Fortunately Pope Benedict has a much better grasp of the situation. Besides, the authors deliberately confuse interfaith prayer with syncretism. (Incidentally, the authors also misuse the word ecumenism, apparently falsely believing it is synonymous with interfaith. Activities which are among different denominations within the same faith, Christianity, are ecumenical. Any papal statements on ecumenism implicitly exclude Islam.)
>> To quote a Catholic news organization, “Our Lady of Fatima is really Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Mohammed <<
No sources. Typical. I’ll flat out call the authors liars to their face on this one.
>> The Pope is not a first among equals as a bishop. Frankly, he is not even a bishop in the biblical sense of the term. Karol Wojtyla is the head of a totalitarian hierarchy. Its position as the restored Holy Roman Empire is depicted in the Bible. <<
The author’s agenda comes forth...
>> He has his own secular government of Vatican City and more property worldwide than any other person on the planet. <<
Vatican holdings are quite minimal. Dioceses are legally separate entities.
>> If contemporary Evangelical leaders and their disciples discount and ignore these utterly basic prophetic and historical facts, they must understand they are placing themselves outside the stream of historic biblical Christianity. <<
I suggest that protestant churches clean their own houses. 80% of Presbyterians in America belong to the PCUSA, the most notoriously anti-everything-good-and-holy church in America.
>> If Evangelicals to continue to fraternize with Rome, it will mark a major, irrevocable betrayal of the Gospel testimony toward the poor deluded adherents of Romanism and leave them languishing in the claws of the devil. <<
Didn’t “Rome as the Great Apostasy” lose all its cache about 500 years ago? After all, Protestantism’s historical revisionism relies on the assertion that there were non-Romans who were faithful Christians throughout history. But these assertions are so sweeping, that all but the ancient Gnostics and the Albi pretty much stand condemned by it. And I don’t think that modern Protestants want to assert that the Albi were closer to authentic Christianity then, say, Augustine.
You remember your hero, Augustine, don’t you, Gamecock? That brilliant and passionate defender of Roman supremacy you love to quote?
It looks to me that Rome isn’t the only thing burning these days. The Vatican is going up in smoke, also. First the vatican reconizing, evolution-creation theory. Know, that Allah is God according to the Pope.
Not only did the Islamic faith deny Jesus as Lord, but our killing christian and jews. Heirs by faith and blood line, to the kingdom of God or is it Allah? Im comfused.....Just kidding. But only the just shall live by faith, not by denomination. And faith comes by the hearing of God word, or was that Allah. Darn I can not remeber. And false christ abound everywhere both in body and word. Some times in our own backyards.
The devil has clearly won this round. And kicking ass on the protestant side of the fence, also. And the so call Pope has lost it, clearly. Despite all the flower words to cover it up.