Blinded By the Light - The Occult of Roman Catholicism

ìWycliffe began preaching the fact of the believer's personal

and direct responsibility to God. He taught that all authority

is from God and that all who exercise authority are

responsible to God for the use of what He has committed to

them. His teaching denied the prevailing ideas of the absolute

authority of popes and kings, and the necessity for the

mediatory powers of the priesthood. This teaching aroused

controversy and intense opposition. However, it was not until

he published his denial of the doctrine of transubstantiation

in 1381 that his own university forsook him. He had strongly

supported the doctrine of transubstantiation until 1378,

when he began to see that this is not the teaching of

Scripture. Wycliffe denied this doctrine with tremendous

energy. Indeed he was now asserting that there never had

been a heresy more cunningly smuggled into the church

than transubstantiation. The reasons for his complete

change of [stand] are clear: he denounced it as contrary to

Scripture (both Gospels and Epistles), as unsupported by

early church tradition, as plainly opposed to the testimony of

the senses, and as based upon false reasoning. He

proclaimed furthermore, with immense vigour, that the

doctrine was essentially idolatrous, and productive of

arrogant priestly claims without warrant in Scripture. In

sum, the doctrine of the mass was to Wycliffe in the

closing years of his life a ëblasphemous deceit,í or to use

his exact language, ëa veritable abomination of desolation

in the holy place.íî 5 (emphasis mine)

Jan Hus, a contemporary of Wycliffe, was trained as a Roman priest. His
instruction in the scriptures revealed to this man of God the falsity of the
Catholicism. Knowing the responsibility for those he was teaching and relying
firmly on the scriptures, he took a great stand against the errors of the papacy;
condemning the heresies of the pope and the Catholic Church. Like his Lord and
Savior, a so-called friend betrayed this man of God resulting in his arrest. During
his trial, when he asked:

ìÖto be shown his errors from Scripture, the bishops

dismissed him as ëobstinate in heresy.íî 6

The books he had written containing his teachings were ordered burned. When
Hus asked if his accusers had read any of his books, the Catholic leaders judging
him shouted him down, demanding he be silent.

ìHus appealed to God, and the council declared that such an

appeal was erroneous because it contravened (contradicted

Catholic) canon law.î 7