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Revelation 9:20-21. The Unrepentant State of Western Christendom
Western Church resembled that of treacherous Judah, whose guilt was even more unpardonable than that of backsliding Israel.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XVII By What Moral Standard?
One of the strong contrasts between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism is found in the moral codes. In Protestantism this code is taken directly from the Bible.
Continue reading →Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XIII Ritualism
Roman Catholic people have to struggle with ritualism and superstition, forms and ceremonies which impress the eye but deaden the soul to spiritual truth.
Continue reading →Of the Catholic Priesthood Called Holy Orders – By Martin Luther
Of this sacrament the Church of Christ knows nothing; it was invented by the church of the Pope. It not only has no promise of grace, anywhere declared, but not a word is said about it in the whole of the New Testament. Now it is ridiculous to set up as a sacrament of God that which can nowhere be proved to have been instituted by God. Not that I … Continue reading →
Of Matrimony – By Martin Luther
It is not only without any warrant of Scripture that matrimony is considered a sacrament, but it has been turned into a mere mockery by the very same traditions which vaunt it as a sacrament. Let us look a little into this. I have said that in every sacrament there is contained a word of divine promise, which must be believed in by him who receives the sign; and that … Continue reading →