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April 2019 BattleServing the Bible-believing Christians ofC the World Virgin of Guadalupe Deceiving Millions Nowhere is Roman Catholicism’s pagan idolatry more visible than in Mexico dur- ing mid-December. An estimated 9 million people make the pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe shrine in Mexico City to pledge their trust to the Virgin Mary goddess. But the devil behind the idol is not nice. Part of the tradition of the ritual is to curry the goddess’s favor by walk- ing on your knees across the huge plaza before viewing the peasant’s cloak imprinted with a supposedly miraculous image of the goddess. The cloak is behind bullet-proof glass above the altar of the basilica housing the image. Four moving sidewalks run below the image, allowing visitors only a brief view, preventing any who would linger. This is necessary to accommodate the huge crowds who arrive for this Devotees to the Virgin Mary goddess walk on feast day on December 12th. It is their knees to worship her idol at Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine. See Virgin of Guadalupe... p. 2 Methodists Vote to Obey the Bible The mainline United Methodist denomination held an international con- ference in St. Louis in February to THIS ISSUE decide whether to approve homosexual IN leadership and same-sex marriage. • From Theory Hell . p. 4 For years, LGBT activists inside • Queens Drag Out to “Groom” the denomination have ignored God’s Your Kids . .................... p. 6 mandate on homosexual behavior. One • Mail Chick Bag: Miracle in bishop and hundreds of UM clergy Papua New Guinea. p. 7 have come out as LGBT, despite a ban • Sexual Revolution Devastating in place since 1972. For Bible believ- to Children. p. 8 ers, the vote went in the right direction . p. 10 mainly because members from outside • Fund Missions Report . p. 15 the US voted to reject the assault by the • Letter from David W. Daniels homosexual wing. • Jack’s Cartoon . .............. p. 16 Methodists in the US were once a See Methodists Vote... p. 2 2 BattleCry - April 2019 Virgin of Guadalupe... from p. 1 claimed that this is the day in which an text to be favorable for Roman doctrine. apparition of Mary appeared to Juan Their text is based on faked manuscripts Diego in 1531, miraculously leaving the engineered into place by scholars who imprint on his cloak. doubted that we can have God’s complete So, what is wrong with this picture? words. First of all, this celebration is not about God has led Chick Publications to Jesus. The attention here is on a substitute produce tracts and books exposing the Jesus, a manufactured goddess, an insult cooperation between the Vatican and the to the gentle lady who was chosen to birth spirit of anti-Christ that the Apostle John our Saviour. It is typical of the efforts of said was already loose in the world in his the counterfeit “church” based in Rome time. (See 1 John 4:3.) to hijack man’s trust from Christ and the Is it not a sign that our love has grown Bible and point it somewhere else. cold when we ignore the eternal danger This worship of the Virgin Mary god- of the more than one billion people who dess is part of a system that includes believe they must work for their salva- prayers to dead saints for favors and the tion, like those on their knees in Mexico kissing of bones and artifacts of relics — City? If we are ashamed to tell them the none of which is supported by scripture. truth, will not Jesus be ashamed of us at Contorted interpretations of the Bible Judgment day? are used to justify the bondage of over a billion people who trust the pope to get Methodists Vote... them to heaven. In some cases, support from p. 1 for these unbiblical practices has to come from the Apocrypha, fairytales added to vibrant, Bible believing, major denomi- Roman Catholic Bibles. nation. In 1970, they claimed 15 million How sad that so many, even some members in the US. Now, US membership who claim to be Bible believers, have has dropped almost by half while UM- fallen for the lie that Catholics just have affiliated denominations in Africa, Latin a slightly different worship style, but are America, and Asia have shown significant really “Christians.” Since Constantine, growth. In the convention voting, these the popes have been nothing but enemies overseas groups succeeded in tamping of the Bible and Bible believers. In the down the attack by the US homosexual tragic era of the dark ages, Rome’s perse- activists. cution of the godly was brutal and bloody. Methodism originated from the open- Since then, their cunning attacks have air preaching of John and Charles Wes- blunted any attempts to witness the truth ley during the 19th century. Prior to the to Rome’s deceived. After all, since they revivals that they initiated, the institu- are already “Christian,” why give them a tional church was hidebound by layers of gospel tract that might offend them? hierarchy and ritual. The Wesleys invited Add to that their machinations against the people to open-air services where the the preserved words of God. Research music was familiar to the common people with modern methods has revealed a and the preaching spoke to their sin with monstrous plot right under our noses to solid gospel solutions. destroy faith in what God gave us in His By the 20th century, the Methodists word. All modern Bibles are tainted with had begun to lose some of their fervor, changed and missing verses that slant the See Methodists Vote... p. 12 April 2019 - BattleCry 3 ANSWERS for false religions Answers to My Catholic Friends #218 • 64 pages • $5.95 A gentle witness you can give Catholics that deals with venerating images, purgatory, where popes go when they die, and more. 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Christianity is declared to be supersti- tion and the Bible a book of myths. “Darwinism has had a devastating Evolutionary teaching and Chris- impact on society. Its ramifications reach tianity are total opposites. They are into the deepest aspects of social life and entirely incompatible. No one can culture,” writes Vance Ferrell in The believe both teachings or try to com- Evolution Handbook. Evolution leaves bine parts of the two. For anyone to man without a spirit —just another one attempt to do so is but to fool oneself. of the animals. Thus, there is no right or Among Christians, there are wrong. And if “survival of the fittest” is church leaders, religion teachers, the ultimate aim, then there is no room science teachers, and scientists who for the weak and powerless. They must attempt to combine part of evolution- be eliminated, fiercely if necessary. ary theory with biblical beliefs, but So Hitler was just being a good evo- the two positions do not mix. For lutionist when he eliminated the weak example, some will claim to believe and disabled along with the Jews (and the Bible, yet will maintain that there Christians) who did not buy into his were long ages of developing life brand of “fitness.” The same is happen- forms into human beings before the ing in China today to the Christians who six-day creation of Genesis 1. threaten communism’s atheism. If such be true, then the fall of man Since evolution became the religion as given in Genesis 3 is incorrect. And if man did not fall into sin, then of atheistic humanism, all other reli- the promise of Genesis 3:15 is not gions are anathema. They have converted needed, Christ is not needed, Calvary “freedom of religion” to “freedom from is not needed, no atonement for sin religion.” If man evolved, all religions, is needed, salvation from sin is not including Biblical Christianity, are just needed.” myths, created to control the masses. —Vance Ferrell, The Evolution Attempting to adjust to the galloping Handbook, p.795 effects of evolution has caused much of “Christianity” to become unbiblical. The evolution’s elimination of God affects first chapters of Genesis are consigned to our world. Since “science” has replaced poetry in many seminaries, replaced by God as the source of truth, one need only a hybrid theory including the Big Bang. look at where this has taken us. Science But Ferrell points out that if you accept says that preborn babies are only blobs the beginning to be the explosion of a of tissue; thus 60 million U.S. murders tiny, highly compressed dot of matter by abortion since Roe v Wade. (Some 40 and energy which swelled over billions million more are killed worldwide each of years to the existing cosmos, then you year.) have to ignore the six days of Genesis.