In 1519 Martin Luther nailed his excellent 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg. These consisted of a list of complaints against the Roman Church a great many of which in terms of theology remain unaddressed to the present day.Protestantism which had been building up over a period of decades was truly begun. The RC church was a Church which operated simony; a Church which dared to sell God's forgiveness; a Church which had had the Borgia Popes who practised incest as easily as they did murder. [Alexander the Sixth must be one of the most evil men ever to walk the planet.]
Against this historical backcloth, current Pope Benedict the Sixteenth has had the temerity to claim that Protestantism is second class and that the Roman Church is the only 'real' one.
When the Roman Church has ceased the tacit encouragement of prayer to dead people - or Saints as they prefer to call them; when they have stopped their heretical prayers to a dead lady whom they erroneously state remained a virgin when giving birth to our Lord's natural brothers and sisters; when they stop their priests 'forgiving sin' which only Jesus may do, and when they start to trust the Bible ahead of Papal Decree, then - and only then - are they even moving towards a position when they can criticise others.
"Take the plank out of your own eye, Benny!"
PS - I just LOVE the hat!
PPS. Hope you won't be offended by any of this. Pass on our love to the Hitler-Jugend
CONSEQUENCES.
William Cornelius. Irish, born in Cork, came as a sailor on the 'Minion' ship to Guatemala. He arrived finally in Tampico, Mexico. In 1574 he was arrested and charged as a 'heretic'. Refusing to deny his faith he was sent back to Mexico to be tried under the Mexican inquisition. He was sentenced on March 6, 1575, in the Chapel of San Jose de Naturales at the convent of San Francisco to be executed for 'believing that we receive salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ alone' which is the clear and unequivocal teaching of Scripture.
In this age of apologies, any chance of some backtracking?
