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- Title: Protestantism
- Author : Bill Etem
- Release Date : January 17, 2014
- Genre: Bible Studies,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 243 KB
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Protestantism has a reason to exist if both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church are false churches, if they both lead people to perdition not to heaven.
Protestantism has no reason to exist if either the Eastern Orthodox Church or the Roman Catholic Church is God's True Church, the Church which Christ founded on a rock, recall Matthew 16. 13-19.
As with any church, 2 options confront us with Rome. Rome either leads people to heaven or else Rome leads people to perdition. Rome is either God's True Church or else Rome is a false church. The Dogma of Papal Infallibility says you are anathema (accursed, damned) if you reject that Dogma. This makes perfect sense if Rome is God's True Church. If you rebel against God's True Church by rejecting one of her Dogmas then it makes sense that you will be damned, unless of course you repent and obey Rome / God's True Church.
But if Rome is not God's True Church, if Rome is a false church, if Rome leads people to perdition not to heaven...
The Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a Roman Catholic version of Jesus. It is an image of a version of Jesus who says Rome leads people to heaven, who says Rome is God's True Church. The Roman Catholic crucifix is not an image of a Protestant version of Jesus. It is not an image of a version of Jesus who says the Mormon Church is God's True Church.
So, if God says Rome is the True Church, says Rome leads people to heaven, then there is nothing wrong with the Roman Catholic crucifix. But if Rome is a false church, if Rome leads people to perdition, then the Roman Catholic crucifix, which is an image of a Roman Catholic version of Jesus, a version of Jesus who says Rome leads people to heaven, is the image of a lie, it is an image of a false version of Jesus, if in fact the True Jesus / True God says Rome leads people to perdition. So, if the Roman Catholic crucifix is the image of a lie then perhaps it is the image of the beast, see Revelation 14. 11. The True Version of Jesus is of course not the beast. But a false version of Jesus might be this beast.
There are scriptures which say the cross of Christ is sacred, see Galatians 6. 14 and Philippians 3. 18. Christ's sacrifice on the cross is sacred. But do these scriptures also mean that material crosses, material representations of the instrument of torture which Christ was executed on, are sacred to God? If the cross is sacred to God then perhaps it is the seal of God which saves one from months of torment if it is on your forehead, see Revelation 9. If the cross is sacred to God then it is sacrilege to say the cross is evil. But if the cross is evil in God's sight then it is sacrilege to say it is sacred.
If the cross is evil in the sight of God then perhaps the cross is the mark of the beast, see Revelation 13 and 14. The Nazis perpetrated evil for a few years and as a result we say the Nazi swastika reflects that evil. The people under the cross perpetrated evil for century after century.
If the cross is the mark of the beast then every church under the cross is a false church. If some church tells you it is safe to put the mark of a cross on your forehead, and if this action leads you to burn in hell forever, then it was obviously a false church, not God's True Church, which led you to burn in hell forever.
Or suppose the cross is sacred to God.
And suppose some church under the cross is God's True Church. Where is it? What's the name of God's True Church?
But if the cross is evil in the sight of God, then it is sacrilege to say the cross is sacred to God.