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changing right now.
It was the desire for liberty of conscience that inspired the Pilgrims to
brave the perils of the long journey across the sea, to endure the hardships
and the dangers of the wilderness, and with God's blessing to lay, on the shores
of America, the foundation of a mighty nation. Yet honest and God-fearing as they
were, the Pilgrims did not yet comprehend the great principle of religious liberty.
The freedom which they sacrificed so much to secure for themselves, they were not
equally ready to grant to others. The doctrine that God has committed to the church
the right to control the conscience, and to define and punish heresy, is one of
the most deeply rooted of papal errors.
Eleven years after the planting of the first colony, Roger Williams came
to the New World. Like the early Pilgrims, he came to enjoy religious freedom;
but, unlike them, he saw—what so few in his time had yet seen—that
this freedom was the inalienable right of all, whatever might be their creed.
Williams "was the first person in modern Christendom to establish civil government
on the doctrine of the liberty of conscience" (Bancroft, pt. 1, ch. 15, par. 16).
"No one should be bound to worship, or," he added, "to maintain a worship against
his own consent" (Ibid., pt. 1, ch. 15, par. 2).
Roger Williams was respected and beloved as a faithful minister; yet his steadfast
denial of the right of civil magistrates to authority over the church, and his
demand for religious liberty, could not he tolerated. He was sentenced to banishment
from the colonies, and, finally, to avoid arrest, he was forced to flee, amid
the cold and storms of winter into the unbroken forest.
Making his way at last, after months of change and wandering, to the shore of
Narragansett Bay, he there laid the foundation of the first state of modern times
that in the fullest sense recognized the right of religious freedom. The
fundamental principle of Roger Williams' colony was "that every man should have
liberty to worship God according to the light of his own conscience" (Martyn,
vol.5, p. 354). His little state, Rhode Island, became the asylum of the oppressed,
and it increased and prospered until its foundation principles—civil and
religious liberty—became the cornerstones of the American Republic.
USA Constitution guarantees religious liberty
In that grand old document which our forefathers set forth as their bill of rights
—the Declaration of Independence—they declared: "We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness." And the Constitution guarantees, in the most explicit
terms, the inviolability of conscience.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
On February 29, 1892, the Supreme Court of the United States
of America unanimously declared this country to be a Christian nation.
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(enforces legislations). And he exerciseth all
the power of the first beast (The Papacy during the dark ages) before him,
and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast, (forces worship of the Papal Church/State system) whose deadly wound
(Pope Pius VI captured in 1798 by Napoleon's gerneral Berthier.
Napoleon decrees the Papal power DEAD.)
...was healed"
(In 1929, Mussolini reinstates the Papacy back to Rome, and today this church/state power strengthens daily.)
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Daniel7:23-24
"The forth beast shall be a forth kingdom
on the earth...(1.Babylon 2.Medo/Persia 3.Greece 4.Rome).
The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom,
(The Fall of Rome divided into 10 smaller kingdoms).
And another shall arise AFTER THEM. (Papacy arose out of Rome,
AFTER the 10 Divisions of Rome) He shall be different from the first ones,
(religious + political power) And shall subdue three kings.
(Papacy destroyed 3 of the 10 kingdoms).
Danial 7:7-8 "...It was different from all the beasts before it, and that it had ten horns.
I was considering the horns, and another horn, a little one came up among them,
before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots."
These three horns were destroyed because they did not believe in the authority
of the Papal power. They were 1. Vandals 2. Heruli 3. Ostrogoths. The last power
was destroyed in 538AD making the Pope of Rome sole ruler of Europe and the
final word on scripture.
(a highly populated area), having seven heads Historically, Protestants believed that these 7 mountains
represented the 7 hills of Rome where the Vatican sits. Only we have more
recently been lead to new light where we now understand that
a name symbolically becomes a mountain when the name is used more than once.
and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon
his heads the name of blasphemy (claims to be God on earth
and to possess the power to forgive sins).