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St. Patrick Was Not Catholic!

That's right, you heard it right! St. Patrick was not Catholic! You could say he was more like a Protestant! In his Confession he quotes Scripture like a Protestant, but he does not in anywise refer to any church council or creed as his authority. His authority was Sola Scirtura! (the Scripture alone!). The hundreds of training centers which he founded, later grew into colleges and big universities, which were all Bible schools.

"Patrick, like his example, (YAHUSHUA), put the words of Scripture above the teachings of men. He differed from the papacy, which puts church tradition above the Bible. In his writings he nowhere appeals to the church of Rome for the authorization of his mission. Whenever he speaks in defense of his mission, he refers to (Elohim) alone, and declares that he received his call direct from heaven. Sir William Betham states that the more recent Latin version of Jerome was not publicly read in Patrick's day. Evidently the earlier Latin version of the Bible, known as the Itala, was publicly used. It is interesting to note that it was approximately nine hundred years before Jerome's Vulgate could make headway in the West against the Itala." Truth Triumphant p. 83,84. (Hebrew name & title restored)

The children of this high culture memorized the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch or Torah, also called, the law of YAHUWAH (Luke 2:23 & Psalm 19:7). [Most know the Creator's name as Jehovah or Yahweh, we have put the original name which the Creator Himself declared upon Mt. Sinai, ask for free studies] The Celtic Church in the wilderness lived a simple life, they lived the Scriptures, their life was the Hebrew economy. They built their homes around the sanctuary just as the children of Israel.

What were some of the beliefs and practices of Patrick's church, whereby we might discern that he was not Catholic?

Patrick practiced baptism by immersion, and not by sprinkling, or using an oyster shell to pour water on someone's head. Check out the following quotes, "the site of his tent is in the green of the fort,...and to the north of the fort is his well wherein he baptized Dunling's two sons." The Tripartite Life of Patrick 1,185

Here is another,

"Thereafter Patrick went in his chariot, so that everyone might see him. And that they might hear from him his voice, and the preaching of (Elohim's) word by him. And then they believed in (Elohim) and in Patrick. So Patrick repeats the order of baptism to them on the river, which was anear them, and all the hosts are baptized therein." Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore II 180741

"Patrick believed that Christianity (not sure what else to call it) should be founded with the home and the family as its strength. Too often the Christian organizations of that age were centered in celibacy. This was not true of the Irish Church and its Celtic daughters in Great Britain, Scotland, and on the Continent. The Celtic Church, as organized and developed under Patrick, permitted clergy to marry." Truth Triumphant p. 84

"Patrick beheld (YAHUSHUA) as his substitute on the cross. He took his stand for the Ten Commandments. He says in his Confession: 'I was taken to Ireland in captivity with many thousand men, in accordance with our deserts because we walked at a distance from (Elohim), and did not observe His commandments.' Those who recoiled from the extreme speculation and conclusions of the so-called Trinitarians believed Deuteronomy 29:29: 'The secret things belong unto YAHUWAH our Elohim: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever.'

"The binding obligation of the Decalogue was a burning issue in Patrick's age. In theory, all the parties in disagreement upon the Trinity recognized the Ten Commandments as the moral law of (Elohim), perfect, eternal, and unchangeable. It could easily be seen that in the judgment, (YAHUWAH) could not have one standard for angels and another for men. There was not one law for the Jews and a different one for the Gentiles. The rebellion of Satan in heaven had initiated the great revolt against the eternal moral law. All the disputants over the Trinity recognized that when (Elohim) made man in His image it was the equivalent of writing the Ten Commandments in his heart by creating man with a flawless moral nature. All parties went a step further. They confessed and denied not that in all the universe there was found no one, neither angel, cherubim, seraphim, man, nor any other creature, except (the Son of Elohim), whose death could atone for the broken law.

"Then the schism came. Those who rejected the intense, exacting definition of three Divine Persons in one body, as laid down by the Council of Nicaea, believed that Calvary had made (the Messiah) a divine sacrifice, the sinner's substitute. The papacy repudiated the teaching that Jesus died as mans substitute upon the cross. Consequently it ignored the exalted place given the Decalogue by the crucifixion of (the Messiah). Those who saw the eternal necessity of magnifying the law, and making it honorable, maintained that death claimed the Son of (Elohim), but had left untouched the Father and Holy Spirit. This was the teaching of Patrick and his successor." Truth Triumphant p. 93,94

Since the Celtic Church had such a great understanding of the Decalogue and its position, I hardly even need to mention which day of the week they regarded as sacred to the Creator YAHUWAH, of course it was the seventh day of the week, which most know today as Saturday, though it is not Saturn's day. Patrick 'taught the pagans to regard their deities as devils.' The Celtic Church in Britain p. 139 I suppose some documentation for the Sabbath of YAHUWAH should be given.

"The Gothic, Waldensian, Armenian, and Syrian Churches, and the Church of the East, as well as the church organization which Patrick founded, largely sanctified Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as the sacred twenty four-hour period on which (Elohim) rested after creation. Many also had sacred assemblies on Sunday, even as many churches today have prayer meeting on Wednesday.

"Treatment of the Celtic Church the historian A.C. Flick writes, 'The Celts used a Latin Bible unlike the Vulgate, and kept Saturday as a day of rest, with special religious services on Sunday." (The Rise of the Medieval Church p. 237)

"T.Ratclif Barnett in his book on the fervent Catholic queen of Scotland who in 1060 was first to attempt the ruin of Columba's brethren writes, 'In this matter the Scots had perhaps kept up the traditional usage of the ancient Irish Church which observed Saturday instead of Sunday as the day of rest'." (Margaret of Scotland: Queen and Saint, p.9) quoted in Truth Triumphant p. 95

"The Bishop of Rome hated Saint Patrick (although they later canonized him), because he was not only a Sabbath-keeper, but observed the Biblical feasts and held to the doctrine of the non-immortality of the soul. Celebration of the Biblical feasts were continued in the British Isles until the Council of Whitby in 664AD:

"The only exceptions are these people and their accomplices in obstinacy; I mean the Picts and the Britons, with whom the inhabitants of the two last islands of the ocean only on part of these, they stand against the whole world, struggling foolishly.

"Catholic Bishop Wilfred, 635-709 AD, who, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, more than any other individual brought about the close relation of the Anglo-Saxon church and the papacy, said,

"Far be it from us to charge John [the Revelator] with foolishness, for he observed the precepts of the Law of Moses literally, at a time when the church still followed the Jews in many things, and the apostles were not able suddenly to set aside the entire observance of the Law laid down by (Elohim)... So John, according to the custom of the law, began the celebration of Easter on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month, paying no attention to whether it fell on the Sabbath (Sunday) or some other day. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, pp 161, 162

"Called by King Oswy of Northumbria in 664 at Whitby. Its purpose was to choose between the usage of the Celtic and Roman churches, primarily in the matter of reckoning Easter (W-S) Oswy decided for the roman usages and in so doing determined that the English church would be associated with the Roman in the main stream of Western European Christianity. Only a few of the Celtic clergy returned to the monastery of Iona and their old ways." The Columbia Encyclopedia

The reference to the monastery at Iona is a reference to an institution founded by Columba on a small island in Erin (Ireland). Columba, successor of the famous Patrick, is historically know for observing the seventh-day Sabbath. The above quotation indicates that they kept the Messianic Passover, from which are implied the rest of the Biblical Feasts.

"One of the strongest proofs that Patrick did not belong to papal Christianity is found in the historical fact that for centuries Rome made every effort to destroy the church Patrick had founded." Truth Triumphant p. 84

So what ever became of Patrick's Messianic church you might ask? To ruin the glory of Patrick and Columba his successor was next to impossible. Patrick, the father of the Church of England like Abraham Lincoln was to the United States. Margaret might as well attempt to degrade the apostle Paul. "A more feasible avenue to success would be to legislate against the religious customs of the Celtic Church Margaret never hesitated to unite church and state. Like Constantine, she joined together that which (the Messiah) had put asunder. Beginning with a Sunday law, she proceeded to the demolition of the Celtic Church. How little does the public suspect that religious legislation to enforce Easter and Sunday has been the method of choking out the life of a liberty loving church." Truth Triumphant p 112

Now you know why there are two Patricks, the real Patrick, and the fictitious Patrick In order for Rome to be able to find acceptance with the Church of England, they had to 'Saint' the person of Patrick. Roman Catholic scholars has rewritten the history concerning Patrick and the Celtic Church.

James Adair an Irishman himself, said it well, “The learned world is already fully acquainted with the falsehood of their histories." History of the American Indians p. 206