“WAS
ERASMUS A ROMAN CATHOLIC?”
Dear
Reader you judge for yourself!
2.
He
refused
to keep any Catholic vigils
3.
Ate
meat on Fridays
4.
Although
ordained he never performed as a Catholic priest
5.
Constantly
opposed the excesses of the Catholic church
6.
Wrote
an article calling the Catholic church “Barbarians” …berating
the Papacy
and the priests and the monks for their over indulgences
7.
Criticized
Pope Julius comparing him to the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar
8.
He
called the Pope “the pest of Christendom”
9.
He
advised the church to “get rid of the Roman See”
10.
He
wrote a scalding satire depicting Pope Julius going to hell
11.
He
refused to use Jerome’s Latin translation in his works as
Jerome had
solely based his work on the corrupt Alexandrian manuscript called
Vaticanus
12.
Jerome
had incorrectly translated Matthew 4:17 as ”Do penance,
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, whereas Erasmus had the correct
translation of “Be penitent for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand.”
13.
Erasmus
vehemently defended Mark 16:9-12,13-16,17-20 and John 8:1-4,5-8,9-12
14.
He
was an untiring supporter of getting the Bible into the hands of
the common
man … that is … “the farmer, the traveller, the tailor and the
Turk, the
masons, prostitutes and pimps”
15.
God
used Erasmus’ Greek Text (TR) as the basis for the King James Bible
16.
His
cry was “salvation was entirely by grace alone, faith alone and not
of
works”
17.
Erasmus
said he was the only Anabaptist of the 16th century
… that is
… babies were not to be sprinkled with water.
18.
Erasmus’
writings were the basis on which Luther stake his claim … “Erasmus
laid the
egg that Luther hatched.”
19.
Twenty
three years after Erasmus’ death in 1536,
Pope Paul IV in 1559 put Erasmus’ writings on the list of Forbidden
Books for Roman Catholics … they were banned from reading them!
If
you think that Erasmus was a Roman Catholic … what’s the saying? … “I’m
a
monkey’s uncle.”
Mmmm!
Yes … you probably believe in evolution, and that we descended from
apes as
well!
Harley
Hitchcock
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