January 21, 2008

Was Adrian Rogers Leading Bellevue Baptist Back To Catholicism?

SECOND EDITION: CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

PART ONE: THE CELEBRATION THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO: THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH

CHAPTER ONE: THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."

1377 The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ.

Does all this sound like pre-conversion enablement that Adrian Rogers preached. Like a Catholic priest He would pronounce a consecration and invite sinners in a state of spiritual death and under the power of sin to "come to Jesus" and the unbeliever experiences a transubstantiation enabling them to be awakened sufficiently to exercise free choice. Instead of the elements changed into the body of Christ the believer is changed back into the body of Adam sufficiently that he too can exercise free choice.

The Catholics recrucify Christ and Adrian Rogers insulted God's sovereignty in election and insults the Spirit of Grace.

Of coarse, the reformation led us away from all that influence. We believe in orthodox Christianity in which the unbeliever is truly in a state of spiritual death, unable to respond to God. He is without power or desire to respond.

Rather are we not creeping away from orthodoxy and returning to Catholicism? Don't we see the same type of things around us that caused the reformers to rise up in protest?

2 comments:

Steven said...

Catholicism was around a long time before anything you espouse. Prove me wrong.

Steven said...

Catholicism was around a long time before anything you espouse. Prove me wrong.