Pope: Don't Take Bible Literally Benedict XVI reverts to medieval teaching By: Ron Fraser / TheTrumpet.com / February 2011

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6 Pope: Don t Take Bible Literally - thetrumpet.com 1 of 3 12/13/ :16 AM From the February 2011 Trumpet Print Edition» In his latest treatise, Benedict XVI reverts to medieval teaching. By Ron Fraser Can you trust the Bible? Is it, in fact, the inspired Word of God? The pope recently weighed in on these questions in an apostolic exhortation called Verbum Domini ( The Word of the Lord ), issued on November 11. As CNA/EWTN News reported it, this papal message was a lofty and impassioned plea for everyone in the church to rediscover the Bible. The truth of it is, this was more than an impassioned plea from this pope to his parishioners. It was a direct attack on all who believe the inerrancy of the literal Scriptures as inspired by God! Pope Benedict criticized fundamentalist or literalist interpretations and urged renewed appreciation for the symbolic and spiritual interpretation techniques used by the ancient fathers of the church (ibid., emphasis mine). An authentic interpretation of the Bible must always be in harmony with the faith of the Catholic Church, Benedict declared. We must look at this declaration in light of other recent endorsements of the claim that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true church. This pope has said more than once that all Christian denominations other than Roman Catholicism are illegitimate either defective or not true churches. Now he has reasserted the medieval stance that only the interpretation of Scripture by the Roman Catholic Church has authenticity. That is a blatant papal lie that the very Scriptures themselves oppose! How to Understand the Bible Your Bible clearly declares, first and foremost, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation (2 Peter 1:20). It further declares that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16). There is no instruction here to resort first to any symbolic and spiritual interpretation techniques used by the ancient fathers of the church! Those interpretation techniques as applied over the centuries have led to many contradictory

7 Pope: Don t Take Bible Literally - thetrumpet.com 2 of 3 12/13/ :16 AM interpretations of Scripture, even within Roman Catholicism. But Jesus Christ plainly said the scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35). The Bible does not contradict itself! It is not for the pope, it is not for any of his priests, it is not for man at all to interpret the Scriptures based on any particular religious ideology! Only one power can unlock the plain, straightforward meaning of Scripture. That is the power of the mind of God alone, exerting His influence on the mind of an individual by the power of His Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ Himself, the Word of God personified, declared that when the Holy Spirit comes into the mind of an individual, it reveals all things. He called it the Spirit of truth, [which] the world cannot receive, because it seeth [it] not, neither knoweth [it] (John 14:17). Christ called the Holy Spirit the Comforter (John 16:7). It is a revelatory Spirit, the Spirit of truth actually a portion of God s own supreme intellect embedded in the mind of a converted Christian. Christ declared that when it is given by the Father to a servant of God, it will guide you into all truth and [it] will shew you things to come (verse 13). CNA/EWTN News described The heart of Verbum Domini as comprising a long and often technical discussion of hermeneutics, or the proper method for interpreting the sacred texts. The reality is that Jesus Christ, the very Author of the Word of God, gave us the proper method for understanding the Bible. We read of the direct experience of His original disciples, from whom the original apostles were ordained and who in turn formed the very foundation of the one true Church. Of their experience with the resurrected Jesus Christ, they remembered, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? It is thus the living Jesus Christ, the true Head of His one true Church, who opens up the Word of God to us by the power of God s Holy Spirit! The Real Reason Men Interpret the Bible Yes, it takes dedicated study to grow in understanding the Bible (2 Timothy 2:15; Isaiah 28:10, 13). But, in reality, the Bible interprets itself! Why do men insist on trying to interpret the Bible? A quarter of a century ago, Herbert Armstrong gave the answer. In the Plain Truth magazine of November 1983, he wrote, The Scriptures are profitable for the purpose of reproving and correcting us. But we resent being reproved and corrected. How many people do you know who are even willing to be corrected where they are in error to be reproved for the wrong things they do? People do not like to be reproved and corrected. They love praise and flattery. But reproof and correction

8 Pope: Don t Take Bible Literally - thetrumpet.com 3 of 3 12/13/ :16 AM they surely hate. That s why it is so hard for so many people to understand the Bible and to agree on just what it says. The Bible is God s great spiritual mirror. It shows up every flaw in our thinking and reveals every spot on our characters. It pictures us as we really are as God sees us, not as we like to think we are or to have other men look upon us. That s the plain and simple truth. Hebrews 4:12 reads, For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Bible is a powerful weapon that cuts both ways, opening up and laying bare the inner man! That is not a comfortable process and thus, too often, men simply won t subject themselves to it. As Herbert Armstrong further stated, Too often men have applied some different meaning to the scriptures that reproved them. They have passed right over some scriptures that corrected and rebuked them. Instead they studied diligently to find some other scripture into which they could read a meaning that would justify their course of action. That is how men began, centuries ago, to interpret the Bible. And so God s Word has become perverted, twisted, wrested, distorted. And almost every false and counterfeit meaning imaginable is read into it instead of seeing the natural meaning the plain, simple meaning God intended. Today we have hundreds of interpretations of the Bible. But you never hear of hundreds of interpretations of a biology textbook. Why? Because biology textbooks do not rebuke and correct men. Instead of acknowledging the truth, repenting of the sin, having it legally justified by the blood of Christ, men seek to justify their own acts by perverting the sacred and holy Word of God. Melanie Phillips recently mused that the Vatican today, under this pope, may be taking a giant step backwards into a darker age an age when the Vatican dictated that the Roman Catholic Church alone was the sole authority for interpretation of the Bible! (Oct. 25, 2010). Could it be that this pope is in reality seeking to hide what inerrant Scripture reveals as to the true nature of the religious body he leads, its true beginnings, and its prophesied end? Hide the truth by insisting on the application of the interpretation techniques imposed by the ancient fathers of the church and thus interpreting, or rather wresting, the Scriptures to suit the whim and the will of the Vatican? (2 Peter 3:16). You need to allow the Bible to interpret itself on this burning question and all others. Request our free booklet Daniel Unsealed at Last! for insight into, and for the biblical answers to, this question. Copyright 2012 Philadelphia Church of God, All Rights Reserved.

9 PrintFriendly.com: Print web pages, create PDFs 1 of 5 12/13/ :30 AM 15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting Worse As We Head Into 2013 December 13, 2012 By Michael, on December 10th, 2012 How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving" when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated? According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than 600,000 in a single month to an all-time record high of 47.7 million. Youth unemployment in the U.S. is at a post-world War II high and large companies have announced the elimination of more than 100,000 jobs since Barack Obama won the election. Consumer debt just hit a new record high and the federal government is accumulating debt at a much faster pace than it was at this time last year. So where is the evidence that the economy is getting better? The mainstream media says that the decline of the unemployment rate to "7.7 percent" is evidence that things are improving, but I showed how fraudulent that number is. The percentage of working age Americans with a job today is exactly where it was back in September 2009 in the midst of the last major economic crisis. The mainstream media is desperate for any shred of evidence that it can use to make people feel good and show that the Obama administration has our economy on the right track, and so they jump on any number that even looks remotely promising and they ignore mountains of evidence to the contrary. They don't seem to care that poverty is absolutely exploding and that the number of Americans on food stamps has risen by nearly 50 percent while Obama has been in the White House. They don't seem to care that the U.S. share of global GDP has fallen from in 2001 to in They don't seem to care that more good paying jobs are being shipped overseas with each passing day. They don't seem to care that formerly great U.S. cities that were once the envy of the entire globe are now crime-infested hellholes. All they seem to care about is putting out news that makes people feel warm and fuzzy and making sure that Obama looks good. Unfortunately, the truth is that the U.S. economy is steadily getting worse, and 2013 is not looking very promising at all right now. Hopefully at some point the mainstream media will take a break from coverage of the royal pregnancy and the latest celebrity scandals to

10 PrintFriendly.com: Print web pages, create PDFs 2 of 5 12/13/ :30 AM report on the real problems that we are facing right now. The following are 15 signs that the economy is rapidly getting worse as we head into #1 According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps has risen to a new all-time record of. That is a huge increase of more than 600,000 over the previous reading of million. After about a year of slow growth, it looks like the number of Americans on food stamps is starting to skyrocket once again. Back in the 1970s, was on food stamps. Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps. #2 Youth unemployment in the United States is now at the highest level that we have seen. #3 According to Gallup, unemployment in the United States shot up during the month of November. #4 It looks like the unemployment numbers are likely to get even worse. Since the election, dozens of large companies have announced. Overall, large companies have announced the elimination of more than 100,000 jobs since November 6th. #5 According to the Wall Street Journal, of the 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders, plan to reduce capital expenditures over the coming months. #6 Small business owners all over America that Obamacare is going to force them to start replacing full-time workers with part-time workers during #7 One recent survey discovered that of all Americans have $500 or less in savings. #8 A different recent survey found that of all Americans do not have a single penny saved for emergencies. #9 62 percent of middle class Americans say that they have had to over the past year. #10 Many Americans are trying to make ends meet for their families by going into more debt. Consumer borrowing hit in October. It looks like the American people have not learned from their past mistakes and have decided to roll up consumer debt at a faster pace than ever before.

11 PrintFriendly.com: Print web pages, create PDFs 3 of 5 12/13/ :30 AM #11 Median household income in America has fallen for. Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span. #12 Wall Street bankers are expecting " " since Not a lot of people are going to shed tears over this one, but this is a sign that there is trouble in the financial world. #13 Food banks all over America are reporting that more needy families are showing up to get food. #14 As I wrote about, the federal government has run a deficit of during the first two months of fiscal That figure is $57 billion higher than it was during the same period last year. Government debt continues to soar wildly out of control and at some point all of that debt is absolutely going to crush us. #15 I have written previously about how the once great city of Detroit has become. Well, now the state of Michigan is laying the groundwork for a " " of Detroit. Sadly, many other large U.S. cities will likely follow suit over the next couple of years. We should truly mourn for what is happening to Detroit. At one time, it was one of the most beautiful cities on earth. But now it is on the cutting edge of America's economic decline. You can see some amazing before and after pictures of an abandoned Detroit school. Sadly, what is happening to Detroit will soon be happening to the rest of the country. A similar thing is happening over in Europe. Greece is on the cutting edge of Europe's economic decline, and people over there are becoming very desperate. The following is an excerpt from a about how the Greek middle class is turning to crime as the depression in that nation gets even worse... But it is not just Greece that is grappling with these kinds of issues. Now even countries

12 PrintFriendly.com: Print web pages, create PDFs 4 of 5 12/13/ :30 AM that had been thought to be "stable" are experiencing significant problems. For example, a massive crime wave has broken out. The crime wave in France is being blamed on "austerity", but the government of France still spends far more than it brings in. So how bad would things get in France if the French government actually did go to a balanced budget? And how bad would things get in the United States if the federal government was not stealing more than 100 million dollars an hour from our children and our grandchildren? Even in the midst of our debt-fueled prosperity we are starting to see glimpses of how desperate people will become when our country is someday forced to live within its means. For example, the following is from a report about an incident that happened in the other day... Our entire economy is a giant mirage. Our prosperity has been purchased by stealing from the future. A few people have been warning that we have completely destroyed our future in the process, but both major political parties just continue to do it and the mainstream media just continues to cheer them on. At some point this con game will end and this economic mirage will disappear. When that happens, millions of people all over this country are going to become very angry and very desperate. I hope that you have a plan for what you will do when that happens.

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14 Terminator Eyes: Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps RT 1 of 2 12/13/ :31 AM News Terminator Eyes: Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps Published: 9 December, 2012, 11:21 Edited: 9 December, 2012, 11:21 Imagine texting while driving, or placing a call while showering, without holding your phone in your hands. It's not sci-fi any more a new technology allows information like text messages and driving directions to be projected onto a contact lens. The hardware behind this invention is a spherical curved LCD display that can fit into a contact lens, developed by Ghent University's Centre of Microsystems Technology in Belgium. "This is not science fiction," chief researcher for the project Jelle De Smet told the Telegraph. "This will never replace the cinema screen for films. But for specific applications it may be interesting to show images such as road directions or projecting text messages from our smart phones straight to our eye. These lenses may hit the market within the next few years. In an upgrade from previous models, a new LCD display allows the entire curved surface of the lens to be used. Earlier versions were based on LEDs, where the display resolution would be limited to only a small number of pixels. The University of Washington has also been developing new generation of contact lenses that would receive s and would be able to project information from the Internet, much like in the movie 'Terminator.' Other uses of the lens include the concept of adaptable sunglasses the contact lenses would darken on exposure to light. The lenses could also be used in the fields of medicine and cosmetics. These advances mark the push for a much wider development of the technology, with the aim of creating a fully pixelated contact lens display as detailed as a television screen. Tech giants such as Google and Apple have been working to develop similar technology. This past year, Google

15 Terminator Eyes: Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps RT 2 of 2 12/13/ :31 AM introduced Project Glass frames for eyeglasses that project a small computer display into a person s field of vision. Apple has reportedly patented similar innovations. AFP Photo / Torsten Blackwood Autonomous Nonprofit Organization TV-Novosti, All rights reserved.

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