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Who is Cardinal Newman? Of course he is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. But who is he really? What did he really stand for? Did he contend for the original faith like the Apostle Jude said Christians were supposed to do?
Pope Leo XIV recently decided to make Cardinal Newman a ‘Doctor of the Church’. So, just what is a ‘Doctor of the Church’? Well, a ‘Doctor of the Church’ is someone whose teachings have profoundly shaped the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.
So what did Cardinal Newman teach that so profoundly shaped the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church? One thing he wrote about was to condemn the Biblical view of the Godhead. He also promoted analogy over scripture for doctrine.
Cardinal Newman also wrote that accepting pagan rites and rituals into the Roman Catholic faith was a good method of satisfying people who liked paganism. He justified changes to the Roman Catholic faith in order to increase the number of heathen into the church. He further wrote that such demonic rituals became sanctified by their adoption into the Roman Catholic faith.
But is that what God says? Does God, anywhere in the Bible, endorse the acceptance of pagan groves and rituals?
What did the Apostle Paul writer about trying to drink the cup of God and demons? Are Christians supposed to compromise with paganism or be separate from unbelievers according to Paul's writings?
Watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of God’s truth from the pages of the Bible on the ‘profound impact Cardinal Newman’s teachings’ had on the Roman Catholic Church.
Read the full article to this video titled 'Cardinal Newman to be a ‘doctor’ of the Church of Rome was an advocate of pagan compromise’ at URL
https://www.cogwriter.com/news/religious-news/cardinal-newman-now-a-doctor-of-the-church-of-rome-and-long-an-advocate-of-pagan-compromise/
“Bringing you news and analysis of world events in light of Bible prophecy.”
This is a mandate of the Continuing Church of God.
Who is Cardinal Newman? Of course he is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. But who is he really? What did he really stand for? Did he contend for the original faith like the Apostle Jude said Christians were supposed to do?
Pope Leo XIV recently decided to make Cardinal Newman a ‘Doctor of the Church’. So, just what is a ‘Doctor of the Church’? Well, a ‘Doctor of the Church’ is someone whose teachings have profoundly shaped the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.
So what did Cardinal Newman teach that so profoundly shaped the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church? One thing he wrote about was to condemn the Biblical view of the Godhead. He also promoted analogy over scripture for doctrine.
Cardinal Newman also wrote that accepting pagan rites and rituals into the Roman Catholic faith was a good method of satisfying people who liked paganism. He justified changes to the Roman Catholic faith in order to increase the number of heathen into the church. He further wrote that such demonic rituals became sanctified by their adoption into the Roman Catholic faith.
But is that what God says? Does God, anywhere in the Bible, endorse the acceptance of pagan groves and rituals?
What did the Apostle Paul writer about trying to drink the cup of God and demons? Are Christians supposed to compromise with paganism or be separate from unbelievers according to Paul's writings?
Watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of God’s truth from the pages of the Bible on the ‘profound impact Cardinal Newman’s teachings’ had on the Roman Catholic Church.
Read the full article to this video titled 'Cardinal Newman to be a ‘doctor’ of the Church of Rome was an advocate of pagan compromise’ at URL
https://www.cogwriter.com/news/religious-news/cardinal-newman-now-a-doctor-of-the-church-of-rome-and-long-an-advocate-of-pagan-compromise/
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00:00Greetings, friends. This is Steve Dupuy for the Bible News Prophecy Program with Dr. Bob Thiel,
00:09bringing you news and analysis of world events in light of Bible prophecy. Dr. Thiel, Pope Leo XIV
00:16has recently decided to declare the 19th century Cardinal John Henry Newman a doctor of the church.
00:23What does that mean? Well, this is a title reserved for Roman Catholic saints whose teachings,
00:29quote, have profoundly shaped Catholic doctrine. Anyway, this puts Newman amongst a select group
00:34of 38 doctrines of that church. It supposedly signifies a life of personal holiness and
00:40enduring theological brilliance. Anyway, Newman was an Anglican Protestant priest who converted
00:47to Catholicism. Anyway, Catholic.com reported that this was done. It says, why will Newman be named
00:56the doctor of the church? Simply put, because of his incredible contribution to the field of
01:01theology, Newman pioneered what would become official Catholic teaching at Vatican II, which is a lot of
01:07traditional Catholics, by the way, don't like because they see it as a compromise. Anyway, Newman
01:12didn't prove, for example, the Immaculate Conception using the Bible alone. Instead, he points us to
01:18Scripture, but he loved to use images from nature. That's how he came up justifying that. Anyway,
01:26Catholic.com reports, Newman revealed the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scripture isn't biblical.
01:34Anyway, before going further, let me note that Newman actually incorrectly realized that Protestants
01:40don't really practice Sola Scriptura. However, instead of putting or pursuing the original faith,
01:46Newman decided to accept compromise with paganism. Anyway, Catholic.com said the crown jewel of Newman's
01:53theological career was his great work, the development of Christian doctrine. And it was writing this book
01:59that made him Catholic. Well, anyway, as I said, he was an Anglican priest, became a Roman Catholic priest,
02:05then a bishop in the 19th century. He was later raised in rank to cardinal, which is the highest thing you can be
02:12other than the Pope. An announcement of being a doctor of the Church would seem to be a further
02:18signal to others outside the direct fold of the Vatican. They, too, can be honored that they support
02:22the Church of Rome's ecumenical interfaith agendas. Anyway, Newman wrote on many matters.
02:30If you know, what other matters did Cardinal Newman write about?
02:34Various things from a historical perspective. One was on the nature of the Godhead.
02:39He wrote against Lucian of Antioch, who was born in the 3rd century. He was martyred in the 4th century,
02:45and he was a Sabbath keeper. So Newman wrote, Lucian schismatized. He held heretical tenets
02:53of a diametrically opposed nature that were called semi-Aryan. And he also, in Antioch,
03:01there were various corruptions, that of Judaism. So in other words, he held to the original faith.
03:06As far as being semi-Aryan, by the way, until the latter half of the 4th century, even most
03:12Greco-Roman Catholics held a semi-Aryan binatarian view of the Godhead. The Trinity itself was not
03:18formalized until the Council of Constantinople, called by Emperor Theodosius in 381. And that was
03:25basically a compromise that was influenced by pagan Mithraism. Now, Lucian himself ran a school
03:33promoting the literal understanding of the Bible. Now, that was opposed to the allegorical
03:38prose used in Alexandria, Egypt, that the Church of Rome adopted and supported. Anyway, by pushing
03:44analogy and allegory over scripture, Cardinal Newman and the Church of Rome went away from the original
03:50Bible and the original Christian faith. We actually have a free e-book available at ccug.org called
03:57Belize the Original Catholic Church that documents that for anybody who really wants to know the truth.
04:01So, are you saying that Cardinal Newman is being elevated to doctor for condemning the biblical view
04:10of the Godhead? Well, that was only one part of it. But the problem is, he didn't do what even a
04:16Roman Catholic translation of the Bible of Jude verse 3 says, which is, contend for the faith once
04:23delivered to the saints. Instead of doing that, he was a compromiser. And he also wrote about the
04:33Antichrist was not going to be a Trinitarian. Okay? But you should think about this. The two witnesses
04:41that are going to rise up at the time of the Antichrist are going to hold a semi-Arian view of the
04:47Godhead. So, they won't be Trinitarian. So, I believe Newman was pointing to the fact that before Jesus returns,
04:56they're going to say true Christians are the Antichrist or supporting the Antichrist. And Cardinal Newman's
05:01writings highlight that.
05:04What else, if anything, did Cardinal Newman write about the Antichrist?
05:08Well, he mentioned that various Christian-associated groups started to consider
05:15that the Pope was and or would be the Antichrist. And he talked about these things that started to
05:23pop up in the 4th to 7th century. And he said this was a gradual conclusion, but it came from people
05:30like the Paulitians who ridiculed the powers of the priesthood, the efficacy of their sacraments,
05:38and the type of baptism they did. He also condemned a group called the Albigenses. And it said that
05:46the Albigenses says that Satan was basically the god of this world and their church. And that they
05:54considered the Church of Rome the devil's basilica and the synagogue of Satan.
05:58And using the language of the Apocalypse, the book of Revelation, the mother of fornications.
06:04So what Newman basically seemed to be teaching was that the 4th and 7th century, a couple of groups
06:10began to say, wait a sec, Pontifix Maximus was an Antichrist. And one who calls himself Pontifix
06:17Maximus may very well be the final Antichrist.
06:21Why not write about that before the 4th century?
06:25For a couple of reasons. One, because it wasn't until the 4th century that the bishops of Rome
06:31were elevated by the Roman emperors, starting with Emperor Constantine. And then later, Emperor
06:37Theodosius stated that, or started to use the term Pontifix Maximus for a bishop of Rome named
06:44Damasus, who reigned until 384. Anyway, Pontifix Maximus was a pagan title. It literally meant the
06:52greatest bridge builder between the mortals and the gods.
06:56And so if that was titled being used, that's probably why people started to wonder if they
07:01were the Antichrist. Look, the Church of Rome supported Emperor Constantine, and then later,
07:06Emperor Theodosius' persecution of true Christians.
07:09And that started in the 4th century, that way. Overall, it looks like Newman recognized that some
07:16people who were associated with the Church of God realized the title Pontifix Maximus was the type
07:21of title the final Antichrist would use. Now, some, not all, associated with the Poletians and
07:27Albigenses were in the Church of God. And we document that in this free e-book I mentioned before.
07:33Now, although the Bible says there's many Antichrists, it also indicates there'll be one who'll be the
07:39Antichrist. They hold a different position in the Bible. And now, it wasn't just those groups that were
07:47mentioned. There was an Inquisitor from the Spanish Inquisition named Bernard. He's a Roman Catholic.
07:53In the 14th century, he reported about people who said, quote, they claimed that there's a double
07:58Antichrist, one spiritual or mystical, and the other the real greater Antichrist.
08:04As far as the spiritual or mystical Antichrist, or later one, that's consistent with what the
08:09Apostle John wrote in 1 John 2.18. The spiritual Antichrist would be perhaps all false Christian
08:15leaders. Now, this isn't just limited, by the way, to Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders. There are some
08:20who claim to be in the Church of God who are in that category as well. While the real Antichrist is the
08:26final false prophet leader. Now, Newman also wrote about the fact that various Roman Catholics said
08:37it would be the Roman Empire that was going to rise in the last days to have 10 parts. And that was
08:42consistent, by the way, what we read in the Book of Revelation. And the enemy is going to come on
08:48suddenly. And his writings basically support the idea correctly that there'll be a resurrected Roman
08:55Empire. But he has it, at first it's going to be fine, then it's going to change. But I believe this
09:01is a prophecy about what's going to happen to the European Union when it changes in the future.
09:06And it seems to be consistent with prophecies such as Isaiah 10, where a power that doesn't mean to
09:12become militaristic is going to become so. This is somewhat confusing for me. Tell me,
09:18what are Cardinal Newman's thoughts concerning the relationship between the Pope and the Antichrist?
09:25Yeah. Newman actually wrote Antichrist must have some similarity to the Pope. And that's correct.
09:32Okay. It's all in my view, the final Antichrist will be a Pope, a type of anti-Pope Pope,
09:39who's going to pretend he believes in Roman Catholicism and essentially allow it to be
09:44betrayed as we read about in Revelation 17, verses 16 to 18. And it's also consistent with views
09:52from Cardinal Newman. And he actually quoted other Roman Catholics, like their Saint Bernard,
09:58who identified the beast of the apocalypse with the Pope. And he also mentions an abbot that talks
10:06about the Antichrist will become a Pope. Anyway, while his anti-Pope statement is probably
10:13correct, his other writings on the Antichrist and the Godhead basically seem to be setting up for
10:18the condemnation of the two witnesses and the Church of God in the end time.
10:24What are other writings that show that Cardinal Newman was a compromiser?
10:29Well, he wrote that we're told that Constantine, in order to recommend the new religion,
10:37meaning Constantine Christianity, that's what I call it, to the heathen, they have to have the
10:42outward ornaments of the paganism. Use of temples for various saints, branches of trees, incense, lamps,
10:50candles, holy water, seasons of calendars, sacrodotal vestments, the tonsure, turning to the east,
11:01and these things, are all of pagan origin and are sanctified by their adoption into the Church.
11:08That's what Newman wrote. And that's simply wrong. These messages of paganism were not part
11:14of the original Catholic faith, nor are they accepted by the Church of God today. They are pagan,
11:19and in time they became entrenched traditions for the Greco-Romans. This is a compromise that
11:25Cardinal John Newman embraced.
11:28So, Cardinal Newman endorses and supports pagan religious rights?
11:33Oh yeah! And that's not the only stuff he wrote. He wrote the pagan Saturnalia and Brumalia,
11:39were essentially too deeply entrenched in popular customs to be set aside by so-called Christian
11:44influence. The recognition of Sunday, the day of Phoebus and Mithra, as well as the Lord's Day, by the
11:50Emperor Constantine's legal holiday, along with the influence of others, may have led
11:57Christians in the fourth century to feel the appropriateness of making the birthday of the Son of
12:02God to coincide with that of the physical son. Okay, the pagan festival right at Mary making was so
12:10popular, Christians were glad for an excuse to keep its celebration.
12:14But, and I reported this once in a sermon, Newman writes, Christians of Mesopotamia accused their
12:23Western brethren of idolatry and sun worship for adopting as Christian this pagan festival.
12:30Yet the festival gained acceptance. And they're talking about Christmas there, by the way.
12:34So he embraced compromise and paganism.
12:38Furthermore, he wrote, confiding then the power of Christianity to resist the infection of evil.
12:47The rulers of the church from early times were prepared to the occasion arise to adopt,
12:53imitate, or sanctify the existing rights and customs of the population, as well as the philosophy of
12:58the educated class. So in other words, he said, we're not going to stand against evil,
13:02but we're going to just do it by adopting stuff. And he said that St. Gregory Thamogurtis was the
13:07first one to do this. This is a great thing to do. So he basically explained that pagan items were
13:14evangelical tour tool, that they wanted to do the philosophy of the educated class.
13:20Okay, these are pagan Greeks he's talking about. Okay. And by the way, he mentioned Gregory Thamogurtis.
13:27He used demonic things. He was a compromiser. A lot of his doctrines ended up being adopted by the
13:36that church. He compromised and changed from the original Catholic faith.
13:41Surely the Bible must have something to say about that.
13:45Yeah. James 4 verse 4.
13:47Adulterers, don't you know that the friendship of the world is to be enemy of God?
13:51Well, whoever wants to be a friend in this world becomes an enemy of God.
13:541 Corinthians 10, 20. But the things that the heathen sacrifice is sacrifice to devils, not to God.
14:00You can't drink the chalice of the Lord and chalice of devils. Okay. And then in 2 Corinthians 6,
14:08chapters starting verse 14, the Bible says, don't become unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
14:15Okay. Become separate. You know, Christians are not supposed to compromise with paganism,
14:21but Cardinal Newman decided otherwise.
14:24Obviously, he's not a biblical saint.
14:27The reality is, I believe his elevation by the Vatican represents an ecumenical move.
14:33Many ecumenical moves are being made by the Vatican, and they ultimately result in more persecution,
14:39according to Revelation 13.
14:41Anyway, don't be a compromiser with the world.
14:44Don't be a compromiser with the Word of God like Cardinal Newman was.
14:48Thank you, Dr. Thiel. For more interviews with Dr. Thiel, in addition to written, as well as audio
14:54articles, visit our website at BibleNewsProphecy.net. This is Steve Dupuis for the Bible News Prophecy Program.