Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Catholicism claims a mark of authority. A collection of Catholic statements about this mark is printed in Chapter 9 of the book How God Fulfilled the Law, by Shelem Flemons. A few were read today. (They are below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Since the 80s, she (unnamed) took 30 medicines twice a day to treat diabetes, hypertension, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and anxiety. Concerned about the weight gain and swelling that she was experiencing and paranoid that it was going to take her life, she sought the Lord for direction. She became convinced that she needed to get off the drugs and sought the help of Times of Refreshing Wellness Ministry. With the help of her newfound sister and Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness and naturopathy, she began making dietary changes at home. Upon arrival at TOR Wellness Retreat, she had lost 15 pounds, was on 15 medications twice a day, and was determined to take no more drugs. Against counsel, she went cold turkey and was supported in her effort. She reports normal blood pressures and sugar levels and a general feeling of well-being and gratefulness.
QT/QT One question about weight loss led to a brief discussion about treatment for obesity at Times of Refreshing.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
“Sunday is our mark of authority. . . the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1, 1923.
“Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act. . . And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.” H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.
“Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th edition, p. 111; 88th edition, p. 89).
“For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To Tell You the Truth.”
“Written by the finger of God on two tables of stone, this Divine code (ten commandments) was received from the Almighty by Moses amid the thunders of Mount Sinai. . . Christ resumed these Commandments in the double precept of charity–love of God and of the neighbor; He proclaimed them as binding under the New Law in Matthew 19 and in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5) . . . . The (Catholic) Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Third Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord’s Day. . . .He (God) claims one day out of the seven as a memorial to Himself, and this must be kept holy. . .” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4, “The Ten Commandments,” 1908 edition by Robert Appleton Company; and 1999 On-line edition by Kevin Knight, Imprimatur, John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Pastor Flemons offered a couple of points of correction and explanation here before reading more quotes. The Sabbath is not a Jewish Sabbath. The Sabbath was given to all human beings, as Adam and Eve were not Jews. “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for sabbath,” according to Mark 2:27. Sunday has always been a pagan day of worship.
Also, they call it the “Third Commandment.” It is the fourth commandment in the Bible. It is the third commandment in the Catholic Bible, because the Catholic Church removed the second commandment, which prohibits bowing down to anyone other than God. Finally, they split the tenth commandment to maintain the number of commandments originally given by God.
“Question: How prove you that the church had power to command feasts and holydays?
“Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church.
“Question: Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?
“Answer: Had she not such power, she could not a done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; -she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day of the week, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism On the Obedience Due to the Church, 3rd edition, Chapter 2, p. 174 (Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York).
“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The day of the Lord’ was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church’s sense of its own power. . . People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically. . .keep Saturday holy.” St. Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.
“Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday. . . .Now the Church. . .instituted, by God’s authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday.” Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About, 1927 edition, p. 136.
Pastor Flemons cautioned that the Bible says a curse (plagues) is reserved for those who alter God’s word.
Revelation 22:18, 19:
Previously, Pastor Flemons referred to Revelation 13:16 and 17: