“There are professing Christians who accept the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches as validly Christian, but if Christianity is pre-imminently a matter of sinners being saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and His atoning death, these churches are certainly not Christian. It is true that they profess belief in the Trinity, the Bible, the miracles and the death of Christ for sinners at least in some sense, and if these truths alone comprise essential Christianity, then they are Christian. But what about the gospel of salvation? Does this not lie at the very heart of biblical revelation? Cast a brief glance at what Roman Catholicism teaches about salvation, though claiming to believe that Christ died to save sinners. The church, with the pope at its head, is central in Rome’s salvation tenets, which say that there is no salvation for anyone outside that church. [This is not biblical, so it is a different “salvation” than what the Bible teaches.] …Rome has systematized its way of bestowing salvation. First baptisimal regeneration…followed by…penance and the mass, and…purgatory—they claim that all of these are necessary to salvation and vast throngs throughout the centuries have believed and practiced them…[However, none of this is taught in the Bible. Therefore, it is a mission field to stand for the Bible within the context of nominal Christianity just as much as we are called to stand for the Bible when befriending atheists, New Agers involved in occult meditations, Buddhists, Hare Krishnas, Scientologists, Mormons, and mind science cultists.]”
Five Minutes to Midnight, James Stewart and Mission to Europe
--p. 91
T. Omri Jenkins
Five Minutes to Midnight, James Stewart and Mission to Europe
--p. 91
T. Omri Jenkins
