Posted on 07/11/2024 7:22:20 AM PDT by patriot torch
The Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court and process of the Roman Catholic Church setup for the purpose towards the discovery and punishment of heresy which wielded immense power and brutality in medieval and early modern times. The Inquisitions function was principally assembled to repress all heretics of rights, depriving them of their estate and assets which became subject to the ownership of the Catholic treasury, with each relentlessly sought to destroy anyone who spoke, or even thought differently to the Catholic Church. This system for close to over six centuries became the legal framework throughout most of Europe that orchestrated one of the most confound religious orders in the course of mankind.
Inquisition Procedure
At root the word Inquisition signifies as little of evil as the primitive "inquire," or the adjective inquisitive, but as words, like persons, lose their characters by bad associations, so "Inquisition" has become infamous and hideous as the name of an executive department of the Roman Catholic Church.
All crimes and all vices are contained in this one word Inquisition. Murder, robbery, arson, outrage, torture, treachery, deceit, hypocrisy, cupidity, holiness. No other word in all languages is so hateful as this one that owes its abhorrent preeminence to its association with the Roman Church.
In the Dark Side of Christian History, Helen Ellerbe describes how the same men who had been both prosecutor and judge decided upon the sentence of heresy. Once an Inquisitor arrived to a heresy-ridden district, a 40 day period of grace was usually allowed to all who wished to confess by recanting their faith.
After this period of grace had finished, the inhabitants were then summoned to appear before the Inquisitor. Citizens accused of heresy would be woken in the dead of night, ordered, if not gagged, and then escorted
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It sure seems to tie a lot together.
That it does my friend, that it does! They use it seeking total global dominance through means of both “church” and state control.
No, it could not have - not while Islam retained political ascendency just across the pillars of Hercules in Morocco and were a clear and present danger.
Furthermore, the spanish inquisition was not “against those who disagreed with them” but against those who said they were Catholics but were crypto-Muslims.
That isn't borne out by historical facts:
Spain was far more powerful than England from 1491 when Spain was formed, right until the Napoleonic wars, though it (Spain) declined from the mid 1700s while the UK was on the ascent
This has no correlation to the presence or absence of Jews.
your lack of historical knowledge is almost as bad as your lack of biblical knowledge — no, the inquisition was not used against non-Catholics. The Muslims and Jews were not the subject of prosecution
Only those baptised as Catholics were brought before ecclesiastical courts
The Armada was definitely not a turning point. the UK was a 2nd rate power throughout the 1500s and for much of the 1600s.
Remember that in the 1600s the British had to bow down to the Mughal emperor,
I would suggest reading “the stripping of the Altars” - it is fascinating how strong was the Catholic faith in England even under Henry 8. Only after decades of persecution did it die out.
Though if Kate had had a son, then England would have remained Catholic for some more time.
There is no way to predict if there would even be a United Kingdom
The book of Revelation talks about the city of Babylon as being Jerusalem of 70 AD
Rev 11:8 “
Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.”
The burning city referred is the city of Jerusalem that was destroyed in 70 AD.
simple rinse and repeat, ignore, dont let it take space in your mind and focus on whats right for you.
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erusalem's seven hills are Mount Scopus, Mount Olivet and the Mount of Corruption (all three are peaks in a mountain ridge that lies east of the Old City), Mount Ophel, the original Mount Zion, the New Mount Zion and the hill on which the Antonia Fortress was built.
catholicism is the whore of babylon!
Nah, the whore of Babylon is Jerusalem of 70 AD.
This is clear from Revelation 11:8 8 Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.”
Where was the Lord crucified? In Jerusalem.
Jerusalem of 70 AD was the Babylon with the “beast from the land” i.e. the Sanhedrin along with the “beast from the sea” - the Roman empire.
Jerusalem was burned down to the ground, the rocks separated from each other.
The book of Revelation talks about the city of Babylon as being Jerusalem of 70 AD
Rev 11:8 “
Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.”
The burning city referred is the city of Jerusalem that was destroyed in 70 AD.
According to preterism, all prophecy in the Bible is really history. The preterist interpretation of Scripture regards the book of Revelation as a symbolic picture of first-century conflicts, not a description of what will occur in the end times. The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, meaning “past.” Thus, preterism is the view that the biblical prophecies concerning the “end times” have already been fulfilled—in the past. Preterism is directly opposed to futurism, which sees the end-times prophecies as having a still-future fulfillment.
Preterism denies the future prophetic quality of the book of Revelation. The preterist movement essentially teaches that all the end-times prophecies of the New Testament were fulfilled in AD 70 when the Romans attacked and destroyed Jerusalem. Preterism teaches that every event normally associated with the end times—Christ’s second coming, the tribulation, the resurrection of the dead, the final judgment—has already happened. (In the case of the final judgment, it still is in the process of being fulfilled.) Jesus’ return to earth was a “spiritual” return, not a physical one.
Preterism teaches that the Law was fulfilled in AD 70 and God’s covenant with Israel was ended. The “new heavens and new earth” spoken of in Revelation 21:1 is, to the preterist, a description of the world under the New Covenant. Just as a Christian is made a “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17), so the world under the New Covenant is a “new earth.” This aspect of preterism can easily lead to a belief in replacement theology.
Preterists usually point to a passage in Jesus’ Olivet Discourse to bolster their argument. After Jesus describes some of the end-times happenings, He says, “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened” (Matthew 24:34). The preterist takes this to mean that everything Jesus speaks of in Matthew 24 had to have occurred within one generation of His speaking—the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 was therefore “Judgment Day.”
The problems with preterism are many. For one thing, God’s covenant with Israel is everlasting (Jeremiah 31:35–37), and there will be a future restoration of Israel (Isaiah 11:12). The apostle Paul warned against those who, like Hymenaeus and Philetus, teach falsely “that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some” (2 Timothy 2:17–18). And Jesus’ mention of “this generation” should be taken to mean the generation that is alive to see the beginning of the events described in Matthew 24.
Eschatology is a complex subject, and the Bible’s use of apocalyptic imagery to relate many prophecies has led to a variety of interpretations of end-time events. There is room for some disagreement within Christianity regarding these things. However, full preterism has some serious flaws in that it denies the physical reality of Christ’s second coming and downplays the dreadful nature of the tribulation by restricting that event to the fall of Jerusalem.
https://www.gotquestions.org/preterist.html
Who’s talking about preterism or whatever. All of those are modernist talk.
Dispensationalism, seventh Day advenism, Mormonism, jehovah’s witnesses, preterism, pre-millenialism are all modernist novelties.
Focus on the belief that Jesus taught and was passed down through the Apostles, through the Apostolic churchs - Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, Oriental Orthodox etc.
The book of Revelation talks about the expansion of the Catholic church which is the inauguaration of the kingdom of God - which is both on earth and in heaven
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Focus on the belief that Jesus taught and was passed down through the Apostles, through the Apostolic churchs - Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, Oriental Orthodox etc.
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So I guess you recognize the current apostate in the vatican as your head of the church through that same false tradition known in catholicism as apostolic succession?
I only recognize One Head in my “Church” His Name is Jesus Christ whom Rome has warned against!
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The book of Revelation talks about the expansion of the Catholic church which is the inauguaration of the kingdom of God - which is both on earth and in heaven.
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No where in the TRUE WORD OF GOD mentions the words catholic, purgatory, pope, cardinal, rosary beads, indulgences, sacraments, catechism, etc......
You claim to follow Jesus, but you, patriot torch, reject Jesus' teachings in John 6.\
You claim to follow Jesus, but you, patriot torch, follow dispensationalism, which divide the gospel into two - and that is NOT what Jesus taught
The Pope is the BISHOP of Rome - and you have the word Bishop in the Bible
Purgatory is in the Bible in 2 Macccabees 12:39-45 and in Matthew 5:24-25 and Paul expands on that in I Corinthians 3:11-15
Have you read the Bible, pat?
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