Hallo John, (mede ook aan Parsifal)
Hier nog een reactie mijnerzijds. Ik citeer 2 stukken, 1 over de betekenis van de belijdenis van paus Pius IV uit de 16e eeuw met haar inhoud, en een stuk uit de in 2003 uitgekomen encycliek van de huidige paus over de eucharistie.
Hierbij merk ik op dat de eeuw na de besluiten op het Concilie van Trente de RK-kerk haar Inquisitie (o.a. in NL onder Alva) opnieuw volledig liet woeden tegen alle ketters die ook maar iets van haar afweken. Datgene wat mij opviel in het kader van onze discussie, heb ik in hoofdletters gezet.
Voor verder onderzoek verwijs ik je ook naar de nieuwe stukken op
www.iconbusters.com. Ook zou ik je willen vragen deze reactie te voegen bij de andere Engelse stukken die ik reeds aangehaald heb, te zamen vormen zij het argument wat ik heb willen maken dat het pausdom volgens de Schrift en alle getrouwen daadwerkelijk de antichrist is.
(bron: McClintock&Strongs Cyclopedia (zie
www.ageslibrary.com))
'Creed Of Pope Pius Iv
A SUMMARY OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE ROMAN CHURCH AS CONTAINED IN THE CANONS AND DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT. It was issued in the form of a bull in December, 1564, by pope Pius IV, and usually bears his name. ALL BISHOPS, ECCLESIASTICS, AND TEACHERS IN THE ROMISH CHURCH, AS WELL AS ALL CONVERTS FROM PROTESTANTISM, PUBLICLY PROFESS ASSENT TO IT. The original may be found in Richter, Canones et decreta Concil. Trident. p. 574, in Cramp, Text-book of Popery, p. 542; and in Elliott, Delin. of Romanism, ch. 1. We subjoin an English version. It will be seen that the former part is the Nicene Creed, slightly altered.
I, A. B., BELIEVE AND PROFESS WITH A FIRM FAITH ALL AND EVERY ONE OF THE THINGS WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN THE SYMBOL OF FAITH WHICH IS USED IN THE HOLY ROMAN.282 CHURCH; namely, I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried, and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose kingdom there will be no end; and in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Lifegiver, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who, together with the Father and the Son, is adored and glorified, who spake by the holy prophets; and one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins; and I expect the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
I MOST FIRMLY ADMIT AND EMBRACE APOSTOLICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITIONS, AND ALL OTHER CONSTITUTIONS AND OBSERVANCES OF THE SAME CHURCH.
I ALSO ADMIT THE SACRED SCRIPTURES ACCORDING TO THE SENSE WHICH THE HOLY MOTHER CHURCH HAS HELD AND DOES HOLD, TO WHOM IT BELONGS TO JUDGE OF THE TRUE SENSE AND INTERPRETATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; nor will I ever take or interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the fathers.
I profess, also, that there are truly and properly seven sacraments
of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and for the salvation of
mankind, though all are not necessary for every one — namely, baptism,
confirmation, eucharist, penance, extreme unction, orders, and matrimony, and that they confer grace; and of these, baptism, confirmation, and order cannot be reiterated without sacrilege. I do also receive and admit the ceremonies of the Catholic Church, received and approved in the solemn administration of all the above-said sacraments.
I receive and embrace all and every one of the things which have been defined and declared IN THE HOLY COUNCIL OF TRENT concerning sin and justification.
I profess likewise that in the mass is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion.283 the Catholic Church calls transubstantiation. I confess, also, that under either kind alone, whole and entire, Christ and a true sacrament is received.
I constantly told that there is a purgatory, and that the souls detained
therein are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
LIKEWISE THAT THE SAINTS REIGNING TOGETHER WITH CHRIST ARE TO BE HONORED AND INVOCATED, THAT THEY OFFER PRAYERS TO GOD FOR US, AND THAT THEIR RELICS ARE TO BE VENERATED. I MOST
FIRMLY ASSERT THAT THE IMAGES OF CHRIST, AND OF THE MOTHER OF GOD EVER VIRGIN, AND ALSO OF THE OTHER SAINTS, ARE TO BE HAD AND RETAINED, AND THAT DUE HONOR AND VENERATION ARE TO BE GIVEN TO THEM.
I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.
I acknowledge the holy catholic and apostolic Roman Church, the mother and mistress of all churches; AND I PROMISE AND SWEAR TRUE OBEDIENCE TO THE ROMAN BISHOP, THE SUCCESSOR OF ST. PETER, PRICE OF THE APOSTLES AND VICAR OF JESUS CHRIST. I also profess and undoubtedly receive all other things delivered, defined, and declare by the sacred canons and general councils, AND PARTICULARLY BY THE HOLY COUNCIL OF TRENT; AND LIKE. WISE I ALSO CONDEMN, REJECT, AND ANATHEMATIZE ALL THINGS CONTRARY THERETO, AND:ALL HERESIES WHATSOEVER CONDEMNED, REJECTED, AND ANATHEMATIZED BY THE CHURCH.
THIS TRUE CATHOLIC FAITH, OUT OF WHICH NONE
CAN BE SAVED, which I now freely profess and truly holy, I, A. B., promise, vow, and swear most constantly to hold, and profess the same whole and entire, with God, assistance, to the end of my life; and to procure, as far as lies in my power, that the same shall be held, taught, and preached by all who are under me, or are entrusted to my care, by virtue of my office. So help me God, and these holy Gospels of God. Amen.
This creed is also known under the name of the Professio Fidei Tridentina,
or Forma Professionis fidei Catholicae. See Cramp, Text-book of Popery;
p. 436; Buckley, History of Council of Trent, p. 519; Elliott, Delineation
of Romanism, bk. 1, ch. 1; Streitwolf und Klener, Lib. Symb. ecclesiae
Cath. (Gtt. 1846, t. 2).'
Tenslotte twee citaten uit de in 2003 uitgekomen encycliek over de eucharistie van de huidige paus.
(bron: officiele website van het Vaticaan te Rome). Dit om aan te geven de betekenis die de huidige paus anno 2003 geeft aan datgene wat besloten is op het Concilie van Trente uit de 16e eeuw.
'9. The Eucharist, as Christ's saving presence in the community of the faithful and its spiritual food, is the most precious possession which the Church can have in her journey through history. This explains the lively concern which she has always shown for the Eucharistic mystery, a concern which finds authoritative expression in the work of the Councils and the Popes. HOW CAN WE NOT ADMIRE THE DOCTRINAL EXPOSITIONS OF THE DECREES ON THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST AND ON THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS PROMULGATED BY THE COUNCIL OF TRENT? FOR CENTURIES THOSE DECREES GUIDED THEOLOGY AND CATECHESIS, AND THEY ARE STILL A DOGMATIC REFERENCE-POINT FOR THE CONTINUAL RENEWAL AND GROWTH OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN FAITH AND IN LOVE FOR THE EUCHARIST. In times closer to our own, three Encyclical Letters should be mentioned: the Encyclical Mirae Caritatis of Leo XIII (28 May 1902),5 the Encyclical Mediator Dei of Pius XII (20 November 1947)6 and the Encyclical Mysterium Fidei of Paul VI (3 September 1965).7'
'Along these same lines, the Catechism of the Catholic Church rightly stipulates that “anyone conscious of a grave sin must receive the sacrament of Reconciliation before coming to communion”.74 I therefore desire to reaffirm that in the Church there remains in force, now and in the future, the rule by which the Council of Trent gave concrete expression to the Apostle Paul's stern warning when it affirmed that, in order to receive the Eucharist in a worthy manner, “one must first confess one's sins, when one is aware of mortal sin”.75'
Hiermee is voor mij de discussie afgesloten. Ik weet hoe jij en Parsifal over dit onderwerp denken (= het pausdom is niet de antichrist, maar toch (wellicht) een deel van het Lichaam van Christus waarmee (ondanks de Reformatie) weer eenheid gezocht zou kunnen worden), jullie weten hoe ik erover denk (= het pausdom is de antichrist, geen eenheid). Toenadering van beide standpunten is in het licht van bovenstaande stellingnames van de RK in de 16e eeuw op het Concilie van Trente, de herbevestiging van deze decreten in het 2e Vaticaanse Concilie in 1962-1965, en die in de recent uitgekomen encycliek in 2003, mijns inziens niet mogelijk. Voor mijn eigen onderzoek heb ik de decreten van het Concilie van Trente nog eens doorgenomen, en de doctrines van het protestantisme (en dus ook allen die dat geloven) worden mijns inziens in minstens 75% betiteld met de term 'anathema' (= vervloekt). Rome kan haar mond vol hebben van eenheid en veranderd te zijn, maar haar kerkelijke doctrines zijn nog net zulke vervloekingen over het protestantisme als in de tijd van de Reformatie.
De bedoeling van het boek 'Een in de levende Christus' van een Rome-kenner als de heer Hegger, en ondanks vermaning zijn blijvende verbondenheid met de jongerenavonden als spreker, zijn dan ook duidelijke tekenen aan de wand voor mij uit wiens koker het hele concept van de jongerenavonden komt.
Zoals recentelijk iemand die bij mij op bezoek was, zei 'Hoe kunnen al die dominees dat boek van Hegger 'Een in de levende Christus' toch gemist hebben ?' Nou, dat kan alleen als Rome heerst in het Gekrookte Riet, Gereformeerde Bond, GG, en OGG. (Zie ook recent artikel Dr. W.J. Op 't Hoff in 'De rechte straat').
Dennis