I am very grateful
that the Lord Chancellor has given me the opportunity to speak before you
today. I pray that God will use my words to open the eyes of the
spiritually blind.
Why I am here today is not because of anything that I have done right or
wrong. I don’t know why God has given me the privilege of speaking before
you, but I praise Him for it. I pray that He will give me words to speak.
Firstly, I am charged with heresy in my sayings with regards to the mass.
I wholeheartedly acknowledge that I said I was more edified by five lines of
Scripture than five masses. This is because mass is so polluted, and
Scripture is so twisted there that it becomes nothing less than heresy.
Second, I am charged with heresy in regards to the sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper. I believe that the bread and wine are holy, but I do not believe
that they are Christ’s body and blood or that they should be worshipped.
If they are, they become idols. Christ’s body was offered up once and for
all, and anybody who says anything to the contrary calls Christ a liar.
After all, does the Scripture not say, “For as often as you eat this bread and
drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.” ‘Death,’ not
deaths! We read: “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous
for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but
made alive in the Spirit.” Christ suffered once for sins, not many
times! And for what else would He suffer, for He came down as the Lamb of
God simply to live a perfect life and take away the sins of the world.
Finally, I am charged with heresy because I do not acknowledge the authority of
the pope to judge and condemn. Yes, we are to submit to
authorities. But when those authorities are utterly corrupt and wallowing
in sin and filth, we are to submit to God over them. I defy the pope, and
I do not believe He has been given authority over us.
I appeal to Scripture to back up everything that I have said here today, and
plead with Christ to forgive me if I have wronged Him or anyone here
today. I know I am innocent, but face the fire, unjust as it may be, with
no fear. I praise God that He has deemed me worthy for this moment, and I
pray that I will glorify Him in my death. I also plead with Him to open
the eyes of my persecutors and to forgive them as He has so lavishly forgiven
me.
By: Siobhan aka Stella (14)
Grade: 10
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