Comments on: The Protest is not Over https://adventmessenger.org/the-protest-is-not-over/ News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marilyn https://adventmessenger.org/the-protest-is-not-over/comment-page-1/#comment-48454 Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:04:17 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=19476#comment-48454 Thank you for the excellent article by Aubrey Duncan titled, The Protest Is Not Over. I want to share it on my FB page, but I do not understand this paragraph…

The Final Countdown

As Francis the Jesuit projects a sanctified image of piety and caring for the downtrodden, almost the entire world is deceived. The masses are mesmerized by his public persona. Presidents and prime ministers bow down before him. The media can’t seem to get enough of him, but his church’s position against God’s word, which is unchangeable, remains steadfast. He is calling for a few brave men and women to stand for the right even though the heavens fall.
If I follow the line of thought correctly, the last sentence still refers to ‘Francis the Jesuit’: “He is calling for a few…”
But that doesn’t make sense to me. Isnt it God who is calling for a few good men…???

Did I miss something?

]]> By: Hansen https://adventmessenger.org/the-protest-is-not-over/comment-page-1/#comment-48273 Sun, 05 Nov 2023 06:09:03 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=19476#comment-48273 The Reformation started with a squabble between 2 monks, Tetzel, a Dominican and Luther, an Augustinian. Tetzel was teaching people that Indulgences could secure forgiveness of all sin, that is, those contrary to God as well as those contrary to RC teaching. Luther held that indulgences were only good for securing forgiveness for sin against RC teaching. The Dominicans saw Luther’s attack as against the Dominican order in general, not just Tetzel. The dominant group at the Council of Trent, decades later, were neither Augustinians nor Dominicans but rather Franciscans.

Luther’s teaching, as well as Calvin’s, delivered people from bondage to the Papacy. It didn’t necessarily lead to Christian conversion. The group known as Libertines, who rejoiced in Calvin’s rejection of papal authority, formed the nucleus of the Salon movement in France, leading to the French Revolution. Being free from legalism and human tradition does not necessarily lead to a relationship with Christ, the essence of salvation. After Luther surveyed the German churches, those free from Papal domination, he described the German people as “filthy swine.” The German pastors were impoverished. The people, so long enslaved to Rome and obligated to spend their money on “religion,” kept it for themselves, once they discovered that giving money to the Papacy was not an obligation.

Both Luther and Calvin were correct in their rejection of papal authority. Unfortunately, rejection of error doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance of Truth.

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