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To: NYer
You've got that backwards.

Hardly.

"The Papacy is the very Antichrist, the Pope being the son of perdition of whom Paul speaks." (John Knox)

"Of all the dreams that have ever deluded men, and probably of all blasphemies that ever were uttered, there has never been one which is more absurd and which is more fruitful in all manner of mischief than the idea that the Bishop of Rome can be the head of the church of Jesus Christ. No. These Popes die, and how could the church live if its head were dead? The true head ever lives and the church ever lives in Him." (CH Spurgeon)

"The doctrinal ignorance of the evangelical church is shocking, matched only by its cowardice, I fear. That has certainly been revealed to everybody in the recent response to the death of the Pope and the installation of his successor. The promotion of Catholicism that we’ve seen in the media in the last couple of months has had no equal in history. This is the single greatest promotion of the Roman Catholic system in the history of that system. The world media has set aside the sickening pedophilia, the abuse issues to parade the pomp and circumstance of this false system as if it were truly all glorious. It is a classic illustration of the old story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, spiritually it’s naked." (John MacArthur)

23 posted on 02/14/2006 12:14:19 PM PST by topcat54 (Roman Catholic by birth ... Protestant by the grace of God.)
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To: topcat54

You need help FRiend.


24 posted on 02/14/2006 12:22:38 PM PST by Romish_Papist (iuxta est Dominus contritis corde et confractos spiritu salvabit.)
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To: topcat54; NYer

Won't you be surprised.


25 posted on 02/14/2006 12:23:24 PM PST by Jaded (The truth shall set you free, but lying to yourself turns you French.)
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To: topcat54
Yeah, lots of folks say stuff like that ... their name is Legion, for they are many.

Doesn't make it true.

27 posted on 02/14/2006 12:54:33 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: topcat54; Romish_Papist
"The Papacy is the very Antichrist, the Pope being the son of perdition of whom Paul speaks." (John Knox)

The claim that the pope is the Antichrist has been part of anti-Catholic rhetoric since the Reformation, when it was needed to justify the Protestant Reformers’ desire to leave the Catholic Church.

Rather than the bishop of Rome, the early Fathers identified the Antichrist as a government official—a king coming to power in the ruins of the Roman Empire. He would probably be Jewish, possibly from the tribe of Dan. And most importantly, rather than claiming like the pope to be the vicar or emissary of Jesus Christ, he would claim that Jesus was not the Christ but that he was instead. He would then seduce many of the Jewish people by attempting to fulfill the political aspirations they held for the Messiah.

The whole time of your faith will not profit you unless you are made complete in the last time. For in the last days false prophets and corrupters shall be multiplied, and sheep shall be turned into wolves . . . and then shall the deceiver of the world appear, pretending to be the Son of God, and [he] shall do signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered into his hands (Didache 16:3–4 [A.D. 70]).

Now as our Lord Jesus Christ, who is also God, was prophesied of under the figure of a lion, on account of his royalty and glory, in the same way have the scriptures also beforehand spoken of Antichrist as a lion, on account of his tyranny and violence. For the deceiver seeks to liken himself in all things to the Son of God. Christ is a lion, so Antichrist is also a lion. Christ is a king, so Antichrist is also a king. The Savior was manifested as a lamb, so he too in like manner will appear as a lamb without; within he is a wolf. The Savior came into the world in the circumcision [i.e., the Jewish race], and he will come in the same manner. . . . The Savior raised up and showed his holy flesh like a temple, and he will raise a temple of stone in Jerusalem (Hippolytus - The Antichrist 6 [A.D. 200]).

31 posted on 02/14/2006 1:18:48 PM PST by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: topcat54

Your Anti-Catholic Bigotry is showing.


47 posted on 02/14/2006 6:18:36 PM PST by TexConfederate1861
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