AR 825 - The Violence That Has Been Done to the Lord's Divinity and His Word

AR 825 [ 2-3]

That violence has been done 
to the Lord's Divinity and to the Word 
is clearly apparent from the Roman Catholic religion 
and from the faith-alone religion 
of the Protestant Reformed. 
The Roman Catholic religion teaches 
that the Lord's humanity is not Divine, 
and so they have transferred 
everything that is the Lord's to themselves. 
They also maintain 
that it is for them alone to interpret the Word, 
and their interpretation
is everywhere contrary to the Word's Divine truth . . .. 
It is apparent, therefore, 
that violence has been done to the Word 
by that religion.

It is apparent likewise from the faith-alone religion 
among the Protestant Reformed. 
This, too, does not make the Lord's humanity Divine, 
and it founds its theology 
on a single saying of Paul falsely interpreted. (1)
Therefore it takes no account 
of everything the Lord taught 
regarding love and charity and good works, 
even though those teachings are so obvious 
that anyone may see them 
if only he has the eyes to do so.

Jews treated the Word similarly. 
Their religion taught
that the Word was written only for them, 
so that only they are meant in it, 
and that the Messiah to come 
would exalt them over all others in the whole world. 
By these notions and many others 
they falsified and adulterated everything in the Word.
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(1)"Therefore we conclude 
that a man is justified by faith 
apart from the deeds of the law." 
(Romans 3:28)