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
Ho hum, another get together of let’s trash the Catholics again on FR.
When I visited a biz colleague in Charlotte, he invited me to his evangelical church. People were very nice to me. They were interested in me joining but polite.
Then I sat in their Sunday class. My friend was running it. At one point he told the kids the Catholic Church was an empire. I sat in the back and kept quiet as he went on about Martin Luther.
Afterwards when it was just he and I with his wife in the car, I told him about his comment. He didn’t even remember saying it.
And this was an Italian guy originally from Long Island. Guessing this is old hat for many folks down yonder.
So pretty much used to it now. It’s funny but you would think a lot of the misinformation died with the KKK. It hasn’t.
But that's exactly Huber's point. Most anti-Catholic Protestants hear only Foxe's side of the story. They very easily conclude that Catholics are murderous ogres who desire nothing more than to kill everyone who picks up a Bible.
The truth is a little more complicated. The early English reformation was about the power of the state to dictate religious belief. That was as true under the Protestants as it was under Queen Mary.
Unless you're prepared to embrace Anglicanism and acknowledge Her Majesty as supreme head of the church in England, you and I would both be due for execution under Elizabeth I.
There is nothing YOU can do that will be good enough for Him in the end...
Sure...Everything Catholic is 'real' history...Everything non-Catholic is delusion...
You’re catching on.
Your seriously mis-informed opinion is why this thread exists...
Looks like the Catholic crew and their sympathizers have banded together to attack free speech and YOU for allowing it...
Like they say, History repeats itself...
Foxe was not a journalist or historian. He was a propagandist.
Step into the light.
Is it propaganda??? Does he give scripture references you can check out??? Does he give historical reference material??? What if he's telling the truth??? Is it still hate speech???
HuH??????? I don't get it...
Could be worse...could be
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Take your complaints about me to this thread - there, you will not be disrupters.
I don't see where a person has to have a degree in journalism or major in History to just write down what he sees going on around him...
So he wasn't 'qualified' to write what he saw, eh???
The author of this piece is a graduate of Bob Jones University and a self-described “hyper-Calvinist.”
Of course he hates Catholics.
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