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Never heard of Calvin being involved with anything like that. I'm not so much interested in arguing with Catholic apologists who will not be convinced against the lies of the Papacy as much as I am "contending for the faith once delivered to the saints" for the benefit of those who may have only heard one side of the story.Didn't Calvin had a heretic executed?
Going over your verse in your signature, but in context to make sure you are reading it in the spirit of the message;
1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
The Book of 1 John was about the apostle John addressing those believers that had thought sin was no longer sin to them and that they can walk in darkness because they are His and thus saved, regardless. John was exposing those who teach such things as liars and hardly abiding in Him at all. John was not exposing them as unsaved nonbelievers in their midst, but as not abiding in Him for those that claim to know Him.
I believe the church at Thyatira in the Book of Revelation epitomizes the spirit of the Catholic Church as they sacrifice to devils in their Mass as per 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 and they are in trouble for treating the blood of the New Covenant on part with the blood of goats and bulls in thinking they need to receive that one time sacrifice for sins again each time it is made "present" during the Mass as pr Hebrews 10th chapter warnings.
They are the ones that teach Catholic to see spiritual gifts from the Holy Ghost; hence asking the Holy Ghost directly for those gifts; wrong way. There is a report that in the early history of the Catholic Church, they took tongues as a sign that they were keeping the doctrines within which goes against what tongues were to serve as a signs towards which is the unbelievers; 1 Corinthians 14:22
So in actuality, the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches had their origins in the Catholic Church whose errant doctrines' origins epitomizes Thyatira.
Any saved believer in iniquity is in effect by that iniquity, denying Him ( Titus 1:15-16 ) which in turn He will deny them ( 2 Timothy 2:12 ) but even if they do not believe in Him any more, He is faithful for He still abides ( 2 Timothy 2:13 & 2 Timothy 2:18-21 ) but are at risk of being left behind as vessels unto dishonors to be received later on after the great tribulation, but they are still in His House for He will lose none ( John 6:38-40 )
So that warning to the church at Thyatira is for the Catholic/Pentecostal & Charismatic Churches and any other church or believer that has any of those doctrines in thinking Christ Presence is outside of them in visitations with signs & lying wonders or in the idol of the bread & the wine where they are eating and drinking in His Presence ( Luke 13:24-30 ) as the evidence will be where believers lose self control and fall down as in Matthew 7:21-27 which is Matthew's version of the same event of Luke 13:24-30 when God will judge His House first & excommunicate those not abiding in Him.
So do consider the reality of the power of God in salvation because if a Catholic believes in the Lord Jesus Christ and that God raised Him from the dead, they are saved, even if by their doctrines, they believe they are not saved yet and laboring in unbelief in the works of catholicism in coming short of that rest in Jesus Christ.
Do note that 2 Thessalonians 3:1-7 and 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 testified that evil, wicked, and unreasonable men that have not faith that do not walk after the traditions that was taught of us as in the N.T. are still brothers as we are to withdraw from fellowship to admonish them as brothers.
So we are to pray for our brethren in that the Lord will raise up workers for the harvests in the hopes that God may be peradventuring to recover some from the snares of the devil. We certainly cannot convince them by arguing about it. So let God cause the increase by praying for them.
It fully agree that the Church of Thyatira refers exactly to the Papacy. The worsening condition of the church chronicled by the first 3 churches culminates with the wholesale apostasy that is seen in the fourth church - which is textbook Historicist interpretation of prophecy. Unfortunately, so many today have been infected with the virus of Jesuit Futurism that trying to convince them that eschatology was once universally understood by non-Catholics to point to the Papacy as Antichrist is as nearly as impossible as trying to convince Paul that Jesus Christ was the Messiah.