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To: boatbums
Didn't you just get done stating people can be saved who aren't Catholic? The REFORMATION was a Divinely-ordained event that took decades to bring about drastically needed changes in the Roman Catholic religion - something even Pope Benedict admitted.

Lots of people who aren't Catholic are saved and NO, the revolution was NOT divinely-oriented....it was a serious attempt by Satan to damage the true church....the revolution had little if anything to do with any changes within Catholicism but rather confused many people who left the church and put their immortal souls in jeopardy....The Catholic church is very clear about what it teaches concerning those who deny the truth in Christ.....and it isn't pleasant.

861 posted on 05/16/2015 8:39:42 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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To: terycarl
....it was a serious attempt by Satan to damage the true church....

Tery!

Where's your COMMON SENSE on this???



If Luther and others had NOT come along and slapped Rome to attention; who knows HOW many torture chambers YOUR church would be operating today?




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.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

877 posted on 05/17/2015 4:32:00 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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