Monday, March 24, 2008

VACCINATION - VATICAN'S MEDICAL INQUISITION

Vaccination—Vatican's Medical Inquisition Revealed at Last!!


Vaccination came from the Vatican via Great Britain!!

"Beloved, I (JESUS) wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth" (III John v.3).

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Major Newspaper tells MAJOR LIES about smallpox -- they even have a picture of Dr. Campbell's Pest House!!

Texas Doctor discovers the CAUSE of smallpox almost 100 years ago!!

Definition of terms for this exposé. Vaccination and inoculation are often used interchangeably today.

Immunization:

To be immune from catching a certain disease e.g., childhood measles makes a person immune from catching measles for the rest of his/her life.

Vaccination:

Injection of diseased matter of cows, calves, monkeys, pigs or other animals into the human bloodstream in order to make one immune from human diseases like smallpox.

Inoculation:

The practice of injecting a human disease like smallpox into the bloodstream in order to make a person immune from catching smallpox.

Variolae:

Medieval Latin or scientific name for SMALLPOX – an exclusively HUMAN disease which is caused by the bite of a blood-sucking insect named Cimex Lectularius or the bedbug.

Vaccine:

From the Latin word for COW. Name that was given to cowpox that Jenner injected into humans in order to make them immune from smallpox.

Cowpox:

A disease of cows' udders which is caused by milking cows with dirty or cut hands.

Vacca is Latin name for cow.

Vacca is the Latin word for cow.

A calf is a young cow or bull. Lymph for vaccines comes from calves.

A calf is a young cow or bull. Lymph (poison) for vaccines comes from calves.

A bull is a male cow.

A bull is a male cow.

Medicine man Edward Jenner was the father of modern vaccination!!

Edward Jenner—a quack doctor— was the father of the filthy practice of vaccination:

Edward Jenner S.J. (1749 —1823).

Edward Jenner was an S.J. -- a Slick Jesuit -- who taught the medical world how to use the POISONED NEEDLE. He was the first to associate human diseases with that of animals. This idea paved the way for vaccination which is responsible for the deaths of multiplied millions of people around the world. The idea that humans and animals are related and share the same diseases led to the theory of evilution which is responsible for the spiritual death of multiplied millions more.

In the countryside in Gloustershire, England, where Jenner lived, the farmers had a legend or superstition that catching cowpox (a disease of cows which was transferred to the cows' udders by unwashed or bleeding hands) would act like a charm or amulet to make them immune from catching the human disease of smallpox.

Medicine man Jenner took this local legend or old wives' tale and turned it into a scientific FACT. He did this by first getting some scientific credentials (M.D., F.R.S. - Fellow of the Royal Society). Next he wrote a book and on the title page only he used the term VARIOLAE VACCINAE. This means in Medieval Latin: smallpox of the cow. Thus associating a human disease with a disease of the cow. There never was such a disease as smallpox of the cow until "Dr." Jenner invented it for the title of his book.

Jenner invented a new disease—VARIOLAE VACCINAE—smallpox of the cow!!

Cover of Jenner's book written in 1798.

Notice how medicine man Jenner cleverly uses the scientific name for smallpox, VARIOLAE, and associates it with the cow disease of cowpox. He NEVER mentions the name VARIOLAE VACCINAE again in his book. It is mostly about HORSE GREASE being the cause of smallpox of the cow. Jenner figured that very few people would actually read the book but most would just look at the COVER and make a mental association between Smallpox and Cowpox.

Dr. Charles Creighton— a brilliant Scottish doctor—exposed Jenner's clever sleight of hand in his masterly tome:Jenner and Vaccination.

"The title of Jenner's cowpox paper is: "An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease discovered in some of the Western Counties, especially Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the Cowpox." An objection might be taken to "discovered," but let that pass. The leading line in this full and learned title is Variolae Vaccinae, which is the only name in the short title. Now Variolae Vaccine is Latin for smallpox of the cow. An affection of cows and milkers, which had been known to country people for generations as the cowpox, is suddenly introduced to the learned, who had never heard of it before, under a brand-new name. The new name is put in the forefront of the title, it overshadows the old country name both by its prominence and by its semblance of scientific precision, and, for purposes of short reference, it becomes the sole name. This startling novelty is on the title-pages, and only on the title-pages. Jenner never says, in the preface or text, that the name is a new one, hitherto unheard of in veterinary or medical writings; he never says a single word to justify its invention; he never once uses it in the preface or text at all. But there it stands in the title as the full, correct, and scientific name of the disease, to be copied in journals and repeated in a hundred ways when not one word of the essay would be copied or repeated, carrying with it, in short, all the power over the ideas that a descriptive synonym for an unfamiliar thing does naturally carry with it." (Jenner and Vaccination, Dr. Charles Creighton, p. 44).

This is like saying that a horse chestnut (a tree) and a chestnut horse are the same thing or that a beetle (an insect) is the same thing as a BEATLE (a decomposing rock musician).

The only correlation between smallpox and cowpox is that both names ended in POX. Heaven and Hell both start with the same letter H but they are vastly different places.

Jenner inoculating his 18 months old

Jenner inoculating his 18 months old
son with swinepox. His son will die of
TB when he is 20
.

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"Getting the jab." Jenner inoculates an 8 year old boy named" James Phipps with cowpox. The boy will die of TB at 21.


Egyptian god Thoth

Egyptian god Thoth
in form of baboon.

Erasmus Darwin (1731—1802).

Erasmus Darwin S.J. (1731—1802).

Monkeys to men fable

Monkeys to men fable
was stolen from ancient
Egypt by Darwin.

Erasmus Darwin (another doctor) was the grandfather of ape-man Charles Darwin. Since Jenner claimed that humans and animals shared the same diseases, the next step was to promulgate the idea that they had a common ancestor.

Darwin was the father of another fable called the theory of evolution. He STOLE it from the Egyptians and never paid a penny in royalty fees. This is what Darwin said about Jenner and his vaccination:

"Dr Erasmus Darwin, the famous author of Zoonomia, wrote to Jenner on the 24th of February, 1802 (a few weeks before this death): "In a little time it may occur that the christening and vaccination of children may always be performed on the same day." (Jenner and Vaccination, Dr. Creighton, p. 188). (Editor's note: christening means sprinkling babies with water to make them Christians).

Both christening and vaccination are inventions of that old Serpent the devil!!

Charles ape-man Darwin SJ (1809—1882).

Charles ape-man Darwin S.J. (1809—1882).

Nobody except old Beelzebub himself has sent more souls to hell than this ape-man. His grandfather and Jenner laid the foundation of the MAD idea of turning the FABLE of evilution into a scientific FACT.

Inoculation came from ancient Egypt via India.

Hathor -- the Egyptian cow goddess.

Isis or Hathor— the Egyptian holy cow goddess.

Her name means "The Dwelling of Horus", for it was thought that Horus as the Sun God came to rest each evening on her breast before being reborn with the awakening dawn. Hathor is the great Sky-goddess that as a celestial cow gave birth to the universe. She was often represented as a cow or with bovine attributes such as a cow's head, cows’ ears or horns on her headdress. Hathor was the goddess of Joy and Motherhood and the embodiment of all that is best in women. She was also considered the goddess of music, song, dance and lighthearted pleasure, but she was essentially a Moon goddess. She was considered the protectress of pregnant women and midwives. Her main cult centre was at Dendera, where she was worshipped along with her husband, Horus. Hathor was the Supreme goddess of sexual love in Egypt, immediately identified with Aphrodite by the Greeks. Her temple at Dendera was in The House of Intoxication and Enjoyments. Her main attributes were two ritual instruments carried by her priestesses, the sistrum, a bronze sacred rattle and the menat, a necklace, thick with beads and a counterpoise long enough to be grasped in the hand which was only worn by Hathor, but used by her priestesses as a healing instrument. In Greece she was also known as Diana of the Ephesians and in Rome as Venus. Papal Rome later stole her from the Egyptians . . . and called her the Virgin Mary!!

During the Dark Ages, Papal Rome had a death grip on Europe. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse -- war, famine, disease and death -- rode roughshod over the world for over 1000 years. Lack of personal hygiene and sanitation led to plagues and epidemics which caused the deaths of millions of people. The monkish orders set the course that history took during this dark night of the world:

Anthony (251 - 330) was the founder of the Roman Catholic monastic orders.

Anthony (251 - 330) was the founder of the Roman Catholic monastic orders.

Anthony was an Egyptian hermit and the founder of the Roman monastic orders. He was the patron saint of pigs. In this picture he is shown with his favorite animal under his habit. Owing to the fact that the Roman monks never bathed, nobody ever got too close to them to hear what they were saying.

With the dawning of the blessed Reformation morning, Satan saw the handwriting on the (door) wall. A restored Bible would bring the blessings of true Christianity, good health, hygiene, and sanitation that Europe had not seen for over 1000 years.

Satan was not about to roll over and die however. He raised up his champion, Ignatius LIEola, to resist and delay the dawning of the blessed day.

Ignatius LIEola (1491 — 1556) (Mr. IHS)

Ignatius LIEola (1491 — 1556) (Mr. I.H.S.).

LIEola found that the European demons were powerless to resist the sword of God's Word so he decided to send his disciples to the four corners of the earth in order to find more potent poison to kill the Reformation. One of them, Francis Xavier was sent to India and Japan.

Jesuit priests and medicine man.

Jesuit priests made contact with the most powerful medicine men in order to find more potent poison to kill the Reformation.

Francis Xavier (1506 —1552) was sent to India and Japan.

Francis Xavier (1506 —1552) was sent to India and Japan.

Francis Xavier was sent to India and he made contact with the powerful Brahmin priests and medicine men. It was there that the Jesuits learned the Brahmin mode of inoculating to appease the vicious, vengeful demon of smallpox.

A Malaba woman invoking the goddess of smallpox and carrying fire on her head symbolic of the disease.

A Religious Dramatic Representation of the Power of the Hindu goddess of Smallpox.

"The goddess stands with two uplifted crooked daggers, threatening to strike on the right and left. Before her is a band of the executors of her vengeance. Two of them wear grinning red masks, carry black shields, and brandish naked scimitars. White lines, like rays, issue from the bodies of the others, to indicate infection. On the left there is a group of men with spotted bodies, inflicted with the malady; bells are hung at their cinctures, and a few of them wave in their hands black feathers. They are preceded by musicians with drums, who are supplicating the pity of the furious deity. Behind the goddess, on the right, there advances a bevy of smiling young women, who are carrying gracefully on their heads baskets with thanksgiving offerings, in gratitude for their lives and their beauty having been spared. There is, besides, a little boy with a bell at his girdle, who seems to be conveying something from the right arm of the goddess. This action may probably be emblematic of inoculation. In a country where every thought, word and deed are mere repetitions of those of their progenitors, a composition like this bears the stamp of great antiquity." (History of Inoculation & Vaccination, Lecture Memoranda, A.M.A., p. 18).

The Jesuits became willing students of the Brahmin medicine men:

"The man who after Xavier had the greatest success in India, but who also perverted the character of the mission, and introduced the most abominable idolatry, was Father Francis Nobili. He arrived at Madura in 1606, and was surprised that Christianity had made so little progress in so long a time, which he attributed to the strong aversion which the Indian had for the European, and to the fact, that the Jesuits, having addressed themselves more especially to the Pariahs, had caused Christ to be considered as the Pariahs' God.' He therefore resolved to play the part of a Hindu and a Brahmin. After having learned with wonderful facility their rites, their manners, and their language, he gave himself out as a Saniassi, a Brahmin of the fourth and most perfect class; and, with imperturbable impudence, he asserted that he had come to restore to them the fourth road to truth, which was supposed to have been lost many thousands of years before. He submitted to their penances and observances, which were very painful; abstained from everything that had life, such as fish, flesh, eggs; respected their prejudices, and, above all, the maintenance of the distinction of classes. It was forbidden the catechumen Pariah to enter the same church with the Sudra or Brahmin converts. All this was the beginning of those heathen ceremonies and superstitions with which the Christian religion was contaminated." (History of the Jesuits, J. B. Nicolini, p. 108).

Dr. J .Z. Holwell sent a most detailed account of these religious rites to the College of Physicians in London in 1767.

"Inoculation is performed in Indostan by a particular tribe of Bramins, who are delegated annually for this service from the different Colleges of Bindoobund, Eleabas, Benares, & c. over all the distant provinces: dividing themselves into small parties, of three or four each, they plan their traveling circuits in such wise as to arrive at the places of the operation consists only in abstaining for a month from fish, milk, and ghee (a kind of butter made generally of buffalo's milk); the prohibition of fish respects only the native Portugese and Mahomedans, who abound in every province of the empire."(An Account of the Manner of Inoculating for the Smallpox in the East Indies, Dr. J. Z. Holwell, F.R.S.).

Lady Mary Wortley Mongau (1689 -- 1762).

Lady Mary Wortley Mongau (1689 -- 1762).

In the year 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was the smokescreen that the Jesuits used to introduce this Indian religious rite into England. Lady Mary was not even a doctor. Inoculation or variolation was given the sanction of the Royal Family when 2 daughters of the Prince of Wales were inoculated. Barbaric as this religious rite was; it was the human disease of smallpox that was injected into the bloodstream. Inoculation was the FOOT-IN-THE-DOOR to prepare the people for something far worse.

Edward Jenner (1749 —1823).

Edward Jenner (1749 —1823).

When Jenner invented his Variolae Vaccinae or smallpox of the cow, he planted the insidious seed that men and beasts share the same disease . . . and therefore must be related. This opened the door to vaccination or the injecting of animal diseases into humans. This new bizarre rite spread like the plague all over England. It was not confined to England however, it soon spread to Continental Europe and even crossed the ocean to America.

Dr. Luigi Sacco - The Jenner of Italy.

"It was not unusual," Marshall wrote home to Jenner," to see in the mornings of the public inoculation at the Hospital, a procession of men, women, and children, conducted through the streets by a priest carrying a cross, come to be inoculated. By these popular means it met not with opposition, and the common people express themselves certain that it was a blessing sent from Heaven, though discovered by one heretic and practised by another." (Jenner and Vaccination, Dr. Creighton, p. 288).

Dr. Francis Xavier Balmis - The Jenner of Spain.

"The great event in connection with Spain was the expedition of Dr. Francis Xavier Balmis, physician to his Catholic Majesty. He obtained a concession to introduce vaccination to the colonies in America and Asia, and to defray expenses by freely trading in merchandise. He sailed from Corunna, 30th November, 1803, with twenty two children for the propagation of virus. The Canary Islands were first visited, then Porto Rico, and at Caracas the party divided, Don Francis Salvani proceeding to Peru and Chili, whilst Balmis attended to Cuba and Mexico, crossing the Pacific to the Philippines with twenty-six children to maintain the succession of the virus, and proceeding from thence to Macao and Canton. Having circumnavigated the globe as vaccinator and trader, Balmis re-appeared in Madrid with great éclat, and kissed the King's hand on 7th September, 1806 . . . "(The Story of the Great Delusion, William White, p. 401).

Louis Pasteur - the Jenner of France.

Louis Pasteur was the Jenner of France. He conducted all kinds of ghoulish experiments on animals in order to prove his germ theory of disease. His ancestors were Huguenots who were forced to embrace Romanism by the Inquisition.

Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895).

Pasteurization of milk is named after Pasteur. This process involved heating milk until ALL the nutrients are boiled away. We are not allowed to drink real milk but the medical Inquisition lets us be vaccinated with diseased calf lymph.

Highlights of the Life of Medicine Man Jenner.

Date
Event
1749Jenner is born on May 17, in Berkeley, Gloustershire, England, son of a clergyman in the "church" of England. The only difference between the "church" of England and the "church" of Rome is that it is popery without the pope!!
1763
At the age of 14 he was apprenticed for seven years to Mr Daniel Ludlow, a surgeon of ChippingSodbury, where he gained most of the experience needed to become a surgeon himself.
1770At the age of 21 he was sent for two years as a pupil to Dr. John Hunter, of
London, who undoubtedly was the most eminent surgeon of his day, and, like
Jenner himself, a keen naturalist. While in London he became friends with Joseph Banks would later become president of the Royal Society.
1772At 23, Jenner returned to his native village and started to practice as surgeon and
apothecary. Here he remained for 17 years, just a plain unqualified country surgeon and apothecary, unknown to the world at large, but keeping up a correspondence with Hunter on a variety of natural history subjects.
1787Jenner submits a paper on the nesting habits of the cuckoo.
1789

Thanks to his friends in high places, Jenner is elected a member of the Royal Society for his paper on the nesting habits of the cuckoo.

1790

Jenner becomes Dr. Jenner M.D., by buying a medical degree from the University of St. Andrew's for the sum of £15.

1791Edward Jenner vaccinates his 18 month old son with swine-pox. In 1798 he vaccinates his son with cow-pox. His son will die of TB at the age of 20.
1796

On May 14, Jenner inoculates James Phipps, the eight-year old son of his gardener with cowpox disease which he had obtained from a local milkmaid named Sarah Nelmes. The boy develops cowpox but lives. In July, he inoculates the boy with smallpox. The boy dies at the age of 21 from tuberculosis.

1797

Jenner sends a paper to the Royal Society about his newly invented disease: variolae vaccinae or smallpox of the cow. The paper is rejected and returned with a warning "He had better not promulgate such a wild idea if he valued his reputation."

1798Jenner publishes his Inquiry into the Cause and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ. Variolæ was the common name for smallpox and vaccinæ was the scientific name for cow. So Jenner was able to equate smallpox (a human disease) with cowpox - a disease of animals.
1802Royal Jennerian Society is formed in London but dies out in 6 years due to lack of interest.
1810Jenner's son dies at the age of 21 from TB.
1813For inventing a new disease, the University of Oxford awarded Jenner an honorary M.D. degree.
1819James Phipps, the boy that Jenner used in his ghoulish experiments dies at 21 of TB.
1823Jenner dies and goes to meet his Maker who created all things after its kind, in 6 days, 6000 years ago.
1838

John Baron writes The Life of Edward Jenner in 2 volumes. This panegyric was written by a man who was a consulting physician to the LUNATIC ASYLUM at Gloucester.

Timeline of the Medical Inquisition.

Date
Event
1534
Ignatius LIEola founds the Jesuit Order in Paris, France, on August 15.
1541
Francis Xavier is sent to India and Japan by LIEola.
1717
Jesuits introduce inoculation from India using Lady Montague as a smokescreen. Lady Montague wasn't even a doctor. Women doctors did not appear until over 100 years later.
1767
Dr. Holwell sends back his report on the Brahmins inoculation techniques.
1797
Jenner sends a paper to the Royal Society about his newly invented disease: variolae vaccinae or smallpox of the cow. The paper is rejected and returned with a warning "He had better not promulgate such a wild idea if he valued his reputation."
1798
Edward Jenner publishes his Inquiry about his newly invented disease, variolae vaccinae, or smallpox of the cow.
1799

Doctrine and practice of vaccination spreads like the plague all over England.

1800
Doctrine spreads like wildfire all over the world. Benjamin Waterhouse of Harvard University brings it to the U. S.
1839
Smallpox epidemic sweeps England and kills 22,081 people.
1840
Inoculation is outlawed by the British Parliament.
1853

In England, the Compulsory Vaccination Act is passed by Parliament. Every parent is required to have their baby vaccinated within 3 months of birth or face a fine of 20 shillings.

1855

Medical Inquisition begins in U. S. as Massachusetts is the first State to adopt mandatory vaccination laws. Every State in the U.S. has them now.

1859

Charles ape-man Darwin publishes his Origin of Species --microbes to monkeys to men thesis. Since animals, especially monkeys, are our close relatives it should be no problem to inject animal diseases in the blood of humans.

1867

Nonpayment of fines for skipping smallpox vaccination result in harsher penalties. Thousands defy the medical Inquisition and leave Britain rather than submit their children to this barbaric rite.

1868
Anti-Compulsary Vaccination League is formed in Britain.
1870
Outbreak of smallpox all over Europe.
1871
Smallpox continues to rage all over Europe.
1889
In England, a Royal Commission is appointed to inquire into certain aspects of the vaccination question. The committee would be in session for 7 years and would issue 6 reports, with the final report in 1896. The result of the final report was the Vaccination Act of 1898.
1896
Final report of the Royal Commission on vaccination. The commission could not ignore the mountains of evidence against vaccination so they recommended that mandatory vaccination should be stopped.
1898
Vaccination Act removes penalties from vaccination law.
1900
The Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan syndicate buys Encyclopedia Britannica and all derogatory references to vaccination are removed.
1910
Flexner report is issued which calls for the elimination of over half the medical schools in the U.S.
1911
Vaccination is made mandatory in the U.S. armed forces.
1917
U.S. soldiers are vaccinated prior to going overseas to fight in WW I. They begin to drop dead by the thousands.
1918

675,000 Americans and 25 million die worldwide from vaccination in the worst epidemic in the history of the world. The medical Inquisition covers it up by calling it "Spanish flu."

1976
Great swine flu hoax. President Ford is vaccinated before a TV audience of millions. More than 500 people receiving flu vaccinations become paralyzed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
1991
Gulf War begins. Thousands of coalition soldiers receive vaccination with the deadly anthrax germ.
2002
Gulf War II -the Sequel -leads to the vaccination of the entire U.S. population!!

Jesus is the GREAT Physician.

During His 3 and a half years ministry on earth, He was constantly healing the sick.

". . . great multitudes followed him and he healed them all."(Matt. 12:15).

Since Jesus is the great healer, we should expect that his substitute the Antichrist should kill the people while he pretends to be a healer of bodies and souls.

At the time of Jesus, even with all the hygiene practiced of the Jews, Greeks and Romans, disease was still rampant because the author of all disease, Satan, was not yet bound and defeated by the death and Resurrection of Christ.

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (III St. John v.2).

When these words were written (about 90 A.D.) Jesus had completely defeated Satan, cast him out of Heaven and his millennium reign had begun. He could now offer perfect health of body and soul
to ALL who believed in Him. The Bible is a wonderful textbook on health.

Moses was a great Scientist and Physician.
Moses had no microscope!!

Moses had no microscope and he didn't need one. Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. The Egyptians knew a lot about the human body because they did not practice the barbaric custom of cremation. They believed in the resurrection of the body so the dead body was prepared for its last journey by mummification.

Oldest structure in the world is a burying place for the Pharaoh.

Oldest structure in the world is a burying place for the Pharaoh.

About 100 years before the Exodus, Egypt was hijacked by an ALIEN FORCE, and it became the domain of darkness and the Pharaoh was Satan personified. All the false religious practices in the world today come from Babylon via Egypt.

Children of Israel worshipping the GOLDEN CALF.

Children of Israel worshipping the GOLDEN CALF.

The Egyptians worshipped hundreds of gods and one of them was the HOLY COW. The children of Israel brought this evil practice out of Egypt with them.

Moses was given detailed instructions by God about sanitary conditions. He speaks of frequent bathing . . . and washing of clothes. Quarantine was commanded to prevent the spread of infectious diseases etc.,etc. God describes the promised land as a land flowing with MILK and honey meaning that there would be lots of COWS and bees in the promised land.

Moses' Four Steps to Good Health.

SERVE THE TRUE GOD
DIET
PERSONAL HYGIENE
SANITATION

"If you will diligently hearken to my commandments I will put none of these diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians" (Exodus 15:26).

Moses prohibited the Israelites from copying the Egyptian practice of inoculation.

"Thou shalt not ....make any cuttings in your flesh."(Lev. 21:5).

Wherever the children of Israel settled we can be sure that they brought those hygienic practices with them.

"For Moses in old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogue every Sabbath day." (Acts 15:21).

Greek and Roman civilizations were clean and healthy and they did not inoculate.

Roman bath. Everybody was encouraged to take a bath at least once a day and to keep their clothes clean to avoid diseases like smallpox.

Roman aqueduct.

Roman aqueducts supplied pure drinking water to cities.

Diseases like smallpox were unknown in the Roman Empire because they know that disease was spread by flies, polluted water, lack of sanitation, dirty clothes, overcrowding, etc., etc. They never practiced inoculation because they had no need for it.

St. Paul was a great scientist too.

St. Paul, who founded the true church of Rome, was also one of the most learned men that even lived. When Paul was testifying of the Resurrection of Christ before King Agrippa and Festus, Festus cried out:

“Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but I speak words of truth and soberness." (Acts 25: 25-26).

St. Paul’s biographer and traveling companion was another learned man a DOCTOR named St. Luke.

“Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.” (Col. 4:15).

St. Paul’s Biology.

In the great Resurrection chapter of the Bible (I Cor. 15) St. Paul talks about Christian burial and the resurrection of the body on the last day. Here is what he has to say about biology:

“All flesh is not the same flesh: for there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds." (I Cor 15:39).

The 4 different kinds of flesh.

MEN
BEASTS
BIRDS
FISHES

All were created after their kind during the 6 days of creation, 6000 years ago. There only thing that the kinds have in common is that they have a common Creator. The reason a monkey looks like a human is because both have a common designer . . . and God has a sense of humor.



Editor's Notes

Calf bound and tortured to produce calf lymph for vaccines!!

Calf bound and tortured to produce calf lymph for vaccines!!

"BY referring to the cut on this page it will be seen that the living calf or heifer is first bound down on a movable tilting table, and its belly is shaved and on the clean, tender skin of a most tender part one or two hundred cuts or scratches are then made, as shown, and into these cuts or scratches is rubbed some "seed virus," obtained directly or indirectly from human smallpox,and other known or unknown human or animal infections. But just what infections this "seed virus" contains it seems impossible to find out, and it seems also that even the virus makers themselves either do not know definitely what they are using and making, or will not state. But they certainly should be compelled by law to disclose fully the exact nature and origin of their viruses, and to publish the same clearly and openly, and should also be rigidly bonded to the State and the National Government for all damages to animals or mankind caused by any disasters from their dangerous methods and products. "(Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated, p. 79).

Cows are injected with a deadly Growth Hormone.

Thanks to Pasteur and the Medical Inquisition, we cannot buy whole raw milk anywhere in the United States but its OK to buy milk from cows injected with a DEALDY Bovine Growth Hormone.

It's OK to have diseased calf lymph injected into the bloodstream but we are not allowed to drink real milk. We can buy dead rats in the vats beer and wine at every corner but you cannot buy real uncontaminated milk anywhere!!



Vital Links

Biography of Dr. Charles Creighton.

Texas Doctor discovers the cause of Smallpox almost 100 years ago!!

Article on Jenner from the 1890 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

National Vaccine Information Center

new.... Government won't take responsibility when vaccine kills you!! new....

The Vaccine Holocaust by Chas. Higgins.

new.... Genetically Modified Foods -- Dinner Table Terrorism!! ...new

MajorBates.com....Pax Americana soldiers are full of POX Romana!!

Anthrax Vaccine Network

Vaccine Website.com

Mercola.com

Gulf War Syndrome

Think Twice Global Vaccine Institute

The Vaccination Pandemic of 1918 was falsely called The Spanish Flu.

Rome wants to SPRAY and VACCINATE the U.S.A.

Raw milk is delicious and GOOD for you.!!



References

American Medical Association, The History of Inoculation and Vaccination, Lecture Memoranda, Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London & New York, 1913.

Barnesby, Norman. Medical Chaos and Crime. Mitchell Kennerley, New York & London, 1910.

Baron, John. Life of Edward Jenner, in 2 volumes, H. Colburn, London, 1838.

Creighton, Charles, M.D., Jenner and Vaccination: A Strange Chapter of Medical History. London, 1889.

Creighton, Charles, M.D., The Natural History of Cow-pox and Vaccinal Syphilis. Cassel, London; New York:1887.

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Crookshank, Dr., Edgar, M., History and Pathology of Vaccination. in 2 volumes, H.K. Lewis, London; Philadelphia, 1889.

De Kruif, Paul, Microbe Hunters. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1926.

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Hale, Anne Riley, The Medical Voodoo. Gotham House, New York, 1935.

Hadwen, Walter, R., Smallpox and Vaccination. London, 1925.

Holwell, J. Z.,M.D., An Account of the Manner of Inoculating for the Smallpox in the East Indies.London, 1767.

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McBean, Eleanor, The Poisoned Needle, Suppressed Facts about Vaccination. Health Research, Mokelumne Hill, California, 1959.

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Source: http://www.reformation.org/vaccine.html

DEATH TO SIN, REBIRTH TO SANCTIFICATION

Romans 6

1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

JESUS PAID IT ALL

JESUS PAID IT ALL

I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Refrain

Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim,
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

Refrain

And now complete in Him
My robe His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest.

Refrain

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

Refrain

When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.

Refrain

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down
All down at Jesus’ feet.

Refrain

Words:
Elvina M. Hall, 1865.

Music:
John T. Grape (MI­DI, score)

Sunday, March 23, 2008

THE POPE'S LETTER (DIES DOMINI)

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Pope Benedict XVI blesses the people as he delivers his Easter 'Urbi et Orbi' (To the City and to the World) benediction in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 23, 2008.


The Pope’s Letter

The Lord’s Day — as Sunday was called from Apostolic Times." Thus commences Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, issued July 7, 1998. The Pope provides a reference in order to document his initial assertion. His reference is Revelation 1:10. This Scriptural passage states:

I [John] was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.

It will be seen that this verse of Scripture, while mentioning the Lord’s Day, does not in any particular indicate which day of the week is the Lord’s Day. One may read the context of the Biblical passage, and he will find no elucidation of the term. Since the term, "the Lord’s Day" occurs nowhere else in Scripture, it will not assist us to seek another reference containing the term "Lord’s Day" in order to enable us to discover the Biblical meaning of the term.

Yet the only safe ground for a sincere student of the Bible is to permit the Bible to interpret itself. God in His goodness has not left this matter in doubt. In clear, unequivocal terms He has revealed to us which day is the Lord’s Day. The New Testament specifies the day which is the Lord’s Day in two passages of Scripture:

For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day (Matthew 12:8).

And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath (Luke 6:5).

Plainly the Sabbath day is the Lord’s Day. The Bible itself has cited this fact. But a new question arises: Which day is the Sabbath? The context of these two texts reveals that the Jews were accusing the disciples of sabbathbreaking in that they rubbed ears of corn in their hands. Clearly the day referred to was the day the Jews identified as the Sabbath.

If we are sincere searchers for Biblical truth, then we must permit the Scripture to identify the day which the Jews hallowed as the Sabbath. Once more the Bible is specific. Jesus was crucified on the day which many Christians designate as Good Friday. The Jews named that day the preparation day. Speaking of the day of Christ’s death, Luke recorded:

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on (Luke 23:54).

Thus the Sabbath day of the Jews was the day after Friday.

This fact is confirmed in Matthew’s account of the resurrection which occurred on the day many Christians, including Roman Catholics, uphold as Easter Sunday. Matthew repeated Mary Magdalene’s visit to the empty tomb thus:

In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre (Matthew 28:1).

Manifestly the Sabbath day upon which the Jews worshipped was the day between Friday and Sunday. That day was Saturday.

Therefore, as we review Matthew 12:8 and Luke 6:5 quoted above, we are compelled to conclude that the Lord’s Day, plainly identified in Scripture, is Saturday, the seventh day of the week. This causes no surprise, for the fourth commandment, written with God’s own hand plainly states:

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it (Exodus 20:8-11, emphasis supplied).

So God, Himself, designated Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as the Lord’s Day. Thus Revelation 1:10 is simply stating that John was in vision on the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week. The Bible, therefore, testifies that the Pope’s initial statement is an incredible lapse from sound scholarship.

The initial statement in the Pope’s Apostolic Letter also reveals a remarkable alteration in the position of the Roman Catholic stance on Sunday worship. Unlike some Protestants who have sought to uphold Sunday-sanctity on the basis of apostolic tradition, this has not been the practice of Roman Catholics. Let us review two authoritative statements of the Roman Catholic Church.

The first states:

Question — Which is the Sabbath day? Answer — Saturday is the Sabbath day. Question — Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic church, in the Council of Laodicea (364 A.D.) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday (Peter Geiermann [a Roman Catholic priest], The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, second edition, p. 50).

The Roman Catholic Mirror emphatically discovered no Biblical evidence for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday for Sabbath observance.

[We have] disposed of every text to be found in the New Testament referring to the Sabbath (Saturday), and to the first day of the week (Sunday); and [here] shown conclusively from these texts, that, so far, not a shadow of pretext can be found in the Sacred Volume for the Biblical substitution of Sunday for Saturday. Catholic Mirror, Sept. 16, 1893

Here we see that the Roman Catholic Church has long claimed that it altered the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday in the year 336 A.D. That was certainly not apostolic times, as the Pope states in his Apostolic Letter. Almost two-and-a-half centuries had passed since the death of the last apostle until the Council of Laodicea convened. Millions of Roman Catholics have in their possession catechisms which assent that the Council altered the day of worship and not the apostles. These Catholics must be confused by the Pope’s latest declaration on the matter. Strange indeed is this altered claim for a church which is reputed never to have changed.

A second catechism, approved by the Roman Catholic Church and authored by a priest, also raises questions concerning the commencement of the Pope’s Apostolic Letter, for it would seem that the Pope is shrinking from the ecclesiastical authority which Roman Catholics have based upon the church’s ability to alter the day of worship. This catechism states:

Question: Do you have any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals and precepts? Answer: Had she not such power she could not have done that which all modern religionists agree with her, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority (Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism).

Stephen Keenan correctly states that there is no Scriptural authority for Sunday observance. It would have been strange indeed if Sunday was the new Lord’s Day and that not one of the eight authors of the New Testament stated this as a fact. It would have been an incredible oversight in the 260 chapters of the New Testament that no mention of such a dramatic alteration was provided.

Indeed, the author of Revelation, the apostle John, the only Bible writer to use the term, "the Lord’s Day" (Revelation 1:10), mentioned Sunday twice in his gospel (John 20:1; 20:19). Both these verses refer to the day of Christ’s resurrection. Surely if ever there was a time to call the first day of he week the Lord’s Day, if it were appropriate, then this was the day. But John chose not to do so. Why? Because he well knew that the Lord’s day was the Sabbath. Remember, John wrote his gospel between 80 – 90 A.D. If it had been his habit for 50 – 60 years after Jesus’ death to address the Sunday as "the Lord’s Day" he certainly would have used this term in his gospel.

In corroboration of A Doctrinal Catechism, The Catholic Mirror, which was the official Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, over which the eminent Cardinal Gibbons presided, stated,

The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday." (1893, p. 29)

In fact, a few Christians in the mid-second century had adopted the pagan day of the Roman Empire in order to escape confusion with Jews during periods of anti-Semitism in the Roman Empire. Justin Martyr in 155 was the first to mention this practice, but it was not a general practice in Christendom and was based upon fear of persecution, not Scriptural mandate.

The Catholic Mirror states its conclusion emphatically.

Hence the conclusion is inevitable; viz., that of those who follow the Bible as their guide, the Israelites and Seventh-day Adventists, have the exclusive weight of evidence on their side, whilst the Biblical Protestant has not a word in self-defence for his substitution of Sunday for Saturday. Catholic Mirror, Sept. 9, 1893.

We must remember that every book of the New Testament was written decades after the death of Jesus. Eight times the first day of the week (Sunday) is mentioned (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1,19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2). Not once is it referred to as the Lord’s Day. Not once! The first six of these texts simply state that Christ rose from the dead on Sunday. The passage in 1 Corinthians merely admonishes the Christians to gather their offerings on Sunday.

Many Protestants, seeking to escape the Roman Catholic taunt that the acceptance of Sunday sacredness is an implied acceptance of the claimed papal authority to institute ecclesiastical festivals and precepts (laws) not found in Scripture, grasp at Acts 20:7 as the Biblical support of their Sunday worship.

Let us examine this passage of Scripture:

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight (Acts 20:7).

There is no question that the believers met on Sunday. Unquestionably they "broke bread" on the Sunday. This fact has frequently been used as evidence that a communion service was held and thus Sunday must have been held sacred by Paul and the believers at Troas. This matter merits investigation.

Paul, the biblical record states, "continued his speech until midnight" (Acts 20:7). At about this time a tragedy occurred when a young man, Eutychus, fell asleep and fell from the window of the third loft and was killed (v. 9). Paul went downstairs and, through the power of God, Eutychus was restored to life (v. 10). Undoubtedly this procedure took some minutes, and it was the very early hours of the second day of the week (Monday) when Paul returned upstairs to the room where he had been preaching. It is pertinent to the matter under discussion to record that which occurred on that early Monday morning:

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed (Acts 20: 11).

Thus Scripture testifies that Paul "had broken bread" on Monday morning. Yet no Christian uses this fact to support Monday sacredness. The fact that bread was broken also on Monday morning seriously diminishes the use of Acts 20:7 as evidence of Sunday sacredness.

But this is not all. What does the term "to break bread" mean? Once more Scripture comes to our aid as its own interpreter:

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart (Acts 2:46).

Notice what this text reveals. Firstly, the early Christians, filled with the power of Pentecost, broke bread daily. So whatever the term "to break bread" meant, it provides absolutely no basis for selecting one of the seven days of the week as the special day of worship, for bread was broken on all days of the week.

Secondly, we have in this passage, clear evidence of the Biblical meaning of the term "to break bread." In other Scripture verses, this meaning includes the participation in the communion service. But plainly, this Scripture states, in qualifying this breaking of bread, that "they did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart." The word "meat" as used in the 17th and 18th centuries simply meant "food."

But there is yet another matter that requires our attention as we seek to understand this matter. If the day upon which the communion service was conducted indicated the timing of Sabbath observance, then surely we would follow Christ’s example and keep holy the day on which He instituted this ordinance. Since the first Lord’s Supper was held on the evening before Christ’s crucifixion, such a concept would lead us to observe Thursday as our day of worship. No Christian follows such an absurdity.

Thus Acts 20:7 as a valid support for Sunday sacredness falls on three counts — 1) the breaking of bread was a daily matter; 2) the Scriptural meaning of the term was to enjoy a meal; and 3) Christ instituted the Lord’s Supper on a Thursday evening. In citing these three irrefutable facts, we have not mentioned that the Jewish day commenced, not at midnight, but at sunset. Thus long before midnight, by Jewish (and Scriptural) reckoning, Paul had been preaching on the second day of the week, Monday. Manifestly, the use of Acts 20:7 does not present a strong case for Sunday sacredness and, indeed, is quite invalid as a Scriptural argument for Sunday observance.*

Once more, we would remind each reader that at no time do the Biblical writers refer to the first day of the week as the Lord’s Day. Constantly they refer to the Sabbath, never once referring to it as the former Sabbath or in any other way indicating that the seventh day of the week no longer held validity as God’s holy day. That would be remarkable if Christ’s death altered His law since, as we have stated, every book of the New Testament was written decades after Christ’s death. Indeed, the seventh-day Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament no less than 60 times.

In the second paragraph of his Apostolic Letter, the Pope further makes an assertion which no doubt has proven puzzling to many readers. He states,

Rightly, then, the Psalmist’s cry is applied to Sunday: ‘ This is the day which the Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad in it’ (Psalms 118:24).

Children still in elementary school, if raised in a Christian or Jewish home, will know that the Jewish nation observed Saturday, the seventh day specified in God’s Law, as their sacred day. There can be no question whatsoever that the psalmist in this verse of his ancient Hebrew hymn is referring to Saturday. This passage can in no way be rightly applied to Sunday. To do so is to wrest the Scriptures.

Thus the Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, commences in such a fashion that one is left questioning the care with which it has been prepared. This is the more surprising when we consider that there is no doubt whatsoever that some of the highest intellects in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Vatican would have assisted the Pope in the preparation of this letter.

This matter is not ameliorated by the fact that in his fifth paragraph, the Pope makes another false claim. He states that "the fundamental importance of Sunday has been recognized through two thousand years of history." If, as The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine asserts, the Catholic church, in the Council of Laodicea (336 A.D.) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday then the very longest period Sunday has been recognized as the Sabbath is 1663 years (at the date of publication of this book). Even this period is confined largely to the Roman Catholic Church. As Benjamin Wilkinson, in his classic work, Truth Triumphant, documents, the seventh-day Sabbath was upheld in Scotland until 1206, in India until the 16th century, Ethiopia until the 17th century, in Eastern Europe until the 16th century, and in China at least to the 14th century.

In 1956, the book, The Faith of Millions was published and sold in Catholic bookstores. It asserted (page 473) that

…since Saturday, and not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn’t it curious that non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and not from the church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday.

In December 1893, the eminent American Cardinal, Archbishop Gibbons, asserted that there were just two alternatives in this matter. Either one accepts the Bible as the basis of one’s faith, a position accepted by Protestantism, and thus keep Saturday holy, or accept the Catholic dogma of the authority of the church, and thus worship on Sunday.

Cardinal Gibbons’ claim is valid. Numerous Protestant authorities concur that Saturday is the true Sabbath and that there is no apostolic or Biblical basis for Sunday observance. It is prudent that we document a selection of these sources. Emphasis supplied.

There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath Day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week.…Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament — absolutely not.…Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers, and other sources. But WHAT A PITY that it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism! Dr. Edward T. Hiscox (author of the Baptist Manual), Source Book, pp. 513,514.

Centuries of the Christian era passed away before Sunday was observed by the Christian church as the Sabbath. History does not furnish us with a SINGLE PROOF or INDICATION that it was AT ANY TIME so observed previous to the Sabbatical edict of Constantine in 321 A.D.Sir William Domville, of the Church of England, The Sabbath or An Examination of the Six Texts, p. 291.

So some have tried to build the observance of Sunday upon apostolic command, whereas the apostles gave no command on the matter.…The truth is, as soon as we appeal to the ‘Litera scripta’ (the literal writing) of the Bible, the Sabbatarians have the best of the argument. — The Presbyterian At Work, editorial, April 19, 1883.

It is true, there is no positive command for infant baptism…nor is there any for keeping the first day of the week. The Methodist Theological Compendium.

It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath. The Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday.…There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday. — Dr. W. R. Dale (Congregational), The Ten Commandments, pp. 106,107.

The observance of the Lord’s day (Sunday) is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church. Augsburg Confession of Faith (Lutheran).

The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect, far from them and from the early apostolic church to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday. — Johann Neander (Episcopalian), General History of the Christian Religion and Church, p. 186.

Why then has the Pope adopted a novel approach in attempting to vindicate Sunday observance, not from church authority, but rather from Scripture? Only he and perhaps his inner circle of counselors could explain this remarkable alteration of course. It surely is unnecessary for faithful Roman Catholics. They have already accepted papal authority to alter and enact ecclesiastical festivals and laws, without Scriptural warrant. Perhaps the Pope sees in the increasing clamor for Sunday laws amongst Evangelical Protestants, that now is the time to woo them to his cause by presenting his call for similar laws upon grounds which will appeal to these Protestants by claiming to appeal to holy writ.

Whatever the Pope’s motive is, he has placed his own church in a frightful dilemma. Only time will tell how he or his successor will attempt to extricate the Roman Catholic Church from this self-created quandary.

While ever the Papacy asserted the fact that the seventh-day Sabbath was observed in apostolic times, and that this practice continued even in the western Christian Church until the fourth century, it was possible to claim papal authority for the church’s alteration. Sunday worship was declared to be the mark of that authority. By appealing to Scripture and apostolic practice, the Pope has forfeited that claimed authority and vested that authority in Scripture. But since Scripture does not support his claim, he has led the Roman Catholic Church into a theological quagmire. As numerous Roman Catholic leaders have correctly claimed, there is no Biblical basis for Sunday observance, absolutely none! Therefore the Pope has placed the sacred observance of Sunday upon an extremely weak platform. He has opened a door to demonstrate the vulnerability of the Christian churches’ position on this matter, for in truth, Sunday observance, as the author of the Baptist Manual, Dr. Edward Hiscox, stated, is based upon no better principle than

…it comes branded with the mark of paganism, christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned by papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism (Source Book, p. 514).

While scattered instances of Christians worshipping on the pagan day of the sun in order to escape persecution engineered by the mistaken concept that they were Jewish have been documented, Sabbathkeeping was generally upheld until the conversion of Constantine, Emperor of the Roman Empire in 321 A.D. The depth of his conversion from paganism is not for us to judge. Suffice it to record that he advocated, after his conversion, that the day of the sun, Sunday, be observed.

The Pope cannot simultaneously hold two mutually exclusive positions. Sunday sanctity has for centuries been the pillar of the Roman Catholic Church’s claim to ecclesiastical authority. This claim has ever been based upon the fact that the Bible contains no mandate for Sunday observance. It has been Rome’s stated position that

had she no such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority (Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism).

Either the Papacy has to renounce its usurped ecclesiastical authority and support its new claim to discover a Biblical basis for Sunday observance, or it must continue to assert its supreme authority in matters ecclesiastical and admit that Sunday worship is its own invention, devoid of Scriptural confirmation.

As we have demonstrated, the Pope’s Apostolic Letter provides a faulted introduction to his new approach, and the remainder of the letter fares no better.

If the Roman Catholic Church resorts to its former position that Scripture provides no basis for Sunday observance and that it was not practiced or advocated in apostolic times, then the man it claims to be its first pontiff, the apostle Peter, did not share the practice nor exert the authority usurped by subsequent popes.

The Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, has placed the Roman Catholic Church in a most difficult position.

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