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INTRODUCTION:

All of these pages have the same verses at top in the introduction, designed to help you understand how to understand the Word of God, in context, without any of one's own private interpretation which changes meanings to fit one's pet doctrines. Not to mention goes against the Word of God.

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

(2 Peter 3:16 [KJV])
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

(Psalms 12:6-7 [KJV])
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

(2 Timothy 2:15-16 [KJV])
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

(Acts 17:10-11 [KJV])
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

As the verses above say and teach, always research for yourself, always use all of the context of all Scripture, always rightly divide that Word of Truth and never privately interpret it!

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, concordances nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

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Roman Catholicism

(2 Peter 1:20)
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

(Isaiah 28:10)
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13)
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

The differences between Roman Catholicism, hereinafter referred to as "the R.C.C.", and true, Biblical Christianity are numerous, glaring and so well documented in Scripture and written history.
Christianity and Roman Catholicism are so far apart that it is easier to say what they have in common than to say what the differences are, for instance:

-Both believe in God
-Both believe in the Deity of the LORD Jesus Christ
-Both believe in the Trinity
-And that is exactly where the similarities/commonalities end

As Dave Hunt said it in his book, "A Woman Rides the Beast", it is not what Catholics believe, but rather what ELSE do they believe?" They add to the Word of God. They therefore have the WRONG JESUS CHRIST!
He also said truly of the R.C.C., "They sell you tickets to heaven that end you up in hell"

Every single other doctrine outside of the few listed above and espoused by the R.C.C. is rank heresy and/or blasphemy! Even the similarities have their differences, as documented below. The claims below are by decree of the Roman Catholic religion in their catechism, edicts, papal bulls, ex-Cathedra pronouncements, news releases, etc. There is no Scripture at all to back them up, which is why none is included by them in support, or those few given are always out of context and twisted, changed and privately interpreted to make a false doctrine, rather than taking the actual sense of the verses and believing them as they are written and meant to be taken, and all this without any merit or honesty.

NO ACTUAL BELIEVER HAS TO DO THIS WITH THE WORD OF GOD.

Galatians 1:6-9
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

The R.C.C. absolutely has "another gospel", the wrong "gospel" which is NOT a gospel in any way.

When you do not believe the R.C.C. false doctrinal heresies, in any way question them, challenge them or expose them, the R.C.C. then brands YOU the heretic, and calls you "wayward", "drifted apart from the Mother Church". The "church" is not my mother. That said, this opposition to their false doctrines and paganism was the very reason for the Dark Ages, the Inquisition, the R.C.C.s heresies, her lust for power, money and blood. That history is undeniable. We are commanded in 1 Timothy 2:15 to read the Scriptures, not to read into the Scriptures, which is why they do not want anyone to read the Word of God, because "only the priests of the R.C.C. can understand and interpret it"

It is a religion of extreme amounts of arrogance, dishonesty, wickedness, abominations, utter literal sexual fornication within (bastard popes and leaders having sex with little boys, girls, claiming celibacy) and spiritual fornication outwards to the world, filled with arrigance, pride, mind control. Their official stance on the people:

- "We gave you the Bible!"
- "We are the only true church of God!"
- "You know only what we tell you you know!"
- "You read only what we tell you to read!"
- "You will think and believe what we want you to think and believe!"
- "You cannot understand what our Bible means without us telling you what it means!"
- "You cannot interpret what our Bible means without us telling you what it means!" - "You can not interrogate us in any way at any time about any sacraments, practices, beliefs, mysteries, hidden things, NOTHING!!"
- "You disobey us, question us, reject us, expose us and we will excommunicate you, persecute you, torture and even kill you!"
- Any book you write that goes against us or exposes us will be listed on our "Catholic Index of Forbidden Books!"
-The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop exposes their direct spiritual copying of ancient Babylon

The above and more are their official teachings from their own early "popes" through the dark ages, until today in all Catholic countries on earth, out of their own edicts, releases, writings, papal bulls, publications, articles, books, etc. Does this sound to you like Jesus and the disciples? You have every indication that it these are all red flags immediately that it is a cult, a complete mind control process, the same as all other cults.

Did Jesus treat a single person who came to Him to question Him who asked honestly, seeking answers? No.

John 6:35-37
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

He treated the Pharisees and Sadducees who rejected Him openly, with finality and conspired to have Him crucified, until the time. Openly in their temple, their synagogue. Nicodemus, a Pharisee, got saved. Why he HONESTLY asked Jesus about salvation. he dropped the arrogance. But he had to do it secretly because of fear.
Jesus, when He was done with His ministry on earth before His final act, dying on the Cross for us, was silent before Pilate, did nothing to threaten Caiphas, Herod, the Roman Soldiers or anyone else. All who rejected Him left Him of their own will permanently, of their own volition. All of them. The discipples left Him until the Resurrection because that was prophesied and they did not understand He was going to be resurrected.

Zechariah 13:7
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Mark 14:27
And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

THE HERETICAL BOOKS/WORKS OF THE CATHOLICS

Thiese are not an exhaustive list, but all are deliberately used and/or deliberately corrupted by them in order to control the masses and corrupt and destroy God's Word, which they cannot do.

- The Apocrypha
- Vaticanus B
- Sinaiticus Aleph, found in a trash can in Alexandria, Egypt (location not from God, obviously)
- Origen's Hexapla, from Origen Adamantius compiled an Old Testament called the Hexapla (c.245 AD).
- Westcott and Hort's Greek text
- Any and all papal edicts, bulls, publications

THE APOCRYPHA

The actual, complete Canon of Old Testament Scripture was done even before Jesus was born, probably under Ezra the Scribe, as what Jesus referred to was actually recognized by all of those around Him then at that time then as "The Scriptures" by the Jews, Jewish leadership, any Gentile believer, etc.and Jesus Himself said, "and THE scripture cannot be broken."
No one questioned the Scriptures-they questioned HIM and His authority because they missed seeing Him in the prophecies of the Old Testament completely, They were looking for the Messiah spoken of in those Scriptures. , but they missed the timing and purpose spoken of, and thought He was coming to save them from the Roman control of the Caesars, who were forerunners of today's "popes".
He told them that they missed Him in those Scriptures:

John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

But, despite all of that, they perfectly preserved the actual Scriptural canon, not the fake ones of the pagans such as Origen, etc. In that preservation, careful checking, rechecking of the Scriptures for 100% accuracy, every single letter was checked. The Canon of Scripture was done even before Jesus was born, probably under Ezra the Scribe, as what Jesus referred to was recognized by all of those then as "The Scriptures" and He Himself said, "and THE scripture cannot be broken." He referred to those Scriptures and they never included the Apocryphal writings of any pagan authors Rome loves so much today....
No one actually questioned the Scriptures Jesus referred to-they merely questioned HIM and His authority. They were looking for the Messiah spoken of in those Scriptures. To repeat the above, "In that checking, rechecking of the Scriptures for 100% accuracy, every single letter was checked" by Jewish scribes of the tribe of Levi, responsible for that work.
That process was laborious but necessary. Any parchment or scroll was to be written by a particular ink. Whenever any scribe came to the word for God, , they cleaned the pen and washed themselves and their clothes as necessary. It was that sacred. That Hebrew word is the tetragrammaton (JHVH) pictured below, from which we get it directly translated as always, no exceptions, as "Jehovah", never "YAHWEH (a pagan Moabite god)

Jehovah tetragrammaton

When the scrolls were worn out, they were officially and solemnly buried or burned so they would not be profaned, torn into fragments, or altered. They were then bound into books. Any leaf or page read could be worn out again and had to be recopied again and again. Same process.
Every single letter was numbered so as to be an exact copy, nothing missing, nothing added (Deuteronomy 4:2, Proverbs 40:5-6, Isaiah 40:7-6). Within thirty days every letter had to be checked over completely and compared to the original from which it was copied. Any errors and they were burned. Worn out originals, copies were either burned or buried to avoid so as not to be corrupted.

Our Old Testament was officially endorsed by Jesus Who is God as "the Scriptures" repeatedly. He referred to them, recited them, quoted them, preached from them, told everyone He was in them in the prophets, etc.

The Rabbinical writings tell us that the Old Testament canon was confirmed by a council meeting of Rabbis and Pharisees in Jamnia c.100 AD. No canon was established nor could be after the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. Certainly not by unsaved "popes".

THE APOCRYPHA

All of the below and any and all others which expose the heresies the Vatican are on the "Catholic Index of Forbidden Books". In Catholic countries, they can be confiscated and you imprisoned or worse. In the past, those who owned and read used these were.

Companion studies and some books are linked below:
Why KJVO?
Prophecy and Current Events
Which Version is the Bible? by Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones
THE Septuagint: A Critical Analysis
The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop
The Club of Rome
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
A Woman Rides the Beast

Anything written by God and recorded by men can withstand any and all objections, criticisms, forever. This is one thing that the heretics in the Catholic cult hate about them, their 'popes", their Scriptures-inspection and questioning. They cannot take it, knowing their cult cannot withstand questioning, interrogation. We as true Christians welcome it as a challenge to dig deeper into God's Word and learn. We know the Word of God is inerrant, infallible and has, can and will withstand the test of time. No fear here.

One problem anyone discovers when dealing with Catholics is the brainwashing they have gotten. One way to know is that, no matter what facts, truth, Scripture verses you give them, they refuse often to even listen or read. They can, they refuse. They were told not to and obey the leaders. As real Christians, we are told that we are to check all things out with Scripture.

2 Timothy 2:15-16
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

The Roman Catholic Church, throughout history, the same spiritual partner with ancient Rome, the Alexandrian cults, Aryanism, all ancient pagans, has done more than any other organized entity to erase the Word of God, adding to it, deleting from it, changing it to fit their pagan doctrines, in abject hatred. For instance:
Both Roman Catholic inventions, in the Vaticanus B and Sinaiticus Aleph, John 1:18 reads that Jesus was the only begotten “God” instead of the only begotten “Son”. Now, that is the original Arian heresy! it is the same belief as the Jehovah Witnesses cult. This is in direct contradiction to what God Himself says:

Micah 5:2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

Isaiah 9:6-7
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

The "Apocryphal books", meaning "hidden" books, however, were written by pagans who hated God's Word and tried to pollute, corrupt, destroy it when God was NOT talking to the prophets, the silent years. The ONLY ones who accepted them as "Scriptures" was the Alexandrian Jews, Alexandria Egypt being the one place God told the Jews never to return back to after He took them out-EVER. This includes the false "scribes" who went there against His will to get the LXX, the "Septuagint", another false set of documents trying to pass themselves off as the Word of God. Nothing good and nothing from God ever came out of Alexandria, Egypt, as it was a pagan place. This is one thing that pleases Roman Catholicism, their idol worship. Hence the Apocrypha. They are the ones today who love that book, which adds to the Word of God with errors. The Apocrypha was even interspersed in the LXX, and was rejected by the Scribes under Ezra. Josepheus confirms that they were not divinely inspired in his day also. No godly person who walks with God can consider heresy as from God.

Alexandria was the place that the "Catholic Mary" (not the real Mary) was revered, venerated as the second person of the Trinity! It varies today as "The Fourth Person in the Trinity", etc.
Add to that that the "Madonna and Child" was an idol in ancient Babylon. Add to this in Hinduism they have Indrani, the wife of the Indian god Indra and the goddess Isis with child from Babylon. Today, in Muslim countries, these "Isis children" are married to grown men.

The New Testament contains 263 direct quotes from the Old Testament and 370 allusions to the Old Testament. The pagan Catholic claim falsely that there are also quotes from the Apocrypha, but all they are is simply vague illusions and the inferences drawn on purpose to buttress their false claim. They know they need it to deceive, can't find it so musy make it up. There are no quotes from the Apocrypha in the New Testament.

Origen included it in his "hexapala":

From Dr. Jones book Which Version is the Bible?",
"Yet Origen’s fifth column includes the Old Testament Apocrypha. Vaticanus B and Sinaiticus include the Apocrypha as part of the text of the Old Testament.2 We are being told that Vaticanus is the most accurate Greek text which we have, but it includes the Apocrypha and Apocryphal books – none of which were canonized. Yet we are expected to accept Vaticanus B’s testimony as authoritative over hundreds of other Greek manuscripts.
Remember, Vaticanus B leaves out of the Book of Revelation “Mystery Babylon the Great”, “the seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman (harlot) sits”, and “the woman is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth”. What organized religious group would like to have such telling passages left out? It is not surprising that the book which so definitively and powerfully speaks of Christ Jesus’ Second Coming and Satan’s defeat should itself be the chief object of Satan’s attack."

We are about to be IN the book of Revelation's Great Tribulation, since we are currently living in the last, lukewarm, apostate church, the church at Laodicea. To leave that out because it exposes your false teachings is dishonesty. Darkness (The Roman Catholic Church) hates light, circumspection, inspection, questioning and exposure. Catholics are not allowed to question the "Catechism" in any way, but nut blindly obey it and leave it to the "Magisterium", in charge of the "Mysterium".

Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

THE CONTENTS AND ERRATA

-It only takes one, single, lonely error to disqualify the Apocrypha, whereas there are many
-The use of magic (Tobit 6:5-7). Tobit” was accidentally blinded by sparrow dung (2:10); he goes about with “Raphael”, an angel traveling incognito, who lies about his name, lineage, and identity (3:16–17, 5:4–5, 12, cp. 6:6). Azarias (Raphael’s assumed name) teaches that: the smoke derived from burning the heart and liver of a fish will repulse and/or exorcise demonic spirits (6:6–7, 16–17); a fish’s gall will heal blindness (6:8); and that alms (good works) “purge away all sins” (12:9)
- Exorcisms in Scripture are to be done in the Name and Power of the Name of Jesus Christ, as was personally witnessed by this author. No magic, no potions, no anything added or subtracted to that. Not necessary. It was how the apostles and siaciples did it.

"In the third book of Hermas (Similitude IX, verse 121–124) we are told by an Angel (the Shepherd) that no man can enter the kingdom of God unless he is clothed by the garments of the four virgin women mentioned in this similitude. Furthermore, these four women are called “the holy spirits” and their garments are their names. We are informed that it will avail a man nothing to only take up the name of the Son of God unless he also receives the garment of the four virgins as even the Son of God bears their names. "
This is in direct contradiction to the Word of God and is rank heresy.

- The book of Esdras teaches the lie that baptism saves the soul -Forgiveness by works (Tobit 4:11, 12:9)
-Money for the sins of the dead, as in R.C.C. indulgences (2 Maccabees 12:43)
-Historical Error: Nebuchadnezzar was called the king of the Assyrians (Judith 1:5), but he was the king of the Babylonians
-Historical Error: The Jews would be in captivity seven generations (Baruch 6:2), not seventy years()
-This list does not include internal and external contradictions

This list is partial and utterly disgusting. It is also why no Catholic is allowed to question it without being "Excommunicated".

Scripture/Christianity

The Scriptures

How did they get such power? They proclaimed that they had it given to them by God, only God never gave it to them, nor said He would nor said He did.

Pope Gregory XI wrote a "papal bull" called In Coena Domini" in 1372 A.D. which said that they had complete dominion and authority over all Christendom, the entire Christian World. Isn't that easy and nice? Now imagine how angry Jesus will be when He returns to judge her once and for all!

Add to that the fact that every single practice throughout all of her evil and wicked history was a bloody abomination against God and His people, both Israel and the true body of Christ, His Blood bought church-murdering them then as now, as often as they could, in "Catholic" countries to this day.

The R.C.C. is pretending that the word "church" as used in Scripture refers to the "Holy Mother Church" of Rome. The churches in the New Testament were local, small, independent bodies in homes and other buildings, just congregations of early believers meeting for prayer. fellowship and careful study of the Word of God.
The self declared "Holy Mother Church of Rome" is a massive religious, military and governmental organization/institution which has nothing to do with any local body of true believers, but rules over millions of other of its own little "churches". The theology is the same as "Iglesia ni Cristo", who try to claim salvation is only by an imagined unbroken succession to the early true church, specifically from the apostle Peter. True salvation is by grace through faith, repentance from one's sin and acceptance of the gospel as taught in the New Testament, not membership of a huge, worldwide, corrupt religious organization, claiming the sole way to salvation is through membership, indulgence$$$ and adherence to its rules and regulations. Search Leo 1,the first to declare primacy over the whole Christendom. Your "church" now is steeped in idolatry. It is a pagan religion like Hinduism, just with "Christian" usages of words and names. Read the Bible for yourself and you will see.

RO'MAN, a. [L. Romanus, from Roma, the principal city of the Romans in Italy. Rome is the oriental name Ramah, elevated, that is, a hill; for fortresses and towns were often placed on hills for security; Heb. to be high, to raise.]

Pertaining to Rome, or to the Roman people

THE NAME ALONE SAYS IT ALL: ERROR!

The name "Roman" and "Catholic" is a clear contradiction in and of itself. They have opposite meanings "ONLY OF THIS ONE CITY+ EVERYWHERE" at the same time.

RO'MAN, n.

A native of Rome

A citizen of Rome; one enjoying the privileges of a Roman citizen

CATHOLIC, a.

Universal or general

CATHOLIC, n. A papist.

According to the dictionary definition, the terms "Roman" "Catholic" are contradictions in terms, one meaning "From Rome" and the other meaning "Universal", as in not from Rome, but from everywhere.

The Roman Catholic Church may often be herein referred to as the "R.C.C."

The following study will contain a list of the major doctrines taught by the R.C.C. for the last around 1,700 years, since she was started under Constantine in 312 A.D. at the council of Nicea. Each will be compared to what the Word of God states on that doctrine, the Final Written Authority above the R.C.C. on all matters iof faith and practice, which they spent 1,000 years trying to destroy by torturing and murdering all carriers and translators they could find. And, yet, it survived them all and is perfectly preserved for us today, as prophesied. It was called TH E INQUISITION for a reason. it is why the Christians hid the Scriptures sewn in their clothing, between house boards and bricks, etc. God kept His Word despite the Roman Catholic Church

THE BIGGEST LIE: FINAL AUTHORITY

-We gave you the Bible"
-We (popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, nuns)are the final authority on the Bible"

-"You cannot interpret the Bible without the authority of "The Magisterium"" (R.C.C. hierarchy)

This is the same for all other cults also. This is the indication for any cult that it is a cult. There are no exceptions to this. All of these and all other claims are patently, uttterly false and they will kill you for resisting them. They have a long history of doing this.

Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

Jesus Himself taught us that we can live by that Word of God, not "but by every word of God-that is, according only to the interpretation of the Roman Catholic Magisterium". Jesus said "a man shall not live by bread alone", not "the rabbi, the priest, a pope, a bishop, a cardinal" or "only a man who follows one of these above reading it for themselves. No, it says and means a man, any man, mankind. It means you and means me.

Luke 4:4
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Psalms 1:1-2
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

The man, not "the rabbi, the priest, a pope, a bishop, a cardinal". No, the man, any man, mankind

Psalms 119:9-11
BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

A young man, not "the rabbi, the priest, a pope, a bishop, a cardinal". No, the man, any man, mankind
-God wants His Word of God available to ALL, not just "the self-declared initiate" who declare themselves the Final Authority
-One must understand that anyone who makes themself the Final Authority cannot be, by default. They are automatically eliminated by their claim. . Only God Himself can declare Himself the Final Authority on anything.

THEIR DARK HISTORY

When the Caesars lost their powers to rule the Roman empire, the popes were there to replace them, filling in and ruling over even more territory with more power. They did this in the Dark Ages, even more ruthlessly than the Caesars did. They invented or used ones in existence cruel tortures such as drawing and quartering, burning at the stake, the racks, the iron maidens (which was simply a standing, upright coffin lined with spikes designed to pierce a body without killing instantly, but slowly bleeding them out to the delight of the R.C.C. priests watching. Also used were the breaking wheel which had head and hands in stocks bludgeoning them in public for all to witness as a warning. Also there was the Thumbscrew, the "Heretick's Fork", pointed metal spike placed between the chin and chest to make sure they died either of lack of sleep or piercing themselves through to kill themselves. Add to that the Spanish Chair, the Brazen Bull (fire involved), water torture. The Pear of Anguish was a device placed into any outward body hole and then slowly expanded to torture them to death.

These were and are R.C.C. behaviors in all its glory, now not needed at all as much, but used if they want to (they have the power and self-declared right), because they have gained power and are slowly wearing down resistance by subtlety, lying, deceit, feigning Christianity, making deals with the devil in and behind all religions worldwide.

THE WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST

He carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
-Revelation 17:3

Jesus Christ said in John 18:36,
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Yet the popes have fought against Christ and His followers since it inception, bringing us into the Dark Ages with her cruel tortures of racks, scourges, drawings and quarterings by horses and teams of horses, many burnings at the stake, etc.

-The popes fought like no others all over Europe and elsewhere to build a HUGE Kingdom, unrivaled, worldwide one of confiscated, repossessed. stolen property (they invented property taxes), wealth, political influence, all the while claiming to be "The Bride of Christ"
-They have been in bed with evil throughout her history

-In recent times, they were aligned and supportive, even with money, of Mussolini, putting Mussolini into power, Pope Pious IX and his cardinals praising him as "A man chosen by God" and forbade Catholics to oppose him. They signed an accordance with him in 1929, which made Roman Catholicism the sole religion of Italy. In turn Mussolini gave the Vatican 750,000,000 lira and in cash and a billion in state bonds

This just in:

"Italy suspends defense agreement with Israel"

No surprise there. The pope, along with Islam, hates Israel. All popes always have, always will-until Jesus returns and wipes them all out who do not repent and believe.

The Vatican even helped Adolf Hitler in his lusty quest for power, using their money to start the Nazi Party. The Vatican made a similar concordat with Adolf Hitler as they did with Mussolini. For their loyalty, they received hundreds of millions of German marks from the Nazis. They worked even with Islam to murder Jews, as Mahmoud Abbas, who got his PhD, all of the time in denial of the Holocaust, along with Rahman Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (a.k.a. Yasser Arafat), who learned his Islam and open hatred of Jews from his revered uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini. This Muslim happily even worked with the pope and Hitler, along with Adolf Eichmann to slaughter six million Jews. Even today, the Muslims want to perpetuate their lies like the R.C.C. and say that Jesus "Jesus was the first Palestinian martyr" who was crucified for being a Muslim (??), so Jesus now has been thrown in with this bloodthirsty criminal gang. No, Jesus was a Jew, born uin Bethlehem.

This is undeniably "fornication with the kings of the earth" as spelled out in Revelation chapters 12-17.
-Jesus Christ not once joined any forces with Caesar, nor encouraged His disciples and followers to do that either. In fact, He asked them to follow HIM and not them.

Matthew 4:19
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Jesus taught us not to be of this world, like He Himself was not of this world. He created it and came to His people Israel on it, but wanted and wants nothing to do with this world's ways and will soon destroy them all.

John 8:23
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

He told us not to love this worlds systems, governments, goods, money. Obey? Yes. Support their evil? Never!
-Neither did the apostles, nor Peter, nor Paul
-All U.S. presidents in the last hundred or so years have also met with the pope and had political talks, agreements, etc .
-Alexander Haig, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, said, "The Vatican information was absolutely better than ours in every respect.". He meant their spies, technology, etc.
-The Vatican's White House Liasson Pio Laghi insisted that Americans "Listen to the Holy Father; we have two thousand years experience in this"

That is, 1,700 years of political intrigue she is proud of being the clever master

Supporting bloodshed with money and military is not what Jesus told us to do.
-Mikhail Gorbachev called the pope, "The highest spiritual authority on earth". He continued, "Pope John Paul II played a major role ib the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe...the events in Eastern Europe might not have been possible without the presence of this pope, without the great role...which he knew how to play on the world scene."
-No possible way for that praise to be thrust, heaped upon Jesus Christ or His apostles, disciples by such an atheistic mass murderer as Gorbachev, disciples who literally turned the world upside down with the Gospel"

Acts 17:6-7
And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
These were all martyred by that same worldly power (the Caesars) to do so, like the bloodthirsty popes, now combined with the Muslims to do the same to both Christians and Jews.

It must be understood that, after the Caesars lost their power, eventually, th popes ruled in their place and now have even more world power, with empires connecting all parts, all religions, all givermnents, electronically, militarily, etc.

-The pope John Paul met with Yasser Arafat,
-Pope Gregory XI in 1372, in "Coeni Domini"claimed papal dominion over the entire Christian world. This included both secular and religions power.
-All of these popes "excommunicated" all who failed to obey these popes, and pay them their taxes, confiscating property, making them even today the largest wealthy body on earth and how they got their trillions in gold. Keeping power also by making martyrs of them cruelly with their evil intentions and inventions.
-1568: Pope Pious V swore "this is to remain an eternal law"
-Pope Alexander VI drew a north-south meridian down the map of that day and declared "in the Name of Christ, (Who "possessed nothing" on this earth but His torn robes at His Crucifixion) ,

Gave the eastern side of that line, Africa, India and Asia to Portugal and, since Brazil sticks out to the west, which is why Brazil speaks Portuguese and not Spanish. He further gave the "newly discovered America" on the western side of that line to Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, which is why Spanish is so prevalent in Mexico, Central, North and South America.

This was all done without the authority from God, but taken and declared by Rome herself, and on the condition that all inhabitants join the Roman Catholic "church" and pay taxes to her and her "popes"
-If you did not notice or know, all Central and South American countries are still "Catholic" countries.
-The November 1, 1954" The "Second Vatican Council, Lumen gentium", declared, "the Catholic Church xeaselessly and efficaciously seeks for the return of all humanity and its good under Christ" (that is, under the Vatican rule, power and control). That has kept that dominance to this day.
-They continue empire building still,
-Pope Alexander II declared Harold, the lawful king of England, was a usurper, so he excommunicated him and gave the throne to William, Duke of Normandy, becoming William the Conqueror who killed Harold and was crowned in London on Christmas Day in 1066. He accepted the crown, "In the name of the Holy See."
-Do you not "See" how these "popes" are evil yet?
-All of this is a tiny amount of all of the other evil and wicked sins, acts of the Roman Catholic "Church" which is described in Revelation
-A city on seven hills, mountains, called "Babylon" in her own words, which reigns over the kings of the earth, which committed spiritual fornication with the kings of the earth, drunk with the Blood of Martyrs, clothed in Scarlet, etc.
-No other city can even come close to comparing to this abomination in God's Eyes
- 1 Peter 5:13
The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
-Find the PDF file online for "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop and you will discover how Rome has been "Mystery Babylon" for thousands of years, coopying everything it can from ancient Babylon.
-Ancient Babylon's tower was designed and built "to reach heaven" and was the site of the world's first one world language, first one world religion

Genesis 11: 1-9
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
-There is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9

Ecclesiastes 1:9
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
-Babylon Is The Code Name Of Rome, always gas been and the people in the days when John wrote Revelation knew this full well, even though the R.C.C. did not yet even exist until three hundred years after.
-John uses each time he writes in Revelation, "Babylon", he calls it either "Babylon The Great" or "that Great city Babylon"
-Mystery is also part of their name, and their false doctrines are hidden from view in their "Mysterium"
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DANIEL'S VISION OF A STATUE, WORLD HISTORY: DANIEL 2

A PREFACE:

Daniel 2:20-21
Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

It must be said that all of history is what God wills it to be and these earthly kingdoms He declares and He will one day destroy them for their wickedness when Jesus Christ returns to earth. The vision Daniel saw is those kingdoms from his day until that time. We are currently at the bottom of that image, near the toes. The vision Daniel saw and interpreted for King Nebuchadnezzar was from then until now, the latter days. He even told the King, Nebuchadnezzar, that God Himself set Nebuchadnezzar up in power. Then he told him about his eventual, humiliating downfall, which was fulfilled.

If you read all of Daniel chapter four, written by King Nebuchadnezzar himself, Daniel 4:1-27, you will see that -Nebuchadnezzar has a dream of a tree, eventually hewn down
-No one but Daniel can tell him the dream's interpretation
-Daniel tells the king that his kingdom was given by God and that it is about to be taken from him
-He also tells the king that God will humble him and make him eat grass as an ox and his hair would be like feathers, etc.
-In a moment, God fulfilled this, humbling Nebuchadnezzar
-This made him humble enough to give glory to God
-God said it, then it happened, very quickly.

Daniel 2:37
Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

"LET ME TELL YOU..."

Dainel 2:27-29
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.

-Head of Gold-The then Babylonian Kingdom under Nebuchadnezzar, conquered by the Medo-Persians, who did not destroy Babylon (Babylon ruled from 606-539 B.C.), Babylon was the secondary capital
-The next one down was silver, representing the Medo-Persian Empire-Cyrus, (of mixed parents, Persian and Mede) the "Persian Empire", who conquered, but did not destroy it, made Babylon its secondary capital. (539-332 B.C.) representing the Medo-Persian empire
-The next section down was of Brass-representing the Greek Empire-Alexander the Great, who conquered the Persians (kingdom was later divided by four generals (July 356 – June 323 BC). His four generals divided it up after he died a young man, having had nothing left to conquer. This is the 400 silent year period, more or less. According to Josephus, Alexander was shown the book of Daniel's prophecy, presumably chapter 8, which described a mighty Greek king who would conquer the Persian Empire. He instead then proceeded to spare Jerusalem and pushed south, conquering his way into Egypt.
-The next section down was of of Iron, representing the Roman Empire
-This part is of two legs, representing two empires, one gone, the ancient Roman Empire, the one not conquered, never succeeded by any other, and the other being the revived Roman Empire-and that is today
-Further these two legs represent a split of east and west, the east being Byzantium, the west being Rome
-In 1,054 A.D., pope Leo IX excommunicated Michael I Cerularius, the patriarch of Constantinople, then a split between Roman Catholicism in the west, Eastern and Russian Orthodoxy in the east. In the 90s, the fighting was between the Serbians (Orthodox), Croatians (Catholics), Bosnians (Muslims) , fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina
-The next one down was both of iron and of clay, representing the Roman Empire as a divided kingdom. The ancient Roman Empire (68 B.C.)-was split up, crumbled from within never conquered, now being revived in the last days

As an aside, in 1941, fascists (Ustaše) told the Serbian Orthodox believers "convert to Catholicism or die". They then slaughtered about one million Serbian Orthodox over time in some of the most sadistic and evil murders in history ever witnessed, all done with priests and bishops in military uniforms, right there, as witnesses who blessed this mass murder.

After the war, using the secret "ratlines", which is a military term for secret smuggling and escape routes, and the Vatican smuggled many tens of thousands Nazi leaders to South America to hide, and that is where they captured Adolf Eichmann. The Nazis went first through the Alps to Italy to then be smuggled further to South America. The smuggling was greatly assisted by then Argentine President Juan Peron and a cohort, Argentine Cardinal Antonio Caggiano. This is where many Nazis hid after the war. Ante Pavelić, the head of the Ustaše, hid in the Vatican for two years disguised as a Catholic priest. He later wound up as the security advosir to Juan Peron, evil dictator of Argentina, (October 1895 - 1 July 1974).

-We are in those last days now and the popes have been very actively, for many decades. trying to unite all religions worldwide, claiming to be Christianity ever since it was stated under Constantine.

see Roman Catholicism

THE CONCLUSION OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE IMAGE

There can only be one conclusion from such a detailed image Nebuchadnezzar saw and God gave him, and fulfilled. Prophecy proves the existence of God. All of these kingdoms came to pass and the last one IS in fact being revived today under the popes of Rome. That is now recorded news for centuries, more and more fulfillment daily. They are intent, expressly in their own words, on several targets, goals which fulfill Daniel and Revelation, two companion books:

-Absolute world domination
-Uniting all religions
-Bringing in their own earthly kingdom, represented by their official colors of scarlet and purple, exactly the colors

Revelation 17:4
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:

-This is why the popes are called, "vicars of Christ", vicar meaning "replacement"
-330 A.D. Constantinople moved the capital to Istanbul in the east. He left the popes in charge of the west.
-1,066 A.D. the pope split it again the east getting the west for Catholicism and the east for Russian orthodoxy. This is the part of the stature that has TWO legs and not one abdomen.

THE FEET ARE BROKEN-WHAT HAPPENS TO A STATUE OF BROKEN FEET?

THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE: THAT IS NOW

Rome has this exact representation today and always has, of the woman in Revelation 17 riding the beast (anti-Christ)

POPISH POWER AND DOMINATION

It must be understood that the popes in that day had overt power, visible to all, to rewrite maps and decide kingdoms. They have more poeer now, but it is covert, subtle like the serpent, showing itself when world leaders go "hat in hand" to the popes to meet and ask for things and bow down to him. Thios is recorded history, now with videos.

Roman Catholic Claim

Final Authority: The "Mother" Roman Catholic Church, the Pope, Ten Commandments(altered by R.C.C.) the Catechism, papal bulls, decrees and orders only by Roman Catholic Church, as well as only their interpretation of Scripture. Even when they make believe that the Scriptures are the Final Authority, what they mean by Scriptures is the corrupt R.C.C. scriptures, interpreted by their leaders only, which helps them retain their self-proclaimed authority.

Scripture/Christianity

Final Authority: The Scriptures alone

(Psalms 138:2 [KJV])
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

One cannot worship men, and one knows the Name of God shall not be taken in vain. How much more is the WORD of God important TO God? This verse says it all.

(2 Peter 1:20)
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

(Proverbs 30:5-6)
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Deuteronomy 8:3)
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

(Matthew 4:4)
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

(Luke 4:4)
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

(Romans 14:5)
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

(Acts 17:10-12)
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

In other words, we are to live our spiritual lives by the Scriptures only, not by anything that ANY church or "church" or "pope", or anyone, else says. They are all we need. One does not just get to name themselves as the Final Authority in matters of God. Only God gets to, and there is no indication He did. We also are able to understand the Scriptures without the R.C.C. (Romans 14:5).

Roman Catholic Claim

"The Scriptures are what we say they are, and they must include the "Apocrypha" and you must believe it has as much weight as God's Word-BECAUSE WE SAID SO!

THE APOCRYPHA

-It only takes one, single, lonely error to disqualify the Apocrypha, whereas there are many
-The use of magic (Tobit 6:5-7)
-Forgiveness by works (Tobit 4:11, 12:9)
-Money for the sins of the dead, as in R.C.C. indulgences (2 Maccabees 12:43)
-Historical Error: Nebuchadnezzar was called the king of the Assyrians (Judith 1:5), but he was the king of the Babylonians
-Historical Error: The Jews would be in captivity seven generations (Baruch 6:2), not seventy years()
-This list does not include internal and external contradictions

Scripture/Christianity

The Scriptures

Roman Catholic Claim:

One must always pledge full, unequivocal, absolute and unquestioned allegiance to the R.C.C.

Scripture/Christianity:

Jesus commanded us to follow Him and Him alone.

There are hundreds of verses in the New Testament, many more in the Old Testament, which clearly state that Jesus wants us to follow Him and only Him, and that people who were believers did just that. Not one time did Jesus stop anyone who genuinely wanted to or followed Him. No mention is ever made of any future "popes" who demand people follow them at all, ever. Here are just some of those verses.

(Matthew 4:19)
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

(Matthew 4:20)
And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

(Matthew 4:22)
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

(Matthew 4:25)
And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.

(Matthew 8:1)
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

(Matthew 8:22-23)
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.

(Matthew 9:9)
And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

(Matthew 16:24)
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

(Matthew 19:21)
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

(Mark 2:14)
And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

(Mark 8:34)
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

(Mark 10:21)
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

(Luke 5:27)
And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.

(Luke 9:23)
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

(Luke 9:59)
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

(Luke 18:22)
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

(John 1:43)
The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.

(John 10:27)
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

(John 12:26)
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

(John 13:36)
Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.

(John 21:19)
This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.

(John 5:39)
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

(1 Corinthians 11:1-3)
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

(Philippians 3:17)
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

(1 Thessalonians 1:6)
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

(1 Peter 2:21)
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

(Revelation 14:4)
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

FOLLOW GODLY MEN WHO FOLLOW GOD

When two people or more walk single file down a path, they are following the leader. This is not the same as following Christ, who asks us to give up our entire lives to follow Him, not just walk down to the river or the store or to "Grandmother's House"!
Following godly men who only follow Christ and His teaching means suffering, persecution, hardships in this life, and it means being discipled. Following ungodly men who follow themselves and their church is unscriptural and downright evil. Paul and all of the other apostles suffered greatly and bore it willingly, which is why they were examples to follow. But none of them expected the same allegiance to themselves as they did to Christ, as they pointed out that way only to Christ, not to themselves. It is called discipling, still done today. The R.C.C. is different, demanding an allegiance to "The Mother Church" (the R.C.C. is not your mother). They demand an unmerited, always faithful, unchallenging following, no matter what they say or do, or have done (with no apology) as though the R.C.C. represents God Himself on earth.

(1 Corinthians 4:16)
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

(Philippians 3:17)
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

(1 Thessalonians 1:6)
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

(2 Thessalonians 3:7)
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

(2 Thessalonians 3:9)
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

(Hebrews 6:12)
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

(Hebrews 13:7)
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

The Bereans

(Acts 17:11)
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(Galatians 1:8-9)
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Roman Catholic Claim:

"Mary stands at the right hand of her only begotten Son"

When one enters into pretty much any Catholic church anywhere on earth, they often see an image of "Our Lady" (the R.C.C. "Mary") on the left side of the Jesus and another image of "St. Joseph" on the right side. In an effort to APPEAR to b biblical, the R.C.C. claims that this is from the Old Testament tradition of, from the perspective of the the king's mother to be on the king's left and the king's father on the right side of the king."

This is clearly how "Mary" replaces Jesus as the Saviour in the minds of catholics:

JESUS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD

To add to that from Scrupture only, who stands at HIS left Hand and HIS right Hand is determined by God and Jesus did not declare it. By the same "eligibikity" claimed by the R.C.C., you and I can claim WE sit there when we die. If Mary and Joseph were them, that sort of important thing would have been stated and recorded n Scripture. But ,like nearly all of the R.C.C. claims and practices, it is not, making it a false claim, rank heresy. Jesus Christ the Messiah of Israel sits at the Right Hand of God, not any person Who is not Jesus Christ.

Matthew 20:23
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. Matthew 22:44
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

Matthew 26:64
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Luke 20:42
And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

Luke 22:69
Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.

Mark 16:19
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

Romans 8:34
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Ephesians 1:20
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Psalms 110:1
(A Psalm of David.) The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Acts 2:24-25
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

Acts 2:34
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

Colossians 3:1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Hebrews 1:13
But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

1 Peter 3:22
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Important to note here: No mention of Mary or Joseph sitting on His right Hand or His left. Kind of an important detail for the R.C.C. to call Mary and Joseph to be the ones who sit there now, when God is the One Who determines that and somehow left that out of His Word that they claim they are above. Also, the answer to the question posed in Hebrews 1:13 above is "none". So, if God asked no angels such as Michael or Gabriel to sit on His right hand or on His left hand, then he most certainly did not askm invite, request,command or even allow Mary and Joseph!

Lastly, Jesus STOOD UP to receive Stephen, not Mary or Joseph when Stephen was martyred, as recorded in Acts:

Acts 7:55
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

This does not make a queen mother "the Queen of Heaven". they further claim along this line,

"Pope Pius X confirmed this R.C.c. tradition in his edict called "Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum", dcmaiming and declaring that “Mary is seated at the right hand of her Son”
Along with this tradition, it is also a tradition to call the left side of the churches “gospel side”. Mary, according to their tradition, is called "The New Eve", a title made up by the R.C.C. and found no where in God's Word, nor would God call her that. They further falsely claim that their "Mary" played a key role in our Salvation." .

In Scripture, we have:

1 Corinthians 15:45:
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

So we see a first Adam who fell, the last Adam Who saved us from that fall by offering grace through His Blood shed on the Cross for us, in our stead.

One can never escape the worship of "Mary" as "the Queen of Heaven", called that by all popes for hundreds of years. She is the one who claims to "sit as a queen and am no widos of Revelation" whose "church" this Mystery Babylon and mother of harlots in Revelation will be utterly destroeyed by Jesus Christ at His Second Coming. This is undeniable and even they today do not ever deny that this is what they claim and who they are. They rely on that and Roman Catholics are not allowed to even question it.

Roman Catholic Claim:

The "Ten Commandments" are as the R.C.C. states them

Scripture/Christianity

(Exodus 34:28)
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

(Deuteronomy 4:13)
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

(Deuteronomy 10:4)
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

As will be clearly shown here, the commandment not to make graven images and idols is removed, so that they can make statues to "saints", statues to pagan gods, gold crosses, marble and granite angels, etc. without violating their "Ten Commandments" which are not God's Ten Commandments. This removal of the second would be easily detectable if they did not alter the last one by splitting it into two commandments, making one extra to leave it at ten, thereby making it appear unaltered.

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This Table Shows the Difference in the R.C.C. Ten Commandments and the real ones from the Scriptures

KJV Bible

Catholic Bible

COMMANDMENT #1:
Exodus 20:2-3
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

COMMANDMENT #1:
Exodus 20:2-3
I am the Lord your God; you shall have no other gods before me. (REST REMOVED)

COMMANDMENT #2:
Exodus 20:4-6
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my Commandments.

COMMANDMENT #2:
Exodus 20:4-6
REMOVED

The second Commandment has been deleted or sometimes it has been added into the first. Thus, the remaining commandments are moved numerically one number, the last commandment then split into two to hide the omission.

COMMANDMENT #3:
Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God In vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

COMMANDMENT #2:
Exodus 20:7
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

COMMANDMENT #4
Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

COMMANDMENT #3
Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

COMMANDMENT #5
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

COMMANDMENT #4
Honor your father and your mother.

COMMANDMENT #6
Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.

COMMANDMENT #5
Exodus 20:13
You shall not kill.

COMMANDMENT #7
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

COMMANDMENT #6
You shall not commit adultery.

COMMANDMENT #8
Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.

COMMANDMENT #7 Exodus 20:15
You shall not steal.

COMMANDMENT #9
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

COMMANDMENT #8
Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

COMMANDMENT #10
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

COMMANDMENT #9 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.

TEN COMMANDMENTS OVER

COMMANDMENT #10 You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

Roman Catholic Claim

The Pope is Infallible When He Speaks Ex Cathedra

Scripture/Christianity

All men are liars, sinners, no exceptions

(Romans 3:4)
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

(Romans 3:23)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

(Isaiah 53:6)
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
(Romans 5:8)
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(Jeremiah 17:9)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

THE PROBLEM OF PETER

Roman Catholic Claim

The Pope is the head of the Church, in unbroken succession from Peter

Scripture/Christianity

Jesus Christ is the ONLY Head of the body of Christ, the Church

It must be noted that, if Peter were ever a pope at all, both he and Jesus would have certainly told us such an important thing if Jesus wanted us to follow Peter and not Himself, the LORD.

(1 Peter 2:6-7)
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
(Matthew 21:42)
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
(Acts 4:10-11)
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

(Ephesians 1:20-22)
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
(Ephesians 5:23-24)
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

(1 Corinthians 3:11)
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

(Colossians 1:18)
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

The Strange Case of Peter "The Rock" and Satan

(Matthew 16:13-21)
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Knowing that the context of any one word or verse of Scripture determines its meaning, we can see an opportunity to both take a verse out of its context and deliberately misinterpret it for personal gain here"

God is THE TRUE ROCK

"Proof is all there just look at the succession of popes leading back to Peter it's on record.. "

(Matthew 16:18)
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The Rock of Living Waters

(Exodus 17:6)
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

(Numbers 20:8)
Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

(Numbers 20:10)
And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

(Numbers 20:11)
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

(Deuteronomy 8:15)
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

(Nehemiah 9:15)
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

(Job 28:10)
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

(Psalms 78:15)
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

(Psalms 78:16)
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

(Psalms 78:20)
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

(Psalms 81:16)
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

(Psalms 105:41)
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

(Psalms 114:8)
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

(Isaiah 48:21)
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

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Christ the Rock as Foundational to the House of God

(Matthew 7:24-25)
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

(Luke 6:48)
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

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(2 Thessalonians 2:3)
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Scripture/Christianity

No other apostle looked at Peter as the head of anything

(Luke 22:24-26)
¶ And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

This hardly represents any R.C.C. official, certainly not the pope, who lives in luxury in a massive palace, hundreds of servants, surrounded by high walls, collecting money from every corner of the world.

Scripture/Christianity

Peter's Name Cephas means "Stone", not "Rock"

(John 1:42)
And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

Peter HIMSELF Called Jesus the Rock Upon Which the Church Was Founded

Not only that, but Peter also called us Christians "lively stones".

(1 Peter 2:3-8)
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

(1 Corinthians 10:1)
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

As did the Apostle Paul

(Ephesians 1:20-22)
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Scripture/Christianity

Jesus Rebuked Peter for his unbelief of God's Plan and rejection of the death of the Messiah

(Matthew 16:23)
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

(Mark 8:33)
But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

Peter: No Evidence He Was Ever Even In Rome

From all of church recorded history and archaeology, there is not one indication that Peter was ever in Rome, and recorded history does say that he was killed, being crucified upside down........in JERUSALEM.

(1 Peter 5:13)
The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.

Galatians 1:18)
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Roman Catholic Claim:

Peter is Pope because Jesus gave him the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven

(Matthew 16:19)
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
This verse is wrested from Scripture out of its context, twisted and tortured in order to make the case that Peter was a pope.
God also gave the keys to the kingdom to Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

(Isaiah 22:20-22)
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Scripture/Christianity

(Matthew 18:18)
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Here we see that the exact same powers were given to the other apostles...

(Revelation 1:18)
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

Here we see that Jesus has the keys, not Peter. Jesus Christ living in the believers makes them also have the keys to the Kingdom, as we are given the Gospel to preach to the lost is all that it means, nothing more.

Paul Rebuked Peter Openly, Personally

(Galatians 2:11-17)
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Paul Never Mentions Peter In Romans Salutation

(Romans 16:1)
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. Salute Apelles approved in Christ.
Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them. Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

About thirty parties, as in individuals and groups...and NO MENTION OF THE IMAGINED "POPE" PETER!

In fact, if one was "of Peter the Pope", then Paul said they also "were of Paul, the pope". In fact, in Galatians 2:9, it would seem that James and John were also "popes" as Paul called them "pillars" of the Church as well as Peter (Cephas).

(Galatians 2:9)
And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

(1 Corinthians 1:12)
Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

(1 Corinthians 3:22)
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

(1 Corinthians 9:5)
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Here we see Peter listed in second place and third place...not preeminent, not a pope. Today with the arrogance and intense pride of the popes, this would never happen! Peter was a man. In 1 Corinthians chapter nine and verse five, Paul even lists the apostles, then the brethren, then Peter dead last! This is a pope?

Peter Was a Married Man

(1 Corinthians 9:5)
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

(Matthew 8:14)
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.

(Mark 1:30)
But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.

(Luke 4:38)
And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.

Peter Lorded Over No One

(1 Peter 5:1-4)
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

THE REAL POPES

History shows a complete confusion of the list of Popes, each contradicting the other. The fact is, the Roman Catholic Religion started under Constantine, as he needed to get the Christians on his side for war, so he formed an institutional, formal, governmental religious system, the Roman Catholic Church.

(1 Peter 5:1)
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

Paul told people three times to follow him as he followed Christ, not Peter

(1 Corinthians 4:16)
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

(1 Corinthians 11:1)
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

(Philippians 3:17)
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

REVELATION 17: THE WHORE

Revelation Chapter 17

Mystery Babylon: The Religious Side

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

It was a CITY and a TOWER, not a TOWER and a CITY or just a tower in a city. Ancient Babylon had a tower, but it was not just a tower, but they were building a city to reach heaven". This is the ultimate works salvation of stairs, steps to climb into heaven. This was the first One World Religion started by Nimrod and that spirit of controlling the whole earth continues today, alive and well in Roman Catholicism, Vatican City and the popes. Whether they build a tower there or now, they have to be the city.

"LET ME TELL YOU..."

-This part is of two legs, representing two empires, one gone, the ancient Roman Empire, the one not conquered, never succeeded by any other, andthe other the revived Roman Empire- and that is today

-Further these two legs represent a split of east and west, the east being Byzantium, the west being Rome
-In 1,054 A.D., pope Leo IX excommunicated Michael I Cerularius, the patriarch of Constantople, then a split between Roman Catholicism in the west, Eastern and Russian Orthodoxy in the east. In the 90s, the fighting was between the Serbians (Orthodox), Croatians (Catholics), Bosnians (Muslims) , fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina
-The next one down was both of iron and of clay, representing the Roman Empire as a divided kingdom. The ancient Roman Empire (68 B.C.)-was split up, crumbled from within never conquered, now being revived in the last days

After the war, using the secret "ratlines", which is a military term for secret smuggling and escape routes, and the Vatican smuggled many tens of thousands Nazi leaders to South America to hide, and that is where they captured Adolf Eichmann. They Nazis went first through the Alps to Italy to then be smuggled further to South America. The smuggling was greatly assisted by then Argentine President Juan Peron and a cohort, Argentine Cardinal Antonio Caggiano. This is where many Nazis hid after the war. Ante Pavelić, the head of the Ustaše, hid in the Vatican for two years disguised as a Catholic priest. He later wound up as the security advosir to Juan Peron, evil dictator of Argentina, (October 1895 - 1 July 1974).

-We are in those last days now and the popes have been very actively, for many decades. trying to unite all religions worldwide, claiming to be Christianity since it was stated under Constantine. (Revelation 17:1 )
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: -Israel committed spiritual idolatry, but it is not possible for this to be Israel
-The many waters are many peoples, two billion plus people worldwide (v. 15). Now add the leaders of all of the world and that is six billion plus.
-The Gentiles committed spiritual idolatry, but this is not the Gentiles
-The True Churches have in part always committed spiritual idolatry, but this is not the true Church
-The entire description and context can only make it mean one thing: Rome and Romanism
WHORE, n. Hore. [G. The correct orthography is hore.] A harlot; a courtesan; a concubine; a prostitute.
WHORE, v.i. [supra.] To have unlawful sexual commerce; to practice lewdness.
WHORE, v.t. To corrupt by lewd intercourse. [Little used.]

SEE ALEXANDER HISLOP: THE TWO BABYLONS

SEE A WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST

SEE GLOBAL PEACE AND THE RISE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST

1. City States.

Did the world wars, revolutions and big events of human history happen naturally, or coincidentally, or were they calculated and pre-planned? If they were pre planned, who planned them?

The answer to this question can be found within the boundaries of 3 of the worlds most powerful cities. Those 3 cities belong to no nation and pay no taxes. They are

Washington's District of Columbia, which is not part of the City of Washington or the US. The inner city of London, which is not part of London or England, and Vatican City, which is not part of Rome or Italy.

These cities, called City States, have their own independent flag, their own separate laws and their own separate identity.

2. Vatican City

Gracing the walls of St Peter's Basilica is the Vatican-approved image of God, depicted as an angry bearded man in the sky, and painted by Michael Angelo. Cruel/violent images of God's tortured son, suffering, bleeding and dying with thorns gouged through his skull/nails pounded through his feet and hands are on display throughout the Vatican. These images serve as reminders that God allowed his son to be tortured and killed to save the souls of human beings who are all born sinners.

The Vatican rules over approximately 2 billion of the worlds 6.2 billion people. The colossal wealth of the Vatican includes enormous investments with the Rothschilds in Britain, France, USA, with giant oil and weapons corporations like Shell and General Electric. The Vatican's solid gold bullion, worth trillions, is stored with the Rothschild controlled Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve Bank.

The Catholic Church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence, possessing more material wealth than any bank, corporation, giant trust or government anywhere on the globe.

While 2/3 of the world earns less than $2 a day and 1/5 of the world is underfed or starving to death, the Vatican hoards the world's wealth, profits from it on the stock market and at the same time preaches about giving.

So how did the Vatican accumulate all that wealth over the millennia? One method was to put a price tag on sin. Many bishops and popes actively marketed guilt, sin and fear for profit, by selling indulgences. Worshippers were encouraged to pre-pay for sins they hadn't yet committed and get pardoned ahead of time. Those who didn't pay-up risked eternal damnation. Another method was to get wealthy land owners to hand-over their land/fortune to the church on their death bed, in exchange for a blessing which would supposedly enable them to go to heaven.

Pope Leo the fifth rebuilt St Peter's Basilica, by selling tickets out of hell and tickets to heaven.

During the dark ages, the Catholic Church not only hoarded the wealth they collected from the poor, but they hoarded knowledge. They kept the masses ignorant and in the dark by denying them a basic education. They also prohibited anyone from reading or even possessing a Bible, under pain of death.

Between 1095-1291 AD the Pope launched 7 blood baths called the Christian Crusaides, torturing, murdering, beheading and mass murdering hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Jews in the name of God. The Pope's brutal soldiers were called Knights Templar or Knights of the Temple of Solomon and evolved into today's secretive brotherhood called the Freemasons.

Between 1450-1700 AD the Catholic Church followed up their holy terror with the inquisition. Based on rumours of practicing witchcraft, the Catholic Church hunted down, tortured and burned-alive 10's of 1000's of innocent women at the stake.

During WWII the Vatican was criticized for supporting Hitler and his Nazi regime. To this day, the Vatican is still under investigation for plundering Nazi gold from the Swiss bank accounts of Jewish holocaust victims.

Over the past 5 decades more than 1,500 priests and bishops have been identified in the sexual assault of tens of thousands of boys and girls in their trusting congregations and orphanages.

Why is the filthy rich institution preaching spiritual values of poverty and chastity while cardinals, bishops and priests cover-up their crimes of sexual abuse? Why has the church fought and resisted the compensation claims of their sexually, emotionally and spiritually traumatised victims?

3. The City of London.

Like Vatican city, London's inner city is also a privately owned corporation or city state, located right in the middle of greater London. It became a sovereign state in 1694 when King William III of Orange privatised and turned the Bank of England over to the bankers. Today, the City State of London is the world's financial power centre and the wealthiest square mile on the face of the Earth. It houses the Rothschild controlled Bank of England, Lloyds of London, the London stock exchange, all British banks, the branch offices of 385 foreign banks and 70 US banks. It has its own courts, its own laws, its own flag and its own police force. It is not part of greater London, or England, or the British Commonwealth and pays no taxes. The City State of London houses Fleet Street's newspaper and publishing monopolies. It is also the headquarters for world wide English Freemasonry and headquarters for the world wide money cartel known as The Crown.

Contrary to popular belief, The Crown is not the Royal Family or the British Monarch. The Crown is the private corporate City State of London. It has a council of 12 members who rule the corporation under a mayor, called the Lord Mayor. The Lord mayor and his 12 member council serves as proxies or representatives who sit-in for13 of the worlds wealthiest, most powerful banking families, including the Rothschild family, the Warburg family, the Oppenheimer family and the Schiff family. These families and their descendants run the Crown Corporation of London.

The Crown Corporation holds the title to world wide Crown land in Crown colonies like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. British parliament and the British prime minister serve as a public front for the hidden power of these ruling crown families.

4. The District of Columbia.

Like the City States of London and the Vatican, a third city state was officially created in 1982. That city state is called the District of Columbia and is located on 10sq miles of land in the heart of Washington. The District of Columbia flies its own flag and has its own independent constitution.

The constitution for the District of Columbia operates under a tyrannical Roman law known as Lex Fori, which bares no resemblance to the US Constitution. When Congress passed the act of 1871 it created a separate corporation known as THE UNITED STATES and corporate government for the District of Columbia. This treasonous act allowed the District of Columbia to operate as a corporation outside the original constitution of the United States and outside of the best interests of American Citizens.

Although geographically separate, the city states of London, the Vatican and the District of Columbia are one interlocking empire called Empire of the City.

The flag of Washington's district of Columbia has 3 red stars. One for each city state in the 3 city empire. This corporate empire of 3 city states controls the world economically, through London's inner city, militarily through the District of Columbia and spiritually through the Vatican.

5. The U.S.A. - A Crown Colony.

A sobering study of the signed treaties and charters between Britain and the US exposes a shocking truth. The US has always been and still is a British Crown colony.

King James I was famous not for just translating the Bible into the King James version. But for signing the first charter of Virginia in 1606. That charter granted America's British forefathers a licence to settle and colonise America. The charter also guaranteed that future Kings/Queens of England would have sovereign authority over all citizens and colonised land in America, stolen from the Indians.

After America declared its independence from Great Britain, the Treaty of 1783 was signed. That treaty specifically identifies the King of England as the Prince of the United States and contradicts the belief that America won the War of Independence.

Although King George III of England gave up most of his claims over American colonies, he kept his right to continue receiving payment for his business venture of colonising America.

If America had really won the War of Independence, they would never have agreed to pay debts and reparations to the King of England.

America's blood soaked War of Independence against the British bankrupted America and turned its citizens into permanent debt slaves of the King. In the War of 1812, the British torched and burned to the ground the Whitehouse and all US government buildings. Destroying ratification records of the US constitution.

Most US citizens believe that the US is a country and the President is the most powerful man on earth. The US is not a country. It is a corporation. And the president is President of the Corporation of the United States. He and his elected officials work for the corporation, not for the American people. Since the US is a corporation, who owns the corporation of the United States?

Like Canada and Australia whose leaders are Prime Ministers of the Queen and whose land is called Crown Land, the US is just another crown colony. Crown colonies are controlled by the Empire of the 3 City States.

6. Obelisks

At the centre of each city state is a towering phallic shaped stone monument called an obelisk that points skyward. In DC city state, the obelisk known as the Washington monument was dedicated to the Freemason George Washington by the Freemason Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia. 250 Masonic lodges financed the Washington obelisk monument, including the Knights Templar Masonic order.

At the heart of London City State, is a 187 ton 69 foot tall Egyptian obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle. It was transported from Egypt and erected on the banks of the river Thames.

In Vatican city, another Egyptian obelisk towers high above St Peter's square.

Obelisks are phallic shaped monuments honouring the pagan sun god of ancient Egypt called Amen Ra. The spirit of this pagan god is said to reside within the obelisk

(Revelation 17:2 )
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.
-The kings of the earth love the queen very much
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Heaven
(Jeremiah 7:18 )
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN
(Jeremiah 44:17-19 )
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

The Roman Catholic "church" calls Mary "The Queen of Heaven". They burn incense to her and claim that is Biblical, Christian. Most of the world falls for it which includes Christians who want to unite with that Whore in Revelation. So many problems with that old paganism from the days of Babylon and forward to today. They also call Mary the mother of Jesus "The fourth person in the Trinity!" (which makes it a "quaternity". There are several problems with this religious idea, this paganism

Nov 4, 2025:

Pope Leo Leo XIV changes the above to:

"Mary, mother of Jesus and all believers, is not co-redeemer, Vatican says"
further, later...

In a release below, called "Mater Populi Fidelis”, or "MPF",
"VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While praising devotion to Mary, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith firmly rejected moves to formally proclaim Mary as "co-redemptrix" or "co-mediatrix."
In a lengthy doctrinal note titled "Mater Populi Fidelis" ("Mother of the Faithful People of God"), the dicastery said the title co-redemptrix or co-redeemer "carries the risk of eclipsing the exclusive role of Jesus Christ" in salvation.
And, regarding the title co-mediatrix or co-mediator, it said that Mary, "the first redeemed, could not have been the mediatrix of the grace that she herself received."
However, it said, the title may be used when it does not cast doubt on "the unique mediation of Jesus Christ, true God and true man."
“Mater Populi Fidelis”, MPF, (“Mother of the Faithful People of God”) on Mary’s cooperation in the work of salvation, at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome Nov. 4, 2025.
Pope Leo XIV approved the text Oct. 7 and ordered its publication, said the note, which was released Nov. 4. "

..."No longer to refer to Mary as the Co-Redemtrix, but rather "Mother of the Faithful" "

According to leading Vatican scholar ,"This is not an absolute prohibition against the use of the words "Co-Mediatrix" and Co-Redemptrix", but will no longer be used in official documentsor in the liturgy. But if used in popular devotion, understanding its meaning. no one will be reprimanded for it. "

God's Word calls Jerusalem above "the mother of us all". Not Mary who is dead.

Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

All THREE titles conferred on this imaginary "Mary" not found in God's Word "Co-Redemptrix", "Co-Mediatrix", "Mother of the Faithful" and even "Mother of God" are all abominations and rank, smelly heresy!

One last abominatation from a "pope", Francis in a tweet:
"Mary is not only the bridge joining us to God; she is more. She is the road that God traveled to reaach us, and the road that we must travelto reach him."

Roman Catholicism is an abomination in God's eyes, a stench in His nostrils!!!

-Heaven has no queen!
-God does not have a mother!
-Salvation is only through the LORD Jesus Christ!

Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

-This and all of her filth and abominations goes right back to pagan Israel and Judah as recorded here in Jeremiah 44
-A Trinity is three and each One is a person Who is God and always was, always will be
-Mary was the womb on earth God used only and that false worship of her because of this goes all of the way back to Babylon, the "Madonna and child"
-God did many miracles with many people in Scripture and not a one was elevated to being a part of the Trinity. Even in our glorified bodies we will not be God, a part of God nor little gods.
-Welcome to Laodicea, as this is the exact same thing happening in America, coast to coast, border to border
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(Jeremiah 44:25 )
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

(Revelation 17:3 )
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.
-A Woman, the virgin, is the official symbol of the R.C.C (Madonna and Child, etc.)
-A Woman rides the beast!
-There are 101 ways she can blaspheme, from saints, to claims of absolute authority over God and His Word, to Mariolatry, perpetual virginity, etc.
-The seven heads and ten horns will be explained by John in a few verses ahead of here
-The woman very often, on coins, in statues, etc. is depicted with a chalice in her hand
(Revelation 17:4 )
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:
- The official colors of Rome are purple and scarlet
(Jeremiah 51:7 )
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

(Revelation 17:5 )
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. -This is all of the mystery religions, the New Age, Islam, Roman Catholicism combined
-Harlot........spiritual fornication
-Abominations.....religious practices, murders, greed, power, Mariolatry, sacraments, idolatry
-Nimrod started the mystery religions with his wife Tammuz (Genesis), Semiramis (called the Queen of Heaven in her day and after, until today) started the occult; all occultic practices on earth today can be traced back to Babylon
-The Two Babylons: Alexander Hislop, free online.
(Revelation 17:6 )
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.
-Over fifteen hundred years of murdering Christians and Jews in her bloodlust has emptied her cup has made her intoxicated
-God, in the meantime, has filled His cup of wrath to pour upon her in vengeance and judgment
(Revelation 17:7-8 )
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
- The beast is the anti-Christ, the man from hell, bound to return there
-The wonder comes from the power (Revelation 13:4), charisma (this verse), the false peace (Revelation 6:4), false miracles (Revelation 13:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:9)

DANIEL'S VISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CHAPTER TWO

See the entire study on Daniel chapter two for the context, the graphical representation of this image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Suffice it to say that history has proven undeniably that this last empire is a revived Roman empire and that is today. She is proud to even say it now, to act like it and publicly proud to be it, on video.

Daniel 2:33-44:
This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

DANIEL'S VISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CHAPTER SEVEN

Daniel 7:1-8
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

In Daniel chapter seven, Daniel was given a vision of four strange and different beasts coming out of the sea (the sea representing the population of the world), which were of a lion with eagle's wings (Babylon), a bear (representing the Medo-Persian empire), a leopard (the Grecian Empire), a dreadful beast with ten horns (the Roman empire). Red the entire chapter and you will see, this last beast, in context with the vision Daniel saw in chapter two, it is Rome, which is not conquered, but is two empires, one gone, one today which is being revived, having the characteristics of the first three beast of chapter seven, but never being gone forever the first time.

Daniel 7:7
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Revelation 17:3
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.

In fact, the woman is given more word about her than the beast is here.

(Daniel 7:20 )
And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

(Daniel 7:24)
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

(Revelation 17:9)
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

- Add this to all of the other criteria, her history, methods, ways, this has to be the ancient Roman Empire, and Rome as its capital
(Revelation 17:10 )
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. -Seven kings in all of history, to God, as important
-1: Egypt-FALLEN
-2: Assyria-FALLEN
-3: Babylon-FALLEN
-4: Medo-Persia-FALLEN
-5: Greece-FALLEN
-6.: Rome (first)-present in A.D. 90, time of writing
-7: Rome II: Revived, with popes today replacing emperors, with worldwide power over all kings
-8: (last, anti-Christ, the ELEVENTH horn)

Again, as foretold, the ancient Roman Empire was not conquered, was nopw revived, now planning publicly to declare itself unashamedly that she is in control of all of the world's powers in every way-governmentally, religiously, militarily and has been since Emperor Constantine. She also is proud to be so. She will go al ittle while more and then Jesus will destroy her forever and reign forever. She alone possess every characteristic, every part of the description given of this last empire to control the world in every way...She is the fulfillment of the Woman Riding the Beast in Revelation

(Revelation 17:11 )
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
- The anti-Christ, and he will not last long
(Revelation 17:12)
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
- Daniel 2, 7, 1
-No kingdom as yet, so we do not know who they are yet
(Revelation 17:13)
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
- Unity for the sake of unity never works with fallen man, and never will
(Revelation 17:14)
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
-We are coming with Him

RETURNING WITH JESUS

(Jude 1:14)
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

CALLED TO BE SAINTS

(Romans 1:7)
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(1 Corinthians 1:2)
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

(2 Peter 1:10)
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

CHOSEN

(2 Peter 1:10 )
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

(John 10:16)
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

(Acts 13:46)
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
(Revelation 17:15 )
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
-This is the explanation of the term "waters" in Revelation 17:1, et al.
(Revelation 17:16)
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
- The very ten nations that loved and adored her will turn on her and destroy her
-This is common when there is no longer a use for someone to eliminate them, but..
(Revelation 17:17)
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. -But, in this case, God is simply using them to finally destroy her for Him
-They want the beast, not the whore, as their leader now
(Revelation 17:18)
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
- The following are the characteristics of the woman

"Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat." -Alexander Hislop, the Two Babylons

Catholic "Madonna and Child", the false, pagan "Mary" of the R.C.C.

Egyptian painting depicting queen Cleopatra holding golden cup

Arafed coin depicting woman holding golden cup

Hindu goddess Parvati with child Ganesha

The Woman with the cup, called "The Queen of Heaven", which name is now the false, pagan "Mary" of the R.C.C.

The woman with the cup: Semiramus, Nimrods' child, Tammuz

Greek Goddess Hera with child

Isis with Horus

Shing Moo, "Holy Mother of China"

BABYLON VS. MYSTERY BABYLON

"It is within the city of Rome, called the city of seven hills, that the entire area of Vatican State proper is now defined"

1 Peter 5:13
The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.

“Rome is signified in the Apocalypse by the name of Babylon.“

“All persons confess that Rome is denoted by the name Babylon in the Apocalypse of John.”

THE WOMAN

John witnessed this and did not experience it yet on earth. He saw it in OUR time, not HIS.

REVELATION CHAPTER 17: THE WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST

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 upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 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.
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

-First, look at the power she wields and think of who qualifies with all of these credentials and you will see that it is unmistakable
-Some claimed that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding Babylon to rule the world. He is dead; Babylon is not rebuilt
-Mystery Babylon is there and has been for centuries in the form of the pagan Roman Catholicism and she definitely rules over world leaders, having them bow to kiss the feet of the popes
- Back in the 1980s, probably still today and worse, just unreported, the visits of the popes got people trampled to death in the frenzy to see him. People literally have been trampled to death by unruly mobs and hordes that crowd in, flock to see the pope every place on his world journeys. In 1980, nine people were trampled to death before the pope's Mass in Zaire, Africa and dozens were hospitalized. Three others were trampled to death and 30 injured during a papal visit to in El Salvador. The brainwashed, deluded followers by the billions are proving the verses in Revelation "drunk with the wine of the fornication”

Revelation 17:2
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. -

THE TRUE, DARK HISTORY OF THE "POPES"

It is undeniable that Rome and her pagan religion, Catholicism, and the popes are what John saw in Revelation, the whore, the woman who rides the beast. All of her bloody, prideful and murderous, ancient and recent history is a witness against her. For now, until Jesus returns and takes His purchased earth back which HE bought by His Blood at the Cross, the serpent was given the earth to rule over. Jesus never questions that when He was tempted by satan.

(Matthew 4:8-11[KJV])
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Jesus never questions the enemy's temporary rule over the earth. And that is because Jesus WON at the Cross and His Resurrection and the enemy is about to find out soon how much he lost to Jesus Christ when He returns to take over the earth He purchased with His own Blood.

Every Roman Catholic dreams of a revival of the ancient Roman Empire.

Three books written by the late Dave Hunt have a lot of details on this sibject:

A Woman Rides The Beast
Global Peace and the Rise of the Anti-Christ
Seduction of Christianity

POPE Leo in 2025 again gathered the world leaders to Assisi to make a "Covenant of humanity" They had snake worshippers, fire worshippers, spiritists, animists, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, North American witch doctors, Dalai Lama, wherein and when the pope said, "We are all praying to the same god, and our prayers are creating a spiritual energy that is bring about a new climate of peace" This is the spiritual fornication of the woman riding the beast

POPE Alexander III excommunicated the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, meaning "Frederick the Red Beard", Roman Emperor (1152-1190). When Frederick humbled himself with his face in the dirt, the pope put his heel on the emperor's neck, while the cardinals chanted, "thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder, the young lion and dragons shalt thou trample under foot!"

POPE Alexander IV divided Europe with his control and power and gave to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain the western side and the eastern side to Portugal. This is why we have Latin America today, with Brazil speaking Portuguese (she extends westward of that line he drew) and the rest Spanish-because of a pope and popes,

Arafat visited the pope five times, a known murdering terrorist, received by the pope.

The U.S. has an ambassador to the Vatican, today. When they visit they must both spouses, wear black. Only the pope can wear white The world's leaders go seeking favors. When Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to use religion for his own purpose of his which was clandestine, he visited the pope in Rome, with no interpreters there. They were both Slavs and no one knows what they discussed in their brief ten to fifteen minute meeting. When they came out, Gorbachev introduced the pope to his wife Raisa as "the greatest spiritual leader in the world"

This is the only city in the world, Vatican City in Rome, which has ambassadors to itself and rules over the kings of the earth, as it says in Revelation.

The ambassadors to the U.S. come to Washington D.C.? Which earth does Washington D.C. rule over? Not this one. And Washington D.C. is not a religious city, but a governmental capital. Vatican City is a ROMAN CATHOLIC, spiritual and governmental city.

Many cities sit on seven hills. But they do not control the kings of the earth like the popes.

President Ronald Reagan and the pope were on the cover of Time magazine, entitled "Holy Alliance", under the pope's guise of eliminating Communism and "brig down that wall!". Like Reagan needed the pope to do this? Reagan gave credit to the pope and its intelligence agents outdid the CIA for doing this!

This is fornication in Revelation, as no pope could go to Jesus and ask a thing from Him!!!

Scarlet and purple are their official colors, the popes, the cardinals, etc. and these were the colors of the Roman Emperors and the robes they put on Jesus, purple and scarlet.

Matthew 27:27-28
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.

John 19:2
And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

Tell me they are not trying to be the "Vicar (Replacement) of Christ"!

POPE "INNOCENT" THE GUILTY

In one day, this "pope killed more Christians than all of the Caesars and Roman emperors of Rome killed in all of their entire bloody, murderous history!!! He slaughtered the ENTIRE city of Bessieres, France, some 60,000 innocent Albigensians, people, woman and children! He called it his crowning achievement of his papacy! The Crusades were toward Christians more than anyone, and include in that Jews.

Add to that St. Bartholomew's Massacre, where up to 70,000 and upwards to around 200,000 Christians were slaughtered as well!!! Talk about drunk with the blood of the saints! Babylon as a city has been in ruins 2.300 years. Rome;s "popes" have been busy shedding innocent blood for 1,700 years.

A half of a million Hugenots fled Europe for these murders under intense persecution.

THE PROBLEM OF MARY

MARY DID NOT DIE FOR US. SHE DIED LIKE US

Roman Catholic Claim:

Mary was/is "The Mother of God". They pray "Holy Mary, Mother of God"

Scripture/Christianity

What a foolish and heretical lie. God is eternal, everlasting and can not, does not have a "mother", and this is blatant blasphemy, rank heresy, as God is created all things, including Mary. Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ the man in the carnal, earthly flesh only, and the one who merely carried Him in her womb is all, as a vessel. She died like any other person. She is not even recorded at His Crucifixion, Resurrection!

(Genesis 1:1)
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

(Exodus 3:14)
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

(Psalms 41:13)
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

(Psalms 93:2)
Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

(Micah 5:2)
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

(Habakkuk 1:12)
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

(Luke 1:47-48)
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

From a friend: "Mary was indeed a vessel used by the Creator. The phrase “full of grace” is used twice in the Bible. Once to describe Jesus, and the other to describe Stephen. But Mary is never described as “full of grace” in scripture, nor does it mean “sinless.”

Only sinners need a Savior. Mary needed a Savior. Her lineage was all sinners, like yours; like mine. She was never sinless and even told us so:

Read all of the chapter for the context:

Luke 1:46-49
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.

A sinless person does not need Jesus to be, nor call Jesus, their Saviour. But all are sinners, including Mary. She had a Saviour, just like us. She said so. Her lineage was not sinless, neither is ours. She was a carnal, fleshly, sinful vessel used by God is all, Just like us all. God used Balaam's ass in Numbers as a prophet. That makes it now a dead animal for thousands of years, not a sinless donkey. However God uses us to spread the Gospel, to disciple others, to pray for the list of requests, it is only by Jesus Jesus Christ that we are DECLARED righteous through HIS sacrifice on that Cross, by HIS Blood shed for us in our place. Mary did nothing to save us. Nor could she, nor did she die FOR us. She died LIKE us.

Add to that the penalty for sin and the only way out-IT IS NOT MARY!:

Luke 11:27-28
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

Notice how Jesus corrects this woman by adding, "Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."

rather adverb
rath·er ˈra-t͟hər ˈrä-, ˈrə- also ˈre-; interjectionally ˈra-ˈt͟hər, ˈrä-, ˈrə-
Synonyms of rather
1: with better reason or more propriety : more properly
This you should pity rather than despise.— William Shakespeare
2: more readily or willingly : preferably
I'd rather not go would rather read than watch television
—often used interjectionally to express affirmation
3: more correctly speaking
my father, or rather my stepfather
4: to the contrary : instead
… and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,— Mark 5:26 (KJV)
5: in some degree : somewhat it's rather warm
—often used as a mild intensive spent rather a lot of money

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

(Luke 1:46-48)
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

(John 2:4) Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

Her command to us then as now is,

"Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it."

"Whatsoever Jesus my earthly Son and my LORD, my God, saith unto you, do it, Not what I say, what He says." A sinless, holy person would say, "Do what I say...for I am the LORD Mary!"

(Romans 3:23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

(Luke 1:40)
And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.

(Luke 1:41)
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

(Luke 1:42)
And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

(Luke 1:43-49)
And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,

And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.

-Mary was blessed, just like all believers are blessed, and being blessed is not "being the LORD"
-She was blessed for believing in the LORD Jesus Christ, just like all believers are blessed, and being blessed is not "being the LORD"
-Mary's soul magnified THE LORD, not herself, and therefore she cannot be the LORD
-God is Mary's Saviour, therefore she cannot be the LORD
-Mary was not from everlasting, eternity, she was created, born into this world, therefore she cannot be the LORD
-She was in a lowly estate, therefore she cannot be the LORD
-She called the LORD mighty for doing great things, therefore she cannot be the LORD
-She said that the LORD was Holy, therefore she cannot be the LORD

The End of the Catholic "Mary Mother of God"

(Revelation 18:1)
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Roman Catholic Claim: Mary was/is a perpetual virgin

(Genesis 3:1)
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

When you cannot substantiate your belief from God's Word, you have your own interpretation, your own religion and, in the case of the R.C.C., your own cult. Also, when this is pointed out, a cultist will resort to personal attacks, insults, etc.

"When the debate is lost, insults become the user's tool"
"When a debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers"
-Unknown, but very correct every time

-The serpent: "yea, hath God said that Mary was originally a virgin who later had other children?"

-The Catholic Church "yea, God hath said that Mary had other children, but the popes and my Holy Mother Church say no, so I must believe them and not God"

-"The Bible never said Mary had other children, because God knew that one day the R.C.C. would come, and whatever we say you must live by, because we are above Scripture and will tell you what it means, and you need that"

-So the whole entire R.C.C believed all that the popes said on every false doctrine they proclaimed..
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"HAIL MARY"

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.
Amen.

(Matthew 6:7)
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

(Matthew 6:8)
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

(Luke 1:28-33)
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

-To "Hail" means to greet (a salutation) or to wish one good health
-"Full of Grace" is anyone saved, getting grace through Jesus Christ ONLY
-"The LORD is with thee"........the LORD is with me also, so? God was and is with so many in Scripture from Genesis on
-Blessed art thou among women...any woman saved is blessed, she was merely more blessed because she was a vessel to give birth to a man who is the Messiah. Leah and Rachel were blessed by having the twelve tribes of Israel, on earth still today
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus......yes He is blessed and the One who blesses us!
-"Holy Mary" is not in the text and we are declared holy ONLY be believing ONLY in Jesus Christ, not Mary. This is blasphemy and heresy of the worst sort.
-"Mother of God"..............God is eternal and has no mother. Mary was the mother of the man Jesus, not Jesus, Creator of the universe (and the creator of Mary)
-Pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death........she cannot pray for us, as she is not our mediatrix or mediator, only Jesus Christ is

HAIL, an exclamation, or rather a verb in the imperative mode, being the adjective hail, used as a verb. Hail, be well; be in health; health to you; a term of salutation, equivalent to L. salve, salvete. Hail, hail, brave friend.

HAIL, n. A wish of health; a salutation. This word is sometimes used as a noun; as, the angel hail bestowed.

Scripture/Christianity

Mary: Virgin only until Jesus born, had other children

(Matthew 1:25)
And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

(Matthew 12:46-47)
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

(Mark 6:3)
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

(Mark 3:31-32)
There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him. And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.

(Luke 8:20)
And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

(Acts 1:14)
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

(Galatians 1:19)
But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

Roman Catholic Claim

Mary is a Co-Mediatrix and has a hand in salvation

"To think Mary is the “Spouse of the Holy Spirit,” “Queen of Heaven” and “co-Redemptrix” is pure BLASPHEMY and PAGANISM."
-John Lee

The "Queen of Heaven" was a pagan goddess. The Catechism even says that "Mary was exalted by the LORD Jesus Christ as Queen over all things":

Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 44:19-25
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind? So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day. Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

This exaltation happened at no time ever and, if of such importance, God would have told us in His Word. Mary was never called a queen, nor a queen of everything. Jesus would have presented her as such. They simply got this pagan idea from ancient Babylon, not God.

This pagan "queen" is mention in Revelation eighteen: Revelation 18:7
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

Scripture/Christianity

Mary was a sinner, earthly, and had nothing to do with salvation

(John 14:6)
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

(John 2:4-5)
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

(Galatians 3:19)
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

(Galatians 3:20)
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

(1 Timothy 2:5)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

(Hebrews 8:6)
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

(Hebrews 9:15)
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

(Hebrews 12:24)
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

(Acts 4:12)
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

(Matthew 27:50)
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

(Mark 15:38)
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

(Luke 23:45)
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

The rending of the veil of the temple in two from top to bottom means that God was now not going to need, heed, listen to any representatives as mediators between Himself and His children, like He did in the Old Testament/old Covenant. This veil being torn in two means direct access by anyone saved to the throne of the Father via Jesus Christ only.

Roman Catholic Claim

Assumption of Mary: Taken into Heaven, Holy, Perpetual Virgin

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Scripture/Christianity

No evidence from Scripture -This is an empty claim from a silent Scripture
-This is an empty claim from recorded history
-This is an empty claim from archaeology

Roman Catholic Claim

Mary MORE important than the LORD Jesus Christ

Scripture/Christianity

Mary the Mother of Jesus is mentioned a whopping 26 times in the New Testament, whereas Peter a mere hundred sixty times, Jesus Christ Himself 946 times, 900 times more than Mary, and not all mentions of Mary refer to the same Mary.

(Matthew 1:16)
And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
-(Matthew 1:18)

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
-(Matthew 1:20)
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
-(Matthew 2:11)
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
-(Matthew 13:55)
Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
-(Matthew 27:56)
Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
-(Matthew 28:1)
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
-(Mark 6:3)
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
-(Mark 15:40)
There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
-(Mark 15:47)
And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
-(Mark 16:1)
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
-(Luke 1:27)
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
-(Luke 1:30)
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
-(Luke 1:34)
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
-(Luke 1:38)
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
-(Luke 1:39)
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
-(Luke 1:41)
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
-(Luke 1:46)
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
-(Luke 1:56)
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
-(Luke 2:5)
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
-(Luke 2:16)
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
-(Luke 2:19)
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
-(Luke 2:34)
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
-(Luke 24:10)
It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
-(John 2:1)
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
-(John 2:3)
And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

(Luke 1:43)
And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

-(John 19:25)
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
-(Acts 1:14)
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

(Luke 1:48)
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

The Usage/Reference to Mary

So now, she is simply called by her name "Mary" nine times, "the mother of Jesus" in various ways seven times, the mother of the other children James, Joses, Salome, Simon, Judah, four times, Joseph's wife in various ways, five times, the "other Mary" once, the "the mother of my Lord" once, "and "the virgin" one time. And she even called herself His handmaiden once.

Major events Mary missed…

Jesus’ baptism where he was confirmed directly by The Father Matthew 3:16-17

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus encounter with the Devil Matthew chapter 4

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus’ sermon on the Mount Matthew chapter 5

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus teaching the Lord’s prayer Matthew chapter 6

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus healing the leper Matthew chapter 8

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus healing Peter’s Mother-Law Matthew chapter 8

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus casting out devils Matthew 8

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus healing a man sick with palsy Matthew 9

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus teaching about fasting Matthew 9

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus resurrecting a young girl Matthew 9

Mary Strangely Absent

Jesus casting out another devil Matthew 9

Mary Strangely Absent

Mary's Absenteeism in Luke Alone

Roman Catholic Claim

Baptism is for infants, is done by sprinkling, and a sacrament that is part of our salvation

Scripture/Christianity

Baptism is by immersion and is a sign of being saved already, after salvation only. Not one single baby was "baptized" by sprinkling water on their head in all of Scripture. Baptism represents the death, burial and resurrection of the LORD Jesus Christ and one must believe first to be baptized, and sprinkling or pouring water on a babies head does not even come close to representing this. Only going under the water and coming back up out of the water does. Jesus Himself was never baptized as an infant, but as an example to us, as an adult by John the Baptist. Sprinkling babies in infant "baptism" makes them wet and indoctrinates them into the Roman Catholic religion, not saved.

(Acts 8:35-39)
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

(Romans 6:3-6)
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

(Matthew 3:13-16)
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

To top things off, the thief on the cross was never baptized...

(Luke 23:42-43)
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Roman Catholic Claim

During each and every mass, Jesus dies again on the cross

This is blasphemy and rank heresy . To even imply in the slightest sense that any man can put Christ back on that Cross is a joke. It also means that a person believes that the Cross did not pay fully for sins, all sins, forever, which God says it did.

Scripture/Christianity

Jesus Christ: died once for all, and the Scriptures repeat this and are quite clear on this, so to suggest otherwise is blasphemy

(1 Peter 3:18)
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Hebrews 9:26-28
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

(Hebrews 9:12)
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Hebrews 9:12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

ONE TIME, for our salvation, forever!

(Hebrews 10:10)
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

(Hebrews 10:12)
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

NOTE: ISN'T IT FUNNY THAT PETER HIMSELF IS SAYING THIS?

(Hebrews 9:28)
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

(John 1:29)
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

(Hebrews 10:10)
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Roman Catholic Claim

Salvation is either through the seven sacraments or (now) universal

The Roman Catholic "Church" teaches salvation by many means, and then add to that other things, for instance:

-Attaining Salvation
-Maintaining Salvation
-Regaining Salvation (when lost)

The official teaching of the R.C.C. is that we get saved through many different ways combined, namely grace, faith, "good works", infant baptism ("necessary element"), partaking of the Sacraments, penance, indulgences, and keeping "the commandments" (theirs, not God's).

Scripture/Christianity

Salvation is only by Grace through Faith in Jesus Christ

The word "grace" is in Scripture 160 times, first describing Noah. Grace is unmerited favor, no works involved, and is completely the opposite of works, and the two cannot be combined. We cannot please God with any works until after we are saved. In fact, the more we work to get saved, the more we insult God and slap Him in the face, saying, "Your Son's death is just a start, I will finish this!"

(Romans 11:6)
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

(Ephesians 2:8-9)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

(Titus 3:5)
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

(Acts 15:11)
But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

(Romans 3:20)
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

(Isaiah 64:6)
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Plus a lot of other verses, in context. All verses used by the R.C.C. for "works" "salvation" are taken out of context and the plain ones, in context, deliberately ignored.

R.C.C CLAIM: IT GAVE US THE SCRIPTURES

-The Jewish scribes gave us the Old Testament and Rome as a city did not even exist
-The New Testament writers, with few exceptions, such as Luke, were JEWS, not not even Gentiles, certainly not Catholics, who did not even exist yet
-The R.C.C., in the Dark Ages before the Reformation, killed and tortured as many Christians as they could get their bloodthirsty paws on, who wanted to and tried to translate the Scriptures out of Latin, ancient Hebrew, Koine Greek, etc. They failed and we have the King James today in English. God will remember this against her, the one drunk with the bloof of the martyrs.

R.C.C CLAIM: YOU CANNOT INTERPRET THE SCRIPTURES

-"Only the magisterium can interpret it for you"
-This is what ALL CULTS do, no exception
-Mormonism: It is the Presidency House in Salt Lake City
-JWs: The Watchtower and tract society in Brooklyn, NY
-Islam: The imams must tell you what it means
-Christian Scientist/Church of Scientology: Only the "Mother Church in Boston, MA"
-In American churches today in the apostasy, people turn to the pastor or a famous person or leader with "degrees" or a professor from a "seminary" (AKA cemetery), or Christian TV, or on Christian radio, or a famous Christian author, a traveling conference speaker, etc. to interpret the Bible, which sits on their lap or on a bookshelf, unread or read on Sunday morning, Wednesday night in small amounts, as prescribed.
-This is not found in Scripture, as Jesus said so:
John 14:17
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

-This means that, like Bereans, we do not need anyone but the Holy Spirit indwelling us, careful study of the Word and checking like Bereans every word ANYONE says, because we are responsible for our beliefs
-Jesus said "MAN shall not live by bread alone...", not "a Rabbi", "a Priest", which is all of us
-The Jews were told to write the Scriptures, the commandments on the doorposts and lintels of their homes for ALL, including their children, to read.

Deuteronomy 11:18-20
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes .And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

No one needs an "official, degreed, government approved, licensed, certified, papered" and all else person to tell us what it says because we have the Holy Ghost. That is the criteria to teach, having the Holy Ghost
-Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

The MAN, not the rabbi, priest, etc.

THE ANATHEMAS

The R.C.C. at the Council of Trent and in other edicts, has placed over a hundred anathemas on true, born again Christians who actually believe the Word of God. The below is a partial list is not in any order. They call you, me, the LORD Jesus Christ and His Word and words lies and liars. The R.C.C. accepts ALL OTHER religions, but Christianity. All the while feigning themselves to be Christianity.

A young man memorizing God's Word....."anathema" to the R.C.C.!

The R.C.C.... "anathema" to God!

Luke 4:4
And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

After this the devil left Him. Jesus told us how we are to live and that is by His Word and words, not those of men. Every word in God;s Word comes purely from the mouth of God God, as it says.

2 Peter 1:21
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Roman Catholic Claim

Assurance of salvation: none The R.C.C. teaches that one must work, be a good Catholic, do the sacraments, get last rites, etc. and then, once one is gone from earth, the family, loved ones, friends can hold masses for you and pay indulgences so you will get out of "purgatory", eventually, perhaps if you do these works enough.

Scripture/Christianity

Assurance of salvation is guaranteed (1 John 5:13)
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

(John 10:28-29)
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Roman Catholic Claim

The Seven Sacraments: Baptism, Eucharist, Penance, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick; exorcisms, blessings of objects, dedication of churches sacred garments, installation into clerical offices, Roman Missal and eastern rites.

Scripture/Christianity

NOT FOUND

Baptism

Confirmation

Eucharist

Penance

Anointing of the Sick

only ever

Matrimony

Holy Orders

So you see, the only "sacraments" in Scripture are baptism and marriage, neither of which have any redeeming value in terms of salvation, and the rest of them are merely evil inventions of fallen mankind used to control people

Roman Catholic Claim

"Eucharist "literally" becomes the body of Jesus Christ and does not remain a wafer. During mass the R.C.C. claims that "host" (a wafer god from ancient Babylon) literally becomes the Body of the LORD Jesus Christ

This is literally, genuinely, embarrassingly laughable on its face. I asked a Roman Catholic one time, "Exactly at what point does the "host" stop being Jesus? On your tongue? In the esophagus? Stomach acid? Intestines? Digested and into the blood stream? In the toilet, drain, sewer treatment plant, in the ground, in the ocean? Yeah, few even think this through.

Scripture/Christianity

(Luke 22:19)
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Jesus did not become a piece of bread, and especially did not become a small, thin wafer! The broken bread was to symbolize his broken body, so we would remember what He did for us on the Cross. This is a perfect example of not reading the text, but reading into it for personal and corporate reasons. If Jesus literally meant that this was literally His body and blood, then he also is a door, a literal lion, a light, a shepherd, etc.

(Genesis 9:4)
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

(Leviticus 3:17)
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

(Leviticus 7:26-27)
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

(Leviticus 17:14)
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

(Deuteronomy 12:16)
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

(Deuteronomy 12:23)
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

(Ezekiel 33:25)
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

(Acts 15:29)
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Roman Catholic Claim

"First Holy Communion"; prerequisite is baptism as infant, classes required, no salvation needed

Scripture/Christianity

Communion: For born-again believers only, bread and wine (fermented grape juice, not actual wine like the R.C.C. serves today) as a remembrance of the LORD'S Supper, does not save

Roman Catholic Claim

Penance/Confession: An R.C.C. official sacrament for salvation, to be administered only through an R.C.C. priest or higher, and is a way to reestablish to right relationship with God and the sinner who has strayed, and is claimed to be necessary for salvation if a person was baptized as a baby and has since "fallen away" from God (meaning fallen away from the R.C.C.)

The procedure goes like this:

Scripture/Christianity

Penance/Confession: One to another, or straight (unmediated) to God, Our Debt is PAID IN FULL. this is because of the finished work of the Cross, the burial and resurrection of the LORD Jesus Christ and belief in Him that we are forgiven, not our works.

(Psalms 32:5)
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

(1 John 1:9-10)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

(James 5:16)
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

(Hebrews 10:19-21)
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God;

(Hebrews 9:12)
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

(Ephesians 1:7)
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Roman Catholic Claim

Priesthood: Sacrament, ordained by God/R.C.C.

The R.C.C. makes the claim that only certain men, sent to Catholic seminary and ordained by only the R.C.C. are true priests who represent the "Mother Church" and therefore God Himself on earth.

Scripture/Christianity

Priesthood: Ordained by God for all believers

The Scriptures clearly teach that all men who are saved are already priests, no official ceremonies or titles are needed.

(1 Peter 2:5)
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

(1 Peter 2:9)
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

(Revelation 1:6)
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

(Revelation 5:10)
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

In every verse, God is speaking to all true believers in Jesus Christ, born-again Christians, and in no way is referencing a special class of men.

Roman Catholic Claim

Priests: Called "Father" in the R.C.C.

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Scripture/Christianity

The Father, Your Father

Roman Catholic Claim

Anointing of the Sick:

Scripture/Christianity

Anointing of the Sick: (Acts 3-ALL)
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
And all the people saw him walking and praising God: And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

R.C.C.: Statues, idols, golden crosses, proliferate

Scripture/Christianity

Idolatry Forbidden (1 Corinthians 10:7-10)
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

(Exodus 20:4)
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

(Leviticus 26:1)
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

(1 Corinthians 3:11-13)
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

(Revelation 9:20)
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

(Revelation 21:8)
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

This is all three created realms, so as to not confuse you.

The R.C.C. leadership hat of the pope and bishops, cardinals is from the Babylonian fish God Ishtar, not from God, and anti-Christ.

A hundred and nineteen verses alone tell us not to have any idols Hundreds of warnings throughout the entire Scriptures against it and you think it is OK. NOT ONE TIME did God approve of it. NOT ONCE.

Warnings of:

God does not even want us to eat food sacrificed to the idols, let alone worship or bow down to them.

(1 Corinthians 10:28)
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

There is not one single word from God that even HINTS that making images, icons, statues to any thing at any place at any time is OK.

There is not one single word from God that even HINTS that making images, icons, statues to any thing at any place at any time is not wickedness, for which many have died and gone to hell, civilizations have disappeared, gone into captivity, lives ruined.

(1 Corinthians 10:7-10)
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

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(Exodus 20:4)
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

(Exodus 20:4)
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

(Psalms 97:6)
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

(Leviticus 19:4)
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 26:1)
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 26:30)
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

(Deuteronomy 29:17)
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

(1 Samuel 15:23)
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

(1 Samuel 31:9)
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

(1 Kings 15:12)
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

(1 Kings 15:13)
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

(1 Kings 21:26)
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

(2 Kings 17:12)
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

(2 Kings 21:11)
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

(2 Kings 21:21)
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

(2 Kings 23:5)
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

(2 Kings 23:24)
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

(1 Chronicles 10:9)
And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

(1 Chronicles 16:26)
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

(2 Chronicles 15:8)
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

(2 Chronicles 15:16)
And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

(2 Chronicles 24:18)
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

(2 Chronicles 33:7)
And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

(2 Chronicles 33:15)
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

(2 Chronicles 34:7)
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

(Psalms 96:5)
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

(Psalms 97:7)
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

(Psalms 106:36)
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

(Psalms 106:38)
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

(Psalms 115:4)
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

(Psalms 135:15)
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

(Isaiah 2:8)
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

(Isaiah 2:18)
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

(Isaiah 2:20)
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

(Isaiah 10:10)
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

(Isaiah 10:11)
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

(Isaiah 19:1)
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

(Isaiah 19:3)
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

(Isaiah 31:7)
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

(Isaiah 45:16)
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

(Isaiah 46:1)
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

(Isaiah 48:5)
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

(Isaiah 57:5)
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

(Isaiah 66:3)
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

(Jeremiah 22:28)
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

(Jeremiah 50:2)
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

(Jeremiah 50:38)
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

(Ezekiel 6:4)
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

(Ezekiel 6:5)
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

(Ezekiel 6:6)
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

(Ezekiel 6:9)
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

(Ezekiel 6:13)
Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

(Ezekiel 8:10)
So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

(Ezekiel 14:3)
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

(Ezekiel 14:4)
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

(Ezekiel 14:5)
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

(Ezekiel 14:6)
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

(Ezekiel 14:7)
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

(Ezekiel 16:36)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

(Ezekiel 18:6)
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

(Ezekiel 18:12)
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

(Ezekiel 18:15)
That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,

(Ezekiel 20:7)
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

(Ezekiel 20:8)
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

(Ezekiel 20:16)
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

(Ezekiel 20:18)
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

(Ezekiel 20:24)
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

(Ezekiel 20:31)
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

(Ezekiel 20:39)
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

(Ezekiel 22:3)
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

(Ezekiel 22:4)
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

(Ezekiel 23:7)
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

(Ezekiel 23:30)
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

(Ezekiel 23:37)
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

(Ezekiel 23:39)
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

(Ezekiel 23:49)
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

(Ezekiel 30:13)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

(Ezekiel 33:25)
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

(Ezekiel 36:18)
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:

(Ezekiel 36:25)
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

(Ezekiel 37:23)
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

(Ezekiel 44:10)
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

(Ezekiel 44:12)
Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

(Hosea 4:17)
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

(Hosea 8:4)
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

(Hosea 13:2)
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

(Hosea 14:8)
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

(Micah 1:7)
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

(Habakkuk 2:18)
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

(Zechariah 10:2)
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

(Zechariah 11:17)
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

(Zechariah 13:2)
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

(Acts 7:41)
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

(Acts 15:20)
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

(Acts 15:29)
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

(Acts 17:16)
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

(Acts 21:25)
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

(Romans 2:22)
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

(1 Corinthians 5:10)
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

(1 Corinthians 5:11)
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

(1 Corinthians 6:9)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

(1 Corinthians 8:1)
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

(1 Corinthians 8:4)
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

(1 Corinthians 8:7)
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

(1 Corinthians 8:10)
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

(1 Corinthians 10:7)
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

(1 Corinthians 10:14)
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

(1 Corinthians 10:19)
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

(1 Corinthians 10:28)
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

(1 Corinthians 12:2)
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

(2 Corinthians 6:16)
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

(Galatians 5:20)
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

(Ephesians 5:5)
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

(Colossians 3:5)
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

(1 Thessalonians 1:9)
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

(1 Peter 4:3)
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

(1 John 5:21)
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

(Revelation 2:14)
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

(Revelation 2:20)
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

(Revelation 9:20)
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

(Revelation 21:8)
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

(Revelation 22:15)
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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(1 Corinthians 8:1-13)
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man love God, the same is known of him. As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

To understand the context of verse 4, the entire chapter and the rest of the entirety of Scripture must be taken. So what does 1 Corinthians 8 really say, from the context?

-People think they are smart when they have worldly knowledge
-This is nothing, they know nothing, and all true knowledge only comes from God, worldly wisdom is nothing compared to wisdom from God
-The idol is nothing, absolutely, because it is an immaterial, inanimate object
-We are not called to worship something that "is nothing"
-it is the enemy, satan, who has the power to deceive and use that immaterial, inanimate object to get worship for himself, a goal he has always had, since the garden (Luke 4)
-There are many idols to worship in this world and in the spiritual realm
-There is only one true God who we are to follow, who makes the rules
-The difference is that God is the One and Only Creator; all else is the created things
-People ignorantly eat things offered to idols, and practice idolatry due to spiritual blindness
-This is because they have no real conscience, the Holy Spirit is not in them to guide them into all truth, and they are spiritually weak, rendering them defenseless against the enemy, who is smarter and more subtle, who is the expert in deception
-The food itself is nothing but food, even sacrificed to idols, though they may think that it is something special
-The sacrificed food does absolutely nothing to gain God's favor, as it is idolatry, which He hates
-The eating of the meat does not anger God, it is the eating of the meat which came from idolatry itself that angers God.
-Otherwise, no one could eat any meat if God was not pleased with meat.
-However, this idolatry is a stumblingblock to the weaker people who do not understand Christianity, see you eating it and will not follow Jesus now, not because they are not hungry, but because they are now confused that you claim to be a Christian, but practice that which is against Christ, because they are weak.
-They will, however, see you justifying this idolatry by doing it and think that it is OK to do themselves.
-He will decide he does not need Christ, perish, go to hell and you will be the stumblingblock that caused this, this idolatry
-You sin against them, and you sin against God, the LORD Jesus Christ
-If the meat is sacrificed to idols, we are not to eat it so as to not let this happen
-Yes, the idol is nothing to God............but the idolatry is sin, wickedness, hell bound rebellion, evil is everything He hates..

(Luke 4:5-8)
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Exodus 20:4-6
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my Commandments.

(Leviticus 26:1)
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

(Isaiah 44:19)
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Roman Catholic Claim

Celibacy

Scripture/Christianity
Celibacy
Roman Catholic Claim: Marriage

Marriage (Matrimony) is one of the seven sacraments for salvation in the R.C.C. It displays several problems. For one, it contradicts the concept of being a priest or nun who, according the the R.C.C., is forbidden to marry!

Scripture/Christianity
Marriage
Roman Catholic Claim

Divorce/Annulment
Scripture/Christianity
Divorce

Roman Catholic Claim: Exorcism
Performed only by and under the authority of the R.C.C. leaders

Scripture/Christianity
Exorcism: Performed by any believers (Mark 16:17)
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

Roman Catholic Claim: Blessing of Objects
A sacrament, necessary for salvation, makes object supernaturally powerful

Scripture/Christianity
Blessing of Objects: no such thing
Roman Catholic Claim: there are two types of sins, "venial" and "mortal"

Scripture/Christianity: All sin is mortal, fatal, leads to death if unforgiven

Scripture/Christianity
Blessing of Objects: no such thing
Roman Catholic Claim: "Hail Mary", the "Our Father"
To be repeated many times for atonement of sin

Scripture/Christianity
Repetitious Prayers: Forbidden
Roman Catholic Claim:
Purgatory
From an R.C.C. web site:

"The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a "purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," which is experienced by those "who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified" (CCC 1030). It notes that "this final purification of the elect . . . is entirely different from the punishment of the damned" (CCC 1031). The purification is necessary because, as Scripture teaches, nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven (Rev. 21:27) and, while we may die with our mortal sins forgiven, there can still be many impurities in us, specifically venial sins and the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven."
There are a ton of problems with this pagan belief or pagan origins:
-The word "purgatory" is a made up word of the R.C.C and appears not in a SINGLE place, and is not even hinted at in Scripture, God's Word
-It assumes that we are not completely forgiven by God when accepting Jesus Christ as our LORD and Saviour
-It assumes that we can pay for our own sin ("purge" our sins) in an imaginary place
-It assumes that there are two types of sin, mortal and venial, which is 100% false
-It takes money as indulgences for the priest to pray for the "faithfully departed" so that they can "get out of purgatory", a most cruel practice to foist on unsuspecting people
-Neither you, nor anyone else on earth can pay for your sins, only the LORD Jesus Christ Who already did pay for all of them
-You either go straight to Heaven or straight to hell-your choice. There is no "limbo"
-You cannot pray for the dead or to the dead, that is necromancy, and forbidden by God's Word
-You cannot pay for your dead, either, nor for your sins, nor anyone else's

(Hebrews 10:10)
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

(1 Peter 3:18)
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

(Hebrews 9:27)
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

(2 Corinthians 5:6-8)
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

(Deuteronomy 18:11)
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

(Luke 16:22-23)
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

(Luke 23:42-43)
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Scripture/Christianity: No such thing, only heaven or hell

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The Scriptures have no mention of any type of purgatory, only heaven (paradise), hell and "Abraham's bosom", now empty

(Deuteronomy 32:22)
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

(2 Samuel 22:6)
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

(Job 11:8)
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

(Job 26:6)
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

(Psalms 9:17)
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

(Psalms 16:10)
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

(Psalms 18:5)
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

(Psalms 55:15)
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

(Psalms 86:13)
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

(Psalms 116:3)
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

(Psalms 139:8)
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

(Proverbs 5:5)
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

(Proverbs 7:27)
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

(Proverbs 9:18)
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

(Proverbs 15:11)
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

(Proverbs 15:24)
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

(Proverbs 23:14)
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

(Proverbs 27:20)
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

(Isaiah 5:14)
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

(Isaiah 14:9)
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

(Isaiah 14:15)
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

(Isaiah 28:15)
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

(Isaiah 28:18)
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

(Isaiah 57:9)
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

(Ezekiel 31:16)
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

(Ezekiel 31:17)
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

(Ezekiel 32:21)
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

(Ezekiel 32:27)
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

(Amos 9:2)
Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

(Jonah 2:2)
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

(Habakkuk 2:5)
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

(Matthew 5:22)
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

(Matthew 5:29)
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

(Matthew 5:30)
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

(Matthew 10:28)
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

(Matthew 11:23)
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

(Matthew 16:18)
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

(Matthew 18:9)
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

(Matthew 23:15)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

(Matthew 23:33)
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

(Mark 9:43)
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

(Mark 9:45)
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

(Mark 9:47)
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

(Luke 10:15)
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

(Luke 12:5)
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

(Luke 16:23)
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

(Acts 2:27)
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

(Acts 2:31)
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

(James 3:6)
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

(2 Peter 2:4)
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

(Revelation 1:18)
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

(Revelation 6:8)
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

(Revelation 20:13)
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

(Revelation 20:14)
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Praying only to Jesus Mary: Mother of God

Scripture/Christianity
Mary: Mother of the earthly man Jesus; God does not have a mother, He is eternal Saints: Declared only by the R.C.C after death and "lots of good works"

Scripture/Christianity
The Sainthood of the Believer Bowing to "the Blessed Sacrament"

Scripture/Christianity
Idolatry Forbidden
Roman Catholic Claim:
Prayers to the dead is OK

Scripture/Christianity
Forbidden, meaningless, useless, unheard
(Proverbs 30:5-6) Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. (Psalms 12:6-7) The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Ours is the original, from the originals, with a clear, unbroken line from Genesis to today. From the Textus Receptus and the Masoretic text. Yours is from the two God never used, from a waste paper basket, Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. Your "scriptures" were deliberately tampered with corrupted to fit pet doctrines. To cover that up, your people murdered and deliberately tortured our people trying to prevent it from being printed. Called the Dark Ages.......1,000 years of reigning Roman Catholic terror on all who opposed her. Your people even dug them up years later top burn their bones they were so mad people tried to translate it! You are completely ignorant of the history of the English Bible. Learn your history first before responding. I suggest Foxes Book of Martyrs as a start, free online (Catholic Index of Forbidden Books). You are wholly, seriously unqualified to discuss this, as you merely parroted what you were told in ignorance, and way out of your league on this subject. I was studying this before you were even born. I promise you do not read your "scriptures" in Latin. They are not the Word of God, but words of men who hated and hate God. Just the fact that your "scriptures" tell you to pray to dead people who cannot hear is proof positive of their pagan origins and nature His, Bobby Z.
(Luke 16:20-31)
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

(Leviticus 20:6)
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

(Deuteronomy 18:9-12)
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

(1 John 4:1)
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Prayers to the dead

Scripture/Christianity
Forbidden, meaningless, useless, unheard Miracles: Must be documented by R.C.C. authority only

Scripture/Christianity

Happen moment by moment, witnessed by all R.C.C is the "original, true Church"

Scripture/Christianity
Christ built His Church, starting in Acts Nuns:

Scripture/Christianity
No nuns: Nuns were originally descended from the practice of Babylonian temple prostitution Ten commandments: Only nine are accepted, one (idol making and worship) denied/hidden/ignored, renumbered to make ten by splitting number ten on coveting into two commandments

Scripture/Christianity
Ten commandments: As it is written, all ten, including idol worship, not dividing number ten Sin: Consists of Mortal Sins (must be confessed to priests only) and Venial Sins(can be confessed straight to God)

Scripture/Christianity
All sin leads to death, unconfessed sin means eternal death to non-believers; consequences to believers Liturgical service by rote, same practices and timing weekly, stand up, sit down, kneel in a regular, established order

Scripture/Christianity
Homilies come from Vatican, rotated every three years, on a schedule Sermons from careful study, throughout Scripture, tailored to crowd, location, etc.

Church Fellowship, a gather for fellowship, prayer, worship, Bible Study, nothing by rote Lent, fasting of meat on Fridays Fasting for prayer, needs, humility, closeness to God, to know God's will

(1 Timothy 4:1-3)
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Ash Wednesday No such thing, simply a Hindu/pagan practice Indulgences, paying for mass to release a loved one from purgatory into Heaven. Involves money Heaven or hell, there is no escape, both are forever, nothing to pray for once a person is dead
Roman Catholic Claim
Halos: Around the saints, angel's heads, etc. No such thing as halos Popes, Bishops, Cardinals, Priests are to wear elaborate and ornate clothing to distinguish themselves from the rest of us Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for the very same behavior(Matthew 23:5) Talking to dead "saints" All Christians alive are saints, we only talk to God now, through no one, and are to talk to no one in Heaven, talking to the dead forbidden

(Deuteronomy 18:9-11)
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

NECROMANCER, n. [See Necromancy.] One who pretends to foretell future events by holding converse with departed spirits; a conjurer. _______________________________________________________________

Rome's Heretical Inventions

300 A.D. Prayers for the dead.

300 A.D. Making the sign of the Cross.

320 A.D. Wax candles.

375 A.D. Veneration of angels and dead saints, and the use of images.

394 A.D. The mass, as a daily celebration.

431 A.D. Beginning of the exaltation of Mary; the term 'Mother of God' first applied to Mary by the Council of Ephesus.

500 A.D. Priests differentiated from the common man by dress (clothing).

526 A.D. Extreme Unction.

593 A.D. The doctrine of purgatory established by Gregory I.

600 A.D. Latin language, used in prayer and worship, imposed by Gregory I.

600 A.D. Prayers directed to Mary, dead saints and angels.

607 A.D. Title of pope, or universal bishop, given to Boniface III by Emperor Phocas.

709 A.D. Kissing the pope's foot, began with Constantine.

750 A.D. Temporal power of the popes conferred by Pepin, king of the Franks.

786 A.D. Authorised worship of the cross, images and relics.

850 A.D. Holy water, mixed with a pinch of salt and blessed by a priest.

890 A.D. Worship of Saint Joseph.

927 A.D. College of the Cardinals established.

965 A.D. Baptism of Bells, instituted by Pope John XIII.

995 A.D. Canonization of dead saints, by Pope John XV.

998 A.D. Fasting on Fridays and during Lent.

1079 A.D. Mandatory observance of the mass.

1090 A.D. The rosary, mechanical praying, invented by Peter the Hermit.

1184 A.D. The Inquisition instituted by the Council of Verona.

1190 A.D. Sale of indulgences.

1215 A.D. Transubstantiation proclaimed by Pope Innocent III.

1215 A.D. Auricular (talking in someone's ear) Confession of sins to a priest instead of God, instituted by Pope Innocent III at the Lateran Council.

1220 A.D. Adoration of the Wafer (Host), decreed by Pope Honorius III.

1229 A.D. The Bible forbidden to laymen and placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Council of Valencia.

1251 A.D The Scapular invented by Simon Stock, an English monk.

1414 A.D. The cup forbidden to the people at communion by the Council of Constance.

1439 A.D. Purgatory proclaimed as a dogma by the Council of Florence.

1439 A.D. The doctrine of seven sacraments affirmed.

1508 A.D. The Ave Maria (Hail Mary) -completed fifty years later and approved by Pope Sixtus V about 1600 A.D.

1534 A.D. Jesuit Order founded by Ignatius Loyola.

1545 A.D. Tradition declared of equal authority with the Bible by the Council of Trent.

1546 A.D. Apocryphal books added to the Bible by the Council of Trent.

1560 A.D. 'Creed' of Pope Pius IV imposed as the official creed.

1854 A.D. Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary proclaimed by Pope Pius IX.

1864 A.D. The 'Syllabus of Errors' proclaimed by Pope Pius IX and ratified by the Vatican Council; condemned freedom of religion, conscience, speech, press, and scientific discoveries which are not approved by the Roman Church; and also asserted the pope's temporal authority over all civil rules

1950 A.D. Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death) proclaimed by Pope Pius XII.
approximate dates
AND ROME SAYS SHE NEVER CHANGES!

AN EXAMPLE OF R.C.C> Brainwashing

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Top 10 Questions Every Catholic Must Know and Answer about the Catholic Church

We Catholics are often asked tough questions about our Catholic faith and its relationship to the Bible. Here are the ten most-asked-questions and the answers that should help you satisfy both your questioner and yourself.

1Are your beliefs found in the Bible?

All Catholic beliefs can be found in the Bible in some form, whether plainly or by an indirect indication. It is not necessary for everything to be absolutely clear in Scripture alone, because that is not a teaching of Scripture itself. Scripture also points to an authoritative Church and Tradition, as St. Paul says in his Second Letter to the Thessalonians: “Stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter” (2 Thess 2:15 – see also 1 Cor 11:2, 2 Thess 3:6; 2 Tim (1:13-14; 2:2). When the first Christians had a significant disagreement, they didn’t simply open their Bibles (which didn’t even exist at that point) to decide who was right; they held a council, which made binding decrees (Acts 15:1-29). The very books of the Bible had to be determined by the Church and that didn’t happen until the late fourth century. Therefore, Sacred Tradition and authority were necessary for us to even have a Bible today.

2Why do you obey the Pope?

Catholics believe that Jesus commissioned St. Peter as the first leader of the Church. Matthew’s Gospel has the most direct biblical indication of the papacy: “And I tell you, you are Peter (meaning literally “Rock”) and on this rock I will build my church … I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 16:18-19). Based on this statement of Jesus himself, Peter is clearly portrayed in the New Testament as the leader of the disciples. A pope can make infallible, binding pronouncements under certain conditions. Infallibility doesn’t mean that absolutely everything a pope says is free from error. All Christians believe that God protected Holy Scripture from error by means of inspiration, even though sinful, fallible men wrote it. We Catholics also believe that God the Holy Spirit protects His Church and its head from error (Jn 14:16) by means of infallibility, even though sinful, imperfect men are involved in it.

3. Why do you call your priest “Father”?

“And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven” (Mt 23:9). In this passage, Jesus is teaching that God the Father alone is ultimately the source of all authority. But He is not speaking absolutely, because if so, that would eliminate even biological fathers, the title “Church Fathers”, the founding fathers of a country or organization and so on. Jesus himself uses the term “father” in Matthew (15:4-5; 19:5, 19, 29; 21:31), John (8:56) and several other places. In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Jesus actually presents Lazarus as using the address “Father Abraham” twice (Lk 16:24, 30 – see also Acts 7:2; Rom 4:12; Jas 2:21). St. Paul also uses the term when he writes, “I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel (1 Cor 4:15 – see also 1 Cor 4:14-16) and refers to “our forefather Isaac” (Rom 9:10). 4. Why do you pray for the dead? The Bible clearly teaches the rightness of prayers for the dead in 2 Maccabees (12:40, 42, 44-45): “Then under the tunic of every one of the dead they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids Jews to wear. And it became clear to all that this was why these men had fallen … And they turned to prayer, beseeching that the sin which had been committed might be wholly blotted out … For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise againn, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead …He made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.” St. Paul teaches this in a similar way: “Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?” (1 Cor 15:29). This indicates prayer and fasting for the dead. The word baptism often symbolically refers to penances (Mk 10:38-39; Lk 3:16, 12:50). The apostle Paul also appears to be praying for a dead person, Onesiphorus, in 2 Timothy (1:16-18). 5 Why do you pray to idols (statues)? No Catholic who knows anything about the Catholic faith has ever worshiped a statue (as in pagan idolatry). If we cherish the memory of mere political heroes with statues and that of war heroes with monuments, then there can be no objection to honoring saints and righteous men and women: “Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor” (1 Pet 2:17 – see also Rom 12:10; Heb 12:22-23). Statues are simply a visual reminder of great saints and heroes of the faith (Heb 11), who are more alive than we are (2 Cor 3:18), as is evident by their praying: “O Sovereign Lord … how long before thou wilt judge and aveng

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Roman Catholic Doctrines Not Found in Scripture

In saying, "Not Found", it is meant that the idea itself is not even hinted at, let alone explicitly written. In many instances, the exact opposite is taught

-The pope
-Peter being a pope
-Mary being prayed to in heaven
-Mary being a perpetual virgin
-The idea of nuns
-The Rosary
-Praying the "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)
-"The Immaculate Conception of Mary"
-"The Assumption of Mary"
-"Mary is the Mother of God"
-The inclusion of the "Apocryphal books" in to Scripture
-The Mass, where Jesus is Crucified
-Infant Baptism
-"Confirmation"
-Bowing to idols
-Bowing to "the Blessed Sacrament" (Mary)
-Chanting
-Confession to a priest
-Priests have power to forgive sins
-The ten commandments altered, dropping the call to not make or bow down to idols
-The R.C.C. as the "Mother Church"
-Infallibility of the popes speaking "ex cathedra"
-"Holy Water"
-Only the Roman Catholic Church can interpret, translate, distribute the Word of God
-Roman Catholicism is necessary for salvation
-"Seven sacraments"
-Roman Catholic tradition equivalent to Scripture
-Making idols of "saints"
-Bowing to idols of "saints"
-Praying to "saints"
-Only popes can declare someone a "saint"
-"Transubstantiation"
-"Purgatory"
-"Indulgences"
-"Mary" as Co-Redemptrix"
-"Mary" as "Co-Mediatrix"
-Peter is "The Rock" of the church, not Jesus
-"Celibacy" of the priesthood, nuns
-Kissing statues
-Salvation by works, following the 10 Commandments.
-"Falling from Grace"
-"No meat on Fridays"
-"Lent"
-"Patron Saints"
-Calling the Priests "Father"
-Babies inherit sin nature of parents, so are wicked, evil and bound for hell
-The "pope" is the Vicar (replacement) of Christ
-No one can understand or interpret Scripture without the R.C.C. leaders
-"The Madonna and Child" statues, images
-The "Signs of the Cross"
-Crucifix Worship
-The worship of relics, images
-The "Stations of the Cross"
-"Mary" is the "Queen of Heaven"
-The "Novena"
-"The baptism of bells"
-Prayers for the dead
-Prayers to the dead
-"The Scapular"
-"The cup" is not for the laity
-"Acts of Contrition"
-"Penance"
-"Anointing of the sick"
-Wax Candles
-"Priestly garb"
-"Extreme Unction"
-Kissing the feet of the popes
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Roman Catholicism: THE HISTORY
Link is at http://eaec.org/cults/romancatholic.htm
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Roman Catholicism: THE HISTORY
Needs to be rewritten, link is at http://eaec.org/cults/romancatholic.htm

Roman Catholicism: CULT OF MARY, CULT OF EVIL

A partial history
(Romans 1:25 [KJV])
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

-Founder: Emperor Constantine, 312 A.D., who claimed, losing a war, that he suddenly had a "miraculous conversion" to get Christians and "Christians" behind him
-Constantine still worshiped the sun god, sol invictus and never stopped building pagan idols, temples, etc.
-It's headquarters is in Rome (Roman), Italy, it's name says it is "universal" (catholic)
-The Vatican is simply a city-state, with tremendous political power, huge walls, high security, its own laws, own government
-Christianity was not made the official religion of the Roman Empire until 380 and 381 A.D., with the edicts of Theodosius I
-Regardless, Constantine, from 312 A.D. until 337 when he died, was was both building pagan temples and Christian churches, and was slowly turning over the power, his seat of his "pagan priesthood" to "the Bishop of Rome. ("popes")
-Constantine's family title was "Pontifex Maximus", as were many Roman emperors, and the title was later adopted, given to the "popes"
-The popes also took Constantine's other titles, as the self-appointed civil "head of the church" – "Summus Pontifex", which means "Vicar" of Christ" and "Bishop of Bishops"
-The words "vicar of Christ" mean "replacement of Christ" or "in the place of Christ", meaning that the "popes" replace Christ on earth- because they say so
-The Christians in the book of Acts suffered great persecution and martyrdom from both the Jewish leaders and Rome herself, from Rome for not worshiping their pagan idols
-In order to win over the lukewarm, tepid, nominal and mediocre Christians, Constantine melded the two religions into one, making Christianity palatable, respectable to the now compromising masses
-Rome's pagan deities were "Christianized", so Rome went from "pagan deities" to "Roman pagan deities"
-The pagan god statues became "saints", mother (pagan goddess ("Cybele" with child, pronounced SIB-ɘ-lee;, mother goddess of Rome) pagan statues became "Madonna and the Christ child"
-Mary, the mother of Jesus the man (God does not have a mother) became a goddess to the Roman Catholic "Church"
-Now, praying to "the mother goddess "Cybele" was switched to praying to "Mary, the Mother of God", by changing the name from "Cybele" to "Mary, mother of God"
-What is not known is that this pagan "Madonna and child" goes way back to Babylon and never had anything to do with Jews or Christians
-They even formed "patron saints" of cities from these pagan idols
-They took the pagan holidays and reclassified them as "Christian holy days"
-For instance, the Roman "Lupercalia" ("health, fertility and purity") and "the feast of purification of Isis" then became "the Feast of the Nativity"
-The pagan Saturnalia feast became "Christmas" (Christ + MASS, as in RCC MASS), except the shepherds were in the field when Jesus was born, not in December!
-"All Souls Day" or "All Saints Day", a feast of the dead, became "Halloween"
-So persecution went from not rejecting Christ and being martyred to not following Romish, pagan idols and being martyred
-The persecution, once "in the name of Jehovah" by the Jewish leadership under the time of the book of Acts was now switched to "not following Rome's 'Christianity' ", persecuted "In the Name of 'Christ' "
-This is their well documented origin, their legacy, their heritage, and they deserve it, they earned it
-They invented under Rome and Roman Catholicism cruel tortures to get Christians to recant (the rack, human candles, drawing and quartering, etc.)
-Mary worship became an official doctrine of the R.C.C. in at the Council of Ephesus, 431 AD, under Roman Emperor Theodosius II
-From that time on to today, the self-proclaimed "bishop of Rome" was to be THE "Supreme Priest: to the pagans, now also self-proclaimed to be "the head over the Christian church"
-Now, paganism was one with "Christianity", forming the Roman Catholic Church
-Peter was never one time called by Jesus a single title of these self-proclaimed "popes"
-Today the Pope also calls himself "The Holy See" (Latin: Sancta Sedes, "holy chair", Santa Sede ['santa' s∈ːde]), also called "the See of Rome", from their naming of "Petrine See" or "Apostolic See", )
-Nuns were formerly temple prostitutes, fornication of every imaginable sort was and is very rampant from the top down, and every major crime known to man, done, covered up
-Sergius III (circa 860 – 911) Murdered his two wo Predecessors, Fathered an illegitimate child, became a "pope", Sergius III was the "pope" from 904-911
-Pope John XII turned the Vatican into a brothel, defiling any woman, virgin, married, widowed, doing to even on "the tombs of Peter" and Paul!
-Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303)

Links to studies by book or topic are on the top menu.

INTRODUCTION:

Roman Catholicism

THE HERETICAL BOOKS/WORKS OF THE CATHOLICS

THE APOCRYPHA

THE APOCRYPHA

THE CONTENTS AND ERRATA

Scripture/Christianity

THE NAME ALONE SAYS IT ALL: ERROR!

THE BIGGEST LIE: FINAL AUTHORITY

THEIR DARK HISTORY

THE WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST

DANIEL'S VISION OF A STATUE, WORLD HISTORY: DANIEL 2

"LET ME TELL YOU..."

THE CONCLUSION OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE IMAGE

THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE: THAT IS NOW

POPISH POWER AND DOMINATION

Roman Catholic Claim

Scripture/Christianity

(Psalms 138:2 [KJV]) I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Roman Catholic Claim

THE APOCRYPHA

Scripture/Christianity

Roman Catholic Claim:

Scripture/Christianity:

The Bereans

Roman Catholic Claim:

JESUS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD

Roman Catholic Claim:

Scripture/Christianity

Roman Catholic Claim

Scripture/Christianity

THE PROBLEM OF PETER

Roman Catholic Claim

Scripture/Christianity

It must be noted that, if Peter were ever a pope at all, both he and Jesus would have certainly told us such an important thing if Jesus wanted us to follow Peter and not Himself, the LORD.

The Strange Case of Peter "The Rock" and Satan

God is THE TRUE ROCK

The Rock of Living Waters

Christ the Rock as Foundational to the House of God

Scripture/Christianity

Scripture/Christianity

Peter HIMSELF Called Jesus the Rock Upon Which the Church Was Founded

As did the Apostle Paul

Scripture/Christianity

Peter: No Evidence He Was Ever Even In Rome

Roman Catholic Claim:

Scripture/Christianity

Paul Rebuked Peter Openly, Personally

Paul Never Mentions Peter In Romans Salutation

In fact, if one was "of Peter the Pope", then Paul said they also "were of Paul, the pope". In fact, in Galatians 2:9, it would seem that James and John were also "popes" as Paul called them "pillars" of the Church as well as Peter (Cephas).

Peter Was a Married Man

Peter Lorded Over No One

THE REAL POPES

Paul told people three times to follow him as he followed Christ, not Peter

REVELATION 17: THE WHORE

Revelation Chapter 17

Mystery Babylon: The Religious Side

"LET ME TELL YOU..."

SEE ALEXANDER HISLOP: THE TWO BABYLONS

SEE A WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST

SEE GLOBAL PEACE AND THE RISE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST

1. City States.

Washington's District of Columbia, which is not part of the City of Washington or the US. The inner city of London, which is not part of London or England, and Vatican City, which is not part of Rome or Italy.

2. Vatican City

3. The City of London.

4. The District of Columbia.

5. The U.S.A. - A Crown Colony.

6. Obelisks

THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN

"Mary, mother of Jesus and all believers, is not co-redeemer, Vatican says"

DANIEL'S VISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CHAPTER TWO

DANIEL'S VISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CHAPTER SEVEN

RETURNING WITH JESUS

CALLED TO BE SAINTS

CHOSEN

BABYLON VS. MYSTERY BABYLON

THE WOMAN

REVELATION CHAPTER 17: THE WOMAN RIDES THE BEAST

THE TRUE, DARK HISTORY OF THE "POPES"

POPE "INNOCENT" THE GUILTY

(Psalms 138:2 [KJV])
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.