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To: topcat54

Would you please clarify for all on this thread what you mean by the phrase “whoring church?” I want to make sure that we all know exactly what you mean.


31 posted on 10/15/2007 9:19:51 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (Our Lady's Hat Society)
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To: nanetteclaret
Would you please clarify for all on this thread what you mean by the phrase “whoring church?” I want to make sure that we all know exactly what you mean.

The Scripture often used the image of whores/prostitutes to depict the people of God when they strayed from the truth of His revelation and began to worship under their own imaginations. You can see this in places like Ezekiel chapters 16 and 23 and Revelation 17. Israel played the harlot by leaving the true worship of God and setting up idols after their own self-absorbed vanities.

When the patriarchs of the Roman system abandoned the simple, true worship of God revealed in Holy Scripture and invented a new system under the pretext of magisterial authority, they became the harlot in no less fashion that ancient Israel.

The Reformation was all about calling the Church to abandon her harlotries and return the faith of the Apostles. This they have refused to do, preferring instead to call the faithful in other denominations less than truly Christian.

Thankfully, it is not too late for your prelates to reform their system. They just need the will to do so and the unction of the Holy Spirit, Who is now far from them.

41 posted on 10/15/2007 10:14:37 AM PDT by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends listen to dispensationalists.")
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