The Debrecen Synod (1567) said, “all marks and organs of idolatry and the Mass are totally forbidden in the second commandment— indeed, everywhere in the New Testament,” and with several proofs from Scripture prove that “idols and the marks and purposes of idolatry are to be avoided.” Indeed, “the defilements of the Antichrist (the Mass, the wafer, the idols, and every tradition of the doctrine of the Antichrist) are condemned because they are fornication, the tokens of idolatry, pretences, sins, scandals, offenses, darkness, dung, deceptions, tohu bohu (i.e. keni apati, that is ‘vain deceptions’), skeletons, basilisks’ eggs, spider’s webs, scorpions, frogs, toads, poisonous things (Isa. 59; Rev. 8–9, 16–17).” “The Debrecen Synod (1567) ,” in Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation, edited by James T. Dennison, Jr. (RHB, 2012), 3.12, 14–15.
The Debrecen Synod (1567) on Idolatry
