FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

ON THE 39 ARTICLES

CHAPTER SEVEN

Of the Old Testament.

 

The old Testament is not contrary to the new; for both in the old and new Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man, being both God and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching ceremonies and rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the Civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called moral.

 

 

The reading of this Article and its Anglican way of explanation, declaring the Need of sticking to the Ten Commandments and the lawful rejection of the entire Mosaic Code related to the Priesthood of the Old Temple, bring us to the point of declaring this Anglican creed more popish than the pope, pure Catholicism running through the lines, except when it comes to deal with the Souls of the Jews on stage.

Offensive to the self-conception of the northern tribes of modern Europeans the idea of a Jew, whether Moses or David it does not matter, with a vision of Eternity infinitely more developed than the one traditionally ascribed to the Holy Reformation, the commentator of this Article waste no time in reducing Moses’s Mind to the figure of a barbarian folk, one level higher than the Greek’s, for example, always higher that the Latin’s, and of course, incapable of untying the sandals of the head of the Anglican Church when it comes the time to speak about the Immortality of the Soul.

In the meantime, while disfiguring the Soul of the Old Testament Personages, the commentator loses no time in throwing stones onto the Catholic Church. The leit motif of the Anglican Church, more Catholic than the Catholic, more Orthodox than the Orthodox, the Anglican display of eloquence had no other target than to displace the Catholic Church in order to take her place in the mind of the nation. Even so, we would clap hand on her honor if the displacement were not attained by a reign of terror. Moses, Job, David, the Prophets, were all figures of the Anglican Messiah, and as such tools invested of a very superfluous knowledge of the Life Eternal.

To make a stand in the right direction I grant this : How could I, a son of God, reject an article which was the Milk with which my Mother in the Spirit milked me while a baby boy?

Let’s then, profiting of the election of a new chief for the bishops servants of Christ Lord, to enter in the definition of Christian Tradition, in its relation with the Scriptures.

It is Tradition the servants of Christ gathering to elect their Chief. You can’t find in the Scriptures this Model of Succession to the High Priesthood. All we see in the Scriptures is the Revolution by which a son of David, Jesus, became High Priest, and passed His Succession to another man from the house of Abraham too, Peter. Until that day the Succession of the High priesthood was passed on from father to son in the inside of the circle formed by the bloody progeny of the brother of Moses. Jesus came and abolished that Old Model. Ergo the Need of His death from the point of view of the sons of the brother of Moses.

The Scriptures says nothing at all about the inner configuration of the New Model Jesus brings on as result of His Revolution. That He brought with Him a New Temple, it can’t be denied. That the New Temple meant a New Priesthood, only the Devil will reject. But God said nothing, not a word, about this New Priesthood’s Succession. He just said, “upon this Rock, (the Faith of Saint Peter), I will build my Church”.

Does this means that because in the Scripture is not given the Plan for the Building of the New Temple, with its New Priesthood, God left to every man to build by himself and for himself his own church? Did God said “I will build the my Church” and then, because the Jews, His Intention became dust?

If God speaks of the Future how could be the Scriptures contains His Plan for the Salvation of Mankind After Christ?

From the very beginning the Fathers of the Church saw in the Old Testament the Plan for the Redemption of Man, and in the New testament the Accomplishment of that Plan. The Redemption done, then the Future began. A future unknown to all, open only to God.

Of course that for the Salvation of my soul I only need to believe that Jesus was and is the Son of the living God. What was the news in the Reformation? Were the Germans and the English saying anything the Spanish and the French they didn’t know?

But it comes to happen that there is a world out there, and all around me too; and if I were alone, I shall need no one, no church, no priest, nobody at all to live forever. The Mission of Christ was to put me in Paradise. Unfortunately from the top of the mountain I could see a world crawling, making its way between the fires of misery, war and hunger. According to the Reformation Creed that is not my problem. Some are born to eat all the cake and others to eat the worms. More or less to this comes the doctrine of the Reformation, especially the Calvinist, to the adoption of the Europeans of the creed on the migration of the souls from the Hinduism. He who is poor he is poor because in other life he was a sinner. The Europeans changed the foundations calling the Will of God as the source of the reason why a man is poor and the other is rich.

Again, of course by the Apostle’s Creed my soul is riding the road to eternal life. But there is a war raging down there. The Battle for the Salvation of Mankind is on. I have been saved to become a soldier in the armies of the Lord. Because the Scriptures says no word on this Battle for Mankind I have to stay on the top of the mountain, watching the river of blood flows?

The Bible, as Book of God, begins with the Son of God as the Omnipotent Arm of the Creator, “Let there be Light”, the Mouth on which lips the Omniscient Creator of the Cosmos puts His Words, “Let’s make Man to our Image”, and ends displaying the Nature of “that Spirit of God which hovered upon the waters of the Creation”, the Holy Spirit made Flesh and bones, blood and Soul, for all the sons of God, from this and from the worlds created before our world, to see with our eyes the Nature of that Sanctity which was spoken when God said to Moses : “Be saint, as I am”. Once this revealed to the eyes and ears of the entire Creation, the Battle for Mankind begun.

God had never given up His Creature; God had never surrendered Mankind in the arms of Death. He said it all the time, “still a while, my sons, and I will fly to you with the wings of the eagle on the heinous snake. Still a while, my children, be strong; and you, Peter, fortify your brothers, keep in them the love for God, our Father”.

How could then the Scriptures contain all the necessary means for the Salvation of Mankind? The Scriptures is the Calling from God to all the generations, for coming and sign in His Armies, one as priest, another as laborer, one as politician, another as teacher, one as scientist, another as housewife, every man and woman on his post and all together advancing on one single direction : The Salvation of the Fullness of the Nations. God leads, Gods builds, Gods strengthens the bleeding heart.

Where in the Scripture is written that the churches of the nations will give themselves a human as king, and this human be head of the church?

Where does the Scriptures says that the churches will gather together to choose a chief to their bishops?

This is Tradition. This is to say, this was the Future of the Church in the Head of Christ Jesus. God gave the Rock of Foundation to His Church, upon it the Church had to be built. And though the Apostles began the Edification, as it is written, there were but tools in the HANDS OF THE ONE who said, On this Rock I will build my Church”.

Returning to the Anglican Creed referred to the Scriptures alone : Is there any word on HOW HE WOULD BUILD HIS CHURCH?

This is “Divine Tradition” : the Work of God during the centuries after the Birth of Christ.

The other “tradition” : if Jesus used to comb his hair to the left or to the right, if to pray you have to sing or to speak, or simply open your heart and soul before God, if the day of the Resurrection or of the Passion got to be celebrated in Thursday, Friday or Sunday, this is theologian’s idiocy.

When confounding Divine Tradition, the Tradition that matters in the Christian Catholic Church, with the theologian’s tradition, the Anglican Creed committed a tremendous manipulation of the Meaning of the Scriptures, a step necessary to hide the real meaning of that Act of Supremacy by which the English declared himself on High Treason against the Crown of the Universal King of the Christian World.

The Future of the Church was not written in the Bible, but Her Birth, Foundation and Eternal Life it what was registered by the Apostles, the Pen with which God gave an end to His Book.

Again, one more time, if you are alone in the world, you need nothing to know beyond that God has a Son and this Son is of the same Uncreated Nature of God. The entire Work of the Christian Catholic Church is to engender in you this simple Faith. This is the Faith the Creation lives on. Why would you need anything else? And you would need nothing else once in Paradise, I grant you that. The problem, bro, is that here, right now, there is no Paradise, except for your king and your queen; hell and death is all around, and if you are a son of God, the Call of the Lord is not to sit on the top of the mountain, but to come down, get your weapons and line on, you are another soldier in the armies of the Lord.

Anyway, one point that strike me a lot very much it’s got to do with the intellect of the historian community of the English kind. The manipulation of the Scientific History by the English divines on the Question of the Appropriation of the Anglican Church of the Canon of the Bible so visible, why they say no word? Beyond to be Catholics, or Orthodox, or Episcopalian, or whatever, the Scientific Truth of History go to bed with no one. Why then the famous English historian school let the truth be taken, as truth were a whore, to the harem of the English crown?

But, of course, I forgot that there had been a Sword swinging across the sun of the English Religious Intellect …

How could I expect the lords being on their knees and their servants living on their legs.