Adstar said:
Our faith dates from Jesus. You say that we prostituted religion to the Emperor of Rome. Constantine became a Catholic because he felt God was calling to him to change the world.
constantine was a man engaged in a civil war whose objective was the title of Roman emperor. He was a man lusting for power and saw an unused source of power in the Christian community. He had seen "True Christians" die for their faith in Jesus and wished he had supporters with such dedication in his support. So he made up a BS story about seeing a sign in the sky from God in a desperate attempt to win over a until then large silent portion of the population. He succeeded in his political ploy and many christians abandoned their Lord Jesus to help constantine reach his objective of worldly power. These false christians where no longer willing to suffer persecution for their faith. They had had enough of waiting for their Messiah to return. So from that day on they served their new master and altered the doctrines of the Bible to suit the needs of their new master. Once they rejected the call of Jesus to Love their enemies and not to resist an evil person they where on the road to destruction, they where no longer Christians but in fact became a tool of satan to persecute true Christians.
Why do you look down upon a worldly king? Do you think that the rulers of this world are evil?
They are in the service of satan. All the kingdoms of this world are in the service of satan. satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world if He would serve him and satan offered the kingdoms of the world to false christians if they would serve him, your predecessors did not tell satan where to go like Jesus did. satan through his worldly kings had persecuted true Christians for centuries but knew there was a better way to stop people believing Jesus. that was to create a false church who preached another jesus manned by people who where sick of the stick and where ready to accept the evil carrot.
Do you think that God does not help them?
Of cource God helps the evil leaders of this world, He helped Nebuchadnezzar king of babylon invade and destroy Jerusalem. The evil intents and acts of the kings of this world are woven into Gods eternal plan. God raised pharaoh to be his adversary so that He could do a mighty work in liberating the Hebrews from Egypt. So yes God does help them but not to there eternal benefit.
You say that we sought worldly security, yet our martyrs died in droves during the many persecutions.
No. True Christians died in the coliseums at the hands of the roman soldiers who where tools of satan and roman state and true Christians died by being burn't at the stake by catholics who where tools of satan and the roman state.
Just because we became the state religion for aperiod of time, and even the worst of men became Catholic, that doesnt mean that our teachings are wrong.
Yes the worst of men because catholic because false christians had prostituted themselves to the powers of rome. You own words confirm the evil of the catholic church. Corrupt and powerful organization always attract power hungry and corrupt individuals. Once they made themselves the whore of Rome they attracted people interested in worldly power.
We pray for our opponents, but consider no one an enemy, since all are called to this faith, even the most foolish or evil-minded liberals.
You burn't to death those who opposed you and launched the crusades that murdered thousands, Your Word twisting theologians created doctines of justifiable war in an attempt to make these acts of evil good.
We love them, but we do not accept their heresies. Hate the sin, not the sinner.
Your love is not the agape love of Jesus, the catholic churches actions thought history make this clear.
I read scripture and do not reject His words. TRusting in God alone is not God's plan for us humans, otherwise he would not have given us families.
It isn't???? Trusting in God is everything. and the only thing we can trust in.
Our Church is not of the flesh, or else it would have died long ago like flesh.
Of course not. Your church serves a needed purpose as a trap for those seeking God to be lead away down a path into the lake of fire. satan has set up a lot of diverting pathways from the true path doing his best to take as many with him as he goes. Your church is a big road it is a wide way but it is not the only one.
Matthew 7
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and
broad is the way that leads to
destruction, and there are
many who go in by it. 14 Because
narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to
life, and there are
few who find it. You Will Know Them by Their Fruits.
Your churches very size, its hundreds of million of members clearly attest that it is not the narrow way that is found by few.
The fruits of the catholic church are pogroms, crusades, massacres, burnings, religious wars, inquisitions, corruption, greed, support for Nazis, child molestation and spiritual harlotry with anti-christ religions:
Yes. Your former spiritual leader. Bowing his head and kissing the quran. A book that states that Jesus was not born of a virgin. A book that states that Jesus was not crucified nor was He raised from the dead. A book that called the trinity blasphemy. What better example of the spiritual corruption and depths of spiritual depravity your false religion will go to for worldly security and power?
Notice that scripture says "not by bread alone" this is true, but man cannot live by mere scriptures alone either. If he could only live by the words of a book, he would not need the thousands of medieval Catholic monks to hand down to him the words of God.
The thousands of monks locked up the WORD of God in their monastries and the church made it a death penalty for the comon people to hear the Word of God in their common language. Why because the lies had become so bad and the twisting of scripture had become so blaitant that if the comon people had access to the Word then they would clearlt see the evil state of the church of rome. I thank God the Word of God was liberated from the hands of this evil organisation and is now avaliable to each and every man in nearly all the languages in the world. Even though i do not look upon luther as a brother in Jesus he was just another evil man used by God for His greater purpose.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
Can the protestant foundation of designing one's own Jesus-idol out of scripture quotes, that is, the protestant version of Jesus according to the interpretative guidance of a confiding "spirit" (rather than Church authority and Tradition) survive the pressures of the comming millenium?
