Not sure what to do with the WCF stuff

For now I will leave the WCF posts up and the links to Reformed theology resources.

See, the Reformers and their descendants did not jettison all of Christianity when they left the Catholic Church.

Well, it can be argued that Luther was forced out and that he really didn’t want to be. He wanted to bring about necessary change, but he did not set out to establish his own religion.

Calvin, though, left under his own steam. He very definitely wanted to set up his own religion and call it catholic. He wrote his institutes of the Christian religion and his commentaries and all his writings as a kind of teaching magisterium for his new church. He believed he was the true catholic. He believed that the Church of his day was apostate.

All Reformed groups have believed that since his time. They believe themselves to be the true church and everyone else is measured by their Reformed rules of faith and practice. No, not the only  church, but the only church that really represents the Gospel as it should be preached.

No, they don’t say they are the only Christians.  They do believe their standards to be the closest to the truth.

The biggest problem with the Reformed Churches is that most of them have apostatized.  Most of them have “gone liberal."

Of course, Jesus did say that when He comes, He may not find faith on the earth. Apostasy is the rule in many if not most of the churches in both Europe and No. America. We are living in a time of unbelief in many ways, at least in those two continents. This has affected the Catholic Church as well, of course.

See, in these times, I wonder at the wisdom of trying to paint Catholicism as the Whore of Babylon and the Pope as the antichrist, especially when Protestantism is such a mess.

It seems that all who believe in the truth of the Gospel should join forces against our common enemies. These Reformed guys want to keep fighting a 500 year old battle when the enemy is attacking all of us on other fronts. We are all battling apostasy from within and aggressive atheism and secularism from without and within at times. Why can’t we at least accept the fact that we are all in this together?

Well, I must be patient. It wasn’t that long ago that I was anti Catholic as well. So, the Holy Spirit will do whatever it takes to prove the promises of Christ made to the Church to be true.

He stands behind His promises. Read John 16-18 to see, as well as the Book of Acts.

So, I guess for now I will leave the Reformed information.
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I decided to take down the information about Reformed theology that I had been studying. Why?  Well, I decided not to go the full on Reformed route after all. Since I am now Catholic, it seems strange to have all the Reformed information on my blog.