APPROVED BY THE POPE

THE ALTERED! TEN COMMANDMENTS

You may ask, why was this done? To make Christianity more attractive to pagans!

The commandment against images is removed in the second commandment.

The Saturday Sabbath day is replaced by Sunday!

The last two commandments were split in two so there are still 10 Commandments!

*See Daniel 7:25! They think they have changed God’s law, but they really have not!

See Matthew 5:18 “I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”

Part 10

The Council of Trent

It was at this council that the Catholic Churchformulated its permanent fundamentals of the Catholic Creed– these series of sessions were held to consider the questions that had been raised and forced upon the attention of Europe by the Protestants Reformers: The reformers had charged that the Catholic Church had apostatized from the truth “as contained in the written word.” Thus was the proclaimed platform of the reformation and of Protestantism: The Written Word, “the Bible and the Bible Only,” these were their constant watchwords…

But the Catholics insisted on  “the Scripture and Tradition,” the Bible as interpreted by the Churchand the reasoning of its “Holy Fathers,” the Popes and Bishops, etc., of earlier generations…

There was a strong party even of the Catholics within the council who were in favor of abandoning “Tradition” and adopting The Scriptures Only as the standard of authority!

This view was so decidedly held on the debates that the Pope’s legates actually wrote to him that there was “a strong tendency” to set aside tradition altogether and to make Scripture the sole standard pf appeal.” However, to do this would manifestly be a big step toward justifying the claims of the Protestants…

By this crisis there was developed within the ultra-Catholic portion of the council the task of convincing the others that “Scripture and Tradition” were the only sure ground to stand upon – If this could be done, the council would be convinced to issue a decree condemning the reformation, otherwise not…

The question was debated day after day, until the council was brought to a standstill! Finally, after a long and intensive debate, the Archbishop of Reggio introduced into the council substantially the following argument:

The Protestants claim to stand upon “The Written Word Only” – they profess to hold the Scripture alone as the standard of faith. They justify their revolt by the plea that the church has apostatized from the written word and follows tradition. Now the Protestant’s claim that they stand upon the written word only is not true. Their profession of holding “the Scripture alone as the standard of faith” is false!

The Proof: The written word explicitly enjoins the observance of the seventh day as the Sabbath! They do notobserve the seventh day, but reject it! If they truly hold the Scripture alone as their standard, they would be observing the seventh day as is enjoined in the Scriptural throughout! Yet they not only reject the observance of the Sabbath enjoined in the Written Word, but they have adopted and do practice the observance of Sunday, for which they have only the Tradition of the Church…  Consequently the claim of “Scripture alone as the standard” fails, and the doctrine of “Scriptural and Tradition” as essential, is fully established, the Protestants themselves being the judges! By this observation the Archbishop scored a telling point, for the Protestants’ own statement of faith (The Augsburg confession of 1530) had clearly admitted that “The observation of the Lord’s Day” had been appointed by the Church only!

The argument was hailed in the council as pure inspiration– the party for “Scriptural Alone” surrendered… Moreover, thecouncil at once unanimously condemned Protestantism and the whole reformation as only an unwarranted revolt from the communion and authority of the Catholic Church… This information is from the Rome’s Challenge pamphlet, pages 25-27.

Thus the inconsistency of the Protestant practice with “Protestant Profession” that gave to the Catholic Church her long-sought and anxiously desired ground upon which to condemn Protestantism and the whole Reformation Movement…ALL BECAUSE THE PROTESTANTS REJECTED THE BIBLE’S HOLY SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH! …Therefore, the Catholics won out… Moreover, the Protestants failed in winning an important victory for the Lord… “Tradition” was to continue…

Part 11

“Tradition”

So, what did Jesus say about “Tradition”… He said… “Why do ye also transgress the Commandment of God by your Tradition?” Matthew 15:3 The Jews had enacted a rule that let a person by-pass leaving his possessions to his parents in case of his dying, which ran contrary to the commandment to “Honor thy Father and Mother”…

“…Thus have ye made the Commandment of God of None Effect by your tradition! ”Matthew 15:6 Clearly the Lord is not pleased with us following the “traditions” of men in place of his commandments! “In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men,” said the Lord in Matthew 15:9! However, this is exactly what the Catholic Church has perpetrated! In addition, when Protestantsendorse worshipping on “Sundays,” they support the Roman Church’s “Traditions”!

Part 12

Rome’s Challenge

This 32-page pamphlet reprints four editorialsthat appeared in the Catholic Mirror back in September 2,9,16,and 23, 1893! The Catholic Mirror was the official organ of Cardinal Gibbons and the Papacy in America…

In 1893, the United States Congress and the Supreme Court, declaring our country to be “A Christian Nation,” passed the orders that the World’s Fair was to be closed on Sundays…

The International Religious Liberty Association of the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists Churchpublished a 21-page brochure, which cited the fact that it is improper for our government to legislate public behavior concerning “Religious Matters!  

Rome’s

Challenge

Why Do

   Protestants

Keep

Sunday?

Its called “Separation of Church and State”! See, if people did not want to attend the World’s Fairon “Sunday,” they could stay home! But by passing a law to stop all from attending, that’s getting very close to legislating religion!

The Adventists outlined their belief in worshipping the Lord on His Saturday Sabbath day, via “free will,” and their Catholic Mirror wrote their articles to verify that “Saturday” isthe Bible Sabbath Day!

Rome’s Challenge – Here are quotes from what the editor of The Catholic Mirror wrote:

“In the Old Testament, reference is made 126 times to the Sabbath, all these texts conspire harmoniously in voicing the will of God commanded the Seventh Day to be kept, because God Himself first kept it, making it obligatory on All ‘a perpetual covenant.’  Nor can we imagine any one foolhardy enough to question the identity of Saturday with the Sabbath or Seventh day, seeing that the people of Israel have been keeping the Saturday from the giving of the Law, A.M. 2514 to A.D 1893, a period of 3383 years.”

“Examining the New Testament from cover to cover, critically, we find the Sabbath referred to 61 times. We find, too, that the Savior invariably selected the Sabbath (Saturday) to teach in the synagogues and work miracles. The 4 gospels refer to the Sabbath (Saturday) 51 times.”

“…The Redeemer refers to Himself as “The Lord of the Sabbath”… He never once hinted at a desire to change it… Thus the Sabbath (Saturday) from Genesis to Revelation!

“Hence the conclusion is inevitable… that of those who follow the Bible as their guide, the Israelites and the Seventh-Day Adventistshave the exclusive weight of evidence on their side, while the Biblical Protestant has not a word in self defense for his substitution of Sunday for Saturday…”

“While the Pharisees of old kept the true Sabbath, our modern Pharisees have never once in their lives kept the true Sabbath, which their divine master kept to His dying day, and which the apostles kept, after His example, for 30 years afterward, according to the scared record.”

“The Bible and the Sabbath constitute the watchword of Protestantism; but we have demonstrated that the it is the Bible against their Sabbath… We have shown that no greater contradiction ever existed than their theory and practice!  We have proved that neither their Biblical ancestors nor themselves have ever kept one Sabbath Day in their lives…” Now, remember, this was from the pen of an extremely knowledgeable Catholic Theologian – and he told it exactly like it is… Now, in 2004, it has been 3,504 years.

“The Catholic Church for over 1,000 years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday…”

“We say by virtue of her divine mission, because he who called Himself the ‘Lord of the Sabbath’ endowed her with his own power to teach, ‘He that hearth you, hearth me’… In addition, promised to be with her to the end of the world. She holds her charter from Him – A charter as infallible as perpetual…”

“The Protestant world at its birth found the Christian Sabbath (Sunday) too strongly entrenched to run counter to its existence… It was therefore placed under the necessity of acquiescingin the arrangement, thus implying the Church’s right to change the day, for over 300 years…”

“… The Israelites and Seventh-Day Adventists are witnesses of this weekly desecration of the day named by God so repeatedly…”

“The history of the world cannot present a more stupid, self-stultifying specimen of dereliction of principle than this… That immense concourse of Bible Christians, the Methodists, have declared that the Sabbath has never been abrogated, while the followers of the Church of England, together with her daughter, the Episcopal Churchof the United States, are committed by the 20^th article of religion that the Church cannot lawfully ordain anything ‘contrary to God’s Written Word,’ yet God’s Written Word enjoins His worship to be observed on Saturdayabsolutely, repeatedly, and most emphatically… All Biblical sects occupy the same self-stultifying position which no explanation can modify, much less justify.”

 “They have ignored and condemned their teacher, the Bible… In addition, they have adopted a day kept by the Catholic Church. The ‘Mother of Abominations’…”

“…Their pretense for leaving the bosom of the Catholic Church was the apostasy from the truth as taught in the Written Word. They adopted the Written Word as their sole teacher, which they had no sooner done than they abandoned it, as these articles have abundantly proved…” There it is Rome’s challenge to all Protestants! Shocking isn’t it? By the way, the prophet Isaiah clearly foretold that the Sabbath would falsely done away with, but then reestablished! Please look for this information in Part 13 the Repairer of the Breach. 

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