{"id":1480,"date":"2007-07-10T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/dddblog\/2007\/07\/10\/pope-says-protestants-are-not-in-the-body-of-christ.html"},"modified":"2012-02-09T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:49:07","slug":"pope-says-protestants-are-not-in-the-body-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/pope-says-protestants-are-not-in-the-body-of-christ.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope says Protestants are not in the Body of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope you ecumenically minded Protestants realized what this Pope just spelled out. He said that Protestant clergy are not ordained and they are therefore not priests in the one true Church. He also said that the means of salvation are not found in those churches. Thus, no matter how you want to spin it the Pope just said that all Protestant Christians are not saved unless they return to the apostolic authority of the Catholic Church.<\/strong>
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\nSome of you that thought you could fellowship with this church as fellow Christians should now see that you have been deceived. In Catholicism there is only one true church, it is their church. When they say there is one true Church they are not just talking about the Spiritual body of Christ as most Protestants would think. They are actually saying the one body of Christ is only found in those who submit to the apostolic authority of the Catholic Church. In other words, you have to be in Catholicism and you have to practice Catholicism to be in the Body of Christ.<\/strong>
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\nThey have a completely different meaning of what it is to be a Christian then Protestants. They say you are only a member of the Body of Christ by being part of their Apostolic Church. There is no salvation outside of this church. Therefore, Protestants who might claim to be in the body of Christ by faith in Christ are not in Christ if they do not also embrace the essential doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church. <\/strong>
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\nSo enough nonsense about any unification of Protestants with the Catholics. You can only unify with them by returning to their church, they will not unify with us. Yet, we know we cannot return to them because they claim salvation through works, ordinances and merits contrary to the gospel of salvation. If you are not aware of it they have condemned the doctrine of salvation by faith alone many centuries ago. They have long ago departed from the faith to practice a bastardization of true Christianity. If you somehow became a born again Catholic who thinks you can reform this apostate church from within you are totally wrong you need to get out. The Church was founded on pagan Babylonian substitutes that spawned continual falsehoods that now have become infallible doctrines. They have bound themselves in man made false doctrines that they cannot change.<\/strong>
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\nThis Pope is reverting to his childhood and is showing his fascist colors. There can be no question that he is a counterfeit Christian since what he says opposes the very words of the apostolic fathers he claims to succeed. He obviously does not know what a Christian is, he thinks a Christian is someone who follows only what his own church says.<\/strong>
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\nActually this very misguided pope has done all true Christians a huge favor. We should never again have any false illusions that the Catholic Church teaches a message of salvation or considers Protestants to be brothers in Christ.<\/strong>
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\nI hope I never again see an evangelical gathering that turns people who confess Christ back to their Catholic priests. I hope I never again hear Protestant leaders say that the Pope is a great Christian. I hope I never again hear that a prominent evangelical leader is going to Mass with his wife because he thinks what Catholics practice on Sunday is Christian worship. It is not, it is a Babylonian pagan counterfeit of what Jesus did once for all. If you do not know the difference you really do not belong in Christian leadership.<\/strong>
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\nThe Catholic church is a counterfeit substitute to Christianity. Their earthly man made church supersedes the spiritual Church made up of all believers. She and those who return to this earthy church in the last days make up the Harlot of Revelation chapter 17 <\/a>“The woman who rides the Beast”<\/strong><\/p>\n

FOX News.com – Pope: Other Christian Denominations Not True Churches – International News News of the World Middle East News Europe News: “LORENZ AGO DI CADRE, Italy \u2014 For the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and saying other Christian communities were either defective or not true churches.”<\/p>\n

The new document — formulated as five questions and answers — restates key sections of a 2000 text the pope wrote when he was prefect of the congregation, “Domini’s Isis,” which riled Protestant, Lutheran and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely Eccles communities and therefore did not have the “means of salvation.”
\n“Christ ‘established here on earth’ only one Church,” said the document released as the pope vacations at a villa in Lorenz ago DI Cadre, in Italy’s Dolomite mountains.<\/p>\n

The other communities “cannot be called ‘churches’ in the proper sense” because they do not have apostolic succession — the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ’s original apostles — and therefore their priestly ordinations are not valid, it said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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