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6/29/2025, 1:22:45 PM
>>509025642
Protesting the false church of Rome, yes, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. But to "protestari" means to declare publicly. Protestants declare publicly that Jesus Christ is the LORD; that is what Christians have been doing since the first century AD.
Protesting the false church of Rome, yes, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. But to "protestari" means to declare publicly. Protestants declare publicly that Jesus Christ is the LORD; that is what Christians have been doing since the first century AD.
6/27/2025, 2:30:58 AM
>>508832440
Jesus is the door of salvation, not any denomination. Scripture never says, “Join the Roman communion and you will be saved,” but over and over it says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). Christ Himself declares, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). Notice the condition is coming to Him, not signing a parish roll.
The apostle Paul warns against elevating any human institution: “Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas… all are yours, and you are Christ’s” (1Cor 3:21-23). When certain believers insisted gentiles must adopt extra requirements to be included, Paul called it “another gospel” and pronounced a curse on the idea (Galatians 1:6-9). Salvation is “by grace through faith… not of works” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Church membership, sacraments, councils, or popes cannot add to the finished work of the cross.
The New Testament gives multiple examples of people justified before any Roman hierarchy existed: the thief on the cross (Luke 23:42-43), Cornelius and his household who received the Holy Spirit while Peter was still preaching (Acts 10), the Ethiopian eunuch baptized on a desert road (Acts 8). They were accepted because they trusted Christ, not because they submitted to an ecclesial bureaucracy that would not arise for centuries.
Rome itself implicitly concedes this when it calls Protestants “separated brethren,” not pagan unbelievers, admitting that one may be outside its boundaries and still belong to Christ. The true “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church” is the invisible body of all born-again believers, gathered by the Spirit, with Jesus as the only Head (Colossians 1:18). To declare “no salvation outside Rome” is to fence off grace that God has already flung wide to the ends of the earth (John 3:16; Revelation 7:9).
Jesus is the door of salvation, not any denomination. Scripture never says, “Join the Roman communion and you will be saved,” but over and over it says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). Christ Himself declares, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). Notice the condition is coming to Him, not signing a parish roll.
The apostle Paul warns against elevating any human institution: “Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas… all are yours, and you are Christ’s” (1Cor 3:21-23). When certain believers insisted gentiles must adopt extra requirements to be included, Paul called it “another gospel” and pronounced a curse on the idea (Galatians 1:6-9). Salvation is “by grace through faith… not of works” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Church membership, sacraments, councils, or popes cannot add to the finished work of the cross.
The New Testament gives multiple examples of people justified before any Roman hierarchy existed: the thief on the cross (Luke 23:42-43), Cornelius and his household who received the Holy Spirit while Peter was still preaching (Acts 10), the Ethiopian eunuch baptized on a desert road (Acts 8). They were accepted because they trusted Christ, not because they submitted to an ecclesial bureaucracy that would not arise for centuries.
Rome itself implicitly concedes this when it calls Protestants “separated brethren,” not pagan unbelievers, admitting that one may be outside its boundaries and still belong to Christ. The true “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church” is the invisible body of all born-again believers, gathered by the Spirit, with Jesus as the only Head (Colossians 1:18). To declare “no salvation outside Rome” is to fence off grace that God has already flung wide to the ends of the earth (John 3:16; Revelation 7:9).
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