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The Pope's Apology


[Treatise]

Part VII

Who Is Responsible?
Who Receives the Plagues?

 

Papacy claims, "The Mother Church did not sin, but rather she is grieved by the conduct of her sons and daughters."

I would like to point out some of these continuing errors in the document. You wonder how some of the other churches can go along with this. Note some of the phraseology:

"One cannot have God as a Father who doesn’t have the Church as a Mother." They’re talking about the Roman Catholic Church, obviously. They’re saying you have to be a Roman Catholic to really have a relationship with the Father.

"For the entire Church, one in time and space, the person capable of speaking is he exercises the universal ministry of unity – the bishop of the Church that presides in love, the pope." Do we accept that? Of course not. How can the Protestants, if they’re protesting?

"Unity is the law of the life of the Trinitarian God revealed to the world by the Son. This unity should be the source in the form of the communion of mankind’s life with the tri-une God. Since God is Love, He is also a Trinity of persons, whose life consists in the infinite, mutual communication and love by the crucified God." Where does that put us? We’re not in that love of a tri-une God. But they know it’s inclusive language of other Christian churches of orthodoxy, and exclusive of those whom they burned as heretics years ago. Their same doctrine would hold true today, except they lack opportunity.

As to their apologies to the Jews, listen to this phrase found in this paper. "The Shoah was certainly the results of the pagan ideology that was Naziism animated by a merciless anti-Semitism that not only despised the faith of the Jewish people but went on to persecute them." Pagan ideology? Didn’t the pope enter into a concordant with the fascist Mussolini? And didn’t they also sign the concordant a little later with Hitler’s representatives? Certainly they did. The Catholic Church was the recognized Reichstag Church in Germany. What pagan ideology did they buddy up to? Did the Nazis think they were pagans? They thought they were Christian–good Protestants and Catholics. They were killing whom they claimed to be the Christ-Killers, not realizing that God had visited the proper judgment on that nation for shedding innocent blood.

But there is a judgment that remains standing on Christendom.

Joel 3:19– "Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land." Christendom has shed innocent blood of the Jewish people. They went far beyond what God’s penalty had ever intended–motivated by the doctrines of devils. They tried to persecute and exterminate the natural seed of Abraham. God says, "They (Christendom) have a judgment due them. In the shedding of Jewish blood ."

Revelation 16:5– In the heart of the plagues, "And I heard the angel on the water saying, ‘Thou art righteous, which art and wast, the holy one, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy. And I heard the altar saying, "Even so, Lord God, Almighty. True and righteous are Thy judgments."