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Yesterday was Reformation Day. Today is November 1 or All Saint's Day for Roman Catholics. There are many issues with the Reformation. I was told before that I didn't know how to pray because my "god" is Martin Luther. The name Protestant was simply dubbed on those who protested against the Roman Catholic institution. Some Protestants have the right to say that they're  not Protestant but just Christian. There are Baptists who don't consider themselves Protestants even if they do embrace non-Baptist Christians or reject the Baptist Bride doctrine. What was the real big issue of the Reformation? Was it about Luther or John Calvin? Was it about John Knox, Uldrich Zwingli, or any other person dubbed as a Protestant reformer? No, the big issue of the Reformation is all about focusing on the Word of God - that's what Sola Scriptura actually means.  What therefore is Sola Scriptura? Sola Scriptura is defined as follows by Ligonier Ministries' article " ...

It's very easy to criticize Roman Catholicism for the charges of sodomy done by priests raping boys. However, it's probably very easy to forget that LGBT churches are now on the rise and have infiltrated evangelical churches. I heard of Alabama Baptist Church having the issue of a female pastor performing a lesbian wedding. It would be stupid to keep raising up the issue of homosexual priests and nuns but not to target homosexual pastors and female church authorities. Make no mistake - LGBT churches are on the rise and the acronym means Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender. All these are an abomination before God. Martin Luther's trip to Rome revealed all the sins in it. I remembered reading the now out-of-print book "Babylon Mystery Religion" by Ralph Woodrow (which he should revise without references to the faulty "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop) talking about Luther's trip to Rome. Luther witnessed the worst sexual immoralities such as priests ...

It's easy to be too focused on Roman Catholicism without considering that every cult has its own set of rivals. Consider the history of religion when cults appear - rival cults also appear. Islam has been rivals with contemporary Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism also has rivals in the form of anti-Catholic cults. Just because someone speaks against Rome doesn't mean they're automatically saved. Some of the most known critics of Rome like the Members of the Church of God International (MCGI), Seventh Day Adventists (SDA), Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC), Mormons, Christian Science, Charismatics, and the Jehovah's Witnesses but they all teach false plans of salvation. Some of these anti-Catholic cults even outright deny the Deity of Christ such as the INC and the Jehovah's Witnesses. The Mormons also have bizarre teachings that are hardly known by the public today such as Jesus being Satan's half-brother or that God the Father had sex with Mary, Jesus'...

Should it be surprising that Pope Francis is now supporting same-sex civil unions? Pope Francis' statement, "If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?" is true because Christians are called to love homosexuals to tell them the truth and Jesus' free gift of forgiveness. However, Christians are not told to condone homosexual unions of any kind whether the ceremony was performed in a Baptist church, a Protestant church, a Roman Catholic parish, or even the civil courts. Homosexuality will always be wrong even if Christians are told to advocate for the basic rights of homosexuals to basic needs. However, Christians still have the right not to employ homosexuals like a factory has the right (or duty) not to employ anyone who doesn't meet certain qualifications or is too short or too sickly for the task. The very character of the Popes can make anyone wonder if they're indeed the successors of Peter. Reading through Peter, we can read t...

The Patriot Post Although Baptists may or may not consider themselves as Protestants - they still need to consider the Reformation as part of church history. Without the Reformation - we wouldn't get the King James Version (KJV) which followed centuries later. The KJV was based on several other English Bibles such as the Matthew Bible, the Tyndale Bible, and the Geneva Bible. The Reformation reached its 500th year last 2017 and it's reached its 503rd year this 2020. 2020 is also a bad year because of the COVID-19 crisis. Yes, there were already Christians against Rome before the Protestant Reformation happened. There were the Waldenses, Mennonites, and Baptists among groups who were martyred before the rise of Martin Luther. Though one quote by Paul Washer of Heartcry Missionary says, "The reformers didn't want to be reformers - they just wanted to be biblical!" I woudl agree with that though the event has been known as Reformation Day - celebrating another milest...

October is always associated with the Reformation month aside from the Rosary month. It's very easy to associate it with Martin Luther's well-known protest on October 31, 1517, that eventually led to the Diet of Worms in 1521. Luther's legacy was known to have been an Augustinian monk who found the truth. The protest itself got some Christians involved to be labeled as Protestants . Before the Protestants - there were already other Christian groups that opposed Rome. Jan Hus and Girolamo Savonarola were martyrs before the Reformation. There were some pre-Reformation Christians who were martyred during the Dark Ages as they openly practiced believes' baptism. I heard that they were called Baptists because they openly practiced baptism by immersion. Remember John the Baptist was called a baptist not because he founded a denomination but because he baptized people.  Yes, there's the call to say that the Reformation is far from over . The Counter-Reformation is also fa...

Introduction The Christian faith can be very absurd to the world. There are many times Christians are told to do what's humanly speaking, foolish. The call is to live by faith and not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 has Paul expressing to live by faith and not by sight. No, this isn't called to blind faith or to just believe without examining. I remembered that Christians are laughed at for many reasons. The reality of God and His Gospel are hard to believe also because people also tend to live by sight I think about why do many religions in the world have graven images. I remembered how various religions such as Roman Catholicism, Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, the "Orthodox" churches, Taoism, and many more use graven images. I remembered reading in a Roman Catholic catechism and a Buddhist catechism with what they say about graven images. The Buddhist pamphlet said that it's not the image they worship but the one portrayed by it - a defense to why they don't...

It's true that October 31 like December 25 only comes once a year. With Christmas coming near, I remembered the song by Kenny Rogers that's titled "Christmas Every Day". Nope, it's not a call to celebrate it daily, Christmas feasts are something to look forward to but to keep the Christmas spirit in your heart. Okay, I know there are some objections, "But Christmas is pagan!" but the arguments tend to argue like Hislop. Now, back to the Reformation. It's true that the Reformation Day comes once a year like the ungodly Halloween. So, what does it mean to keep the spirit of reformation (and not just the Reformation) in one's hearts? Romans 12:1-2  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and ac...

While I was doing some Bible study with J. Vernon McGee's "Thru the Bible Commentary" and I find myself stuck on trying to reflect on two important characters namely Ezra and Nehemiah. The Jews were still in exile and some of them were still in Persia (modern-day Iran) at that time. These are two important characters who have two books in the Bible devoted to them. One book devotes itself to Ezra the Levite and to Nehemiah who would rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. These two present examples of what it means to continue the spirit of Reformation. Just remember that Martin Luther and John Calvin aren't the first reformers. We've got godly kings, prophets, apostles and even our Lord Jesus as reformers. To be a reformer means to be one who causes people to abandon their wickedness or to improve by removing the evil conditions. Sometimes, reformation requires a complete makeover. Granted, it's almost October 31 when it's Halloween. Yet, Halloween isn't th...