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I am an old-school Lutheran. One of Luther’s points in favor of sola scriptura was that popes and councils have contradicted each other. I have found that this has been the case in the Vatican II era.
By Post-Vatican II documents the Pope may be proven to be under Roman Catholic anathema. For the Second Council Of Constantinople, which is held to be infallible by the Roman Catholic Church, article XI states: “If anyone does not anathematize Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinaris, Nestorius, Eutyches and Origen, together with their impious, godless writings, and all the other heretics already condemned and anathematized by the holy catholic and apostolic Church, and by the aforementioned four Holy Synods and all those who have held and hold or who in their godlessness persist in holding to the end the same opinion as those heretics just mentioned; let him be anathema.” The rest of the anathemas (which are important to my argument) are at iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/history/council.2constan.txt
“Anyone” includes popes. “DOMINUS IESUS,” is signed, “The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II…” Although it gives a huge compilation of context doctrine, parts of the document are in contradiction with the apostolic faith. Even the Mormon heretics have the context doctrine of the Bible with the flagrant heresies of Joseph Smith. Mormons are only one out of many groups under Satan’s flag that prove that context doctrine means nothing if the text given alongside the context is heretical. The document states, "Furthermore, the salvific action of Jesus Christ, with and through his Spirit, extends beyond the visible boundaries of the Church to all humanity. Speaking of the paschal mystery, in which Christ even now associates the believer to himself in a living manner in the Spirit and gives him the hope of resurrection, the Council states: “All this holds true not only for Christians but also for all men of good will in whose hearts grace is active invisibly. For since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery”.
This clearly teaches that modern heritics are no longer necessarily under anathema. Cardinal Walter Kasper stated, “Jews do not need to convert to be saved, he says – they don’t need to become Christians if they follow their own conscience and live out what God has shown them.” The pope has, to my knowledge, not rebuked him for this statement, but instead allowed him to be on the Magisterium’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. This implies that the pope may think upon similar lines. Both Eunomius and Arius stated the Jesus was created. Do not non-Christian Jews and Muslims include him in the creation as well? Simply because Jews do not hold every teaching the same as Arius does not exclude them from being heretics.
Listen to Jesus, the Maker of apostles: “Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.” He does not mention any “paschal mystery” through which those who deny Jesus before men are saved. The Holy Spirit will not offer anything different, for “God is one.”
But the Pope is twisting the gospel into a different one, saying “the Holy Spirit offers to all {he includes every heretic in all} the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery.” This “way known to God” is definitely something apart from the normal process where one hears the Word of God and that Word of God works saving faith in the previous unbeliever. In saying that “The Way” is known to God, not men, it is set apart from “The Way” that the apostles taught as a revelation from God to men. There is one Gospel, the death and resurrection of Jesus to pay for sins. And surely the One Lord Jesus Christ can tell us how the salvation offered “by grace…through faith…not of works” to the world is rejected. John Paul II is twisting the true paschal mystery into one that it is not. For the grace of the gospel of God can only be received by faith in the One who was sent. And if it is not by faith, than it is by man’s works. “The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (from Genesis 8:21) Evil hearts only produce evil actions (see John 15). The Pope says, “all men of good will,” but God says all men’s wills are evil from youth. Because of this evil will, we all deserve nothing but punishment and cannot accept Jesus as Lord. We accept God’s grace only by the “one faith” Paul mentions. Without the “one faith,” the true “paschal mystery” is denied.
By Post-Vatican II documents the Pope may be proven to be under Roman Catholic anathema. For the Second Council Of Constantinople, which is held to be infallible by the Roman Catholic Church, article XI states: “If anyone does not anathematize Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinaris, Nestorius, Eutyches and Origen, together with their impious, godless writings, and all the other heretics already condemned and anathematized by the holy catholic and apostolic Church, and by the aforementioned four Holy Synods and all those who have held and hold or who in their godlessness persist in holding to the end the same opinion as those heretics just mentioned; let him be anathema.” The rest of the anathemas (which are important to my argument) are at iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/history/council.2constan.txt
“Anyone” includes popes. “DOMINUS IESUS,” is signed, “The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II…” Although it gives a huge compilation of context doctrine, parts of the document are in contradiction with the apostolic faith. Even the Mormon heretics have the context doctrine of the Bible with the flagrant heresies of Joseph Smith. Mormons are only one out of many groups under Satan’s flag that prove that context doctrine means nothing if the text given alongside the context is heretical. The document states, "Furthermore, the salvific action of Jesus Christ, with and through his Spirit, extends beyond the visible boundaries of the Church to all humanity. Speaking of the paschal mystery, in which Christ even now associates the believer to himself in a living manner in the Spirit and gives him the hope of resurrection, the Council states: “All this holds true not only for Christians but also for all men of good will in whose hearts grace is active invisibly. For since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery”.
This clearly teaches that modern heritics are no longer necessarily under anathema. Cardinal Walter Kasper stated, “Jews do not need to convert to be saved, he says – they don’t need to become Christians if they follow their own conscience and live out what God has shown them.” The pope has, to my knowledge, not rebuked him for this statement, but instead allowed him to be on the Magisterium’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. This implies that the pope may think upon similar lines. Both Eunomius and Arius stated the Jesus was created. Do not non-Christian Jews and Muslims include him in the creation as well? Simply because Jews do not hold every teaching the same as Arius does not exclude them from being heretics.
Listen to Jesus, the Maker of apostles: “Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.” He does not mention any “paschal mystery” through which those who deny Jesus before men are saved. The Holy Spirit will not offer anything different, for “God is one.”
But the Pope is twisting the gospel into a different one, saying “the Holy Spirit offers to all {he includes every heretic in all} the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery.” This “way known to God” is definitely something apart from the normal process where one hears the Word of God and that Word of God works saving faith in the previous unbeliever. In saying that “The Way” is known to God, not men, it is set apart from “The Way” that the apostles taught as a revelation from God to men. There is one Gospel, the death and resurrection of Jesus to pay for sins. And surely the One Lord Jesus Christ can tell us how the salvation offered “by grace…through faith…not of works” to the world is rejected. John Paul II is twisting the true paschal mystery into one that it is not. For the grace of the gospel of God can only be received by faith in the One who was sent. And if it is not by faith, than it is by man’s works. “The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (from Genesis 8:21) Evil hearts only produce evil actions (see John 15). The Pope says, “all men of good will,” but God says all men’s wills are evil from youth. Because of this evil will, we all deserve nothing but punishment and cannot accept Jesus as Lord. We accept God’s grace only by the “one faith” Paul mentions. Without the “one faith,” the true “paschal mystery” is denied.