Church of Satan

Pope Innocent III called a crusade to eradicate the heretical Cathars in southern France. The Catharis religious movement began in the town of Albi, which is why the twenty-year period of fighting became known as the Albigensian Crusade. The Catholic Church condemned Cathars as being heretics because of their dualistic beliefs; however, Cathars considered themselves to be “true” Christians since the term Cathar comes from the Greek katharos, which means pure or clean. The religion was based on…

throughout the history of the Church from the Early Church Fathers, through the Rise of Amillennialism, the Reformation Views, the Puritans, Jonathan Edwards, and the Modern Millennial Views. This paper is not a historical study, and not a defense of a particular eschatological view. However, this paper explores the history of eschatology throughout the history of the Church. It is imperative that Christians not ignore the prior generations exegetical study. Early Church Fathers Irenaeus…

followed a conversation between the Prisoner and the Inquisitor where Christ’s thirty-three years on earth was distorted. The Inquisitor implied that Christ had failed at His mission; that He didn't set men free, for example, and therefore it fell on the church to set men free. According to the Inquisitor, freedom meant bondage. The…

What is a puritan? A puritan, as stated in dictionary.com, is “a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.” Also known as precisionists by their enemies, they migrated to the New World. Even though they had a very substantial influence on us today, the puritan’s culture have very distinct culture than ours.They had different…

saw the Catholic Church as vain and being only concerned with issues of worldly wealth. In The Antithesis of Jesus Christ and the Pope by Simon du Rosier contrasts the images of Christ with images of the pope in order to show the humbleness of Christ against the vanity of the Pope. The purpose of this document was to show the true meaning of the last supper and the sacrament of communion. Moreover, the document was used to show the misuse of this holy sacrament by the Catholic Church (41-42).…

1st, 2016 Protestant Reformation was the period during 1517 -- 1648 that ends the Middle Ages and begins a new era in the history of Western Civilization. It was mainly about the conflicts between the protestant and Catholic Church. Witchcraft is the use of magic powers, especially evil ones, to make things happen. In Europe during the Protestant Reformation, most of the witchcraft was blamed on the female, only few were the male. Belief in witchcraft was ancient and was…

The Protestant Reformation was a major reform of the Christian church in response to problems that were found in the Catholic Church. Many people started to break away and form new Christian churches. The 1500s were times of alteration in and transformation of the church, and of social and political structures. Baptist, Anglican, Presbyterian and many other denominations of the protestant church are prominent in today’s society. However these types of churches did not always exist, and to…

“Tyger” is first seen as deadly and dangerous; it’s a “fearful” (l.4) beast with “deadly terrors” (l.16) that appears to have been forged in the “distant deeps” (l.5) of Hell. Undoubtedly created by an “immortal hand” (l.3), the speaker wonders whether Satan himself could be behind the Tyger. This deadly aspect is reinforced by the…

expressed the true essence behind a true Christian faith and how to live it. Due to the wickedness he saw in the Roman Curia, Luther dedicated a letter to Pope Leo X because he was surrounded by those doing such wickedness. Luther even writes that “Satan himself should be the pope, for he is the one who appeared to be ruling more than” Pope Leo X…

currently show up for church services on Sundays and 400 on Wednesdays. The church is consistently adding and losing members, but predominantly the latter is true. Therefore, we have decided to call the operational definition the revolving-door and the back-door syndrome. The revolving-door syndrome represents members coming and leaving, and the church knowing why and when they left. The back-door syndrome represents members leaving, and the church not knowing why or when they left. The…