This sacrament had no existence, in any form, until the end of the second or the beginning of the third century; and then it appears simply as a part of baptism, as the completion of that solemn rite.
Continue reading →The Council of Trent on baptism: “If any one shall say that baptism is optional, that it is not necessary to salvation, let him be accursed…If any one shall say that the baptism given by heretics, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with the intention of doing what the Church does, is not true baptism, let him be accursed.”
Continue reading →The court of Rome, in the early part of the sixteenth century, was flagrantly corrupt. No language could be too strong to describe its falsehood and treachery, and its accursed love of money, its sumptuous extravagance, its loathsome licentiousness, its fierce despotism, and its unrelenting cruelty. Its turpitude was known over the world, and shocked the moral sense of all Christian nations; so that, wherever the name of Jesus was breathed with reverence, there was one universal demand, that there should be a reformation in the Church, in its head and in its members.
Continue reading →If the Master said: “My kingdom is not of this world,” the Church of Rome is governed by another spirit; for, during eleven hundred years, her bishops have held an earthly scepter.
Continue reading →Pope Innocent III annulled the Great Charter, the Magna Carta, the document that is the foundation of protection of the individual from illegal imprisonment, and which gives them access to swift and impartial justice.
Continue reading →The Roman pontiff had nearly reached the lofty position of Deity in the estimation of western Europe; never in all human history did a mortal receive such unquestioning homage from so many millions. His word was the voice of the Ancient of Days; his decision was authoritative, as the decree of the Almighty.
Continue reading →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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4Great Britain became “great” because the British Empire sent Protestant missionaries throughout the world to preach the Gospel to the nations. As a result God made Britain great. Britain is no longer great. It succumbed to Romanism in the 19th century. Will President Trump indeed make America great again? Only if he leads the nation back to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Scriptures.
Continue reading →What I was taught from a baby up, is quite contrary to what the historical facts actually tell you. And when you read it from the Roman Catholic standpoint, then you are absolutely getting the truth of what really took place. And at the time when all of this was going on, it was one of the most incredible, tight secrets of all ages, so that nobody really knew what was going on except the very ones that were at the top, that were involved in it.
Continue reading →The Catholic church has been at war against the Orthodox Christians. Croatians, who are Catholic, hatred rivals of Rome the Orthodox Serbians.
Continue reading →The history of the men of God who worked at the risk of their lives to translate and publish God’s Word in English.
Continue reading →Nothing in all past history is better authenticated than the fact that the Papacy has claimed supremacy over kings and kingdoms.
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2The system has been converted into a code. It exists, not as a body of maxims or principles, though in that shape its influence would have been great: it exists as a body of laws, by which every Romish ecclesiastic is bound to act, and which he is appointed to administer. This is termed CANON LAW.
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