Never mind, I found it but thanks for the recommendation... Brother Glen
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Thanks... Brother GlenBrother David... The church I grew up in, its linage and belief runs through The Waldensians could you direct me to their Treatise on Antichrist... I don't believe I've ever read it...l
Well you disagree with all Christians from about AD1200 when the Waldesians wrote their Treatise on Antichrist. That was when the popes reached their persecuting pinacle.
The Jesuits tried to counter that teaching by promoting first preterism and then futurism. Their teaching did not spread to protestants till Edward Irving adopted it and preached on dispensationalism on 25th December 1825.. The Waldensians, John Huss and the Hussites, the Lollards, the Reformers and Baptists, the Huguenots. All these were united in that belief, but most of today's Christians seem to have fallen for the Jesuit lie.
Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses - Part 11
[N.B. I thought it necessary to add more witnesses to the catalogue since there is a dispute on this board as to who is telling the truth.]
THE TESTIMONY OF THE REFORMATION CREEDS UNANIMOUS:
THE POPE IS THE MAN OF SIN, ANTICHRIST
THE SECOND HELVETIC CONFESSION, 1566
"The Church can have no other head than Christ. He is the one universal pastor of his flock, and has promised his presence to the end of the world. He needs, therefore, no vicar; for this would imply his absence. We reject the Romish fiction concerning an official head and title of the servant of the servants of Christ; for experience proves that this is an empty boast, and that the Pope makes himself an enemy of Christ, and exalts himself above God, sitting in the temple of God, and showing himself that he is God.
“But rejecting the Roman head we do not introduce disorder and confusion into the Church of Christ, since we adhere to the government delivered by the Apostles before there was any pope. The Roman head preserves the tyranny and corruption in the Church, and opposes all just reformation."
THE FRENCH CONFESSION OF FAITH, 1559
"Therefore we condemn the papal assemblies, as the pure Word of God is banished from them, their sacraments are corrupted, or falsified, or destroyed, and all superstitions and idolatries are in them. We hold, then, that all who take part in these acts, and commune in that Church, separate and cut themselves off from the body of Christ."
THE SECOND SCOTCH CONFESSION OF FAITH, 1580
"We abhor and detest all contrary Religion and Doctrine; but chiefly all kind of Papistry in general and particular heads, even as they are now damned and confuted by the word of God and church of Scotland. But in special, we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Roman Antichrist upon the scriptures of God, upon the Church, the civil Magistrate, and consciences of men: All his tyrannical laws made upon indifferent things against our Christian liberty: His erroneous doctrine against the sufficiency of the written word, the perfection of the law, the office of Christ, and his blessed Evangel.
"His corrupted doctrine concerning original sin, our natural inability and rebellion to God's Law, our justification by faith only, our unperfect sanctification and obedience to the law; the nature, number and use of the holy sacraments: His five bastard sacraments; with all his rites, ceremonies, and false doctrine, added to the ministration of the true sacraments without the Word of God.
"His cruel judgment against infants departing without the sacrament: his absolute necessity of baptism: His blasphemous opinion of transubstantiation, or real presence of Christ's body in the elements, and receiving of the same by the wicked, or bodies of men: His dispensations, perjuries, and degrees of marriage forbidden in the Word:.....His blasphemous priesthood: His profane sacrifice for the sins of the quick and the dead: His canonization for men, calling upon angels or saints departed; worshiping of images, relics and crosses...vows to creatures: His purgatory, prayers for the dead...His multitudes of advocates or mediators with his many orders and auricular confessions...His justification by works, works of supererogation, merits, pardons and stations: His holy water, baptizing of bells, conjuring of spirits, anointing...His three solemn vows...His erroneous and bloody decrees made at Trent....."
THE IRISH ARTICLES OF RELIGION, 1615
"The power which the Bishop of Rome now challengeth to be supreme head of the universal Church of Christ, and to be above all emperors, kings and princes, is a usurped power, contrary to the Scriptures and Word of God, and contrary to the example of the Primitive Church; and therefore is for most just causes taken away and abolished within the King's Majesty's realms and dominions.
“The Bishop of Rome is so far from being the supreme head of the universal Church of Christ, that his works and doctrine do plainly discover him to be that man of sin, foretold in the holy Scriptures, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and abolish with the brightness of his coming."
THE SAVOV DECLARATION OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES, 1658
"There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but he is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God, whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."
THE BAPTIST CONFESSION OF 1688
[The same confession, in essence, as above.]
TO BE CONTINUED
They were correct and you are wrong.OF COURSE I disagree cuz they were WRONG. Sure, many popes have been antichrists, especially the Borgia ones, but "THE" worst antichrist of all, the "beast", hasn't come yet.
The jeezits publicized preterism to deflect the belief that the line of popes was the AC. But Scripture had already done it. All one need do is READ IT. Daniel mentioned "a prince", not plural princes. Paul said "MAN of sin", not "men". And Revelation mentions THE beast from the sea & THE beast from the earth, not "the beasts". In other words, the beast/antichrist will be ONE MAN, with his sidekick, the false prophet, who shall be his mouthpiece.
They were correct and you are wrong.
They could read the scriptures and you can't. The prince came and destroyed the temple, C'est finis
The jeezits publicized preterism to deflect the belief that the line of popes was the AC.
The jeezits publicized preterism to deflect the belief that the line of popes was the AC.
Your exiguous knowledge and debating skills stupefy. How onerous it must be to so delicately balance self-effacing humility with that of august exaltation.They were simply WRONG. Those men "cured" headaches by cutting the skull open to allow the "bad humours" to escape, & believed the sun revolved around the earth. They believed those things for hundreds of years. Were they right? HUH?
No, YOU are as wrong as they.
Again, for one who claims to not be a pret, you certainly seemta believe much of their hooey.
Yes, the Romans destroyed the temple as part of the "days of vengeance" Jesus prophesied against that generation of Jews. But Titus was not THE prince, the man of sin, the beast.
Your exiguous knowledge and debating skills stupefy. How onerous it must be to so delicately balance self-effacing humility with that of august exaltation.
Please list, with authoritative citations, all the Protestant martyrs, pastors and theologians who cut open skulls to relieve headaches. Then list, with authoritative citations, all the Protestant martyrs, pastors and theologians who taught the sun revolved around the Earth.
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him (Proverbs 26:11-12).