In his sermon of 30 October A.D. 2024, a prominent American Protestant Pastor, in his weekly sermon broadcast live over the Internet, made the following assertion:
“The Protestant Reformation was the greatest and most significant event in Church History since the beginning of the Church [in the book of Acts] and with perhaps the exception of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.”
While the Protestant Reformation indeed was significant, and while the Protestant Reformation truly was great in terms of influence, the sad truth is that the Protestant Reformation constituted the second great attack upon the Christian Faith.
The first great attack was the development and launch of the mechanism which the Apostle Paul denotes “the Mystery of Iniquity,” II Thessalonians Chapter 2. This entity, which came into full bloom after the close of the Apostolic Age, is nothing other than the Church of Rome. The Mystery, being the invention of the Talmudic Jew, was already functional in the days of the Apostles, II Thessalonians 2:7. The False Apostle, James of Jerusalem, was the prototype of the Pope. Consider the domineering behaviour of James (who is not an Apostle) in the “Apostolic Conferences” of the the 15th and 21st chapters of the Book of Acts. James is a Talmudic Jew, who used his family relationship of half-brother to Jesus to usurp authority in the Church. James constituted the “Thorn in the Flesh” who was the archenemy of Paul.
The Protestant and the Roman Catholic both view the archaic Church of Rome as the Church founded by Christ Jesus. However, they differ in opinion, in that the Protestant believes that the Church of Rome strayed from the truth, and that a course correction was made by the Protestant Reformers. Nevertheless, there are major Protestant denominations which consider the Church of Rome to be “within the pale of Orthodoxy.”
But both the Protestant and the Roman Catholic are in error by embrace of the notion that the archaic Church of Rome was the Church founded by Christ Jesus. The entity which ultimately blossomed into the Church of Rome is a counterfeit of the Church founded by Christ Jesus. As the counterfeit grew in recognition and influence, the true Church was forced underground. As often is the case in life, presented with two candidates and the demand to select the genuine, the discerning should cry, “Neither!” The genuine is a third entity, which is out of sight.
Despite differences in style, all Protestant denominations are of the same substance; all are cut from the same cloth, and all have a legacy from their mother.
The Protestant denominations are daughters of the Church of Rome. The various Protestant “Reformers” served in the role of midwife to the Church of Rome. Having been members of one or another of the monastic orders of the Church of Rome, there appears to be no evidence that any of the Reformers entered the Way of Life through the portal of Baptism for the Remission of Sins, Acts 2:36–42. Little wonder then, that the one point of doctrine upon virtually all of the Protestant denominations are in agreement is repudiation of the necessity of Baptism for Salvation. Most of the the denominations practice baptism, but only as a confession or act of obedience subsequent to salvation, and not Baptism for the Remission of Sins.
At every turn, the Protestant Faith is in conflict with the direct statement and teaching of the Scripture. Neither the Church of Rome nor the Protestant denominations hold to the Christian Faith of the Scripture. The teaching emanating from the Protestant Pulpit is based on a plethora of assumptions. Some of the assumptions are based on Scripture wrested from its context. Others have no Scriptural basis whatsoever. Much of the teaching is based heavily on the myth of the Talmudic Jew. It clearly is the case that the Protestant Faith, like the Faith of the Church of Rome, cannot be reconciled with the Christian Faith of the Scripture.
RLH
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