The Pope’s Audience Hall Appears to Feature the Serpent rather than the Creator

The Coach's Team ^ | 2/26/17 | Suzanne Eovaldi

[Elsie]

   

 

 

 

http://www.episcopalnet.org/TRACTS/ThreeLives.html

 

 

[Elsie]

We all agree that Mormonism is a false religion.

Not FR's Romney lovers!!

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NONE has denounced ANY of the following statements:

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

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Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses , vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

[Elsie]

Contrast with the other picture there probably isn’t a RCC church without at least one of the idols of Mary. No telling how many Catholics have little idols of Mary in their homes, cars, etc.

Gee whiz!!!

Who WOULDN'T!!!

 

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The 15 promises

(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)

1	Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces.
2.	I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3.	The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies
4.	It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5.	The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6.	Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
7.	Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8.	Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise.
9.	I  shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10.	The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11.	You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12.	All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13.	I  have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death
14.	All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15.	Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

 

"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,

no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.

There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."

Sister Lucia dos Santos

[Elsie]

Wow, only the 2 billionth time an article like this about the audience hall has been posted. Congratulations!

I've told them a million times to not exaggerate!

[Elsie]

It's not true, of course. Many of us are ex Catholics. 😀

There was an ex-Catholic named Mark,
whose bite was much worse than his bark.
While pointing out error;
he mussed up Rome's hair;
and prompted poor Elsie to snark!

[Elsie]

Heck; if Mel Gibson believes in it;
it's good enough for me!!

--Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary!)

[Elsie]

 1 ELSIE 17:1-10

 

1 Now the Catholics gathered their armies together to battle, and were gathered at FreeRepublic, which belongs to Jim; they encamped EVERYWHERE, in Rome and all her outposts.  2 And them Prots and the men of Wittenberg were gathered together, and they encamped in the pages of FR, and drew up in battle array against the Catholics.  3 The Catholics stood on Rome's teachings on one side, and Prots stood on Biblical truth on the other side, with a great rift between them.

 

4 And a champion(?) went out from the camp of the Catholics, named Vlad, from The Land of Whining, whose height was probably similar to Lord Farquaad.  5 He had a Brown Scapula around his neck, and he was armed with all sorts of Sacrements, and the weight of the Sacrements was quite burdensome.  6 And he had bronze armor on his legs (to protect from Prot ankle biters) and a loop of beads between his fingers.  7 Now the beads were to remind him of many teachings, and his iron spearhead; though a bit rusty; was to prod the Prots with - if one of them ever DARED to get near - and Mother of Mercy went before him. 

 

8 Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Luther, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Catholic, and you the servants of just words on paper? Choose a man (or a woman named cow) for yourselves, and let him (spit!) come down to me.  9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”  10 And the Catholic said, “I defy the armies of LUTHER this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.”

[metmom]

That would be a *No* then.

[metmom]

But I'm also very suspicious of people who claim to have discovered The Real Truth [tm] all on their own, a truth that was hidden for centuries from scholars and saints and everyone else, but has now been revealed to them and their little fellowship somewhere.

Likewise I am very suspicious of any group of people who claim to have special divine revelation that God did not see fit to put in Scripture for the whole world to know and at the same time elevate it as equal to or above Scripture.

I am suspicious of anyone who claims they had secret truths that were hidden for centuries by scholars and monks until revealed to the world by that self same organization.

I am also suspicious of any group that claims to have access to heaven, you have to go through THEM specifically and that if you aren't one of them, you are going to hell.

And interestingly, for all the criticisms of Catholics against Protestantism, the Catholic church is one of the few churches which actually puts it in their statement of faith (aka The Catechism of the Catholic church)

I've read a lot of statements of faith from many different non-Catholic denominations and I have yet to see any one of them state that *outside the ________ there is no salvation* as the Catholic church does.

[Ann Archy]

Is that the Catholic Church in Sedona? HIDEOUS Crucifix....Gorgeous view....not even a working Church because of all the tourists coming thru to see the view.

TYPICAL UGLY MODERN "ART"!

[MHGinTN]

Too hideous for even catholics. Gotta be an Episcopal monstrosity.

[Gamecock]

Likewise I am very suspicious of any group of people who claim to have special divine revelation that God did not see fit to put in Scripture for the whole world to know and at the same time elevate it as equal to or above Scripture.

I am suspicious of anyone who claims they had secret truths that were hidden for centuries...until revealed to the world by that self same organization.

I am also suspicious of any group that claims to have access to heaven, you have to go through THEM specifically and that if you aren't one of them...

WOW! Mormons!

[metmom]

You mean *Mormons, too* don’t you?

[Flying Circus]

I don’t see any serpents but it sure is ugly. If it was me sitting in the big chair I would seek to have it moved just so I wouldn’t want to have to look at it.

[Gamecock]

;-)

[boatbums]

Hmmmm...I seem to have those exact SAME suspicions!

[metmom]

GMTA

[GBA]

Fwiw, it is THE most bizarre building/art/whatever that I've ever seen.

Honestly? "Is the Pope Catholic?" probably isn't the right question.

See for yourself:

5 Reasons Vatican run by Reptilians

[daniel1212]

Always interesting that no catholic ever seems to challenge any of this. It would be hard, if not impossible, to refute from the catholic position with their "tradition".

Actually it is impossible, to refute from Scripture, without resorting to egregious extrapolation such as befits cultists, and while a couple have tried somewhat (one even attempted to argue that the texts which call the word of God "milk" and "meat" by which souls are nourished does not refer to preaching or hearing the word but refers to the Eucharist, which the only way to spiritually feed the flock), thus they resort to their oral "tradition," which simply does not translate into these teachings being what characterized the NT church, and instead their oral tradition testifies to the progressive accretion of errors and traditions of men.

[redleghunter]

I saw Mormons on bikes without helmets. Is there a number to call to report the safety violation?