The Church’s Object of Worship
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Holy Scripture teaches that the sole Object of Worship is the one true and living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, not the Virgin Mary, not the saints, not images, and not statues.
Continue reading →Tag Archives: Council of Trent
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The Word of God, the Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule of faith and obedience for all true believers.
Continue reading →The Relation of Church and State
The popes of Rome believe they are above all civil governments and laws! Moreover, they believe all governments and rulers must submit to them!
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Revelation 11:12-14. Ascent Of The Witnesses. Great Earthquake
Political Establishment Of The Reformation. Separation From The Papacy. A.D. 1552-1790.
Continue reading →Quotations Dealing with the History of the Jesuits
It is impossible to read history except in the context of an army of JESUITS, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration, subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plotting for the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Pope’s foes anywhere in the world.
Continue reading →The British Monarchy In Peril
The departure of the Bristish royal family from their constitutional identity and duty as faithful Protestants had been seen in their fraternising with Roman Catholics. Prince Charles had attended Mass on more than one occasion with Catholic friends and was prevented from participating in the Pope’s private Mass only by command of the Queen.
Continue reading →The Foundations Under Attack The Roots of Apostasy
The apostasy in the twentieth century; the compromise on essentials and the attack on the fundamentals actually have their roots in the nineteenth century.
Continue reading →The Abandoning of the Protestant Reformed Religion
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True ecumenical unity is clearly defined in the Scriptures. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all,
Continue reading →The Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements
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John Wesley’s Arminian teachings had inspired the founders of The Holiness Movement. In time this would become identified with “The Baptism of the Holy Spirit” and the speaking with tongues of Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement.
Continue reading →Catholicism and Arminianism in England and France During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Arminians can find their cherished semi-Pelagian views on free will enshrined in the decrees of the notorious Council of Trent.
Continue reading →The Counter-Reformation – The Source of the Futurist View of Prophecy
Pursuing and punishing “heretics” (true believers) was counter-productive. It was clear that the Counter-Reformation needed to take on the very Word of God itself.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XV Marriage
The Roman Church has attempted to control everything pertaining to marriage. Since marriage was held to be a sacrament, civil marriage was declared to be unlawful.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XIV Celibacy
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The Catholic Church requires that its priests, & nuns abstain from marriage. It’s not to be confused with the vow of chastity – abstention from sexual relations.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XIII Ritualism
Roman Catholic people have to struggle with ritualism and superstition, forms and ceremonies which impress the eye but deaden the soul to spiritual truth.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XII Penance, Indulgences: Salvation by Grace or by Works?
Protestantism is primarily a reassertion of New Testament Christianity, the teaching that salvation is by faith rather than works. Romanism, on the other hand, teaches that salvation depends ultimately upon ourselves, upon what we do, that one can “earn” salvation by obedience to the laws of the church.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter IX The Confessional
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4Catholic Church says “In the confessional the minister has the power to forgive all crimes committed after baptism.” The Bible says only God can forgive sins.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter VIII The Mass
Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary was complete in that one offering, and that it was never to be repeated. But the Catholic Church repeats in daily in the Mass.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter VII Mary Part 2
As evangelical Protestants we honor Mary, the mother of our Lord, but we don’t worship her or say we must come to Jesus through her.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter III The Priesthood
There is no priesthood in the New Testament. Christ is our priest, not a man on the earth. Hebrews 3:1b “…consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;”
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