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Sunflower15
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**The Lord have mercy if you ever get ‘flustered’!!!Teaching that part of the 10 commandments are done with (4th).
All the Commandments are still there, just in different numbers, which those who came AFTER changed, not those who came chronologically BEFORE, btw….
Why don’t you do yourself a favor and pick up the Bible (word of God) not some book written by the catholic church. In the word of God (Bible) not the church, is all the education I need!
Read!!!
**Uh, are you NOT aware of WHO wrote, compiled, protected, selected, chose which ones to include, and preserved the rest not chosen to be in the Bible?
Yup, the Catholic & Orthodox church [when they were one]…
And now ALL Protestants learn from these writings…while some -not all!- remove them from their source [the human part of the source, not the divine].
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Ask yourself, can we identify the harlot (church) that is called “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots” in Revelation chapter 17?
[yup…the heretics that teach against the church [all the people of God who are truly faithful]
Answer: Yes, it is widely known that there is only one church which claims to be the mother church–the great Roman Catholic Church.
Untrue…there are 23 Catholic churches, and about the same number of Orthodox churches and all claim the same! [and rightfully so, btw]
A prominent Catholic priest, John A. O’Brien, said: “That observance [Sunday keeping] remains as a reminder of the Mother Church from which the non-Catholic sects broke away.”
The points used in Revelation 17 to describe mother Babylon and the beast she rides clearly fit the papacy:
A. She persecuted the saints (verse 6).
Hardly, it canonizes them.
B. She was dressed in purple and scarlet (verse 4). The popes often wear the royal color of purple at important functions, and red is the color of the robes of Catholic cardinals.
Does your church forbid those colors? Anyone can wear them sometimes, as you say…
C. The seven heads of the beast (verse 3) upon which the woman is seated are seven mountains (verse 9). It is well known that Rome, the world headquarters of the papacy, is built upon seven hills or mountains.
As are many other places on Earth…but Revelation describes a reality outside of this world…
D. The beast is guilty of blasphemy (verse 3), a point which also clearly fits the papacy.
How so? I highly doubt that!
E. She ruled “over the kings of the earth.” Verse 18. Alexander Flick says that by the 13th century, the pope was “at least in theory and claim … the ruler of the whole world in temporal and spiritual affairs.”
This point could fit no other earthly kingdom or government. The papacy is described in Revelation 17 too clearly for doubt.
How the heck does the Pope rule everyone else? In your mind only!
Many leaders of the Reformation (Huss, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Melanchthon, Cranmer, Tyndale, Latimer, Ridley, and others) taught that the papacy is the power here involved. Many of them were “mysteriously” killed, and I wonder why?
Who knows? Many saints were killed too, including all the Apostles, the direct ascendants of today’s Catholics and Orthodox bishops.
Not bad for an “un-educated” Christian? Oh, and by the way, while I sat and wrote this I wasn’t killing and/or screaming, I was sitting calmy, and relaxed, now you don’t have to wonder anymore.
You sound quite hateful to me! Not to mention terribly misinformed! How sad!
Remember the 8th Commandment? The one of not bearing false witness against your brother? Just saying…
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I can’t imagine how you feel toward the rest of mankind if this is how you feel toward other Christian traditions! 