>> Also the idea of the Catholic Church perverting the Sabbath to Sunday when it did used to be Saturday. <<
hello sidney. first of all you need to understand that when the SDA heretics try to ascribe blame for the changing of worship from saturday to sunday to the ROMAN catholic church and the holy emperor St. Constantine they are speaking from total and utter ignorance.
we must be careful to distinguish the difference between the claims of liars and the claims of those who proclaim truth.
a perfect example of this can be found in the gospel of John, chapter 8, where the jews made the boast, "Abraham is our father." what was Christ's response? "If ye were Abraham's children..." so these unbelieving jews could claim Abraham as their father all they wanted, but it did not make it so.
these enemies of Christ persisted however, and then made an even bolder claim, "we have one Father, even God."
Christ rebuked them yet again, "If God were your Father..."
and then plainly told them just exactly whose children they were:
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do."
this same lying spirit of antichrist is revealed in the book of revelation as well. "I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie..."
so you see, you can call yourself a jew all you like, and boast of being children of Abraham or children of God, to no avail.
yet another example from the holy prophet Isaiah, chapter 48:
"Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness."
so it's plainly evident from all these passages that there are people who are called by the name Israel, who are called Jews, who call Abraham their father, and God their Father as well, who are nothing more than the synagogue of Satan, the children of the devil.
now let's apply this concept to the roman catholic church. the papist church claims to honor the memory of St. Constantine, along with many other Fathers of the Church. but does this make it so?
the jews claimed to honor Abraham and Moses, and God the Father himself, but Christ showed otherwise.
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? --John 5:45-47
the roman catholics claim to honor the saints such as the holy emperor Constantine, but they really dishonour them, by departing from their teachings, as the jews depart from Moses, yet claim him as their own.
so when the SDA preachers of antichrist try to associate the roman catholics and the blessed emperor St. Constantine with laws governing worship on sunday, they fail to grasp the concept that there was no such thing as a roman catholic church in the 4th century in the time of St. Constantine!
there was only the Orthodox Catholic Church -- i.e. the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ. you were either joined in communion to it, or you were with the schismatics and heretics.
it wasn't until several centuries later that certain of the popes of rome began to exalt their office and (falsely) claim universal headship over the Church, proclaiming that to be part of the Church one must be in communion and subservient to the roman pontiff.
SDA's want to (erroneously) blame the blessed emperor Constantine and the heretical latins for supposedly changing the sabbath, yet they don't even understand that St. Constantine is not even part of the roman catholic church. oh sure, the latin papists try to claim him as their saint, just as the jews try to lay claim to Abraham, Moses, and the rest of the holy prophets.
but glory be to God! for i know the truth. i will share it to you freely as i have received it freely.
the truth is, like the jews who claim Moses and the prophets who are not theirs, so in like manner the papists claim St. Constantine for their own, when in actuality he is only a Saint in one Church--that is the true Church of Christ--the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church. |
