History of Protestantism FROM THE FIRST TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

Wow, you're very up-to-date in the Verbal Mayhem line :-).

Have you ever wondered why most Christians observe Sunday as their day of worship rather than the seventh day of the week, as was done in Bible times?

Most Christians are Gentiles, and were never, ever commanded to observe the seventh-day Sabbath, or any other Sabbath, for that matter. If you're going to bind Christians to the seventh-day Sabbath, you also ought to bind them to circumcision and avoiding shellfish and pork.

Here is the answer: "The Catholic Church, . . . by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."

Yes, the same way that that same Catholic Church "by virtue of her divine mission" decided which books belonged in the New Testament. If you reject one, be consistent and reject the other.

why most Christians observe Sunday as their day of worship

I think it's an evil plot by Wal-mart!

Yes, the same way that that same Catholic Church "by virtue of her divine mission" decided which books belonged in the New Testament. If you reject one, be consistent and reject the other.

By virtue of her divine mission?

God Himself is in charge and through His Prophets we know what has happened and whats going to happen. I must speak to you sometimes regarding apostasy. Theres plenty sermons on prophesy but hardly any on apostasy. We are presently in the last Great Falling away (Apostasy)

Now I know I can approach God any day of the week, that's not the point. The point is from the prophetic to illustrate that these came to pass. I realize that we have everyday to worship. By Jesus Christ and His Sacrifice we are exempt from the Law, for He fulfilled the Law for us in its entirety. He's the only one that could. The Pharisees were labeled hypocrites by the Lord for that reason, knowing they could never fulfil the Law. They, the pharisees were holding the people to the Law they themselves could never follow. No man could, only God. He had to show us through Jesus Christ.

This point was made clear by the Prophet Daniel. That man would take Gods Laws and times and think mind you, to change them. In other words, God wasn't going to approve. That is taking His and making it ours for the sole purpose of garnering power over our fellow man, His Power, which is not ours.

These are the 10 Commandments, The Word of God. Find the one that mans mother church could not obey and think to change. Thats why Mystery is written on her forehead because she thinks up these doctrines in her own mind to lend credence to her own form of worship. She devises them by her own will and imaginations and keeps adding to them.

"And God spoke all these words, saying: 'I am the LORD your God…

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'

Here's a History of the Written Word

1,400 BC: The first written Word of God: The Ten Commandments delivered to Moses.
500 BC: Completion of All Original Hebrew Manuscripts which make up The 39 Books of the Old Testament.
200 BC: Completion of the Septuagint Greek Manuscripts which contain The 39 Old Testament Books AND 14 Apocrypha Books.
1st Century AD: Completion of All Original Greek Manuscripts which make up The 27 Books of the New Testament.
315 AD: Athenasius, the Bishop of Alexandria, identifies the 27 books of the New Testament which are today recognized as the canon of scripture.
382 AD: Jerome's Latin Vulgate Manuscripts Produced which contain All 80 Books (39 Old Test. + 14 Apocrypha + 27 New Test).
500 AD: Scriptures have been Translated into Over 500 Languages..
600 AD: LATIN was the Only Language Allowed for Scripture.
995 AD: Anglo-Saxon (Early Roots of English Language) Translations of The New Testament Produced.
1384 AD: Wycliffe is the First Person to Produce a (Hand-Written) manuscript Copy of the Complete Bible; All 80 Books.
1455 AD: Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press; Books May Now be mass-Produced Instead of Individually Hand-Written. The First Book Ever Printed is Gutenberg's Bible in Latin.
1516 AD: Erasmus Produces a Greek/Latin Parallel New Testament.
1522 AD: Martin Luther's German New Testament.
1526 AD: William Tyndale's New Testament; The First New Testament printed in the English Language.
1535 AD: Myles Coverdale's Bible; The First Complete Bible printed in the English Language (80 Books: O.T. & N.T. & Apocrypha).
1537 AD: Tyndale-Matthews Bible; The Second Complete Bible printed in English. Done by John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers (80 Books).
1539 AD: The "Great Bible" Printed; The First English Language Bible Authorized for Public Use (80 Books).
1560 AD: The Geneva Bible Printed; The First English Language Bible to add Numbered Verses to Each Chapter (80 Books).
1568 AD: The Bishops Bible Printed; The Bible of which the King James was a Revision (80 Books).
1609 AD: The Douay Old Testament is added to the Rheims New Testament (of 1582) Making the First Complete English Catholic Bible; Translated from the Latin Vulgate (80 Books).
1611 AD: The King James Bible Printed; Originally with All 80 Books. The Apocrypha was Officially Removed in 1885 Leaving Only 66 Books.
1782 AD: Robert Aitken's Bible; The First English Language Bible (KJV) Printed in America.
1791 AD: Isaac Collins and Isaiah Thomas Respectively Produce the First Family Bible and First Illustrated Bible Printed in America. Both were King James Versions, with All 80 Books.
1808 AD: Jane Aitken's Bible (Daughter of Robert Aitken); The First Bible to be Printed by a Woman.
1833 AD: Noah Webster's Bible; After Producing his Famous Dictionary, Webster Printed his Own Revision of the King James Bible.
1841 AD: English Hexapla New Testament; an Early Textual Comparison showing the Greek and 6 Famous English Translations in Parallel Columns.
1846 AD: The Illuminated Bible; The Most Lavishly Illustrated Bible printed in America. A King James Version, with All 80 Books.
1885 AD: The "English Revised Version" Bible; The First Major English Revision of the KJV.
1901 AD: The "American Standard Version"; The First Major American Revision of the KJV.
1971 AD: The "New American Standard Bible" (NASB) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Word for Word English Translation" of the Bible.
1973 AD: The "New International Version" (NIV) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Phrase for Phrase English Translation" of the Bible.
1982 AD: The "New King James Version" (NKJV) is Published as a "Modern English Version Maintaining the Original Style of the King James."
2002 AD: The English Standard Version (ESV) is Published as a translation to bridge the gap between the accuracy of the NASB and the readability of the NIV.

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Remember, the ones in power tend to write their own version of events in history leaving out the worst whatever would come against their power

Thank God for all His Word which includes the Book of Daniel and Revelation. Prophesy stands

Last time I checked, lucius was never pope.

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**The history of Protestantism from the first to the fourteenth century is easy. It didn't exist. **

Correct you are!

Are you calling Catholics "pinheads"?

The process is Christian evolution.

There have always existed, from the time of Christ, New Testament churches which were not a part of the Roman Church. In fact the Roman Church can only trace its history back to 313 AD when the Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity a legal religion. In 395 AD, Emperor Contantius "Christianized" Rome and made the worship of idols punishable by death. By 400 AD, the Emperor Theodosius had declared Christianity the only state religion of the Roman Empire. Many churches by this time had come under the domination of the Rome government and had ceased from being New Testament churches. When the Roman Emperor declared Christianity the religion of Rome, he in mass "converted" hordes of pagans which made up the Empire. Pagan temples became the meeting houses for "Christians. " Rome, then hired unregenerate pagan priests as "Christian" ministers. The influx of these falsely converted pagans is one reason Roman Catholicism came to have so many false and pagan beliefs.

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