"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"Fresenborg, Bernard
Religion
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
Fresenborg, Bernard
Anti-Catholicism; Catholic Church -- Controversial literature; Catholic ex-priests
The Bible does not relate in any verse or chapter that any one can
reach the point of infallibility during life. Now, is not this true?
And if it is, then the claim of Catholicism that the Pope of Rome is
infallible is a lie, woven in the devil's loom.
We want to prove to our readers that this claim is one founded upon
fallacious grounds, as the Pope of Rome is elected by the cardinals
of the Catholic Church, who are human and who are often as immoral as
the devil; therefore the infallibility of the Pope rests in human
hands, for it is by these cardinals that the Pope is created,
therefore you will see that by the ballot of these cardinals the Pope
derives his infallibility, and not from any power of God Almighty,
consequently this proclaimed infallibility of the Pope rests in the
hands of these cardinals.
Now, to illustrate this damnable doctrine and show it up in its rabid
ignorance, we will suppose that when Pope Pius X was elected Pope of
Rome that if some other priest had received a majority of one of the
votes of the cardinals, Pope Pius X would never have had this
blessing from God, but he would only have missed it one vote,
therefore you will see that this infallibility which was about to
rest on Pope Pius X, but did not, would have been snatched from him
by the failure of one cardinal to vote for him.
Now, any man or woman of ordinary "horse sense" can see that God
Almighty has nothing whatever to do with filling the office of the
Pope, and this infallibility rests altogether with the pulling power
that the candidate for Pope exercises over the cardinals, as it is an
indisputable fact that there is as much political chicanery in the
election of a Pope as there is in the election of a justice of the
peace at a township election.
We want to learn just how far this infallibility of the Pope goes.
If a man is infallible he can not make a mistake, and I can prove by
every man of broadmindedness and intelligence that the Popes of Rome,
for centuries past, have made nothing but mistakes, and their
mistakes have been not only ruinous to those whom they profess to
teach, but their mistakes have had a tendency to paralyze the
righteous ambitions of every nation to which their influence has
extended. If the claim of Catholicism is true that her Popes are
infallible, then we must acknowledge that this great gift was
received from God Almighty, and we cannot believe such nonsense when
we are aware of the fact that these Popes are elected by the
cardinals, and the election of a Pope depends upon the tactics and
schemes of these cardinals; then, pray, tell us how any man who has
been raised up under the arch-light of Protestantism, or who has had
the searchlight of Protestant intelligence penetrate his soul, can
for a moment believe in the infallibility of the Pope?
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