From the end of the seventh century onward, the power of the Roman Catholic clergy in general grew at an alarming rate. Men who could add a thousand or ten thousand centuries to your torments in Purgatory by a word; who could keep your mother, wife, or child as long as they pleased, or only for a moment, in raging flames, were not to be treated as other men, who could only hurt the body.
Continue reading →The Popes of Rome misinterpret the Words of Jesus to Peter to claim authority over all the churches. Jesus never made Peter the head of the Church. It’s was the faith of Peter calling Jesus the Christ that the Church is built upon, not on Peter himself.
Continue reading →In the estimation of Gregory and the other leading bishops of his day, that no prelate had any authority from God to be the master of his fellow-bishops; that in all fundamental matters the bishops of the Christian world were on a common platform.
Continue reading →The great councils of bishops of the first 700 years after Christ, knew nothing of the spiritual supremacy of the bishops of Rome. One Pope, Honorius, was even denounced by a council as a heretic!
Continue reading →The ancient Churches of Ireland, England, and Scotland, loving an open Bible, and cultivating purity and love, by the testimony of friends and foes, paid no deference to papal authority; knew nothing of the prince of the apostles or his successors, and were as independent of the See of Rome as any Protestant Church of the nineteenth century.
Continue reading →Interesting history of Patrick’s evangelism of Ireland and the fact the Irish originally were Bible believers and not under the authority of the Roman Pope.
Continue reading →The Bishop of Rome claims absolute and lasting kingship over all the churches of Christ on earth; and he presumes to assert that he has exercised this authority by the gift of Christ from the first planting of Christianity.
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1It is fashionable in some quarters to deny that there is any such thing as certainty about religious truth, or any opinions for which it is worth while to be burned. Yet, 300 years ago, there were men who were certain they had found out truth, and were content to die for their opinions.
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