Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:26:04 PM
This article is a reply to the Catholic defender of Holy Writ who is confident that he is defending the ‘Church founded by Christ’ against the horrors of Augustinianism, better known as Calvinism.
You say...'I am defending the bible and the Church founded by Christ.' Dear sir this statement fills up the cup of my patience with you.
No sir! You are defending the RCC and its false doctrine. You deny that it is the Scriptures that resulted in the great Protestant Reformation of the Church of Christ. The doctrines of Augustine were rediscovered by an Augustinian monk and could not be denied. As in the days of Christ, the Reformers loved truth more than life.
The RCC is like Old Testament Israel. Because it rejected the words of Christ its house is left desolate. As the Jewish man, the man of the RCC is hardened against the grace of God. Your forefathers in the faith are the Pharisees, not the apostles. God raised up men to testify of the truth like Augustine. After nearly 1000 years of wandering in the wilderness of heresy and corruption God raised up another voice of truth. He was a student of Augustine and found the grace of God in his work of translating the Latin Bible into English. God raised up another to translate the Bible’s original language into English.
Now what did the RCC do to these men. The first was exhumed and his bones were burned and the ashes scattered as if this would prevent God from raising his body on the Last Day; the second was burned alive.
You like to say that the RCC gave us the Bible. No sir! The RCC chained the Bible and restricted the people’s access to it. The RCC resisted the work of translation into the common tongues. It is the Reformers that gave us an open Bible. Those that loved Augustine’s doctrine of grace loved their Lord and His Word more than their life. They followed the Lord in sealing their testimony with their own blood to give us the Word of life.
Now you say you are defending the Bible? There would be no Bible to defend if it weren’t for the blood of the martyrs. Will you defend the Bible they gave us by denying their doctrine? God forbid! The Bible needs no defense from the RCC. As in centuries past it is the Bible that condemns the apostasy of the RCC and the Jews.
And before I am condemned as anti-Semitic and anti-RCC, the Scriptures also condemn the same apostasy in today’s Protestant churches. In most cases there is nothing Reformed about them. They are given over to Arminianism and Scofieldism in their faith and practice.
We thank God for the many faithful preachers of grace He has given to His Church. These men are precious gifts of the Lord. If you are privileged to know one, then give thanks for him and esteem him highly. Is there to be a mighty Reformer raised up from within the Protestant church? The Lord knows what is best for His Church. He purchased her with His own blood and has given her many precious promises. Let us be about the work, knowing that in the Lord our labor is not in vain.