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Description: If anyone should think that we are attacking fellow Christians, please keep in mind that the prophecy is aimed at a system and not individuals. There are sincere, devout Christians in all churches, including the Catholic faith.
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With the events in 2014 surrounding Pope Francis and Tony Palmer’s declaration that "the protest is over" at the Kenneth Copeland Ministers’ Conference on January 21, 2014, do we stop and ask ourselves, "What protest?" Do we know what a Protestant is? When did "the protest" occur?
In The Vanishing Protestant, author Charles Lawson examines the political climate fifteen years into the twenty-first century in regard to religious freedom. One member of the U.S. Congress seems to think of our First Amendment rights as a "special privilege." If that were the case, "there would be no protection from a government with unlimited power to distribute, modify, and rescind privileges." The Bible tells us that this day will come.
"And ye in putting them [departed souls] in heaven, hell, and purgatory, destroy the arguments wherewith Christ and Paul prove the resurrection. … And again, if the souls be in heaven, tell me why they be not in as good case as the angels be? And then what cause is there of the resurrection?" —Thomas Russell, A.M., ed., The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale, and John Frith, Vol. II, 188, 189.
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