A Very Merry Freedom from Bondage for You and Yours
By Michael Hoffman • Christmas Eve, MMXXI
Amid all of the worldly distractions calling to you this day, I hope you have a few minutes to spare to consider that among the “angels heard on high” and the “shepherds keeping their sheep,” the son of God, who was also the son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, being incarnated over 2,000 years ago, broke many man-made, slave-customs of the Pharisees. The Apostle Paul distilled the chain-breaking liberation that personified the Good News of Jesus in one sentence:
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)
I think of those words and then compare them with the captivity of the Catholics under Pope Francis — particularly Catholics whose form of worship is the 1,000-year old Tridentine Mass. The “Holy Father” is resurrecting Thomas Cranmer and the penal laws of the Crown of England which suppressed that Mass and drove English, Scottish and Irish Catholics to bankruptcy, imprisonment and even death.
When Vatican Council I voted for papal infallibility, those prelates put the whole of the Catholic Church in the yoke of bondage.
Yeah, yeah, the pope is "only infallible” when he speaks “from the chair” ("ex cathedra") in the strictly formal sense of promulgating a solemn dogma. The Talmudic loophole in that argument is located in the concept of the “ordinary magisterium,” which the pontiff is said to possess as part of his daily office.
Moreover, the man who has the charism of a direct pipeline to heaven for infallible statements (even if not directly utilized), is held in awe and treated as a living saint figure by millions.
Lastly, the Church of Rome is set up so that the bishop of Rome is alone sovereign. He alone has absolute power over every detail of the Church. In Revisionist History® we have documented the covert role of Freemasonry in ensuring that the papal infallibility fraud was rammed through the Council in the 19th century. Now why would the Freemasons do that? As Catholic philosopher Lord Acton stated when he quit Rome, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” When the pontiff became absolutely corrupted by his infallible power, the Masons were confident they could place their own initiates on the pontifical throne. How right they were.
In the Protestant world, “evangelical" preachers and pastors who are “anointed" by Israeli army generals and Talmudic gedolim, and who draw their churchian faith from John Nelson Darby and Scofield’s commentary on the Bible, hold sway over millions, including most of the Republican Party, as well as state legislatures in the “buckle of the Talmud belt,” i.e. Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas etc. This is a species of Ku Kluxery, of race worship, in this case of the alleged children of Abraham. Jesus rebuked that false doctrine and declared that the children of Abraham are defined as only those who have Faith in Him (John chapter 8). But why believe Jesus when you’ve got Hagee, Huckabee and Hell on your side?
People claim they want to be free, but you’d be surprised what a tall order it is for most of them to avoid volunteering for one yoke of bondage or another. Being a slave to Protestant evangelicals, or Rome’s popes and prelates, is just as Antichrist and soul-rotting as being an abortionist or a Communist.
That little babe in the manger was the greatest freedom-fighter ever born into this world. Don’t betray His mission for the sake of allegiance to a bureaucrat, politician, pulpit huckster or pope.
This is my prayer for you this glorious Christmas, 2021
Michael Hoffman
Independent History and Research
Box 849, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816
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3 comments:
Michael, you are so right!
Every Sunday, the congregation, all professing believers in Jesus Christ, in the church I attend, have Christ's unburdened "liberty" weighed down with harangues on what "works" we must do.
Would it surprise you that there is a Masonic "Bible" on display in the fellowship hall?
So, what's the answer? Infallibility was the only answer to solve the endless disputes that have existed since the time of the apostles. The truth is, there never was some clear set of teachings by the apostles handed on to their successors. This was always a fiction. From day one, everyone has had their own interpretation of orthodoxy or "The Bible." Scholarship has shown today how problematic "The Bible" is, both due to the numerous errors & forgeries, and selecting a certain number of books as "the canon" even though everyone disagreed on exactly which versions of which books to read. There were a ton of books floating around, and the Athanasius list was just his preference, and there had never been consensus (e.g. Enoch is an important book, while Revelation, Hebrews, and the pastoral epistles are questionable at best).
Phase I was the fiction of "apostolic succession" but that failed. Phase II to fix things had been for the Roman Empire to create the fiction of "orthodoxy" at Nicaea and Constantinople, which didn't work. Phase III was the papacy, which is an elegant solution because then you just do whatever the Pope says. Infallibility is the only solution to create a uniform orthodoxy, otherwise it will be chaotic.
How do you define orthodoxy? By today's standards, none of the "church fathers" were orthodox. The orthodoxy of the 2nd century had become heresy by the 5th, and both of those are heresy today. Things continue to morph and change at fundamental levels, which is a fundamental feature of Christianity. For example, there was no concept of "getting married in church" for the first 1000 years, but today it's required in all the churches, and is considered invalid if you don't obey the priestly requirements. What nonsense, marriage doesn't require any witnesses, priest, or paperwork to be sacramental.
Who writes a thesis in a comment section on a blog post? I'll tell you who, a troll. You know nothing about Orthodoxy save shallow talking points. Be gone, let the good man do his good work. If you're up for real debate, you're not, head on over to Jay Dyers discord. Adam_Infinitum
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