Post by SensoUnico on May 6, 2005 10:34:45 GMT -5
1. The Church of God has failed.
2. The Holy Scriptures alone are sufficient to guide men to Salvation.
3. The blessings and consecrations practiced in the Church do not confer any particular sanctity upon the things or persons blessed or consecrated.
4. Catholic priests. . .have no authority; and the Pope of Rome is the chief of all heresiarchs.
5. Everyone has the right to preach publicly the word of God
6. Every oath is a mortal sin.54
7. Purgatory is a dream, an invention of the sixth century.
8. The indulgences of the Church are an invention of covetous Priests.
9. There is no obligation to fast, nor to keep any holy day, Sunday excepted.
10. The invocation of Saints cannot be admitted.
11. Every honor given in the Church to the holy images of paintings, and to the relics of Saints is to be abolished.
To this list, he adds doctrines that belong to the period between the Hussite revolt and the Lutheran Revolution:
1. Auricular Confession is useless, and. . .it is enough to confess our sins to God.
2. The definition of the church is, "the whole of the elect from the beginning of the world to its end." and that regarding ministries, "the holy Catholic Church is the congregation of all ministers and people obeying the Divine will, and by obedience united. . ."
3. It is necessary to receive the Eucharist under two kinds.55
To these I would add,
1. The church and the state should remain as separate authorities.56
2. The Eucharist is to be viewed as a memorial, not as a sacrifice.57
2. The Holy Scriptures alone are sufficient to guide men to Salvation.
3. The blessings and consecrations practiced in the Church do not confer any particular sanctity upon the things or persons blessed or consecrated.
4. Catholic priests. . .have no authority; and the Pope of Rome is the chief of all heresiarchs.
5. Everyone has the right to preach publicly the word of God
6. Every oath is a mortal sin.54
7. Purgatory is a dream, an invention of the sixth century.
8. The indulgences of the Church are an invention of covetous Priests.
9. There is no obligation to fast, nor to keep any holy day, Sunday excepted.
10. The invocation of Saints cannot be admitted.
11. Every honor given in the Church to the holy images of paintings, and to the relics of Saints is to be abolished.
To this list, he adds doctrines that belong to the period between the Hussite revolt and the Lutheran Revolution:
1. Auricular Confession is useless, and. . .it is enough to confess our sins to God.
2. The definition of the church is, "the whole of the elect from the beginning of the world to its end." and that regarding ministries, "the holy Catholic Church is the congregation of all ministers and people obeying the Divine will, and by obedience united. . ."
3. It is necessary to receive the Eucharist under two kinds.55
To these I would add,
1. The church and the state should remain as separate authorities.56
2. The Eucharist is to be viewed as a memorial, not as a sacrifice.57