Not on the Rock by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 22.

Not on the Rock

By Editor

Not on the Rock.—That the Roman Catholic religion is not based on the Rock upon which Christ said His church should be built, is shown by the proverbial ignorance of the Bible in that body. This was especially illustrated recently when a professor in the University of Brussels, in a lecture on the "Origin of Christianity," asked those of the audience who had read St. Paul's epistles to raise their hands. Three hands were raised in an audience of five hundred of the most cultured men and women in the city. And Belgium is the most intensely Catholic country in the world.

When we see the trend of professed Protestants toward Rome, and the adoption by their churches of Roman institutions and Roman methods, it is a sure sign of departure from the Word of God, upon which true Protestantism is based. The cause of Israel's apostasy in ancient times was that they made of none effect the law of God by their traditions. The same was true of the medieval church, which developed the Papacy.