Hell Yawns Even Wider

HELL YAWNS EVEN WIDER

Is.5: ¹⁴ Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

 

In the 16^th century men like Martin Luther and John Calvin actively led a revolt against the heretical teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. That movement is called the Reformation. Recently the Roman Catholic Church has been quite successful in recruiting Protestants from all denominations to convert back to the Roman Catholic Church. It is quite astounding to see not only Baptists and Pentecostals become Roman Catholic, but preachers as well. And men like Scott Hahn and Marcus Grodi, both former Presbyterians, converted to Catholicism and now are instrumental in alluring protestants into the Roman Catholic Church.

In actuality the core of their argument is not Biblical but a suggestion that the Roman Catholic Church was the first church ordained by the Lord and headed initially by the Apostle Peter. They argue that God set up His church and that His church, the Roman Catholic Church, is the only church that can be traced unbroken back to Pentecost. Of course some Baptists and Church of Christ and others claim the very same thing. That is the foundation for their argument.

And with that supposed evidence, combined with the growing discontent within the evangelical community, many Protestants and non-Catholics are converting. There is a program on the Catholic network entitled “Coming Home” which interviews recent converts weekly. And the core elements in most of the testimonies are a searching heart and an acknowledgement that the Roman Catholic Church was the original church that continues today. Many have read the early “church fathers” and take their teachings as truth since they lived closest to the time of Jesus. Now that presents some real problems since it makes men the arbiter of church truth.

While some of these people claim the close proximity to the life of Jesus raises their spiritual insight above and beyond all others, there is another way to look at it which is equally as valid. Some of those early church fathers did not have the completed New Testament and they did not have a time tested perspective which could discard many traditions and Old Testament carry overs. But when sifted Biblically, the Roman Catholic Church has many bizarre teachings. But the most grievous teaching of all is that salvation is through a system of works. But all men including the so called "church fathers" must bow to Sacred Scripture for truth.

Having said all that I now must address something else. Although there are evangelical ministers who have not converted to the Roman Catholic faith, there are some who are diabolical bridges of spiritual treachery and who are leading masses to confusion and even destruction. Some say nothing but others endorse error and falsehoods and by their words they lead even millions astray. Rick Warren is one of the worst and is a false teacher to some extreme. The Roman Catholic Church has begun a movement called “Coming Home” which seeks to bring all people back to the “Mother Church”. And Rick Warren has openly expressed support for that effort and that movement.

HERE is the article.

Can you even believe such a thing? Here in these last days men are suggesting a reverse Reformation. And so called protestant ministers endorse such a thing? It is almost beyond belief except that we know how diabolical the evil one is. Men and women throughout church history suffered and even died at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church and yet today Rick Warren opens the door for souls to enter. This is a spiritual paradox which takes deception to a whole new level. This is deception evangelism at the hands of those who claim to know Jesus. Truth lies massacred in the streets and lost souls scurry to pick it up.

 

Hell hath enlarged itself and men are holding open the doors.