Despite its universal reputation, Roman Catholicism is NOT true Christianity in biblical terms. It is just another one of the many pagan religions, and I will demonstrate why I say so.

Historically, Rome was a ruthless, vicious enemy of Christianity. Millions of early-church saints were killed by the powers of the Roman Empire. Romans crucified Jesus Christ. They crucified Peter and beheaded Paul.

Romans, under the General Titus, destroyed the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD and completely annihilated the great Jewish Temple. The stolen wealth from Jerusalem's downfall paid for the construction of the famous Colosseum in Rome, where great multitudes of early church Christians were thrown to the lions and otherwise brutally tortured and murdered.

By the turn of the third century, the church that Jesus founded underwent a treacherous tide of doctrinal changes in the twelve congregations that were meeting in the city of Rome. 

JUSTIN MARTYR

Unknown to most modern Christians, a theological revolution began with the fervent apologetics of Justin Martyr, then preaching and teaching in Rome.

Justin Martyr introduced a concept unheard of among earlier Christians, namely that Jesus Christ was "in the second place" to Father God. Second place?? Nobody had EVER suggested that Jesus was in second place to the Father. What could this statement suggest?

An understudy of Justin Martyr's, Irenaeus, added to the confusion, stating that "the Son of God became the Son of Man". This was a completely new concept, never before taught in the first 300 years of the early church. None of the Apostles ever made a statement of that kind.

The suggestion was that Jesus was an eternal son - an impossible concept. Think about it. How can anyone be an eternal son? Sonship, by definition, requires a beginning. Jesus became a son when He was born of Mary. Before the son was born of a virgin, only the Father existed.

There had been no son in heaven. Sonship is human. God never replicated His spirit. There had been no spirit son, only the singular, eternal spirit of God. God did not replicate His eternal nature into another co-equal person.

Rather, He incarnate His deity in a MAN. The man is the Son. And the man, the Son, was not from eternity past, except in the MIND of God.

Paul had preached that Jesus was the image of the invisible God. Jesus declared that when we see Him, we see the Father (not a likeness, but the actual Father!).

God Himself had declared, "My glory I will not give to another," (Isaiah 42:8). That simply means that there never was and never will be anything co-equal or co-eternal with God. Jesus, in His day, said, "My Father is greater than I," (John 14:28). So, there you have it. Jesus is NOT co-equal, or co-eternal with the Father. He is the man in whom God dwelt. He is the physical manifestation of the invisible God. His spirit is the Father, His body is the Son.

Iranaeus' statement introducing the concept of an eternal son plainly contradicted the Apostles' premise that the Son was conceived by the Holy Ghost in the "fullness of time" and "made of woman" (Galatians 4:4). The idea of an eternal son had never been preached in the early church. Jesus was the FULLNESS of God bodily. Not one-third of a trinity!

From that error proceeded another erroneous teaching; that since Jesus proceeded from the Father, the Holy Ghost also subsequently proceeded from the Son, and was therefore in THIRD PLACE in the Godhead. Now we have a third deity equal to the first (Father) and second (eternal Son). Hence, this triune deity supposedly consisted of three co-equal, co-eternal men. NO. A thousand times NO. God is A spirit. Singular. One LORD. One person. 

Within a few short years, these errors were codified into the doctrine of the Trinity, that God exists in three persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. 

Curiously, in short order, the Roman Emperor Constantine stopped persecuting Christians and elevated the Roman Catholic Church to the status of the state religion. It is quite amazing that as soon as the doctrine of God was thoroughly corrupted, Rome no longer hated the church.

Tertullian (who apparently was the first to use the word "trinity" in reference to God) and Hippolytus of Rome succeeded in changing the mode of water baptism from being performed "in the name of Jesus Christ" to use of the titles "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost", thereby abandoning the "only NAME given among men whereby we must be saved" in baptism.

Water baptism by total immersion in water in the name of Jesus Christ was a primordial, core doctrine of the twelve apostles. Read the New Testament for yourself. You will see it clearly. Every baptism recorded in the New Testament had been performed in the name of Jesus. But in the newly redefined Roman Catholic Church, the name of Jesus was extirpated, excised from water baptism. Furthermore, baptism was no longer a burial, or a submersion in water. It became a sprinkling, absent the calling upon the saving name of Jesus. Only generic titles were articulated, rendering the entire doctrine of water baptism a completely nameless, powerless, impotent, ritualistic farce - not a baptism at all!!

It is conspicuous that at the same time the church stopped preaching that the Father God was in Christ, the Roman Empire stopped fighting the church and began embracing it. When they stopped baptizing converts in the name of Jesus Christ, and replaced it with generic titles of father, son and holy spirit, Rome was no longer opposed to it.

Rome effectively drove Jesus Christ out of the church.

Make no mistake about it. The true early church did not apostasize. It was killed off by the Roman Catholic "Church" - not a church at all, but a diabolical, fraudulent imposter. Once the true church was driven off the scene, the Roman government decided to declare the new false church the official world religion, and set out to eliminate all conflicting points of view. 

William Chalfant, in the book "Ancient Champions of Oneness" records that "in 312 AD, Caesar himself, the Emperor Constantine, became a Catholic" and by 325 AD, at the Council of Nicea, a canon was drafted that specifically named a notorious group of Jesus' name baptized Pentecostals based in Rome, and ordered them to be re-baptized. 

The Roman Catholic Church demanded the death of true Christians.

Some time in the fifth century, probably around 430 AD, a creed was written, now mistakenly called the "Athanasian Creed," which said,

"Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith, Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity."

After much additional verbiage, the conclusion of the Athanasian Creed is this:

Two centuries later, the Roman Catholic Church issued the Justinian Code of 529 AD, that declared DEATH for two heresies in general:

    (1) Anti-Trinitarianism, and 
    (2) Rebaptism" (outside Roman baptism).

Countless multitudes of ancient Spirit-filled, Jesus' name-baptized Christians were then murdered by the Roman Catholic Church.

Roman Catholicism did not stop the doctrinal perversion with water baptism. 

They stripped the Word of God from their pulpits, forbade the laity from reading or possessing copies of the Bible, uttered the Masses in the Latin language, regardless of the national language of the people. 

They introduced countless heresies such as:

Transubstantiation which teaches that the communion bread is the literal body of Christ, and that one cannot be saved unless he takes the communion in the Catholic Church.
NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Venial and Mortal sins - unscriptural teachings about the sinlessness of certain sins. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Indulgences - in exchange for donations to the Catholic Churches, the priesthood absolved the donors of their guilt, allowing them to commit adulteries, fornications and many other sins. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Confessionals - the Catholic Church taught the people to confess their sins to the Priests instead of confessing to God. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Purgatory, Limbo and Prayers for the Dead - the Catholic Church teaches unscriptural beliefs about the destiny of the soul. It teaches that through gifts and donations, deceased loved ones can be prayed into heaven, regardless of the lives they lived or what they believed. Prayers to the Saints, contradicting the Lord’s Prayer which Jesus prescribed to the Father only. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Veneration of and Prayers to the Virgin Mary - The Pope himself prays to the Virgin, and John Paul II credited her with saving his life in an assassination attempt. She is called the Mother of God, Tower of David, Ark of the Covenant, Gate of Heaven, Morning Star, and Refuge of Sinners among other blasphemous titles. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Mariology - Throughout the Roman Catholic Church, Mary is being listened to through visions, apparitions, weeping statues, and various demonic revelations. The Spirit of Mary is credited with the fall of Communism in the USSR, and multitudes of pilgrims travel to places where the Virgin is said to have appeared - over 600 cities worldwide in all. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Idolatry - statues and icons by the multitudes play significantly into the Catholic religion. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

The Supreme Pontiff - The Pope - According to the Catholic Doctrine, the pope is the Vicar of Christ - the stand-in for Christ. They call him Holy Father, when the Jesus taught to call no man your father except God. The pope claims to have the keys to the kingdom delivered to Peter by Jesus Christ, and claims Apostolic Succession to Peter as the first Pope. Strangely enough, the Pope refuses to preach the message Peter preached in Acts 2:38. And they claim he is infallible. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

The Mass - only those who take communion in the Roman Catholic Church at the hands of a Roman Catholic Priest can be saved. NOT IN THE BIBLE.

The Rosary - Jesus specifically preached against vain repetitions in prayer, and nowhere in the Bible is ritualistic praying taught. "Hail Marys" are based on Elizabeth's greeting to Mary, which was never a prayer in the first place. We are not to pray to saints. Even the angels in heaven rebuked men for venerating them.

Ecumenism

As if these errors alone were not enough, the RCC has set out to bring together all the major religions of the world under her umbrella. 

According to the Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement, since the RCC convened the Second Vatican Council in the 1960’s, under Pope Paul VI, the Ecumenical intent of the church has been a major thrust.

One of the principle motives of Vatican II was to recapture all the recalcitrant Catholics, Protestants and any other religion that was considered doctrinally deviant and bring them under the authority and control of the Roman Catholic Church. In doing so, Roman Catholicism has deceptively pretended to consent to other religions, even though its official Cathecism STILL insists that no one can be saved outside the communion of the Roman Catholic Church.

Since the establishment of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, and with the help of the World Council of Churches, the RCC has fostered a new dimension of Hindu-Christian dialogue that has resulted in the GROWTH AND SPREAD of Hindu missions in the West.

Within the Catholic Church, THOUSANDS of priests and nuns practice Yoga and other forms of Hindu or Buddhist mysticism. One keen example is at the College of St. Mary in Omaha, where Sister Mary Ohara, professor of philosophy teaches Buddhist and Hindu techniques for enhancing education in Catholic schools.

Pertaining to the Islam (Moslem) faith, Pope John Paul II greeted a crowd of Muslims in Brussels, Belgium by saying, " Christians and Moslems, we meet one another with one faith in one God… and try to put into practice the teachings of our respective holy books". 

The outrageous crime of that statement is that no true Christian would ever agree that the God of Islam is the same God of the Bible, nor can any true Christian commend the teachings of the Koran.

The Catholic Church is increasingly intertwined with heathen and pagan religions. In New York City, in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Cardinal Cooke received the Dalai Lama, who claims to be the FOURTEENTH reincarnation of the first Buddha. The Cardinal exclaimed, "all the world’s religions are basically the same", and called the event "one of the greatest movements of the spirit in our time". Surely not the Holy Spirit.

"But," you may say, "what does the Roman Catholic Church have to do with us?" For all its determination to fuse all the world’s religions together under the umbrella of the RCC, the RCC has unofficially declared Holy War in Brazil against Fundamentalist Christians – especially Pentecostals.

Liberation Theologians (Socialist Catholics) in Washington DC are constantly lobbying for legislation that presses for Ecumenical religion world-wide, at the same time stripping religious freedoms from the "little guys" like fundamentalists.

The Roman Catholic Church has been perceived for centuries by the old reformers as the False Prophet of the Antichrist regime in Revelation 13, 14 and 17.

The Reformation was fueled by RCC abominations

Martin Luther himself left the RCC for reasons no different than what I have already mentioned. The Lutherans, The Calvinists, the Anabaptists, and EVERY OTHER Protestant church revolted against the universally corrupt RCC.

Reformation nullified in our time

But in OUR TIME, the reformation has been overthrown. 

The New York Times, March 30, 1994 reported the most significant event in 500 years of Catholic / Evangelical relations: It read, " In what’s being called a historic declaration, evangelicals including Pat Robertson and Charles Colson (one of the chief originators) joined with conservative Roman Catholic leaders today in upholding the ties of faith that bind the nation’s largest and most politically active religious groups. They urged Catholics and evangelicals… to stop aggressive proselytization of each other’s flocks. John White, President of Geneva College and former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said the statement represents a "triumphalistic moment" in American religious life after centuries of distrust…"

Other Evangelical endorsers include the heads of the Home Mission Board and Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (who acted in an independent capacity), the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, and Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ… Mark Noll of Wheaton University… Os Guiness, Jesse Miranda, (Assemblies of God), Richard Mouw (President, Fuller Theological Seminary)"

Another endorsement came from Robert Simonds, the Southern California Chairman of the National Association of Evangelicals. He "applauded the declaration" and said he hoped that it would " bring increased cooperation between evangelicals and Catholics."

Reformers called RCC Antichrist

Charles Spurgeon would have turned over in his grave. Years ago, Spurgeon declared, "It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the Popery in the church of Rome, there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. It wounds Christ, robs Christ of His glory, puts sacramental efficacy in the place of His atonement, and lifts a piece of bread in the place of the Savior. If we pray against it, because it is against Him, we shall love the persons though we hate their errors; we shall love their souls though we loathe and detest their dogmas."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the late pastor of Westminster Chapel in London, said, "The Roman Catholic Church is a counterfeit… of the worst and most diabolical kind.. a form of Antichrist… to be rejected and denounced".

(To be accurate, the scripture does not point to the Pope as Antichrist, but calls him the False Prophet, who supports and gives his endorsement to the Antichrist - read Revelation 13.)

With the prevailing beliefs running throughout the entire Protestant church of the last century, isn’t it then SHOCKING to say the least that so many of the preeminent evangelicals of our time have turned around and returned to the RCC?

Fundamentalism Retrogress

Billy Graham (ever heard of Billy Graham?) said "I’ve found that my beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Roman Catholics". This is nothing less than SHOCKING!

Statistics show that Billy Graham has done more than any other evangelical to fill the pews of Roman Catholic Churches. Every Catholic who signed a conversion card in Billy Graham crusades was immediately referred BACK to the Roman Catholic Church for membership.

Neither Billy Graham nor the Roman Catholic Church bear much resemblance to Biblical Christianity. While both have expended great efforts in the past forty years to be ecumenical, the realities show that their beliefs are less ecumenical than they are downright outrageous and devoid of Biblical legitimacy.

Billy Graham was interviewed on television by Robert Schuller on May 31st 1997. Graham revealed his utterly non-Christian beliefs. Here is a transcript of portions of that interview:

Robert Schuller:

Billy Graham:

Well, Christianity and being a true believer - you know, I think there's the Body of Christ. This comes from all the Christian groups around the world, outside the Christian groups.

Robert Schuller:

Billy Graham:

So Billy Graham believes you can go to heaven without being born again, without obeying or even KNOWING the gospel of Jesus Christ! So, how does that correspond to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church? Well, the Pope himself does not teach or believe in the New Birth according to the true doctrine of the New Testament. The Catholic Church does not teach the doctrine of the New Birth.

Both are phony Christians. Imposters. Deceivers. Neither preaches the plan of salvation preached by the Apostle Peter on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2.

The late W.A. Criswell, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention said, "I don’t know of anyone more dedicated to the great fundamental doctrines of Christianity than the Catholics". WHAT??

Paul Crouch, President of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the largest TV network in the world, said, "I’m eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary… I’m not protesting anything… it’s time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord." You've got to be kidding!

Robert Schuller, Hour of Power author, Pastor of the Garden Grove Community Church said, "It’s time for Protestants to go to the shepherd (the pope) and say, "What do we have to do to come home?"

HOME? Since when is the Roman Catholic Church the home of true Christianity?

Benny Hinn said that Roman Catholic doctrine is of no concern, for after all, Catholics "Love Jesus". I'm sorry, Benny, but the RCC doesn't know who Jesus is.

The Great Whore

I am proposing to you that all of evangelical Protestantism is returning to its mother, the RCC, because they never truly left it! Because their baptism was never corrected, they never truly protested.

Even in protesting the Roman Catholic Church, Martin Luther nevertheless incorporated the Athanasian Creed into the Lutheran Church, and it continues to be recited on Trinity Sunday throughout Lutheranism. This core Catholic doctrine persists among all the harlot daughters of Catholicism. The protest was superficial.

They are still the harlot daughters of the mother whore that John the Revelator saw in Revelation 17:

And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, 

and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

The apparel of scarlet and purple is the official colors of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cardinals wear Scarlet robes and the Archbishops wear Purple robes at all official church functions.

The gold, pearls and precious stones with which she is decked can be plainly seen in any event held at St. Peter's Basilica. The altar is decked with these ornaments. The golden cup can be seen in the hand of the Pope each time he conducts Mass.

The Roman Catholic Church is the Great Whore and the Mother of Harlots. If not, then who? 

Is the Roman Catholic Church the repository of the Spirit of Truth. I think not. Is there a spirit in the RCC. Yes. But it is not the spirit of God. If not, then it must be an evil spirit. 

Yes. The RCC is full of evil spirits.

The scarlet colored beast of this passage (on which the Great Whore sits) is the Socialistic New World Order. The Woman dressed in scarlet is the Jesuit-driven, Marxist Socialist, Liberation Theology-teaching Roman Catholic Church who has fornicated, and continues to fornicate, with all the kings of the earth.

The seven heads are seven mountains historically recognized as the seven hills of the city of Rome, Italy.

She is drunk on the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus Christ because of the multitudes of ancient true Christians who were put to death under the RCC's despotic authority.

Throughout its evil history, the Roman Catholic Church has conducted various kinds of "inquisitions," brutally and mercilessly torturing and murdering its opponents in nations around the world. For over 1,000 years, more than seventy-five Popes ordered the wholesale slaughter of no less than eight million non-Catholics for "heresy" - refusal to convert to Roman Catholicism. Many believe the numbers are more accurately around FIFTY MILLION dead, maybe even as high as 125 million. I don't have the time or space to treat this topic here. Do a web search on "inquisition" then sit back and fasten your seatbelt. It is APPALLING how sinister and demonic this "church is! There is NO WAY on earth I could EVER call anything about the Roman Catholic Church "holy". Lucifer dwells in the heart and soul of this organization.

The RCC has been a powerful driving force in the evolution of the New World Order/ One World Government (the Pope has been the only international religious leader to address the United Nations).

But God has plans for its extinction. The prophecies state that the New World Order will finally rise up against the RCC and destroy it. Jesus, Himself will tend to casting the Pope into the lake of fire after Armageddon.


The Pope is the False Prophet of Revelation 13. He will be destroyed at Armageddon by Jesus Christ, along with the Beast/ Antichrist. Read Revelation 18:1- 19:2 and you will see the fall of Mystery Babylon. It is the demise of the Roman Catholic Church and all her colleagues, ultimately including the New World Order.

Anyone who truly desires to be saved should heed the admonition of Revelation 18:4 and 5:


The true plan of salvation is NOT found anywhere in the trinitarian, Mystical Babylon religions. It is found in the following scriptures:




Every true believer must repent, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking with other tongues as the entire early church did. If the Catholic Church wants to legitimately claim Apostolic succession to Peter, then the Pope should preach Peter's message, baptize according to Peter's instructions, and advocate the Pentecostal experience of the early church of speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit gives the utterance.

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