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Holidays with explanations for each
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Paganism
is an un-Southern religion.
And so are the Catholic,
Jewish and Mormon religions. If you were to see someone wearing one of
their symbols would you associate them with Devil worship?
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Well according to every famous Protestant reformer from the 15th
century onwards and the Westminster Confession Of Faith (on which most
other Churches have their confession of faith) the Pope is
anti-Christ.. Mormons are largely a plagarism of Freemasonry and was
founded by Joseph Smith and I know of quite a few people that would
describe Masonry as "devil worship" although I think they are being a
little harsh there:-
Martin Luther (1483-1546) (Lutheran): "Luther
... proved, by the
revelations of Daniel and St. John, by the epistles of St. Paul, St.
Peter, and St. Jude, that the reign of Antichrist, predicted and
described in the Bible, was the Papacy ... And all the people did say,
Amen! A holy terror siezed their souls. It was Antichrist whom they
beheld seated on the pontifical throne. This new idea, which derived
greater strength from the prophetic descriptions launched forth by
Luther into the midst of his contemporaries, inflicted the most
terrible blow on Rome." Taken from J. H. Merle D'aubigne's History of
the Reformation of the Sixteen Century, book vi, chapter xii, p. 215.
Based on prophetic studies, Martin Luther finally declared, "We
here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and
real Antichrist." (Aug. 18, 1520). Taken from The Prophetic Faith of
Our Fathers, by LeRoy Froom. Vol. 2., pg. 121.
John Calvin (1509-1564) (Presbyterian): "Some persons think us too
severe and censorious when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But
those who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same
charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak and
whose language we adopt... I shall briefly show that (Paul's words in
II Thess. 2) are not capable of any other interpretation than that
which applies them to the Papacy." Taken from Institutes of the
Christian Religion, by John Calvin.
John Knox (1505-1572) (Scotch Presbyterian): John Knox sought to
counteract "that tyranny which the pope himself has for so many ages
exercised over the church." As with Luther, he finally concluded that
the Papacy was "the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul
speaks."
The Zurich Letters, by John Knox, pg. 199.
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) (Anglican): "Whereof it followeth Rome
to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist
himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers,
and strong reasons." (Referring to prophecies in Revelation and
Daniel.) Works by Cranmer, Vol. 1, pp. 6-7.
Roger Williams (1603-1683) (First Baptist Pastor in America):
Pastor Williams spoke of the Pope as "the pretended Vicar of Christ on
earth, who sits as God over the Temple of God, exalting himself not
only above all that is called God, but over the souls and consciences
of all his vassals, yea over the Spirit of Christ, over the Holy
Spirit, yea, and God himself...speaking against the God of heaven,
thinking to change times and laws; but he is the son of perdition (II
Thess. 2)." The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, by Froom, Vol. 3, pg.
52.
The Westminster Confession of Faith (1647): "There is no other head
of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the pope of Rome in
any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and
son of perdition that exalteth himself in the church against Christ and
all that is called God." Taken from Philip Schaff's, The Creeds of
Christendom, With a History and Critical Notes, III, p. 658, 659, ch.
25, sec. 6.
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) (Congregational Theologian): "The oracles of
God foretold the
rising of an Antichrist in the Christian Church: and in the Pope of
Rome, all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously
answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a
marvelous blindness upon them." Taken from The Fall of Babylon by
Cotton Mather in Froom's book, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol.
3, pg. 113.
John Wesley (1703-1791) (Methodist): Speaking of the Papacy, John
Wesley wrote, "He is in an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he
increases all manner of sin above measure. And he is, too, properly
styled the Son of Perdition, as he has caused the death of numberless
multitudes, both of his opposers and followers... He it is...that
exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped...claiming the highest power, and highest honour...claiming
the prerogatives which belong to God alone." Antichrist and His Ten
Kingdoms, by John Wesley, pg. 110.
A Great Cloud of Witnesses: "Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin,
Cranmer; in the seventeenth century, Bunyan, the translators of the
King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster and Baptist
confessions of Faith; Sir Isaac Newton, Wesley, Whitfield, Jonathan
Edwards; and more recently Spurgeon, Bishop J.C. Ryle and Dr. Martin
Lloyd-Jones; these men among countless others, all saw the office of
the Papacy as the antichrist." Taken from All Roads Lead to Rome, by
Michael de Semlyen. Dorchestor House Publications, p. 205. 1991.
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