Wednesday, 11 February 2009

• Roman Catholic Church brings back indulgences :

  

  This announcement in Roman Catholic church bulletins and on Web sites has been greeted with enthusiasm by some and wariness by others. But mainly, it has gone over the heads of a vast generation of Roman Catholics who have no idea what it means: "Bishop Announces Plenary Indulgences."

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  A bit of history :

   An indulgence is a certificate that absolved individuals of the temporal penalties of the sins they had confessed. A buyer could purchase one, either for himself or for one of his deceased relatives in purgatory. The Dominican friar Johann Tetzel was enlisted to travel throughout Archbishop Albert of Mainz's episcopal territories promoting and selling indulgences for the rennovation of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Tetzel was very successful at it. He urged: "as soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs"

  As a priest concerned about the spiritual welfare of his parishioners, Luther saw this traffic in indulgences as an abuse that could mislead them into relying simply on the indulgences themselves to the neglect of  true repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus.

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  While genuine Christians may read this and be utterly disgusted seeing through the deception, some Roman Catholics that pass by Perilous Times may not believe that their beloved  "Mother Church" could ever decieve them. Here then is a short video clip that I pray may open your eyes :

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  Heb 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

  Please see also : Is  a Roman Catholic Christian an oxymoron

  Soli Deo Gloria

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