"When it comes to Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, the differences are just too great to ignore. However, that does not give license for caricatures or ignorant judgments - both sides need to be honest in their assessments and try not go beyond what God has revealed."
This exact topic was a subject that was part of yesterday's afternoon worship. The issue of discension amongst denominations occur when men with sin diseased minds and tougues effect the Body of Christ. My assembly has been taught that when you disparage another believer or denomination for any matter that is not Biblical truth then you are a "pharisee" and your faux criticism is offered merely to justify a self righteous love affair.
I clearly stated that my choice for a ally, would be one Jesus loving member of the Roman denomination with a rosary hanging around his neck and a Saint Michael prayer card in his pocket then 10,000 idiots following the authors of "your best bowel movement now" or "a purpose driven grocery list".
The devil does not concern himself with dividing the Church, because there in enough jerks on both sides of the camp doing His filthy work.
Soli Deo Gloria!
It has nothing to do with being Christian, and everything to do with power and control.
One side lost control in the Great Schism (you decide which), then Rome lost control over the Protestants.
Then the Protestants lost control over the Anabaptists. Any wonder why there is, in the Geneva Bible, a prayer against both the Papists and the Anabaptists?
Nice article. “Reformation teachings that identify the Pope as the Beast of Revelation and / or Roman Catholicism as Mystery Babylon are still common among Protestants. Clearly, anyone with this view is not going to “warm up” to Rome any time soon. “ —> is very true. A lot of Protestants I see think of Catholicism as being what they were taught it to be and are pleasantly surprised when they find it isn’t!
I’m pro Pope as a rule.