Excerpt Theology Online Who is the Pope to you?
He's not holy and he is
not to be called "father" (Mt 23:9). He is the head of a church in its final
stages of apostasy (Rev. 3:14–22). If any Pope were a truly born again man (Jn
3:7), he would clean house of the false Roman Catholic teachings.
"During the Inquisition, the Catholic religion killed millions. Why? Primarily
to suppress any and all opposition to the pope. Side "benefits" included taking
the material wealth of its victims and showing the pope's power. The Catholic
Inquisitors tortured, crippled, burned, and imprisoned millions of people..."
The Roman Catholic "Church" is Not Christian.
See:
No Papal Authority
No Idolatry & False Teaching
Roman Catholics fought for
a long time to keep the word of God from the common man:
"[L]et's review how this bloodthirsty organization treated a man who simply
wanted to get the Bible into the hands of the common people. In the late 1300s
John Wycliffe translated the scriptures from the Latin Vulgate. Some 40 odd
years after his death, the Catholic religion dug up his bones and burned them
calling him an arch-heretic. In the 1500's William Tyndale sought to translate
the Bible into the language of the common people, English. He could not gain
approval from the Catholic religion so he worked as an outlaw on the run in
Europe, translating the Bible. He was eventually captured, condemned and
executed in 1536. It is because of people like these men, Tyndale and Wycliffe,
that we have the scriptures today. If the Catholic religion had its way, we'd
still be in ignorance about the Bible and enslaved to the pope..." full text:
The Roman Catholic "Church" is Not Christian
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/cath.htm
Wouldn't you work to keep
the scriptures away from the common man if you were perverting it?
See:
Reformation Time Line
This battle is not new: Cain and Abel (Jude 1:11); Historical Biblical
Christians and work-based religions (Ga 2:16). We stand in the truth of the true
gospel (1 Cor 15:1). Mere professions of faith can be counterfeit. We must come
to God [I]his[/I] way (Ro 8:5).
See:
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