Excerpts from the Book
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On page forty-two of The Thunder of Justice, John Cardinal Newman is quoted as
saying: “Though I hold, as you know, a process of development in Apostolic truth as time goes on, … and, in particular, as regards our teaching concerning the Blessed Virgin,with the Fathers I am content … The Fathers are enough for me., emphasis added
Cardinal Newman is quoted again on page forty-three as saying, “I fully grant that devotion towards the Blessed Virgin has increased among Catholics with the progress of centuries … ” This so-called ongoing process of development in Apostolic truth is precisely what the Apostle Paul warned the earliest church fathers against, in 63 AD. He told them that even of themselves men would arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
The Apostle Paul’s warning to the earliest church fathers of the first century
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. For I know
this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among
you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore
watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not
to warn everyone night and day with tears (Acts 20:28–31).
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Page 40
Many of the reported apparitions are undoubtedly very real. However, the Virgin Mary of the apparitions is not the same Virgin Mary of Bible… The Blessed Virgin Mary would never contradict the Word of God or appear with baby Jesus in arms, or glorify herself as do the apparitions, on many occasions.
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Page 43-44
…As seen in the following excerpt, the Marian apparition at Fatima was certainly not
giving praise and honor to God but to herself. The real Virgin Mary would never have commanded the three children to pray the rosary daily in honor of her. Nor would she have said that “she alone can help.”
The Thunder of Justice - P. 136
[Third Apparition at Fatima] “I want you to come here on the thirteenth of next
Month and to continue to pray the rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the
Rosary, in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war, for
she alone can help.”
http://www.loveandmercy.org/loveandmercy/fatima.htm#messages
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Page 115
Contrary to Roman Catholicism’s interpretation of Matthew 16:18–19, the keys of
the kingdom of heaven were not given exclusively to the Apostle Peter….
When Jesus said, “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation … The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:20–21), he was referring to the Holy Spirit and power that indwells every born-again child of God. The Apostle Paul wrote about the “exceeding greatness of God’s power to us-ward who believe” (Ephesians 1:19–20). He said, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages…. (Ephesians 3:20-21), emphasis added.
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Page 121-122
The Apostle Paul said, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost” (Romans 14:17). “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost” (Romans 15:13). “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power”(1 Corinthians 4:20).…these same keys are, in fact, available to every born-again child of God who, according to the Word of God, has already been translated into the kingdom of Jesus Christ (Colossians1:9–13 [with Acts 26:18 and 1 Peter 2:9]; Revelation 1:6 & 9, 5:10, and 12:10)
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Page 142
If Peter is, in fact, the rock upon which Jesus said he was going to build his church, and if he is, in fact, “the only one to whom Christ specifically entrusted keys to the kingdom” (Catechism, p. 142), and there was “no possibility of the original hearers being confused about Jesus’s meaning,” as stated in Born Fundamentalist (p. 76), then why, after having heard these facts, did the disciples continue to ask Jesus, “Who is the greatest?” And why didn’t Jesus answer them by saying, “Peter is the greatest”?
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Page 153-154
According to the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church, Jesus telling Peter to “strengthen his brethren” is further proof that Peter is the rock upon which Christ’s church is built (Catechism of the Catholic Church, p. 141). Jesus was not giving Peter supreme authority over the church when he told him to strengthen his brethren, nor was he referring to his entire church. Jesus told the Pharisees, “I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd” ( John 10:15–16). When Jesus told Peter to strengthen his brethren in Luke 22:32 and feed my sheep in John 21:15–17, he was not referring to his entire church, but to Peter’s kinsman according to the flesh, Jews. He was simply repeating to Peter what he had told the twelve disciples from the very beginning; that they were not to preach the gospel of the kingdom to the Gentiles, “Christ’s other sheep,” but only to the Jews, Peter’s brethren.
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying,
Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the
Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, “The
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 10:5–7, emphasis added
Compare the following scriptures as to why Jesus commanded the twelve apostles to“go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Page 157
… The gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me [Paul],
as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; For he that wrought
effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was
mighty in me toward the Gentiles.
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Page 171
The last few verses of John 21 give an excellent example of the unreliableness of
‘living tradition’ as a source of truth. When Jesus told Peter, “follow thou me,” Peter,then turning and looking at John, said, “Lord, and what shall this man do?” Jesus said,“If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me.” Then, in the immediate following verse, the Apostle John writes:
Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that
that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him,
He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come,
what is that to thee? This is the disciple which testifieth of
these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his
testimony is true.
John 21:23–24, emphasis added
There are also many other such sayings that have gone abroad among the brethren,
such as the saying that “Peter was crucified upside down.”
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Page 205-206
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians, saying,
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called
you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is
not another; but there be some that trouble you and would
pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel
from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:6-9, emphasis added
Catechism of the Catholic Church
1129 - The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of
the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. “Sacramental
grace” is the grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and
proper to each sacrament…. ,emphasis added
Page 211
The word grace is mentioned 122 times in the New Testament and not once is it used in connection with Catholicism’s so-called sacraments.
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Page 226-227
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath
everlasting life.
John 6:47, emphasis added
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the
Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
John 6:53, emphasis added
Eternal life is either obtained by faith in the flesh and blood Christ shed on the cross as full payment for our sins, or it’s by literally eating his flesh and blood; it cannot be both! According to all of the many other passages of scripture that pertain to this subject, faith in the flesh and blood Christ sacrificed for the remission of sins is the prerequisite for obtaining eternal life.
Since Jesus could not have contradicted himself, the seeming contradictions of his statements in John 6:40 through 6:54 were due to the fact that he was speaking a parable, as he most often did. Jesus was not talking to a select few, in John chapter six; he was speaking to a great company of people, a great multitude ( John 6:2, 5, 23–26)… Jesus always, without exception, spoke to the multitudes in parables.
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitudes in parables:
and without a parable spake He not unto them That it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will
open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have
been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 13:34–35, emphasis added
The whole multitude was by the sea on the land. And he
taught them many things by parables, and said unto them
in his doctrine …
Mark 4:1-2, emphasis added
…all these things are done in parables: that seeing they may
see and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not
understand
Mark 4: 10–12, emphasis added
And, with many such parables spake He the Word unto them
as they were able to hear it. But without a parable spake he
not unto them …
Mark 4:33–34, emphasis added
