THE GREAT APOSTASY


That never happened...


Most Protestant Churches teach that the Catholic Church of today, is NOT the Church which Jesus Christ founded. They say it apostatized at about the time of Constantine, when he signed the 'Edict of Milan' in 313. They further teach that it stayed that way for over 1200 years until about 1521 when the reformation was started by Martin Luther. He, in his infinite wisdom, saved the Church which Jesus Christ founded, and it became the Lutheran...no, the Baptist...no, the Methodist...no, oh well, one of those 28,000 protestant churches out there. They ALL claim THEIRS is the true church, which is impossible if not ridiculous.


I had a conversation with some of them awhile back, and I asked, 'And what was Jesus Christ doing all those 1200 years with an apostate Church'? Of course all I got was each of them looking at each of the others, with hope in their eyes that one would come up with a palatable answer. I asked, 'Did He 'zig' this way and 'zag' that way until He created Luther, and then did He 'zig-zag' back and forth until He at last found the 'true church' again? I was greeted with a unanimous,

'YES'!

Of course that whole conversation was ridiculous. Protestants take great pride in telling everyone how true to the Bible they are and how they do not believe anything if they cannot find it in that one book. That brings me to the purpose of this file.
Okay, you say the Church apostatized at the time of Constantine.
Apostasy means, 'Abandonment of one's religious faith'.
So if the Church Apostatized as some say, then everything the Church did during that period was not of GOD but of the evil one, right? So from 313 until Luther came along, the evil one was in the drivers seat, right?
In 397, some 84 years after the Milan Edict, and well within the 1200 year time frame, the Church did a profound thing. It held a council at Carthage. During this council the 'Apostate' Church
(as some say), made a decision and published the canon of both the old and new testaments. What this means is that every Bible, which ALL Christians use, came originally from this council. If you are a Christian...this means YOUR Bible.


If you believe the Catholic Church apostatized in 313, then the very Bible you quote from so often did not come from GOD, did it? It couldn't have, as GOD turns His back on apostates. It had to come from the evil one, so how can you say the Church apostatized and at the same time quote from an evil Bible???

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