Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

 Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Dan. 9:24 ISV Now Gabriel says [Dan. 9:24], “Seventy weeks (that is, four hundred and ninety years) are determined concerning your people and your holy city.” This is as if he were to say: Your nation of the Jews and the holy city of Jerusalem have yet four hundred and ninety years to go; then they will both come to an end.  As to what shall actually transpire, he says that transgression will be finished and forgiveness sealed and iniquity atoned for and everlasting righteousness brought in, and vision and prophecy fulfilled,  that is, that satisfaction will be made for all sins, forgiveness of sins proclaimed, and the righteousness of faith preached, that righteousness which is eternally valid before God ....

 THE PAPAL SYLLABUS OF ERRORS. A.D. 1864   This document, though issued by the sole authority of Pope Plus IX., Dec. 8, 1864, must be regarded now as infallible and irreformable, even without the formal sanction of the Vatican Council. It is purely negative, but Indirectly it teaches and enjoins the very opposite of what it condemns as error. (Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes: The Greek and Latin Creeds, with Translations, vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890), 213)  What authority attaches to this document? Cardinal Newman, in his defense of the Syllabus against Gladstone’s attack, virtually denied its dogmatic force, saying (Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, p. 108),  “We can no more accept the Syllabus as de fide, as a dogmatic document, than any other index or table of contents.”  But the Syllabus is more than a mere index, and contains as many definitions and judgments as titles. Moreover, the papal infa...

    “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, ​whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’.”  Pope Leo on Palm Sunday, Vatican City   Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right. You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption. You rulers make decisions based on bribes; you priests teach God’s laws only for a price; you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim to depend on the LORD. “No harm can come to us,” you say, “for the LORD is here among us.” Because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field; Jerusalem will be reduced to ruins! A thicket will grow on the heights where the Temple now stands. Micah 3:9–12 NLT   Jesus told them, “In this world ...