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 The Holy Scripture –
Old Testament and New Testament –
“Inspired by the Holy Spirit”
The true Christian religion, the religion of inward striving to develop the kingdom of the inner being, that is, to open the heart to all people and all animals, to the world of plants and minerals, was sacrificed by the priests, by Saul, and by Constantine, the pagan. And all this and further horrible deeds throughout the Middle Ages and into our times, God supposedly commanded. This is confirmed by the Vatican in the Second Vatican Council:
God is the author of the Sacred Scripture. “The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of the Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.”
For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical (meaning: belonging to the revealed word of God) the books of the Old and New Testaments, whole and entire with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.” (2nd Vatican Council: “Dei Verbum” 11, quoted from Catholic Catechism, No. 105).
God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. “To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more.” (No. 106).
The Holy Scripture is supposedly revered by the Church. Furthermore, the Catholic Catechism contains the following statements:
The Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord’s Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God’s word and Christ’s Body. (No. 103)
In the Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength … (No. 104).
Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth … (No. 107)
That the Church “constantly finds her nourishment and her strength” in the Holy Scripture is supported by the words: “In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them.” (2nd Vatican Council: “Dei Verbum” 21, No. 104) But concerning the Books of Moses, from which we have already quoted many passages, it is doubtful that it is the heavenly Father whom we encounter there, and who could hardly be considered “loving” given the cruel instructions, macabre demands, and hard threats of punishment.
It is not possible to discuss all the statements that mock the truth and God, the All-One, who is truth. The absurdity of such church teaching is so obvious that is it a wonder that so few have recognized it as such, while so many have quietly accepted it without protest.
The Catholic Catechism continues: The Old Testament is an indispensable part of the Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked. (No. 121)“The economy of the Old Testament was deliberately so oriented that it should prepare for … the coming of Christ, redeemer of all men.” Even though they “contain matters imperfect and provisional,” the books of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God’s saving love: these writings are a storehouse of “sublime teachings on God and of sound wisdom on human life, as well as a wonderful treasury of prayers”; in them, too, the mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way.” (No. 122)
True enough: hidden, very hidden …
In the last paragraph we read: Even though they “contain matters imperfect and provisional,” the books of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God’s saving love … According to this statement, God, who should be absolute and perfect, inspired something that was imperfect. Also, God supposedly revealed something that was “provisional.” If so, then God’s laws would also be temporal and God would be a changeable god of the times. According to God’s words through Jeremiah, however, it was the caste of priests at work, taking over the name of Moses and infusing it with the spirit of their times that blows and is effective even to this day. It is the pagan cult, the barbarity against and slaughtering of animals and people, who, for example, in the Middles Ages or in Croatia, did not let themselves become tied to the Catholic Church.
To gain an understanding of the words of the priests of today, we must read with our heart and mind. In the Catholic Catechism it says:
We can distinguish three stages in the formation of the Gospels:
1. The life and teaching of Jesus. The Church holds firmly that the four Gospels, “whose historicity she unhesitatingly affirms, faithfully hand on what Jesus, the Son of God, while he lived among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation, until the day when he was taken up (into heaven).” (No. 126)
Note how the Church refers to the affirmation of what the Son of God taught to the people, but the Church does not say that it applies the teachings of Jesus, that the Church embodies the teachings.
The text continues:
2. The oral tradition. “For, after the ascension of the Lord, the apostles handed on to their hearers what he had said and done, but with that fuller understanding which they, instructed by the glorious events of Christ and enlightened by the Spirit of truth, now enjoyed.” (No. 126)
Supposedly, after the ascension, the apostles passed on to their listeners a deeper understanding of what the Lord Himself spoke. That could hardly have been possible once Saul, “Paul,” interfered in the Church, bringing his views into what later became the Catholic and Protestant churches, for both Catholics and Protestants follow Paul more than they do the apostles. If the apostles transmitted what Jesus said and did with a deeper understanding, which they received through the glorification of the Christ and the light of the Spirit of truth, why was Paul, who was no apostle, necessary? Instead of looking to the apostles, the institutional church looks to Paul, the “saint,” who supposedly received instructions from Jesus, the Christ. It was Paul who undermined original Christianity, in which the prophetic Spirit spoke, with his “wisdom,” and Paul who brought it into church history. In the end, the “Christian churches” do not have the right to call themselves “Christian,” for they are predominantly “Pauline.”
Besides, there is the question of why in Rome there is the Chair of Peter and not the Chair of Jesus, the Christ? Does Peter come before Christ, or Christ before Peter? From Rome, the Pauline teachings spread, even though Peter and Paul rarely agreed; did Peter have to give way to Paul, or Paul to Peter – or did both find an arrangement by which they could distort the teachings of Jesus, the Original Christian life, in which the prophetic Spirit blew?
More than anything else the following statement in the Catholic Catechism should alarm us:
… The Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfills the Old. (No. 140)
This documents that the Church may at anytime continue with its cruel deeds. If the New Testament fulfills the Old Testament, then the Old Testament, especially the “Books of Moses,” was only the start of all brutality, cruelty and violence. If the New Testament fulfills the “Books of Moses,” the future will only be worse than the past and the present.
If Jesus, the Christ, were living as a human being among us, would Jesus agree with these documents of the Church and with the life of church Christians, or would He repeat what He said 2000 years ago: You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’ (Mt. 15:7-9) Or, He would repeat the following calls of woe: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also appear outwardly righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Mt. 23: 27-28)
A document from the post-Reformation period proves that the officials of the Catholic Church know very well they have falsified the teachings of Jesus and that therefore no one among the people should be permitted to read the Bible. Three bishops prepared a report for Pope Julius III, in which it says: Truly not even a trace of the Apostles’ teachings remains in our church … a different teaching and discipline we have produced. It is the most important goal to allow no one to read even the tiniest part of the Gospel, especially in the vernacular. The little that is read during mass suffices. Anyone who studiously considers what is wont to happen in church and who regards it in detail will find that our teachings are different from the Gospel, and even opposed to it … (Hans-Jürgen Wolf, Sünden der Kirche [The Sins of the Church], EFB Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995, p. 151)
They know therefore what they are doing …
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