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THE PADRÉ IS A PEDOPHILE! By Steve Van Nattan
What is the standard of judgment of any religion or heresy? Answer: The Word of God, King James Version 1611
Now, what shall we say about the Catholic Church as it has protected and covered up the many cases of sexual abuse of children who were molested by priests? This is a great evil, but it is not the standard by which the Roman Catholic Church rises or falls. We must judge the Catholic Church by its teachings, doctrines, and creed. Here are the foundational issues which determine if the Catholic Church is the one Jesus Christ planted at Pentecost some 1970 years ago.
These are the critical matters and offenses of the Roman Catholic Church. How the Pope and his priests live-- how they conduct their personal lives-- is not the issue. You disagree I suspect. Well, let me ask you a few questions:
So, why do so many Fundamental Baptists attack the pedophile issue in the Catholic Church? Why do we hear so much about the big cash flow of Benny Hinn? Why do we mock at the sodomite hugging of the Liberals?
The first line of defense and soul winning is the Word of God. But, do you know what texts of the Bible the Catholic priest and follower will use to defend their heresies? Do you know how to catch a Jehovah's Witness every time? Could you corner an SDA with the texts that they avoid? Do you know where to go in the Word to find the most powerful ammunition to, in love, convince the Catholic follower that he has been lied to? I hear all the time that we do not need to know what the heretics teach. Paul said that, "we are not ignorant of his devices." Well, most of the Fundamental Baptist pastors I meet are grossly ignorant of Satan's devices in the Catholic Church and most of the other cults. The same applies to their knowledge of the devices of the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists (this one is the worst), Jesus Only Pentecostals, Branhamites, Buddhists, Hindus, Greek Orthodox, Coptics, Muslims, Brownsville, Willow Creek Asso, and many others. One area where many Fundamental Baptists are ignorant is that of Freemasonry. These preachers are against it, will not allow it in their leaders, but they don't know what the Lodge believes. They don't know how to really help a Mason to face reality without making him hopping man instantly. They don't know how ignorant and deceived a Mason really is. They especially don't know the heart of a Shriner. And, Jesus died to save these people. Why do seemingly sincere Bible believers, pastors that is, not do their homework. Is it because they really think they do not need to know the tricks of Satan and the adversary? No-- it is because these slow bellies are too lazy to do their homework. This is why so many of these men make fools of themselves when dealing with the cults and religious leaders. This is why not one in a thousand pastors has a Catholic priest friend whom he is befriending for the Gospel's sake. This is why the average Fundamental Baptist will not go near a mosque or a Mullah to make a friend for the sake of Jesus Christ and winning souls. And, this is why you never hear of a Fundamental Baptist pastor getting to know a Liberal unsaved pastor as a candidate for salvation. Do not give me this line that they don't want to be your friend. That is a lie. There are thousands of miserable Catholic priests who would like to have a friend who actually believed something and liked to talk about Jesus Christ. Old Mother Church does not encourage zeal in her priests except to keep the cash flowing, the mission open, and the numbers up. There ARE priests out there who are fed up like Martin Luther was. Who "reaches" them? The Neo-evangelicals-- the washed out Bible Church men with an NIV, that's who. So, some of you lazy bums will keep poking jibes at the Catholic pedophiles and taking note of the latest court case against some vile priest. And, down the street will be a Catholic priest, like Martin Luther, who has no friends, is worked to death by his bishop, and who is very lonely in his soul. You will be about as useful to him as tits on a boar hog. Well, preacher, I suspect your real problem is that you are into pornography, or you are into taking offerings, or you are into Big Macs and a big belly, and you really don't give diddly. You are not even sure you are born again anymore because of the load of sin and guilt you carry about. Revival? I hear preachers talk about it. They say it may not be world or nation wide, but revival can happen to individuals. That is true. How about YOU? Will you confess your sin and get back to work for Jesus? Or, are you just a lazy slob? You have not read a book for information in years. You will not do a lick of research that someone else did not do for you. You have not seen the inside of a university library in your life. Worse yet, you no longer read your Bible for you own soul's edification, and you never study more than 30 minutes for a sermon. I can tell-- read a text, and blabber, hack, and cliché your way through 45 minutes of alleged preaching and a knuckle busting altar call. Those people coming down front to pray make you think you did something right. Not so, preacher. They are just going through the motions, just like you are. They change, Monday through Friday, about as much as you do. Zip. Zero. Nil. So, blast away at the folly and foolery of Benny Hinn, and especially at the latest Catholic pedophile. That will make you look like a real expert on Catholicism to your dumbed down followers. But, you and I know you are a diddle head. You need to repent and get to work-- earn you keep. 2 Timothy 2:1-5 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. Ephesians 6:11-14 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. Nehemiah 2:12-16 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned. And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work. Nehemiah 6:10-12 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. Nehemiah knew the ways of Tobiah and Sanballat. He knew what kind of religion they promoted. Do you? It is still with us in Israel today. What is it? Nehemiah 6:1-2 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. How did Nehemiah know they were up to mischief. There was nothing in the Law of Moses about Sanballat. Well, it was a good thing Nehemiah had knowledge of the wicked enough to avoid their traps. I see men walking right into traps today set for them by Fundamental Baptist schools and associations. They grab their grip and head for every conference and pastor's fellowship-- they dream of one day being president of some club of back slappers. All along, they are selling their soul to Jack Hyles, Pensacola Christian Collage, Clarance Sexton, Bob Jones, the ghost of John R. Rice, Peter Ruckman, Etc, Etc. Also, because they are not savvy like Nehemiah, knowing the politics of the religious quacks and the Satanic devices of the heathen, they are no use to the few who are ready to be delivered from these evils. They no longer know how to make a difference: Jude 1:20-23 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. May I suggest that you start praying that the Holy Ghost will give you an opening and utterance whereby you may snatch some sorry weary Catholic priest from the flames of the Vatican's terror? How about calling some Pentecostal preacher out of the frenzy and chaos of Charismania? Do you even care anymore? Matthew 9:36-38 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Do you have compassion on any of these whipped followers of the cults and heretical confusion? When is the last time you really, in love, tried to help a preacher leave the NIV and take up the King James Bible? Or, do you just mock them? That Catholic priest down the street-- would you rather he keep going through the motions of Catholic folly so that you can use him as a sermon illustration, or would you like to win him to Jesus Christ and take him to heaven with you? Hmmmmmmmm LETTER FROM A READER The following letter was delightful to read. A thinking Catholic is refreshing, and, though they want me to be more loving to Catholics, I appreciate a letter like this. By the way, I am not above criticism, so I did answer the letter in the hope that my intentions could be made understood. I DO love Catholics. Few Fundamental Baptists have had the number of Catholic priest friends that I have. I have seen a priest nearly worked to death, literally. Why? He was the only one in his city who worked at being a priest. He had 10 catechism classes AND 12 Bible studies going on all the time. He preached, not the ten minute homily, but 45 minutes sermons. This was partly in response to my suggestion to him that preaching the Word would drive superstition out of his people. They were well to do Hispanic people who loved him intensely, and he convinced them to stop kneeling to images the first thing when they came into the sanctuary. He visited their homes, and all teen age members knew he would ask them what he preached on Sunday last, AND he would demand they tell him what it meant to them and their life. Could he be a Luther who did not come our of the Whore? Certainly. He has retired, weary and whipped, while the lushes in the city drink themselves crosseyed every day. The bishop over him loved him, but he also worked him way too hard in order to get some order in the diacese. I DO care about these men. They are not pedophiles and drunks. The man above kept his mother in his apartment with him, though she had other children. I was told by a member of that church that he did this so the people would know he was living godly. So, read the reader's letter and my response. Maybe this will help some other Catholic reader understand that these issues are very serious. Many Catholics are tired of the superstition, and they have left off praying to Mary, they have put all their faith in Jesus Christ, BUT they need to "come out of her my people." The Letter
My Response to the letter
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