The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

230Official Statements of the Clergy with Headquarter in Rome“Father Enright, American Sentinal June 1893”:‘The Bible says: “... remember that you keep holy the Sabbath day.” TheCatholic Church says: “No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath dayand command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo the entirecivilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holyCatholic Church.”’Rome’s Challenge (www. immaculateheart. com/maryonline), December 2003:“Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day ofworship. The Roman Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christianworship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try toargue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denialof Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on theBible, it should worship on Saturday.“2003 - MARY ONLINE - OFFICIAL CATHOLIC WEBSITE - REPRINTED THE1893, ‘ROMES CHALLENGE’ TO PROTESTANTS:‘But the Protestant says: How can I receive the teaching of an apostatechurch? How, we ask, have you managed to receive her teachings all yourlife, in direkt opposition to your recognized teacher, the Bible, on the Sabbathquestion?’The Christian Sabbath (2nd edition.: Baltimore; The Catholic Mirror, 1893)pp. 29,30.“No Protestant living today has ever yet obeyed that command, preferring to followthe ‘apostate church’ referred to than his teacher the Bible, which from Genesis toRevelation, teaches no other dictrine, should the Israelites and the Seventh-dayAdventists be correct. Both sides appeal to the Bible as their ‘infallible’ teacher.Let the Bible decide whether Saturday or Sunday be the day enjoined by God.One of the two bodies must be wrong.”EDITOR’S NOTE: “It was upon this very point [the Sabbath issue] that thereformation was concemned by the Council of Trent. The reformers hadconstantly charged, as here stated, that the Catholic Church had ‘apostatized’from the truth as contained in the written word. ‘The written word,’ The Bible andthe Bible only.’ ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ these were their constant watchwords; and‘the Scripture, as in the written word, the sole standard of appeal,’ this was theproclaimed plattform of the reformation and of Protestantism. ‘The Scripture andtradition.’ ‘The Bible as interpreted by the Church and according to the unanimousconsent of the Fathers,’ this was the position and claim of the Catholic Church. thiswas the main issue in the Council of Trent, which was called especially to considerthe questions that had been raised and forced upon the attention of Europe by theReformers.”