quietthinker
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Andrew, consider that there are two woman we are given details about in Revelation. One is pure and the other corrupt.At first I thought the whore of babylon was the Roman Catholic Church but after doing lots of research I discoveredidn't alot of evidence that it's actually ancient pagan rome, the one thing that has me still questioning if the whore of babylon is the catholic church (specifically vatican) is the fact that babylon is identified as a spiritual whore, in the bible a spiritual whore is someone who was in a relationship with God but then went after other gods and ancient pagan rome never had a relationship with God, can anyone help me with this confusion
Gods people (church) are referred to as his bride represented in simplicity and purity. From his people came the Messiah and salvation.
The whore, the corrupted woman lures the multitudes that have no real interest in righteousness although they give lip service to it with all the things their itching ears want to hear. There is a form of Godliness but its power is denied. Revelation calls her 'Babylon The Great' The corrupted church which you correctly identified as the RCC which leads the whole world astray. Its image are the Protestant churches which are presently denying their roots and apologising for their protest and going back to Rome. This is happening in our day.
Of course there is much more to say about this.