Posted on 09/03/2014 6:36:07 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
It’s called bracketing, a propaganda technique used to cause a reflexive association between some agreed upon cultural icon of evil and the class of individuals one seeks to discredit. It doesn’t matter that the targeted individuals aren’t anything like the associated evil icon. It only matters that the people being propagandized always think of the two together, without conscious effort. You can accomplish a lot as a propagandist if you can short-circuit critical thinking. Bracketing works. Christians should avoid it as an unethical practice, essentially a lie told indirectly.
BTW, steelfish, you do know Jim Jones was telling His people to use their Bibles for toilet paper, don’t you? Doesn’t sound like a Sola Scriptura guy to me. Just sayin ...
Amen!
I doubt very much that they will rewrite that one. According to prophesy there is coming a one world religion. The Catholic Muslim alliance along with many of the Protestant churches (think of the comments about Islam being a peaceful religion coming from even those who purport to be Christian - Bush comes to mind, a Methodist if I'm not mistaken) and that prospect is in the foreseeable future. I think the Catholic Church will lead in that endeavor.
Indeed it is. There are many here who will deny that untill it’s too late and will be caught in that awful time.
Could you be more specific? Do you mean things like presenting the NT church as one that,
1. was established upon the premise of assured (if conditional) perpetual infallibility, having infallibly declared she is and will be perpetually infallible whenever she speaks in accordance with her infallibly defined (scope and subject-based) formula, which renders her declaration that she is infallible?
2. was presided over by a pope the whole church looked to as it supreme infallible head in Rome, being taught that he was the "rock" of Mt. 16:18?
3. named apostolic successors after Judas (in order to keep the original number of apostles), and thus one must have been for the martyred apostle James (Acts 12:1,2) like Matthias was and after that manner (Acts 1:15ff)?,
4. had a separate sacerdotal class of believers titled "priests ," as they uniquely changed bread into human flesh and dispensing it to the masses to receive life in them and eternal life (as RCs claim in quoting Jn. 6:53,54 to us)?
5. had a hierarchical order of priests, bishops, Cardinals, etc., with ostentatious religious dress and titles, including "Most Reverend?"
6. required (with rare exceptions) clerical celibacy, which presumes all such have that gift?
7. taught incognizant (usually) souls were formally justified by interior holiness via sprinkling of water, and thus (usually) ended up in "purgatory" in order to become good enough (and atone for sins) to enter Heaven?
8. taught there was a separate class of believers called “saints,
9. prayed to the departed in Heaven, or angels, and before images?
10. and had apostles teaching Mary was born and kept sinless, and was a perpetual virgin?
11. was a church that conformed to this world in using papal sanctioned physical oppression torture, burning and death to deal with theological dissent
12. having lost that power, treats even notorious manifestly impenitent public sinners as members in life and in death, in contrast to the NT means of disfellowship and supernatural spiritual discipline?
13. was one whose members overall come in near last in things such as evangelism, commitment, and personal Bible reading, the latter which it hindered for a long time, and later sanctioned teaching multitudes for decades such things as that OT miraculous stories are fables or folktales, etc.?
14. teaches that the deity Muslims worship (not as unknown) is the same as theirs?
15. boasts of unity while discouraging objectively searching the Scriptures in order to ascertain the veracity of RC doctrine?
And in which souls believe such uncensored and often officially sanctioned teaching such as presents Mary as
an almost almighty demigoddess to whom "Jesus owes His Precious Blood" to,
whose [Mary] merits we are saved by,
who "had to suffer, as He did, all the consequences of sin,"
and was bodily assumed into Heaven, which is a fact (unsubstantiated in Scripture or even early Tradition) because the Roman church says it is, and "was elevated to a certain equality with the Heavenly Father,"
so that “sometimes salvation is quicker if we remember Mary's name then if we invoked the name of the Lord Jesus,"
for indeed saints have "but one advocate," and that is Mary, who "alone art truly loving and solicitous for our salvation,"
and whose power now "is all but unlimited,"
for indeed she "seems to have the same power as God,"
"surpassing in power all the angels and saints in Heaven,"
so that "the Holy Spirit acts only by the Most Blessed Virgin, his Spouse."
Moreover, "there is no grace which Mary cannot dispose of as her own, which is not given to her for this purpose,"
and who has "authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven,"
including "assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels,"
whom the good angels "unceasingly call out to," greeting her "countless times each day with 'Hail, Mary,' while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests,"
and who (obviously) cannot "be honored to excess,"
and who is (obviously) the glory of Catholic people, whose "honor and dignity surpass the whole of creation." Sources .
Could you tell men what i left out (i can)?
Thank you.
She was still a sinner who needed a Savior.
You can’t really cite a prophesy that says there will be coming one world religion. You are, of course, relying on the Mystery Babylon riding the Beast, but that could just as easily be a dominant occult religion and not a one world religion.
After all, there will be unraptured new believers in Jesus at that time, who believe after the rapture, so ‘one world religion’ is not true just because of the presence of these believers in Jesus. That equals at least two religions.
Amen.
Their “idea” of Christianity was wrong in every way. They were cult leaders who wanted to control people into obeying them. From everything I have read they used drugs just like Charles Manson. They never told the truth about anything. May as well be satanists.
Revelation 6:10and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" 11And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.
Now how many religions are left?
Blasphemy!
Yeshua 'contains' the Bread of Life, the Torah, and the Priesthood.
YESHUA IS THE MERCY SEAT.
YESHUA WAS SPRINKLED WITH BLOOD.
IT IS YESHUA who stands in the Holy of Holies!
It is YESHUA who leads the people forward into battle!
It is YESHUA who strikes down the enemies of YHWH and of His people!
REPENT of this evil thing!
Amen. Where do those ideas come from?
Paganism, Babylonian Mystery Religion, plain and simple. Study this profane thing, sitting in a crescent moon atop the Mercy Seat of YHWH. Look at the cherubim, cringing and unable to look at her in her power. The crescent moon doubles as the horns of the bull. Look at all the sun disks. This is not dedicated to YHWH. It is dedicated to the Queen of Heaven, Astarte/Isis/Ishtar/Semiramis, with all of her symbolism present, SITTING upon the Throne, the Mercy Seat of Yeshua!!!
ALL Christians, those STRONG in the Word, should study the profane, it's symbolism and rites, and be familiar with the character of it's gods. What you will find, not only in this picture, but in your own churches, will curl your hair.
That image is an abomination. Virtually all of Catholicism at this point is based on paganism. Unfortunately most of the Protestant churches have retained much of that paganism. Those truly searching for truth need to seriously study to find where "traditions"/and beliefs in the churches they attend came from.
Would John 3:16 in the KJV not apply to Mary?
Surely you would agree that the first person to believe in Christ would have everlasting life.
What!?
I know for a FACT that NOTHING has changed in the Catholic way of doing things since PENTACOST!!!
All you need to do, then, is to declare VICTORY! and leave the field of battle.
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
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