What is the True Standard of Righteousness?
True righteousness is determined by the Word of God, the Bible, and not what society tells us.
Continue reading →Billy Graham and Rome – A talk by Dr. Ian Paisley
Ian Paisley denounces Billy Graham for compromising with the Roman Catholic Church.
Continue reading →The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Fifth Period. 1257 A.D.
This historical text outlines medieval accounts of the alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary to Simon Stock and examines the theological consensus of 13th-century scholars, particularly Thomas Aquinas and Cardinal Bonaventura, regarding original sin, the necessity of Christ’s redemption, and the evolving practices surrounding Marian devotion and intercession.
Continue reading →A Plenary Indulgence…
If some pope of the future should issue such a decree, it would undoubtedly make headlines in the newspapers of the world. But would it be news in heaven? The book of heaven is the Bible, and this book says not a word about purgatory.
Continue reading →Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Conclusion. What is Puseyism?
About the Oxford Movement that promoted an “Anglo-Catholic revival” in the Church of England, based on the teachings of Edward Bouverie Pusey.
Continue reading →Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter X. The Evidence from Prophecy
Popery unchangeable.—Its guilt greater than in the dark ages.—The Papacy predicted under the figure of a little horn in Dan. vii.—The willful king in Dan. xi.—The city of Nineveh in Nahum.—The apostasy of the Man of Sin in 2 Thess. ch. ii.—The wild beast with two horns in Rev. xiii. is the Eastern and Western Antichrist.—The whore of Babylon in ch. xvii. is Papal Rome.—“The rest of the men” in Rev. ix. 20 denotes the same.—Attempts of Romanists to whitewash their system.—God will cast abominable filth upon Rome.—Character of Jesuitism.
Continue reading →The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Purification Before Birth.
Rejection of the Immaculate Conception: A multitude of historical authorities—including Petrus Commestor, Pope Innocent III, Alexander de Ales, and Albertus Magnus—maintained that the Virgin Mary was conceived in original sin like all humans, and was only subsequently sanctified or purified within her mother’s womb.
Continue reading →The Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation
The Bible alone is the ultimate authority is the formal principle of the Reformation. A central cry of the Reformation was salvation by grace.
Continue reading →Has Satan really been cast out?
With the foreboding spectre of Halloween fast approaching, many Christians’ thoughts turn to the darker spiritual elements spoken of in the Bible.
Continue reading →Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter IX. The Corruption of the Priesthood
The clergy of Rome, like King Uzziah (2 Chron. xxvi. 18), had impiously usurped the office of priest, which under the Christian dispensation belongs to Christ alone—and they, too, like that monarch, smitten with the leprosy of sin, as a just retribution for their crime, present for many centuries a spectacle so foul and loathsome as to convince every unbiased person that it was the result of judicial blindness.
Continue reading →The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Fourth Period. 942 A.D.
The historical evolution of Marian veneration and theological debate surrounding the Immaculate Conception from the 11th to the 12th century. It highlights how prominent church figures—including Anselm, Pope Innocent II, and Saint Bernard—historically maintained that Mary was conceived in original sin, opposing the later-adopted dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Continue reading →Reformation Day – October 31
God accepts us not because we are becoming better people through our own efforts, or because we adhere to church traditions that are only tenuously related to Scripture. Rather, God accepts (or justifies) sinners freely and graciously because Jesus has died for our sins and rose again on the third day.
Continue reading →Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter VIII. Corruption Of The Papal Court
Horrible as our analysis of Popery has proved, we have not yet done. One more constituent in that moral pestilence remains to be noticed, viz., the corrupt lives of the papal court and priesthood.
Continue reading →The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Third Period, 627 A.D.
“The Christians of the seventh century had insensibly relapsed into a semblance of paganism. Their public and private vows were addressed to the relics and images that disgraced the temples of the East. The throne of the Almighty was darkened by a cloud of martyrs and saints and angels, the objects of popular veneration; and the Collyridian heretics, who flourished in the fruitful soil of Arabia, invested the Virgin Mary with the name and honours of a goddess.”
Continue reading →The Falling Away and the Rise of the Man of Sin Part 2
Our task is to discuss the attempts to interpret the passages and texts of Scripture relating to the Apostasia, the Antichrist, the Beast, the Woman who rides the Beast, Mystery Babylon the Great, and any other pertinent texts.
Continue reading →Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter VII. The Priest in the Place of God
We have already considered those doctrines and practices which constitute the chief elements in the Romish pestilence. There still remains, however, another feature of Popery equally destructive, which runs through the whole system, viz., the awful extent to which the priest usurps the place of God! or in the figurative language of prophecy, “sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (2 Thess. ii. 4.)
Continue reading →The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—S. Patrick
Now we come to that excellent old Protestant called Saint Patrick, who flourished in the year 464 A.D. He never once, in his writings, addressed a prayer, petition, or even ejaculation to Mary, or to any saint or angel.
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Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter VI. The Worship of of Images
The worship of the saints and of the Virgin has thus been fully established against the Church of Rome. Another and still heavier charge is now brought against it—that of worshipping dumb idols.
Continue reading →The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect. 417 A.D.
The Council of Carthage decreed: “That no one, in praying, shall address his prayers to any one except God the Father.” Such a decree was felt to be most necessary. For, at that time, few men addressed their prayers to God. They preferred to entreat some saint to intercede with God for them.
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