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Matt Bracken and David Knight join Alex Jones live via Skype to identify
the moves of democrats behind the scenes immediately following the Las
Vegas massacre to push forward gun control policies.
Absolute, Total War Declared
Against Second Amendment
Alex Jones exposes how and why the inherent right for Americans to own
firearms is being blamed for the Las Vegas massacre and the tragic
events are being leveraged to push anti-gun propaganda.
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Child Abuse in the Classroom, A Legal Challenge to ESSA
This is an invitation to join our national revolt called, “Child
Abuse in the Classroom, A Legal Challenge to ESSA.” ESSA is the
federal legislation called Every Student Achieves Act. This revolt to
stop this legislation is a tribute to Phyllis Schlafly and her book that
exposed the original “Child Abuse In The Classroom” that detailed
hearings that brought about regulations to stop the psychological and
psychiatric testing and treatment in the classrooms of America finalized
in the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, PPRA. I
was the parent who filed a federal complaint using the Protection of
Pupil Rights Amendment, PPRA. Phyllis had worked very hard to pass
regulations in the 80’s. In fact, her book, Child Abuse in the Classroom, was
the impetus for me to file my complaint. My story is well known. My
historical journey exposed the corruption, the illegal data collection,
and psychological abuse disguised as education in Pennsylvania, as well
as other states as I fought outcome based education in the ‘90’s.
It appears what I had fought to rid our schools in the 1990’s is back
with a passion. December of 2015, Speaker Paul Ryan pushed the passage
of Every Student Achieves Act legislation through Congress along with
Senator Lamar Alexander, Chairman of the HELP Committee. Senator
Alexander had purposely eliminated any reference in his summary report
that would disclose the illegal and dangerous psychological techniques
codified in his ESSA education legislation. Citizens contacted Senator
Alexander and had informed him of the abusive mental health
interventions that he permitted to be incorporated into his legislation.
We are asking that he publicly recant the language in his bill that
opened the door to these abuses and to act forthrightly to remedy this
critical situation. A Parent and Citizen Revolt Citizens across the United States are prepared to wage an aggressive grassroots effort to stop The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) because it promotes Child Abuse in the Classroom.We are asking you to join us to request President Trump and Congress to repeal ESSA.
Parents and citizens across the United States are requesting an
immediate injunction to stop the implementation of social, emotional,
and behavioral standards and interventions that have been codified in
the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Although the
implementation and collection of these non-academic standards and
interventions have been previously approved and funded by former
President Obama through the Executive Order 12866 and the illegal ESEA
Flexibility Waivers, Congress has not stopped the progressive execution
of these experimental, psychological manipulations in the classrooms of
America. Because our children are at-risk of abuse, we are calling for
an investigation.
President Trump has written and released an Executive Order that directs Secretary of Education DeVos to Enforce Statutory Prohibitions on Federal Control of Education. The Every Student Succeeds Act
legislation violates the protection and safety of our children. This
Act requires the use of abusive psychological techniques on children.
These techniques are actually codified into this law. We are requesting
Secretary DeVos to immediately take steps to prohibit teachers from
carrying out the intrusive psychological and behavioral techniques named
in the legislation to be used on America’s children in American
classrooms. The intervention techniques specifically named in the
legislation include: Applied Behavior Analysis posing as positive
behavior intervention and supports; multi-tiered system of supports
(response to intervention); schoolwide tiered system of supports;
specialized instructional support services; early intervening services
for at-risk children or becoming at-risk for mental health disabilities; and universal design for learning.
On September 20, our campaign released a Press Release that explained
the violations that we allege are happening in the classrooms of
America. We have 20 state coordinators and aligned two major Press
Conferences, one in Austin, Texas, and another in Indianapolis, Indiana,
the home state of Vice-President Pence. Please go to our website and join the campaign to help stop this psychological manipulation.
Parents, the social, emotional, and behavioral aspects of your
children are being monitored, evaluated, and CODED. Behavioral
interventions are being performed without your written permission or
consent. Sometimes the names for this are changed to such flowery
phrases as mindsets, character development, citizenship, “grit”, or even
civics. This tactic effectually catches some parents off guard. Why?
Because it sounds so good. Do we really know what is being tested and
taught in America’s classrooms? Do you know what data is being collected
on your child? Education has moved away from academics. There is now a
full focus on personality with teaching and testing in non-Academic
areas. The goal is changing the social, emotional, and behavioral personality traits of your child.
What Does the “Whole Child” Mean?
The “whole child” (head, heart, and hand) becomes the focus of the
federal government when their job was to educate, not indoctrinate. The
recently passed federal ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) is the latest
draconian effort to test, teach, and remediate values, attitudes,
beliefs, and dispositions. The education establishment calls testing and
changing attitudes and values these new buzzwords….social, emotional,
and behavioral interventions. This transformation of our educational
system removed academics as the main thrust of American education. It is
mental health. It is psychological conditioning. It is changing your
child’s personality. ESSA becomes the church of today and everyday in
the classroom. The spirit of the child is the focus of changing
behavior, values, and beliefs. Churches, wake up! You’ve been replaced,
but so has the family.
We have officially become the nanny state when ESSA was codified into law December 2015. Penetrating the Human Psyche
The ultimate goal is to squash all individualism in America. Parents
beware! This falls under mental health. It is psychological
conditioning. It also happens to be illegal the way they are doing this
on children in the United States. Specific
psychological interventions have been codified into law that teachers
are using daily in our classrooms. Phone apps are being used to monitor
behavior like the BOSS app, Behavioral Observation of Students in
School. Other behavioral assessments include: Systemic Screening for
Behavioral Disorders; Behavioral and Emotional Screening System; Student
Risk Screening Scale; Strengths and Difficulties Questionaire;
Screening Social Skills Improvement System. Imagine replacing academics
for these conditioning, behavioral systems used on our kids? It’s not
conduct anymore. It’s BF Skinner conditioning. You do not have to
imagine anymore, they are being implemented daily. What Are We Going To Do About It? Parents, challenge the federal legislation! We must!! Professionals in the medical field are identifying these
psychological techniques being used in the classroom by teachers,
proving that if a doctor would perform these tests in their office, they
would need informed written parental consent. Have You Seen Johnny’s Mental Health Profile written by Dr. Aida Cerundolo, Greenland, NH, brings home the reality of today’s classrooms in America. (Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/have-you-seen-juniors-psych-profile-1494286467) We are asking parents to become involved. Join our effort to
roll back this legislation and demand a Back to Basics Curriculum
founded on academic subjects. Let’s get rid of the psychobabble, the
datamining, and the unjust platform that disguises the true intent of
the federal goals…globalism and total control of the individual. These are our American children. Parents + children = family … not the nanny state. Join Child Abuse in the Classroom, A Legal Challenge To ESSA. Join here: childabuseintheclassroom.com
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The shooter in Sunday night’s mass slaughter of 59 concert goers in
Las Vegas, identified as 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, a man with
no criminal history, is now being investigated for possible ties to
Islamic terrorists.
At least 527 people were injured in what was described by Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as a well-coordinated attack.
ISIS claimed credit in an Arabic-language website, but authorities
immediately tried to debunk the claim, saying they had no evidence to
support it.
“We will investigate that down to the end,” but thus far nothing has
been found to connect Paddock to international terrorism, Lombardo said
at one of four news conferences held Monday on the shooting.
“We have determined, to this point, no connection to an international
terrorist group,” said an unidentified spokesman for the FBI in a brief
statement at a news conference at 11:40 a.m. Monday in Las Vegas.
The questions stemmed from a Twitter posting by the group Site Intel
Group that ISIS spokesman Amaq has claimed Paddock was one of its
“soldiers” who converted to Islam months ago.
The statement, in Arabic, read, “Attacker of the #Las_Vegas shooting
is a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in
response to targeting coalition countries,” Jihadoscope, a
cybermonitoring company that monitors jihadi activity, confirmed in a
translation sent to Newsweek.
Michael S. Smith II, co-founder of terror analysis company Kronos
Advisory, who regularly tracks ISIS activity, also confirmed to Newsweek
the claim of responsibility and the claim about Paddock’s conversion.
After media continued to discredit the ISIS claims, the terrorist
organization doubled down by sending out an official communique
identifying Paddock as “Abu Abdul Bar al-Amriki.”
This is the first U.S. attack that ISIS has claimed responsibility for in 2017.
Steven Stalinsky, executive director of Middle East Media Research
Institute, noted the language posted on the group’s Amaq news agency
site matched the language of previous claims that turned out to be true.
Stalinsky says when an attack is carried out by someone with no
formal connection to ISIS, the individual is typically referred to as a
“soldier” who has often pledged allegiance in an email or online to the
terrorist group.
“I am reserving judgment,” Stalinsky told the Washington Examiner. “But in the past when they claim an attacker is a soldier, somehow there has generally been a connection.”
Paddock reportedly had no military background, leading to questions
about where he learned how to modify the AR-15s he used into a fully
automatic weapons. He could have purchased them illegally from someone
else who modified the guns. But given that he built his own platforms
from which to shoot down into the crowd, it’s not out of the question
that he converted the gun himself.
The shooting took place at the Route 91 Harvest Festival about 10:08
p.m. Sunday. Country music star Jason Aldean was on stage with
approximately 22,000 people in attendance when the bullets started
raining down on the crowd, sparking a mass stampede out of the kill zone
that caused dozens more to be injured.
The shooting began as the last act was performing on the last day of
the event. The attack on the Ariana Grande concert in the U.K. earlier
this year also took place at the end of the event.
Police seized 19 additional guns, ammonia nitrate and Tannerite from
Paddock’s Mesquite, Nevada, home, the sheriff’s office reported at a 6
p.m. press conference. They also found thousands of rounds of ammo.
Tannerite is a brand name for a patented exploding target used in
firearms practice, while ammonia nitrate could have been part of a
bomb-making operation.
The modified AR-15s used in the attack reportedly fired .223 and .308 caliber rounds capable of piercing police armor. Who is Stephen Paddock?
Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, hunkered down in his hotel room stocked
with 17 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition carried into the
hotel in suitcases. Police found an additional 19 guns, several thousand
rounds of ammo and explosive devices inside one of Paddock’s three
homes. He was a multi-millionaire real-estate investor and retired
accountant who once worked for the defense giant Lockheed Martin.
Paddock used two windows on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort
hotel as his turrets. He had set up cameras to monitor first responders
and fired through the hotel door at security guards. He had checked
into the hotel Thursday and set up two shooting platforms. He surveilled
the area he planned to attack for three days before launching his
massive firepower on the crowds.
The attack was deemed the worst shooting in modern U.S. history,
surpassing the Orlando Pulse nightclub attack, which killed 49 people on
June 12, 2016.
The shooter had no criminal background, said Lombardo. He is said to have killed himself as police closed in on him.
Paddock reportedly worked as an auditor and was employed for at least
two years in the late 1980s by Lockheed Martin. He was a licensed
hunter and private pilot, having obtained his pilot’s license in
November 2003, but hadn’t updated his medical certification to fly since
2008.
Neighbors said Paddock was extremely unfriendly and disappeared for long stretches at a time.
He had previously lived in Melbourne and Orlando, Florida, but
retired to Las Vegas because he loved to gamble, his brother told Fox
News.
Paddock has also lived in Reno and Melbourne, Florida, and Henderson,
Nevada, as well as locations in Texas and California since 1990.
Paddock’s father was Patrick Benjamin Paddock, a convicted bank robber who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
His home at 1372 Babbling Brook Court in Mesquite is in an upscale
Sun City retirement community. The home’s value is estimated at
$417,819. He bought it for $369,022 on Jan. 20, 2015, according to Trulia.
Paddock was reportedly estranged from his ex-wife of six years, whom
he divorced 27 years ago. They have had no contact in many years,
according to reports.
Paddock broke out two windows in the hotel room, apparently with hammer, through which he aimed his guns.
There were no obstructions, an absolute open-view shot into what became a massive kill zone.
He knew what he was doing and he had clearly
scoped out this area,” Daniel Linskey, former Boston police
superintendent, told Fox News. “This will change hotels going forward
looking at security and training of their staff. It’s a nightmare to
have an elevated position. In Boston we always said ‘imagine how much
worse it would have been if along with the bomb you had people shooting
those running out.’”
The concert was in its final night of a three-day event.
Paddock was a man of means. He owned two aircraft, according to the
“Today” show. He lived in the suburbs around Mesquite, Nevada, which
sits near the border with Arizona about an hour-and-a-half from where
the shooting took place, police said.
Police in Mesquite said Paddock is a mystery to them because they
have never had cause to have interaction with him. They never called to
his house and were not sure how long he even lived in their city.
Police released a photo of Marilou Danley, a woman described as
Paddock’s live-in girlfriend, whom they consider a “person of interest”
in the crime.
By 3:30 a.m. Pacific Monday, police said they had located Danley
outside the country in Tokyo and were expecting to interview her upon
her return.
The gunman’s brother, Eric Paddock, told reporters for the Las Vegas
Review outside his Central Florida home early Monday “an asteroid just
fell on us,” and he said Stephen Paddock has no history of mental
illness.
Retired FBI special agent and former national FBI spokesman John
Iannarelli, who drove past the scene of the event just moments before
the shooting took place, told Fox News the massacre was “obviously well
planned.”
Iannarelli added the gunman used “expensive guns and ammunition.”
Iannarelli noted that FBI and police are going to speak with every
friend and relative, and they are conducting forensic review of the
suspect’s computers and phones.
Sunday’s shooting came more than four months after a suicide bombing
at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, that killed 22
people. Almost 90 people were killed by gunmen inspired by Islamic State
terror group at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris during a performance
by Eagles of Death Metal in November 2015.
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Islamic State claims Paddock made “careful monitoring of the Crusader gatherings
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“…he became a martyr As [sic] Allah and His Messenger and the believers believe, but most people do not know.”
Indeed. Most people believe the Islamic State is lying in claiming
any connection to this, and that Paddock was not a convert to Islam. But
ISIS continues to claim the attack anyway, and does not have a history of claiming credit for attacks for which they were not responsible. Maybe they’ve started doing so now. Maybe not.
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An unprecedented number of children are born healthy, get vaccinated and
are never healthy again. It is a public health crisis that cannot be
ignored. Before you take a risk, find out what it is. It’s your health.
Your family. Your choice.
By Barbara Loe Fisher
Is the childhood vaccine schedule safe? 1 In 1953, health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
told doctors to give children 16 doses of four vaccines by age six. 2 In 1983, it was 23 doses of 7 vaccines by age six. 3 In 2013, it was 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age 18, with 50 doses given by age six. 4 With infants and children in America getting four times as many vaccinations as their grandparents got, how healthy are they? Today, 1 child in 6 is learning disabled. 5 In 1976, it was 1 child in 30. 6 Today, 1 child in 9 has asthma. 7 In 1980, it was 1 child in 27.8 9 Today, 1 child in 50 develops autism. 10 In the 1990s, it was 1 child in 555. 11 12 Today, 1 child in 400 has diabetes. 13 In 2001, it was 1 child in 500 has diabetes. 14
On top of that, millions of children suffer with seizures, inflammatory
bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease, multiple
sclerosis, life-threatening allergies, anxiety, depression and behavior
disorders. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
In 2013, a physician committee at the Institute of Medicine reported
that there were fewer than 40 studies examining the safety of the
government’s vaccine schedule for children under age six. 25
Only 40 studies.
Vaccine safety science has so many knowledge gaps 26 27 28
that the Institute of Medicine could not determine whether the timing
and numbers of vaccinations given to babies and young children is or is
not responsible for the development of learning disabilities – asthma –
autoimmunity – autism – developmental and behavior disorders – seizures –
and other kinds of brain and immune system problems. 29
An unprecedented number of children are born healthy, get vaccinated
and are never healthy again. It is a public health crisis that cannot be
ignored. Before you take a risk, find out what it is.
Read and view references for this message from the National Vaccine
Information Center by expanding the link to view references below. It’s your health. Your family. Your choice.
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British MEP and Brexit champion, Nigel Farage, unloaded on EU
bureaucrats – specifically European Commission President Jean-Claude
Juncker – for turning a blind eye to police brutality during a
referendum vote in Catalonia, Spain, that shocked the world this
weekend.
Farage entered guns-blazing, blasting Juncker – who sat mere feet
away – and the EU as a whole, inferring that Madrid’s violently
oppressive treatment of peaceful voters was the embodiment of EU tyranny
as a whole.
“I think European citizens… would be stunned that Mr. Juncker comes
here for his one appearance in the Strasbourg session this week, and
there is absolutely no mention made of the dramatic events that have
taken place inside a European Union member state that is allegedly a
modern democracy,” Farage fired off to moderate applause from the mainly
globalist audience. “Yeah, I’ve called the European Union
‘undemocratic,’ I’ve called it ‘anti-democratic’ – but never, in my
fiercest criticisms here, did I think we would see the police of a
member state of the Union injuring 900 people, in an attempt to stop
them going out to vote.”
“Whether or not it was legal, nationally, for people in Catalonia to
have a vote, surely people are allowed to express an opinion.”
“We saw women being dragged out of polling
stations by their hair, old ladies with gashes in their foreheads – the
most extraordinary display, and what do we get from Mr. Juncker today?
Not a dicky bird,”
Farage continued, pointing directly at Juncker. “I think it is quite
extraordinary that this Union is prepared to turn a blind eye.”
Farage went on to point out that if UK police were to respond in
similar fashion to Brexit-related demonstrations, the international
community would be clamoring for immediate hearings in front of the EU
Court of Human Rights.
He also implied that the barbaric behavior of Spain’s ‘Civil
Guardia’ police was a troubling omen in light of a push by some member
states to establish a stand-alone EU paramilitary force, which could
presumably carry out similar enforcement tactics against any group of
people who resist the superstate’s agenda – such as Brexiteers.
“Knowing as I do, your advance plans – seven of you member
states, with your military police, your ‘Euro Gendarmerie’ force, all I
can say once again, is thank God we are leaving,” Farage said,
referencing Brexit.
If British police roughed up a Remain rally, EU
would scream blue murder. Yet they don’t even want to talk about
violence in Catalonia. pic.twitter.com/4boVkzcQho
“If British police roughed up a Remain rally, EU would scream
blue murder,” Farage later wrote on Twitter. “Yet they don’t even want
to talk about violence in Catalonia.”
Images and videos released from Catalonia during the course of
the weekend stunned the world as elderly women were bloodied and beaten
by riot police who ruthlessly savaged peaceful voters and demonstrators
with truncheons – even firing rubber bullets into crowds. Eventually,
unarmed Catalan firemen intervened, attempting to protect local citizens, but they were also attacked by the Guardia Civil.
According to Catalan government spokesman Jordi Turull, the referendum passed with an overwhelming 89% support after more than two million ballots were counted.
However, the Spanish government has declared the vote illegal and
claims it will not recognize the result, which will likely lead to
further unrest in the region and the EU at large.
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Pope Francis unveils an idol of Martin Luther, who he has embraced as a
leader of the church. This has, in part, led to Roman Catholic leaders
charging the Pope with heresy, as you will see in this article.
ROMAN CATHOLIC LEADERS SEND LETTER TO POPE, ACCUSING HIM OF HERESIES
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A letter twenty-five pages long laid out the perceived heresies
committed, taught or espoused by Pope Francis, was signed by 40 Roman
Catholic Leaders and delivered to him to consider. Nearly two weeks
later, the Pope has not responded and those Roman Catholic leaders have
made their letter public, conjoining it with the “Feast of Our Lady of
Ransom.” The letter accuses the Pope of seven different heresies, most
dealing with human sexuality and receiving the sacraments. Entitled, “Correctio Fillialis de Haeresibus Propogatus,” the
document has three main parts. The first part of the document specifies
that the clergy signing the letter are not arguing with papal
infallibility, because “the Church teaches that a pope must meet strict
criteria before his utterances can be considered infallible.” The letter
specifies that the Pope hasn’t said that his heretical viewpoints are
officially the dogmatic teaching of the church, and so the writers
specify they’re not challenging his papal infallibility.
The second part of Correctio Fillialis de Haeresibus Propogatus
specifies which heresies are taught by Pope Francis in his Amoris
laetitia, a “post-synodal apostolic exhortation” (position paper)
published by him in 2016. The Roman Catholic leaders allege that the
Pope expressed or implied these heresies in the Amoris laetitia. These
particularly deal with Francis’ departure from Romish orthodoxy by his
lighter views on adultery and fornication. The third part of Correctio Fillialis de Haeresibus Propogatus
accuses the Pope of falling for the encroachments of “modernism” and
[drum-roll please], the influence of Martin Luther on Pope Francis. No,
not Karl Marx…Martin Luther.
You can find the document, here.
Accusing Francis of being influenced by Luther, the document says…
In the second place, we feel compelled by
conscience to advert to Your Holiness’s unprecedented sympathy for
Martin Luther, and to the affinity between Luther’s ideas on law,
justification, and marriage, and those taught or favoured by
Your Holiness in Amoris laetitia and elsewhere necessary in order that
our protest against the seven heretical propositions listed in this
document may be complete; we wish to show, albeit in summary form, that these are not unrelated errors, but rather form part of a heretical system. Catholics need to be warned not only against these seven errors, but also against this heretical system as such, not least by reason of Your Holiness’s praise of the man who originated it [emphasis ours].
The document then lists specific homilies given by Pope Francis in
which he spoke sympathetically of Luther, as evidence that he had been
influenced by the Reformer. This development really is fascinating. First, the letter accuses
Francis of heresy, while still clinging to the dogma of papal
infallibility through a loophole in interpretation that is altogether
unclear. Secondly, it is worth noting that Protestants are not the only
ones seeing Francis being a leftist, and these Romanists are very
politely – but very clearly – calling out their own Pope for his
positions on social issues. Third, in typical Romish fashion, these
Papists blame Martin Luther for Francis’ drift left.
There is no word about how the letter was delivered to the Pope, as
to whether it was the Vatican postal service or it was nailed to his
door.
[Update: The Vatican has blocked its internet servers from accessing the website collecting signatures for Correctio Fillialis de Haeresibus Propogatus so that it cannot be accessed by anyone in the Vatican City] ___________________________________________________
Contend for the Truth About Grace by John Fallahee
One
indispensable truth arising out of the Reformation was the rediscovery
that salvation is a gift solely of God's grace and is not earned or
merited. This is one of the Five Solas of the Reformation, Sola Gratia
or "grace alone." If you were living during or even before the
Reformation, most likely you would have been deceived about the truth of
God's grace because of the false teachings of the Catholic Church. You
would have been taught that works, keeping the law, and the sacraments
were necessary for salvation. To complicate matters, the Catholic Church
forbade personal ownership of the Bible in 1229 at the Council of
Toulouse. This continued for hundreds of years. William Tyndale in 1536
was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English. As a
result of these egregious laws, many would remain in spiritual darkness,
not knowing the truth of God's amazing grace. But then the Reformers,
equipped with the supreme authority of the Scriptures, confronted the
Catholic Church's authority and their deceptive teachings, God began to
set souls free. To comprehend the great doctrinal divide between the
Bible and Roman Catholic's teaching on grace, we have provided four key
areas to equip you in your evangelistic encounters and future
discussions on grace. It should be noted, that those who reject Rome's
teaching on grace will be eternally condemned through multiple anathemas
declared at the Council of Trent.
1) Proclaim God alone is the exclusive source of grace.
When saving grace is discussed in the Bible, it references God alone as
the sole source and never references any other mediator, person, rite
or ritual (Romans 3:24-26; 5:15, Acts 11:23, Hebrews 10:29). Below are several examples of Roman Catholic teachings that are contrary to Scriptures on grace. The numbers in parenthesis are paragraph numbers from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
A.
Rome teaches a different source and medium for grace: RCC teaches that
the sacraments confer the grace of God and are necessary for salvation
(1127-1129, 1131). RCC condemns anyone who denies the necessity of the
sacraments (Trent, Session 7, Canon 4).
B.
Rome teaches grace is dependent on man: The "ordained priesthood" is
needed to guarantee grace is dispensed through the sacraments (1120).
RCC condemns anyone who denies the priesthood (Trent, Session 23, Canon
1-8).
C. Rome teaches grace is
received through a rite: It says saving grace comes through the medium
of water in the rite of infant baptism and through the faith of others,
not the infant (1263, 1266, 1279, 1253-1255). Rome condemns anyone who
denies infant baptism (Trent, Session 7, Canon 13).
D.
Rome teaches grace is received through a ritual: Eucharistic grace and
the forgiveness of sin is dispensed and received through the repeated
ritual of the Eucharistic Sacrifice (1325, 1367, 1371, 1390, 1402,
1407). Rome condemns anyone who denies the Eucharist remits sins (Trent,
Session 13, Canon 5).
2) Proclaim God's grace is a gift through the Instrument of faith alone.
Saving grace (same as justifying grace) is given directly to the
individual and can only be received through genuine faith in Christ
alone (Ephesians 2:4-9, Romans 3:21-28; 4:16-25; 5:1-2). The Bible
teaches that grace cannot be merited or earned by our works (2 Timothy
1:8-11, Titus 3:5-7, Galatians 2:16). Rome teaches the exact opposite as seen below.
A. Rome claims one can merit grace for themselves and for others to attain eternal life (2010, 2017).
B. Rome teaches grace is not by faith alone, but through obedience to the Sacramental Economy (1076,1113-1126).
3) Share how God justifies by His grace alone
(Romans 4-5). Rome claims those being baptized (usually infants)
receive "baptismal grace" and the "grace of justification." Rome
also teaches that those who receive the sacrament of baptism are made
righteous (1446, 1992, 2020). It condemns anyone who believes that
saving grace and God's righteousness are received through faith alone
(Trent, Session 6, Canon 9, 12, 14, 15). 4) Reveal how God's saving grace is an irrevocable gift. Saving grace can never be lost (Romans 8:28-39; 11:29, John 6:39; 10:27-30, 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, Jude 1:24).
Since it is not a work of man, but solely a work of God, it follows
that you can not lose what you did not earn. We must remember the basis
of saving grace is Christ's cross-work, which is perfect, and
permanently enduring (Hebrews 7:27, 9:12, 10:10, 10:14). Rome denies this.
A.
Rome teaches that mortal sin can destroy justifying grace (1446, 1855,
1861). It says justifying grace can only be restored through the
sacrament of penance and reconciliation (1422, 1440, 1446). Rome
condemns anyone who believes their salvation is secure (Trent, Session
6, Canon 16).
Praise God for His amazing grace! I
would be negligent if I did not mention saving grace also instructs us
to "deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly,
righteously and godly in the present age" (Titus 2:11-12). We also need
to shine the light of the Gospel more than ever because the darkness of
apostasy is spreading through the ecumenical movement. Many are trying
to reverse the Reformation and undermine the exclusivity of the Gospel.
They need to be less focused on signing unity accords with Catholics to
save a dying culture and more concerned with proclaiming the Gospel to
save dying souls.
When Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door
in Wittenburg 500 years ago this month, he ignited a theological
firestorm that would burn throughout Europe. As a Roman Catholic monk,
Luther's greatest desire was to become right with God, yet his religion
offered no peace or assurance. This led him to begin a diligent study of
God's Word and it was there that he discovered the only way a condemned
sinner could be justified by a holy and righteous God. Luther's study
of Scripture revealed the glorious doctrine of justification that had
been concealed and corrupted by religious traditions for over 1000
years. The Bible declares the justification of sinners can only be
accomplished by a divine exchange - the imputing of man's sins to
Christ, and the imputing of Christ's righteousness to sinners (2 Cor. 5:21).
The only way condemned sinners can be justified is through the
sin-bearing, substitutionary death of Christ who satisfied divine
justice.
The doctrine of Justification is said to be the hinge upon which
the gates of heaven open and close. Those who get justification wrong
also get the Gospel wrong, and those who die embracing a false gospel
will pay for that mistake forever. The doctrine of Justification
declares the inflexible righteousness of God as a Judge who must punish
every sin, that has ever been committed, by everyone who has ever
lived. It also declares His love, mercy, and grace in providing His only
Son to be crucified as a substitute for sinners.
Many Christians are unaware of how the Catholic Church has twisted
and distorted the biblical doctrine of Justification and condemned those
who believe it. Yes, they have pronounced 33 anathemas from the Council of Trent on
anyone who believes that they are justified by grace alone, through
faith alone, in Christ alone. Since this has eternal consequences, we
have provided 10 contrasts between the biblical Doctrine of
Justification and the corrupted doctrine that continues to be taught by
Rome. To print a copy of these 10 contrasts click here. The numbers in parenthesis are paragraph numbers from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
1) Justification is by faith in what God accomplished in Christ (Rom. 5:1). Rome says initial justification is by water baptism (1992).
2) Justification changes one's legal status before God whereby a condemned sinner has been acquitted and declared righteous (Rom. 5:12-21). Rome says justification changes the inner man, not his legal status (2019).
3) Justification is an instantaneous act of God which immediately declares a sinner righteous (Rom. 4:3). Rome says justification is an ongoing process, the ongoing renewal of interior man (2019).
4) Justification is permanent and is never lost by sin. The legal status of a justified man is as unchangeable as the righteousness of Christ (Heb. 10:14). Rome says justification is temporal. It is lost by sin and regained through the sacrament of penance and good works (1446, 1861).
5) Justification is by grace apart from works (Titus 3:7; Rom. 11:6). God justifies those who do not work (Rom. 4:5; Gal. 2:16). Those justified receive the gracious gift of Christ's righteousness (Rom. 5:17). Rome says justification must include good works (2010). "If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, let him be anathema" (Trent, Canon 9). Rome
says re-justification must be merited by making satisfaction for sins
through works of mercy, prayer, service to neighbors, etc. (1459, 1460,
2027).
6) Justification is by imputation or crediting of Christ's completed righteousness to the one justified (2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 4:5). Rome says justification is by infusion of God's righteousness which renews the interior man (1989).
7) God justifies the ungodly (Rom. 4:5). Rome teaches final justification is only for those who have become righteousness (2016, 2020).
8) After justification all sins are no longer taken into account or punished (Rom. 4:5; 2 Cor. 5:19-21). Rome says that sins committed after justification will be punished either in purgatory or in hell (1030, 1861).
9) God promises to glorify everyone He justifies because those justified can never be condemned (Rom. 8:1, 8:30). Rome says that God will condemn to hell anyone who was justified (by water baptism) but who dies in mortal sin (1861).
10) Justification precedes sanctification (Rom. 6-8). Rome says justification is an integral part of sanctification (1995).
The
righteousness that justifies the ungodly sinner is an alien
righteousness that was accomplished outside of and apart from man. It is
the completed righteousness of Jesus Christ and is given as a gift from
God apart from any merit or work of man. His perfect righteousness is
imputed at the moment the redeemed is united with Christ by faith. The
righteousness of Christ is our passport into heaven! No one will enter
into glory without it (2 Peter 3:13).
