Published on 07/14/2007

I feel Pope Benedict is bringing an even greater schism between the Catholic and Protestant Church. Some local Catholic and Protestant Churches came together in the early 1960’s to form what we came to know as “the Charismatic Movement” or “the Charismatic Renewal”.

This was done to the end of restoring unity, fellowship, and a restoration of ministry according to the pattern of the early apostolic age but Pope Benedict is working diligently to restore hatred and division betwixt the two Church Bodies.

Hassan Bashir Refutes Pope Benedict


Bisexual Protestant Christian Scholar Hassan Bashir Refutes Pope Benedict’s Declaration against Protestant Church Bodies

I feel Pope Benedict is bringing an even greater schism between the Catholic and Protestant Church. Some local Catholic and Protestant Churches came together in the early 1960’s to form what we came to know as “the Charismatic Movement” or “the Charismatic Renewal”.
This was done to the end of restoring unity, fellowship, and a restoration of ministry according to the pattern of the early apostolic age but Pope Benedict is working diligently to restore hatred and division betwixt the two Church Bodies.
The Pope recently issued a document from the Vatican City in which he declared the Roman Catholic Church to be Christ’s Church and the Protestant Body to be “wounded” because they don’t recognize the Roman Catholic Church as its Mother Church, and the Pope as its Holy Father. Every Protestant denomination is adamant that the “Early Church” is its Mother Church and that God alone is its Holy Father. For this cause, the Pope deems Protestant Church bodies as not being “full Churches of Jesus Christ” but the veracity of the matter is there is no partial Church of Jesus Christ. Either a Church Body is Christian or not. Therefore, we, the Protestant Movement can securely conclude that he is really saying the Protestant Movement is rejected by the Lord Jesus Christ, and thus, hell-bound (as the Protestant Movement affirms that anyone who is rejected by Christ in the final judgment is hell-bound).


After such an overt statement- after verbally reducing the Protestant movement as “Not Truly Christian”, he had the audacity to say dialogue with the Protestant Movement remains as one of the priorities of the Catholic Church. This is a bizarre statement to make after such an unambiguous statement against the Protestant Movement.
Please, bear in mind that Pope Benedict’s statement is not one of fleeting thought pattern- a reserved opinion he held in 2000 when he was Cardinal but one that he maintained in 2005 when he was elected and consecrated as Pope, and one that he maintained when he made the statement just a few days ago.
The questions that Pope Benedict should have considered before making such a conclusion are “What does the term ‘Church’ mean’?” and “Who qualifies as members of the Church of Jesus Christ?” I intentionally omitted the definition of the secular dictionary because it does conclude that the Roman Catholic Church is the Church of Jesus Christ so I resolved to resort to the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 21st Century Edition, thus using its Greek Dictionary and Index to the New Testament, reference number 1577 to base my research upon. The Greek term for Church is “Ekklesia” which means, “assembly; a group of people gathered together; a Christian assembly as a corporate Body (Ephesians 3:10), or a local congregation/assembly (Colossians 4:15).”

Therefore, from this resource (not to mention the profusion of Biblical testimonial references), we can securely conclude that true biblical Christianity is not an issue of the engravings over a building’s doorposts, sign established on the property thereof, nor the articulation of doctrinal manuals but is a matter of the heart. Therefore, to wit, any group of persons that believe in the writ of the Holy Bible, in Jesus Christ as the Incarnate Son of God, and God Himself manifested in the flesh, live in the law of His love to the paramount of its ability, are Christian, and thus, incorporated into the “full Church of Jesus Christ (John 3:5-6,16; Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 4:1-3; Colossians 2:8-10).

Furthermore, Jesus never considered Himself as neither namely, nor synonymously as Catholic, He never declared the His Church to be such, nor did the apostles deem themselves or the Church as being such. Even further, the Roman Catholic Church “sainted” Peter the Apostle as its first Pope, and Peter did not found the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore, again, Christianity is not denominational at all, but is a matter of the heart- confession of, belief in, and acting upon the Word of Christ (Colossians 3:16) to the paramount of its ability. Such qualifies every true Christian as apostolic (of succession from the 12 apostles of the Lamb), and not in merely ascribing to the Catholic Creed.

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