St. Paul the Apostle: "We have an altar" (Heb. 13.10); INC100: 'That's superfluous!'

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The INC ('Iglesia ni Cristo') founded by Felix Manalo in 1914 - is celebrating its 100th year [but the Church built by the Lord on Cephas is already more than two thousand years in its existence since "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."] and came up with this banner...

We have an altar (St. Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews, 13.10). Christians since the Apostolic Age render God cultic worship that is the very perfection of the Old Testament cultic rite through the perpetual oblation and sacrifice of Christ the High Priest over the house of God (Heb. 10.21) ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDECH  (Heb. 6.20) - that is, the continual oblation and sacrifice of His Body and Blood IN THE FORM OF CONSECRATED BREAD AND WINE (DISCERN... the Body of the Lord, 1 Cor. 11.29). This is the external form of perfect divine worship by Christ's inseparably and indefectibly always visible Mystical Body - the Church He already built on Cephas: the Catholic Church of consistent Apostolic Tradition (the NT Gk "paradoseis" of 2 Thess. 2.14), to distinguish it from the pseudo-Catholic Church or the so-called "New 'Catholic [Dis]Order' of Vatican II - here on earth. Whereas, the passage quoted is the other necessary part of the equation, so to speak: a perfect internal form of worship. To stress only the latter is to copy the error of the Lutherans.

"Panginoon ko at Diyos ko!"

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Panginoon ko at Diyos ko! (Jn. 20.28)

Sa "Araw ng Pagkabuhay ng Panginoong Hesus", ang una sa sanglinggo (Jn. 20.19), maririnig natin sa Banal na Ebanghelio para sa araw na ito: Sumagot si Tomas at sinabi sa Kanya: "Panginoon ko at Diyos ko!" (Jn. 20.28). Ito ang naibulalas ni Sto. Tomas na Apostol sa pagpapahayag ng kanyang pananampalataya sa ating Panginoon at Tagapagligtas na muling nabuhay na hindi lamang nagpakita sa kanya kundi nag-anyaya pa na kanyang ipasok ang sariling mga daliri sa butas na nilikha ng pagpunit ng laman sa tagiliran ni Hesus noong Siya ay mamatay sa Krus. Samakatuwid, ang pananampalatayang Katoliko - na si Hesus ay tunay na Diyos AT tunay na tao - ay siyang pananampalataya ng mga Apostol: tahasang pinahahayag ngayon ni Sto. Tomas.

Muling pinasisinungalingan na maliwanag nang Banal na Kasulatan sa pagkakataong ito ang aral ng sektang itinatag ni Felix Manalo (ang INC, "Iglesia Ni Cristo") at ng sekta ng mga "Saksi ni Jehova" - pareho, katulad ni Luther, na nagsasabing "Biblia lamang" ang kanilang pinaniniwalaan at sinusunod -  na nagtuturo ng testimonya ng Sinagoga ni Satanas (Apoc. 2.9; 3.9) - na si Hesus ay isang tao [lamang] (Jn. 10.33: Mt. 26.63-65; Jn. 19.7).