Tetzel Anyone? German Roman Bishops Extract Tax by Threats

 




http://www.euronews.com/newswires/1665148-german-bishops-get-tough-on-catholics-who-opt-out-of-church-tax/






German bishops get tough on Catholics who opt out of church tax







 
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor

PARIS (Reuters)- Germany’s Roman Catholic bishops have decreed that people who opt out of a “church tax” should not be given sacraments and religious burials, getting

Roman Catholic Church Extracts Tax on Pain of Damnation

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2012/09/roman-catholic-church-extracts-tax-on.html

Sunday, September 23, 2012


Roman Catholic Church extracts tax on pain of damnation






According to the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, any Roman Catholic – no matter how pious and devout – who refuses to pay the ‘Church tax’ is no longer a member of the

Belgic Confession, Ch. 23: Justification of Sinners

http://dailyconfession.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/bcf_w15-9/


Article 23: The Justification of Sinners


We believe that our blessedness lies in the forgiveness of our sins because of Jesus Christ, and that in it our righteousness before God is contained, as David and Paul teach us when they declare that man blessed to whom God grants righteousness apart from works.[54] And the same apostle

Archibald Alexander of Old Princeton Seminary (1772-1851)

H/T to Tim Naab who posted at: http://www.seeking4truth.com/a_practical_view_of_regeneration.htm



A Practical View of Regeneration Part I


Archibald Alexander: (April
17, 1772 – October 22, 1851) American Presbyterian theologian and professor at
the Princeton Theological Seminary.


Published in The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume 8
(1836).


That human nature has lost