The Cross of Christ Alone Can Save

[augustianian]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Many people would hate to see that fear and uncertainty leave their Christian lives. They thrive on compelling others to continuously strive for uncertain outcomes and hold these poor souls forever in a condition of debt.

The pastor won't have a horse farm to retire to unless he manipulates other souls into striving to pay a debt that was in fact paid for each of us long ago.

Thus, each of us are required to "offer up" our sons and daughters each and every day to sustain the money flow. It's barbarous. It's the linchpin in a stratified class system that seeks to maintain the flow of wealth from families and into one man's coffers.

This same system existed in another form in the Middle Ages. Vast hoards of gold and silver were siphoned from Northern Europe and into Italy and Rome. It was while one of those Northern Europeans, an Augustinian monk from Germany, was crawling on his hands and knees up the "Scala Santa" in Rome that he heard a voice speaking to him: "The just shall live by faith!"

The culmination of that "revelation" was that the flow of gold and silver ceased and the Renaissance and the Reformation spread throughout the world.

Hmmmm...interesting. Not to mention the whole Catholic's church idea of indulgences which prompted the Reformation.