Churchwork
01-28-2006, 07:58 PM
What is the connection between submitting to the authority in the body and submitting to God personally? What is the difference between personal guidance and group guidance?
The Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Church belong to two different systems. In Protestantism each one is guided by his own free conscience. In Roman Catholicism all must accept absolutely the guidance of the Church. For it reckons that all God’s guidance comes through the Church. In other words, people cannot approach God directly; they must go through the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to come to Him. Protestantism opposes such a concept. It confesses that all can follow God according to their free conscience. The Protestants reject Roman Catholicism, but they nonetheless bring in Sardis and pave the way for Laodicea (see again Rev. 2 and 3). Nevertheless, God calls His people to come out of Sardis (Protestantism) as well as out of Thyatira (Catholicism).
The Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Church belong to two different systems. In Protestantism each one is guided by his own free conscience. In Roman Catholicism all must accept absolutely the guidance of the Church. For it reckons that all God’s guidance comes through the Church. In other words, people cannot approach God directly; they must go through the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to come to Him. Protestantism opposes such a concept. It confesses that all can follow God according to their free conscience. The Protestants reject Roman Catholicism, but they nonetheless bring in Sardis and pave the way for Laodicea (see again Rev. 2 and 3). Nevertheless, God calls His people to come out of Sardis (Protestantism) as well as out of Thyatira (Catholicism).