“Christian” rule [FALSE Christianity] is going to be imposed upon the whole world, under the guise of the “common good”

The Roman Catholic Church portrays itself as the one legitimate heir to New Testament Christianity, and the pope as the successor to Peter, the first bishop of Rome. While those details are debatable, there is no question that Roman church history reaches back to ancient times. The apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Romans about AD 55 and addressed a church body that existed prior to his first visit there (but he made no mention of Peter, though he greeted others by name). Despite repeated persecutions by the government, a vibrant Christian community existed in Rome after apostolic times. Those early Roman Christians were just like their brethren in other parts of the world—simple followers of Jesus Christ. Things changed drastically when the Roman Emperor Constantine professed a conversion to Christianity in AD 312. He began to make changes…

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God has revealed Himself to us and given us a small glimpse of His Glory

God has revealed Himself to us and given us a small glimpse of His Glory, like bright light shining in through the cracks in a door. By reading The Bible we can get a small taste of the wonder and the immensity and the brilliant shining Glory that is God. Our relationship with God is similar to our relationship with others in that all relationships require faith. We can never fully know any other person. We cannot experience all they experience nor enter into their minds to know what their thoughts and emotions are. Proverbs 14:10 says, “The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy.” We are incapable of even knowing our own hearts fully. Jeremiah 17:9 says that the human heart is wicked and deceptive, “Who can know it?” In other words, the human heart is such…

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