The Perfect Storm Is Coming – Part II

Early Christians

“A Hated Sect, Worthy only of Destruction”

CONTINUED

THE LAW OF GOD

I

“Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.”

II

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.”

III

“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.”

IV
‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son; nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

V

“Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”

VI

‘Thou shalt not kill.”

VII

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

VIII

“Thou shalt not steal.”

IX

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

X

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”

-Exodus 20:3-17

THE LAW OF GOD AS CHANGED BY MAN

I

I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange gods

(The Second Commandment has been omitted!)

II (actually III)

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

III (IV)

Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
(The Sabbath Commandment has been radically altered!)

IV (V)

Honor thy father and thy mother.

V (VI)

Thou shalt not kill.

VI (VII)

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VII (VIII)

Thou shalt not steal.

VIII (IX)

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
IX (Actually X, first part!)

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.

X (Actually X, second part!)

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.

-The General Catholic Catechism.

Question – ‘Have you any other way of proving that the (Catholic) Church has power to institute festivals of precept?”

Answer – “Had she not such power…she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week for Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no scriptural authority.”

-Doctrinal Catechism, p. 174 (Roman Catholic).  

“Prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says, No. By my divine power, I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the Holy Catholic Church.”

-Thomas Enright, CSSR, President Redemptorist College (Roman Catholic), Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 18, 1884.

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