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Yup, there would be peace on earth if all men where like you and your men. But there is one little problem with your fantasy: Satan
Ummmm......All your Protestant denominations "teach a different gospel" sooooooooo doesn't that put you in the same category as the man you are criticizing?
The annual feast days, eg Passover, Pentecost, feast of first fruits, etc (there were 7) weren't all fulfilled by Jesus. Pentecost was fulfilled 40 days after the Ascension. There were still 3 more after that... Feast of trumpets, Day of Atonement, and feast of tabernacles. What can you tell us of the fulfilling of those? All of them were closely linked to the sanctuary services and sacrifices. All therefore pointed in some way, or were types, of particular aspects of the ministry of Jesus, that ministry of redemption and salvation from sin... Some of them not fulfilled when He was alive. So all those feasts and annual Sabbaths were instituted at Sinai as a large predominant part of the remedy and solution to the sin problem.
BoL. Are you saying there is nothing in Canon law that supported the idea of inquisitions and the practise of killing those who refused to recant or confess to heresy?
Yes, there are variations in determining what the gospel is throughout Christendom. But I think what Bereans was saying was that Catholicism teaches a different gospel from scripture. As do many of the Protestant denominations. Although I believe we need to perhaps clarify what you mean by Protestant. For example. I would not classify the Episcopalians as protestants. Nor the Lutherans, the Anglicans, the Presbyterians, the Methodists, or many of the other independent or mainline non Catholic churches around. They all stopped protesting a long time ago. Not only did they stop protesting Catholic heresy, but they also ceased advocating for pro-testimony, that is upholding scripture alone as spiritual authority. Most now have capitulated from the benchmark of cleaving to and searching out of truth that was set by the 16th and 17th century reformers. Those modern so called Protestant denominations may now be classified as on the verge of becoming fully restored and fully welcomed back into the fold as fallen Harlots... All back home with Mother. But, praise the Lord, there are still some who are protesting and preaching the true and full gospel... And may God bless them as they remain faithful to scripture and to the cause of Truth.
Good for you. Keep it. I'll fellowship with you.
Apparently, reading is yet another skill at which YOU are wotfully inept.
Ummm - there's one GIGANTIC hole in your idiotic rant:
As usual - you are confused.
What absolute total and complete garbage and lies. History testifies to the exact opposite and did not begin with Ellen White. The Waldenses were not rabble rousers, lazy, indolent, but were well known by the princes and rulers of those territories throughout Europe where they settled, to be industrious, honest, and Christian. By contrast, Rome chose to exterminate them through inquisitions and papal bulls denouncing them as heretics, but the local lords of the land were, despite being faithful Catholics and reluctant to disobey and upset the Pope, were even more reluctant to destroy the best and most noble of their populations.
You don't seem to appreciate that the Waldenses for example were not just a few scattered rabble rousers that caused the locals a headache. The Waldenses populated a great area of Europe, and some historians estimate the numbers to be in excess of 800,000.
You just keep beating that drum while ignoring the millions of cases of papal priest child sex abuse your beloved papacy swept under the rug via "hush money" settlements - despite Cardinal Law being informed at the annual conference of bishops that "pedophile priests" were becoming a BILLION dollar liability for your death cult.
Oh goodness......You crack me up Brakelite.
People are in here trying to convince other people that no man cometh to the Christ except through the catholic priesthood, and all you can do is whine about volume?
They weren’t rabble-rousers??
And while YOU accuse me of "beating the drum" - YOU have completely ignored the facts as documented by the FBI and the insurance companies, as chronicled by Philip Jenkins' book, Pedophiles and Priests.
I can't think of a more noble pursuit than to do just that!
Well Mary, you actually proved me right by quoting those dictionaries...Oh goodness......You crack me up Brakelite.
Protestant defined (Merriam webster dictionary): a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth broadly: a Christian not of a Catholic or Eastern church
Cambridge dictionary: a member of the parts of the Christian Church that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the 16th century, a member of one of the major Christian divisions to which a number of different religious groups belong:
AND all those denominations you listed! They call themselves Protestant ......... but YOU don't????????
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
Becomes irrelevant.
So while they refused and rejected Roman authority, but in all other points harmonized with scripture and were fine examples and good citizens of all the nations to which they were chased and harried, the Catholic church sought their extinction solely because they testified to Rome's corruptions in both word and deed, and this became enemies of Rome and worthy of destruction. Heresy in the eyes of Rome isn't disobedience to or unbelief in God's word, but simply unacceptance of an apostatizing institution having any day whatsoever in ones eternal destiny.
