As men go, Karol Józef Wojtyła was a good man and a great televangelist for his faith. I kinda liked him. With a cursory research on the papacy, many past popes seemed far more power-hungry and dictatorial than he.

For example, JPII does not state that the church has changed the YHWH’s Day, the Sabbath – it says that the church moved the sanctity of the Sabbath to the “Lord’s Day” through “wise papal intuition.”

He also said that the commandment for a SATURDAY Sabbath is rooted in the depths of YHWH’s plan and

the Decalogue (the “ten commandments”) represent the PILLARS of moral life. He also explained that the blessing of YHWH’s day “par excellence” MUST BE UNDERSTOOD as a MARRIAGE

But pope he was, and the majestic closing of the first chapter of this Dies Domini address, he says he’s Peter’s successor.

However, the Scriptures state that Shimon Kefa was sent to those “of the circumcision” (the Jews), while Rabbi Sha’ul (see Galatians 2:8 and Acts 10:45) was sent to the Gentiles.

Colossians 2:8, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Mashiach.”

The Roman church has an ersatz temple and high priest to Miriam the Immaculate co-redemptrix. (Instead see Hosea 13:4, “Yet I am YHWH thy El from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no El but me: for there is no savior beside me.”)

Deut 10:12-13, “And now, Israel, what doth YHWH thy El require of thee, but to fear YHWH thy El, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve YHWH thy El with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of YHWH, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?”

Deu 18:19, “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he [the Prophet from among their brethren] shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”

If you context this verse, an immaculate person has no need for a Savior. Yet, Miriam said (Luke 1:47), “And my spirit hath rejoiced in YHWH, my Savior.”  This tells us how Miriam viewed herself – as one requiring a Savior.  Messiah Y’shua never made any claims or regrets for Himself or His actions. He never claimed that He needed a Redeemer.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, new heir to the papal throne, had this to say (paraphrased) in a 1991 speech to a Council of Bishops, as he expounded on the theology of Cardinal Newman: Socrates the pagan could be viewed as a prophet of Jesus Christ and a vessel for Christian Logos.

So, not only is Socrates a worthy prophet, but attempting to pour Messiah into a vessel of paganism is “a kind of salvation”. We’ll let YHWH Himself judge the blasphemy of that remark.

Additionally, the January 23, 2002 edition of the Ha’aretz newspaper carried an article, “Waiting for the Messiah – together by Eliahu Salpeter, which made the observation that a Vatican statement to appease the Jews does not explicitly state that the Messiah destined to return will be Jesus Christ but that He ‘will bear the signs of that same Jesus who arrived in the past.’ 

Indeed, it certainly becomes easier to agnosticise “Jesus” and disfigure Him after you’ve taken that bold step to remake His Image into one of your own choosing.

But wait:

Acts 2:36, “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that YHWH hath made that same Y’shua, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

A disorderly walk – not the pure, Truth-filled Torah of Y’shua, but the clever ways of papal tradition.

Does this make the Pope the Antichrist? Not hardly. Just another twister of truth and blind judge.

“Saturday” has no relationship to the Hebrew calendar, neither does “Sunday” or any other Greek/Roman accounting. The Hebrew Sabbath is controlled by lunar phases, not the sun.

For this reason, I find it rather amusing when “Christian fundamentalist Bible-believing ‘true’ churchers” get all wound-up, spittle-flying, foot-stomping, hair-raising angry when they “identify” the pope, all the while following his wise papal intuition.