Good idea! You may be forced to think.
Posted on 05/17/2008 6:30:09 PM PDT by e.Shubee
John F. MacArthur is no ordinary evangelical. I think that there is something special about him because of the unusual excellence of his book The Gospel According to Jesus. I consider that book to be the finest exposition on the gospel ever written.
The most surprising thing about John MacArthur is his wide acceptance, given that he believes in the true gospel and takes a strong stand on the historic Protestant understanding of Roman Catholicism. Consider his protestant message, Unmasking the Pope and the Catholic System, delivered shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II, and see if you can either respect or refute his statements.
http://www.bereanbeacon.org/audio_video/UnmaskingThePope.mp3
The title comes from MacArthur’s audio CD of his publicly distributed message. Just google for "Unmasking the Pope and the Catholic System" to see the many hits where the phrase has MacArthur’s name is attached to it.
Usually in the FR RF we post an article that we can all discuss and compare with Scripture "to see if it be so."
In this instance, I posted a mp3 version of Unmasking the Pope and the Catholic System for your listening pleasure.
If you ever have a real thread based on a real sermon or essay to post feel free to ping me. Until then, I don't really understand why you would post something like this.
Unmasking the Pope and the Catholic System is an audio recording of a real sermon. How can you get more authentic than that?
You: You haven't even started.
Reading the minds of other posters is "making it personal."
"Deprecation of Mary" - what is that supposed to mean, and how does the KJV (presumably apart from other versions) do that? By not elevating Mary to an Isis-like status as "the queen of heaven"? By showing that she needed a Saviour (Luke 1:47) like anyone else, and hence, was not herself "immaculately conceived"? By giving no depiction whatsoever of any "assumption" of Mary into heaven?
I've got news for you - the reason the KJV doesn't teach any of those is because the Greek manuscriptual tradition, as well as every other ancient language version doesn't. The assumption of Mary, her immaculate conception, her status as Queen of Heaven - those are all Catholic dogmas invented at a far later date which have nothing whatsoever to do with Biblical Christian faith.
More on the others later, if I have the time.
I apologise for making it personal, above. I guess I’m still getting acquainted with the rules on religion discussions, and didn’t think that what I said would count as that.
I’m not sure what’s more disturbing. The distortions and hair-splitting or an adult who speaks to other adults and uses the word ‘potty’.
LOL!
Keep trying -- you will.
Not only is your view of history correct, but your observation also agrees with the timeline of church history as presented in The Seven Churches of Revelation. Note especially the symbolic character of the church in the time periods represented by the church at Pergamum and Thyatira.
Tradition?
Quelle horreur!
Round and round in circles go your arguments.
I’ll stick with the Truth.
An accusation that one specific person is brainwashed is not meant to be personal?
"They" don't hate Catholics. Some do. Some hate Protestants. Do "they" all hate Protestants?
Are you so fearful of the "sheer numbers" of Muslims, which dwarf the numberr of "Catholics", that you hate Muslims?
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I have no respect for anyone who tries to tear down another Christian religious sect over slight differences as to sprinkle or dip or submerge, dance or not dance, music instruments or not.
Where two or more or three are gathered in my name means nothing to the religious die hard haters enivebtly found in all churches.
The haters who turn up their nose at doing Gods real work of spreading his word.
There is enough Muslims to do that and it may be here sooner than later.
While sitting in a concentration camp waiting for the beheading to begin most Christians will not care whether their fellow Christian prisoner is Catholic or Baptist
Except that Peter DID accept it from the Lord Himself:
15 When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs.
16 He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. 17 He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.
-- John 21:15-17
Peter was not dead in Matthew 16:18.
Peter was dead during that conversation, donchaknow.
I do see Jesus rebuking Peter one more time, John 21:22, but no offer of "Popeship" to Peter nor acceptance by him.
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