HELLO SDA ARE YOU UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES OR OF CHRIST?

This is the leader they follow not Christ

Pseudo Christians have multiplied over some period of time especially in the last 300 years when out of the Rebellion of Protestants more rebel houses or churches sprouted which also rebelled against the rebellious houses of the Reformation. So then rebellion from the true church of Jesus Christ continuous and worst they multiplied and teaching more outrageous heresies that deceive many souls to their damnation.

Among such rebel churches came to Seventh Day Adventist or SDA founded by James White the husband of Ellen G. White. It is, therefore, a husband and wife tandem that founded the church and religion of some 25 million members worldwide making it the twelfth largest religion in the world. This man-made religion is fiercely anti-Catholic Church questioning the Sunday Holy Mass worship and advancing their own Sabbath Day worship teaching that it is the real worship day not Sunday or Lord's Day of the Catholic Church.

Yet the same false Christian church that mixed Judaism and Christianity has their worship on Saturday which is supposed to be a day of rest. No one works or does anything resembling work on Sabbath but the SDA has their worship service on Saturday and that is work! They are violating the Sabbath Law themselves which they said they follow straight from the law of God in Ten Commandments. It is ironic that their own pastors are guilty of violating the law on Sabbath because they are at work during the Sabbath doing services in their various churches. Well, fakes are fake and they stumble on their own false teaching.  

The Doctrine of the SDA on Sabbath is its Universality. The universality of the Sabbath is rooted in Creation. Thus its privileges and obligations are binding in all nations, sectors, or classes. (See Ex 20:11; 23:12; Dent 5:13; Isa 56:1-8.) Sabbath observance pertains to all members of the household including children and extends even "to the stranger that is within thy gates" (Ex 20:10). 

Citing scriptures alone to put up your own separate church and weaved out doctrines from the verses that support the founding and establishment of your own man-made religion without regard for other scriptural verses that seem to be contradictory to the verses cited has been the hallmark of the Rebel houses (churches). Such Scripture Alone false doctrine which is the mother of all heresies ever invented by Satan who was rebuked by Jesus the first time he tried to use the scripture against the Lord has moved them further away from the true church, the only one united church founded by Jesus Christ and built upon the continuing works of the Apostles down to their successors the bishops, priests, and leaders of the Catholic Church. 

As an example, we will discuss briefly the SDA false doctrine stated above which is the Universality of the Sabbath. Jesus already clarified this that he being the Lord even of the Sabbath has said that man is not made for the Sabbath but that the Sabbath for man. Meaning that it's not universal but made precisely for the chosen people, the Israelites, the Jews. While we Christians today no longer observe it since we are not of the law of Moses but of the Law of Christ under the New Covenant, the same God has made a new law that freed us from the bondage of the old law which nevertheless can still be applied for the Jews even Christian Jews and to which the Catholic Church has rightly acknowledged.

The basis of SDA Doctrine on the Sabbath is Exodus 20 but this scriptural passage is further clarified in Exodus 31 specifying and unequivocally stating that the law is meant for the Israelites whom we know are composed of 12 Tribes. They are known as the Jews as it is written: 

Exodus 31:12-18 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy." - The Lord in Exodus 20 is speaking to the Israelites and here he reiterated that he is giving the law to them because they are the people of the Covenant and God alone makes them holy. The chosen People of God.

 

“‘Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people. For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

The Sabbath, therefore, has been made as a sign of a lasting covenant for the Jews, very clear what the Lord has said: "It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever". Are the SDA members Israelites? Are the Catholics Israelites? There are many of us gentiles than Jews from the very beginning. That is why the Council of Jerusalem has spoken that the Law given to the Jews are not to be applied to the Christian gentiles except for some basic things like fasting but other than that we have been freed from the Law of Moses and is not under the Law of Christ who ruled that being the Lord of the Sabbath, that it is made for man and not man-made for the Sabbath meaning, non-Jews may or may not observe it and it will be not charged against him. 

We must also note that of the Ten Commandments, this is the only law of God where he made a clarification as to whom it is intended to be is the Sabbath. All the commandments apply to all but God made it clear that the Sabbath is "between me and the Israelites"

"When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God."

Now the SDA has also cited a verse in Isaiah 56 which states:  

In verses 3, 6 and 7 - Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.” 

And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant -- these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

Here God is talking about Converted Jews, they are non-Israelites, foreigners not citizens of Israel not belonging to any of the 12 tribes, but converted to the faith of Judaism which bound them to the Law of Moses and so the Sabbath applies to them, thus God is consistent because he said “And the foreigners WHO BIND THEMSELVES TO THE LORD TO MINISTER TO HIM” they are adopted Israelites and Jews by conversion “Binding” them to the Lord. Therefore again the Universality which covers ALL Men is not taught in Isaiah to include all men 56 verses but rather it further solidifies the truth of what Jesus said that man is NOT made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath for man for it is up to those outside the Law to bind themselves to the law but the law does not force man to it. So those outside the law is not in charge of sinning against its law.

That is why Jesus is really the Lord even of the Sabbath and he is true when he said "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. So then whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven."

How then can one exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees who are under the Law and who observed the law in every detail if one will also be under the law? It is almost impossible for any man to exceed them who are even called People of the Book for their adherence to the Law. The only way that man can exceed them is to be outside the Law of Moses which are validly given to them that are under the law and be bound to the law of Christ which frees man from the yoke and place him in the New Covenant the Law of Christ that is truly universal for such is given to all men, Jews and Gentiles alike.

Therefore SDA if you are under the Law of Moses and bound yourself to it, then it is righteous for you to observe the Sabbath on Saturday but for those not bound in the Law of Moses but entered into a New Covenant of the Law of Christ, then not observing the Sabbath on Saturday can't be charged of sin against them. And yet the Catholic Church in observance of the Sabbath and the Resurrection of the Lord has rightly put into practice the Lord's Day which is Sunday. For the fulfillment of the Sabbath is observed on Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord is the Lord's Day. However, the SDA is neither here nor there. They are not Christians and they are not Jews, they are the 7th Day Adventist. They are trying to be more Jewish than the Jews and more Christian than the Christians of the Catholic Church. Thus they are half breed and the half breed has no truth in them for they are a creation of the Rebellious House the house of Satan. The 25 Million members must come out of her to have true salvation in Jesus Christ who is the head of the Church, the Catholic Church.

Bro. Manny OTFS Apologist

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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE BIBLE

The Holy Bible is proclaimed everyday in the Holy Mass

It has always been debated among Catholics and Protestants which came first the bible or the Catholic Church? But it is elementary logic that the bible would not have been written at all without the actions of the church - Preaching; teaching; baptizing; establishing churches in every place, nation, cities and towns; appointing bishops, priests, deacons; weekly meetings for the Eucharist; caring for the physical and spiritual needs of the members. No church stood for itself, each are united to one Apostolic leadership. All these acts are recorded not just in the bible but in other church historical documents written by the church writers, early theologians and apologists, defenders of the Catholic Church.

One must consider the fact that the early church was established under a different time period of kings and kingdoms. Living in a different kind of civilization that is way way backward in today's modern time. Aside from the crude environment that they lived, there was hardly any education as there was hardly any educational institution to which people may learn to read and write. A hebrew would understand Greek by learning the language through assimilation with Greek speaking communities. Romans would hardly understand Greek and so they depended entirely on their teachers. Meaning the church was founded at the time when hardly anyone can read or write not just their own spoken language but more also other languages of other people. So then how did they learn the word of God in the scripture. They learn them from the oral teachings of the Apostles and their successors.

Consider this, the early church from Jews to the Gentiles were mostly poor. In those time, only the rich has the resources to send their children to get education from known educators. They are personally taught to read and write. But the poor had no access to such. They depended on the oral teachings and put it in their memory. They learn from the oral tradition of their elders that were lived and put into action as a living example. These oral teachings, the traditions, were handed down by the Apostles in the church, for the church, and by the church so that it is not forgotten until the time by divine providence that they were written down.

The Torah itself or the Old Testament was not written until the Kingdom of Israel was settled under King David who hired Scribes to put the Torah in writing. The Jews were originally Hebrew people who were poor and nomadic tribe. They move from place to place and they have long history as the People of God which they learned from oral traditions handed to them by their ancestors, the Patriarch who learned them from the Prophets who were sent by God to reveal himself and his commandments. To make them remember, they made the oral teachings and traditions by singing them. The Psalms for example are hymns. They are made into songs since it is easy for people to remember songs and hymns than narratives or plain stories. Other stories were made by repeating the same stories over and over again. Such way of teaching the next generations only became more organized as the Jews became a settled nation developing their own letters and alphabets that allowed them to read and write. This shows that before any writings can be made, they must first be preached, taught, and practiced. Otherwise writing from own imagination is nothing more than a myth and fairy tale without any semblance of truth. For the scriptures to be true they must be factual and to be factual they must be historical and were experienced by those who originally taught them like Moses who experienced talking and meeting God. There must be witnesses to the wonders and miracles that were shown by God beyond the physical explanation.

Theological scholars to what is known as typology, that the Old Testament or the Old Covenant pre- figures the New Testament or the New Covenant. Likewise Judaism prefigures Christianity. So then how the Jews developed their religion in the Old Testament is how the Christians developed their religion under One Holy and Apostolic Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ.

Just as the Torah came about from the action of the Jews under the authority of their former King David, the Priests and the Scribes likewise the Bible came about from the action of the Christians as a community of believers under the authority of their King, Jesus Christ, the Apostles, Bishops and Priests, the leaders of the Church.

The 4 Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John was written sometime between 75 AD-90 AD or  some 40 years after the Catholic church of Christians was inaugurated on Pentecost Sunday sometime in the year 33 AD. That makes about 40 years of Christianity when there were no Gospels. So how did they learn the teachings and commandments of the Lord?

We learn from the Acts that the church was already active establishing churches and Christian communities. Paul who was known at first as Saul, was persecuting the church even allowing the stoning of Stephen and approving of his death. He ran after the members of the church wherever they go even outside the Holy Land and into Syria. But on the way to Damascus he was converted by no less than Jesus Christ who appeared and spoke to him in the clouds. St. Paul not only converted but he was appointed by the Lord himself to the office of the Apostles. His Epistles to the churches and to Christians started sometime in 55 AD or at least 22 years of church existence. His epistles and letters including those of other Apostles came ahead of the 4 Gospels at least by 20 years.

So then there were 22 years before the first epistle was written by Paul and became the template for other Apostles to do the same. The Christians did not have the letters and epistles for 22 years and no Gospels for 40 years. The Septuagint was a Greek translation of the Old Testament that was meant for the Greek Speaking Jews not for the Christians. We have seen in the Acts that the Apostles preached not by the bible but orally and successfully converted many to Faith in Jesus Christ. St. Peter converted some 3,000 by his oral preaching.

While the Apostles were alive, the church did not see it important to write but was teaching, preaching, and building up the church in many places based purely on the witnessing of the Apostles and their Disciples. However as the church grew in numbers in many places, the need for written gospels, letters, and epistles became apparent and important for the guidance of the succeeding generations of the Church. Also as the church became more organized with Bishops and presbyters already appointed to serve in the churches in many places, the written instructions, letters and epistles, and the Gospels were read in the assembly during the first part of the weekly meeting of the church. The meeting place was done in what is known as the house churches where the celebration of the Lord's Day, Sunday assembly, worship, and the breaking of bread or the Eucharist. It was at the time when the early church started to develop formal meetings in house churches. Houses that were converted into churches.

The church has started to make copies of the gospels, letters, epistles and other church materials in scrolls which will then be compiled into a Bible and preserved them. St. Paul in his letter to Timothy asked him to bring the "scrolls" he left with ___. Proof that the Apostles kept scrolls which then read in the Churches by the Bishop or presbyter during the weekly meeting on Sunday the Lord's day which later called the Holy Mass.

The first completed bible was the Hebrew Bible composed only of 24 Books then followed by the Koine Greek Bible composed of 76 Books. The Greek Bible was translated to Latin called the Latin Vulgate and completed sometime in the 4th century AD. We can therefore safely say that for the good part of the first 300 years of Christianity there was no single Bible to read and copies were hard to find since there was no printing press yet and all copies are written by scribes.

If then we follow the doctrine of Bible Alone invented by the Protestants, can we say that the early Christians were wrong in their faith? Absolutely not. In fact the modern day Christians should take it as matter of finding the truth to know what the early Christians believed and followed and how did the Church practice the Christians religion at that time. We know however that as early as the late 1st century when the last Apostle was still alive, his disciple, St. Ignatius who was then Bishop of Antioch in the province of Syria of the Roman Empire was already calling the church of the Living God founded by Jesus Christ as the Catholic Church. We also know that the Apostles organized the church into sacerdotal hierarchy led by Bishops as overseers assisted by presbyters for the ministerial services of the members. The Apostles preached and taught to all the churches within the places where they went in fulfillment of the commission given to them by the Lord to go to all the nations and proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Make disciples and to baptize those who will believe.

Just as the bible has its origin from the action of the church that is the Catholic Church, the church has its origin in Jesus Christ, with his words "on this rock I will build my church" and gave the church powers and invincibility that even the gates of hell shall not prevail over it. It is therefore inconceivable to believe the teachings of pseudo-Christian churches pretending to be Christians but are not to claim as being the true church or being part of the church of Christ without any connection to the true church. Said bible churches are false churches teaching false doctrines. They are not part of succession of the Apostles handed down to Bishops and priests given authority to oversee the true church, to preach, teach, and bring to the church converts of believers of Jesus Christ. The authority is given by Jesus to the church not to the bible. The bible which is the word of God is proclaimed by the church not the church proclaimed the bible since the bible came from the action of the Church. The bible is a book there is no life in the book per se unless it is put into action; but the church is Jesus Christ, its the church that gives life to written words of God for unless it is lived by the faithful it remains confined in the ink and paper. The church is the word of God comes alive. It makes possible those who seek Jesus come to him and have life.
 

ARE YOU FOLLOWING JESUS OR THE VOICE OF SATAN?

THE REBEL HOUSE

The 1st Epistle of John was written sometime about 95-100 AD. It was in reaction to the heresies and schisms that were infecting members of the church universal (Ekklesia katholou Acts 9:31) or Catholic Church founded by Jesus and was being built through the works of his lead Apostles headed by St. Peter and the early disciples of mixed races, Jews and Gentiles. There were those who left the church very early to form and follow their own heretical beliefs and worst found their own sects churches. Some short-lived but their poison seeds have lived on till today.

Heresy comes the word heterodox which is the opposite of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is fidelity to the tradition and teachings of Jesus as preached and taught by the Apostles. Heterodox are forms of Christian beliefs that deviated from orthodox teachings. They are called heretical teachings. Schism is departing from the church in view of obstinacy to heretical beliefs. Heresy, therefore, breeds rebellion that leads to schism from the Catholic Church to establish their own churches.

In chapter 2:18-23 it says  "Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us. You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.  I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son can have the Father; whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

Since heresy is a deviation from the proclaimed truth of Christianity by the Catholic Church, they deny Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah. Although they still use the name Christian they are in effect and in truth no longer Christians but pseudo-Christians.

In his 1st Epistle St. John identifies one of the marks of the antiChrists that will make us be watchful and aware of who they are. They are the ones who left the true church because of doctrinal issues that are based on their own appreciation of the truth and not based on the teachings handed down by the Lord through the Apostles.

The rebels have lured other Christians to their teachings.  They have come out of the church and to them, the scripture is fulfilled. "Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house. (Ezekiel 12:2) Such rebellion did not stop with just a few but they multiplied in every generation, rebellion against the church continuous armed with their heretical beliefs even today.

ST. CYPRIAN's UNITY OF THE CHURCH

As the first century came to a close, the Apostles successors, the Bishops that were ordained as priests and ordained under authority passed on by the Apostles to their successors in the Catholic Church took up the cudgels from the Apostles in keeping the unity in the Catholic Church and upholding the holy traditions of the Apostles both in oral and written forms. They are called and known as the Fathers of the Church. One of these Fathers is the Bishop of Carthage, St. Cyprian.

Cyprian was born in the year 2000. He was a pagan public speaker and teacher from Carthage in North Africa but converted to Christianity around the year 246 AD. He immersed himself in the study of the Scripture and the writings and the writings of the first great Latin theologian from North Africa, Tertullian. By the grace of God, like St. Paul, he grew so rapidly in holiness and knowledge of the faith that he was appointed bishop of Carthage only two years later. However, a few months in his episcopate another persecution of Christians broke out again under Decius and the relative peace enjoyed by the church was short-lived that Cyprian was forced to flee his see or Office of Bishop. Peace once more returned and he came back to the episcopate only to be confronted with problems of those who lapsed in their faith under pressure from persecution coming back to reconcile with the church. After a few years of peace, persecution of the church once more began under Emperor Valerian. Cyprian was martyred in  Carthage on September 14, 258 but left behind many writings in defense of the Catholic Church particularly the epistle in Unity of the Catholic Church.

In the middle of 3rd Millenium St. Cyprian who was a public speaker and  prolific writer before he converted to Christianity wrote in 250 AD where he defended the UNITY OF THE CHURCH against heresy and schisms saying “He, Satan, has invented heresies and schisms, whereby he might subvert the faith, corrupt the truth, and divide the unity of the church.”

The Lord did not found churches of different doctrines and faith but only one united Catholic Church. while it is established in many nations and cities worldwide. The true church is united in one body with the Lord as the head. One Lord, one baptism, and one faith. He rebuked those who set up as Church Leaders to start their own churches. In modern times does it not the same as what the leaders of the Protestant churches using their heretical doctrines they have set up themselves as leaders to separate from the Catholic Church from which they rebelled and protested against.

THE VOICE OF SATAN

Paganism the kingdom of Satan is crumbling opposite the growth of the church even under sporadic persecution depending on who is the Emperor of Rome. Satan found a new way to deceive through heresies and schisms which according to the Fathers of the Church are the gates of hell. St. Cyprian said in Chapter III of the epistle:

“He [Satan] has invented heresies and schisms, whereby he might subvert the faith, might corrupt the truth, might divide the unity. Those whom he cannot keep in the darkness of the old way, he circumvents and deceives by the error of a new way.  He snatches men from the Church itself; and while they seem to themselves to have already approached to the light, and to have escaped the night of the world, he pours over them again, in their unconsciousness, new darkness.”

“So that, although they do not stand firm with the Gospel of Christ, and with the observation and law of Christ, they still call themselves Christians, and, walking in darkness, they think that they have the light, while the adversary is flattering and deceiving, who, according to the apostle’s word, transforms himself into an angel of light, and equips his ministers as if they were the ministers of righteousness, who maintain night instead of day, death for salvation, despair under the offer of hope, perfidy under the pretext of faith, antichrist under the name of Christ; so that, while they feign things like the truth, they make void the truth by their subtlety. This happens, beloved brethren, so long as we do not return to the source of truth, as we do not seek the head nor keep the teaching of the heavenly Master.”

Therefore those who call themselves Christians but leave the Catholic Church for a Christian sect is following the voice of Satan.

ST. CYPRIAN UPHOLDS LEADERSHIP OF PETER IN THE CHURCH

“There is easy proof for faith in a short summary of the truth. The Lord speaks to Peter, saying, “I say unto thee thou art Peter; and upon this rock, I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And again to the same He says, after His resurrection, “Feed my sheep.”

Those today who have invented the lie that St. Peter is not the head of the church and the first Bishop of Rome and therefore the Pope, here St. Cyprian defended the See of Peter as the head of the Catholic Church and exercised Apostolic Authority overall the church from which authority emanates for all the Bishops and priests.

“And although to all the apostles, after His resurrection, He gives an equal power, and says, “As the Father hath sent me, even so, send I you: Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they shall be remitted unto him; and whose soever sins ye retain, they shall be retained;” yet, that He might set forth unity, He arranged by His authority the origin of that unity, as beginning from one. Assuredly the rest of the apostles were also the same as was Peter, endowed with a like partnership both of honor and power; but the beginning proceeds from unity.”

The See of St. Peter is the mark of the true Church that Jesus Christ founded and for St. Cyprian, his presence among the twelve holds together the ecclesial unity the Church. Where Peter is there is the Catholic Church of Christians. The words of the Lord is a prophesy where his church will be built upon the rock which is Peter. Today the main church of the Catholics worldwide, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome stands on top of his remains which is in an ossuary made up of "rock". On this rock I will build my church is the mark where the true church will be built.

Can any of the so-called Bible-believing "Christians" start a new church because the Protestants teach that they are all are called to priesthood? The answer is NO. Biblical evidence and historical facts affirmed that Jesus founded a structured apostolic and hierarchical church. It is therefore convenient for Protestantism to insist on their heretical teaching of Sola Scriptura which is open to free interpretation and not subject to the teaching authority of the church, the Magisterium. Breaking away from such has clothed their churches with legitimacy instead of what they truly are, schismatics heresy, a Rebel House. Such continuing heresy has produced thousands of churches of different denominations each having their own teaching authority that is solely rested on the founder and their successors that come from the same family as children. By rewriting biblical doctrines of the Catholic Church designed to serve and legitimize their rebellious action, they have now effectively cut off their members from the body of Christ that is the Catholic church.

Bro Manny OTFS Apologist

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