Déjà Vu ~ Times II: Papal Bull in a China Shop?

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Papal Bull in a China Shop?

(“From Conflict to Communion”?*)

Nigh five hundred years ago (1517 October 31), Martin Luther posted his 95 theses¹ on the cathedral door in Wittenberg, Germany. How many of us know that in recent years, an ecumenical movement has (purportedly) reduced these 95 points of conflict to a single point of reconciliation?!²

Walter Veith Responds to Tony Palmer's Video [“The Miracle of Unity Has Begun”] (Time~1:12:40) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhGHQH7GRc&t=2s

Do we think this is not going to impact every soul on earth, religious or not? Do we not recognize that:

▪ history can repeat itself?
▪ prophecy is unfolding?
▪ deception is a prime factor of the last days?³
▪ an infallible church combined with state power⁴ is (and was) a literal Papal Bull in a china shop of fragile liberties?⁵
▪ we may be on the brink of a devastating déjà vu?

Are we ready to begin paying attention? Are we willing to listen to warning voices wherever they sound?⁶

A Wake Up Call to all Protestants -1- Walter Veith (Time 1:47:52) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX4Go8a-eY0

A Wake Up Call to all Protestants -2- Walter Veith (Time 1:32:42) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Igo4EuwUM
A Wake Up Call to all Protestants -3- Walter Veith (Time:1:58:44) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHTMk4mnsRs
A Wake Up Call to all Protestants -4- Walter Veith (Time 1:18:09) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AkhJlTAOhU
A Wake Up Call to all Protestants -5- Walter Veith (Time 1:14:48) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL4jStyFSu8

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.⁷

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* “From Conflict to Communion”:
▪ http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/lutheran-fed-docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_2013_dal-conflitto-alla-comunione_en.html
▪ http://www.catholicregister.org/features/featureseries/item/23462-revisiting-the-reformation-bridging-500-years-of-division
▪ https://www.lutheranworld.org/content/resource-conflict-communion-basis-lutheran-catholic-commemoration-reformation-2017

1. http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/creeds-confessions/luther-95-theses.html ; http://www.crivoice.org/creed95theses.html
2. For additional detail see: “Making ROME Great Again?” at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2017/01/making-rome-great-again.html
3. New Testament | Matthew 24:24 ~ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
4. See “Making ROME Great Again?” at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2017/01/making-rome-great-again.html
5. Papal supremacy, etc.:
▪ http://catholicism.org/unam-sanctam.html [2005];
▪ https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/unam-sanctam ;
▪ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unam_sanctam ;
▪ https://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/LATERAN5.HTM
Affirmed at the Fifth Lateran Council [1512-1517]:
“Moreover, since subjection to the Roman pontiff is necessary for salvation for all Christ's faithful, as we are taught by the testimony of both sacred scripture and the holy fathers, and as is declared by the constitution of pope Boniface VIII of happy memory, also our predecessor, which begins Unam sanctam [1302], we therefore, with the approval of the present sacred council, for the salvation of the souls of the same faithful, for the supreme authority of the Roman pontiff and of this holy see, and for the unity and power of the church, his spouse, renew and give our approval to that constitution, but without prejudice to the declaration of pope Clement V of holy memory, which begins Meruit.” (Being the last sentence of paragraph 6 under the sub head [On the abrogation of the Pragmatic Sanction] at https://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/LATERAN5.HTM
6. “We believe in all truth, no matter to what subject it may refer. No sect or religious denomination in the world possesses a single principle of truth that we do not accept or that we will reject. We are willing to receive all truth, from whatever source it may come; for truth will stand, truth will endure.” (Joseph F. Smith, Conference Reports ~ April, 1909, p. 7.)
7. Attr. to George Santayana. Variation: “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”

Other Veith exposés worth considering:
▪ The Herodian Mind - Part 1 / Clash of Minds - Walter Veith (#267) (Time 1:39:14) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AO0idw7ALU
▪ The Herodian Mind - Part 2 / Clash of Minds - Walter Veith (#268) (Time 1:07:21) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuQlhLbwnHE

Revolving Accounts

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us." (Old Testament Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)

"Dwell in the past and you'll lose an eye. Forget the past and you'll lose both eyes." (Old Russian Proverb)

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My World / TransWorld View

▪ Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; (Doctrine and Covenants Section 93:24)
▪ If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed. (J. Reuben Clark)

▪ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:21)

▪ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.(New Testament Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; 3 Nephi 13:24)
▪ See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.(New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:15)
▪ For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored; ... (Book of Mormon Alma 41:15)
▪ Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. (Book of Mormon Mosiah 4:9, emphasis added)
▪ ... the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (New Testament 1 Corinthians 1:25)
▪ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Old Testament Isaiah 55:8 - 9)
▪ ... the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is just and true. (Book of Mormon Alma 29:8)
▪ The Bible is true, as far as it is translated correctly. Some things are to be understood literally; others metaphorically or symbolically.
▪ God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat; a Liberal nor a Conservative, just as Christ was neither a Pharisee or Sadducee. [For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.(Doctrine and Covenants Section 3:2)]
▪ Life is an escalating series of tests.
▪ “...we will be asked again and again to release the parts of our lives that mean the most to us.” (Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts, p. 76; also preview lives of the prophets and saints.)