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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
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Date Posted:
1/1/1998
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Contents
Introduction
Origins and Nature
Basic Differences
False Doctrines
Mariolatry
Purgatory
Supererogation
Papal Infallibility
Peter the Little Stone
Rome's Monopoly
'Heretics'
Babylon the Great
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Introduction
The History and Falsehoods of Romanism
Professor CAM Noble
The Roman Catholic Church today does not directly wield the same massive political power that it enjoyed in earlier centuries, but in accordance with its motto semper eadem ('always the same'), and availing itself of modern sophisticated communication techniques, it is once again vigorously pursuing its ultimate goal of subjecting every living human being to its doctrine, authority and domination.
The relative enlightenment of the twentieth century has prevented a repetition of the mass torture and murder perpetrated by the Church of Rome at the time of the Inquisition, but new and very effective means are now at the Vatican's disposal for the achievement of its ends. The same foe exists today with its claws cut, but they are growing again.
History will record that the Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (Vatican II) was the most cleverly planned piece of religious deception ever foisted upon an unsuspecting world. The Church of Rome, called by the Holy Ghost "Mystery, Babylon the Great" (Revelation 17:5), received in the past three decades the greatest opportunity to seize worldwide power by a succession of circumstances.
These circumstances created an atmosphere in which Romanism was able to thrive as never before. The soft attitude in the Ecumenical Council, with the compromising gestures of Protestantism, its change of face on superficial and non-essential practices, its pretended transformation in re-labelling those who were once condemned as heretics and pronounced Anathema as 'separated brethren'. Alarmingly, the rank and file of Protestants seized the bait, failing to recognise the concealed hook.
Then came the death of Pope John XXIII, provoking a wave of sympathy and sentiment which served further to wipe out the memory of the Protestant Reformation, and which also entertained the world to the spectacle of Romish rigmarole and Papist paraphernalia through the modern media of mass communications.
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Nothing in history had done more to break down the great traditions of America's Protestant heritage.
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The election of a Roman Catholic President, of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was something which seemed almost impossible in a nation which was seventy per cent non-Roman-Catholic. Nothing in history had done more to break down the great traditions of America's Protestant heritage.
Then after three years came his sudden, tragic murder. America mourned the violent death of its political leader, but at the same time this was the occasion for washing out of its repudiation of the teachings of the Church of Rome. No one can fail to see that it was an opportunity for Rome to capitalise on this tragedy. In America's united political sorrow the nation failed to see how Rome would profit by the death of the Roman Catholic President in the unprecedented publicity of the religion which was repudiated at the Reformation.
With all these swift-moving events, every one of them favouring Romanism, the work of the great deception perpetrated by the Ecumenical Council was made easy in revitalising the Great Apostate Church of the Antichrist. The Mother of Harlots, in fulfilment of prophecy, is preparing to ride the Scarlet Beast of Revelation once again.
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Rome has adopted a change of face and tactics, but no change of heart.
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The Roman Catholic Church today is only wearing a different mask which hides her real character. Rome has adopted a change of face and tactics, but no change of heart. Not one single important change of mind has been evident in spite of the Vatican's apparent soft attitude toward other religions and the 'gracious' invitation to the "separated brethren" to return to the fold. All of this was prepared for public consumption. Sadly and tragically it was also eagerly swallowed by an unsuspecting, apostatising Protestantism. Romanism has not changed its policies or dogmas; it has only changed its appearance. A so-called "good" Roman Catholic is today just as much under the "thumb" as he or she ever was.
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