Originally posted by Pellevoisin
I suppose, if there is a positive regarding Tapley and others like him, it would be in causing extremist Christian Protestant fundamentalists to get
tremendously bent out of shape and provoking them to cut & paste posts that read like a ransom note from a barking mad pressman.
As I am the only person with any cut & pastes in my post I assume you mean me. Please show me what is mad in my post, as it is based on both scripture
and history?
The funniest thing is that RCC apologists are constantly changing the Wiki Page for the Pontifex Maximus to downplay the history of that station, and
the Roman History buffs keep repairing it. You would think the RCC is trying to hide something. Similarly they keep modifying the page on
Damasus I for the same reason even going so far as to split hairs on the use of the title
“Pontifex” vs “Pontifex Maximus”, despite them being the same thing. They even removed this most telling quote for why emperor
Flavius Gratianus refused the title:
Under the influence of Ambrosius, Gratian prohibited Pagan worship at Rome; refused to wear the insignia of the pontifex maximus as unbefitting a
Christian.
They already cut it from the Pontifex Maximus page, I assume that it will get cut from Gratian's page soon as well, as I noticed that someone has
already been shortening the page up. Rome can try to change history to its members under the auspices of “Catholic Tradition” but it is very
difficult for them to cover up actual known history from those of us who do not follow those traditions. Doesn't it ever bother you that they always
have to have an excuse for everything Pagan that is in their religion, and what they cannot excuse they try and hide? Isn't that somewhat telling as
to their place in history and prophecy? Why is it that none of the other Churches have to engage in hiding their pasts like the RCC does? Why is it
that every bad thing that unbelievers hold against Christianity, from control of the masses, to causing wars, and killing people (Salvation through
works, crusades, inquisitions, etc), all come from Rome, and not from any of the Protestant faiths? Kind of odd, and at the same time telling, isn't
it?
To be honest, these facts are so incontrovertible, that the RCC itself had to abandon Jesuit Futurism, and start using Jesuit Preterism as their
version of Eschatology because of them. Rome is so undeniably mentioned as one of the bad guys in Prophecy, that they could no longer hide that fact,
and instead had to limit the years to only those Nero was Emperor. If you doubt me pull out your “New Advent” Bible and look it up in the
footnotes. The whole point of the Woman Riding the beast is about a religion that would spring up out of the old Roman Empire and take the Empires
Reins. The same woman that just so happened to end up being the symbol of the Vatican, the Sibylline Oracle. Additionally there has only ever been one
person in history who has had the position and power to set both the Religious laws, the Calendar, and speak with the authority of God, the Pontifex
Maximus. The currant internationally accepted civil calendar to this day is the
Gregorian
Calendar, decreed by
Pope Gregory XIII on 24 February 1582 by the
papal bull Inter gravissimas, which replanced the proceeding
Julian calendar set by none other then
Julius
Caesar, another Pontifex Maximus:
In 63 BC Caesar had been elected Pontifex Maximus, and one of his roles as such was setting the calendar.
But I digress...
Since you are so in the “Know” about the RCC, and prophecy (you must be to be calling me mad), why not dispute my post point for point in a
logical fashion using known history rather then dismiss it out of hand with a personal attack calling me a “barking mad pressman”. If you cannot
then I guess its not possible for you to attack the facts so you have to go after the poster.
I look forward to your rebuttal, and the ensuing debate based on the factual topic of the subject, not on the topic of my mental status based on your
opinion.