At a meeting on Friday June 4th we the ministers and elders of the Free Presbyterian church affirmed our determination to oppose the proposed visit of Pope Benedict to the United Kingdom in September.
As Reformed Evangelical Protestants we totally reject the arrogant and more importantly unscriptural titles and claims of the Pope.
Those claims, historically viewed as spurious and blasphemous by Protestant churches, mean that his visit can not be construed as simply pastoral.
We publicly disassociate ourselves from and condemn those church leaders who will welcome and meet with him. By their actions they not only give credence to his spurious claims but are betraying the very creeds they once professed to believe, teach and defend.
We intend, in the coming weeks, to highlight the contrast between the teaching of scripture and the false doctrines of the papacy.
Our supreme aim and overriding concern is to exalt the Only King and Head of the Church, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We will therefore, at this time, call all people to a personal faith in the Saviour as the Only Mediator between God and men.
The Belfast Newsletter has carried details of the statement here
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