A second angel followed and said, Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries. (her fornication with the ways of the pagan world)
Revelation 14:7 NIV
"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul is something
indispensable to almost every prominent erroneous religious system. It is the corner-stone of heathenism.
All or nearly all the gods of heathenism are believed to be dead men who were turned into gods by dying.
Catholicism is indebted to this doctrine
Spiritualism is simply the embodiment of this doctrine of natural immortality. It is incapable of existing without it.
Q: Is it not strange that this cornerstone of heathenism, Roman Catholicism, and Spiritualism, should be also the cornerstone of modern orthodoxy?
Yet such is the case. It is in these days esteemed the marrow and fatness of Christianity.
---And so prevalent is the doctrine,
All or nearly all the gods of heathenism are believed to be dead men who were turned into gods by dying.
Catholicism is indebted to this doctrine
---for all its saints who are believed to be mediators with God.
---It is a fundamental idea in the system of purgatory.
In fact, Romanism is as much dependent on this doctrine as is heathenism.
Spiritualism is simply the embodiment of this doctrine of natural immortality. It is incapable of existing without it.
Q: Is it not strange that this cornerstone of heathenism, Roman Catholicism, and Spiritualism, should be also the cornerstone of modern orthodoxy?
Yet such is the case. It is in these days esteemed the marrow and fatness of Christianity.
---And so prevalent is the doctrine,
that the advent of Christ,
the resurrection of the dead,
the Judgment are rendered almost obsolete by it."
J.N. Andrews
Q: So then What is the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul?
A: But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies... 2 Peter 2:1
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