A Straight Talk Letter to Pope Francis I

                                                                Monday, April 01, 2013

Dear Pope Francis,

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ the great God and awesome Savior!   Although I am a nobody, I think it should be our greatest importance to explain to the public in basic and yet profound terms on how we are right with God.  We can’t be right with God through our own human works and sacred faith; that is, our very works are stained with deep corruption and deep defilement.  The best of human goodness is not equal with God’s best of supreme goodness.  Man may see himself good in light of man’s own works in comparison, but in light of God’s divine righteousness it is nothing and completely opposed to Him and His holiness.  We see in the Old Testament that Noah, Daniel and Job could not meet the Roman test of extra merit (Ezekiel 14:14; 14:20).  That is, we need the profound and extraordinary unified merit of Jesus Christ alone in His active and passive obedience by grace through faith alone!  We desperately need His imputed forensic and legal righteousness; that is, it can’t be a legal fiction because it is Jesus’ real righteousness and only if its true righteousness.  Who would dare say that Jesus’ righteousness is not real and true?   May God richly bless you and help you see His divine truth! 

The grace, love, comfort and peace of Jesus at His sacred Cross be with you!

In Christ alone,

Michael A. Petillo,

AA, BS, BA, MA, MA, DTh, Cert. Apol.

Reformed Baptist Evangelist