Words of God in Today’s Bible Reading helps Catholics see how to put Protestantism in Perspective.
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Question 1: “Who would break The First Commandment and ‘Put themselves before God’?”
Answer: “Exodus 32:7-14 describes the pre-Christian Protestants who stopped following Moses and became so ‘depraved’ that they ‘made and worshipped a molten calf’ and piously proclaimed: ‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
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Question 2: “What did God tell Moses?”
Answer: “‘I see how stiff-necked this people is. Let Me alone, then, that My wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then, I will make of you a great nation.’”
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Question 3: “What did Moses tell God?”
Answer: “First, Moses gave up the glory of replacing the Twelve Tribes with himself and his family! Today’s Psalm, 106:19-23, explains what the early Protestants had done wrong: ‘they forgot The God Who had saved them’ and He ‘spoke of exterminating them but Moses, His chosen one, withstood Him in the breach to turn back His destructive wrath.’”
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Question 4: “What Word of God lets Catholics see similarities between Jesus and Moses?”
Answer: “John 3:16 lets us see that: ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son so that everyone who believes in Him might have eternal life.’ Catholics know that anyone on earth ‘might’ be blessed to obey His Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope and get these ‘keys’ for our immortal soul:
‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.'”
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Question 5: “What keeps people from following That Word of God?”
Answer: “John 5:31-47 explains what ‘Jesus said to’ the Jerusalem Establishment who wanted to replace God with their ‘molten calf’: ‘You have never heard His Voice nor seen His Form, and you do not have His Word remaining in you.’”
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Question 6: “How do Catholics have ‘His Word remaining in’ us?”
Answer: “Catholics have ‘heard’ God well enough to realize He has The Power to Provide The Miracle of Transubstantiation. For 2,000 years, God has empowered priests at every Catholic Mass to transform bread and wine into His Body and Blood. Then, they give us that Catholic Communion so we truly ‘have His Word remaining in us’.”
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Question 7: “What kind of people willfully reject The Church-Creating Word of Jesus and the Sacraments thereby provided?”
Answer: “Jesus asks and answers this question about Willful Protestants: ‘How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from The Only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before The Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.’”
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Question 8: “Will Jesus forgive those whom Moses ‘accuses’?”
Answer: “Jesus may, or may not, be more likely than Moses to ask God to ‘turn back His destructive wrath’ from souls of those who knowingly and willingly rejected the ‘keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’ that He and Moses gave their lives to leave on earth.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Only Catholics see the light: / Jesus and Moses are always right.”
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