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Ha! Popes flipped on the deity of Christ!
Changed the sacraments. Added vernation of the saints, made doctrines up about Mary(guess that would original and not a change.) During the crusades they promised salvation for those who died in battle ...clearly salvation by works.....this could go on and on.

 

That describes where I am, too, and where I was previously regarding the RCC. What we have seen exhibited here is a cult mentality. And I am extremely reluctant to use that term.

 

Nature of Christ is one. I gave you 3 or 4 earlier. When did the church teach justification by war in fore Pope Urban?

Then you have Innocent condemning the Pelagian movement. He died. Then Zosimus public approved the teachings and allowed all western bishops to teach it. Then Zosimus gets an edict issued against him by the emperor and other bishops charged him with heresy. At that point Zosimus changed the position of Rome again.

 

As far as I know his "seat" is in heaven.
Where do you think it is, and what evidence would you give?

 

Ha, ha...so true. :thumbs:

 

Constantine's church is not God's church and never was.
A church characterized by the murder of 50 million in a period of 1200 years is not of God.
A church in the current age plagued and demonized by sex scandals, pedophilia, homoosexuality, child abuse of all sorts, is not "Christ's church."
Averaging at least a scandal a week--it is not God's church; not Christ's church!
What happened last week? The pope put around the neck of one of the leading terrorists of the world, and a man who is virulently anti-Semitic, a medallion with the icon and inscription "Angel of Peace!" Is your current, like Innocent III, a terrorist as well?

 

I've accepted God's Church as well...I just disagree with you that "God's Church" is merely coterminous with the institutional RCC.

 

Really, well my ancestors were a Military militia for the Roman Army and were there with Paul & Peter in Rome. They brought back to Britain a faith that has influenced Christian thinking ever since. Note, there is no mention of Catholicism irrespective of the fact that they were Romanized. BTW, they never protested Catholicism because they were never part of Catholicism in the first place. You want to talk to a Protestant, then go talk to somebody from Krautland, Czechoslovakia, France .....you know, mainline Europe who were like Luther, Calvin etc., card carrying RC's before they pitched a B.... (well you know)....:laugh:

 

When the Reformation came about the RCC, Lutherans, and Calvinists alike all had one thing in common. They all persecuted the Baptists. At that time most of them were known as "Anabaptists." The name comes from those who "baptized again." Those I just mentioned all were infant baptizers or "pedo-baptizers which is not biblical. The Biblical method of baptism is to wait until a person can understand the gospel, accept it by faith, and then upon the profession of their faith in Christ they my be baptized. To the pedo-baptist, this was a second baptist, and therefore they were called "anabaptists.

Look well to your own history. They persecuted, killed, plundered, anabaptists. Calvin was as merciless as the RCC. Both were very unkind to the Baptists who were not a part of the Reformation. They existed before the Reformation.

Yes, Catholics existed before the Reformation, but not before Constantine. Some of their beliefs did, but not the church itself. It started with Constantine when Constantine united Christianity and state together making this monstrous state-church which is now called the RCC--a mixture of paganism and Christianity. It has always been that way, and still is. It is still full of idolatry. You simply deny it. Close your eyes and deny, deny, deny.

Even your history you deny. The claim of the RCC is that Peter was bishop (pope) of Rome for 25 years. You know that is wrong; a lie. It has been proven to be wrong beyond any shadow of a doubt just using the Bible alone. The longest he could have been in Rome was one year, and that as a prisoner, not a leader--going there to die as a martyr, not as a bishop.

The RCC was and is founded on a lie, perhaps a pack of lies, and yet you believe. Amazing!

 

....and separation from an apostate church who was also very adept at killing people. Would you like some evidence to support that as well....there is tons of that. Lets try looking at Hugonauts in France & the Waldensians in Northern Italy (The Piedmont Region).

 

There have been more Christians martyred in the 20th century than all the other centuries combined, and the rate of martyrdom has only increased in the 21st century. However this time it is at the hands of Islam, Hindus, Buddhists, and others.
In the Middles Ages, the Dark Ages, and centuries gone by it was by the RCC who had acted like the ISIS of today. And now you try to excuse it. Did Jesus ever act that way? No. He never promoted or condoned that kind of lifestyle. And yet you excuse it in the name of "mistakes."
It is a characteristic of an organization that never was a church in the first place. It was a combination of paganism with religion, and still is.