Andrew Strom says NO to the RC Church and JPII ...https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5238&forum=35
Krisp you wrote;"how is it that the "whore of Babylon lived long before the church age"? Thats not very chronological"OK you've called it, now are you gonna shed some light on it? ... Huh ... huh ... Hold up ... Wait a minute ... OK i'm ready ... 8-) PS - The sermon series link i provided really gives an excellent explanation of how the Church of Rome became the RC of the Revelation ...
any comments on the previously posted scriptures?
_________________Josh
Brother Josh,i was looking thru a Commentary regarding the scriptures you gave and it seems to me they are speaking of promotion in a governmental/world power/rulership arena, which i have no problem with in that i know scripture call governmental authorities God's "ministers" ...Brother Lahry wrote this on his thread "Danger in the forums":https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5232&forum=35Quote:"With God all things are possible". Yet too often, we tend to judge the feasability of something by our own perception of it's possiblity". Now i know that God operates in both sovereign and permissive will, which i came to a conclusion a while back is all sovereign really ... i totally believe that God allows governments to operate however they will operate as long as it fits His plan, and i know that He'll step in and sovereignly move things to His plan when ever He wants, but i will certainly be learning something totally new if God does in fact elect to power a false leader to a false religion that misleads multitudes ... Somehow that just doesn't fit the modus operendi of the same God who said that He wished all men to be saved ...i'm trying to keep an open mind here via brother Lahry's thread, but i can see God allowing such evil (via satans election/selection of false religions demigods) to power, i can't see Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, operating in any kind of way to the election of the spirit of untruth ... Do you believe this to be the case, and if so please explain it to a brother ... :-? Lord God by your Spirit please reveal your truth here to us as we know that your ways are higher than our ways, in the name of Jesus, as it is your will i pray ... Amen
