(A Paper Read at the Birmingham Mutual Improvement Society)
At some point in a man’s life, he begins to entertain serious thoughts concerning religion. He begins to feel the need of faith in some one outside himself, the need of a hope to look forward to; in short, that faculty which God placed within us to make us look up to Him and trust in Him begins to awaken, and man desires to worship his Maker. His first question is “What religion shall I adopt?” So many creeds! Such a babel of voices! One says, “We can work miracles”; another, “We are the ancient British Church”; another, “We go in for simplicity”; another says, “Every part of our ritual has a meaning”; another, “Our religion is that of the Bible.”
But towering high above all others is seen the Church of Rome, and the voice of the Pope is heard making claims which, if true, shut out all other claims; and if false, stamp him at once as the Man of Sin, anti-Christ, “that wicked one, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming,” “Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders” (2 Thessalonians 2:8–9).
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Author: C. A. Bower
Keywords: Catholic church, Roman Catholic church, Mariolatry, Marialatry, Worship of Mary, Virgin Mary worshipped, Mary worshipped, Mother of God, Theotokos, Virgin mother, Great Mother, Perpetual Virginity, Perpetual Virginity of Mary, Dormition, Mary Dormition, Immaculate Conception, Immaculate Conception Mary, Bodily Assumption, Bodily Assumption of Mary, Queen of Heaven, Mary Queen of Heaven, Queen of Martyrs, Mary Queen of Martyrs, God bearer, Catholicism, Catholic, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Forbidding to marry, Celibacy, Church of Rome, Papa, Papal, Papal authority, Papalism, Pope, great harlot, great whore, seven mountains
Bible reference(s): Mar 7:13, 2Th 2:3-4, 2Th 2:11, 1Ti 4:1-3, Rev 17, Rev 18
Source: “Rome: Its History, Mystery and Destiny,” The Christadelphian, Vol. 36, Nos. 421-2, July & August 1899.
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