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Sermon of the week: “What Every Catholic Should Know” by Mike Gendron.
Your sermon of the week is What Every Catholic Should Know by Mike Gendron. This is a good message on the soul-damning errors of the Romish system. ____________________________________________________ Also download John MacArthur’s sermons Unmasking the Pope and the Catholic System … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism, Sermons
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Miek Gendron, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Sermon, Sermons, tagged Apostasy, Theology
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Where’s that in Scripture?
When Roman Catholicism bases its bedrock of authority on an ever-changing position of leadership (just like Mormonism), it never ceases to amaze me what men can dream up. And with no real, fixed, eternal foundation by which to measure all … Continue reading
Posted in Pilgrim's Corner, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Catholicism, Celestine, Celestine V, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, Indulgence, Indulgences, Jesus, Luther, Martin Luther, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
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The doctrine of Salvation by Sacraments is a deadly delusion, the overthrow of the gospel, the destruction of souls and the path to perdition. –John Campbell
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John Campbell, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Sermon, Sermons, tagged Apostasy, Theology
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There is a voice in the blood of the martyrs. What does that voice say? It cries aloud from Oxford, Smithfield, and Gloucester,- “Resist to the death the Popish doctrine of the Real Presence, under the forms of the consecrated … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, Jesus, Luther, Martin Luther, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
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A Catholic Leap
There is little doubt that many Roman Catholic doctrines simply aren’t in the Bible. They’ve been introduced by the Roman Catholic Church over the centuries. Much as Muslims make weak attempts to find prophecies about Muhammad in the Bible, Catholics … Continue reading
Posted in Evangelism, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetcis, Apostasy, Bible, Catholic, christian, Christianity, Faith, God, heresy, Jesuit, Jesuit Priest, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Priest, Religion, Roman Catholic, Rome, Vatican
120 Comments
10 reasons to return to an oppressive, dead religion that preaches a gospel that cannot save.
It appears that the Catholic church is continuing to resort to marketing schemes to draw people back to the oppressive, dead religion of Rome. It was only a few weeks ago that I posted a video highlighting this new trend … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, tagged Apostasy, Theology
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The Reformation View of Roman Catholicism
From the works of Martin Luther (1483-1546) What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Evangelism, False Christs, Random Selections, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Catholicism, christian, Christianity, church, Faith, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mary, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology
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Scott Hodge and his hodge-podge of Roman Catholic meditative monastic heresy.
Chris Rosebrough is tackling an unbelievable issue that has crept into the church: The continued march backward into Romanism by supposed Evangelicals (some of which are the golden calves of Americanized Christianity) through the use of monastic meditation practices. He … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Bill Hybels, Catholicism, Chaplain, Chaplains, Chris Rosebrough, Christianity, Christmas, Eucharist, Eucharist Minister, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Hospital, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lectio Divina, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill, murder, News, Orchard, orchard church, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Religion, Rick Warren, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Saddleback, Scott Hodge, tagged Apostasy, The orchard, Theology, Willow Creek
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The Kingdom of Christ is a kingdom of mercy, grace, and goodness. The kingdom of the Pope is a kingdom of lies and damnation! – Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, church, God, Gospel, Jesus, Luther, Martin Luther, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Reformation, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
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The peddler of false assurance.
Recently my grandfather was in the hospital for a week (it was looking pretty serious). On one of my visits to the hospital with my grandmother present, a nice white-haired man in a dress shirt and a tie entered the … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Catholicism, Chaplain, Chaplains, Christianity, Christmas, Eucharist, Eucharist Minister, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Hospital, Jesus, Jesus Christ, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, tagged Apostasy, Theology
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Roman Catholics copying Evangelicals?
A sad trend as of late is that many supposed professing Christians are unifying with and even returning to Rome (like a dog to its vomit) and taking many of the undiscerning with them. But what I find ironic is … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy/Lukewarm, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, tagged Apostasy, Theology
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The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. – Charles Spurgeon 1834 – 1892
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, C. H. Spurgeon, Catholicism, Chalres Spurgeon, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Spurgeon!, Theology, Virgin Mary
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A Roman Catholic with univeralist leanings vs. an Atheist on the topic of Christmas.
I found this short and interesting video debate between a Roman Catholic (who includes Evangelicals, Catholics, and Mormons under the umbrella of “Christian”) and an Atheist on the subject of Christmas. The Roman Catholic is a Foxnews anchor, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, murder, News, Planned Parenthood, Politics, Pope, Pro-Abortion, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, proabortion, prochoice, Prolife, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology
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A Public Rebuke to the Mahnattan Declaration Signers
From: Ralph Ovadal, Pastor of Pilgrims Covenant Church, Monroe, Wisconsin. The Manhattan Declaration is an ungodly manifesto, contemptuous of the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an ecumenical treatise, complete with a Romish gospel and shot … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, False Teachers, God, Gospel, Grace, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish
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Quotes (651)
Catholics are totally dependent upon priests for their salvation. It is the priest who is said to cause regeneration and justification in baptism (CCC 1992, 1213); absolve mortal sins in the confessional; dispense the body and blood of Jesus in … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Catholicism, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
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Roman Catholicism is the most evil perversion of Christianity Satan could devise. It is pagan, wicked, and deceptive. It is a works-oriented system that perverts the works of Christ in many blasphemous ways (the papacy being one) and was the … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Catholicism, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
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Martyrdom of John Calas
We pass over many other individual maretyrdoms to insert that of John Calas, which took place as recently as 1761, and is an indubitable proof of the bigotry of popery, and shows that neither experience nor improvement can root out … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Persecution, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Catholicism, christian, Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Pope, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish
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A Nun’s Story
Jacqueline Kassar spent twenty-two years as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation and suffering, trying to appease the wrath of God. She believed it was a nun’s calling to be a miniature savior of the world … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Christianity, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Virgin Mary
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E.T. phone Rome.
Not content with being restricted to spreading their damnable false gospel on earth, the Vatican is now looking to the sky. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of … Continue reading
Posted in News, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetcis, Apostasy, Bible, christian, Christianity, Faith, God, heresy, Jesuit, Jesuit Priest, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Priest, Religion, Roman Catholic, Rome, Vatican
7 Comments
Quotes (644)
The blessed founder of Christianity chose to make his advent among the lowly and the despised. This was agreeable to the spirit of that Holy Religion which he came to establish. There was a time when a multitude of his … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy, Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, church, heresy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish
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Persecution of John Huss
“John Huss (Jan Hus) was born at Hussenitz, a village in Bohemia, about the year 1380. His parents gave him the best education their circumstances would admit; and having acquired a tolerable knowledge of the classics at a private school, … Continue reading
Posted in Encouragement, Random Selections, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish
3 Comments
The more Rome changes, the more it stays the same.
You can tell a man by the friends he keeps and likewise you can tell a church by the associations it keeps. So this Reformation Day, let us take a stroll through the halls of Roman Catholicism’s past and present … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Islam, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Catholicism, Christianity, church, Ecumenical, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Interfaith, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary, World Religion
23 Comments
The Pope’s Plans on Organizing Political, Economic, and Religious Activities Worldwide
From Richard Bennett at Berean Beacon. Dear Friend, The Pope’s latest encyclical can read like an ideological bombshell. However, when we study papal history with its obsession for global power, it is not so shocking. The Papacy has an agenda … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Christianity, False Teachers, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish
18 Comments
Rick Warren, Tony Blair & The Vatican Agenda
Source: Chris Pinto with Adullam Films Essence of lies, and quintessence of blasphemy, as the religion of Rome is, it nevertheless fascinates a certain order of Protestants, of whom we fear it may be truly said that they have received … Continue reading
Posted in Apostasy/Lukewarm, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy, Christianity, Jesuits, Pope, Purporse Driven Life, Reformation, Rick Warren, Rome, Romish, Theology
11 Comments
The immaculate deception.
The following is an article by James Swan refuting an attempted defense of Roman Catholicism’s great heresy: The Immaculate Conception. I found the timing of this to be highly apropos in light of a continued discussion that is taking place … Continue reading
Posted in Roman Catholicism
Tagged Alpha and Omega Ministries, Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Catholicism, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Immaculate Conception, James Swan, James White, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
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Rome never changes. Rome will never admit that she has made mistakes. She burned our English Reformers 300 years ago. She tried hard to stamp out by violence the Protestantism which she could not prevent spreading by arguments. If Rome … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, Catholicism, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, J. C. Ryle, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Theology, Virgin Mary
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But the man Christ can be but in one place, and he is now at the right hand of the Majesty on high. It is absurd, it is horrible, both to faith and to reason, to say that Christ’s body … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Bible, Blogging, C. H. Spurgeon, Catholicism, Chalres Spurgeon, Christianity, church, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Mary, Pope, Quote, Quotes, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Spurgeon!, Theology, Virgin Mary
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All idolatries, in whatever age or country they have existed, are to be viewed but as successive developments of the one grand apostacy. That apostacy was commenced in Eden, and consummated at Rome. It had its rise in the plucking … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Tagged Apostasy, Catholicism, Christianity, Pope, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish
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Catholicism, with all her damnable dogmas and creeds, cannot change that God-given impulse that was planted in the bosom of man, when Adam was created in the Garden of Eden, and the more Roman Catholicism endeavors to eradicate that … Continue reading
Introducing A.C.E.
We are unveiling a new feature on DefCon: Answering Common Errors. This will be a quick reference apologetics page that answers many of the falsehoods and errors levied against the Christian faith. It features a common error with a link … Continue reading
Posted in Charismania, Encouragement, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, News, Roman Catholicism, Theology
Tagged Apologetics, Apostasy, Awake!, Bible, Blogging, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Carthage Jail, Catholicism, Charles T. Russell, Charles Taze Russell, Christianity, church, cult, Cults, false prophet, false prophets, False Teacher, False Teachers, God, Gospel, heresy, Hyrum Smith, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jesuit, Jesuits, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., JW, JWs, Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mary, Mormon, Mormonism, New World Translation, Pope, Religion, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Romish, Salt Lake City, Theology, Utah, Virgin Mary, watchtower
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