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Evangelicals and Rome: The Ecumenical One-World "Church"

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This book really opened my eyes to the magnitude of the compromise that is so prevalent in today's churches. The author documents, often using people's own words, the embracing of heresy and heretics by "Christian" leaders today. By heresy, I mean primarily the teachings of the Catholic pseudo-church.

Some might see this book as a personal attack against Catholics and against "Evangelical" leaders. That is not the case. As Christians we are COMMANDED to identify and address falsehood, and that is exactly what the author is doing, using the Truth of the Bible as the benchmark.

The author documents the straying of everyone from Billy Graham and the Southern Baptist Convention, to the Charasmatics and Lutherans. The strength of his book is, again, in the use of people's own words to show their error. He doesn't resort to hearsay.

It surprised me to see how quickly the religions of this world (even so-called "Christianity") are throwing aside their differences and beginning to move toward the formation of that long-ago-prophesied One-World Religion. True Christians need to stand against this. Cloud's book is a good place to start to see what we're up against.

This book was exhaustively researched by Bro. David Cloud. The best thing about this book is that it is not merely his opinion. He quotes Catholic documents and Evangelical books. He sheds light on the entire ecumenical movement and truly shows the end times mindset of a one world religion.

Excellent book. Explains how Evangelicals and the Southern Baptist Convention are ecumenically yoked with church in the Bible who is referred to as the Great Harlot, by Jesus in the Book of Revelation. There is another book called Rome and the Bible by David W. Cloud - that I also highly recommend.

Any student of the Bible knows that the end-times Apostacy will be the unscriptural yoking of believers and unbelievers. Anyone that denies this is not only ignorant of Bible truths, but also unwilling to see current events in the Biblical light! Brother Cloud is right on the mark. Excellent resource. Thank you Brother Cloud.

David W. Cloud is the pastor of a tiny "independent fundamental" Bible chapel in rural Michigan who thinks that every well-known Christian leader is in league with the Pope to get rid of the King James Bible, which God inspired in 1611 to replace the Hebrew/Greek originals, with the NIV.

(...) If Cloud wasn't such a turgid and unimaginative writer, he'd give Jack T. Chick a real run for his money in the category of Paranoid Fundamentalist Fantasy.

Cloud never presents the Gospel, or even gives any indication that he understands what the Gospel is. All of Cloud's Biblical quotes are drastically out of context and wrong.

His defenses of the KJV are even more twisted. He denies the existence of the Septuagint and the Vulgate, says that the Roman Catholic priests who editing the KJV Greek text were "orthodox believers...men of God," and basically regurgitates all of Peter Ruckman's and Gail Riplinger's bizarre ravings. (...)

Does anyone really believe that today's Evangelical Church is in league with the Vatican to usher in the Reign of the Anti-Christ? The charge is preposterous. Throughout Latin America and Europe, evangelicals are winning those who failed to find Christ within Rome. The Pope is so worried that he has set up commissions to stop Evangelicals in Latin America, Estonia, and other nations. Does this sound like cooperation to you?

According David W. Cloud, Bible-believing Christians are evil. Everyone who wants to serve God must leave Christianity and embrace Cloud's King James Only cult (this cult group, by the way, denies orthodox Christian teaching on the nature of Christ and the Trinity, and teaches that God added new revelation to the Bible in 1611 A.D.)

David W. Cloud is a twisted, sick individual. His writings have contributed nothing to the advancement of the Gospel. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find David Cloud saying ANYTHING that is in itself constructive or affirming - all he does is distort the records of reputable Christian leaders, slandering men of God. The only people who read Cloud are radical King James-Only Fundamentalists who are bitter that Bible-believing Christians rejected their heretical teachings. I've looked over most of what Cloud has on his website for kicks, and Cloud NEVER presents the Gospel, NEVER quotes Scripture in its proper context, and NEVER talks about Jesus. Cloud says that helping the poor is wrong, because this is "social gospel." Cloud DOES do the following: negate the clear teachings of the New Testament with distorted quotes from the Old - call medieval Papists who edited the Textus Receptus "good Christian men" while condemning modern Evangelicals for sins such as watching TV - endorse violent Northern Irish extremists - the list goes on. When facts fail David Cloud (as they usually do), he simply makes stuff up (the supposed Unitarian Universalist endorsement of the NIV is sheer fantasy). Fortunately, Cloud is such an atrocious writer with such a poor grasp of web design that nobody stays on his site for long.

Cloud is in good company - other King James Only cultists (like Gail Riplinger) say that we must work for our salvation, that demons have sex with us, that the government is taking samples of DNA to clone us after the Rapture, etc.

It IS true that Evangelicals recognize that some Catholics may be saved, thanks to the grace of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Luther thought this, too. So did Calvin, Smyth&Helwys, and every other Protestant reformer you can name. But does the fact that Promise Keepers admits that some Catholics may go to Heaven, and that some Evangelicals cooperate in political matters with some Catholics (of course, politics is something quite outside religion) mean that the National Association of Evangelicals is about to accept the authority of the Pope? Of course not!

Just more ramblings from an uneducated backwoods preacher who wants your money so he doesn't have to work for a living. Pray instead that he finds Biblical truth and abandons the hate-filled, cultic path he's chosen.