Posted on 10/30/2015 11:11:35 AM PDT by fishtank
Reformation Reminders: Rome & Her Desecration of Christ
By Eric Davis
OCTOBER 28, 2015
This Saturday, October 31, commemorates nearly 500 years since one of the greatest movements of God in church history; the Protestant Reformation. Up to the time of the Reformation, much of Europe had been dominated by the reign of Roman Catholicism. To the populace was propagated the idea that salvation was found under Rome and her system alone.
But as the cultural and theological fog cleared in Europe and beyond, God's people gained a clarity that had been mostly absent for centuries. The Reformers gained this clarity from keeping with a simple principle: sola scritpura, or, Scripture alone. As they searched the word of God, they discovered that Rome deviated radically on the most critical points of biblical Christianity. With one mind, God's people discerned from Scripture that, tragically, Roman Catholicism was a desecration to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Sorry, everyone... too overwhelmed to do justice to this thread! Feel free to consider this debate a win for your side “on points”... :)
Right now, I need to start shoveling away at this paperwork/chore/chaos blizzard...
That is fine. Glory to God, and i myself was and am looking for energy myself to do other things, while i trust the e x t e n s i v e exchange has been educating for both sides on this often misunderstood and or superficially considered (by both sides) issue.
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