+ Easter 2008 +
CASE CLOSED: Antipope Bawden continues
to promote heresy, apostasy and schism
© Copyright 2008 by T. Stanfill Benns (None of what appears below — in whole or in
part — may be used without the express and written permission of the author.)
In his futile attempts to contradict the syllogisms presented in
A Picture's Worth 1,000 Words
(below), David Bawden proves what he truly is — an unrepentant and incorrigible
heretic. Bawden clearly has denied the teaching of the Vatican Council and other
infallible teachings concerning Divine Revelation, and has moreover published this
teaching to his website for public consumption — AGAIN. He is openly and willfully
teaching the "faithful" lies opposed to the truths of Divine faith. He states on his website:
"Jesus conferred jurisdiction before conferring Orders, since the commission of
Saint Peter came before Holy Thursday."
click here
The Vatican Council teaches: "The primacy of jurisdiction over the entire Church of
God was promised and was conferred immediately and directly upon the blessed Apostle
Peter by Christ Our Lord…Upon Simon Peter alone Jesus after His Resurrection conferred the jurisdiction of the highest pastor and rector over his entire fold, saying:
'Feed My lambs, feed My sheep,' (John 21:15 ff)…This teaching of Sacred Scripture [is]
manifest as it has been always understood by the Catholic Church…" (all emph.
mine. See DZ 1822, following the notation: [Against Heretics and Schismatics].)
The Vatican Council also teaches: "That must be considered as the true sense of Sacred Scripture which Holy Mother Church has held and holds, whose office it is to judge concerning the true understanding and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures; and for that reason, no one is permitted to interpret Sacred Scripture itself contrary to this sense…Further, by Divine and Catholic faith, all those things must be believed which are contained in the written word of God and in tradition, and those which are proposed by the Church, either in a solemn pronouncement or in Her ordinary and universal teaching power, to be believed as divinely revealed, (DZ 1788 and DZ 1792; emph. mine).
Unam Sanctam teaches: "Therefore, of the one and only Church (there is) one body, one head, not two heads as a monster, namely, Christ and Peter, the vicar of Christ and the successor of Peter, the Lord Himself saying to Peter: 'Feed My sheep,' (John 21:17)," (DZ 468; emph. mine).
St. Thomas Aquinas' definition of heresy is that it is a statement that must directly (or indirectly) contradict a revealed truth of faith proposed by the Church for belief. This is clearly a teaching revealed in Holy Scripture. Bawden directly contradicts it, condemning my (true) statement as false. It is clearly proposed by the Vatican Council for belief. Our Lord only promised the primacy to St. Peter when He spoke of the power to bind and loose. Christ's actual words demonstrate this: "I say to thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and I shall give to thee the keys of the kingdom of Heaven…thou shalt bind…thou shalt loose…" According to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, will and shall, when used in the first person, (I), both denote "futurity." In other words, it is used in future tense, meaning the actual event is in the future. Until shortly before his Ascension, Christ was still the visible head of His Church, which cannot have two heads like a monster, as Pope Boniface VIII noted above. This is confirmed by Rev. W. Wilmers, S. J., (among many others), who himself was present as an advisor at the Vatican Council.
According to Rev. Wilmers, citing Matt. 16: 16-19, (Christ delivering the promise of the power to bind and loose to Simon Peter): "Peter was promised the power of the keys, which implies supreme power in the Church…Upon him, therefore the Church was to be built. Christ on earth was doubtless the visible head of the little community which clustered around Him…After His departure from this earth, [He] remained the invisible head and pastor of the faithful, (1 Peter 2:35), while He was to be visibly represented by the authority established in His Church…It is one thing to nominate or elect one as the successor of the prince of the Apostles and another thing to confer power on him. Therefore it was defined by the Council of Florence that the full power to feed, rule, and govern the whole Church was given to the pope directly by Our Lord Jesus Christ…The pope in the person of St. Peter certainly received the power to feed the lambs and sheep of Christ; consequently the pastoral jurisdiction over the entire Church," (Handbook of the Christian Religion; all emph. mine).
It is abundantly clear that David Bawden never possessed the knowledge of the faith necessary to be elected Pope. Jesus Christ never conferred upon Bawden any Divine right or power whatsoever; for no true successor of St. Peter endowed with the charism of infallibility could ever publicly and manifestly commit heresy by contradicting Holy Scripture as defined by the Church. Bawden has clearly believed and taught heresy both before and since his election, something the Vatican Council says can never occur lest the gates of hell prevail against the Church. "For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might disclose new doctrine, but that by His help they might guard sacredly the revelation transmitted through the Apostles and the deposit of faith, and might faithfully set it forth. Indeed, all the venerable Fathers have embraced their Apostolic doctrine, and the holy orthodox Doctors have venerated and followed it, knowing full well that the See of St. Peter remains unimpaired by any error, according to the Divine promise of our Lord, the Savior, made to the chief of His disciples: 'I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not: and thou being once confirmed, confirm thy brethren,' " (Luke 22: 32).
The "syllogism" posted on Bawden's site to support his mystical tonsure heresy further demonstrates that he is totally deluded where the faith is concerned. Once this "syllogism" has been refuted, there is nothing more to say. To see why we will no longer waste our precious time on Bawden's pretensions to credibility of any sort ... click here. |
