1837.
“While nothing can exceed the excellence of individual Jesuits, nothing can exceed the moreal turpitude of the corporate action of the Jesuits. No precept of Christ, no precedent of the Apostles, no principle of Christian morality has not been outraged by Jesuit policy and practice. ‘Jesuitry” has become the synonym for sanctimonious craft serving the purpose of merciless bigotry.” Bishop Hensley Henson cited in “John Calvin, Many Sided Genuis” by Alfred T. Davies.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, IGNATIUS, AND THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
Knights Templar
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THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, IGNATIUS, AND THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
This series documents the direct link between Ignatius Loyola, the Spanish Chivalric Orders, and the Knights Templar. The vast amount of research by conspiratorial writers has focused on Scottish Rite Freemasonry as the lineal descendant of the Templars, or has indicated the “Priory of Sion,” or other peripheral organizations as the resting place of the Templar legacy in action. The documentation in these audios proves that this is fallacious. The Knights Templar were a monastic order vowed to poverty, chastity, and obedience (so too the Jesuits), and like the Society of Jesus were formed by Papal Bull or decree, hence being accountable to no one but the Pope and his delegated emissaries. Scottish Rite Freemasonry in its modern incarnation owes its first 25 degrees to the Jesuits at the College of Clermont in 1754 (this is acknowledged in materials published by the Masons), and is therefore a subsidiary organization of the Order or Company of Jesus. The Freemasons are not a monastic order, are not sworn to poverty, but are sworn to obedience and secrecy concerning their activities in the lodge. Therefore they are not the true heirs of the Templars, this distinction belongs to the Company of Jesus, the monastic order founded by Ignatius of Loyola. These audio downloads are free for personal use, but duplication and sale of this copyrighted intellectual property is forbidden. The information contained in this series is new to the speaker, is the result of recent research, and contains citations from various public domain sources and some small citations from two copyrighted articles posted on the web by Guy Sainty, as well as a book in 1956 by Broderick of the Society of Jesus. I have properly accredited these men where quoted, and found their works to be very helpful in ascertaining my thesis in this series. This audio work was recorded before I was given the following reference from “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco, page 388. “The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsey…and numerous others who founded the grades in these rites, worked under the instructions from the general of the Jesuits…Templarism is Jesuitism.”-Letter to Madame Blavatsky from Charles Southeran, 32 degree, as cited in Isis Unveiled.
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1. The Order of Alcantara and the Order of Calatrava
2. The Knights Templar Part One
3. The Knights Templar Part Two
4. Spanish Order, Jesuits Oaths, and Ignatius
5. Ignatius The Pilgrim - Part 1
6. Ignatius The Pilgrim - Part 2
7. Ignatius The Pilgrim - Part 3
8. Ignatius Goes to Jerusalem
9. Ignatius Retruns from Jerusalem
10. Templars - The Conclusion
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THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, IGNATIUS, AND THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
This series documents the direct link between Ignatius Loyola, the Spanish Chivalric Orders, and the Knights Templar. The vast amount of research by conspiratorial writers has focused on Scottish Rite Freemasonry as the lineal descendant of the Templars, or has indicated the “Priory of Sion,” or other peripheral organizations as the resting place of the Templar legacy in action. The documentation in these audios proves that this is fallacious. The Knights Templar were a monastic order vowed to poverty, chastity, and obedience (so too the Jesuits), and like the Society of Jesus were formed by Papal Bull or decree, hence being accountable to no one but the Pope and his delegated emissaries. Scottish Rite Freemasonry in its modern incarnation owes its first 25 degrees to the Jesuits at the College of Clermont in 1754 (this is acknowledged in materials published by the Masons), and is therefore a subsidiary organization of the Order or Company of Jesus. The Freemasons are not a monastic order, are not sworn to poverty, but are sworn to obedience and secrecy concerning their activities in the lodge. Therefore they are not the true heirs of the Templars, this distinction belongs to the Company of Jesus, the monastic order founded by Ignatius of Loyola. These audio downloads are free for personal use, but duplication and sale of this copyrighted intellectual property is forbidden. The information contained in this series is new to the speaker, is the result of recent research, and contains citations from various public domain sources and some small citations from two copyrighted articles posted on the web by Guy Sainty, as well as a book in 1956 by Broderick of the Society of Jesus. I have properly accredited these men where quoted, and found their works to be very helpful in ascertaining my thesis in this series. This audio work was recorded before I was given the following reference from “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco, page 388. “The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsey…and numerous others who founded the grades in these rites, worked under the instructions from the general of the Jesuits…Templarism is Jesuitism.”-Letter to Madame Blavatsky from Charles Southeran, 32 degree, as cited in Isis Unveiled.
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1. The Order of Alcantara and the Order of Calatrava
2. The Knights Templar Part One
3. The Knights Templar Part Two
4. Spanish Order, Jesuits Oaths, and Ignatius
5. Ignatius The Pilgrim - Part 1
6. Ignatius The Pilgrim - Part 2
7. Ignatius The Pilgrim - Part 3
8. Ignatius Goes to Jerusalem
9. Ignatius Retruns from Jerusalem
10. Templars - The Conclusion
Gail Riplinger & Her Doctrine
Gail Riplinger & Her Doctrine
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINES AND WORKS OF G.A. RIPLINGER
PART ONE
Gail Riplinger, in her latest book, “IN AWE OF THY WORD” subtitled, “UNDERSTANDING THE KING JAMES BIBLE,” makes the following statements: (chapter 16 page 566) “Since Calvinism is hard to defend with a text-only Bible, its adherents push the Geneva Bible and the New Geneva Bible (NKJV). Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 1.) Man’s depravity extends to his will, that is, he has no free will to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour. 2.) God unconditionally elects certain special individuals to be saved, and pre-selects others to be damned to hell. 3.) Jesus died only for a select few. He did not die for “the world.” 4.) Those who have been pre-selected will automatically be saved. Such non-scriptural nonsense demands a “Study” Bible with marginal notes which massage the meaning of the clear bible text to fit this deviated mold. The old Geneva Bible and New Geneva Bible provide the notes to crowd the cause into their corner.”
Those that are King James Bible Believing men and women should take great issue with this statement. Those that really believe the Bible and read and study it ought to know that the Bible teaches that the universal corruption of mankind extends to all the parts of the man, body, soul and spirit; thus encompassing the will of man. Those that read and believe their King James Bibles should be well aware that Jesus said, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him,” and “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” Anyone familiar with the history of the Apostle Paul should remember that Christ chose and sought Paul, and came and revealed himself to Paul when he was busy about persecuting Christians. Paul was not seeking the Lord when he was regenerated; he was in the midst of serving his own religious lust in murdering believers. In the Pauline epistles we are told that Paul and his testimony is a “pattern” to those that would afterwards believe on Christ. A once through reading of the New Testament reveals that “Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.” Ephesians 5:25. These simple English words show that Christ gave himself not for the whole world to be saved, born again, and brought to heaven but specifically gave himself an offering for sin to obtain “the treasure in a field”, which is what he called the elect. “KJV Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” In so doing, he was in complete accordance wich the Father’s will, of whom he said: KJV John 6:37 “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” No one needs any margin notes in a King James to prove that Mrs. Riplinger, (in her statement above) by calling these statements lies, has implied that the resurrected Son of God lied!
We believe that many things in Mrs. Riplinger’s new book are useful for the Christian to know concerning the history of the King James Bible. We observe that she has done a prodigious amount of research and collated a hefty pile of statements from learned, godly Christians (virtually all five point Calvinists) and that many of her words appear to be spoken in sincerity. We will be instructed by those citations and quotes which do not violate the doctrines of the Bible, and do not lightly dismiss the amount of labor Mrs. Riplinger has expended on her work. However, her repeated jibes against the doctrinal truths that are in the word of God and were believed by virtually all of the martyrs and preachers she cites give us cause to pause. While professing to believe the words found in the King James, Mrs. Riplinger continuously attacks the doctrines taught in the words of the King James. We must consider Riplinger’s allegations, compare them to many verses of scripture, and then determine who is lying. It is a very grievous and serious charge to accuse the men that notated the old Geneva Bible of being liars. To ascertain the facts, we will utilize the method that Riplinger commends to us for studying the Bible, which has been our own method of Bible study for many years. “The true method of Bible study, which is the frequent “reading” and “comparing of places” in the English Bible, was recommended by the wise Archbishop Cranmer (born 1489-martyred 1556). He replied to the priest, “I wonder likewise, why you attribute so little to the diligent reading of the Scriptures and conferring of place…And as touching your opinion of these questions, it seemeth to me neither to have any ground of the word of God, nor of the primitive church. And, to say the truth, the schoolmen have spoken diversely of them, and do not agree therein among themselves.” (Page 876, IN AWE OF THY WORD ). By the way, Cranmer was a Calvinist! (”The sum of all, so far as concerns Cranmer, is; That, if he was an honest man, he must have been, what Arminians now call, a rigid predestinarian.” Page 128, COMPLETE WORKS OF AUGUSTUS TOPLADY, author of the hymn, ROCK OF AGES. A catechism which Cranmer sanctioned made the following statements: “Immortality and blessed life God hath provided for his chosen, before the foundations of the world were laid.” “As many as are in this faith stedfast, were fore-chosen, predestinated, and appointed to everlasting life, before the world was made.” Page 128, ibid.) Riplinger only mentions his martyrdom, but does not mention the beliefs that led to his martyrdom. We will, having many times diligently read the Scriptures, compare place to place, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, to find if the statements that Mrs. Riplinger called lies are indeed such. Surely the Bible will tell us, without the help of any margin notes!
Mrs. Riplinger would have us believe that she is an ardent and earnest enemy of Romanism, a Protestant of the Protestants, and that she is sincerely labouring to bring the church and men back to the King James Bible. Her book has some jabs, jests, and sneers at Rome, but in the above quotations, she would seek to teach us Romish doctrines pursuant to the Council of Trent, and she does so in a manner that would highly please any Archbishop, Cardinal or Black Pope. Her condemnation of the points she mentioned is as virulent as that of the Pope Clement X (1699) against Quesnell’s 101 propositions (extracted from Quesnell’s writings), which contained many sentiments the same as those Riplinger condemns. (For the reader’s edification, we cite some of these, to verify our statement. These quotes come from ‘THE CANONS AND DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, trans by Alois Buckely, published 1851 By George Routlegde, London. “In vain, O Lord, dost thou command, if thou thyself givest not what is commanded.” “Thus, O Lord, are all things possible to him, to whom thou makest all things possible, by working the same things in him.” “Grace is the operation of the hand of Almighty God, which nothing can hinder or retard.” “Grace is nothing else than the will of Almighty God, ordering, and doing that which he doth order.” “When God willeth to save a soul, at what time and in what place soever, the effect unhesitatingly followeth the will of God.” “How far soever an obstinate sinner be removed from salvation, when Jesus presenteth himself to be beheld by him in the salutary light of his grace, it must be that he give himself up, run forward, humble himself, and adore his Saviour.” “The grace of God is nothing else but his almighty will: this is the idea which God himself handed down to us in all the Scriptures.” “The true idea of grace is, that God wills that he be obeyed by us, and is obeyed; commandeth, and all things are done; the Lord but speaketh, and all things are subjected unto him.” All of these Bible based doctrines were condemned by Pope, and in light of Riplinger’s statements, she agrees with the Pope.) On page 201 of her book, she writes: “The entire Bible is the record of God’s efforts to separate a people unto himself.” How different is her speech from the speech of the saint of God for whom the book of Job is named. Job, who said, “I know that my redeemer liveth,” was well acquainted with the fact that God is absolutely sovereign, and said: “KJV Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.” This infallible doctrine from the infallible Bible teaches us that God does whatever pleases him amongst the sons and daughters of men on the earth, and that none of the things he does are contingent upon the acquiescence, approval, or help of man. The heathen king Nebuchadnezzar had learnt this doctrine after God dealt with him and said: “KJV Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” Let it be understood, that no man who was the subject of divine mercy and spiritual light is ever recorded in Scripture saying that men are the masters of their own destinies. Search the scriptures.
“The entire Bible is the record of God’s efforts to separate a people unto himself.” According to Riplinger, God is busy making efforts to get a people for himself, but it is only their “free-will” that actually makes his efforts succeed. Implicit within the phrasing of this statement we discern Riplinger’s belief that God’s efforts must be acknowledged and accepted by sinful men, or God’s efforts will come to naught! (As the mind of God is revealed in his word, the mind of man is revealed in his. “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”) Thus, Riplinger makes the creature and his will out to be more powerful than the Creator and his will. In the King James, we find not a record of “God’s efforts;” instead we find the Lord works “all things after the counsel of his own will” (Ephesians 1:11), and “God worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13). The Bible is plain in telling us that God’s will and purpose are never frustrated, that what He purposes to do is inevitably accomplished. “KJV Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” We have learned from the diligent study of our King James Bible that God has said, “My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure.” (Isaiah 46:10). We have learned that the desires of God’s heart expressed through his will are always accomplished, and that his word has never and will never fail in the things whereto he sends it. “KJV Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” It is a pitiful god that Riplinger presents to us, one that has no power over his creatures, one that will not violate their wills, and is sitting roadside begging for souls to be saved, and hoping that his efforts will succeed, that someone somewhere will do what he wants them to do. This is bizarre in light of the fact that Mrs. Riplinger has gained notoriety through her claims concerning the King James being the preserved and inspired word of God. The very fact that God has preserved and put a continuing inspiration upon his word through time, place and translation is one of the greatest proofs of his sovereignty and control over every event that occurs on planet earth. If this were not so, there would be no King James Bible!
In the quotes about Calvinism, she disassociates herself doctrinally from all of the martyrs to whom she frequently refers in her work, and from most of the translators who worked on the translation committee that produced the King James Bible. This is weird in light of page 495 of her work, where the top of the page caption reads “KJV TRANSLATORS TELL HOW NOT TO STUDY THE BIBLE.” Is it not strange that Mrs. Riplinger would go to men that generally asserted “Calvinism,” and use their statements as a guide to study the Bible? If these men were so deficient in their spirituality to believe that depravity extends to the will of man, and that election is unconditional, they certainly should not be trusted in their admonitions on how to study the Bible! Further, if these men were utterly deceived concerning the major tenants of the Christian doctrine of salvation, why would we trust their work of translation to be accurate? In besmirching the doctrinal beliefs of many of the translators and the Reformation that produced the King James Bible, she besmirches the Bible itself.
The Bible produced the Reformation, and God used the Reformation to bring forth his word in the languages of Europe, England, and the world. The Christian people of Europe and England before and during the Reformation were all Calvinistic in doctrine; the more access they had to the word, the more predestinarian they were. An agreement and harmony of theology rapidly developed between the Reformers of Germany, Scotland, England, Switzerland and France, because they were all receiving their doctrine from the Greek New Testament of Erasmus, which is the underlying text of the KJV New Testament. All those that broke with Rome and were willing to fight Rome on the field of battle with pike and sword were bound together by the belief in the sovereign grace of God, and their scriptural belief that the city of Rome with the religious structure it begat is BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. They followed the true texts of the Scriptures, were enlightened to the doctrines of grace, and this gave them courage to bravely fight and die, on the field of battle or in the Inquisition’s auto-de-fe (burning to death). The most complete break with Rome occurred in the British Isles, and Britain subsequently became the greatest empire and power on the face of the earth, gaining the first place amongst the nations of the world. The greatest Christian warrior/statesmen in history, Oliver Cromwell was a Puritan/Calvinist who quoted the King James continuously, and unceasingly referred to the over ruling providence of God manifest in all the affairs of men. It was the knowledge of God’s sovereignty that gave Cromwell and his troops a spirit that had not been seen since the armies of Jehoshaphat went forth with the praisers and singers before them. The battle cry of these hated Calvinists, “The LORD of HOSTS” thundered forth as they rode with raised swords and leveled pikes into the teeth of their enemies. These hated iconoclasts that destroyed so many Popish churches and idols stormed the gates of hell, put the priests and Jesuits to the sword, and knew no fear but the fear of the LORD. The crowned heads of Europe trembled at the mention of Cromwell’s name, and he is the man who bequeathed to England and the English speaking peoples a religious and civil liberty the world had never before seen. We still enjoy the dregs of this liberty, inherited from one of the most hated men in history, a maligned Puritan/Calvinist. As the Lord said, “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
It seems that “Sister” Riplinger is engaged is spiritual doublespeak. If the translators of the King James were seriously flawed in their theology, particularly where it concerned salvation (which is what “Sister” Riplinger believes, as she believes “Calvinsim is hard to defend with… a Bible” [see above]), why does this highly educated author of “A CLASSIC ” (so advertised on the back cover) cite them as authorities in the area of bible study? Her work is a classic, a classic of inconsistency! This should not surprise any King James Bible believer familiar with her previous work “NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS” or any one who has heard her audiotapes from the Southwest Radio Church or others who have interviewed her. She says that the new versions are Satanic, and are not good for doctrine, Christian growth or Christian instruction: yet men can still be saved through them! Though they be as corrupt as the decomposing corpse of a possum on a country road, though they be filled with leaven throughout, and though they are totaly unfit for daily food, the “Sister” would have us believe that they are somehow able to make one “born again,” something which Peter says only can occur from incorrupt seed. ” God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” KJV 1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of In Scripture, everything reproduces “after his kind.” Genesis 1:11. Therefore corruption only begets corruption. “KJV Matthew 7:17-18: Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” We find then that while drawing near with her lips to honor the King James Bible, she greatly dishonors both it and God by expressing beliefs, declaring doctrines, and writing things diametrically opposed to the truths that the words of the Bible express.
Many that believe Mrs. Riplinger, or believe as she does, would tell us that men can be saved by the phrases or passages in false bibles that conform to the King James: that false bibles contain some of “the word of God” though they are not the word of God. Such speaking is unsound theologically, scientifically, semantically, philosophically and morally. It seems to be some sort of Jesuit gymnastics rehearsed in our ears to get us to believe that the Spirit of Christ is in books that are “Satanic.” Did God really put his spirit in books that are from the Devil? Did God inspire the men that produced the “NEW AGE VERSIONS” (that Riplinger claims save people) to do the work they did when they produced their “bibles”? If those books are not given by “inspiration of God,” how then can the spirit and life of God which regenerates be present in them? Has God changed his method of dealing with men here in the twenty-first century, and put his spirit and saving faith and power in books produced by Mariolaters, liars, thieves, lesbians, and necromancers? Does Riplinger believe that “another Jesus,” “another gospel” or “another spirit” can bring men to eternal glory in Christ Jesus the Lord? Riplinger said in “NEW AGE VERSIONS” “The gods, gospels and ‘good’ books are cunningly crafted perversions of God’s true way.” (page 279). According to her own profession, a cunningly crafted perversion can save a man! Those that promote this idea want us to believe that “the words of eternal life” are strewn here and there in the midst of man’s words, yea, and Satan’s words. They want us to believe that books that they readily admit are completely inadequate to get a man through the storms of life, cause him to grow in grace, or make him godly are capable of communicating the faith of Jesus Christ that saves from hell! These notions that something that is full of hell can send you to heaven, that something unclean could make a man clean (Jesus said, “Now are ye clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” John 15:3), and that an unholy bible version can make a man holy, border on blasphemy.
The teaching that the “great salvation” of God can come through books that are not fit to give an eight year old for memorization and study is nonsense. Which is the greater work, salvation or growth subsequent to salvation? If a book can save a man, it can grow him up in Christ! Growth is determined by the content of the seed that is planted in the man; what bursts forth out of the seed comes from the generator of the seed. Paul said: “KJV Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” If it is not the word of God, no faith can be imparted to men through it. “KJV Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.” Those that are predestinated are created with deaf ears that will hear, at God’s appointed time (when it pleases him) the word of God, receive the faith of Jesus Christ, and believing upon him, evidence that they are elect. “KJV Isaiah 43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.” Justifying faith is communicated from God to sinful men through his word. This faith that comes through the “words that are spirit and life” causes the dead to hear the voice of the Son of God and they live! Paul said: “KJV Colossians 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.” Men receive Christ in faith, “the faith of the Son of God,” and as they have received him, so they are to walk in that same faith. Paul in this verse in Colossians does not separate the means of salvation from Christian walk, but teaches that being rooted and built up blossom from the same faith that enables men to receive Christ. The right root will bring forth good fruit. John recorded in John 1:12 “that as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.” “The gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation” (Romans 1:16) is “God’s spelling.” The word “gospel” is derivative from the Anglo-Saxon “God spelling,” or “God spell.” The power of God unto salvation is the word of faith, which bears within itself the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. In Mark 3:23 the Lord said, “How can Satan cast out Satan?” It is impossible that something Satanic within itself can bear the seed of eternal life. It is the “finger of God,” “the Sprit of God,” that knocks the devil out of a man and puts the life of Christ in him. “KJV Matthew 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.” He cast out the spirits with HIS WORD, not some of his word mixed in with men’s words. “KJV Matthew 12:24-28: But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.” One that believes the new birth can come through a satanic bible is actually teaching that Satan can cast out Satan, contrary to what Christ said.
The word which communicates the faith of Christ is the same as that which gives “power” for sanctification and service. “Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.” John 17:17. Sanctification comes from the same place as salvation, the word which is truth. There is only one true God and Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God. He plants his seed in those chosen to be part of his bride. (The Father has chosen those that will be part of his Son’s bride.) His seed that reproduces after its kind is not a genetically modified organism. Peter is plain in declaring that somone who has been born again from the incorrupt “seed” (1 Peter 1:23) has already received all things that pertain unto life and godliness. “KJV 2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” His divine power “hath given us,” past tense, “all things that pertain unto life and godliness.” These things are communicated when men receive “with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save the soul.” James 1:21. If a seed has one, two or three parts of the DNA chain knocked out of it, it is no longer what it once was, and will never reproduce as it once could. (Maybe Mrs. Riplinger can answer us and tell us how many words in “a bible” can deviate from the true text before God will stop using it!) A soul the moment it is saved receives in seed form not only eternal life, but an internal genetic blueprint of every work of the Spirit which will later occur in it. When watered by the “faithful word,” the seed breaks forth internally and begins replication and expansion, and at the last, will take over the whole man: fist spirit, then soul, and at last, the body. The seed may cause fruit thirty, sixty, or an hundredfold; or it may only lay a foundation, upon which only hay, wood, and stubble will be placed (by the man, not the Spirit). Peter dogmatically taught that men are not born again of corrupted seed. “The seed that is rotten under the clods” (Joel 1:17) is seed that is corrupted, or made “rotten” by corrupt clods of earth that have “perverted the words of the living God.” Paul never preached or taught anyone, anywhere, at anytime that they could receive life from something that was the slightest bit corrupt. He said that men “changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible men,” (Romans 1:23) and that “we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 2:17) No man of God in either Testament ever praised or commended to anyone a perversion or corruption of God’s word to anyone. No preacher in either Testament taught that salvation could come from a genetically modified seed, or that the life of God would be communicated from something “perverted.” Jesus said in the parable of the sower that “The seed is the word of God.” Luke 8:11. It came from God, not man. It is full of the breathe of heaven, but causes men to fear the vapours of hell. It is pure, as Christ is pure. It is holy, as he is holy. Only holy seed produces holy people. When Christ spoke of these matters, there is no intimation that the seed to which he referred was not holy, right and good. He likens the work of the word of God to the seed of vegetable matter, sown in the ground, and containing within itself in germ form everything the plant will someday be and produce. “Mark 4:26-32: And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? t is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.” Riplinger admits on page 20 of “NEW AGE VERSIONS” that the devil “removes the rubble stone of sin and the keystone of salvation. The cornerstone of Jesus Christ and the capstone of his second coming are cut out.” She also stated on pages 4 and 5 of the same work: “As with the genetic code, one change sets off a series of alterations which make the “new born” unlike instead of like his parents. The changes, additions and omissions discovered in the new versions have affected the health of the body of Christ and taken it step by step away from the image of God.” Riplinger has taught publicly that a bible with a mutilated genetic code (one without “the keystone of salvation”) will still produce “everlasting” life in a man, though it cannot produce godliness. She says this after saying that the “cornerstone of Jesus Christ” is “cut out” of the new bibles. This is heresy, and philosophical, scientific, religious foolishness. All things reproduce after their kind. This is the law of God in the Bible and is observed in all the physical matter of life. A hybrid or mutation of the word of God, by Riplinger’s own admission, does not bear in it “the image of God.”
“Calvinism is hard to defend using a text only bible.” Calvinism, briefly comprehended, is often referred to as “the Doctrines of Grace.” It holds that man is an utterly helpless, willful sinner who of his own volition will never turn to God, and that “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned.” First Corinthians 2:14. Therefore no man in a state of nature, unwrought upon and unenlightened by the Holy Ghost through the word of God is in any way able to discern his own utter sinfulness, his need of salvation, or the reality of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All sinners have a “carnal mind.” “KJV Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Being natural men, carnal minded sinners are in such a state that ” They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God” and prove that “the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” Jeremiah 10:23. “Sister” Riplinger may object to these facts which tend to the abasement of man; man’s power, his will, his ability and self-esteem. Not only the words of the King James Bible, but the doctrines of the King James Bible give the preeminence to Jesus Christ! “KJV Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.” Sinners “corrupt the word of God” (2 Cor 2:17) not only by adding to or taking from the inspired words contained in the text of the Av 1611. They also “pervert the words of the living God” (Jeremiah 23:36) by wresting the inspired words to serve their own ends. “KJV 2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are somethings hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” This occurs throughout Mrs. Riplinger’s work.
Those that teach as Mrs. Riplinger does are actually teaching that a saved sinner is the author and finisher of his own faith: that the sinner, through his own desire, will and ability (with maybe a slight nudge from the Holy Ghost) chooses without constraint to “receive Christ.” (We use Bible terminology, not that of Mrs. Riplinger, who uses the un-Biblical phrase “accept Christ.” If “Sister” Riplinger would “search the scriptures,” she would find that no one in either Testament was urged to “accept Christ.” She would know that the saints were concerned with their labour being accepted of Christ (2 Cor 5:9) and those that work righteousness are accepted with him (Acts 10:35).) Riplinger believes that the sinner is capable of producing spiritual good from within his own fallen being, if he so desires to. She teaches that the will of man is not utterly the slave and servant of the corrupt, deparaved heart of man. She fails to recognize that the will is merely the faculty through which the affections and desires of the heart are expressed, and does not exist within man independently of “the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.” (Eph 4:22). The testimony of God contained in both Testaments is that the will of man, being subservient to his evil and impenitent heart, is ever chained to and the servant of corruption, until the man is freed by the will of the Father manifested in the drawing of the sinner to the Son. If men were not drawn by the Father to Christ, they would and could never come to Christ because their hearts are utterly corrupt and their will is chained to that inward corruption. As Luther so plainly taught, a man only has freedom of will in things beneath him, not in things above him. A man may chose what he will eat, when he will sleep, or with whom he will associate. But the will of man has constraints placed round about it that cannot be broken through. A man cannot chose to eat what is not available to him. A man must sleep when the exhaustion of his mortal frame forces him to it. A man may not be able to find the one with whom he would associate himself. Truly did John the Baptist say, “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.” John 3:27. That includes receiving Christ!
” Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.” Man in a state of nature without the grace of God will invariably come to the conclusion through his own faculties that his own ways are clean. Man in his native state cannot and will not admit freely of himself that he is altogether in sin, that all his righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and there is nothing good at all about any work, deed, thought, or religious duty he does. “KJV Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.” Only if and when God deals with a man and shows him his shameful, naked, sinful state will he ever cry out, “Woe is me, for I am undone, I am a man of unclean lips.” “KJV Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” Only if a man is chosen of God will the event that happened to Isaiah ever happen to him. “KJV John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” “KJV John 15:19 but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. “KJV John 6:43-44: Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” While Christ commanded those that heard him, “Murmur not among yourselves,” Mrs. Riplinger fills her work with murmuring against “the right ways of the LORD.” “Thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?” Acts 13:10. When sinners (be they saved or lost) teach and confess doctrine that makes man a co-laborer in his own salvation, they answer yes to the question of Malachi: “Will a man rob God?” Those who profess that they climb a little and then God pulls a little, and so they get to heaven, are deceived and deceiving. The law of faith excludes all boasting, as Paul declares: “KJV Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” The faith that saves a sinner from the fires of eternal damnation and the shame of everlasting contempt does not come from any one or anything on earth: it comes from the Lord of heaven! A faith that excludes boasting is a faith that is not produced by man within man; if saving faith is in the smallest part a work of man, it could not utterly exclude boasting. Rather, the saving faith which is a law that excludes all human glorying and boastings comes from God alone. As Fanny Crosby so succinctly stated: “I know not how this saving faith, To me he did impart, Nor how believing in his word, Wrought peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed…” (Fanny Crosby was obviously a Calvinist.) That is the testimony, this is the speech of one that believed the Scriptures in their entirety through the faith of Christ. Christ is the “author and finisher of our faith.” “That in all things he might have the preeminence.” Saving faith is “the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8,9). It is God’s work that men trust him, not man’s. This alone gives Christ all the glory, as he said himself: “KJV John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” He taught that it was God’s work when men believed on him, not their own. Anything less makes man a robber of God and a robber of churches. “If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.” Isaiah 7:9.
Contrary to the opinion of Mrs. Riplinger, what is called “Calvinism” is the doctrine which is found in the word of God. Departing from the words of the King James, wresting the words of the King James, or departing from the doctrines contained therein, will leave a man powerless to preach and to serve God. A man may engage in lots of ministerial activity, but actually not be laboring in the gospel at all. (Which brings to mind the words of the apostle Paul: “I suffer not a woman to teach.” “KJV 1 Timothy 2:12 “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” Mrs. Riplinger has taken upon herself to teach the whole body of Christ, and every male host on whose program she has appeared. It is evident in Paul’s admonition that when women “teach,” the church suffers. Why did the “Sister” fail to heed the Apostle’s instructions? Why have so many men taken this usurping woman’s doctrines into their bosoms?) Riplinger’s four statements against Calvinism actually accuse the God of the AV 1611 of being a liar. This can be demonstrated easily by placing her words next to the words of the Bible.
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: “1.) Man’s depravity extends to his will, that is, he has no free will to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour.”
MAN’S DEPRAVITY
“KJV Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
“KJV Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
“KJV Psalm 14:2-3: The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
“KJV Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
“KJV Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“KJV Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
“KJV Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”
“KJV Genesis 6:11-12: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”
“KJV Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.”
Throughout Scripture, man is likened unto a tree (see Psalm One). Man, apart from the work of God upon him and within him is a corrupt tree that can produce nothing put corrupt fruit. Spiritual things are not and cannot be apprehended or known by any other means than the grace of God imparting to man spiritual understanding. Mrs. Riplinger has a very high opinion of man, one that is at odds with the picture of man’s heart, man’s mind, and man’s will as expressed in the King James Bible. She writes on page 46 of her work, “Imagine a computer so advanced that it could scan its entire environment constantly, storing all the input and matching it in its memory with all similar input. This is the human mind.” “The speech bewrayeth thee.” Matthew 26:73. “KJV Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” “KJV Romans 11:20 Be not highminded, but fear.” “KJV 1 Timothy 6:17: Be not highminded.” “KJV 2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.”
Mrs. Riplinger put no qualifications on her statement comparing the mind to a computer. She flatters fallen men that they are “so advanced” because their minds work so well. She gives no indication that she has any comprehension of the ruined state of man since the fall. All of man’s faculties are marred; his perceptions, his understanding, and his mind are in a condition of utter ruination. The wise, noble men of this world are often the most sinister and malevolent, and are seldom seen to be recipients of the grace of God. “KJV 1 Corinthians 1:26-29: For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty ;And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.”
Men are not born again through any thing that pertains to themselves. They are not saved because they exercised their free will and decided that it makes sense to receive Christ. It is easily demonstrated from Scripture that mankind is so utterly fallen that in his natural state “they are wise to do evil, but to good they have no knowledge.” (Jeremiah 4:22). The psalmist David understood this, as did all his fellow saints whose lives and stories are mentioned in the Bible. David, the man after God’s own heart, wrote under inspiration: “KJV Psalm 58:1-5: Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.” The natural man cannot charm, remediate, or correct his fallen nature. “They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God.” Hosea 5:4. They will not because they can not. “KJV Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” Jeremiah isn’t preaching a mere troublesome, hindering depravity in this verse; he is preaching an all encompassing inability in natural man to will or to do what is good. This is why it is written in another place, “KJV Psalm 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” When the Lord has chosen a sinner unto everlasting salvation in Christ Jesus, He turns him, because the sinner cannot turn himself. Thrice in Psalm 80 we find the truth recorded: “KJV Psalm 80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” “KJV Psalm 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” When matched with the fourth reference, “KJV Psalm 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease,” it can be readily perceived by those that will believe the Scriptures that the Lord is the one that gives the ability to men to turn to him. Of themselves, they do not have it. But when the Lord gives men the will and ability to turn to him, it unfailingly leads to godly sorrow. Only as God turns men to sorrow and repentance, granting them faith and salvation, does his anger towards them cease. God, who is angry with the wicked every day, is only appeased by the full pardon and atonement the blood of his Son provides. As the psalmist said, “I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.” (Psalm 38:18). No man can exhibit godly sorrow, except it were given him from heaven. Only those that experience godly sorrow are ever saved. “KJV 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” “The foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God,” (Hebrews 6:1) is laid by God, not man. So, in the Psalm of the word, it is written: “KJV Psalm 119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.” Mrs. Riplinger, thou that art a “teacher of babes;” knowest not these things? “KJV Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
MAN’S WILL
“KJV Romans 7:18 For to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
“KJV Romans 9:16: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”
“KJV Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
“KJV Jeremiah 23:10 Their course is evil, and their force is not right.”
“KJV Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”
“KJV Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.”
GOD’S WILL
“KJV John 1:11-13: He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
“KJV Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”
“KJV John 6:39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
KJV John 6:40-44: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
KJV John 7:16-17: ” Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.”
“KJV Ecclesiastes 8:3-4: Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?”
“KJV Psalm 135:6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.”
“KJV Ephesians 1:5-6: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”
“KJV Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.”
It appears from our reading of Mrs. Riplinger’s book, that though she may have often read the above Scriptures in the King James Bible, she has not believed them. John 1:11-13 clearly states that God gives power to men to become the sons of God. If he must give them this power, this is because they do not possess it of themselves. John 1:13 states that “the will of the flesh” nor “the will of man” determine if a man will be born again, or go to hell. Mrs. Riplinger chants the refrain of “whosoever will” just as Pelagius did. She missed the “whomsoever the Son will” spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 11:27.
In John 6:39 it is apparent that God the Father has given a set number of men and women to the Son, and they will (not might) be raised up at the last day. In verse 40, all those that see the Son and believe on him have everlasting life and will be raised up at the last day. In John 6:44 (Oh hated verse) Jesus said dogmatically that “No man” can come to him except the Father “draw him.” Therefore, the “whosoevers” that are saved must have been given to the Son by the Father, and the Father therefore draws them to the Son, and they will be raised up at the last day. This is the core of the Christian faith; this is the essence of our hope. That Christ has wrought a full and complete work of salvation, and all those that receive this salvation were appointed thereto by the Father. This gives the believer the courage to face an evil, opposing world and stand fast against all opponents. Take these certainties and assurances away, and the believer will be led to think that some of the work of salvation is his, not God’s, and this robs him of that bold confidence that was so manifest amongst the Calvinist of the Reformation.
Mrs. Riplinger works very hard in her book to overthrow the Biblical doctrine of predestination with a vehemence reminiscent of the Romish adversaries of the church from times past. We cite her statements on page 82 of her work: “DEFINITION: predestinated means ‘purposed.’ “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the prupose…” Ephesians 1:11 The predestinated and purposed element was not who should be saved, but HOW “whosoever will” may be saved. One is saved by being “In Christ,” “in him,” “in the beloved,” and “through his blood.” These prepositional phrases are repeated in every verse because they are the crux of the discussion. God predestinated the means of salvation. “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Christ Jesus..”Eph 1:5. How do we become adopted into the family of God?-”By Jesus Christ.” The verse does not say, “Predestinated us unto the adoption of children. Period.” It says “He…predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ…” Jesus Christ was God’s predestinated plan for the redemption of man. Those who are “in Christ” are in “the elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.” According to 1 Peter 2:5,6 Jesus Christ is the “elect.” If you are “in Christ,” you are in the elect.” You do not get “in Christ” by being predestinated; you get “in Christ” by believing on him. God predestinated method, not people.”
This private interpretation given by our author shows her detestation of the doctrines of God, and her antipathy towards the Sovereign Creator of the worlds. Ephesians 1:5 says “predestinated us,” and it must be willful and malicious intent on Riplinger’s part to attempt to say that “us” (saved people and those to be saved) are not “predestinated.” Mrs. Riplinger here intrudes into things she does not understand and cannot comprehend with her natural mind, teaching doctrine contrary to the truth of the eternal God. She attempts to put over on us that only Christ is “elect,” and that there are no elect, yet unsaved sinners. If we find one verse in the Bible that shows anyone spoken of as being “elect” who was not in Christ at that time, we have proof that Mrs. Riplinger, and not the Geneva margin authors, lied. Does such a verse exist? Of course! “KJV 2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” Paul said he endured all things, not for whosoever will, but for “the elect” that had not yet obtained salvation. Paul understood that chosen men and women, “vessels of mercy” were strewn throughout the Gentile world, and his labors and strivings in the gospel were for them. Paul was going forth preaching indiscriminately, trusting the Divine providence to guide him and cause the unsaved elect to hear the gospel by his mouth. Paul taught that Christ was elect, but he also taught that there were men and women who were elect. “KJV Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering.” In Romans 8, the context clearly reveals that “God’s elect” are the redeemed that are in the elect Son. “KJV Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” The contextual occurrence of the phrase will not permit the application of the phrase “God’s elect” to Christ alone. The context directs the understanding of the reader to know that those that are born again are “elect.”
We find in the Bible many things that the natural mind cannot understand or comprehend, but can only be received in faith. Revelation contains information on predestination that Arminians such as the Pelagian Riplinger overlook. “KJV Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” It is related to us in this verse that the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, is slain “from the foundation of the world.” If we will literally believe the AV text, we find that the blood redemption of Christ was provided for every Old Testament Saint, and see that truth expressed in Ecclesiastes, that “Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever.” “KJV Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.” God is an eternal being, who exists outside of time, he being the Creator of time. God “calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Romans 4:17. The information of Christ being slain from the foundation of the world is coupled with a book, “the book of life of the Lamb.” By simply reading in context, we see that their names being written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world precludes them from worshipping the beast or taking his name, number, or mark. That is predestination. Predestination means your destination has been predetermined. Riplinger does not believe the Bible. The Bible unequivocally says in Romans 8 that men are foreknown and predestinated by God the Father to be conformed to the image of the Son. “KJV Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” The words of the AV 1611 Bible need no margin notes to “teach Calvinism.” All that is required is faith in the English translation. Faith in the English results in a belief in predestination.
In Ephesians 1:5 God the Father predestinated “us,” the recipients of salvation unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ. Mrs. Riplinger says to God, “What doest thou?” as he predestinates us to the adoption of children. She skews the English in attempting to teach that the means of salvation was alone predestinated, but that the objects of salvation (the elect) are not predestinated. Predestinated means that your destination has been predetermined, not by you, but by God: from God’s perspective, you have no part or lot in the choosing where you will go. This is what “the church of the living God” has ever taught and maintained. Paul said, “It is not of him that willeth.” Riplinger says, yes it is. The psalmist said “Whasover the LORD pleased, that did he.” Riplinger says, whatsoever man pleases, that does he. Jesus said, “No man can come unto me, except the Father which sent me draw him.” Solomon said “Draw me, we will run after thee.” (Song of Solomon 1:4) Riplinger says, any man may come unto Christ, of his own free will, with no regard to the will of God. According to the Lord Jesus, the Father has given him a set number and that only those that have been given to the Son can and will come. “KJV John 6:39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” Riplinger makes man’s will of paramount importance, not believing the words of the Lord Jesus nor understanding that God’s will over rules the will of elect sinners in their coming to Christ, and conforms their wills according to his pleasure. God said, “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.” Riplinger, denying the words of scripture, is in affinity with those that say, “But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth.” Jeremiah 44:17. She teaches lies in the name of the Lord, proclaiming that men are saved through the faculty of their own depraved wills choosing without constraint to be saved, while God said of those that are saved, “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” No one ever, one time, was ever born again by the will of the flesh or the will of man: those that are born of God are born of God’s will, not their own.
Knowing that Mrs. Riplinger enjoys literature and writing, even engaging in poetical little ditties of her own in her books, we believe it is appropriate to give the reader a poetic interlude that it is hoped will highlight the topic at hand. We dedicate our recitation of this poem to “Sister Riplinger,” and all of her free-will friends.
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears,
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 2.) God unconditionally elects certain special individuals to be saved, and pre-selects others to be damned to hell.”
KJV John 6:40-44: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
“KJV Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”
“KJV 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
“KJV James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?”
KJV Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
“KJV 1 Corinthians 1:27-28: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:”
“KJV John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
“KJV Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”
“KJV Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”
For the benefit of Mrs. Riplinger and those that read this essay, we have given here nine texts that irrefutably teach that God chooses his own, that he selects those that will be born-again according to his own purpose, and not contingently upon any foreseen obedience or good works of the creature. Salvation is entirely in God’s hands, and he bestows it on whomsoever he will.
God foreknows not who will choose to be born again, but his foreknowledge is his foreknowing of all the things that he has decreed and willed to come to pass on the earth, including which men and women he will save. Foreknowledge and predestination insure the fulfillment of prophecy. “KJV Acts 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” The whosoevers that come to him correspond exactly to those that he has willed to come to him. God the Father has not given all men without distinction to the Son, but chose some out of the lump of sinners who have lived, are living, and will live upon the earth. He has done so for reasons known unto him, and those reasons are sufficient for him so to do.
The very act of choosing some has inherent within it the leaving behind of others. There was no obligation on the part of God the Father to send the Son into the world to die for sinners, but he freely and without constraint chose to do so, the Son freely and without compulsion agreeing thereto. He could justly have condemned all men to hell and it would have been righteous and would have in no wise detracted from his glory. “KJV Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?” People such as Mrs. Riplinger seem to think that God owes sinners the chance to be saved. God owes them hell for the wages of sin is death, and if they are not the objects of the sovereign mercy of God, they will suffer everlasting punishment. Those that can not, will not, and do not come to Christ serve the purpose that the Lord has appointed for their existence, and when that purpose is accomplished, they will go into eternity bearing the full weight of their own personal sins, as well as the original sin with which they were born. The Triune God will not shed one tear over one sinner in the lake of fire, but said: “KJV Proverbs 1:25-30: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.” Contrary to the popular religous fiction of our day, God hates evil doers, and is angry with the wicked every day. “KJV Psalm 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.”"KJV Psalm 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.” He loves his own elect eternally . “KJV Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” God is immutable and eternal, and so to is the display of his love and anger. “KJV Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” “KJV Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Those that perish eternally are not condemned by some positive act of God. Rather, they perish and suffer for their own sins which they committed according to the dictates of their own wills, consistently and continually sinning against the light of nature, conscience, and the word of God. They were not provoked by God to commit acts of sin; they committed sin freely and with a desirous heart. God did not make them commit sin, they of their “free wills” chose sin. This is the vaunted “free will” of man; a will that can only commit sin, and is utterly devoid of righteousness. So Spurgeon called one of his sermons “FREE WILL-A SLAVE.” Below we list scriptures that pertain to the eternal hatred of God for “vessels of wrath,” and thereby demonstrate that those that are not elect still serve God’s purpose in this world and the next, to make known his holiness and justice. (These truths became startlingly clear when a preacher that professed to believe the AV 1611 told the current author that he “chose not to believe that God would ordain someone to eternity in the lake of fire” after he was confronted with Jude 4.)
“KJV Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.”
KJV Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
“KJV Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Romans 9:18-24: Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”
“KJV 2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.”
“KJV Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”
“KJV Deuteronomy 32:39-43: See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.”
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 3.) Jesus died only for a select few. He did not die for “the world.”
In this statement Mrs. Riplinger intends the reader to understand that Christ died equally for all men and that he desires all men, equally, to obtain salvation. The King James Bible tells us plainly in the following texts that Christ indeed bore the sins of the world in his own person on the cross:
“KJV John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
“KJV John 4:42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”
“KJV John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
“KJV 2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
“KJV 1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
But there are many more scriptures that show that the love of Christ was for the church, the elect of God, and that he died with the objective of purifying unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. “KJV Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” “KJV Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” According to 2 Corinthians 5:19, Christ has reconciled the world to the Father, and the Father does not impute their trespasses unto them. If not, why do so very many go to hell? Because their sins are not taken away from the face of God the Son, their names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, they are not chosen in Christ from the foundation of the world, and their salvation unto life everlasting was never intended by the Father, as they have not been given to the Son, and the Son did not pour forth his blood to bring them eternal life and an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled. Christ said: “KJV John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” He gave his life for his sheep, that they might have life eternal. He did not pour out his blood to get Judas, Jezebel, Haman, Goliath, Esau, Cain, or any other reprobate into heaven. Every soul that will be in hell eternally will be there because of their own sins, their willful rejection of all obedience to God. They were never born again because God never commanded that that they be born again; for if he had, they would have been regenerated. “KJV Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?” Mrs. Riplinger, and all Arminians without distinction, would have us believe that every sinner that goes to hell represents one more failure of “God’s efforts.” The good shepherd gave his life for the sheep. He did not suffer and die equally for all men that ever lived to be saved, or else they would all come to Christ. While the blood of God’s Son is sufficient to redeem eternally everyone that ever lived, it is only made efficient unto everlasting life to the elect.
The gospel is to be preached to all men indiscriminately. The Bible is strewn with verses that show that the gospel should be preached to all men, not that every single soul should be saved, but that the word of the Lord might be given to his own elect of every nation, tongue, kindred, and tribe upon the earth. Paul said he endured the things he went through not for reprobates, but for the elect. “KJV 2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” Christ did not love the world enough to pray for it; he only prayed for the elect. “KJV John 17:6-9: I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” The commands in Mark 28 and Mark 16 to indiscriminately preach to every creature do not in anywise imply that God intends to save every creature. The propitiating death of Christ occurred that Christ might redeem the elect. The elect are a select few when compared to the many that go to destruction. The following verses demonstrate that Christ died for one nation, Israel, and that he died only to eternally save those called to be his people, Jew and Gentile, “elect according to grace.”
“KJV Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”
“KJV Isaiah 53:4-5: Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
“KJV Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“KJV 1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.”
“KJV Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”
“KJV Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
“KJV John 11:50-52: Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.”
If the death of Christ made possible the salvation of every one, but assured the salivation of no one, Christ died in vain. But the offering of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross assured the salvation unto life eternal of every on of the elect, and everlasting life to the nation of Israel. The “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31:31 was only given to one people: Israel. Those elect Gentiles that are graffed in are made nigh unto the commonwealth of Israel and the covenants of promise. Ephesians 2:12-13. The death of Christ provides remission of sin for national Israel, and remission of sins for all elect individual Jews and Gentiles. The blood of Christ, while sufficient to save ten thousand worlds of sinners, is only efficient to save those who would compose “the treasure his in the field.” “KJV Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” Christ gave his life for the world, to have the treasure hid in the world (his elect nation and elect saints). His blood is only efficient unto salvation for those, and no others.
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 4.) Those who have been pre-selected will automatically be saved.”
Mrs. Riplinger here confesses her belief that the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ assured the salvation of no one. Her faith is not the faith once delivered unto the saints. Whatever faith she may have, it is not “the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Jesus on his way to the cross was certain he would gain that for which he would suffer. There is no indication anywhere in Scripture that he was uncertain for whom he died or whether or not they would be drawn to him and receive eternal life. The book of Hebrews contains a verse which clearly demonstrates this. “KJV Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Christ went to the cross with the absolute certainty that his death would purchase his own people and guaranteed their everlasting salvation. He looked to the joy set before him in gaining those he had been promised by the Father. If there were any uncertainty, there would have been no joy before him.
“KJV Ephesians 1:4-6: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”
So then we have found that it is easy to defend the doctrinal beliefs called “Calvinsim” from a King James Bible without any “margin notes” to help us along. We believe that Mrs. Riplinger should withdraw from public speaking and writing, and devote herself to learning the doctrines of the King James Bible, starting with “KJV 1 Timothy 2:12 “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” In her diatribes against the doctrines found in the King James Bible concerning salvation Riplinger has usurped the authority over “the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 2:5) and gives the preeminence of the who, where, why, and when of salvation to sinners that the Bible shows to be so morally, spiritually, and literally depraved that they are incapable through their own faculties to desire or seek after God. Riplinger, by her rejection of the doctrines found in the Bible as taught and believed by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Peter Moulin, John Owen, John Knox, Martin Bucer, William Gouge, John Bradford, William Tyndale, Patrick Hamilton, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, all of the Smithfield and other martyrs burnt under “Bloody Mary,” all Puritans and their successors, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, John Gill, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, George Whtifield, William Huntingdon and a further “cloud of witnesses” too many in number to know or name, demonstrates that she does not believe that “the church of the living God” is the “pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15). She, as Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, sets herself against the testimony of Jesus present in his church before she was born, and promotes the very doctrines concerning salvation espoused by Rome and introduced into the English Reformed Church by the criminal Archbishop Laud. The documentation of the truth of what most of the mentioned men believed and the introduction of Arminianism into England by Archbishop Laud can be documented from the afore mentioned work by Augustus Toplady, and other sources.
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINES AND WORKS OF G.A. RIPLINGER
PART ONE
Gail Riplinger, in her latest book, “IN AWE OF THY WORD” subtitled, “UNDERSTANDING THE KING JAMES BIBLE,” makes the following statements: (chapter 16 page 566) “Since Calvinism is hard to defend with a text-only Bible, its adherents push the Geneva Bible and the New Geneva Bible (NKJV). Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 1.) Man’s depravity extends to his will, that is, he has no free will to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour. 2.) God unconditionally elects certain special individuals to be saved, and pre-selects others to be damned to hell. 3.) Jesus died only for a select few. He did not die for “the world.” 4.) Those who have been pre-selected will automatically be saved. Such non-scriptural nonsense demands a “Study” Bible with marginal notes which massage the meaning of the clear bible text to fit this deviated mold. The old Geneva Bible and New Geneva Bible provide the notes to crowd the cause into their corner.”
Those that are King James Bible Believing men and women should take great issue with this statement. Those that really believe the Bible and read and study it ought to know that the Bible teaches that the universal corruption of mankind extends to all the parts of the man, body, soul and spirit; thus encompassing the will of man. Those that read and believe their King James Bibles should be well aware that Jesus said, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him,” and “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” Anyone familiar with the history of the Apostle Paul should remember that Christ chose and sought Paul, and came and revealed himself to Paul when he was busy about persecuting Christians. Paul was not seeking the Lord when he was regenerated; he was in the midst of serving his own religious lust in murdering believers. In the Pauline epistles we are told that Paul and his testimony is a “pattern” to those that would afterwards believe on Christ. A once through reading of the New Testament reveals that “Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.” Ephesians 5:25. These simple English words show that Christ gave himself not for the whole world to be saved, born again, and brought to heaven but specifically gave himself an offering for sin to obtain “the treasure in a field”, which is what he called the elect. “KJV Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” In so doing, he was in complete accordance wich the Father’s will, of whom he said: KJV John 6:37 “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” No one needs any margin notes in a King James to prove that Mrs. Riplinger, (in her statement above) by calling these statements lies, has implied that the resurrected Son of God lied!
We believe that many things in Mrs. Riplinger’s new book are useful for the Christian to know concerning the history of the King James Bible. We observe that she has done a prodigious amount of research and collated a hefty pile of statements from learned, godly Christians (virtually all five point Calvinists) and that many of her words appear to be spoken in sincerity. We will be instructed by those citations and quotes which do not violate the doctrines of the Bible, and do not lightly dismiss the amount of labor Mrs. Riplinger has expended on her work. However, her repeated jibes against the doctrinal truths that are in the word of God and were believed by virtually all of the martyrs and preachers she cites give us cause to pause. While professing to believe the words found in the King James, Mrs. Riplinger continuously attacks the doctrines taught in the words of the King James. We must consider Riplinger’s allegations, compare them to many verses of scripture, and then determine who is lying. It is a very grievous and serious charge to accuse the men that notated the old Geneva Bible of being liars. To ascertain the facts, we will utilize the method that Riplinger commends to us for studying the Bible, which has been our own method of Bible study for many years. “The true method of Bible study, which is the frequent “reading” and “comparing of places” in the English Bible, was recommended by the wise Archbishop Cranmer (born 1489-martyred 1556). He replied to the priest, “I wonder likewise, why you attribute so little to the diligent reading of the Scriptures and conferring of place…And as touching your opinion of these questions, it seemeth to me neither to have any ground of the word of God, nor of the primitive church. And, to say the truth, the schoolmen have spoken diversely of them, and do not agree therein among themselves.” (Page 876, IN AWE OF THY WORD ). By the way, Cranmer was a Calvinist! (”The sum of all, so far as concerns Cranmer, is; That, if he was an honest man, he must have been, what Arminians now call, a rigid predestinarian.” Page 128, COMPLETE WORKS OF AUGUSTUS TOPLADY, author of the hymn, ROCK OF AGES. A catechism which Cranmer sanctioned made the following statements: “Immortality and blessed life God hath provided for his chosen, before the foundations of the world were laid.” “As many as are in this faith stedfast, were fore-chosen, predestinated, and appointed to everlasting life, before the world was made.” Page 128, ibid.) Riplinger only mentions his martyrdom, but does not mention the beliefs that led to his martyrdom. We will, having many times diligently read the Scriptures, compare place to place, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, to find if the statements that Mrs. Riplinger called lies are indeed such. Surely the Bible will tell us, without the help of any margin notes!
Mrs. Riplinger would have us believe that she is an ardent and earnest enemy of Romanism, a Protestant of the Protestants, and that she is sincerely labouring to bring the church and men back to the King James Bible. Her book has some jabs, jests, and sneers at Rome, but in the above quotations, she would seek to teach us Romish doctrines pursuant to the Council of Trent, and she does so in a manner that would highly please any Archbishop, Cardinal or Black Pope. Her condemnation of the points she mentioned is as virulent as that of the Pope Clement X (1699) against Quesnell’s 101 propositions (extracted from Quesnell’s writings), which contained many sentiments the same as those Riplinger condemns. (For the reader’s edification, we cite some of these, to verify our statement. These quotes come from ‘THE CANONS AND DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, trans by Alois Buckely, published 1851 By George Routlegde, London. “In vain, O Lord, dost thou command, if thou thyself givest not what is commanded.” “Thus, O Lord, are all things possible to him, to whom thou makest all things possible, by working the same things in him.” “Grace is the operation of the hand of Almighty God, which nothing can hinder or retard.” “Grace is nothing else than the will of Almighty God, ordering, and doing that which he doth order.” “When God willeth to save a soul, at what time and in what place soever, the effect unhesitatingly followeth the will of God.” “How far soever an obstinate sinner be removed from salvation, when Jesus presenteth himself to be beheld by him in the salutary light of his grace, it must be that he give himself up, run forward, humble himself, and adore his Saviour.” “The grace of God is nothing else but his almighty will: this is the idea which God himself handed down to us in all the Scriptures.” “The true idea of grace is, that God wills that he be obeyed by us, and is obeyed; commandeth, and all things are done; the Lord but speaketh, and all things are subjected unto him.” All of these Bible based doctrines were condemned by Pope, and in light of Riplinger’s statements, she agrees with the Pope.) On page 201 of her book, she writes: “The entire Bible is the record of God’s efforts to separate a people unto himself.” How different is her speech from the speech of the saint of God for whom the book of Job is named. Job, who said, “I know that my redeemer liveth,” was well acquainted with the fact that God is absolutely sovereign, and said: “KJV Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.” This infallible doctrine from the infallible Bible teaches us that God does whatever pleases him amongst the sons and daughters of men on the earth, and that none of the things he does are contingent upon the acquiescence, approval, or help of man. The heathen king Nebuchadnezzar had learnt this doctrine after God dealt with him and said: “KJV Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” Let it be understood, that no man who was the subject of divine mercy and spiritual light is ever recorded in Scripture saying that men are the masters of their own destinies. Search the scriptures.
“The entire Bible is the record of God’s efforts to separate a people unto himself.” According to Riplinger, God is busy making efforts to get a people for himself, but it is only their “free-will” that actually makes his efforts succeed. Implicit within the phrasing of this statement we discern Riplinger’s belief that God’s efforts must be acknowledged and accepted by sinful men, or God’s efforts will come to naught! (As the mind of God is revealed in his word, the mind of man is revealed in his. “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”) Thus, Riplinger makes the creature and his will out to be more powerful than the Creator and his will. In the King James, we find not a record of “God’s efforts;” instead we find the Lord works “all things after the counsel of his own will” (Ephesians 1:11), and “God worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13). The Bible is plain in telling us that God’s will and purpose are never frustrated, that what He purposes to do is inevitably accomplished. “KJV Psalm 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” We have learned from the diligent study of our King James Bible that God has said, “My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure.” (Isaiah 46:10). We have learned that the desires of God’s heart expressed through his will are always accomplished, and that his word has never and will never fail in the things whereto he sends it. “KJV Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” It is a pitiful god that Riplinger presents to us, one that has no power over his creatures, one that will not violate their wills, and is sitting roadside begging for souls to be saved, and hoping that his efforts will succeed, that someone somewhere will do what he wants them to do. This is bizarre in light of the fact that Mrs. Riplinger has gained notoriety through her claims concerning the King James being the preserved and inspired word of God. The very fact that God has preserved and put a continuing inspiration upon his word through time, place and translation is one of the greatest proofs of his sovereignty and control over every event that occurs on planet earth. If this were not so, there would be no King James Bible!
In the quotes about Calvinism, she disassociates herself doctrinally from all of the martyrs to whom she frequently refers in her work, and from most of the translators who worked on the translation committee that produced the King James Bible. This is weird in light of page 495 of her work, where the top of the page caption reads “KJV TRANSLATORS TELL HOW NOT TO STUDY THE BIBLE.” Is it not strange that Mrs. Riplinger would go to men that generally asserted “Calvinism,” and use their statements as a guide to study the Bible? If these men were so deficient in their spirituality to believe that depravity extends to the will of man, and that election is unconditional, they certainly should not be trusted in their admonitions on how to study the Bible! Further, if these men were utterly deceived concerning the major tenants of the Christian doctrine of salvation, why would we trust their work of translation to be accurate? In besmirching the doctrinal beliefs of many of the translators and the Reformation that produced the King James Bible, she besmirches the Bible itself.
The Bible produced the Reformation, and God used the Reformation to bring forth his word in the languages of Europe, England, and the world. The Christian people of Europe and England before and during the Reformation were all Calvinistic in doctrine; the more access they had to the word, the more predestinarian they were. An agreement and harmony of theology rapidly developed between the Reformers of Germany, Scotland, England, Switzerland and France, because they were all receiving their doctrine from the Greek New Testament of Erasmus, which is the underlying text of the KJV New Testament. All those that broke with Rome and were willing to fight Rome on the field of battle with pike and sword were bound together by the belief in the sovereign grace of God, and their scriptural belief that the city of Rome with the religious structure it begat is BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. They followed the true texts of the Scriptures, were enlightened to the doctrines of grace, and this gave them courage to bravely fight and die, on the field of battle or in the Inquisition’s auto-de-fe (burning to death). The most complete break with Rome occurred in the British Isles, and Britain subsequently became the greatest empire and power on the face of the earth, gaining the first place amongst the nations of the world. The greatest Christian warrior/statesmen in history, Oliver Cromwell was a Puritan/Calvinist who quoted the King James continuously, and unceasingly referred to the over ruling providence of God manifest in all the affairs of men. It was the knowledge of God’s sovereignty that gave Cromwell and his troops a spirit that had not been seen since the armies of Jehoshaphat went forth with the praisers and singers before them. The battle cry of these hated Calvinists, “The LORD of HOSTS” thundered forth as they rode with raised swords and leveled pikes into the teeth of their enemies. These hated iconoclasts that destroyed so many Popish churches and idols stormed the gates of hell, put the priests and Jesuits to the sword, and knew no fear but the fear of the LORD. The crowned heads of Europe trembled at the mention of Cromwell’s name, and he is the man who bequeathed to England and the English speaking peoples a religious and civil liberty the world had never before seen. We still enjoy the dregs of this liberty, inherited from one of the most hated men in history, a maligned Puritan/Calvinist. As the Lord said, “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
It seems that “Sister” Riplinger is engaged is spiritual doublespeak. If the translators of the King James were seriously flawed in their theology, particularly where it concerned salvation (which is what “Sister” Riplinger believes, as she believes “Calvinsim is hard to defend with… a Bible” [see above]), why does this highly educated author of “A CLASSIC ” (so advertised on the back cover) cite them as authorities in the area of bible study? Her work is a classic, a classic of inconsistency! This should not surprise any King James Bible believer familiar with her previous work “NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS” or any one who has heard her audiotapes from the Southwest Radio Church or others who have interviewed her. She says that the new versions are Satanic, and are not good for doctrine, Christian growth or Christian instruction: yet men can still be saved through them! Though they be as corrupt as the decomposing corpse of a possum on a country road, though they be filled with leaven throughout, and though they are totaly unfit for daily food, the “Sister” would have us believe that they are somehow able to make one “born again,” something which Peter says only can occur from incorrupt seed. ” God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” KJV 1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of In Scripture, everything reproduces “after his kind.” Genesis 1:11. Therefore corruption only begets corruption. “KJV Matthew 7:17-18: Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” We find then that while drawing near with her lips to honor the King James Bible, she greatly dishonors both it and God by expressing beliefs, declaring doctrines, and writing things diametrically opposed to the truths that the words of the Bible express.
Many that believe Mrs. Riplinger, or believe as she does, would tell us that men can be saved by the phrases or passages in false bibles that conform to the King James: that false bibles contain some of “the word of God” though they are not the word of God. Such speaking is unsound theologically, scientifically, semantically, philosophically and morally. It seems to be some sort of Jesuit gymnastics rehearsed in our ears to get us to believe that the Spirit of Christ is in books that are “Satanic.” Did God really put his spirit in books that are from the Devil? Did God inspire the men that produced the “NEW AGE VERSIONS” (that Riplinger claims save people) to do the work they did when they produced their “bibles”? If those books are not given by “inspiration of God,” how then can the spirit and life of God which regenerates be present in them? Has God changed his method of dealing with men here in the twenty-first century, and put his spirit and saving faith and power in books produced by Mariolaters, liars, thieves, lesbians, and necromancers? Does Riplinger believe that “another Jesus,” “another gospel” or “another spirit” can bring men to eternal glory in Christ Jesus the Lord? Riplinger said in “NEW AGE VERSIONS” “The gods, gospels and ‘good’ books are cunningly crafted perversions of God’s true way.” (page 279). According to her own profession, a cunningly crafted perversion can save a man! Those that promote this idea want us to believe that “the words of eternal life” are strewn here and there in the midst of man’s words, yea, and Satan’s words. They want us to believe that books that they readily admit are completely inadequate to get a man through the storms of life, cause him to grow in grace, or make him godly are capable of communicating the faith of Jesus Christ that saves from hell! These notions that something that is full of hell can send you to heaven, that something unclean could make a man clean (Jesus said, “Now are ye clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” John 15:3), and that an unholy bible version can make a man holy, border on blasphemy.
The teaching that the “great salvation” of God can come through books that are not fit to give an eight year old for memorization and study is nonsense. Which is the greater work, salvation or growth subsequent to salvation? If a book can save a man, it can grow him up in Christ! Growth is determined by the content of the seed that is planted in the man; what bursts forth out of the seed comes from the generator of the seed. Paul said: “KJV Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” If it is not the word of God, no faith can be imparted to men through it. “KJV Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.” Those that are predestinated are created with deaf ears that will hear, at God’s appointed time (when it pleases him) the word of God, receive the faith of Jesus Christ, and believing upon him, evidence that they are elect. “KJV Isaiah 43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.” Justifying faith is communicated from God to sinful men through his word. This faith that comes through the “words that are spirit and life” causes the dead to hear the voice of the Son of God and they live! Paul said: “KJV Colossians 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.” Men receive Christ in faith, “the faith of the Son of God,” and as they have received him, so they are to walk in that same faith. Paul in this verse in Colossians does not separate the means of salvation from Christian walk, but teaches that being rooted and built up blossom from the same faith that enables men to receive Christ. The right root will bring forth good fruit. John recorded in John 1:12 “that as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.” “The gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation” (Romans 1:16) is “God’s spelling.” The word “gospel” is derivative from the Anglo-Saxon “God spelling,” or “God spell.” The power of God unto salvation is the word of faith, which bears within itself the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. In Mark 3:23 the Lord said, “How can Satan cast out Satan?” It is impossible that something Satanic within itself can bear the seed of eternal life. It is the “finger of God,” “the Sprit of God,” that knocks the devil out of a man and puts the life of Christ in him. “KJV Matthew 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.” He cast out the spirits with HIS WORD, not some of his word mixed in with men’s words. “KJV Matthew 12:24-28: But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.” One that believes the new birth can come through a satanic bible is actually teaching that Satan can cast out Satan, contrary to what Christ said.
The word which communicates the faith of Christ is the same as that which gives “power” for sanctification and service. “Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.” John 17:17. Sanctification comes from the same place as salvation, the word which is truth. There is only one true God and Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God. He plants his seed in those chosen to be part of his bride. (The Father has chosen those that will be part of his Son’s bride.) His seed that reproduces after its kind is not a genetically modified organism. Peter is plain in declaring that somone who has been born again from the incorrupt “seed” (1 Peter 1:23) has already received all things that pertain unto life and godliness. “KJV 2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” His divine power “hath given us,” past tense, “all things that pertain unto life and godliness.” These things are communicated when men receive “with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save the soul.” James 1:21. If a seed has one, two or three parts of the DNA chain knocked out of it, it is no longer what it once was, and will never reproduce as it once could. (Maybe Mrs. Riplinger can answer us and tell us how many words in “a bible” can deviate from the true text before God will stop using it!) A soul the moment it is saved receives in seed form not only eternal life, but an internal genetic blueprint of every work of the Spirit which will later occur in it. When watered by the “faithful word,” the seed breaks forth internally and begins replication and expansion, and at the last, will take over the whole man: fist spirit, then soul, and at last, the body. The seed may cause fruit thirty, sixty, or an hundredfold; or it may only lay a foundation, upon which only hay, wood, and stubble will be placed (by the man, not the Spirit). Peter dogmatically taught that men are not born again of corrupted seed. “The seed that is rotten under the clods” (Joel 1:17) is seed that is corrupted, or made “rotten” by corrupt clods of earth that have “perverted the words of the living God.” Paul never preached or taught anyone, anywhere, at anytime that they could receive life from something that was the slightest bit corrupt. He said that men “changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible men,” (Romans 1:23) and that “we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 2:17) No man of God in either Testament ever praised or commended to anyone a perversion or corruption of God’s word to anyone. No preacher in either Testament taught that salvation could come from a genetically modified seed, or that the life of God would be communicated from something “perverted.” Jesus said in the parable of the sower that “The seed is the word of God.” Luke 8:11. It came from God, not man. It is full of the breathe of heaven, but causes men to fear the vapours of hell. It is pure, as Christ is pure. It is holy, as he is holy. Only holy seed produces holy people. When Christ spoke of these matters, there is no intimation that the seed to which he referred was not holy, right and good. He likens the work of the word of God to the seed of vegetable matter, sown in the ground, and containing within itself in germ form everything the plant will someday be and produce. “Mark 4:26-32: And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? t is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.” Riplinger admits on page 20 of “NEW AGE VERSIONS” that the devil “removes the rubble stone of sin and the keystone of salvation. The cornerstone of Jesus Christ and the capstone of his second coming are cut out.” She also stated on pages 4 and 5 of the same work: “As with the genetic code, one change sets off a series of alterations which make the “new born” unlike instead of like his parents. The changes, additions and omissions discovered in the new versions have affected the health of the body of Christ and taken it step by step away from the image of God.” Riplinger has taught publicly that a bible with a mutilated genetic code (one without “the keystone of salvation”) will still produce “everlasting” life in a man, though it cannot produce godliness. She says this after saying that the “cornerstone of Jesus Christ” is “cut out” of the new bibles. This is heresy, and philosophical, scientific, religious foolishness. All things reproduce after their kind. This is the law of God in the Bible and is observed in all the physical matter of life. A hybrid or mutation of the word of God, by Riplinger’s own admission, does not bear in it “the image of God.”
“Calvinism is hard to defend using a text only bible.” Calvinism, briefly comprehended, is often referred to as “the Doctrines of Grace.” It holds that man is an utterly helpless, willful sinner who of his own volition will never turn to God, and that “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned.” First Corinthians 2:14. Therefore no man in a state of nature, unwrought upon and unenlightened by the Holy Ghost through the word of God is in any way able to discern his own utter sinfulness, his need of salvation, or the reality of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. All sinners have a “carnal mind.” “KJV Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Being natural men, carnal minded sinners are in such a state that ” They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God” and prove that “the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” Jeremiah 10:23. “Sister” Riplinger may object to these facts which tend to the abasement of man; man’s power, his will, his ability and self-esteem. Not only the words of the King James Bible, but the doctrines of the King James Bible give the preeminence to Jesus Christ! “KJV Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.” Sinners “corrupt the word of God” (2 Cor 2:17) not only by adding to or taking from the inspired words contained in the text of the Av 1611. They also “pervert the words of the living God” (Jeremiah 23:36) by wresting the inspired words to serve their own ends. “KJV 2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are somethings hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” This occurs throughout Mrs. Riplinger’s work.
Those that teach as Mrs. Riplinger does are actually teaching that a saved sinner is the author and finisher of his own faith: that the sinner, through his own desire, will and ability (with maybe a slight nudge from the Holy Ghost) chooses without constraint to “receive Christ.” (We use Bible terminology, not that of Mrs. Riplinger, who uses the un-Biblical phrase “accept Christ.” If “Sister” Riplinger would “search the scriptures,” she would find that no one in either Testament was urged to “accept Christ.” She would know that the saints were concerned with their labour being accepted of Christ (2 Cor 5:9) and those that work righteousness are accepted with him (Acts 10:35).) Riplinger believes that the sinner is capable of producing spiritual good from within his own fallen being, if he so desires to. She teaches that the will of man is not utterly the slave and servant of the corrupt, deparaved heart of man. She fails to recognize that the will is merely the faculty through which the affections and desires of the heart are expressed, and does not exist within man independently of “the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.” (Eph 4:22). The testimony of God contained in both Testaments is that the will of man, being subservient to his evil and impenitent heart, is ever chained to and the servant of corruption, until the man is freed by the will of the Father manifested in the drawing of the sinner to the Son. If men were not drawn by the Father to Christ, they would and could never come to Christ because their hearts are utterly corrupt and their will is chained to that inward corruption. As Luther so plainly taught, a man only has freedom of will in things beneath him, not in things above him. A man may chose what he will eat, when he will sleep, or with whom he will associate. But the will of man has constraints placed round about it that cannot be broken through. A man cannot chose to eat what is not available to him. A man must sleep when the exhaustion of his mortal frame forces him to it. A man may not be able to find the one with whom he would associate himself. Truly did John the Baptist say, “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.” John 3:27. That includes receiving Christ!
” Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.” Man in a state of nature without the grace of God will invariably come to the conclusion through his own faculties that his own ways are clean. Man in his native state cannot and will not admit freely of himself that he is altogether in sin, that all his righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and there is nothing good at all about any work, deed, thought, or religious duty he does. “KJV Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.” Only if and when God deals with a man and shows him his shameful, naked, sinful state will he ever cry out, “Woe is me, for I am undone, I am a man of unclean lips.” “KJV Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” Only if a man is chosen of God will the event that happened to Isaiah ever happen to him. “KJV John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.” “KJV John 15:19 but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. “KJV John 6:43-44: Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” While Christ commanded those that heard him, “Murmur not among yourselves,” Mrs. Riplinger fills her work with murmuring against “the right ways of the LORD.” “Thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?” Acts 13:10. When sinners (be they saved or lost) teach and confess doctrine that makes man a co-laborer in his own salvation, they answer yes to the question of Malachi: “Will a man rob God?” Those who profess that they climb a little and then God pulls a little, and so they get to heaven, are deceived and deceiving. The law of faith excludes all boasting, as Paul declares: “KJV Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” The faith that saves a sinner from the fires of eternal damnation and the shame of everlasting contempt does not come from any one or anything on earth: it comes from the Lord of heaven! A faith that excludes boasting is a faith that is not produced by man within man; if saving faith is in the smallest part a work of man, it could not utterly exclude boasting. Rather, the saving faith which is a law that excludes all human glorying and boastings comes from God alone. As Fanny Crosby so succinctly stated: “I know not how this saving faith, To me he did impart, Nor how believing in his word, Wrought peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed…” (Fanny Crosby was obviously a Calvinist.) That is the testimony, this is the speech of one that believed the Scriptures in their entirety through the faith of Christ. Christ is the “author and finisher of our faith.” “That in all things he might have the preeminence.” Saving faith is “the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8,9). It is God’s work that men trust him, not man’s. This alone gives Christ all the glory, as he said himself: “KJV John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” He taught that it was God’s work when men believed on him, not their own. Anything less makes man a robber of God and a robber of churches. “If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.” Isaiah 7:9.
Contrary to the opinion of Mrs. Riplinger, what is called “Calvinism” is the doctrine which is found in the word of God. Departing from the words of the King James, wresting the words of the King James, or departing from the doctrines contained therein, will leave a man powerless to preach and to serve God. A man may engage in lots of ministerial activity, but actually not be laboring in the gospel at all. (Which brings to mind the words of the apostle Paul: “I suffer not a woman to teach.” “KJV 1 Timothy 2:12 “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” Mrs. Riplinger has taken upon herself to teach the whole body of Christ, and every male host on whose program she has appeared. It is evident in Paul’s admonition that when women “teach,” the church suffers. Why did the “Sister” fail to heed the Apostle’s instructions? Why have so many men taken this usurping woman’s doctrines into their bosoms?) Riplinger’s four statements against Calvinism actually accuse the God of the AV 1611 of being a liar. This can be demonstrated easily by placing her words next to the words of the Bible.
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: “1.) Man’s depravity extends to his will, that is, he has no free will to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour.”
MAN’S DEPRAVITY
“KJV Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
“KJV Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
“KJV Psalm 14:2-3: The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
“KJV Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
“KJV Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“KJV Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
“KJV Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”
“KJV Genesis 6:11-12: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”
“KJV Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.”
Throughout Scripture, man is likened unto a tree (see Psalm One). Man, apart from the work of God upon him and within him is a corrupt tree that can produce nothing put corrupt fruit. Spiritual things are not and cannot be apprehended or known by any other means than the grace of God imparting to man spiritual understanding. Mrs. Riplinger has a very high opinion of man, one that is at odds with the picture of man’s heart, man’s mind, and man’s will as expressed in the King James Bible. She writes on page 46 of her work, “Imagine a computer so advanced that it could scan its entire environment constantly, storing all the input and matching it in its memory with all similar input. This is the human mind.” “The speech bewrayeth thee.” Matthew 26:73. “KJV Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” “KJV Romans 11:20 Be not highminded, but fear.” “KJV 1 Timothy 6:17: Be not highminded.” “KJV 2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.”
Mrs. Riplinger put no qualifications on her statement comparing the mind to a computer. She flatters fallen men that they are “so advanced” because their minds work so well. She gives no indication that she has any comprehension of the ruined state of man since the fall. All of man’s faculties are marred; his perceptions, his understanding, and his mind are in a condition of utter ruination. The wise, noble men of this world are often the most sinister and malevolent, and are seldom seen to be recipients of the grace of God. “KJV 1 Corinthians 1:26-29: For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty ;And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.”
Men are not born again through any thing that pertains to themselves. They are not saved because they exercised their free will and decided that it makes sense to receive Christ. It is easily demonstrated from Scripture that mankind is so utterly fallen that in his natural state “they are wise to do evil, but to good they have no knowledge.” (Jeremiah 4:22). The psalmist David understood this, as did all his fellow saints whose lives and stories are mentioned in the Bible. David, the man after God’s own heart, wrote under inspiration: “KJV Psalm 58:1-5: Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.” The natural man cannot charm, remediate, or correct his fallen nature. “They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God.” Hosea 5:4. They will not because they can not. “KJV Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” Jeremiah isn’t preaching a mere troublesome, hindering depravity in this verse; he is preaching an all encompassing inability in natural man to will or to do what is good. This is why it is written in another place, “KJV Psalm 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” When the Lord has chosen a sinner unto everlasting salvation in Christ Jesus, He turns him, because the sinner cannot turn himself. Thrice in Psalm 80 we find the truth recorded: “KJV Psalm 80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” “KJV Psalm 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” When matched with the fourth reference, “KJV Psalm 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease,” it can be readily perceived by those that will believe the Scriptures that the Lord is the one that gives the ability to men to turn to him. Of themselves, they do not have it. But when the Lord gives men the will and ability to turn to him, it unfailingly leads to godly sorrow. Only as God turns men to sorrow and repentance, granting them faith and salvation, does his anger towards them cease. God, who is angry with the wicked every day, is only appeased by the full pardon and atonement the blood of his Son provides. As the psalmist said, “I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.” (Psalm 38:18). No man can exhibit godly sorrow, except it were given him from heaven. Only those that experience godly sorrow are ever saved. “KJV 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” “The foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God,” (Hebrews 6:1) is laid by God, not man. So, in the Psalm of the word, it is written: “KJV Psalm 119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.” Mrs. Riplinger, thou that art a “teacher of babes;” knowest not these things? “KJV Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
MAN’S WILL
“KJV Romans 7:18 For to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
“KJV Romans 9:16: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”
“KJV Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
“KJV Jeremiah 23:10 Their course is evil, and their force is not right.”
“KJV Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”
“KJV Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.”
GOD’S WILL
“KJV John 1:11-13: He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
“KJV Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”
“KJV John 6:39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
KJV John 6:40-44: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
KJV John 7:16-17: ” Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.”
“KJV Ecclesiastes 8:3-4: Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?”
“KJV Psalm 135:6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.”
“KJV Ephesians 1:5-6: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”
“KJV Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.”
It appears from our reading of Mrs. Riplinger’s book, that though she may have often read the above Scriptures in the King James Bible, she has not believed them. John 1:11-13 clearly states that God gives power to men to become the sons of God. If he must give them this power, this is because they do not possess it of themselves. John 1:13 states that “the will of the flesh” nor “the will of man” determine if a man will be born again, or go to hell. Mrs. Riplinger chants the refrain of “whosoever will” just as Pelagius did. She missed the “whomsoever the Son will” spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 11:27.
In John 6:39 it is apparent that God the Father has given a set number of men and women to the Son, and they will (not might) be raised up at the last day. In verse 40, all those that see the Son and believe on him have everlasting life and will be raised up at the last day. In John 6:44 (Oh hated verse) Jesus said dogmatically that “No man” can come to him except the Father “draw him.” Therefore, the “whosoevers” that are saved must have been given to the Son by the Father, and the Father therefore draws them to the Son, and they will be raised up at the last day. This is the core of the Christian faith; this is the essence of our hope. That Christ has wrought a full and complete work of salvation, and all those that receive this salvation were appointed thereto by the Father. This gives the believer the courage to face an evil, opposing world and stand fast against all opponents. Take these certainties and assurances away, and the believer will be led to think that some of the work of salvation is his, not God’s, and this robs him of that bold confidence that was so manifest amongst the Calvinist of the Reformation.
Mrs. Riplinger works very hard in her book to overthrow the Biblical doctrine of predestination with a vehemence reminiscent of the Romish adversaries of the church from times past. We cite her statements on page 82 of her work: “DEFINITION: predestinated means ‘purposed.’ “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the prupose…” Ephesians 1:11 The predestinated and purposed element was not who should be saved, but HOW “whosoever will” may be saved. One is saved by being “In Christ,” “in him,” “in the beloved,” and “through his blood.” These prepositional phrases are repeated in every verse because they are the crux of the discussion. God predestinated the means of salvation. “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Christ Jesus..”Eph 1:5. How do we become adopted into the family of God?-”By Jesus Christ.” The verse does not say, “Predestinated us unto the adoption of children. Period.” It says “He…predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ…” Jesus Christ was God’s predestinated plan for the redemption of man. Those who are “in Christ” are in “the elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.” According to 1 Peter 2:5,6 Jesus Christ is the “elect.” If you are “in Christ,” you are in the elect.” You do not get “in Christ” by being predestinated; you get “in Christ” by believing on him. God predestinated method, not people.”
This private interpretation given by our author shows her detestation of the doctrines of God, and her antipathy towards the Sovereign Creator of the worlds. Ephesians 1:5 says “predestinated us,” and it must be willful and malicious intent on Riplinger’s part to attempt to say that “us” (saved people and those to be saved) are not “predestinated.” Mrs. Riplinger here intrudes into things she does not understand and cannot comprehend with her natural mind, teaching doctrine contrary to the truth of the eternal God. She attempts to put over on us that only Christ is “elect,” and that there are no elect, yet unsaved sinners. If we find one verse in the Bible that shows anyone spoken of as being “elect” who was not in Christ at that time, we have proof that Mrs. Riplinger, and not the Geneva margin authors, lied. Does such a verse exist? Of course! “KJV 2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” Paul said he endured all things, not for whosoever will, but for “the elect” that had not yet obtained salvation. Paul understood that chosen men and women, “vessels of mercy” were strewn throughout the Gentile world, and his labors and strivings in the gospel were for them. Paul was going forth preaching indiscriminately, trusting the Divine providence to guide him and cause the unsaved elect to hear the gospel by his mouth. Paul taught that Christ was elect, but he also taught that there were men and women who were elect. “KJV Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering.” In Romans 8, the context clearly reveals that “God’s elect” are the redeemed that are in the elect Son. “KJV Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” The contextual occurrence of the phrase will not permit the application of the phrase “God’s elect” to Christ alone. The context directs the understanding of the reader to know that those that are born again are “elect.”
We find in the Bible many things that the natural mind cannot understand or comprehend, but can only be received in faith. Revelation contains information on predestination that Arminians such as the Pelagian Riplinger overlook. “KJV Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” It is related to us in this verse that the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, is slain “from the foundation of the world.” If we will literally believe the AV text, we find that the blood redemption of Christ was provided for every Old Testament Saint, and see that truth expressed in Ecclesiastes, that “Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever.” “KJV Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.” God is an eternal being, who exists outside of time, he being the Creator of time. God “calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Romans 4:17. The information of Christ being slain from the foundation of the world is coupled with a book, “the book of life of the Lamb.” By simply reading in context, we see that their names being written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world precludes them from worshipping the beast or taking his name, number, or mark. That is predestination. Predestination means your destination has been predetermined. Riplinger does not believe the Bible. The Bible unequivocally says in Romans 8 that men are foreknown and predestinated by God the Father to be conformed to the image of the Son. “KJV Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” The words of the AV 1611 Bible need no margin notes to “teach Calvinism.” All that is required is faith in the English translation. Faith in the English results in a belief in predestination.
In Ephesians 1:5 God the Father predestinated “us,” the recipients of salvation unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ. Mrs. Riplinger says to God, “What doest thou?” as he predestinates us to the adoption of children. She skews the English in attempting to teach that the means of salvation was alone predestinated, but that the objects of salvation (the elect) are not predestinated. Predestinated means that your destination has been predetermined, not by you, but by God: from God’s perspective, you have no part or lot in the choosing where you will go. This is what “the church of the living God” has ever taught and maintained. Paul said, “It is not of him that willeth.” Riplinger says, yes it is. The psalmist said “Whasover the LORD pleased, that did he.” Riplinger says, whatsoever man pleases, that does he. Jesus said, “No man can come unto me, except the Father which sent me draw him.” Solomon said “Draw me, we will run after thee.” (Song of Solomon 1:4) Riplinger says, any man may come unto Christ, of his own free will, with no regard to the will of God. According to the Lord Jesus, the Father has given him a set number and that only those that have been given to the Son can and will come. “KJV John 6:39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” Riplinger makes man’s will of paramount importance, not believing the words of the Lord Jesus nor understanding that God’s will over rules the will of elect sinners in their coming to Christ, and conforms their wills according to his pleasure. God said, “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.” Riplinger, denying the words of scripture, is in affinity with those that say, “But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth.” Jeremiah 44:17. She teaches lies in the name of the Lord, proclaiming that men are saved through the faculty of their own depraved wills choosing without constraint to be saved, while God said of those that are saved, “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” No one ever, one time, was ever born again by the will of the flesh or the will of man: those that are born of God are born of God’s will, not their own.
Knowing that Mrs. Riplinger enjoys literature and writing, even engaging in poetical little ditties of her own in her books, we believe it is appropriate to give the reader a poetic interlude that it is hoped will highlight the topic at hand. We dedicate our recitation of this poem to “Sister Riplinger,” and all of her free-will friends.
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears,
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 2.) God unconditionally elects certain special individuals to be saved, and pre-selects others to be damned to hell.”
KJV John 6:40-44: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
“KJV Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”
“KJV 1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
“KJV James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?”
KJV Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
“KJV 1 Corinthians 1:27-28: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:”
“KJV John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
“KJV Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”
“KJV Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”
For the benefit of Mrs. Riplinger and those that read this essay, we have given here nine texts that irrefutably teach that God chooses his own, that he selects those that will be born-again according to his own purpose, and not contingently upon any foreseen obedience or good works of the creature. Salvation is entirely in God’s hands, and he bestows it on whomsoever he will.
God foreknows not who will choose to be born again, but his foreknowledge is his foreknowing of all the things that he has decreed and willed to come to pass on the earth, including which men and women he will save. Foreknowledge and predestination insure the fulfillment of prophecy. “KJV Acts 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” The whosoevers that come to him correspond exactly to those that he has willed to come to him. God the Father has not given all men without distinction to the Son, but chose some out of the lump of sinners who have lived, are living, and will live upon the earth. He has done so for reasons known unto him, and those reasons are sufficient for him so to do.
The very act of choosing some has inherent within it the leaving behind of others. There was no obligation on the part of God the Father to send the Son into the world to die for sinners, but he freely and without constraint chose to do so, the Son freely and without compulsion agreeing thereto. He could justly have condemned all men to hell and it would have been righteous and would have in no wise detracted from his glory. “KJV Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?” People such as Mrs. Riplinger seem to think that God owes sinners the chance to be saved. God owes them hell for the wages of sin is death, and if they are not the objects of the sovereign mercy of God, they will suffer everlasting punishment. Those that can not, will not, and do not come to Christ serve the purpose that the Lord has appointed for their existence, and when that purpose is accomplished, they will go into eternity bearing the full weight of their own personal sins, as well as the original sin with which they were born. The Triune God will not shed one tear over one sinner in the lake of fire, but said: “KJV Proverbs 1:25-30: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.” Contrary to the popular religous fiction of our day, God hates evil doers, and is angry with the wicked every day. “KJV Psalm 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.”"KJV Psalm 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.” He loves his own elect eternally . “KJV Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” God is immutable and eternal, and so to is the display of his love and anger. “KJV Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” “KJV Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Those that perish eternally are not condemned by some positive act of God. Rather, they perish and suffer for their own sins which they committed according to the dictates of their own wills, consistently and continually sinning against the light of nature, conscience, and the word of God. They were not provoked by God to commit acts of sin; they committed sin freely and with a desirous heart. God did not make them commit sin, they of their “free wills” chose sin. This is the vaunted “free will” of man; a will that can only commit sin, and is utterly devoid of righteousness. So Spurgeon called one of his sermons “FREE WILL-A SLAVE.” Below we list scriptures that pertain to the eternal hatred of God for “vessels of wrath,” and thereby demonstrate that those that are not elect still serve God’s purpose in this world and the next, to make known his holiness and justice. (These truths became startlingly clear when a preacher that professed to believe the AV 1611 told the current author that he “chose not to believe that God would ordain someone to eternity in the lake of fire” after he was confronted with Jude 4.)
“KJV Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.”
KJV Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
“KJV Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Romans 9:18-24: Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”
“KJV 2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.”
“KJV Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”
“KJV Deuteronomy 32:39-43: See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.”
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 3.) Jesus died only for a select few. He did not die for “the world.”
In this statement Mrs. Riplinger intends the reader to understand that Christ died equally for all men and that he desires all men, equally, to obtain salvation. The King James Bible tells us plainly in the following texts that Christ indeed bore the sins of the world in his own person on the cross:
“KJV John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
“KJV John 4:42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”
“KJV John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
“KJV 2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
“KJV 1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
But there are many more scriptures that show that the love of Christ was for the church, the elect of God, and that he died with the objective of purifying unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. “KJV Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” “KJV Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” According to 2 Corinthians 5:19, Christ has reconciled the world to the Father, and the Father does not impute their trespasses unto them. If not, why do so very many go to hell? Because their sins are not taken away from the face of God the Son, their names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, they are not chosen in Christ from the foundation of the world, and their salvation unto life everlasting was never intended by the Father, as they have not been given to the Son, and the Son did not pour forth his blood to bring them eternal life and an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled. Christ said: “KJV John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” He gave his life for his sheep, that they might have life eternal. He did not pour out his blood to get Judas, Jezebel, Haman, Goliath, Esau, Cain, or any other reprobate into heaven. Every soul that will be in hell eternally will be there because of their own sins, their willful rejection of all obedience to God. They were never born again because God never commanded that that they be born again; for if he had, they would have been regenerated. “KJV Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?” Mrs. Riplinger, and all Arminians without distinction, would have us believe that every sinner that goes to hell represents one more failure of “God’s efforts.” The good shepherd gave his life for the sheep. He did not suffer and die equally for all men that ever lived to be saved, or else they would all come to Christ. While the blood of God’s Son is sufficient to redeem eternally everyone that ever lived, it is only made efficient unto everlasting life to the elect.
The gospel is to be preached to all men indiscriminately. The Bible is strewn with verses that show that the gospel should be preached to all men, not that every single soul should be saved, but that the word of the Lord might be given to his own elect of every nation, tongue, kindred, and tribe upon the earth. Paul said he endured the things he went through not for reprobates, but for the elect. “KJV 2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” Christ did not love the world enough to pray for it; he only prayed for the elect. “KJV John 17:6-9: I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” The commands in Mark 28 and Mark 16 to indiscriminately preach to every creature do not in anywise imply that God intends to save every creature. The propitiating death of Christ occurred that Christ might redeem the elect. The elect are a select few when compared to the many that go to destruction. The following verses demonstrate that Christ died for one nation, Israel, and that he died only to eternally save those called to be his people, Jew and Gentile, “elect according to grace.”
“KJV Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”
“KJV Isaiah 53:4-5: Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
“KJV Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“KJV 1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.”
“KJV Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”
“KJV Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
“KJV John 11:50-52: Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.”
If the death of Christ made possible the salvation of every one, but assured the salivation of no one, Christ died in vain. But the offering of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross assured the salvation unto life eternal of every on of the elect, and everlasting life to the nation of Israel. The “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31:31 was only given to one people: Israel. Those elect Gentiles that are graffed in are made nigh unto the commonwealth of Israel and the covenants of promise. Ephesians 2:12-13. The death of Christ provides remission of sin for national Israel, and remission of sins for all elect individual Jews and Gentiles. The blood of Christ, while sufficient to save ten thousand worlds of sinners, is only efficient to save those who would compose “the treasure his in the field.” “KJV Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” Christ gave his life for the world, to have the treasure hid in the world (his elect nation and elect saints). His blood is only efficient unto salvation for those, and no others.
“Both have margins piled high with notes asserting the lies that: 4.) Those who have been pre-selected will automatically be saved.”
Mrs. Riplinger here confesses her belief that the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ assured the salvation of no one. Her faith is not the faith once delivered unto the saints. Whatever faith she may have, it is not “the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Jesus on his way to the cross was certain he would gain that for which he would suffer. There is no indication anywhere in Scripture that he was uncertain for whom he died or whether or not they would be drawn to him and receive eternal life. The book of Hebrews contains a verse which clearly demonstrates this. “KJV Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Christ went to the cross with the absolute certainty that his death would purchase his own people and guaranteed their everlasting salvation. He looked to the joy set before him in gaining those he had been promised by the Father. If there were any uncertainty, there would have been no joy before him.
“KJV Ephesians 1:4-6: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”
So then we have found that it is easy to defend the doctrinal beliefs called “Calvinsim” from a King James Bible without any “margin notes” to help us along. We believe that Mrs. Riplinger should withdraw from public speaking and writing, and devote herself to learning the doctrines of the King James Bible, starting with “KJV 1 Timothy 2:12 “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” In her diatribes against the doctrines found in the King James Bible concerning salvation Riplinger has usurped the authority over “the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 2:5) and gives the preeminence of the who, where, why, and when of salvation to sinners that the Bible shows to be so morally, spiritually, and literally depraved that they are incapable through their own faculties to desire or seek after God. Riplinger, by her rejection of the doctrines found in the Bible as taught and believed by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Peter Moulin, John Owen, John Knox, Martin Bucer, William Gouge, John Bradford, William Tyndale, Patrick Hamilton, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, all of the Smithfield and other martyrs burnt under “Bloody Mary,” all Puritans and their successors, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, John Gill, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, George Whtifield, William Huntingdon and a further “cloud of witnesses” too many in number to know or name, demonstrates that she does not believe that “the church of the living God” is the “pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15). She, as Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, sets herself against the testimony of Jesus present in his church before she was born, and promotes the very doctrines concerning salvation espoused by Rome and introduced into the English Reformed Church by the criminal Archbishop Laud. The documentation of the truth of what most of the mentioned men believed and the introduction of Arminianism into England by Archbishop Laud can be documented from the afore mentioned work by Augustus Toplady, and other sources.
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