The Reformation

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The Reformation

• A 16th century religious movement marked
  ultimately by rejection or modification of some
  Roman Catholic doctrine and practice and
  establishment of the protestant churches.

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Church during the first 300 years

• At first the Home Church was the standard. And
  the letters of the Apostles were copied and
  shared from place to place thus giving these
  believers the word of God. These early
  Christians were made up of both jewish and
  gentile believers.

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The Roman Church

• Romanists claim that there church began with the
  coming of the Holy Spirit in 33A.D. In Fact
  protestants believe the same date. The difference
  is that we dont see popery, indulgences, prayers
  to Mary and the Saints, the Rosary, The Mass, or
  Purgatory in the Protestant Bible. Some Catholics
  claim that the Apocrypha supports some of their
  doings.

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From within..

• from your own church, men will arise perverting
  the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
  (Acts 2030)

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Example from the Apocrypha

• In 2 Machabees (another spelling) 1243-46, we
  have the reference cited by the Catholic Church
  to support Purgatory. If one would read verses 40
  through 46, he would learn that God killed these
  people because of idolatry. According to
  Catholicism, if you die in the state of mortal
  sin, which idolatry is, you'll go straight to
  Hell when you die! Therefore, according to
  Catholic doctrine, Judas Machabeus was WRONG in
  suggesting that the people should "pray for the
  dead, that they may be loosed from sins" (verse
  46)!
• For a person to believe in the doctrine of
  Purgatory, he/she would have to be totally
  misinformed about the Biblical doctrines of the
  Atonement, Redemption and even Salvation.
  Purgatory infers works for salvation, a
  soul-damning and devilish teaching. Augustine said
  , "there are some who have departed this life,
  not so bad as to be deemed unworthy of mercy, nor
  so good as to be entitled to immediate
  happiness."(8) This statement infers works for
  salvation which is refuted by Eph. 28,9 Titus
  35 Rom. 44-6 and 2 Tim. 19. Consequently, one
  can therefore conclude that Augustine was NOT a
  Christian, but instead a minister and servant of
  Satan, 2 Cor. 1113-15!

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Defining the office of Apostle

• An Apostle of Christ had to have seen the
  resurrected Christ. (Acts 121-26)
• An Apostle of Christ must have his ministry
  validated by signs and wonders. 2 Corinthians
  1211-12
• Paul was chosen by God himself to be the last
  Apostle. (1 Corinthians 158)
• Apostolic succession carried on by popery is not
  biblical!

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A warning from Christ.

• Wherefore if they shall say unto you , Behold, He
  is in the desert go not forth behold, He is in
  the secret chambers believe it not. Matthew
  2426.
• Conclusion The physical presence of Jesus will
  not be seen until His second coming. So how could
  anyone claim to have seen Jesus and thus be
  qualified to be an Apostle in later centuries?
  How could Jesus Christ be bodily present in the
  eucharistic wafer as well?

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From your own midst

• Read (Acts 2028-31)

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Historians vary on how many.

• IF you research the number of protestants
  murdered by the mother church, after Luthers
  time, you will find it varies from 100,000 up to
  100 million. One researcher went to the trouble
  to do statistics using birthrates, and all
  possible death rates other than those caused by
  the inquisition and came up with the (50 to 100
  million) number still needed to account for
  population growth and death rates. All of this is
  debatable of course.

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The Jesuits

• The Jesuits were formed in the 16th century to
  manage a counterreformation.
• Christians were burned at the stake for such
  things as reading or attempting to translate the
  Bible into their language.

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