>> “More precisely, why did they seem to have to wait 1500 years?” <<
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Let’s look at the reality.
Millions died at the hands of the RCC for following God’s word instead of knuckling under to Rome’s paganism.
Its scary to leave your ‘church’ when it is the government of the known world.
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The reformers were burned at the stake as an example of the brutality , because they did not believe that the sacrament offered by the Roman Catholic Church was the real body and blood of Christ Jesus.....which Romes doctrine of the real presence strikes 'at the very root of the Gospel' of Christ's "finsihed" work.... and is the very pillar ad keeper f the Papacy/Priesthood.
Heb 9:2426 Tells us..." For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf....... Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world....... But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself."
