August 22, 2018 Show with Richard Bennett on “The Nature of God”

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This is Chris Arnson, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Wednesday on this 22nd day of August 2018. I am so delighted to have after a long absence back on the program a very dear friend of mine Richard Bennett.

I have helped Richard organize many speaking engagements over the years and I am so delighted that his health has turned around for the better and has enabled him to be on the program today. But Richard Bennett is a former Roman Catholic priest, he's an author and he's the founder of Berean Beacon and today we are going to address how the nature of God negates false Roman Catholic mysticism.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Richard Bennett.

It's a joy, it's a joy to be with you again Chris, a real joy, praise the Lord.

Amen, well Richard if you could let our listeners know before we go into the subject just a little bit about your health and how it has improved because we were, all of us who know and love you are worried for a little while, but if you could tell us about your health and.

As much as you care to share. Yeah, well it is my beloved wife who has a four-stage cancer spread to our lungs and seems to be spreading. While the Berean, we are in difficulties and then I have on my back spine from an accident I had in 1970 and then because of the digestion system lifting away, I've had trouble digesting food.

I used to look forward to a meal and now it's a difficult task for us and while the Berean Beacon is well funded, we're not well.

Funded. Well I'm going to ask my listeners to pray about that and actually physically do something about that. If you could help Richard out financially that'd be wonderful. And just to let you know, Richard's wife who he just mentioned who has the four-stage cancer, she is a former nun.

Richard is a former priest and his wife is a former nun. No, no, no, no,.

You don't, you don't have that. She was not a former nun. Oh, why did I think that? Because I have a book of 50 former nuns. Oh okay, I apologize for that. For some reason I thought.

That you married a former nun. I've known you since the 1990s. I don't understand why I didn't.

Know that. Yes, I do, I do recall that. And just recently Patricia, another former nun, another one called Kelly, just very recently they keep coming out, Chris, people keep coming out for Romanism. I have a book of 50 former priests, former nuns, and in the last, oh two days ago it came out and just before that Kelly came out, that former nun.

So you know in Catholicism they don't tell you about those who are coming out. Right, well I know that you could get that book.

On the 50 former nuns from Solid Ground Christian Books, solid-ground-books .com.

Yeah, yes you can, you can get it. So it's a joy to be with you. Maybe when I think of you,.

I think of Martin Luther for some reason, and that's why I thought you were married to a former.

Nun. And by the way, I want to go on the lowest prime. We have a P .O. box in Yakima, I'm here.

Well if anybody else wants to have that repeated to them, you can email me and sometime after the.

Show I can get back to you with that P .O. box. Well it is really easy to P .O. box 389, and let's not keep this show back because the nature of God being negated, I would like to speak if you ask me, but let you ask me then.

Yeah, well I just wanted to ask one question.

First. Did you say before the program that you have recently turned 80? Is that how old you are now? Yes, 8 -0 -8 -0. Well we in the body of Christ praise God that he has kept you here on earth for a while.

I know that that might not be your preference, but we are very happy that you are here on earth, and I'm sure your wife is as well. So by the way, if anybody wants to know more information about Berean Beacon, you can hear more about Richard's testimony on how he came from being a Roman Catholic priest to being a born-again believer in Christ, and a theologically reformed believer, and a Baptistic believer.

You could go to bereanbeacon .org, bereanbeacon .org, and you can find out more about Richard. Well this is quite a controversial theme that we're going to be discussing today. The nature of God negates false Catholic mysticism.

If you could.

Begin on how God reveals who he truly is in the scriptures. Yes, God reveals who he is, one God, and who is God. The question that very few people ask is, what is God? I used to ask students, I would say, what is God?

And the students say, Mr. Bennett, you got that wrong. It should be, who is God? And I say, no, God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit. But what is God? What is the nature of God? Spurgeon's Catholic Library, a wonderful reason.

Question number four, what is God? God is the Spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable. It's awesome that God is eternal. Eternal God, your refuges die with the tide. It's your God. The most distinctive is his holiness.

Revelation, you know, about the horse sitting upon a throne. Above it stood he, covered his feet, between did he fly. And one cried unto the other and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.

It's awesome how holy God is. Holy, completely set apart from anything that would speak of evil, completely perfect in him. So let me repeat, asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves, we address ourselves with the mother.

And if you don't believe me, go to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and look up, tempt, and be ashamed of us, dear unholy, dear Catholics.

Yes. So, and on the one hand, on paper, in its official teachings, much of what you said about God would be echoed by the Church of Rome. But the problem, the very serious and heretical problem.

They have is when they share that glory with Mary. Am I right? And of course, they claim.

That they do not view her as deity. They do not worship her. But as far as what they say, they say that veneration, that hyperdulia and dulia, the different categories of veneration are not crossing the line into worship.

But in reality, we would say that everything that they say and do in their efforts to honor and communicate with Mary, they are violating that line, going into the area of worshiping Mary, even if they claim they are not.

Am I right?

And that's not the main one. That is a true Mary. It's a really one. She stood in all her pain before Abraham was. I am, he said, and not many other words. Amen. Well, Catholic mysticism,.

If you could explain why this is dangerous, why this negates, or should I say why the character and nature of God negates Catholic mysticism, what exactly do you mean by Catholic mysticism?

By Catholic, the Catholic Church throughout the years, Vatican counts. The Vatican, the Vatican, and that is Romanism, had, you know, had taken elements in it. The Vatican Council, too, they authenticated.

And I'd like to read the exact words of the documents. Nostra Aetate. Anyone who understands Latin, as is our age. Nostra Aetate. Nostra Aetate. Sorry, I pronounced my Latin wrong. In Hinduism, men explore a divine limitless riches of myth and accurately defined insights of philosophy.

They seek release from the trials of the present life by ascetical practices, profound meditation, and recourse to God in confidence. Buddhism, in its various forms, essential inadequacy of this changing world.

It proposes a way of life by which man can, with confidence and trust, attain a state of perfect liberation, supreme illumination, with the aid, by the aid of divine help. The Catholic Church negates nothing of what is true or not.

So here is the Roman Catholic Church authenticating Hinduism and Buddhism, pagan religions, illumination, speaking about Buddhism. Thirty-one years I've been living in Buddhism. Catholic people have often seen the Buddha.

Yes, many Roman Catholics and even liberal Protestants, or even Protestants that would.

Consider themselves conservative in many ways, but they're ecumenical with the Church of Rome, they would say that our position here, that vehemently opposes the Church of Rome's affirmation of false religions, they would say that our position is less loving.

But it is not loving at all when you are encouraging people to remain enslaved to false and damning religions. I don't know why people, if they think that they have truth, why they think it is a loving thing to allow someone to remain in falsehood.

I mean, it's.

Really insane, if you ask me. How it all happened, people say, that couldn't have happened, that's not official Catholic Church teaching. Let me call from a very well-known Jesuit priest, William Johnson, in his book called The Mirror Mind, the Jesuit William Johnson.

Then came the second, 1960, overnight, the Catholic Church, Asians and theologians, acknowledging that the Spirit of God is at work in all people, all peoples, and.

In fact, aren't many Buddhists atheists? I mean, some people might find that it sounds oxymoronic, because they think if somebody's a member of a religion, they can't be an atheist, but.

Aren't many Buddhists actually atheists? Well, some of them are, they say, well, I'm not interested. I remember I used to go to them, I'm not interested in religion, you know, don't, don't, don't, don't put that tab on me, or something like that, you know.

That's making me a kunamono, and I'm not a fool, no matter what the creatures are. Yes. There's no reason for a gospel, if everybody, if everybody reaches...

Yes, in fact, in the Catholic catechism, according to the dogmatic constitution of the Church, Lumen Gentium 16, from Vatican II, it is declared that the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator in the first place, amongst whom are the Muslims.

These profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us, they adore the one merciful God, mankind's judge, on the last day. That's a pretty remarkable and heretical statement.

Isn't that, isn't that, isn't that, isn't that horrific? It's not a strong enough word. The men who flew the planes into the top, they were people who did not need to be witnessed. They, they had reached supreme illumination themselves.

Oh man, it, it, it, it, stupidity is not the word for it. There's not a strong enough word that I know for that. It's diabolically evil, that's how it is. It's not even, it's not even... Islam is a way of God, yes.

It's not even consistent with their own theology, because in the Quran, the Trinity is wrongly defined, that including Mary is a part of the, of the Trinity, which they condemn, and, and of course, no Roman Catholic ever included Mary as a part of the Trinity, even though they may act that way, that she is not, she is not a part of Godhead.

But at the same time, Muslims believe that not only is there, are the Catholics' false views of Mary blasphemous, but they even believe that their true views of Jesus Christ being the God-man, that is the worst sin that a person can commit in Islam, the sin of shirk, and yet the Catholics claim that the Muslims still are adoring the same God.

It makes absolutely no sense.

It makes no sense. And even if you remove the terrorists from the situation,.

Your wonderful neighbor next door, who may be a Muslim and a very nice person, may be very charitable and humble and sacrificial and generous, that person is being robbed of the truth when they are told that you can keep worshiping the non-Trinitarian Allah that you worship, you can keep worshiping a God that would reject Jesus Christ as being a part of the Godhead, and you will be fine, you will be safe, you will go to heaven.

You are robbing that person of the truth and putting them in peril of an eternal life in hell. I mean, it is not a kind and loving thing to deceive a Muslim or anyone else just because you want to have the approach of kindness and love and compassion.

You are doing the opposite, in reality, by deceiving them.

Yet another, that he identified himself and others who would have this mystical, he identified this as us becoming part of the divinity. Let me read what the mystical Thomas Merton said exactly. Now I realize, I suddenly saw that the secret beauty of the nighter self-knowledge, the core of the reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes, if only they could all see themselves as they really are and highlight it.

If more, if there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed, I suppose the big problem would be that we would all fall. That is from Thomas Merton's conjectures of a guilty by 150 could only see that reality.

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That's Thursday, August 23rd. Then on Friday, August 24th, God willing, the first thing in the morning, he is having the surgery. So please pray that our Sovereign Lord, our Great Physician Jesus Christ, raises Mike up out of that hospital bed when the surgery is complete, after a time of rest, and that he is restored to a stronger physical state, a healthier physical state than he has been in years, and even a stronger state spiritually as a result of the trial that our loving and merciful and graceful God has placed him in.

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You can go to solid-ground-books .com, solid-ground-books .com. We are now back with our interview with Richard Bennett, a former Roman Catholic priest, founder of Berean Beacon, and he is discussing how the nature of God negates false Roman Catholic mysticism.

And by the way, I think I just figured out, Richard, why I wrongly thought that your wife was a former nun. When I first met you in the early 2000s face-to-face, the same day that I met you, I met your wife and I met a former nun who was there to hear you speak,.

A friend of yours. Yes. Amen. Well, let's, before we go back to the mysticism, let's hear, because.

We have all kinds of listeners that are not all Christians. They, some of them are Roman Catholics, some of them are Muslims. We have a variety, even though the majority would certainly be Christians.

I even have received emails and communication from members of the Mooney cult, the church that, or the cult that Reverend Sung Young Moon founded. I've had all kinds of people listening to this program.

And I want you to give the biblical good news of salvation and really contrast that to what we are offered by the Roman Catholic church. And also even in regard to the.

Dangers of the mysticism that the Roman Catholic church practices. Well, before they all holy, each man and woman in this world of Genesis, or read even chapter, read chapter one of Genesis and see how from the beginning man sinned against, he was sinners by nature.

If you say, I've never, you are, you are professing to be, to be a liar, justified freely by his grace. There's different parts in the Bible where it speaks with beyond praising God for redemption. And there's Romans three that really you hear the heart of the writing freely by his grace, true to redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

That all have sinned, everyone, every man, woman and redemption to give you the faith that we don't have anything else. It's not any sacrament. It's not any church. One man said to me, they're downgrading my Catholic church.

I said, there's no church, no church. It's the grace of God alone. And there's only one mediator and he's Christ Jesus. And it's interesting that there's priest mentioned in the old Testament. There's no priest mentioned in the new Testament, except Jesus Christ being the one priest.

Amen. And of course the priesthood of all believers. Or the priesthood of all.

Now, when you said there is no church, obviously I know what you mean. You're not saying there is no church. You're saying that there's no church, no matter how biblically faithful it is, that can save a person or even help save a person.

It is God alone and his mercy that saves sinners.

Yes. I'm saying that no church, but biblical churches that preach the gospel, the gospel.

Now, the areas that the Roman Catholic Church would violate what you just said would include the treasury of merit that they believe enables them to enter into heaven if they are faithful Catholics. That Christ's death on Calvary, even though they might not formulate the wording this way, you cannot draw any other conclusion that they believe that the death of Christ is insufficient to completely purge them of all sin and to redeem them.

And that's why the treasury of merit, the good deeds of Mary and the saints are required. And also the good deeds of the individual, any person that enters into heaven, his good deeds are included in that merit.

And on top of everything, if they have sin in their lives, which the vast majority of people do, according to the Church of Rome, we would believe everybody does other than Christ, but they believe that there are certain circumstances where saints are free from sin.

But the average person who is even dying in a good standing and a right relationship with God, even then, that person has to be tormented in purgatory for further purging. Those are the major areas where the Church of Rome really goes off the rails into heresy, and I'm talking about.

Serious and damnable heresy. Yeah, define this on a search engine, and it'll come up by a catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 181, easy to remember, 181, paragraph 81. They define what believing is.

Let me quote exactly what they say. Believing is an ecclesial act. Ecclesial is the Church's faith precedes engenders of faith. The Church is the mother of, no one can have God as father who does not have the, you cannot have.

Now, it seems that having said that,.

The Roman Catholic Church, and I'm not using words intentionally to be cruel, but there's a schizophrenia going on here, because you have, since Vatican II, people of all types of religions, we were just quoting before from the catechism, how Buddhists and Hindus and Muslims, and of course even in the catechism, Jews who reject Christ as their Messiah, they can also go to heaven.

So it seems that there is a, speaking out of both sides of the mouth here, there is on the one hand a dogmatic Church of Rome where there are things that are declared as officially binding dogmas that can never be changed at the Council of Trent, and then you have today, a catechism and a Pope that seem to do a 180 degree turn on.

This and speak in exactly the opposite fashion on many areas. Am I right? You are right, if you don't have, I mean, how could anybody say that about any Church? It's unbelievable that you cannot know God.

And I'm assuming the spin they must take on it, and I'm talking about the.

Moderate and liberal Catholics, they must be inclusivists who would say, well, you do need.

The Church as your mother, but you don't need to know that. I know that. I saw a Muslim man, you know, hoping to come to faith, and he was saying, well, then I just believe that God is my father. It's just wonderful to hear this, and then if he had known, it's just ridiculous.

And those conservative Muslims who would be faithful to the Quran, they do not view the Catholic Church as adoring the same true God as they adore. They don't agree with that statement. I've asked Muslims, do you believe that the Catholic catechism is correct when it says that.

You adore the same one true God as they do? Absolutely not. I know, I know. They wouldn't even pause a second to say, absolutely not. I know. People haven't talked. The Islamic person.

Knows common sense. Right. We do have RJ in White Plains, New York, who says, Richard, how do you respond to the more conservative, traditionalist Catholic who says that many of the modern things that we are discussing in the Catholic catechism and other things that have been brought in since Vatican II are not dogma, and they would agree that they are false teachings that heretics in the Catholic Church are teaching, but they are not the true dogma of the Church, and they will even say that popes may teach heretical things, but if they do not declare them ex cathedra as dogma, then it really doesn't matter.

It's not binding upon Catholics. How do.

You respond to these conservative Catholics who say these things? I can understand the demand because it's so different than what was before Vatican, but these conservative Catholics are still trusting in sacraments.

Yes. They trust that when they baptize their babies, you've more incentive. When the police... These things don't work. People come back to confession with the same sins. On Trinidad, for all the sacraments, there was one man, and it was frightening, and it actually did frighten me afterwards.

When I thought back on it, his wife called me. He was dying of cancer, and I gave him confession, and then he got three sacraments, and then when it came to dying, he was in such pain, and I could not believe it.

Here's a man. He's got three of the sacraments, and he's cursing God as he dies, and it frightened me as a Catholic priest. It's frightening because you're still looking at the sacraments. It's no sacrament.

It's no ritual of any church. It's trusting Christ alone as a sinner.

And Savior by the blood of Christ. Amen. We have to go to our midway break right now. This is a longer break than normal because Grace Life Radio 90 .1 FM in Lake City, Florida requires a longer break in between our two major segments because they air their own commercials and public service announcements, so please be patient with us as we go on this elongated break and use this time not only to write questions for Richard Bennett, but also to write down the information provided by our advertisers because the more you patronize our advertisers, the more likely they are to remain our advertisers, which means that we are more likely to remain on the air because their advertising dollars are largely the reason we do exist.

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