ROMAN CHURCH AND STATE
By Rick Mathes
Protestantism holds that the church and state are each of divine origin, that each is supreme in its own sphere and independent of each other. Romanism holds that power comes to the state through the church, that the church and state should be united with the church holding the superior position, that the Pope as God’s representative on earth is above all temporal rulers, above all kings, presidents and governors, that it is the duty of the state to maintain a political atmosphere to the Roman Catholic Church supporting it with public money while placing restrictions on all other churches and that the state should do the bidding of the church in punishing heretics.
The continuation of Roman Catholic anarchy an be blamed to the indifference of Protestants and their lack of devotion to their own evangelical message. Protestantism has the truth and can win the battle any time it is willing to force the issue.
- Marcellus Kirk writes in Christianity Today:
“That there is still a remnant of paganism and papalism in the world is chiefly the fault of the church. The Word of God is just as powerful I our generation as it was during the early history of the church. The power of he Gospel is just as strong in this century as in the days of the Reformation.”
He continues, “These enemies could be completely vanquished if the Christians of this day and age were as vigorous, as bold, as earnest, as prayerful and as faithful as Christians were in the first several centuries and in the time of the Reformation.”
The following are direct quotes form official Roman Catholic Doctrine. Please read this carefully and let the significance of their beliefs really sink in.
- No man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he believes to be true, guided by the light of reason.
- The eternal salvation of any out of the Roman Church is not even to be hoped for.
- The Roman Church has the power to define dogmatically the religion of the Roman Catholic Church to be the only true religion.
- The Roman Church ought to be in union with the state and the state with the church.
- It is necessary even in the present day that the Roman Catholic religion shall be held as the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.
It was the Vatican Council of 1870 with its pronouncement of papal infallibility, that sounded the death-knell of any democratic processes in the Roman Church and placed it irrevocably on the road to totalitarianism.
Excerpts taken from “Roman Catholicism” by Loraine Boettner
Rick Mathes 