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WHO DOES THE POPE CLAIM TO BE?

The following is a brief outline of some of the claims of the Pope. These are facts which should be studied and their implications thought through very carefully indeed. There is no misrepresentation - Rome speaks for herself.

1) "We the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, prostrate at the feet of your Holiness, humbly offer you our warmest congratulations on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of your ordination to the priesthood… our thoughts go back to that great event fifty years ago by which your Holiness was taken from amongst men and appointed for men in the things that pertain to God, was made a minister of Christ and a dispenser of His mysteries, received power over the real and mystical body of our Saviour and became a mediator between God and man - another Christ." Address to Pope Pius Xll in 1949:-

Note: Although we are including these offending words ("a mediator between God and men - another Christ") in relation to the Pope…if you read the address carefully, they actually refer to him as a mere priest…and so is believed of every priest including your local "Father" But they do but "set the scene" for the blasphemies to come.

2) Speaking the name of the Pope (a rhetorical device) Cardinal Manning said: "I acknowledge no civil superior, I am the subject of no prince, and I claim more than this, I claim to be the supreme judge on earth and director of the consciences of men, I am the last supreme judge of what is right and wrong." (Sermon in the Pro Cathedral, Kensington, Tablet Oct 9, 1864)

Two Scriptures come to mind as I read these various claims of and for the Pope.

[1] "…Simon…bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one…" (Acts 8:9)

[2] "That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." (2 Thessalonians 2:2-4)

A WORD TO ROMAN CATHOLIC READERS:

We do not write these things in hatred of you or your co religionists. All we have done is highlight the teaching of your church. The fact that these things are not much talked about today does not render them obsolete or untrue. Rome has her own reasons for keeping them back - but they still constitute the claims which your church makes. If they horrify you as they horrify me…then is it not time that you considered your position? To remain inside is to endorse by your presence these claims. God says: "Come out of her my people that ye be not partaker of her plagues." (Revelation 18:4) We are not asking you to become a Protestant i.e. to merely embrace a party name or to fight a party war. Millions of sincere church going Protestants are damned because they "lack one thing" - a personal, saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

God said: "I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another…" (Isaiah 42:8)

THE END