Exposing the Heresies of the Catholic church - the Pope
Nov 24, 2018 20:12:33 #
One of the major, early catalysts in the Protestant Reformation was a book by Jan Hus, a Bohemian Christian who preceded Martin Luther by a full century. The book was De Ecclesia (The Church), and one of Hus’s most profound points was proclaimed in the title of his fourth chapter: “Christ the Only Head of the Church.”
Hus wrote, “Neither is the pope the head nor are the cardinals the whole body of the holy, universal, catholic [i.e., true] church. For Christ alone is the head of that church.” Pointing out that most church leaders in his era actually despised the lordship of Christ, Hus said, “To such a low pitch is the clergy come that they hate those who preach often and call Jesus Christ Lord.”
Hus’s candor cost him his life. He was declared a heretic and burned at the stake in 1415.
More than a hundred years later, and already at odds with the papal establishment, Martin Luther read De Ecclesia. After finishing the book, he wrote to a friend, “I have hitherto taught and held all the opinions of Jan Hus unawares; so did John Staupitz. In short, we are all Hussites without knowing it.”
As the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope is often called the “Holy Father” and the “Vicar of Christ”—names and roles that only apply to God. He claims the ability to speak ex cathedra, exercising Godlike infallibility to add to and augment Scripture (Revelation 22:18). He wields unbiblical, unholy authority over his followers, usurping the headship of Christ and perverting the work of the Holy Spirit.
The Reformers understood that and declared it with unashamed boldness. As Martin Luther wrote to a friend, “We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist. . . . Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.”
In his Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin said:
Some persons think us too severe and censorious, when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak, and whose language we adopt. And lest anyone should object, that we improperly pervert to the Roman pontiff those words of Paul, which belong to a different subject, I shall briefly show that they are not capable of any other interpretation than that which implies them to the papacy (John Allen’s translation, book four, chapter seven).
The words of Paul that Calvin referred to were from 2 Thessalonians, where the apostle described the coming Antichrist “who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
That same understanding was later reflected in the Westminster Confession of Faith, which says, “There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalts himself in the church against Christ and all that is called God” (25.6).
That doesn’t mean that the pope is the final Antichrist. There have been and will continue to be, as 1 John 2:18 says, many false teachers who embody the spirit of Antichrist. As the American Puritan Cotton Mather wrote in The Fall of Babylon, “The oracles of God foretold the rising of an Antichrist [i.e., one or more antichrists who embody the spirit of the final Antichrist] in the Christian church. And in the Pope of Rome, all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a marvelous blindness on them.”
In a sermon titled “Pray for Jesus,” Charles Haddon Spurgeon exhorted his congregation that “it is the duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is. No sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the church of Rome and in the church of England, there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name.”
He went on to say:
Popery anywhere, whether it be Anglican or Romish, is contrary to Christ’s gospel! And it is the Antichrist, and we ought to pray against it! It should be the daily prayer of every believer that Antichrist might be hurled like a millstone into the flood and sink to rise no more. If we can pray against error for Christ because it wounds Christ, because it robs Christ of His glory, because it puts sacramental efficacy in the place of His atonement and lifts a piece of bread into the place of the Savior, and a few drops of water into the place of the Holy Spirit, and puts a mere fallible man like ourselves up as the Vicar of Christ on earth—if we pray against it because it is against Him—we shall love the persons though we hate their errors! We shall love their souls though we loathe and detest their dogmas, and so the breath of our prayers will be sweetened because we turn our faces toward Christ when we pray.
In another sermon, titled “Christ Glorified,” Spurgeon said:
Christ did not redeem His church with His blood so the pope could come in and steal away the glory. He never came from heaven to earth and poured out His very heart that He might purchase His people so that a poor sinner, a mere man, should be set upon high to be admired by all the nations and to call himself God’s representative on earth! Christ has always been the head of His church.
In 1 Timothy 2:5, Paul said, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” The pope has assumed for himself a position of authority that does not need to be filled.
https://www.gty.org/library/blog/B130226/exposing-the-heresies-of-the-catholic-church-the-pope
Hus wrote, “Neither is the pope the head nor are the cardinals the whole body of the holy, universal, catholic [i.e., true] church. For Christ alone is the head of that church.” Pointing out that most church leaders in his era actually despised the lordship of Christ, Hus said, “To such a low pitch is the clergy come that they hate those who preach often and call Jesus Christ Lord.”
Hus’s candor cost him his life. He was declared a heretic and burned at the stake in 1415.
More than a hundred years later, and already at odds with the papal establishment, Martin Luther read De Ecclesia. After finishing the book, he wrote to a friend, “I have hitherto taught and held all the opinions of Jan Hus unawares; so did John Staupitz. In short, we are all Hussites without knowing it.”
As the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope is often called the “Holy Father” and the “Vicar of Christ”—names and roles that only apply to God. He claims the ability to speak ex cathedra, exercising Godlike infallibility to add to and augment Scripture (Revelation 22:18). He wields unbiblical, unholy authority over his followers, usurping the headship of Christ and perverting the work of the Holy Spirit.
The Reformers understood that and declared it with unashamed boldness. As Martin Luther wrote to a friend, “We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist. . . . Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.”
In his Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin said:
Some persons think us too severe and censorious, when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak, and whose language we adopt. And lest anyone should object, that we improperly pervert to the Roman pontiff those words of Paul, which belong to a different subject, I shall briefly show that they are not capable of any other interpretation than that which implies them to the papacy (John Allen’s translation, book four, chapter seven).
The words of Paul that Calvin referred to were from 2 Thessalonians, where the apostle described the coming Antichrist “who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
That same understanding was later reflected in the Westminster Confession of Faith, which says, “There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalts himself in the church against Christ and all that is called God” (25.6).
That doesn’t mean that the pope is the final Antichrist. There have been and will continue to be, as 1 John 2:18 says, many false teachers who embody the spirit of Antichrist. As the American Puritan Cotton Mather wrote in The Fall of Babylon, “The oracles of God foretold the rising of an Antichrist [i.e., one or more antichrists who embody the spirit of the final Antichrist] in the Christian church. And in the Pope of Rome, all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a marvelous blindness on them.”
In a sermon titled “Pray for Jesus,” Charles Haddon Spurgeon exhorted his congregation that “it is the duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is. No sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the church of Rome and in the church of England, there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name.”
He went on to say:
Popery anywhere, whether it be Anglican or Romish, is contrary to Christ’s gospel! And it is the Antichrist, and we ought to pray against it! It should be the daily prayer of every believer that Antichrist might be hurled like a millstone into the flood and sink to rise no more. If we can pray against error for Christ because it wounds Christ, because it robs Christ of His glory, because it puts sacramental efficacy in the place of His atonement and lifts a piece of bread into the place of the Savior, and a few drops of water into the place of the Holy Spirit, and puts a mere fallible man like ourselves up as the Vicar of Christ on earth—if we pray against it because it is against Him—we shall love the persons though we hate their errors! We shall love their souls though we loathe and detest their dogmas, and so the breath of our prayers will be sweetened because we turn our faces toward Christ when we pray.
In another sermon, titled “Christ Glorified,” Spurgeon said:
Christ did not redeem His church with His blood so the pope could come in and steal away the glory. He never came from heaven to earth and poured out His very heart that He might purchase His people so that a poor sinner, a mere man, should be set upon high to be admired by all the nations and to call himself God’s representative on earth! Christ has always been the head of His church.
In 1 Timothy 2:5, Paul said, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” The pope has assumed for himself a position of authority that does not need to be filled.
https://www.gty.org/library/blog/B130226/exposing-the-heresies-of-the-catholic-church-the-pope
Nov 24, 2018 21:47:04 #
padremike
Loc: Phenix City, Al
Rose42 wrote:
One of the major, early catalysts in the Protestan... (show quote)
I am amused that heretics believe they have the wisdom and authority to use a word, coined by the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church, to describe those who depart from that church, and you falsely believe you can turn it around and use it against them. Is that part of your new "name it and claim it" theology? The fathers of the church say that the Bible is not your book, it doesn't belong to you because what you have done to it and because you cannot show your list of apostolic succession. You see there were those long before 1517 who perverted scripture and the faith who were declared heretics. Heretic is a catholic word used to describe those opposed to the undivided catholic faith. Find another word or just make one up. Don't use schismatic because that describes you too.
Nov 25, 2018 12:30:02 #
Rose42 wrote:
One of the major, early catalysts in the Protestan... (show quote)
Amen and Amen thank you Rose 42 for that beautiful dissertation if Christ and who he is and what the Pope isn't thanks again.
Nov 25, 2018 16:30:33 #
bahmer wrote:
Amen and Amen thank you Rose 42 for that beautiful dissertation if Christ and who he is and what the Pope isn't thanks again.
It's John MacArthur. If you ever listen to him preach you'd know there is no joy in exposing Catholic heresies, quite the contrary.
Padremike,
"Name it and claim it" is the prosperity gospel which isn't Biblical. It's another perversion of the gospel.
Nov 26, 2018 01:52:52 #
Rose42 wrote:
It's John MacArthur. If you ever listen to him preach you'd know there is no joy in exposing Catholic heresies, quite the contrary.
Padremike,
"Name it and claim it" is the prosperity gospel which isn't Biblical. It's another perversion of the gospel.
Padremike,
"Name it and claim it" is the prosperity gospel which isn't Biblical. It's another perversion of the gospel.
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Bottom line is the Sola Scriptura is not lawful. Protestants and non-believers are NOT allowed to teach, to teach, to proclaim the Gospel of Christ. There are now 47,000 falsifying the Gospel selling to the people for money.
Matthew 16:18
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A18&version=NIV
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it
Just How Many Protestant Denominations Are There?
www.ncregister.com/blog/sbeale/just-how-many-protestant-denominations-are-there
Blogs | Oct. 31, 2017, at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, which is evangelical Protestant, estimates that there are currently 47,000 denominations
Only the Catholic Church[Christ Universal Church] is legally allowed to teach, to preach, to create, and to proclaim the word of God.
Nov 26, 2018 09:43:26 #
Radiance3 wrote:
=============== br Bottom line is the Sola Scriptu... (show quote)
What an inane response Radiance3. Just who makes it illegal to preach the Gospel of Jesus Church? What is the penalty for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ how many years in prison do we get for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and just who is going to arrest us? You are continuing to use debunked criteria about the number of protestant churches again and you have been shown the evidence from from your own church the Roman Catholic Church and still you persist. I would suggest that you clean up your Vatican of all of its sins before you worry about the protestant churches there Radiance3.
Nov 26, 2018 14:25:31 #
bahmer wrote:
What an inane response Radiance3. Just who makes i... (show quote)
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And join the 47,000 Protestant denominations as a Cheering Squad, for making more money selling your Gospel.
Nov 27, 2018 00:13:10 #
bahmer wrote:
What an inane response Radiance3. Just who makes i... (show quote)
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When you non-believers attack the Catholics and me, I respond. I don't allow dumbs to attack me in order t pursue your illegal, unlawful Scriptura. Lawless people behave like what you are doing. They insist their illegal ways, and demand what they wanted.
Similarly that is what those migrants in the Caravans do. They demand to enter the US, with their illegal entries and flags of their own country.
An clear invasion, same as what you are doing now. Go join the 47,000 for a cheer leading squad to make more money from the Solas.
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