Monday, August 26,
2013
Dear Archbishop
Chaput,
Greetings in
the name of Jesus Christ the only Redeemer and Creator! My profoundest extension of Christian love to
you in the clear testimony of the divine Word about justification by faith
alone: grace and peace!
I am
respectfully writing in behalf of the honor of Jesus Christ regarding sound
doctrine and Christian living, and a profound legitimate concern I have
regarding adherence to Roman doctrine in how someone is right with a holy God. This is a matter that separates the gulf of
heaven and hell.
We are called
to use our minds to glorify a holy God in the simplicity of Christ (2 Cor
11:3). The simplicity of Christ involves
trained workmen not ashamed that rightly handles the written Scriptures (2 Tim 2:15) through the clear testimony of the
divine Word (Job 33:3).
The perpetuity
of the written and infallible Scriptures demonstrates spiritual redemption by grace alone through faith alone in Christ
alone for the glory of God alone by Scripture alone. Rome has condemned this teaching at the
unrevoked Council of Trent in the unfortunate pronouncements of anathemas. The
gospel is not preserved through the naked assertion of the Roman church alone. Rather we ought to apprehend the plain
meaning of the written Scriptures alone.
I urge you to mediate on the post-moral theology of Pope Francis I, for
example, on righteous judgment (Jn 7:24).
The current pope has erred in excusing gay leadership in tolerance of
the ways of Sodom where God alone rained hell out of heaven (Gen 19:28).
This example is a clear doctrine of a preeminent view over the supremacy
of the written Scriptures in the author’s intended meaning as a doctrine of
Diotrephes where the Apostle John writes of his apostolic condemnation (3 Jn
11).
The Bible does
not command the preaching of additions to
Christ in justification by faith alone (Rom 4ff). Rather the written Scriptures plainly declare
the simplicity of the central and exclusive supremacy of Christ alone because
He is the First in all things (Col. 1:18) but we should also honor the
solidarity of the exclusivity of Christ alone (Acts 4:12) not works in anyway (Rom
9:11, 16; Gal 2:16) in how someone is right with God through the divine imputed
unified merit of the divine Incarnate Savior alone (Phil. 3:9) through the spiritual
and free application of the Spirit of God (Tit 3:5) that accompanies the
written Word (Jn 3) in changing the heart and mind of radically corrupt sinners
(Acts 16:14) who are unable to cooperate in anyway with a holy God because of
spiritual deadness (Eph 2ff).
I respectfully
urge you to stand on the side of the purity, unity and peace of the imputed unified
merit of Christ alone in how someone is right with God like Cardinal Bellarmine
who advocated the Reformed view of imputation by “Et hoc modo non esset absurdum, si quis diceret nobis imputari Christi
justitiam et merita; cum nobis donentur et applicentur; ac si nos ipsi Deo
satisfecissemus.” Roberti Bellarmini, Opera Omnia, De Controversiis,
Tomus Quartus, Pars Prima, De Justificatione (Neapoli: Apud Josephum
Giuliano, 1858), Liber II, Caput 10, p. 523.
I dare not
write as an equal to you in providential status (but Scripture says not one is above another because all are
in some sense equally depraved sinners touching original sin) but out of the
honor and dignity of Christ my Creator and Redeemer in the doctrine of
Christian humility, I am profoundly concerned for your spiritual warfare as a
fellow human being and as a Christian in light of the Roman misusage of the
handling of the written Scriptures through the misdirection of unbridled
tradition devoid of the consent of the testimony of the early fathers on papal
supremacy.
If you give me
an opportunity to speak with you, I would be honored to converse if you have
time. Whatever the case you have my best prayers in your behalf. Farewell.
The grace and peace of Jesus be with
you.
To God alone be the glory,
Dr. MA Petillo
Reformed
Baptist
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