The Victory of the Counter Reformation

Jul 11, 2007 07:22

Pope Benedict XVI stated the obvious to the flailing evangelicals: "We won the reformation," by a "statement from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, purporting Roman Catholicism was 'the one true Church of Christ.'"

The victory of the Counter Reformation began once the Vatican's master politicians succeeded in convincing the breakaway Christians that the entire conflict could be summarized with "Salvation by grace alone." With that bumper sticker theology they swept away government tyranny. Vatican tyranny-- the bureaucrats of the time. Forgotten were high taxes and excessive and oppressive regulation, and use of government to solve every social problem. (In case anyone wondered why the Vatican is socialist)

The evangelicals enjoyed 10-20 years of growth using Israel and prophecy as their foundation, but the Vatican was not idle but patient while this was going on. Today the monasteries are preaching prophecy and political resistance to evil civil government, which will swell their numbers as more of the faithful chaff under the cowardice and sin of "the Pastors."

Their defeat began before the reformation ended, but they could have withstood the Vatican if they had refuted their earlier doctrinal defeat at the hands of the Vatican in 325. It was there that the Vatican manipulated them into accepting the first uniform Christian doctrine, called the Nicene Creed.

The weakness and purposelessness of evangelicals is traced back to Nicaea because prior to then, they were Messianic Jews. The Vatican success was that all the congregations rejected anything Jewish. Holy days were moved, the Sidur rejected, the Passover lamb ignored with Easter no longer part of Passover. The Council of Nicaea ended Passover celebrations for Christians.

The Vatican was an anti-Jew.

"Constantine wrote that: "… it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul. … Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different way."

Let's follow his reasoning. A Jewish rabbi was wildly greeted by Jews as he entered Jerusalem to take his place in the Temple, now rejects his family because the government killed him.

The problem is that "the pastors" went along with it!

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56612
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea