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The Roman Catholic Church - Is it real
Christianity? Why does her teachings
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THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Church of Rome is led by
one man called the Pope. Papa in Italian and Father
in English. This religious title is strictly
forbidden by the New Testament. Therefore the
apostle Peter could never have been the first Pope
nor can the Bishop of Rome be his successor. Is the church of Rome
biblical Christianity? What is her origin? Does she
represent Jesus Christ?
CULTURE
Rome had no culture of its own. When the Roman
Empire conquered the Greeks, Rome adopted Greek
philosophy [Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle] and the state religion called Mithra.
When pagan Rome evolved into papal Rome, the Roman
Catholic church was born. The Roman Catholic church
mixed both Christianity with Mithraism which does
not square with the teachings of the Bible.
THE FIRST PERVERT
The apostle according to prophecy [Acts 20:30] said
that after his death, people would pervert the
teachings of the Bible. Justin Martyr, a philosopher
came also from Greece and changed the simple Lord's
supper into the most blasphemous Eucharist. In
Mithraism, the Eucharist offered bread and wine to
the sun god. Justin now claimed that the alcoholic
wine now represented the blood of Jesus which would
make it a drunken Jesus. The wafer is to this day
still in the form of the round sun disc from sun
worship.
This is the 'Sun
Monstrance'. This was until recently, the most
revert object of worship in the Roman Catholic
church. Not so much in Protestant countries now. It
is still to be seen in Roman Catholic Countries like
Austria, Spain and south America.
About
REVELATION 17
'And there came one of the seven angels which had
the seven vials, and talked with me saying unto me,
Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment the
great whore that is seated on many waters.'
[verse1].
Pictured is a great religious Whore inside
Christianity that claims to be the Mother church and
has so corrupted herself that she prostituted all
the New Testament teachings.
Question: “What is a Whore in the Bible”? Answer:
“You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that
friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is
an enemy of God!”.—James 4:4
Verse 2 tells us that she committed whoredom with
the kings or rulers of this world. In order to
please politicians, you have to lower the high
standard of Christ and Christianity so that the
world feels no enmity but friendship towards the
Roman Catholic Church.
Question: “How did the Mother church do this?
Answer: “By corrupting the teachings of the Bible.”
A woman in the Bible refers to a church. A pure
woman belongs to Christ and represents true
Christianity. The apostle Paul wrote: “I have
espoused you to one Husband that I may present you
as a pure virgin.”—2.Corinthians 11:2
Question: “What does it mean that the whore is
seated on many waters?” Answer: “Water represents
masses or a sea of people [see Revelation 17:15] because the world is
united against the true Christ but easily accepts a
false and counterfeit Christ and Christians. The
bigger the church, the closer she is to the world.
Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church is always
pictured with the Leaders of the world.
This corruption occurred very soon after
Christianity was established. We know this from
Paul’s writings who said: “For I know that after my
departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall
men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw
disciples after them.”---Acts 20:29,30. The first of
such a pervert was Justin Martyr, a doctor of
philosophy. He corrupted the Lord's supper with the
Eucharist.
1.] Roman Catholic Church leaders call themselves by the forbidden
religious title of Father [Matthew 23:7]. [The
priests of Mithraism were called Padre or
Paternoster which is Father or our Father].
2.] Instead of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
and Him crucified, she replaced it with ceremonies
held in a dead language of Latin to spread darkness
all around.
3.] Her leaders are called priests which are
contrary to the Bible which calls 'all' believers
priests.
4.] She invented canonizations in opposition to the
Bible which calls all Believers ‘Saints’ because of
the Holy Spirit which all Bible Believers must
receive. [The apostle Paul in all his letters does
not address us as 'you sinners' but as 'you
saints'].
5.] The Bible brings every Believer to Christ
individually and directly whereas the Church of Rome
claims that Christ is in the sacraments and the
wafer which is great blasphemy. So with, the papal
Roman Catholic Church stops people from directly
coming to Christ.
6.] She has done away with Baptism and prostituted
it with sprinkling which has no meaning at all
whereas the very word ‘Baptism’ means to plunge
under or immerse and represents the death, burial
and the resurrection of Christ with the newly
baptized member who dies to sin and self and rises
to walk in newness of life [Romans 6].
7.] Rome removed the second of the 10 Commandments
which forbids images and statutes so she could start
idolatry and worshipping humans instead of deity.
Mary, the saints falsely so called. Adoration of
these humans is idolatry.
8.] Because Romans worshipped the sun, they also
wanted their own day of sun worship and so the
Seventh day Sabbath of Christ and the 10
Commandments was removed and the day of idolatry put
in its place still bearing this title today-Sunday.
The first day of the week.
9.] When the Romans conquered the Greek Empire, they also
adopted the Greek philosophy and religion called
Mithra and corrupted Christianity with it. Empowered
by the state and the Devil 1.Thimothhy 4 and Acts
20:29,30 tells us that the Holy Spirit expressively
speaks that in the latter times [which began back
then see Hebrews 1:2] some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed [or attention] to seducing
spirits and doctrines [teachings] of demons,
speaking lies in hypocrisy having their conscience
seared with a hot iron.
Forbidding to marry and abstaining from meats
[foods]. [1. Timothy 4:1-4]
Here we have it. Demonic Doctrines and forbidding
their Nuns, Monks, and Priests to marry and abstain
from meat on Fridays and bringing into Christianity
pagan or demonic teachings. Acts 20:29,30 says that
soon after Paul’s departing grievous wolves in sheep
clothing would enter the fold not sparing the flock
and speaking perverse things. No doubt, the
inquisition murdered millions of true Christians who
believed the Bible and refused the Roman heresies.
Not sparing the flock is putting it mildly when they
under Satan invented the most cruel and horrible
torture methods on the rack and burned the Bible
Believers at the stake blasphemously holding a cross
in front of them.
Speaking perverse things and blasphemies. Justin
Martyr was the first Greek philosopher living in
Rome that did pervert the Lord’s Supper with the
Eucharist taken directly from the new state religion
of Mithra where they offered food and alcoholic wine
to their sun god. That is why the church of Rome
still uses alcohol that supposes to represent the
pure blood of Jesus. In Mithraism the leaders were
called Padre or Pater which means Father and that is
why the church of Rome still name their priests
Father and the chief priest Pope or Papa meaning
chief father. They are wearing the idolatrous
garments of Mithraism to this very day including the
Miter or fish hat.
Other Dr.'s of Rome that doctored the Christian
biblical teachings are Ignatius, Barnabas,
Irenaeus, Clement, Tertullian
and Augustine. Historians tell us that
their writings are of doubtful origin. These are the
builders of the church of Rome. The Roman Catholic
church was in control of the fallen Roman empire and
so controlled all writers who in fear of the rack
and the stake would not dare but write in favor of
the that church.
Perverts
The apostle wrote that soon after his departure,
grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not
sparing the flock
Also of your own self shall men arise, speaking
perverse things, to draw away disciples after
them.---Acts 20:29,30.
The first pervert of the early church Fathers was
Justin Martyr who perverted the simple Lord's supper
into the blasphemous Eucharist and promoted the day
of the sun.
Maybe the greatest Pervert was Irenaeus who
introduced Mariology:
Note the following quotations from the Vatican II
Council: "As St. Irenaeus says, she being obedient, BECAME
THE CAUSE OF SALVATION for herself and for the whole human race. Hence not a few
of 'the early Fathers' gladly assert with him in their preaching ...
'death through Eve, LIFE THROUGH MARY.' This UNION OF THE MOTHER WITH THE SON IN
THE WORK OF SALVATION is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal
conception up to his death" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 8, II,
56, pp. 380-381).
10.] The use of candles, prayer book, rosary beads
and hell, purgatory, limbo, penance, are also of pagan origin.
The halo and wafer of the mass in the shape of the
sun disc as well as the sun monstrance is directly
related to the idolatrous sun worship.
11. The forgeries such as the donation of
Constantine claiming that the Pope is the successor
of Peter and that God gave them liberty to
adulterate the truth with error and falsehood.
Blasphemously claiming that the Pope is Gods rep
here on earth taking the place of the Holy Spirit.
12.]Because of all this, the Protestant Reformers
recognized in the Papal system, the very Anti-Christ
or Counterfeit Christ. But today, in their darkness
and apostasy into which Protestantism has sunk, they
no longer believe this and as a result God has sent
them the promised strong delusion of 2.Thessalonians
2 so that they now believe a lie. Protestantism has
accepted what they once despised and fought against.
They use to protest the falsehoods of the church of
Rome. Protestantism had retained many of the errors
of Rome such as the false baptism and the false
Sabbath day as well as the pagan view of God that he
delights in torturing His wayward children forever
in hell.
13.] The state of the dead. The Bible declares that
when you die, you are truly dead. The Devil in the
garden of Eden told Eve the lie that when you die
you are not really dead and this lie is being
repeated in Christian pulpits and most pagan
religions. But this doctrine has been the Devil’s
way of deception. Spiritualism is the forbidden art
of Necromancy when the Pope and others speak to the
supposedly departed dead people like Mother Mary
they are speaking directly to demons.
14.] Papal Rome forbade and burned the Bible during
the dark ages. There is no love for God, His holy
book nor can they love their enemies.
15.] A state-church is by its very name and nature
an enemy of God [James 4:4; Revelation 17].
16.] The second angel of Revelation 14 warns About
the Wine of Babylon
Rev.14:8 Babylon is said to be the Mother of
harlots. [All brothels have an elderly experienced
whore looking after the young girls.] By her
daughters must be symbolized churches that cling to
her doctrines and traditions, and follow her example
of sacrificing the truth and approval of God, in
order to form an unlawful alliance with the world.
The message of Revelation 14, announcing the fall of
Babylon must apply to religious bodies that were
once pure and have become corrupt. GC 382,383.
Note that friendship with the world is enmity with
God [James 4:4]. Her recent scandals proves that the
Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church is empowered
from below and not from above.
“What is the Wine?
Her false doctrines. The Roman Catholic Church has given the world a false
Sabbath of the fourth commandment and many more like
we listed above in our opening statements. Recently
we heard the pope saying that the second Vatican
council was a mistake and Protestants are also
saying that Reformation was also a mistake. There seems
to be no end to the apostasy and compromising.
If we turn from the testimony of God’s word, and
accept false doctrines because our fathers taught
them, we fall under the condemnation pronounced upon
Babylon; we are drinking of the wine of her
abominations. GC 536,537.[Great Controversy]
Instead of living by faith alone, papal Rome
believes Gnosticism where you live by sight. All
around you remains you of what you suppose to
believe because you can touch it. Statues, images,
shrines, pilgrimages and even prayers are printed
for you in a book.
Greek philosophy has replaced God’s light.
Let us take heed of the warnings of Christ: “In vain
do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men.” Matthew 15:9.
In Daniel 7:25 the papal little horn that grew
exceedingly is said to have the eyes of a man. This
means that he sees it all with human understanding.
In Ephesians 1:17,18 it speaks of the eyes of
understanding wisdom and Revelations as God gives
us.
The New Testament scriptures in Hebrews 9:24 says
that Jesus is not entered into the holy places made
with hands [earthly Sanctuary], which are the
figures of the true [the heavenly sanctuary]; but
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of
God for us.
Papal Rome is pictured in Daniel chapters seven and
eight as the little horn power that exalts itself
unto heaven and took away Christ’s sacrifice and
cast down His sanctuary. Daniel 8:11
The sanctuary here on earth taught the complete plan
of Salvation in a passion play fashion in great
detail. Because the church of Rome substituted
Christ’s heavenly priesthood with a counterfeit
priesthood of their own, that Protestantism today
denies that such a sanctuary even exists in Heaven.
Soon as the 1260 days of year’s prophecy ended in
1798a.d and the papal power was broken by Napoleon,
Protestantism stopped their protest and started to
go back to Rome.
Just as the papacy cast down the sanctuary truth,
the first angel in Revelation 14:6 announces the
beginning of God’s final hour of judgment and ask
the whole world to come back and worship the creator
God and not evolution as the church of Rome teaches.
The first angel is quoting directly from the 4th of
the 10 Commandments where the Seventh Day Sabbath of
the Lord Jesus [Mark 2:28;Rev1:10] the true Lord’s
day has been supplanted by a counterfeit day from
sun- worship.
The hour of God’s judgment began in 1844 A.D. at the
end of the 2300 day of years when Jesus our great
high Priest in the heavenly Sanctuary began
officially the investigative judgment also known to
the Jews as Yom Kippur or the day of the final
Atonement. At the cross Jesus atoned for our sins,
but now in the final atonement, he makes the at-one-ment
with us. The means that in Revelation 14:12 those
who heeded the warning of all the three angels are
now keeping all of the 10 Commandments of God as
they are seen in the heavenly Sanctuary of the most
holy place and the presence of God.
Those who rejected the first angel of Revelation 14
could not be benefited by the successive 2nd and 3rd
angel’s messages and are left in utter darkness.
Their compromising will end up stockpiling their
sins [Rev18] and receiving the strong delusion
promised by God Himself found in 2.Thessalonians 2
to all those who prefer a lie and error in place of
biblical truth.
The beast "was not" is the phase when religion and
state are separated and people have religious
freedom. But the woman (Catholicism and Protestantism)
mount the beast and recombine the state with
religion for a last show of religious force and
intolerance.
The greatest of all blasphemies by the church of
Rome [Italy] is the Mess by which it is claimed that
the priests become the creators of the Creator Jesus
Christ by turning the little round sun disc into the
actual living body of Christ. Roman Catholic priests
claim that their priesthood is from the Old
Testament. This is untrue. The O.T. priests wore
white garments and not the scarlet and purple colors
described to her in Revelation chapter 17. The
priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church is of
Mithraism.
Peter_Pope?
"In A.D. 58 Paul wrote to the Romans, but does not
mention Peter. In Romans 1:11, he wants to impart
special gifts, and in Romans 1:15 he is ready to
preach there. He sends greetings to twenty-seven
persons, but none to Peter.
"In 61 Paul is conveyed a prisoner to Rome, and
certain brethren go to meet him, but not Peter.
"At Rome Paul writes to the Galatians, and mentions
Peter, but not as being there or as having been
pontiff there for twenty years [as the Roman
Catholic Church claims].
"The Epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians,
Colossians and Philemon were all written from Rome;
but while others are mentioned as sending messages,
or as being associated with Paul, Peter is never
once mentioned.
"From Rome also Paul's last letter is written (the
Second Epistle to Timothy). He says, 'At my first
answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me'
(2 Timothy 4:16). So that if Peter were Bishop of
Rome he enjoyed an immunity which was not accorded
to Paul, and is guilty of having forsaken the great
apostle.
"And, finally, in this very Epistle, written from
Rome immediately before his martyrdom, Paul says,
'Only Luke is with me' (2 Timothy 4:11). This is
conclusive.
"So Paul had written to Rome, he had been in Rome,
and at the end he writes from Rome, and not only
never once mentions Peter, but declares, 'Only Luke
is with me.'"
While it is possible that Peter visited Rome briefly
at some point, the biblical record testifies
conclusively that he was not the bishop of the
church at Rome.
See also "Peter vs. the Popes."
1. There is no evidence that Peter was in Rome
(Romans 16), and there is no evidence in the New
Testament that there was anything special about the
congregation at Rome, but the popes rule in Rome and
claim that it is the "mother church." Peter's first
epistle was written from Babylon, not from Rome, and
the popes' claim that "Babylon" stands for Rome is
mere conjecture. The biblical evidence that Peter
was not a leader in the church at Rome is
overwhelming. Paul wrote TO the church at Rome in
A.D. 58, but though he mentions 27 people by name,
he does not mention Peter. That would have been an
inexcusable affront if Peter had been the pope at
Rome. Later, Paul writes FROM Rome to the Galatians,
the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians, and
to Philemon, but not once does he mention that Peter
is in Rome. In 2 Timothy 4:16 Paul said that no man
stood with him and all forsook him when he answered
his charges. Where was Pope Peter? The fact is that
Peter was not a pope and he was not in Rome.
2. Peter was married (Matthew 8:14), but the popes
cannot marry.
3. Peter said Holy Scripture is the sure Word of God
and to this alone we are to give heed (2 Peter
1:19-21), but the popes say we are also to heed
their uninspired traditions.
4. Peter warned of false teachers who would make
merchandise of God's people (2 Peter 2:1-3), but the
popes have not feared to sell their masses and their
prayers and their indulgences.
5. Peter said baptism is a figure, a symbol, and
that it is not water which saves us, but the
resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 3:21), but the
popes say that baptism itself brings salvation and
that it is not merely symbolic.
6. Peter refused worship (Acts 10:25-26), but the
popes have accepted honor and bowings and kissings
which border on worship and have allowed themselves
to be treated almost as gods.
7. Peter taught that salvation is strictly through
the righteousness of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:1), but
the popes claim that their sacraments are also
necessary for salvation.
8. Peter taught against hierarchicalism, warning the
pastors against "being lords over God's heritage" (1
Peter 5:1-4), and Peter mentioned no church office
other than that of the elder; but the popes have set
up a system of ecclesiastical lordship over the
churches, and have added many offices which are
never mentioned in the New Testament.
9. Peter taught that the only priesthood in the New
Testament dispensation is the High priesthood of
Jesus Christ and the general priesthood of all
believers (1 Peter 2:9), but the popes say that
their "church" has a special priesthood which is
ordained to distribute sacraments.
10. Peter taught that Jesus Christ is the rock upon
which the church is founded (1 Peter 2:4-8), but the
popes say that Peter was the rock.
11. Peter taught that men are born again through the
Word of God (1 Peter 1:23), but the popes say that
men are born again through baptism.
12. Peter taught that Christ has "once suffered for
sins" (1 Peter 3:18), and "bare our sins in his own
body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24); but the popes say
that Christ is sacrificed anew in each mass and that
having Jesus Christ and his cross is not enough,
that a believer also needs the Roman Catholic Church
and its sacraments and priesthood.
13. Peter taught that the believer has a living
hope, that he has an inheritance reserved in heaven,
and that he is kept by the power of God (1 Peter
1:2-5); but the popes say that a believer cannot
know for sure that he has a home in heaven.
14. Peter taught that the believer is not to be a
murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a busybody
in other men's matters (1 Peter 4:15); but the popes
have been all of these things.
See also "Was Peter the Bishop of Rome?"
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Because the Protestant Reformers United declared
the Papal See to be the very Anti-Christ as pictured
in 2.Thessalonians chapter 2 as the power that is
seated in God's church claiming to be god. The pope
has a triple crown [The Tiara] by which he
supposedly be the king of heaven, earth and the
lower region [hell]. The second most glaring I.D.
that the Pope is the antichrist of 2.Thessaloinians
2, is his claim of "INFALLIBILITY" which is the sole
prerogative of God.
Also because the pope and the Roman Catholic church
fits the picture of the little horn in Daniel 7:25
that put itself above God by claiming the power to
change the very holy law of God.
The Roman Catholic Church commissioned the Jesuit
priest Luis de Alcazar with the Counter-reformation
teaching called "Pretorism" which directed away from
Rome as the Ant-Christ to an ancient Persian king by
name of Antiochus Epiphanes. But because many of the
identifying marks in the biblical book of Daniel did
not fit to squarely and the fact that Jesus
prophesied that this anti-christ was still in the
future of Jesus time here on earth. So the Roman
Catholic Church commissioned another Jesuit priest
by the name of Francisco Ribera to come up with a
better formula to direct the anti-christ stigma away
from the church of Rome.
Ribera invented "Futurism" which contradicts his
predecessor Alcazar by pointing very far into the
future instead of the past. Both Pretorism and
Futurism has now been fully accepted in one form or
another by the "fallen" Protestants. Ribera's
scenario of the secret rapture, the rebuilding of
the Jewish temple at Jerusalem was enhanced by
English Protestant John Nelson Darby and his "Dispensationalism"
so popular today with Protestants. A certain M.M.M.
Miss Margaret MacDonald received vision of a twofold
coming of Christ [rapture] that is unbiblical.
Ribera also split the completed prophecy of Daniel
9:24-27 where he takes that last prophetic week of
literal seven years and projected it 2000 years
ahead into the future.
Revelation 13 speaks of the sea beast with the name
of blasphemy that inherited all the features of her
previous beasts or kingdom outlined in the book of
Daniel. It speaks of a deadly wound which was
inflicted by Protestantism and later by Napoleon
arresting the Pope in Rome. Revelation 13 gives us
the exact time of 42 month or 1260 days of prophetic
time in which that power had absolute control,
namely from 538 A.D to 1798 A.D. making it exactly
1260 years. The Bible says in Revelation 2:10 that
the tribulation would last for 10 days. This is
exactly 10 prophetic years as the persecution of
Diocletian is confirmed by historians.
But of greater concern is fallen Protestant America
that will make an image to the first beast by
introducing a boycott [Rev.13:16,17] to deny the
necessities of life unless we conform to the false
worship of the first beast, the Roman Catholic
Church.
Because the Protestant Churches have rejected God's
Three Angels Messages send to them in 1844 A.D. that
God promised the strong delusion of 2.Thessalonians
2 so that they now believe a lie. It would have
saved them from being deceived and blinded by Rome's
counter-reformation teachings. The false fire coming
down in the sight of men and not God, is the
counterfeit Holy Spirit as cloven tongues of fire in
Acts 2. Revelation 13:13 shows them as false
miracles.
The Three Angels Messages of Revelation would
restore their lawlessness to the commands of God and
the faith of Jesus [Revelation 14:6-12; 12:17]. The
coming boycott and tribulation is God's way of
forcing us all to make decisions for or against the
truth of the Bible. The deadly wound of the first
beast [Revelation 13], the Roman Catholic Church, is indeed healed
again.
Pope Benedict's last assertion claims that the Roman
Catholic Church is the only true church, makes the
document "Protestants and Catholics working
together" a fake document. Go and visit Roman
Catholic countries and observe all the rites,
ceremonies and processions that nothing has changed.
The only time when they will work together, is when
Protestant America will force the Sunday law boycott
of Revelation 13 onto the entire world making an
image to the Roman Catholic Church which has done
the same thing before during the Dark Ages.
The Roman Catholic church cannot be the Mother
Church. Which Mother would burn her children? Or
even worse, under Satan invented the most horrible
torture methods such as the rack to tear people to
pieces. God does not use force, the Devil does. The
Gospel of the Good News that Jesus the Son of God
died for our sins is by invitation only. Those who
use force are rapists! You cannot force love!!!
Babylon is unreformable. Gods invitation is to come
out of her my people because her sins have reached
unto heaven [Revelation 18].
The New Testament gives a vivid example. When the
people of Samaria rejected Jesus, His disciples were
quick at asking Him, Lord, you want us to call fire
down to destroy them? How did Jesus answer? Jesus
said you do not know what spirit you are made of. So
it is with the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church,
they do not know that they have the wrong kind of
spirit. In fact Revelation 13:2 tells us that it is
the Dragon that gives them his power, seat and
great authority and not God. That great authority
and seat was of course the Roman Empire and the seat
of the Caesars. More cruel than he was. Giving her
that power again today, she would repeat the most
terrible persecution and the inquisition. She has
not and will not change as the Pope Benedict
recently confirmed. She is anti- or
counterfeit Christ just as Protestantism had always
confirmed.
The affront to God is that the Roman Catholic Church
claimed authority to change the very holy law of
God's Ten Commandments and led the world into false
worship. She removed the second which for bids
images and statutes so she could start idolatry and
her false Sabbath leads the world into sin.
Protestantism has been deceived by the Roman
Catholic Church with the Counter Reformation
teachings of Pretorism and Futurism and especially
through the forbidden religious titles of ancient
church "Fathers". No one during the middle ages
dared to write anything against the Roman Catholic
Church because she was in full control of
everything. Not even Historians were allowed to
write anything with out the permission of the Roman
Catholic Church.
Jesus Himself pointed forward to the
abomination of Rome and backward to the prophecies
of Daniel for its fulfillment and explanation
[Matthew 24:15]. "Out of the four winds [directions]
came the little horn" said Daniel 8:8,9. Not out the
four horns. This power would make war with the
saints and prevailed against them; until the Ancient
of days came, and judgment was given to the saints
of the Most High; and the time came that the saints
possessed the kingdom."-Daniel 7:21,22.
Antiochus Epiphanes is long dead, but the Papacy is
still in existence which prevailed and murdered
Millions during the middle or dark ages and will
continue as the Bible says until the day of
judgment.
Antiochus never changed Gods times and laws, but the
Papal See did. This power of the Roman Catholic
Church ended in 1798 A.D. with Napoleon, but it was
not until 1844 A.D. when Protestants recovered the
heavenly Temple and its cleansing that was for so
long trodden under foot by papal Rome.
Another element of the Roman church is her
involvement with the occult. But if you are looking
for the number 666 on the pope's hat, you are
looking in vain. He is not that stupid to openly
identify himself as the Anti-Christ publicly. The
Tiara you are looking for dating from the middle
ages have been confiscated by Napoleon's army in
1798 A.D., dismantled and the jewels sold. However,
You will find the words "Vicarious Filii Dei" in the
forgery [by their own admission] called "The
donation of Constantine." And these words add up to
666 using the Roman numerals. The Pope has admitted
that he practices the forbidden art of Necromancy,
contacting dead Mother Mary which is really
performed by Satan the arch- deceiver.
Nunneries and Cloisters are also of pagan origin and
have no place in the Holy Word of GOD. The doctrine
of life after death also comes from Greek Philosophy
as well as eastern religions. The Bible says that
our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and if we
defile it, him or her will GOD destroy [1.Corinthins
3:17]. Destroy does not mean eternal life in hell.
Sprinkling Babies
The Roman Catholic Church when in absolute power,
made state laws under the penalty of death if you
did not rush a new born baby to the priest to be
sprinkled. Lutherans in Germany also promoted it.
The Bible says that child is clean [saved and not
defiled by original sin] through a single believing
Parent [1.Corinthians 7:14] which exposes this
Catholic and Protestant doctrine as phony.
Christianity demands a quality of living which can
be and will be achieved only by heartfelt Christians
who have truly died with Christ to sin and risen
with Him to newness of life. One cannot expect
persons, merely because they have been dipped in
infancy, to show forth the excellency that was in
Christ Jesus, and baptism ought not to be given to
babies because it is not a sign of membership in a
Christian society, not a rite of initiation, but a
visible token of that inward 'regeneration' which
has already taken place.
In baptism, declared the apostle Paul, we die and
rise with Christ and this experience cannot come at
birth, but only through an adult conversion and
commitment. Those alone who had this experience
constitute the church and all others still belong in
the world even though an ocean of water had been
poured over them. Infant baptism consequently is no
baptism at all, but only " a dipping in the Romish
bath."
The Good News of the Gospel is that the soul that
sins must die, but the free gift of GOD is eternal
life through Jesus Christ GOD's only begotten Son.
[Eph.2:8-10]. The Roman Catholic Church does not
recognize salvation as a free gift.
For further study you may want to see "The
Origin of Sunday."
The Anti-Christ
Difficult-Bible
Covenants Daily
Bible reading
F.A.Q.
The
Good News
Hebrews ch.4
Hybrid
Jesus
Jesus and 666
Mark of the Beast
Mother Mary
The Passion
The New Covenant
Pope
Peter? Romans
ch.7
Romans chapter 13
Romans chapter 14
Ronald Reagan
The Lord's Day
Satan
Testimonials
Catholic
Priest
The Ten Commandments
Undercover Christian
Apostle Paul
The Christian Catalogue
Humor
Bible
Getting Started
Our Lord Jesus in Heaven
Jesus and His Sheep
Martyrs
Resources
Biblical Sanctification
Calvinism/Adventism
Roman
Catholicism
Spirit of prophecy
Christianity
in Australia
The Final Anti-Christ
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