Turning to Rome?
A Church of Scotland minister in the Springburn district of Glasgow is considering leaving his church because congregations in his area, which is one of the poorest districts of the city, are being closed down. He claims that the closures amount to “walking away from the poor”.
He has considered joining the Roman Catholic Church because it “has more of a structure and spirituality to it”. At least the Church of Scotland has the form of a scriptural, Presbyterian structure, but the Roman system has multiple unscriptural levels of power, culminating in the autocracy of the Pope, the “man of sin” (2 Th 2:3). The Church of Scotland is in a bad way spiritually, with widespread rejection of the authority of the Bible and a willingness to perform same-sex “marriages”, but the Roman system of doctrine has been perverted by a myriad of false doctrines based on tradition and in opposition to the Scriptures.
The Church of Rome is no place for a sincerely Protestant minister, one who truly receives the teaching of Scripture – especially because she promotes the blasphemous doctrine of the mass, which claims to repeat Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice as if it was not sufficient for salvation.