Posted on 10/08/2020 6:31:45 AM PDT by Gamecock
In before the usual suspects...
Thank you.
A Reformed Presbyterian thanks you!
Very profound verse. Believers are God's work. They are created in Christ. God prepared our good works before we even knew Him. God directs our path to walk in these good works.
Satan always works to refute, or cast doubt on or ridicule, justification by faith alone, using any and every available fool as his surrogate. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit defends the Word of truth in many ways, including by this excellent article. May it reach those who need informing and reminding.
From that, it sounds as if the Reformation was an unfortunate and unnecessary squabble over trifles, a childish outburst that we can all put behind us now that we have grown up.....Tell that to Martin Luther.....
Tell it to the Reformers who all knew who the Antichrist/little horn/man of sin was.
http://www.redeemerfw.org/resources/reformers_antichrist.pdf
How quickly the world forgets.
How does one reform something by leaving it?
The first burning of a “heretic” was in Calvin’s Geneva. Just sayin’.
http://webwitness.org.au/estimates.html
It was wholesale murder and often it was done in the most Satanic ways. Burning was comparatively a walk in the park as opposed to many other means, after a good torture that is.
At this moment in time, the big winner of the reformation is servitus (via descartes and the universities)
when the organization does not respond to legitimate criticism the only action left to those who hold the truth is to leave the organization in error. Luther did his best to reform the Roman church from within before leaving. Eventually however he was left with his famous statement “Here I stand I can do no other”
Look at it this way. If you are in a car being driven over a cliff and the driver refuses to change course your only option is to get out if the car
The big winner is the millions of Christians set free by the teaching of the true Gospel
Quote-’How quickly the world forgets.’
Not sure forgets is the correct f word.
It’s more like,
how quickly the world ‘fulfills’ prophecy...
Delchiante, you and I both get it. The Catholic Church is the church of the Antichrist/little horn/man of sin. The reformers knew it and the church tried to silence them. When that failed they got some of their Jesuit priests to come up with alternate theories and basically saying “see, the Antichrist can’t be us because he appeared before the church (Nero) or will after the tribulation” “Nope, not us”. Satan has fooled most of the world in believing one or the other views. Prophetic clues to who the Antichrist is are very clear. It can be none other than the Catholic Church/pope.
If you buy the analogy, sure. But, I do not.
He did his best? Oh.
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