By Joel R. McGee, Christened: Michael Paul Hoshayah,
COMMUNITY ELDER, Th.D.A., Ecc.D.A.
Some minor contribution by W.J. LeMatty
A DECLARATION OF WAR
As Sacred Mediators of the New Covenant between God and mankind, we are warriors of truth who slay adversaries of falsehood. A weapon for this is the “sword of God”, His Word. Ephesians 6;17
A person becomes a Christian by the teachings of Jesus Christ recorded in the Holy Bible’s New Covenant (Agreement) from God through Jesus Christ. The details, terms, and that agreement arise from that physical source before any other person or church.
The term Christian herein means a Biblical Christian, also called a Judeo-Christian, as distinquished from Roman Catholic-Christian, or a Catholic Protestant Christian.
Some people have been misled to believe the Catholic Church is the “source” for becoming a Christian. The Catholic Church is the source for becoming a Catholic, not a Biblical Christian. This is because the Catholic Church digressed from the New Covenant teachings many centuries ago, thereby fell out of the New Covenant and no longer define what a Biblical Christian is.
For example, speaking of the trinity, specifically defining Jesus equal to God the Father or is fully God, Catholics say things along the lines of “It transcends our ability to understand it…” (John Bartunek, Catholic Priest, Answers: Catholic Advice For Your Spiritual Questions), which is actually refuted in Romans 1:20,
“For since the creation of the world His (Yah, Psalms 68:4) invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made (man/woman/creation), even His (Yah, Psalms 68:4) eternal power and Godhead (Divine nature, including hierarchy), so that they are without exscuse,” (parentheticals my own for emphasis)
God gave us His Word (John 1:1-2,14) and made very sure that it interprets itself, also by the fact that God gave His only Son so that we could “come to the Father” (John 3:16, 14:6). Statements as that of Catholic priests like John Bartunek claim that the very Word given to us by God is a lie for their teachings of men to prevail instead (Matthew 13:15 describes the state of such Catholics). It turns out, as we will learn, that the Catholic Church is as “full of abominations”, (Revelation 17:5), as the earth is with worms. We will also learn, that from its earliest beginning, the founders of the church were corrupt in that beginning.
LIES
I have come to understand, during 40 years of my life without God, that when you tell one lie, you must tell others to “save face” or keep anyone from discovering the truth that you lied about. The reason we do this is because there is some type of “benefit” for us in telling the first lie. Sometimes the root of the lie was either “misunderstanding” or simply “not knowing” what it was that was being spoken of. But other lies were told because we saw an opportunity that could get us either “power”, “riches”, or both. This latter of the two examples is the choice that the Catholic Church chose, from earlier actions of others (see for example Daniel 8:9-12), to rise above what God intended for them. God’s Church began with the Tabernacle, the individual person as holy housing His Holy Spirit, then the collective people, its social cultural order, that Tabernacle represented partially by a physical building. It was instructed that this would be a place to atone for sin, (Leviticus 3:8, etc). It was NOT intended to “change times and laws”, (Daniel 7:25) in the manner that Catholicism has. This will be proven also.
ARTICLES OF WAR
It is my sole intention to show the truth with Scripture being the foremost authority, paralleled by history. I will, indeed, continue with my personal interpretation that the Holy Catholic Church IS NOT God’s True Church: the Church God intends by obedience to His Word. Yet, quite the opposite. She (the Catholic church) is proven by Scripture, history and their own admission, to be that “great whore” (Revelation 17:1, KJV) named “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (Revelation 17:5, KJV).
Keep in mind, the profile of Mystery Babylon can apply to multiple entities, including the United States when her Judeo-Christian heritage for a moral backbone is undermined or abolished by occult and esoteric teachings of former pagan myths, idolatries, or arrogant vanities of mysticism having little to no practical value, such as, Kabbala, Gnosticism, Freemasonry (e.g. their misguided embrace of “Lucifer” doctrine see https://en.calameo.com/books/0001935748fd797879e85), or the like.
The Mysteries of Rome, Egypt, etc. such as of Eleusis were the most famous of those in ancient Greece, although there were many others in the Mediterranean world, for example, the Mysteries of Cybele, Bacchus, Orpheus, Isis, and Mithra. The Eleusinian Mysteries lasted for more than a thousand years, initiating countless numbers of nobles and commoners, women and men, free persons and slaves. After the Mysteries of Eleusis and others had been closed down by a Catholic Christian government that regarded them as subversive, the Mystery tradition did not die out, but was transformed. It continued, as Joscelyn Godwin shows in the Quest Book “The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Tradition”, in a number of forms: Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism, Alchemy, Kabbalah, and Freemasonry, among others.
In this article, we focus on the Catholic church entity.
I will be as thorough as possible so as to leave no stone unturned. And in doing this, I will leave your opinion to you. I cannot force my belief upon you. You, in your heart, must search for the truth by asking God to use the Holy Spirit to guide you to His Truth. It is MY job to work with and by the Holy Spirit to show you, as easily as possible, this way to the truth. I willfully allow God, through the Holy Spirit, to guide me in this dissertation for you, His beloved. You and others MUST know the truth and I MUST “sound the trumpet” (Ezekiel 33:4-7), for you. I accepted this purpose willfully, (Luke 12:48). In doing so, I MUST not be polite to save offense to other’s feelings. These “popes” are NOT sparing souls in their false teachings. Therefore, I absolutely REFUSE to spare their feelings, (1Timothy 5:20). If you feel that this is un-necessary, then I ask you,
“How else should I be the watchman (Ezekiel 33:4-7), as God’s chosen, and fulfill the second most important commandment to love my neighbor as I love myself (Matthew 22:39), if I do not love them enough to fight (Jude 3) for their eternal soul?” I will not “sugar coat” my acts of war against the enemy and his servants. YOU are worth far more to me than to say “It’s ok. The lake of fire isn’t THAT hot!” by allowing the enemy to declare that I or any of God’s faithful should be “politically correct”. These “politics” will NOT be found to help us in the Day of Judgment.
Take up your Sword (Ephesians 6:17) to “contend” (Jude 3) for your faith and that of our “neighbor” (Matthew 22:39).
GUARDING THE INNOCENT
Do not let it be said that this dissertation is an attack on the people/parishoners of Catholicism. This dissertation is FOR the OPENING OF THE EYES of those in and under this demonic doctrine, (1 Timothy 4:1-3). We at the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem and her Global Council from Christ (CCGJ-GCC) cast no stones at the innocent, (John 8:7). Yet, we catapult, as balistas, TRUTH at the Catholic Doctrine and those that WILLFULLY deceive others, for they are of their father, the devil, (John 8:44).
We of God’s True Church, CCGJ-GCC, urge all under this Catholic doctrine, “come out from among her”, (Revelation 18:4).
Titus 3:15, “All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.”
Your brother in Christ,
CCGJ-GCC CHURCH DEACON,
COUNCILOR BISHOP,
COMMUNITY ELDER, Th.D.A., Ecc.D.A.
Christened: Michael Paul Hoshayah
Joel R. McGee
THE MISSION
I was commissioned by Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, to create disciples of all nations and tongues, (Matthew 28:19-20). God called me to the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem and her Global Council from Christ, (hitherto as CCGJ-GCC) His Church, through answering my prayer to put someone in my life that would help me draw closer to Him. Then God, through His Son in Benjamin J. Theophilus, gave me the Lion of Judah Discipleship Journey Seminary (See ccgjgcc.home.blog). Upon completion of the Associates portion of the LJDJS, God chose me for a mission. That mission was given to me in the form of a raging desire to know End Time Prophecy through the books of Daniel and Revelation (21 Horns: Truth In Identification). Throughout that dissertation God, through His Son, was setting a compulsive desire for His Truth. I will not lie to you. As I learned the utterly disgusting history of the Catholic Doctrine, my blood would begin to boil in contempt for this “doctrine of demons”, (1 Timothy 4:1-3).
It is by God’s Grace alone that I now have the knowledge and wisdom of His Word and the prophecies therein (Proverbs 2:6 James 1:5). What you are about to learn may change your perception of what you may have been taught. But it should definitely make you angry that individuals actually choose to willfully deceive those whom are trying to gain eternal life, (John 3:14-17).
I must reach as many people as I possibly can with this dissertation, hopefully, to open their eyes to draw them to His Truth, as I have been by God’s Mercy. It will be worth it if just one soul turns from the lies of equapolitheist Trinitarianism/Catholicism and is reconciled to God through His Son, Jesus Christ (Matthew 18:12-13).
This is my mission. Think about it. One billion people are lost under this doctrine and are brainwashed into citing “traditional” creeds that were written by a corrupt man for a corrupt church, (Nicene Creed as recited at every mass). One billion, (1,000,000,000), people to be tormented in the “lake of fire” with Satan, Death, False Prophet, Hell, The Beast, etc. (Revelation 20:12,15). These under the Catholic doctrine could include some or all of our loved ones, let alone neighbors and friends. Are they not worth fighting for? Is their eternal soul not worth fighting for? Is this not why God through His Son and prophets gave us warning?
This is my mission. Put on the whole armor of God, because this is war. (Ephesians 6:12-13).
PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE: The Lie About Peter
“You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.”–Jesus teaching Peter, recorded in Matthew 16:18.
From the surviving Greek manuscripts of the Holy Bible preserved by Luke the eyewitness disciple of Jesus kept by CCGJGCC ( he had “complete understanding” Luke 1:1-3), predating Roman Catholicism arising in 325 A.D and her Latin manuscripts later, we know Peter’s name arises from “Petros” meaning a “piece of rock.” See Greek Dictionary of the Holy Bible’s New Covenant from a Strong’s Concordance number 4074. We also know the word “rock” here arises from “petra” meaning “mass of rock.” See Greek Dictionary of the Holy Bible’s New Covenant from a Strong’s Concordance number 4073.
This means Jesus was teaching that Peter was only a piece of the massive Rock. That massive Rock is Jesus from Whom and upon Whom God’s Church would be constructed. Not Peter or his physical lineage from his marriage (Mark 1:30 demonstrates Peter was a married leader of our original Church as example to following leaders). And Jesus was pointing to God Above him working through him as the ultimate Rock in his Body of Christ. That Body then and now is the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem (for person to person ministry) which also served as the first Global Council of Christ (12 apostolic bishops of Acts chapter 1 overseeing upcoming church to church international ministry outlined in book of Acts).
“Vatican Hill was the site of Roman emperor Nero’s public gardens and circus. Many early Christians suffered martyrdom there. According to TRADITION [of Catholics], St. Peter was crucified on the hill and buried nearby. Because of this BELIEF, they erected Vatican City on the spot.” (The American Peoples Encyclopedia Vol. 20, p 288-289, CAPS my own, as well as words in [brackets])
TRADITION – Oral delivery or transmission of information, opinions, practices, customs, etc.
BELIEF – A state or habit of mind in which trust is placed in some person or thing.
(The American Heritage College Dictionary)
“Catholics believe that Jesus established the office of the pope when He said to the apostle Simon who was called Peter, 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 aginst it.” (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Let’s read exactly what the Catholic doctrine teaches from their own Bible, “The New American Bible, Revised Ed., Saint Jerome Ed.”
Matthew 16:18 Commentary:
“You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church: The Aramaic word ‘kepa’ meaning ‘rock’ and transliterated into Greek as ‘kephas’ is the name by which Peter is called in the Pauline letters (epistle citations) except in Galatians 2:7-8 (Peter).”
The strategy here was to use one of the lanquages Jesus used, Aramaic, to sidestep and go around the teachings of Jesus to Peter preserved in Greek from Luke to us. Then later Catholics would use the Latin lanquage to build their Bible from primarily Greek manuscripts of Luke, in part because the intense Roman persecutions— from 33 A.D. crucifixion to 325 adoption of Christianity—aimed to destroy any Hebrew or Aramaic New Covenant manuscripts.
Did you catch the subtle change that this doctrine uses to LIE to people with? Here. I will point it out to you.
Notice that the name used by Jesus, in Matthew 16:18, is “Peter”.
“The Aramaic word ‘kepa’ meaning ‘rock’…” There it is in all of Satan’s lying glory and deception! The Aramaic word Kepa does indeed mean ‘rock’. BUT IT WASN’T USED IN THIS SCRIPTURE ALONE LIKE THAT!! This subtle shift in words is the deception. The doctrine uses two words, (kepa and kephas), from totally different lanquage as commentary to later Latin Scriptures copied from earlier Greek.
This Catholic commentary goes on to say,
“The presumed original Aramaic of Jesus’ statement would have been, in English, “You are the rock (kepa) and upon this rock (kepa) I will build my church.”
These are NOT the words of this Scripture in the original Greek manuscripts. This doctrine has its followers CHANGING Scripture! (See Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:32)
The word “rock” that Jesus used in this verse that says “…and upon this ROCK I will build my church.” is translated from the Greek word “petra” which is the feminine form of the Greek word “petros” and literally means ‘a mass of rock’. So if Peter (Petros) is a “piece of rock” and “petra” (Jesus used as himself) is the “mass of rock”, then we can clearly see how and why Jesus made this statement in the form that He did.
Jesus called Himself the “mass of rock petra” and He called Peter the “piece of rock petros”. Peter was a “piece” of the “mass” which was Christ.
The truth from Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance — Peter- 4074(Greek) Petros– apparantly a primary word a (piece of) rock (larger than 3037(G) “lithos” meaning a “stone”) as a name, Petrus, an apostle.
To continue with this lie of Peter being the first Bishop of Rome (Pope),
“According to TRADITION, Peter traveled to Rome and became the city’s first bishop, giving ‘special’ status to Rome and to it’s office of bishop” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.15, pp.660-661, CAPS my own)
And there is that word again, “tradition”. If we remember, the Catholics also said that Peter was martyred on “Vatican Hill and buried nearby”. These, as the above ‘tradition’, are lies and will be proven as such. Let’s dig in to the evidence of the Bible first and then secular (outside the Bible) sources also.
PETER’S TRUTH
To begin, we jump into a conversation between Jesus and the scribes and Pharisees. We will excerpt Scripture from the book of Matthew 15:2, 3, 6,
15:2, “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?…”
15:3, (Jesus), “And He answered and said to them, ‘Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?”
15:6, (Jesus)”… Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.”
I think it is pretty safe to say that Jesus really didn’t care for or about the traditions of man. What mattered to Him most, as it should be for us, was teaching and doing the Will of the Father, (John 4:34, 6:38, 17:4, 19:30). Now that we have established how Jesus felt about “tradition”, let us use our newfound understanding to abolish the ‘traditions’ of the Catholic Church’s doctrine concerning their supposed ‘successorship tradition’ from Peter.
Matthew 26:31, “Then Jesus said to them, ‘All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.”
The Catholic Church knew these Scriptures as well. So why not institute a belief that Peter was ‘scattered’ to Rome?
“According to [Catholic] TRADITION, Peter traveled to Rome and became the city’s first bishop, giving “special” status to Rome and to it’s office of Bishop.” (World Book Encyclopedia, pp 660-661, Vl. 15)(CAPS my own)
So first, we must ask “Why would Peter go to Rome to give ‘special’ status to a people that were going to martyr him on what is now known as Vatican Hill?”
The answer: He didn’t.
GALATIANS 2:7-8,
“But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision (Gentile) was committed unto me (Paul), as the gospel of the (Jewish) circumcision was unto Peter (For He [Jesus] that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the (Jewish) circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles [uncircumcision])” (KJV)(brackets and parenthesis of identity added)
So what does this mean? Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles and Peter was the apostle to the Jews. So how is it that I expect you to believe me when I could have added those identifiers from my own interpretation? I am glad you asked!
Genesis 17:10, (God to Abraham),
“This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised,”
Here we are in the first book of the Bible where a fellow named Abraham was just told by God that he and all his descendants need to cut the foreskin off, (vs. 11), as a sign of the covenant between God and the people. So what was the covenant?
Genesis 15:5, “Then He brought him outside and said, ‘Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.’ And He said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.”
Notice our key word, “circumcised”, in 17:10. This was made for all of Abraham’s descendants also. So how do we know that Peter was a descendant? This is easy enough to answer. Abraham had a son named Isaac, (Genesis 21:3). Isaac had two sons whose names were Esau and Jacob, (Genesis 25:25-26) and Jacob was renamed by God, through an angel, Israel (Genesis 32:28). And the early Jewish people were, by God, called Israel, (Exodus 1:1,7 etc). In short, if you were born from this people Israel, you were circumcised as God said to Abraham in Genesis 17:10. And we know that Peter was indeed of this people. But more so, let’s read another Scripture that stresses Peter’s apostleship to the circumcision as stated by Paul.
(Paul repromanding Peter), Galatians 2:14, “But when I saw that they were not straight forward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, ‘If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?” And there you have it.
We can see that Peter was just as Paul cited him to be, an apostle to the Jews because he was indeed a Jew. With this being understood, we can move forward to see why Peter would not have gone to Rome.
TO ROME OR NOT TO ROME
All the scribes and Pharisees had to do in order to stop the spread of the gospel of Jesus was to produce a body from the grave on the third day. They knew full well that if what Jesus said was true, then they indeed crucified the Son of God. They were afraid. So what did they do? They went to Pilate and asked for a guard to be set,
Matthew 27:63-66, “saying, ‘Sir, we remember , while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise.’ therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ so the last deception will be worse than the first.’ Pilate said to them, ‘You have a guard go your way, make it as secure as you know how’ So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard.”
Why would they be so afraid if they knew for a fact that Jesus was not the Son of God? They weren’t convinced at all. And what happened? Christ was resurrected and there was no body for them to present, as a liar, to the people and Jerusalem in general. Now is when the situation for the High Priests gets dire.
PERSECUTION
After the rulers, elders and such were unable to produce the Body of Christ, they knew their goose was cooked. They were made out to be the liars. So what they did is spoke with the soldiers of Rome, (Pilate), and bribed them to say that the disciples of Christ came and stole the body, (Matthew 28:11-15).
Their next step was to try and hush the Gospel of Christ, from His disciples, by threats! The Sanhedrin, or rulers, elders and scribes, (Acts 4:5-6), had put Peter and John in jail for healing a lame man, (chapter 3) and preaching in Jesus the resurrection, (Acts 4:1-4). They then proceeded in asking Peter what authority or name did they do this by, (Acts 4:7).
Check out the brilliant confidence of Peter by his response, Acts 4:8-12,
“Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, ‘Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazereth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief conerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Hows that for a slap in the face? What the priests and rulers did not know is that Christ had already appeared to His disciples, (Matthew 28:9-20 Mark 16:12-18 Luke 24:13-45, John 20:14-21:25, Acts 1:4-8). I guess you could say this was the “inside joke” on the rulers and elders. HA! “Jokes on you!!!” We could say the same about Catholicism I suppose.
Well, the ole Pharisees and such decided to try and square off with this confidence with threats. Acts 4:16-17, “saying, ‘What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.”
But this, of course, did not work as evidenced in Acts 4:18-22. So now the elders and rulers saw that their actions of threatening the disciples were futile because there was no way for them to dispute the fact that, in the name of Jesus Christ, miracles were being worked by those whom believed. What ever were they to do now? Introduce Saul!!!
There was a fellow by the name of Steven, (Acts 6:5) whom was chosen because of his faith and having the Holy Spirit, (vs. 5). He went to do what he was chosen to do, (vs. 8), and was then accused of blasphemy, (vs. 11). Ultimately, the people did not like the way that Stephen was condemning them by the Word. So they threw him out of the city to stone him, as was the custom of the Old Covenant for blasphemy, (Leviticus 24:14). But look at the second sentence in Acts 7:58, “… And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.” This dude was not a good guy, as we read in Acts 8:1, “Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.” Now we are getting somewhere!!!
And in verse 8:3, “As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.” OHA!!! Now we see the next phase of the elders and rulers in their attempt to stop the spread of the Gospel of Christ! They wanted those who believed and professed Christ to die. So they hired a “hitman” of sorts to do their bidding. How do we know Saul was the “hitman” of these Pharisees, rulers and elders? Acts 9:1-2,
“Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.”
With our new information and truth from the Word, we are demanded to ask, “Why would Peter go to Rome, that is approximately 1400 miles by boat from Jerusalem, to preach to the the gentiles there when he was NOT the apostle to the gentiles?” The answer: He didn’t. As found in Acts 10:5, Peter was in Joppa. In verse 24, we see Peter in Caesarea. Acts 11:2 shows him back in Jerusalem. Acts 12:19 have him from Judea to Caesarea, and etc. No where in the Bible will you find any scripture that has Peter in Rome. With that being understood, Let’s look at some information from the encyclopedia. YAY!!!
“There is no historical evidence that St. Peter was the first leader of the Church of Rome nor that he was martyred there during a persecution of the christians (AD.67).” (The New Encyclopedia Britannica, V.9, pg.122)
Well what about the Church saying that Peter was buried nearby? There must be some basis for that, right? Catholicism claimed that the bones of Peter were found in an ossuary near Vatican Hill. (snickering) Hehehe! Too bad for you Pope ole boy, proven a liar again!
“Radio-carbon dating determined that these were the bones of a 60-70 year old man. Despite these finds set within the context of church tradition, Antonio Ferrua, the archaeologist who headed the excavation of St. Peter’s Tomb, stated that there was no conclusive evidence that these were the bones of St. Peter.”
HA! Now that’s funny! You’d think that the bones of the individual that the church claims was their first bishop would be better marked for certainty, right? Poor fellars.
Yes. I know that my wording is “less than becoming”. But if you think about it, without this crucial lie as part of the Catholic Doctrine, there is NO doctrine! So yes. I laugh at it’s crumbling before my eyes.
I feel no remorse in laughing at a doctrine that claims that our Salvation depends upon us bowing down to the authority of the office of the Pope. OH WAIT!! You didn’t know about that? Here. Allow me, with all glory to Yah, to inform you.
EQUAL IS NOT EQUAL
“As early as the 90’s, Pope St. Clement 1 (about 92-101AD [again according to often false Catholic tradition, this so-called “Pope st. Clement 1” is also likely a fictional person since Catholicism did not arise until around 325 AD]) was asserting the Roman See’s primacy over other churches. However, Constantine moved his Imperial capital from Rome to Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), and the city was dedicated in 330AD. After this move, some church leaders in the East came to believe that the “See” of Constantinople should have equal authority with Rome. Pope St. Leo 1 (440-461AD) argued forcefully for the primacy of the Roman See. He believed that through divine and Biblical authority, the bishop of Rome inherited a “fullness of power” from Peter and was the apostle’s legitimate and legal successor.”
“The papal claim to primacy was expressed dramatically by Pope Boniface 8 (1294-1303) in a bull (papal decree) of 1302AD called Unam Sanctam. In the bull, Boniface claimed that every human beings salvation depended upon submission to the authority of the pope. Boniface saw the pope as Christ on earth, the exclusive instrument of salvation.” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.15, pg.664)
“Boniface 8 insisted that kings of individual nations were subject to the Holy Roman emperor and that the emperor’s power, in turn, came from the pope.” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.16, pg.408)
Now that we have some credible info from encyclopedic authority, we will now get into some Scripture to see where some things have been changed, either by Catholic translators or under Catholic pressure, to make it seem that the Bible supports the doctrine of Jesus being “equal to God” by the phrase “truly God”. Keep in mind we know about these changes from records older than Catholicism and while these changes are few they aimed to change key verses to allow a man to be worshiped equal to God almighty.
1John 5:7-8, “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood and these three agree as one.”
“The famous interpolation after ‘three witnesses’ is not printed in RSV (Revised Standard Version) and rightly so… No respectable Greek manuscript contains it. Appearing first in a late 4th century Latin text, it entered the Vulgate and finally NT of Erasmus.” (Peake’s Commentary on the Bible, p.1038)
“This verse has virtually no support among the early Greek manuscripts … Its appearance in late Greek manuscripts is based on the fact that Erasmus was placed under ecclesiastical pressure to include it in his Greek NT of 1522, having omitted it in his two earlier editions of 1516 and 1519 because he could not find any Greek manuscipts which contained it.” (The Big Book of Bible Difficulties, Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe, 2008, pp.540-541).
As we can see, these verses of 1John 5:7-8 are clearly added. The translator of the late 4th century and early 5th century of the now Catholic Church, was one St. Jerome. It is his version of the Latin copies of the original Greek manuscripts that were in the works from 383AD to its completion in 405AD. This book would later become the “Vulgate” and would not be accepted as the official Catholic version until the 8th-9th centuries. You can still find this copy of the Vulgate in use today as the “St. Jerome Edition, The New American Bible Revised Edition”. This edition has many additions within it and is known also as the “apocrypha”. This is because it has added books such as Tobit, 1st and 2nd Maccabee’s and others. It also has added chapters to many books, one of which is the book of Daniel. In these particular added chapters, it is said that an angel of God took an individual by his hair to move him to and fro. LOL!! Are you serious?!?! No joke. And what’s worse is that Catholic Priests and Bishops teach from this abomination!! Even worse still, people blindly follow it!!
Continuing …
Philippians 2:6 (KJV), “who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,”
John 5:18, “Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.”
These are widely cited verses that Catholic clergy will use if asked to show, within the Bible, that Jesus claimed and is fully God. But unfortunately for them, we have a very important tool at our disposal. It is The Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance. This is a book that is, essentially, the Bible in dictionary format. All words within the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Bible are in this book with definitions in the original Hebrew and Greek. It even gives us what the original word looked like in its native script. And just as unfortunate for the Catholic Doctrine, by the Grace of God and my brother’s kindness, I have one. And without further adeu, the word “equal” as defined from the original Greek definition:
Philipians 2:6 – “equal” in the concordance Greek reference 2470 – Isos (pronounced ee-sos) probably from greek 1492 (through the idea of SEEMING) SIMILAR (in amount and kind).
So the word “equal” is best defined as SIMILAR. The word “equal” was translated falsely with fault. The Greek word that was used in the manuscript was Isos, defined as SIMILAR. Now read the verse with the CORRECT word in the place of “equal” and you will see what Yahwashag (Jesus) actually said. He never said He was “equal” to God, “…thought it not robbery to be [SIMILAR] to God.”
(Sighs) Hohum. Yet another piece of Catholic doctrine proven to be the big ole fat lie that it is. And next up to the plate is ….
NOT EQUAL TO GOD
So after learning that the word “equal” was translated wrongly for malicious intent, you may be wondering, “So how does this affect Catholicism and what malicious intent?” I am so very excited for your inquisitive questions and desire for truth!!!
The Nicene Creed (Adopted in 325AD and said at every Catholic Mass):
“We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, both visible and invisible and in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Only begotten of the Father, that is to say, of the substance of the Father, God of God and Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Fahter, by whom all things were made, both things in heaven and things on earth who, for us men and for our Salvation, came down and was made flesh, was made man, suffered, and rose again on the third day, went up into the heavens, and “is” come again to judge both the quick and the dead and in the Holy Ghost.”
First things first. Notice the parts that say the “Son of God” (Jesus) is “God of God” and “very God of very God”. This is the important part. In more simple terms for understanding, this is saying that Jesus is “God of God”, that Jesus is “very God of very God”, and that Jesus IS God. If you think I might be reading into this a little too much, I give you further evidence and proofs.
“The creed of the council, which catholics pray at mass, affirms that Jesus Christ is truly God, “one in being with the Father.” The council completed the teaching of Nicaea by declaring that Christ is truly man.” (World Book Encyclopedia, pg.407, V.16)
“Council of Chalcedon, 451AD, “Jesus Christ was declared to be True God and True man, each nature being perfect in itself and each distinct from the other, yet perfectly united in one person.” (The American People’s Encyclopedia, 1968, V.16)
Now you can see how the Catholic Doctrine is created as well as how these bishops get together ever so often to decide things to suit their needs. In the above citations, we see how these men, under the same Church Doctrine (Catholic), decided to exalt Jesus above His own words! They made Him “equal” to God with things like “God of God”. Why is this important you ask? It is to show you that by making Jesus “equal” to God, the doctrine thereby makes the “Pope” “equal” to Jesus, thusly, making them (bishops and popes) equal to God!!! Still a little too far you think? Yeah. I don’t think so.
“The papal claim to primacy was expressed dramatically by Pope Boniface 8 (1294-1303) in a bull (papal decree) of 1302AD called Unam Sanctam. In the bull, Boniface claimed that every human beings salvation depended upon submission to the authority of the pope. Boniface saw the pope as Christ on earth, the exclusive instrument of salvation.” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.15, pg.664)
And just in case you are still not convinced
“Nature of the Church (Catholic): Salvation was not complete when Christ left earth. Salvation must be brought to each new generation. They (bishops, cardinals and popes) believe that the Holy Spirit guides and strengthens the church on the way to salvation.” ( World Book Encyclopedia, pg.404, V.16) (parantheticals my own for clarity)
Last I checked, Jesus provided the way to Salvation and it was final upon His resurrection. I could be wrong. Let’s check again!
John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
2Timothy 2:10, “Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.”
Hebrews 10:10, “By that will we have been sactified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.”
Hmmm. Seems to be that Jesus DID provide the way to salvation “once and for all”. And it also seems to be that I saw no pope mentioned in these pearls. Nope. Sorry pope ole boy. Your doctrine is what slang terminology defines as a “FAIL!”
But if it is any consolation to you ole popey pope, you WERE discussed by Jesus Himself before you were even born!!
Matthew 24:4-5, “And Jesus answered and said to them ‘Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.”
And Paul spoke of the Catholic doctrine also!
1Timothy 4:1-3, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in the LATTER TIMES some will DEPART FROM THE FAITH, giving heed to deceiving spirits and DOCTRINES OF DEMONS, SPEAKING LIES in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, FORBIDDING TO MARRY and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” (CAPS for emphasis, my own)
You’d think that after reading such things in their own Bible, (yes it is in there), that the Catholic Doctrine would change, right? Nope. In early 2020, Pope Francis made a trip to Africa to determine the situation of a complaint that the people did not have enough priests to have Mass because they were married and asked the Pope for an allowance against the Catholic Doctrine’s issue of “celibacy”. I thought for sure that the change was coming. Nope. Pope Francis made his way back to Rome to make his decision. Clergy cannot be married. So, I suppose this is where we need to see some actual evidence stating such Doctrinal entry of “celibacy”.
CELIBACY
1Corinthians 9:5, “Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?”
1Timothy 3:2, “A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,…”
Matthew 8:14, “Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.”
And now Catholic Doctrine …
“We do not find in the New Testament any indication of celibacy being made compulsory either upon the apostles or those whom they ordained.” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, art. “Celibacy”, V.3, p.481)
“The council held by Pope Sircius in A.D. 386, only 49 years after the death of Constantine, was the first to officially forbid marriages by priests.” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, art. “Celibacy”, V.3, p.484)
“While the Church has insisted on celibacy, many popes (among them Sergius 3 [904-911]), John 10 [914-928], John 12 [955-964], Benedict 5 [964], Innocent 8 [1484-1492], Urban 8 [1623-1644], and Innocent 10 [1644-1655], as well as multiplied thousands of cardinals, bishops, archbishops, monks, and priests through history, have repeatedly violated such vows. Not only has celibacy encouraged sin in the clergy, but it victimizes and violates those with whom they secretly cohabit” (Vance Ferrell, The Book of Revelation, pg.441)
Mr. Ferrell goes on to say, “The question has been asked why this practice was started and continues. One important reason is because the rule of celibacy has a very practical and lucrative result for the Church. It leaves priests, and especially bishops and popes, without families to whom to bequeath property and thereby impoverish the Church. The clergy must have no heirs.”
“Italy paid the Holy See 750 million lire in cash and 1 billion lire in state bonds….Some would end up in rather strange investments for the benefit of the Church, such as “an italian firearms factory and a Canadian pharmacetical company that manufactured contraceptives.” (Time Magazine, July 26, 1982, p.35 as cited by Vance Ferrell in “The Book of Revelation”, p.450)
So in finality, let’s put the last nail in this “celibacy” coffin. Hebrews 13:4, “MARRIAGE IS HONORABLE among all, and the bed undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” (CAPS my own for emphasis)
Hebrews 13:9, “Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines…”
“The early church gradually separated itself from Judaism, the religion of the Jews, and achieved it’s own identity. But the church accepted the Jewish Scriptures as the record of God’s dealing with His chosen people and as a guide leading to salvation.” (World Book Encyclopedia, pg.406, V16)
INFALLABILITY
At some point in the deviation from Scripture, the early church (Catholic) decided that they would make themselves incapable of error. This means that anything they say CANNOT be wrong.
“Roman Catholics believe that the Pope is infallible (incapable of error) when he speaks for all the church in matters of faith and morals. As a leader of hundreds of millions of Roman Catholics around the world, the Pope can speak as an influential international leader.” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.15, pp.660-661)
“One oustanding feature of this constitution, (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church [Catholic]), was it’s teaching on the “collegiality of Bishops”. According to the document, the bishops and pope form one body. The teaching complimented Vatican Council 2’s teaching of papal primacy and infallibility. It also supported the view of the church as a communion of local churches with the pope as it’s head. The constitution thus returned to the bishop’s some of the authority the papacy had absorbed over the centuries. (World Book Encyclopedia, V.20, pp289-290)
There is something very dark and malicious happening within these words of this Dogmatic Constitution. One is “bishops and pope form one body”. We should recognize this wording from Scripture.
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 may have the preeminence.”
Let’s understand this more clearly. The “He” being spoken of here is Jesus Christ. And “the body” that Jesus is the “head” of is the church. So if the Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Church says that the bishops and the pope make “one body”, this is, in my opinion, a twisted take on this and other Scriptures. But even more, it is saying that the people, who make up the church (Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:23), are worthless. You and I are considered “lay persons” according to this “Constitution”,
“…The constitution gave “lay” people specific responsibilities and rights within the church…” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.20, pp289-290)
“The pope who is the bishop of Rome, serves as the head of the Roman Catholic Church.” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.16, pg.403)
Now the next dark and malicious statement within the document. “…with the Pope as its head.” I can use the same Scriptures to show you that Jesus Christ Himself is the “head” of the Church which was granted Him by our Father, God Almighty! Let’s use Ephesians 1:22-23,
“And He (God sovereign) put all things under His (Jesus) feet, and gave Him (Jesus) to be head over all things to the church, which is His (Jesus) body, the fullness of Him (Jesus) who fills all in all.” (parentheticals and emphasis my own)
It seems pretty clear to me that Jesus is the “head” of the church and nowhere do we see, in ANY Scripture, mention of the office of the Pope. We should understand what all this means as a whole. Let’s begin.
This Dogmatic Constitution document is saying that the bishops and pope make up “one body” and it considers us “lay” people. The Pope now is equating himself with Jesus as the “head of the church”. At the same time, the pope cannot make error in what he claims concerning the church and morals. This makes anyone not Catholic clergy the pope’s lessers and thereby must submit to his rule over us. This goes for ALL christians even if you are not Catholic.
“This teaching compimented Vatican Coucil 2’s teaching of papal primacy and infallibility. It also supported the view of the church as a communion of local churches with the pope as it’s head.” (WBE,V.20, pp 289-90)
“The 21st ecumenical council (Vatican 2) was opened by Pope John 23 on October 11th of 1962. The chief aim of the council, as stated by the pope, was the unity of all Christian faiths under the Roman Catholic Church.” (The Amercan People’s Encyclopedia, V.19, pg.52)
“Council of Constantinople, 381AD, by Thodosius 1, “denounced all opposing doctrines.” (The Amercan People’s Encyclopedia, V.19)
These councils and this constitution is what gave Boniface 8 the idea that he, the pope, was Christ on earth and that salvation depended upon bowing down to this office.
“The papal claim to primacy was expressed dramatically by Pope Boniface 8 (1294-1303) in a bull (papal decree) of 1302AD called Unam Sanctam. In the bull, Boniface claimed that every human beings salvation depended upon submission to the authority of the pope. Boniface saw the pope as Christ on earth, the exclusive instrument of salvation.” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.15, pg.664)
I do not have to tell you that many of the world’s most horrible attrocities were committed by the Catholic Church in the name of God. But what you now know is “why” they were committed. Not only do you know “why”, you also know that all of these, ESPECIALLY that of Boniface 8, were made with malicious intent. Now you see how it is that so many people believe in, by “infallibility”, this corrupt church and it’s supposed head. But just to make sure that this point has reached the depths of your understanding to be immovable, let’s look at some of the church’s “infallibility”.
“In 1231AD, Pope Gregory IX created a special court to investigate suspects and force heretics to change their beliefs. Working in secret, the inquisitors often misused their power. Some suspects were tortured, and heretics who refused to change their beliefs were sentenced to die by burning. In the 1500’s, Catholic leaders turned the inquisition against the Protestants. Catholics now condemn the inquisition for violating modern standards of justice.” (World Book Encyclopedia, V.10, pg.277)
Do you see how the Catholic heirarchy now condemns the Inquisition? Wait a minute. In 381AD., the pope’s were made “infallible”. This was before the Inquisition! So it seems that the Pope’s of our modern time ADMIT that they make mistakes, even in matters of the church and morals. You’d think that they would denounce this part of the Dogmatic Constitution since you just can’t save face from that!! But noooo….not these power hungry, money grubbing and corrupt men!
Here is another “infallible” for you to soak up concerning a very popular woman of history in the mid 15th century.
“Pope Eugene 7, [Eugenius], (1431-1447), condemned Joan of Arc to be burned alive as a witch. Later she was beatified by Pius 10 (1903-1914) in 1909, and canonized as a saint by Benedict 15 (1914-1922) in 1920. Today, inside Paris’ Cathedral of Notre Dame, is one of the most popuar images — that of Joan of Arc, France’s “national heroine”, with large numbers of candles burning before it all the time. Yet she was condemned to death as a witch and heretic by an earlier infallible pope.” (Vance Ferrell, The Book of Revelation, pg.283)
So what and who is a “heretic”?
“One holding controversial opinions, especially contrary to the accepted dogma of Christianity.” (The American Heritage College Dictionary, 3rd ed., “heretic”)
Now that we know “what” a heretic is, we answer “who” it is. You and I are, according to the Catholic Doctrine.
“Heretics condemned by the Church were to be … burned to death. If they recanted they might be let off with imprisonment for life. All their property was to be confiscated, their heirs were to be disinherited, their children were to remain ineligible to any position of emolument or dignity unless they atoned for their parents’ sin by denouncing other heretics. The houses of heretics were to be destroyed and never rebuilt.” (Will Durant, The Age of Faith, pg.778)
According to Catholic doctrine, if you do not believe as their Doctrine says, you are supposed to be burned at the stake.
“Council of Constantinople, 381AD, by Thodosius 1, “denounced all opposing doctrines.” (The American People’s Encyclopedia, V.19)
Do you think they would put a statue up of one of us after burning us to death? Or do you think they would just write us off as a number, such as the 300,000 that were burnt alive in Spain during the Inquisition?
“In his “History of the Inquisition”, Canon Llorente, who was the Secretary to the Inquisition in Madrid from 1790-1792 and had access to the archives of all the tribunals, estimated that in Spain alone the number of condemned exceeded 3 million, with about 300,000 burned at the stake. (R.W. Thompson, The Papacy and Civil Power, pg. 82)
IDOLATRY AND IMAGES
“The second council (Nicene) was called in 787AD by the empress Irene and her son Constantine. The emperor Leo, Irene’s deceased husband, had forbidden the use of images for any purpose. The council was called because of opposition to the decree. The empress revoked the decree after the council had laid down principles governing the veneration of images.” (Eugene TeSelle, World Book Encyclopedia, V.14, 2003, pg.402)
“The belief in miracle-working objects, talismans, amulets, and formulas was dear to [Catholic] Christianity, and they were received from pagan antiquity…The [Catholic] Christian calendar of saints replaced the Roman ‘fasti’ [gods] ancient divinities dear to the people were allowed to revive under the names of ‘Christian Saints’…” (Will Durant, The Age of Faith, 1950, pp.745-746)
“On May 13, 1981, the Pope (John Paul 2) greeted a crowd at Vatican Square in Rome, Italy. As he leaned over to kiss a statue of the Virgin Mary…” (Perry Stone, Unusual Prophecies Being Fulfilled, Book 4, pg.24)
“The sign of the cross — The so-called “mystic Tau” (“T”) was marked on the foreheads of those initiated into the Mithric Mysteries.” (Tertullian, against Heretics, Ch.40, V.2, Pg.54, [as cited in Vance Ferrell’s The Book of Revelation, pg.140])
“The T symbol and the sun symbol were frequently used together. Both represented the Sun god. The T stood for Tammuz, an ancient Sun god, and the sun circle symbolized the more recent Mithra. The Maltese cross, which is another T symbol, is appended by Roman bishops to their names. Layard found it as a sacred symbol in Nineveh in such connections as to identify it with the sun” (Layard, Nineveh and Babylon, p.211 also his book, Nineveh and Its Remains, V.1, pg.365, [as cited in Vance Ferrell’s The Book of Revelation, pg.140])
We will find that what the above article is saying, concerning Tammuz being a sun god, is found in Scripture. Ezekiel 8:14,
“So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD’S house and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.”
The prophet Ezekiel had been shown, in a vision from God, the abominations that were going on in the temple. Along with this abomination were others as well.
Ezekiel 8:10-11, “So I went in and saw, and there — every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls. And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.”
Ezekiel 8:16, “So He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.”
We should really pay close attention to 8:10-11. And then one can search through the internet for “Catholic service procession” or the likes to see, in this day and age, the very scene described in these verses. You cannot go into a Catholic Cathedral of any sort without seeing images of Mary, angels and so-called saints. Matter of fact, one image in particular was discussed in the previous section “INFALLIBILITY” of Joan of Arc. It is literally a crying shame that this Catholic Doctrine still professes imagery to this very day!!
In documentation entitled: CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE – THE SEMINARY OF ST. JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN – ORTHODOXY THEOLOGY AND CHURCH HISTORY 101, (a Orthodox Catholic seminary), on page 6, the 5th paragraph clearly states,
“….It is a very important spiritual exercise for Christians to study the holy icons and the hymns of the Church’s liturgy. One can learn much about God and His gracious actions among men by a careful and prayerful comtemplation of the artistic expressions of Church doctrine and life.”
Offered through “The Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena” is a pamphlet from the “Holy Face Association” that wants you to pray to the “face” on the “Shroud of Turin”. This shroud was supposedly used to cover the body of Jesus in the tomb. It has what appears to be a face that was transposed from the body that it covered. One can do a Google search on the “Shroud of Turin” to see photos of this face.
First, we have to understand where Turin is. Turin is also known as Torino which is a city of NW Italy on the Po River, West-SouthWest of Milan former capital of the kingdom of Sardinia (1720-1861).
Today many know the shroud is a work of falsehood.
In considering the location of the place that lays claim to this shroud, it is highly unlikely that it is the original shroud of Christ. Secondly, it is also highly unlikely that the disciples, let alone Christ’s mother, would have let such an item leave their grasp. And finally, testing has proven that the shroud is not of age nor indiginous materials of Jerusalem. It has been proven that it is NOT what catholicism claims, yet again, as with the supposed “Gabriel wing feather” that turned out to be Ostrich. Let’s read some of their material claiming authenticity.
Inside the cover: “Sister Pierina, a holy nun who died in 1945, in many visions was urged by the Blessed Mother and Jesus Himself to spread the devotion to the Holy Face, in reparation for the many insults Jesus suffered in His Passion, such as to be slapped, spit upon and kissed by Judas, as well as now being dishonored in many ways in the Blessed Sacrament by neglect, sacrileges and profanations.”
“Our Blessed Lord also requested that a special feast be instituted to honor His Holy Face on Shrove Tuesday.” (IMP..J.-C. CHAUMONT, V.G., FEBRUARY, 1959)
Shrove Tuesday: The day before Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday: The seventh Wednesday before Easter and the first day of Lent, when many Christians receive a mark of ashes on the forehead to indicate penitence and morality. (The American Heritage College Dictionary)
The mark that is usually received on the forehead of the penitent disciple on “Ash Wednesday” is a “cross” of ashes. Then they are told that this is a sign of repentance and/or sadness for the sins committed. But what they are NOT going to tell you is that this “cross” symbol was taken from the Egyptians,
“In Egypt the earliest form of the cross was no other than the ‘Crux Ansata,’ or ‘Sign of Life,’ borne by Osiris and all the Egyptian gods … This, and this only, is the origin of the worship of the ‘Christian cross,'” (Alexander Hislop, Two Babylons, p.201, [cited in Vance Ferrell’s ‘The Book of Revelation’])
Osiris- The ancient Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature. (The American Heritage College Dictionary)
And what did Tertullian say of the “cross”?
“The so-called ‘mystic-Tau’ (“T”) was marked on the foreheads of those initiated into the Mithric Mysteries” (Tertullian, against Heretics, Ch.40, V.2, p.54, [as cited in Vance Ferrell’s “The Book of Revelation”])
So what is the “Mithric Mysteries”? First we must understand who “Mithras” is.
Mithras- The ancient Persian god of light and guardian against evil, often identified with the sun.
Mithraism- A religion of Persian origin of the late Roman Empire, rivaling Christianity. (The American Heritage College Dictionary)
“By A.D.300, the old emperor worship was dying out and the two leading religions which kept increasing in numbers were Mithraism and Christianity.” (Vance Ferrell, The Book of Revelation, p.112)
“While Christianity won a comparatively easy victory over the Graeco-Roman religion, it had a hard struggle with the Mithras religion. The worshipers of Mithras were won by taking over the birthday of Mithras, December 25, as the birthday of Christ.” (H. Lamer, ‘Mithras’, Worterbuch der Antike, 2nd ed.)
Mystery Religion- Several different cults or societies characterized in part by elaborate initiation rituals and secret rites … With a few exceptions, for instance, Mithraism that was restricted to males, the mysteries were open to all classes and sexes.” (Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary)
Now that we know what’s going on with this “Ash Wednesday”, we can move on to discuss the fact that there is NOWHERE in the Bible showing that a sign of the “cross” should be put on one’s forehead nor made in symbolism over one’s body as the Catholic Doctrine teaches. Let’s take a look at what a catholic based doctrine teaches (Baptist) concerning the “sign of the cross”.
“To begin ‘self-reflection’, make a sign of the cross and remind yourself that you’re in the presence of God.”
And what does history reveal about the “sign of the cross”?
“Soon people and priests [in papal times] would use the sign of the cross as a magic incantation to expel or drive away demons.” (Will Durant, V.4, The Age of Faith, p.75)
It should be noted that anyone whom watches the movie “The Exorcist” will be in full blown re-creation of past Catholic activities. What is unable for me to obtain for you right now is how many people died from the Catholic’s version of “exorcism”. This is why that it is very unlikely that people can gain the help of the Catholic church, today, to perform an exorcism.
Exorcise- To expel (an evil spirit) by or as if by incantation, command, or prayer. (The American Heritage College Dictionary)
Where can we find “exorcism” in the Bible?
Matthew 8:31-32, “So the demons begged Him, saying, ‘If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.’ And He said to them, ‘Go.’ So when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water.”
9:32-33, “As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, “It was never seen like this in Israel!”
17:18, “And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him and the child was cured from that very hour.”
I want to point out a couple of things here that might have slid past your interpretation in the verses above.
1) Did Jesus make a “sign of the cross”? No.
2) Did the exorcised individuals die from the exorcism? No.
Okay. So someone may say, “Of course Jesus didn’t use the sign of the cross because He hadn’t been crucified yet!” For these, I give you Acts 16:18,
“And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, ‘I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.’ And he came out that very hour.”
How did Paul cast the demon out? In the name of Jesus Christ. Is this relevant to the Catholic Exorcism? Absolutely. When you confront a “demon” or “devil (KJV)”, it is not wise to do so with pagan rituals and prayed over water. It is not wise to recite “one size fits all” prayers in the face of one that was potentially cast from heaven during the “war in heaven”, (Revelation 12). You may find, as many catholic priests did, that this “demon” will ultimately win the battle through the death of the victim. Why? BECAUSE THE VAIN PRAYERS, ROSARIES, AND PAGAN CROSS SIGNING MEAN NOTHING TO A SPIRITUAL BEING THAT HAS BEEN AROUND BEFORE TIME EXISTED!!! These so-called priests went in blindly to fight a spiritual being that is greater than man armed with worthless paper rites that came from their corrupt doctine and popes! This very same “demon” knows that the man made doctrines and vain prayers are worthless. Why was the priest unarmed? One reason could be because he doesn’t even know the true name of Christ!!!
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One cannot presume that a demon will recognize the Greek epithet of Christ’s name having power as God does in mercy and compassion for and with us. No! A demon will laugh at you. Why? Because “Jesus” (Greek “Iesous”) is not Christ’s name. Remember!! Jesus was raised a Jew until baptism, not a Greek. So His name would have been Hebrew!! If we look up Jesus in the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, we will find that the Greek understanding of the name points back to Hebrew origin, which was at that time a consonantal language. This means there were no vowels in the Hebrew alphabet. Not to mention that Hebrew is read from right to left unlike English left to right. The transliterated version from Hebrew is “GSHWHY“. Now we have to turn it around, “YHWSHG“. This can be found under the Hebrew reference number 3091.
Without going into a detailed understanding of HOW to pronounce the dialectical letters in a monosyllabic language, I will simply show you in simple format. YHWSHG (Yah – wah – shuh).
**NOTE – One can purchase Benjamin J. Theophilus’ book entitled “Worshiping God The Father Of Jesus” at Amazon.com for a complete lesson on God and Jesus’ so-called Names**
What of those that may have tried exorcism by invoking powerful names as done in their previous mysticism?
Acts 19:15, “And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know but who are you?” Point proven.
Now then. If you want to confront a possessed individual, you can do so with the Power of Christ’s (Messiah’s) real name. For “there is no other name given”. Now you know how and why Paul did not use the “sign of the cross” when casting the spirit out of the girl in Acts 16:18!! He simply did what he knew to be true by way of the Holy Spirit of God through His Son, that gave Paul the power needed. Remember what the “demons” asked Christ (Yahwashag) before going into the swine in Matthew 8:29?
“… What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come to torment us before the time?” Yahwashag didn’t have to say one single word to these “demons” before His Father’s Power though the Holy Spirit was known to them!!
Oh yeah. One more note on this whole exorcism thing that Catholicism got wrong as well. Notice that nowhere in any of the miracles performed by the apostles after the Crucifixion required them to have a crucifix. This leads us to our next “idol”.
“The Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena” offers a crucifix called the “Pardon Crucifix” which must be a deluxe edition because it has many attributes! Why, Pope Pius himself said that all “indulgences” earned from either kissing or offering repetitious prayers to it will even help the souls in Purgatory if you decide to do so. We should define “indulgence” before continuing further. And don’t even get me started on Purgatory yet! That’s for a different section!
“Indulgences” are nothing more than tolerances. In other words, if you kiss the crucifix three times, you gain (according to Catholicism and pope Pius) 7 years of “sin” tolerance. In even more simple terms, this nut case pope is saying that God will tolerate your sins for 7 years if you kiss the crucifix.
Let’s look at Scripture to refresh us of what God said concerning this.
Exodus 20: 3-4,
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth”
Leviticus 19:4, “Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.”
A punishment for disobediance,
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.”
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…”
Need I say more? Yes. One last Scripture.
Ezekiel 14:6, “Therefore say unto Israel, thus saith the Lord God Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations.”
Having been armed with God’s Truth from His Holy Scripture, one must ask themselves,
“Do I really want to kiss that crucifix? Do I want to place my eternal salvation and life in the hands of an egotistical, maniacal and twisted individual such as a pope who thinks he is Christ on earth? Do I think so little of my immortal soul that can be thrown into the lake of fire and punished for all eternity?” I hope your answer is “No!”
GODDESS WORSHIP
This is a section that is going to make a lot of people angry. There are many organizations that are teaching that Mary, the mother of Yahwashag (Jesus), is the path to heaven. In documentation from the “Congregation of the Children of Mary”, are the first two paragraphs on page five that state,
“In order to teach each one of us, the Church says, ‘LEARN OF MARY, IMITATE MARY! UNDER GOD, MARY IS THE SURE PATH TO HEAVEN!’ It is fitting that we should seek Mary’s aid in that warfare which we are all called upon to wage on the spirit of sin.
Holy Mother the Church, in Her great wisdom, is ever crying out to us all to learn from Our Blessed Mother.”
Do you see what is going on here? These people are listening to the “church”, (remember previously, the bishops and pope make up one body and popey pope is the head), tell them to imitate Mary. And they are even brainwashed to call the “church” Holy Mother. Where do they get this crap from?!?! The church is NOT Mary! The church is NOT the pope! What is the church?
Ephesians 1:22-23, “And He (God) put all things under His (Yahwashag) feet, and gave Him (Yahwashag) to be head over all things to the church, which is His (Yawashag) body, the fullness of Him (Yahwashag) who fills all.”
As we can see by Yah’s (God) Holy Scriptures, Yahwashag is the “head” of His (Yahwashag) body (church, see also Ephesians 4:15-16, 5:23 Colossians 1:18 etc). Right from the start of this section, we see that the Catholic Doctrine just makes up whatever they want and expect you to believe it. But I am not satisfied with closing this section out so soon even though the truth has already been revealed to show the Catholic Doctrine (with its branches) has lied, again. By the Grace of Yah, I will now show you why this “worshiping Mary” is nothing more than “goddess worship”.
“Goddess that women in Judah worshiped to ensure fertility and material stability (Jeremiah 7:18, 44:17). Forms of worship included making cakes (possibly in her image as in molds found at Mari), offering drink offerings, and burning incense (Jeremiah 44:25). Exactly which goddess was worshiped is not certain. The words could be translated “stars of heaven” or “heavenly host.” However, “queen of heaven” appears to be the best rendering. The major influence could have been Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess called there the “queen of heaven” (imported to Israel by Manasseh), or the Canaanite Ashtarte. Archaeologists have uncovered many images of nude goddesses from Israelite sites, showing why Jeremiah protested against such worship.” (Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, “Queen of Heaven”, p.1356)
Jeremiah 7:18, “The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me (Yah) to anger.” (parenthesis added, Name of God Psalms 68:4)
Jeremiah 44:17, “But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to 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 we had plenty of food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.”
Jeremiah 44:25, “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and fulilled with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.’ You will surely keep your vows and perform your vows!”
It seems to me that Yah does not like it when people worship a “goddess”. Matter of fact, verses 26-30 plainly tell us that these people will die. Followers of the Catholic Doctrine should pay close attention to verse 28, “… and all of the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, SHALL KNOW WHOSE WORDS WILL STAND, MINE (Yah) OR THEIRS.” (CAPS and paranthesis my own)
I think I will do as Peter said in Acts 5:29, “…We ought to obey God rather than men.” So if Yah did indeed say that there is no other god beside Him, and He did, (Deuteronomy 4:35, 39, 32:39 1Samuel 2:2, etc), Then why is this doctrine presenting Mary as being the mother of God and teaching that she is in heaven with Yah and His Son Yahwashag? John 3:13,
“No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.”
Well what about Enoch, (Genesis 5:24), and Elijah (2Kings 2:11)? What an amazing question and very observant of you!!! For this, a crystal clear and truthful answer you shall receive!!!
There is more than one heaven!!! Our first stop is in our (Christian Church of God from Jerusalem and her Global Council from Christ — CCGJ-GCC) article entitled “WHAT HAPPENS IF OR WHEN WE DIE”, (also available upon request). As we read into the article, we come to the section titled “HEAVEN OF HEAVENS”. This is where our enlightenment, by Grace from God, will begin.
We should first consider Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 where he speaks of the “third heaven” and “paradise”. This tells us right from the start there is more than the “heaven” that we can see above us! Halleluyah! This same type of implication is made in the Old Covenant book of Deuteronomy 10:14, as titled above, “Heaven of heavens”, KJV.
I will excerpt from CCGJ-GCC’s article by Benjamin J. Theophilus, as found in the Strong’s Concordance
“The Hebrew word most frequently used for ‘heaven’ in the Old Covenant is ‘shameh’ (8064 Hebrew ref.), and means the sky, aloft, far above the ground, in the air, … a corresponding Greek word ‘ouranos’ (3772 Greek ref.), means sky, heaven, happiness …”
These two words, as both Covenants do, agree together.
“… another Greek word, for the ‘heaven of heavens”,
as implied in Deuteronomy 10:14 and by Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4,
“… is ‘epouranios’ (2032 Greek ref.) and means ‘above the sky or heavens”.
Let’s read what Paul says, 2Corinthians 12:2-4,
“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago — whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows — such a one was caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man — whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows — how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”
There is no doubt now that there is at least three heavens, hence “third heaven”. But just in case you didn’t catch the difference between “third heaven” and “paradise”,
“PARADISE — Old Persian term which means literally “enclosure” or “wooded park,” used in the OT to speak of King Artxerxes’ forest (Nehemiah 2:8) and twice of orchards (Ecclesiastes 2:5 Song of Solomon 4:13). All three NT occurrences (Luke 23:43 2Corinthians 12:4 Revelation 2:7) refer to the abode of the righteous dead (heaven). The Greek OT (Septuagint) used “paradise” to translate the Hebrew words for the garden of Eden in Genesis 2-3. Over the years the terms became synonymous, and eventually paradise came to refer to heaven…” (Holman Illustrated Bible Dictioinary)
There is a definitive difference between “heaven” and “Paradise”. Notice the word “enclosure” in the definition. Let’s read what the New City/New Jerusalem is in Revelation 21:14,
“Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”
There is no doubt that the New city/New Jerusalem is an enclosure. Now what is going on with this New City/New Jerusalem that it would be brought to the apostle John’s attention? Revelation 21:2,
“Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
And there you have it my friends! The “heaven” which is the “resting place of the righteous dead” is right here in front of your eyes! And where did it come from? That’s right! The “New Heaven”! Meaning that it must not have been with Yah. Why? What did Yahwashag say? “No one has ascended to the Father…”
What more is there to show that Mary was not “assumed” into the “third heaven” where Yah and Yahwashag are? I am so glad you asked!!!
Recall Yahwashag’s words in John 3:13,
“No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.”
Now let us read what the “Congregation of the Children of Mary” want you to believe about Mary.
“Mary was gloriously assumed into heaven, accompanied by angels to be united with her divine son.”
“Mary was crowned Queen of Heaven, to the joy and glory of all the saints.”
There you have it with your own eyes! But I have a couple of little secrets that the Catholic Doctrine does not want you to know, hehehe (snickering).
Matthew 12:47-50, “Then one said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.” But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
OH NO!! It seems here that Yahwashag denounced point blank that there is NO favoritism to Mary because she was His mother! How so? Because He made EVERYONE equal to His mother and brother and sister!!!
“… whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.” BOOYAH!!!! But wait!!!! There’s more!!! Yahwashag speaking to Mary, His mother, John 2:4,
“Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” And John 19:26,
“When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!”
Do you see how Yahwashag put distance between Himself and His mother? He was letting us and the world know that she was simply a “woman” and had no special privelage nor divinity. So where does the Catholic Doctrine come up with this crap? I will happily tell you.
The Holy Bible tells us plainly that Mary was indeed blessed above all women in that she was chosen to be the mother of the only begotten Son of God. But nothing more.
If we remember the section about why people lie, we will plainly see how and why the Catholic doctrine comes up with this stuff. They cannot very well tell you that Yahwashag was born truly God and truly man without backing that up by saying that Mary is the mother of God!!! But let’s crush this lie with the Word!
Revelation 21:6-7, “And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.”
We all know that the angel that is relaying this revelation to the apostle John was sent by Yahwashag. However, in these two verses, the One that is speaking is Yah. How do we know this? Let’s begin with defining the word “God” in verse 7 with our Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance.
Revelation 26:7- God- 2316(G)- theos (theh-os) of uncertain affinity a DEITY, especially (with 3588) the supreme DIVINITY figuratively a MAGISTRATE by Hebrew, VERY (CAPS are definitions, my own)
We should notice that in all of these definitions, we see that the are refering to the “One” true God. This is to mean Yah, the Father. But let’s define the word “VERY” from the Hebrew undertanding.
Very- 1) in the fullest sense complete absolute
(Webser’s New World College Dictionary)
Some will tell you the One speaking here in the above verses is Yahwashag. With that, I urge you to ask them, “Where in the bible does it say that we will become the sons of Yahwashag?” It doesn’t. What the Catholic doctrine is saying by saying Mary is the “mother of God” is that God had a beginning. This, as we can see by the above verses is obviously false.
“Among all women who have ever lived, the mother of Jesus is the most celebrated and the most venerated … Among Roman Catholics, the Madonna is recognized not only as the Mother of God, but, according to modern Popes, as the Queen of the Universe, Queen of Heaven, Seat of Wisdom, and even the Spouse of the Holy Spirit” (Time Magazine, “Handmaid or Feminity?”, December 30, 1991, pp.62, 66)
The associations and organizations under this Catholic Doctrine are, such as but not limited to,
“Congregation of the Children of Mary”
“The Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena”
“Holy Face Association”
“Our Lady of the Rosary Library”,
and others are going to lead millions, if not billions, to everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46) into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15). I beg you, DO NOT fall into these “doctrines of demons” (1Timothy 4:1).
BAPTISM
Acts 2:38, “Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit”
Matthew 28:19, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”
We are told that we must be baptized of water and of Spirit if we want to enter the kingdom of God by Yahwashag.
John 3:5, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
We are going to gather a quick understanding of what the “kingdom of God” is so that we can understand what this doctrine is cheating almost 1 billion people out of. Let’s chain some Scriptures together to gather this understanding.
John 3:5, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 6:9-10, “…Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Revelation 21:2, “Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God…”
And there you go. This doctrine is cheating so many people from their inheritance!! The “kingdom of God” is the New City Jerusalem!! A false baptism is only one of many methods used by this doctrine to move your loyalty to the Catholic Church away from God, the Father, Yah.
So what do I mean by a false baptism? Let’s take a look at what the Catholic Baptism is:
“Water poured in the name of the trinity over the head of the person being baptised is a sign of the person’s cleansing from sin. Because water is necessary to life, the baptismal water also is a sign of new spiritual life.” (World Book Encyclopedia, ‘Catholic Baptism’, V.16, pg.404)
Now that we see what it is that the Catholic doctrine teaches that baptism is, let’s take a look at what “baptism” REALLY is and how it is obtained.
Strong’s Concordance
Baptism 907(G)- baptizo from a derivitive of 911(G) to make OVERWHELMED (i.e. FULLY WET) used only (in the New Covenant) of ceremonial ABLUTION, especially, (technically), of the ordinance of Christian BAPTISM.
(words in CAPS are definitions)
“Baptism – The Christian rite of initiation practiced by almost all who profess to embrace the Christian faith. In the NT era persons professing Christ were immersed in water as a public confession of their faith in Jesus, the Savior.” (Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary)
“Baptism by water is a physical action affirming, and resulting from genuine commitment to God and one’s new life in Christ (the Annointing). It is accomplished by immersion under water and emergence from it into a committed devotion, demonstrated by such immersion is submission (for later ascension), through the New Covenant of Christ from God….Our physical water baptism reflects by representation, not only Christ’s but also our death, burial, and (later) resurrection. For example, our death literally can be seen allegorically as, and corresponding to, the death of our “old man” and his burial as we are buried beneath water. Ephesians 4:17-24. And our resurrection (from water, representing our newness of life in dedication and devotion to God — Romans 6:4) can be seen as birth into the present and future Kingdom of God. John 3:3 Luke 17:22″ (Holy Baptism: What It Is, How To Qualify, and Procedure, Benjamin J. Theophilus, Christian Church of God from Jerusalem and her Global Council from Christ, Pastoral Bishop)
Through all of the definitions given above, we can plainly see that we must be “fully immersed” (dunked) into the water in order to be baptised by this means. You cannot expect to be “buried” (in water) with Christ if you only have water poured on your head. The entire process represents burial with Yahwashag.
Colossians 2:12, “buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.”
Romans 6:4, “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life.”
If you don’t believe that there is a difference between the Catholic baptism of pouring water on the head and the Biblical baptism of being fully immersed in water, then I have one question for you.
“Have you ever seen a corpse half buried?” The pouring of water over the head IS NOT a full immersion. This only leaves a representation of being “half buried”. There is no way around it. Yahwashag was fully immersed in water as evidenced by Matthew 3:16, “… Jesus came up immediately from the water…” How did he come up FROM the water if it was only poured over His head? You can’t “come up from” water if you didn’t “go down into” the water!
The next questions we should ask about the Catholic baptism is “Why do you baptise in the name of the Trinity?” and “What is the name of the Trinity?” I personally thought that “Trinity” was the name of the trinity. I asked a couple of people of considerable intelligence what they understood the “name” of the trinity to be and received from all, “I don’t know.” This is a mystery to me that I really do not care to pursue becaue I know the Name by which we must be saved!! The Scripture of Matthew 28:19, “…baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” can be found in Psalms 68:4, “…by His name Yah..”
So what of Acts 2:38, “…in the name of Jesus Christ…”? That’s simple:
God = Yah
Jesus= Yahwashag
Holy Spirit = Yah’s
Do you see? A greater understanding can be obtained through Benjamin J. Theophilus’ book “Worshiping God The Father Of Jesus” from Amazon.com. For this dissertation, it shall suffice it to say that the Catholic doctrine on baptism is as the rest of the doctrine, worthless crap.
INFANT BAPTISM
Our next stop in the wonderful world of Catholicism is “Infant Baptism”. This is something that, through Scripture, can be seen as a blatant disregard for God’s Word. We must understand why salvation is offered through Yahwashag and how it is obtained. To do this, we must first go back to the Old Covenant books of the Bible to see where and how the plan began.
What we understand as “salvation” today was not offered to those in the Old Covenant. But the plan of salvation was being put into place under a different name. It was then called “atonement”. Let’s learn what “atonement” was. Reference number 3722 (Hebrew) in the Strong’s Exaustive Concordance gives us the Hebrew definition of “Atonement”- 3722(H) – a primary root to COVER (specifically with bitumen) figuratvely to EXPIATE or CONDONE, to PLACATE or CANCEL. (CAPS are definitions for emphasis)
We are not using “bitumen” to cover our sins per se. Bitumen- Mineral pitch or asphalt (KJV “slime” NASB, NIV, “tar pits”) found in solid black lumps in the cretaceous limestone on the west bank of the Dead Sea (Genesis 14:10). (Holman Illustrate Bible Dictionary)
This stuff was like tar and was used to seal or waterproof minute openings such as the space between blocks of buildings or even as a sealant for boats. But what we are looking for here is what was in the capitalized definitions, such as COVER, CONDONE, PLACATE, EXPIATE and/or CANCEL.
In the same sense as bitumen was used to “cover” or seal, we know that the Blood of Yahwashag does the same thing for us when we ask both Him and God to come into our hearts. It is the “repentance” from our sins that we are pleading for to “cover” our sins. But it is this idea of blood being used to “atone” or “cover” sin that we are looking for. The Bible tells us in Exodus 29:36,
“And you shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement…”
And there it is. Atonement was the “covering” of sin with the blood of a sacrificial animal, in this case, a bull. We will notice that the “blood” was not only for atonement, but also for cleansing and consecrating (to make holy and/or sacred) as found in Exodus 29:12,16, etc.
“You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all of the blood beside the base of the altar.”
“and you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the altar.”
Now that we know how and why the blood of the sacrificial animal was used for atonment, we should ask ourselves why blood?
Leviticus 17:11, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.”
This is also why we were told,
Leviticus 3:17, “This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.”
We must remember that at this time, God was telling the people that they were His chosen people and He is giving them things by which they must live as His chosen people in order to be “set apart” from the heathen peoples. But more so, God was showing His Divine Plan with which we would be able to gain eternal life through the sacrifice of Yahwashag. Why?
Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
As we are told in Leviticus 17:11, the blood was given for atonement. And if we combine the two verses, we will find that a price MUST be paid for sin. And that price, as evidenced throughout the Bible from beginning to end, is a life. It is the blood that is the “life” of the flesh. And this is why animals were sacrificed in order to gain atonement. So why are we not sacrificing animals still today if the blood of animals can take away sin?
Hebrews 9:12, “Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, HAVING OBTAINED ETERNAL REDEMPTION.” (CAPS my own for emphasis)
AHA!!! Now we’re getting to the point! It was for “atonement” or the “covering” of sin that the blood of the animals must be shed. BUT….this blood ONLY COVERED!! It did NOT take away the sin!
Hebrews 10:4, “For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.”
Remember that God never wanted the sacrifice of human life to appease Him. When Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac, Genesis 22:2, it was ONLY a test of Abraham’s faith. God stopped Abraham, by way of an angel, and provided instead a ram for the sacrifice, (Genesis 22:11-13). This was a prefigure to Yah giving His only Son for us. And now we have reached the point of where we will see that the doctrine of “infant baptism” is not found anywhere in the Bible! WOOHOO!!! I’M SO EXCITED!!!
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Now that we know how to obtain salvation and why it was brought forth in the manner that it was from the Old Covenant, we can now learn why baptism is useless to an infant. It sounds harsh, I know. But you will soon see why I said that.
I could do this very easily by simply citing Acts 2:38,
“Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be bapized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Now would be the point at which we really must take into consideration that an infant who doesn’t even know what sin is, let alone what repentance is for, has no use for baptism!!! Are these people serious?! I am going to go out on a limb here and say that “Gaagoo yak” is not to be understood as a form of confession nor repentance.
But to bring this point closer to it’s home, I offer you the words of Paul himself. Romans 7:7,
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
It is simply a factual concept to understand. When a child is born, they know nothing. We spend years teaching them good morals and values, hopefully from the Bible, that will last them a life time. But until the age of accountability, the child will not be held accountable for any sin. Why? Because the child does not know what sin is! If you did not know that your spark plug in your engine was broken, are you responsible for why your motor isn’t running right? No. You didn’t know. The same applies to a child and sin.
The verse that is being used to account for this part of Catholic doctrine is found in Psalms 58:3,
“The wicked are estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.”
Most people that sit under the Catholic doctrine will read right over the verse, (if they read it at all), and believe what they are told about it’s interpretation. The verse seems to imply that those born are immediately sinful. But let’s disect this verse to see what it is really saying.
Our first incision will be the word “wicked”. As we have noted above by simple understanding, babies are not wicked. The child has no idea what sin is. But now let us define the word wicked with our Strong’s Concordance,
wicked- 7563(Hebrew)- morally WRONG concretely an (actively) BAD person. (CAPS are definitions for emphasis)
Have you ever seen a baby born? Even if you haven’t, have you ever seen a newborn that resembled either of these definitions? I know I haven’t. As mentioned above, babies need to be taught EVERYTHING!! This is not only my understanding of babies. Let’s read Hebrews 5:12-13,
“For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who patakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.”
You may be asking, “What does this have to do with babies? This is talking about teachers.” I am so wonderfully thrilled that you are so observant!! The verse is indeed speaking to adults in the manner of being teachers. This part of the Scriptures is “context”. Why do we need the context? So we can understand that the author was citing them as having to be TAUGHT again because they were only accepting the more shallow teachings of God’s word. The deeper understandings of God’s word is called the “meat” (solid food) and the more simple understandings are called the “milk” of the Word.
Now lets look at what this Scripture implies. The teachers had resorted to teaching (feeding the congregation, “flock”) milk. And the author told them this, “…by this time you ought to be teachers…”
“…you need someone to teach you …” (as babies)
“…everyone who partakes only of milk …” (simple Word)
“…he is a babe.”
The analogy is proper of “babes” that suckle for “milk” need to be “taught”. It is obvious that I am not the only one that knows this. Any parent will tell you the same. Peter spoke on the “milk” in 1Peter 2:2,
“as NEWBORN BABES, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may GROW thereby”. (CAPS my own)
It is plain and clear by both of these verses that a newborn MUST be taught.]
Continuing…
“…are estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.”
The word “estranged” has some interesting definitions that are found under reference number 2114 in the Hebrew dictionary of the Strong’s Concordance, such as TURN aside, BE A FOREIGN, STRANGE, PROFANE and specifically (active participle) COMMIT ADULTRY.
Yeah. Once again, have you ever seen a baby that fits the definitions? I’m pretty sure you haven’t. This is the part where the skeptics will loudly proclaim “What about the word “womb” huh?” I gladly accept the challenge!
This verse does indeed contain the word “womb” and it does mean exactly what it implies. HOWEVER….we should read verse 1-2 to understand who is being spoken of,
“Do you indeed speak rightousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men? No, in heart you work wickedness you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.”
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We can now clearly see whom the author was speaking of. These “sons of men” were not judging as they should have been. But why is it that a doctrine would say that a baby, of all things, would go astray? Let’s get a clue from one of the earliest writings in Genesis 6:12,
“So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.”
This is only one example and this example is simply understood. When an individual decides to make corrupt decisions, they are indeed being born from the “womb” of corruption. If one was never corrupt before this time, they were “born into” it by their first thought of wickedness. Simple enough to understand. You have to consiously CHOOSE (be born into) wickedness. This is something that a baby cannot do because they don’t even know what wickedness is.
But maybe we should instead look at WHO is saying that babies need to be baptised before we go through the long process of showing that our flesh is indeed corruptable, as implied in Acts 2:31. Who was it that said these things? Oh yeah, that’s right. A corrupted church by corrupted men through their corrupted Catholic doctrine.
So let’s dive a little more into one of the words used in this Scripturre of Psalms 58:3:
“They go astray as soon as they are born…”
astray- 8582(H)- Ta’ah (taw-aw)- a primary root to VACILLATE, i.e. REEL or STRAY (literally or figuratively) also causative of both. (CAPS are definitions, Strong’s Exhaustive Concrodance)
Astray- 1) off the right path or way wandering 2) in error (Webster’s New World College Dictionary 5th Ed. 2014)
I cannot re-itterate enough that I have NEVER seen a newborn baby that has ever resembled these definitions. Can you imagine a baby being born that immediately speaks, “You are bad parents! You conceived me in lust and now I’m sin! Thanks for nothing!”? Yeah. I don’t think so. This is exactly what the Catholic doctrines says that babies are capable of doing as soon as they’re born!
I don’t believe that I need to go any further with this. It is blatantly obvious that this doctrine has once again been proven, in truth from the Holy Bible, “to be born” from idiots. In expecting us to believe such nonsense, this doctrine and its clergy are calling us morons that are incapable of using our God given discernment to interpret the Word for ourselves! I don’t feel like a moron. Do you? Yeah. I’m pretty sure that we are showing just who the morons are!
LORD’S DAY/SUNDAY
“What is the meaning of this phrase, “Lord’s Day”? Some people think that John means Sunday. But there is not one place in the entire Bible that Sunday is called “the Lord’s Day.” (Vance Ferrell, The book of Revelation, p.22)
Mr. Ferrell has not missed his mark. There are many denominations and churches that teach Sunday as “the Lord’s Day.” This is attributed to a couple of verses within the Bible that are used in some seminaries to teach that Sunday is the new day of rest. These verses are found in Acts 20:7 and 1Crointhians 16:2. We will get into these momentarily. For the time being, we will look at another source that teaches Sunday as “the Lord’s Day.”
Under the article entitled “Lord’s Day” on pp.1048-1049,
“Designation for Sunday, the first day of the week, used only once in the NT (Revelation 1:10). The Greek word for “Lord’s,” however, is precisely the same as that used in the term for “Lord’s Supper” (1Corinthians 11:20). In fact, the Didache, an early Christian manual for worship and instruction, links the two terms together, indicating that the Lord’s Supper was observed each Lord’s Day…” (Homan’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary)
But the only thing about this is that the definition that is used o link the verses together is simply “belonging to the Lord.” It said nothing of Sunday being the Lord’s Day. This statement by Holman is worded to make it appear to have more meaning than ownership.
This is all well and good, if it was the truth. Unfortunately for the doctrine teaching this inaccuracy, there is only one problem. And that is the word “day”.
We should understand that if we are reading the Bible and see a word in italics, it is to mean that the word(s) has been added. There are three main reasons why words would be added to the Scriptures. Fragmented texts, easier interpretation, and malicious intent. We will briefly touch the first two. The third reason, for this dissertation, will be explained in greater detail to further diminish the self proclaimed authority that the Catholic church teaches and lies to their parishoners with. Let’s begin.
Reason 1)
Some words were added within a Scripture, from context, because the materials that were used to preserve the Scriptures were of a pure biological material. These such materials were Papyrus and Parchment. The papyrus was made from a type of reed that grows in marshes. The plant was opened and the center was then sliced in aproximately one inch pieces and glued together. These “sheets” were then stacked one upon another to create a “sheet” with which a specially prepared ink was used to scribe or write on.
Aged papyrus would become brittle and the words would literally fall off of the papyrus. Papyrus was eventually replaced with Parchment (literal animal skins). It was more expensive to use but proved to be more durable. Yet even with it’s improved durability, the parchments would also become brittle and begin to fragment. The latter was the material of which the Qumran scrolls were written. These are better known as the “Dead Sea Scrolls.”
One can do a search on “Dead Sea Scroll Fragment” to gain an understanding of how leather will begin to crumble away after long periods of time. This will, unfortunately, cause the loss of some words. And even the ink will sometimes wear away some or completely. In such cases, words will have to be added if another copy, such as that of the Masoretic Scrolls, cannot be obtained. In this final scenario, context must be used to insure that a proper word is chosen. Here is an example of how we can use context to place a correct word:
“Little Johnny ate the _____ with great enjoyment. The season had been exceptionally wet and the apple tree produced full and juicy apples.”
Although we do not know exactly what little Johnny was eating, we can make an informed guess from the following sentence which is considered “context”. We can safely say that little Johnny was eating an apple and insert the word “apple” into the blank space. This is the more prominent reason why words are added.
Reason 2)
This reason for adding words is just as innocent as the first. Sometimes a word will be added for an easier understanding of the intended interpretation. A very good example of this reasoning can be found in
Ezra 7:15, “… have FREELY offered to the God of Israel.”
(CAPS my own for emphasis of added word)
The word “freely” in this verse has been added. You may see this in the Bible as the word is in italics in most Bibles. But it was not added to give a misguided interpretation of the verse’s meaning as evidenced by the words “freewill offering” in verse 16. The intended meaning or interpretation of both verses was intended to show that the offerings were given freely and not from force. It is with this unerstanding that the word was added to help the reader see the importance of “freewill offerings.” This addition is actually as helpful as Reason 1 is.
Reason 3)
The final reasoning for adding words to the Bible is not to help anyone at all. There are some words that have been added to the Bible with a very malicious intent. We have seen, by God’s Grace, in the previous pages that the Catholic Doctrine has instilled many lies within it. If you recall, my understanding of lying is that when you tell one lie, you must tell another and another and so on to keep the first lie intact. The same applies to the verses below with the word “day”.
Matthew 28:1, “Now after the Sabbath, as the first DAY of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.”
Mark 16:2, “Very early in the morning, on the first DAY of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.”
Luke 24:1, “Now on the first DAY of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.”
John 20:1, “Now the first DAY of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had be taken away from the tomb.” (CAPS in all verses my own for word added)
This is where most pastors, priests, bishops, cardinals, preachers, teachers, seminaries and even the pope himself will tell you that this word “day” shows that Yahwashag was resurrected on Sunday, the first day of the week. But what they will NOT tell you is that this word has been added, not only in these verses, to make it APPEAR as Yahwashag had risen on this day.
[PERSONAL NOTE: Most preachers and the likes do not even know what they have been taught. They just assume that their seminary is correct in it’s teaching of this lie. Thereby, unknowingly teach it to those under them.]
The actual truth is far from what is taught and accepted in mainstream protestant and catholic churches today. The word “day” in the verses above was added to solidify or “prove” a lie told to them in A.D. 321. What was this lie?
“CONSTANTINE, EMPEROR AUGUSTUS, TO HELPIDIUS: ON THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN LET THE MAGISTRATES AND PEOPLE RESIDING IN CITIES REST, AND LET ALL WORKSHOPS BE CLOSED. IN THE COUNTRY, HOWEVER, PERSONS ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE MAY FREELY AND LAWFULLY CONTINUE THEIR PURSUITS BECAUSE IT OFTEN HAPPENS THAT ANOTHER DAY IS NOT SO SUITABLE FOR GRAIN SOWING OR FOR VINE PLANTING LEST BY NEGLECTING THE PROPER MOMENT FOR SUCH OPERATIONS, THE BOUNTY OF HEAVEN SHOULD BE LOST.” (Latin text and translation from Shaff’s “History of the Christian Church,” Vol. 3, sec. 75, para. 5, note 1)
This is the translation of the actual decree or law that Emperor Constantine wrote and enacted on March 7, A.D. 321 at the behest of the “Bishop of Rome” at that time.
“As a result, the first National Sunday Law in history was enacted on March 7, A.D. 321. This was the first of six Sunday Law decrees issued by Contantine, to exalt Sunday observance.” (Vance Ferrell, The book of Revelation, p.125)
“When, in A.D. 321, he declared Sunday a general holiday, he had in mind both Christians and pagans, for while the former celebrated it as the Lord’s Day, the latter could regard it as the day of the Sun god.” (Arthur E.R. Boak, A History of Rome to A.D. 565, 4th ed., p.432)
“It would be an error to attribute [the sanctification of Sunday] to a definite decision of the Apostles. There is no such decision mentioned in the Apostolic documents [that is, the New Testament].” (Antoine Villien, A History of the Commandments of the Church, 1915, p.23 [as cited in Vance Ferrell’s “The Book of Revelation”, p.117])
“It must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concerning the first day.” (McClintock and Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, Vol. 9, p.196)
The lie was that the “early church” (Church of Rome) told the pagans and christians that everyone could come into the church on the “Lord’s Day” to worship. The idea is simple. The Mithrites (Mithraism, sun worship) called their sun god “lord”. And the “early church” called Yahwashag “Lord”. The Mithrites called “SUNday” their day of worship because their god was superior and must be worshiped on the first day of the week (hence the name Sun-day). So if the church could convince the Christians that Yahwashag was resurrected on the first day of the week, (Sunday), then all could come into the house of worship on the “Lord’s/lord’s Day”.
This is exactly what they did. There is only ONE “LORD’s Day”. It is the seventh day of the week, (Saturday), the Sabbath. And this day was made, by Yah, one of the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:8,
“Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.”
Exodus 20:10, “But the seventh day is the Sbbath of the LORD your God…”
As we can see from Yah’s Holy Scripture, He made it holy. It was the ONLY day that He made holy in that it was entered into His Commandments. With this being understood, it demands the question, “Who gave the “early church” the power to change the commanded Sabbath day?”
No one did. The reasoning of the Catholic church, (Roman), is that if they could convince the early peoples that Yahwashag was ressurected on a Sunday, then that in itself would make sunday the “Lord’s Day”. They did this under the true information that Yahwashag is indeed our Lord. And since the Catholic church claims that Yahwashag is “truly” or “fully” God, then the day of the resurrectioin would surely be sanctified (made holy) by it.
This is where the word “day” comes into the picture. But as usual, the Catholic Doctrine forgot about Yahwahsag’s own words in Matthew 12:39-40,
“But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (See also Matthew 16:4 Luke 11:29)
And what would happen after this time frame?
Matthew 17:22-23, “Now while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him, and the THIRD DAY HE WILL BE RAISED.” (See also Matthew 20:19, 27:64 Mark 9:31, 10:34 Luke 9:22, 18:33, 24:7, 46 [CAPS my own])
“Well yeah. He died and was buried Friday, Saturday in the tomb, and Sunday He rose. That’s three days. Whats your point?” Such a wonderful question! And an equally wonderful answer you shall receive!!
Remember how Yahwashag said that He would be “…in the heart of the earth…” for three days and nights just as Jonah was in the belly of the fish? Let’s do some math! YAY….MATH!!!
Friday night = 1
Saturday night = 1
Sunday night = oh wait….there was no Sunday night!! (according to Catholic doctrine)
So as we can see, if Yahwashag was resurrected at early Sunday morning, (Matthew 28:1 Mark 16:2 Luke 24:1 John 20:1), as this word “day” implies, there was NO third night!! This word is actually calling Yahwashag a liar!! Yahwashag clearly stated multiple times that He would be in the “…heart of the earth…”, (tomb), three nights. Personally, I will believe Yahwashag over ANY pope or man!
[It is by the Grace of God alone that CCGJ-GCC have been given the truth with which you are being enlightened. Our chronology and graph, (found at ccgj.home.blog), will give you all Scriptures leading to this truth. We at CCGJ-GCC understand that it is hard to let go of something that has been engrained in us from our earliest memories. It is this reason why we open up lines of communication for each of you to ask questions and get direct responses.]
So let’s recap our new understanding:
Catholic Doctrine lies about Peter.
Catholic Doctrine lies to pagans and christians for uniting under “Lord’s Day”.
Catholic Doctrine lies about day of resurrection to cover up lie of “Lord’s Day”.
Catholic Doctrine inserts “day” into Scriptures to further lie.
SPOILER ALERT: The key words we should look for to begin understanding our third night is found in the parentheses of John 19:31!!
And now is where we come to a protestant understanding for the addition of the word “day”. It was said in a conversation that,
“The word day was added to give credit to the Greek word for “first”. The Greek word “mia” for first means the number one or primary. Therefore the word “day” was added for emphasis of understanding the Greek word for first.” (paraphrased for simplicity)
I decided to look up the Greek definition for the word “first” as it was brought to my attention. But what I found contradicts this gentleman’s understanding.
Matthew 28:1- “first”- 3391(Greek)- mia (pronounced mee-ah) irregular feminine of 1520(G) ONE or FIRST
(CAPPED words definitions added for emphasis)
The word “mia” does NOT include the term “primary” as the gentleman stated. However, the definitions that ARE there is “one” and “first”. Now let’s put our definitions into the Scripture and take away the added word “day” to determine if the Greek word “mia” needed any help
Matthew 28:1 (REWORDED with Greek definition),
“Now on the “one” of the week…”
Matthew 28:1 (REWORDED with Greek definition),
“Now on the “first” of the week…”
I don’t know about you. But it looks to me like the author knew EXACTLY what he was doing by using the Greek word “mia” and was accurately translated to “first”. So why was the word “day” added again? Yeah. The Greek word “mia” seems to stand on it’s own quite well. What was taught to this individual in lieu of truth was a deliberate lie to cover up a previous one.
The very same intent was used in both Acts 20:7 and 1Corinthians 16:2 where the word “day” was also added. This was done to supposedly make the observance of Sunday appear to be instituted by the Apostles. Why? For the very same reason as above.
Seminaries are teaching that these two Scriptures are saying that Paul and others observed Sunday as the “Lord’s Day”. But as the Word actually shows, nowhere in the Bible is Sunday ever observed as the “Lord’s Day”. This doctrine wants you to believe that
A) Yahwashag lied to you.
B) The resurrection was on Sunday.
C) Sunday is the new “Day of Rest”/Sabbath.
D)The Catholic Church can change God’s Law.
If you have believed that Yahwashag was raised after only two nights, then you have unknowingly refuted Him. What that means is that you didn’t know it, but you are calling Him a liar also. The good news about this is you won’t be held accountable for not knowing. Now that you know the truth, however, woe to thee whom chooses to believe the lie, even after the truth was freely given!
So how do we rectify our past transgression? That’s easy. First we must repent and ask forgiveness.
Second, we must keep Yah’s Sabbath holy.
How do we keep the Sabbath, (Saturday), holy? You’re gonna love this!!! Do no work, read the Bible with your family, and give thanks for all things. It is that simple.
Don’t get me wrong. I am NOT telling you to stop going to church on Sunday. By all means, keep attending church. Just simply know in your heart that Sunday is NOT the day of rest. It is NOT the “LORD’s Day.” With these in your heart, listen to the message being given to you. Use your gift of discernment to separate truth from fiction. You can do this by reading your Bible for yourself. Write the verse citations that the preacher cites on a piece of paper and note the meaning given. When you get home, go over the message again. Only this time, read the context around the citations to either confirm the message or find the error in the teaching by misuse of the citation.
When you go to church on Sunday, you are still being taught from the Word. But if I told you not to go, what teaching of the Word would you receive? Always remember that God can give you a message from ANY teaching from the Word. Here is an analogy for you to mull over.
“A self proclaimed atheist is citing verses from the Bible in order to prove the preacher on the opposite side of the driveway wrong. The preacher is equally citing verses to counter the atheist’s claims.”
Note that both the atheist and the preacher are citing verses from the Bible. A message from God can be obtained from this. How? Because God can work through ALL of His creations! This is one of the many things that makes Him God, literally!!! (Purchase Pastoral Bishop Benjamin J. Theophilus’ book “Worshiping God The Father Of Jesus” at Amazon.com)
THE BIBLE
In this section, we will learn how we came to posess what we understand as the English Bible. This section was placed here for us to further understand how deeply the “early church” has there crusty digits into spreading corruption. Even to the point of changing Yah’s word.
We will discuss what is promised to anyone who changes Scripture at a later point. For now, I re-introduce to you Saint Jerome. Mr. Jerome was commissioned by the “early church”, (Church of Rome), to “transliterate” and “translate” Hebrew and Greek manuscripts or scrolls into a Latin Codex. For those that do not know the meaning of “transliterate” and “codex”, we will give them here.
Transliterate- To represent (letters or words) in the corresponding characters of another alphabet.
(example- match up english letters that correspond to the equivalent Hebrew letters.)
Codex- A manuscript volume, especially of a classic work or of the Scriptures.
(example- a book)
Essentially, St. Jerome was taking manuscripts from Hebrew and Greek to turn them into a book for the “early church”. Bear in mind that the original manuscripts which were written from ancient times, few if any still exist. However, we can know without doubt that the Scriptures that we have are of certain accuracy, (minus Catholic influences). How can we know that what we have today is of the same accuracy?
“The most important witness to the OT text is called the Masoretic text. Scribes, called Masoretes, were active A.D. 500-1000. They were not innovators but careful preservers of the consonantal text, the vowels, and accents of the Hebrew text. The most famous family was the ben Asher, especially Moses and his son Aaron, the most important Masorete.” (Homan’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary) (Not Moses and Aaron of the Exodus)
“Hebrew scribes have taken meticulous care to preserve the Holy Bible because of receiving significant value from applying its content. If the numerical count of the words from the original did not match the copy, the copy was destroyed…..There is overwhelmingly more evidence, substantive and traditional, to support we have the original than new scholars can produce to the contrary.” (Benjamin J. Theophilus, Worshipng God The Father Of Jesus, p.8)
Now is the time when we give a brief overview of some of the authors of the translations that came to us by giving the names of these translators and their approximate dates.
St. Jerome – A.D. 405 – Latin Vulgate
Caedmon – A.D. 670 – Anglo-Saxon
John Wycliffe – A.D. 1382 – English
Erasmus – A.D. 1516 – Greek New Testament
Maritn Luther – A.D. 1522-1524 – German
William Tyndale – A.D. 1525 – English New Testament
Miles Coverdale – A.D. 1535 – English Complete Bible
William Whittingham – A.D. 1560 – Geneva Bible
Matthew Parker – A.D. ??? – England Bishop’s Bible
Rheims (location) – A.D. 1582 – Roman Catholic NT
Rheims (location) – A.D. 1610 – Roman Catholic OT
James (king) – A.D. 1611 – Current English Bible (KJV)
“The outcome was the King James Version of 1611. It is number nine in the sequence of printed English Bibles and is a revision of the Bishop’s Bible.” (Holman’s Illustratted Bible Dictionary)
There were many other printings and copies made within europe. These were not mentioned simply because the main focus here was to show the origins of how the Bible, as we know it today, came down to us. For this dissertation, we will recognize 6 versions:
St. Jerome’s Vulgate, Erasmus’ NT, Martin Luther’s German, Tyndale’s, Coverdale’s, and finally, King James.
It should be noted of what denomination the majority of these versions were written under. All of these translators had Catholic influence. Erasmus, a very important figure for this dissertation will be discussed in depth.
Mr. Erasmus was trying his best to give an unadulterated version of the Bible. He put his NT translation to the printing in 1516 and 1519. But under pressure from the church, (Roman Catholic), Erasmus had to release a revised version with a couple of new verses in the 5th chapter of the book of 1John,
1John 5:7-8, “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood and these three agree as one.”
There is only one problem with these verses. They were only found in Latin copies of the Greek manuscripts. The church wanted to make sure that their lies would be covered by pressuring Erasmus to add them.
“The famous interpolation after ‘three witnesses’ is not printed in RSV and rightly so… No respectable Greek manuscript contains it. Appearing first in a late 4th century Latin text, it entered the Vulgate and finally NT of Erasmus.” (Peake’s Commentary on the Bible, p.1038)
“This verse has virtually no support among the early Greek manuscripts … Its appearance in late Greek manuscripts is based on the fact that Erasmus was placed under ecclesiastical pressure to include it in his Greek NT of 1522, having omitted it in his two earlier editions of 1516 and 1519 because he could not find any Greek manuscipts which contained it.” (The Big Book of Bible Difficulties, Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe, 2008, pp.540-541)
Notice that the above paragraph clearly states that the verses of 1John 5:7-8 were added and taken from the Vulgate. It is clear evidence that the “early church” influenced the imbedding of lies within their doctrine as early as the late 4th century by one St. Jerome. It was his work that became known as the Vulgate and contained the first lies that have been maintained for more than 1,600 years!!! The list of 6 translators all have Catholic influence and have maintained these bogus verses! Since Erasmus’ first two versions circulated, the Catholic church put a stop to the truth once again.
The Catholic doctrine had their translators (minions) add verses, add words and change words in order to convince you that Yahwashag is fully and completely God. But there are verses of Yahwashag’s Words that clearly say that the Father is greater. Let’s take a look at one of those real quick.
John 14:28, “You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father’ for My Father is greater than I.”
Another verse that speaks volumes about Yahwashag not being FULLY God is found in the book of Mark. What’s going on here is that the early church is saying that Yahwashag is FULLY God in that he is also all knowing. This cannot be the case when Yahwashag Himself said,
Mark 13:32, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”
The disciples had just asked Yahwashag when he would be coming back. And right here is where we see Yahwashag plainly stating that He was not all knowing. When you present this evidence to a trinitarian believer, they will say something along the lines of “That was His fully man side.” This can be countered with a simple question, “Are you saying Yahwashag lied?” This will usually end up with that person saying that you are placing words in their mouth. Ultimately, no one is going to admit that what they have been taught from earliest ages is wrong. It’s hard to do. I get it. I used to believe a lot of things that weren’t true. I definitely did not want to be looked at as an uneducated individual who has been duped into believing something that isn’t true. That would admit that I was gullable. And that is a strike against my pride. That’s understood. But what did it say about pride?
Obadiah 3, “The pride of your heart has decieved you….” There are many more Scriptures that point out the evil of pride. But if we can come to the very real understanding that Yah is our Creator, our Father, our Salvation through His Son, etc., then we can come to the realization that if we accept the Word of God for what it says, then we can come to know Him intimately. This will provide us a sure fire way to the New City/Jerusalem.
And now the council’s explanation that conradicts Yahwashag and Yahwah Theirselves.
“The creed of the council, which catholics pray at mass, affirms that Jesus Christ is truly God, “one in being with the Father.” The council completed the teaching of Nicaea by declaring that Christ is truly man….”
This Catholic doctrine set men in a council around 325 A.D. and decreed to the rest of the world that Jesus was fully “man” and “God”. The only problem with this is that Yahwashag, who came first, said that His Father is greater than Him. But these guys had a different intent. They had already pulled the strings of the emperor to steer him into writing a law in 313A.D. that brought pagans and christians alike into the church on the “Lord’s Day”, (Sunday), so that the early church would have control over everyone. But how were they going to do this?
THE BEGINNING
2Peter 3:16, “…which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.”
“Its rites and superstitions (pagan) had penetrated the seminary located in that city (Alexandria). Sunday sacredness first entered the Christian church at this time and it was in Alexandria that this began. With the help of Tertullian (A.D. 160-220), Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 150-215) led out in this apostasy. He loved the writings of Plato (428-348 B.C.), an Athenian philosopher and he used allegory to weave Plato’s teachings into the Christian religion….Clement declared that, in addition to honoring Mithra, honor should be paid to the pagan concepts of Plato.” (Vance Ferrell, The Book of Revelation, p. 110 first sentence parentheticals my own)
It was right around A.D. 195 that a fellow by the name of Victor wrote a decree that demanded all churches celebrate “Sunday” as the resurrection day of Yahwashag in the form of “Easter Sunday”. Let’s read a bit more of Mr. Ferrell’s work,
“He (Pope Victor 1 A.D. 189-199) demanded that they keep the spring celebration, not of Christ’s death but of His resurrection, and that they dedicate an entire Sunday morning in the spring of each year to this. He wanted it kept on the date of the annual pagan “Easter” service, the centuries-old name of the pagan fertility celebation, a licentious orgy in honor of the goddess Ishtar (also called Attis) which was held every spring.” (Vance Ferrell, The Book of Revelation, p.114 “pope” parentheticals my own)
But for those that would say that Easter was always celebrated on Sunday, let’s go to the Scriptures for some context to reveal the truth.
The word “easter” is only used in the KJV Bible one time. It is in Acts 12:4. Some modern NKJV Bibles have replaced the word with its proper translation of “Passover.” But let’s look at the last sentence of verse 3, “Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread.”
Let’s get some more information on the “Days of Unleavened Bread” in
Matthew 26:2, “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
and,
Matthew 26:17, “Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the desciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
It is plainly seen that the “Days of Unleavened Bread” did not always fall on the 14th of Nisan which is the commanded Passover. And Yahwashag is clearly stating that He and the disciples will be eating THEIR passover before the commanded Passover. Why eat it early? Because Yahwashag Himself would become the Passover Lamb upon the crucifixion. He knew that He was bringing in a New Covenant,
Matthew 26:28, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
We can now see that the word “easter”, which is erroneously translated from “Passover”, is actually supposed to have been intended to be the celebration of the crucifixion because the crucifixion was the deliverence promised (by the blood of Yahwashag, our sins are passed over). Now that we have adequate evidence for truth, we can ask the Catholic Doctrine, “Why do you teach that Easter is to be celebrated on Sunday when it is supposed to be in rememberance of the Passover, according to Holy Scripture?”
And the answer that this doctrine will not provide is the actual truth. Because the doctrine had to move the Passover to Sunday in order to bring the pagans under the Christian roof. Not only did they move the celebration and its meaning, they changed the name of it to “easter” in order to further the interest of the pagans entering the church.
“These Gentile Christians of Rome and Alexandria began calling the first day of the week ‘the Lord’s day.’ This was not difficult for the pagans of the Roman Empire who were steeped in sun worship to accept, because they [the pagans] referred to their sun-god as their ‘Lord.'” (E.M. Chalmers, How Sunday Came into the Christian Church, p.3 as cited in Vance Ferrell’s “The Book of Revelation”, p.112)
It is here that we can see the clear intent of the “early church”. There is no evidence whatsoever that the apostles or Yahwashag ever celebrated the first day of the week, (Sunday), at any time. The Scriptures that are offered as evidence of Sunday keeping all have one thing in common. The word “day” has been added. As we covered earlier, this is clear evidence of the “third” reason as to why words were added to the Scriptures, Malicious Intent. And that intent is still being practiced to this very day!
You have now been handed another piece of armor with which you can combat the enemy and his deception. Sunday is NOT a day of reverence. Sunday is NOT the day that Yahwashag was resurrected. Sunday is NOT the “new” day of rest. Sunday is nothing more than the first day of the week. End of story. Do not get me wrong. Praise and worship Yah ANY/EVERY day of the week. Just know that Sunday is only revered by those who do not know the truth. Saturday is the COMMANDED Sabbath day of rest. It is this day that is set above all others by Yah Himself. Know this, follow this and you can then praise and worship every day of the week without breaking Yah’s Holy Word.
PURGATORY
This is one of my favorite condemnations of the Catholic doctrine. We have seen in the previous sections that the Catholic doctrine has added many things to their beliefs and teachings that DO NOT coincide with Scripture. But this one, in my opinion, shows exactly what this church’s leaders are all about. Let’s begin with the definition of Purgatory and then move into the horrific corruption that this belief was brought about by.
Purgatory- 1) a state or place in which, in Roman Catholicism and other Christian doctrine, those who have died in the grace of God expiate their sins by suffering, 2) any state or place of temporary punishment, expiation, or remorse. (Webster’s New World College Dictionary)
Ok. If you are like me, you need to know what the word “expiate” is defined as…
Expiate- 1) to make amends or reparation for (wrongdoing or guilt) atone for, 2) to pay the penalty of suffer for. (Webster’s New World College Dictionary)
Sweet. Now we know what the words mean! So the definitions tell us, in simple terms, that the Catholic church teaches that when somoeone dies in the grace of
Yah (as a true disciple of Yahwashag), they must go to this “purgatory” to atone for their wrongdoing or guilt. Wait a minute…….I thought Yahwashag paid that penalty for us when He sacrificed Himself on the cross. Maybe I’m wrong. Let’s go to the Scriptures and find out…..
1John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
Ephesians 1:7, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His Grace”
Hmmm. Seems that I may have been right all along, all glory to Yah. But just for giggles, let’s define redemption.
Redemption- 2) something that redeems- The Redemption, the redeeming of humanity and its reconciliation with God through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. (Webster’s New World College Dictionary)
That sure sounds like salvation to me.
Salvation- 3) deliverance from sin and from the penalties of sin redemption. (Webster’s New World College Dictionary)
So if the Scriptures say that the blood of Yahwashag is our redemption, then why would this doctrine teach that, even if we gain this redemption through the salvation that Yahwashag gave to us, we still have to suffer?
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They brought this piece of false doctrine into play for one reason only. Money. Think that’s a bit harsh do you? Let’s look at some factual recorded evidence.
“During World War 2, the Archbishop of Winnipeg, in a letter dated March 1, 1944, urged Catholic mothers to guarrantee the salvation of their sons from purgatory by the payment to himof $40 (equivalent to $541.43 today) for prayers and masses in their behalf.” (Ralph Woodrow, Bablon Mystery Babylon, p.69 as cited in Vance Ferrell’s “The Book of Revelation” p.493)
This depraved individual played on the hearts of worried mothers, who remember the numbers of dead in WW1, for money! Nowhere in the Holy Scriptures will you find:
A) Anyone being able to save the dead by prayer.
B) Priest accepting money to “pray someone through.”
C) That Yah accepts bribes.
D) That the Catholic Purgatory exists at all.
No one can pray anyone into the kingdom of heaven. This man knew the massive toll on lives that was wrought by WW1 and used that against the hopes of mothers, wives, family and even possibly friends to gain money for the church and himself! This man took the hope that these people had for their family members to live through this war and essentially said that their sons were going to die without question!
Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes that “the dead know nothing.” And we also know that we are to be judged after the 1000 year reign with Yahwashag, Revelation 20:11-15. Just these two Scriptures alone tell us that “purgatory” is nonsense. It was fashioned as a sick and abusive means of income, falling not short of the same intentions of “The Inquisition”, (creator of Inquisition Pope Gregory IX, 1231A.D.)
I believe that this section is clearly sufficient to show this part of the doctrine is as worthless as the rest. We will now move on.
THE EUCHARIST
Matthew 26:26-28, “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat: this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (See also Mark 14:22-26 Luke 22:14-23)
It could be deduced, although incorrectly, that Yahwashag was implying cannibalism. If anyone would do a study on the words “bread” and “blood” and how they tie into the Word and covenants, they would plainly see what Yahwashag was TRULY saying. We will do this shortly. For now, we will show what this “devil’s doctrine” teaches.
Eucharist- 1) the central Christian rite in which bread and wine are consecrated and distributed as the body and blood of Jesus or as symbols of them. (Webster’s New World College Dictionary)
So whats so bad about the bread and wine being symbols of Jesus’ body and blood? Absolutely nothing. But this doctrine takes this a step further. It teaches “transubstantiation”. Let’s define this word also.
Transubstantiation- 2a) the doctrine that, in the Eucharist, the whole substances of the bread and of the wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ, only the accidents of bread and wine remaining.
What this is saying is that the bread and wine offered at eucharist is actually turning into the flesh and blood of Yahwashag, literally! But this can only be done by a priest and not lessers.
“It is declared that Jesus Himself is in the bread and the fermented wine and, while some bread (called “wafers”) is given to the audience, the part of the bread (the “host”) and wine that is consecrated is only to be eaten by the officiating priest. (The word “host,” is derived from the error that Christ is held hostage to the power of the priest in the bread.)” (Vance Ferrell, The Book of Revelation, p.266)
Host- ([Latin] hostia, hostage) 1) The consecrated bread used in the Eucharistic Liturgy. 2) The unconsecrated wafer.” (Maryknoll Catholic Dictionary, p.278 as cited in Vance Ferrell’s “The Book of Revelation”, p.266)
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787), Italian Catholic Bishop, Canonized in 1839 by Pope Gregory 16, states,
“…in obedience to the words of His priest, (Hoc est corpus meum [This is My body]), God Himself descends on the altar, that He comes wherever they call Him, and as often as they call Him, and places Himself in their hands….And after having come, He remains, entirely at their disposal they Him as they please, from one place to another….Thus the priest may, in a certain manner, be called the creator of his Creator,..”The power of the priest,” says St. Bernardine of Sienna, “is the power of the divine person for the transubstantiation of the bread requires as much power as the creation of the world.’ ” (ibid., pp. 26-27, 32-33)
It is the intent of this Catholic Doctrine for you to believe that this so called “priest” has now become Yahwashag (who they also say is truly God) by cannibalizing His flesh (bread, wafer) and blood (wine) through the transubstantiation (consecration) of the bread and wine.
This causes me great concern. Almost a billion people are blindly believing this crap and think that they are going to heaven to be with God. My concern demands me to ask, “Do these priests ACTUALLY believe this? And if they do not, then do they not realize that they have become the “false prophets” that the apostles warned against?” Even these teachings of “false prophets” are in their Catholic Bible. I’ve seen it myself! Why would someone dare to say they are Yahwashag Himself in light of the Scripture, Matthew 24:4-5,
“And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ, and will deceive many.”?
Combine this belief of the “Eucharist” and “transubstantiation” with that of the bull written by Pope Boniface 8 that claims you can’t be saved unless you bow to the pope, and you will see clearly that this doctrine is the way to eternal damnatiion in the “lake of fire” (Revelation 20:10-15) which will be here on the New earth (Revelation 21:1) along with Yah and Yahwashag in the New City/Jerusalem (Revelation 21). Don’t take my word for it. Do something that the Catholic Doctrine does not want you to do, read it for yourself. You will see with your own eyes.
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KNOW THE TREE BY ITS FRUIT
[NOTE: This is the section that I must show intent of some Catholic clergy over their students and parishoners. I am not bashing the followers of catholicism. Please understand that the only reason this section is included is to show relation of the Catholic doctrine (and its clergy) to the “whore” of Revelation 17. Any one of these priests and clergy mentioned can repent and be saved if they only confess and accept the Son (Yahwashag) as their saviour. EVERYONE can be saved in the process of salvation no matter their sin, except those that have blasphemed the Holy Spirit, (Mark 3:29. Up to this point, even sexual immorality can be forgiven.]
It has been a long and emotion filled journey that brings us to our final section that will show that the Catholic doctrine is the “whore” of Revelation 17. Let’s begin.
Romans 1:27, “Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.”
It is one thing to be an abomination with another man. But it is an entirely new depth of abomination to be that way with an innocent. Let us read more Scripture to understand this.
Matthew 18:6, “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” (See also Mark 9:42 Luke 17:1-2)
This is the state of the Catholic clergy today. Thousands upon thousands have been offended or made to stumble because of this doctrine and its clergy. People have been made to run from religion and Yah Himself because of these men in the form of sexual abuse. And this is simply because of their belief system. None of the priests of the articles mentioned below showed any remorse for their actions. This is because of a process mentioned earlier that allows “indulgences”. These priests and clergy were under such belief in indulgences from kissing a crucifix, saying “Hail Marys” and praying to “saints”. They believe in their hearts and minds that Yah turned His back to their sins and ignored them in a favorable manner because of their rituals. Unfortunately for these priests, nowhere in the Holy Scriptures are any of these rituals spoken of or even mentioned. Now for the articles, which I only give a few. (All articles are taken from the Associated Press news app)
JULY 1, 2019- “Amid pedophile clergy scandals, the Vatican is declaring “unacceptable” any efforts by politicians or lawmakers to make priests violate their obligation to keep secret what penitents tell them in confession.” (including confessions from their own clergy that may involve sexual abuse)
JULY 4, 2019- “France’s Catholic Church has stripped the priest at the center of a high level misconduct scandal of his clerical status while finding him guilty of sexually abusing Boy Scouts.
JULY 9, 2019- “France’s foreign ministry says the Vatican has decided to lift the diplomatic immunity of its ambassador in France, who is accused of sexual assault. (different incident from JULY 4)
AUGUST 5, 2019- “(Italian) Priests acused of abusing (sexually) deaf Argentine students on trial.”
AUGUST 21, 2019- “The Victioria state Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld Pell’s conviction for abusing two 13-year old boys more than 20 years ago.”
AUGUST 21, 2019- “Vatican says Pell can still appeal to High Court.” (article said that the Vatican would wait for all appeals to be exhausted before investigating Pell themselves. This would PROBABLY mean that the priest would be taken to Rome for hearings, eluding justice in Australia)
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019- “Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is referring 12 former clergy for potential criminal prosecution after his office completed a 13 month investigation of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.”
These are not the only cases mentioned by the AP. But these are enough to show intent and now gives the foundation for the final Scripture that sums up the Catholic Church and its doctrine with a perfect description,
Revelation 17:5, “And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
For someone to believe that God will turn to ignore their sins, such as sexual abuse, and give them entrance to the New Jerusalem/City is an abomination in itself. Again I tell you that if any of these clergy were to repent and be baptized in the true process of salvation, they could gain eternal life if they follow Yahwashag. It is not hard to do. Trust me. I’ve done it!
Hear, with your heart, what Yahwashag told Saul at his conversion on the road to Damascus,
Acts 26:15-18, “So I said ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But rise and stand on your feet for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.”
If we view all of the information that has been given for us to know the truth of the Word, then the message to Saul is the very same message to us today. Help me to spread the truth to others to help save them and I guarrantee, if you continue to do this in faith of Yahwashag, you will be counted among the apostles of old.
SUMMARY
I have no doubt that this dissertation will paint a big ole target on me for many to shoot at. I am okay with this. I thank God that He called me this one last time to come to Him. I thank Him for answering prayer to bring knowledge and wisdom to me, through His Word, that would help me grow into a more intimate relationship with Him and His Son. If it is ridicule and perecution that i must face in order to get the truth out there, then I will count it as I am truly one of His chosen. I can tell you for a fact, that if those clergy mentioned and unmentioned were to come to salvation, they would become our brothers through salvation. We can hate the deeds of others easier than we can hate the deeds of ourselves. This is why we must first judge ourselves before we can think to judge others.
If the judgment of others is all I have to face as a persecution for this dissertation, over my past before coming to Yahwashag, then so be it. Yet, I ask you to be discerning in your acceptance of truth verses acceptance of temptation to persecute. I only do this for two reasons,
1) Yah called me to combat false doctrines everywhere with the exposing of facts from Biblical and historical evidences.
2) To turn as many as I can away from both physical and spiritual idolatry, adultry, hypocrisy, and eternal damnation.
3) To fulfill the second greatest commandment to love my neighbor as I love myself by the grace of Yah in illuminating the path of righteousness.
There was a time when none of this would enter into my mind. Yet now, it is all I can think of doing. Those whom wish to try and tear this dissertation apart, I welcome you. At least the seed of truth will be planted and your thoughts will remain pondering “What if?”
We have been shown that the Catholic doctrine is completely false. By the clergymen of eras past and even those of today, we are given a glimpse of the mindset of these individuals. We see how so many are misled to believe exactly what this doctrine of devils wants people to believe.
We have seen how through centuries past, this doctrine has built lies upon lies in order to keep their profits coming in so the hierarchy can thrive without want. Yet there desires are fulfilled in so many different forms of lust.
We have seen how this doctrine has taken the Word of Yah and made it worthless by “tradition” of having imgaes and statues when Yah said “No!”
We have seen how this doctrine has changed and added Scripture to fit their agenda. This agenda being the very “idea” that was spoken of in Daniel 8:9-12. (See CCGJ-GCC article “21 Horns: Truth In Identification”)
We have seen, without doubt, that this church and its doctrine is the very harlot spoken of in the book of Revelation. How could it not be?
Everything that this doctrine stands for is a lie that has been built upon with more lies for almost two thousand years! And even today, the church teaches that their clergy must be celebate, you must pray to Mary, you must pay to avoid or get out of a fictional place called purgatory and that you and I both must bow down to the authority of this “pope” in order to be saved. You can even kiss an image that God forbade in order for Him to ignore your sins for so many years, according to Catholic doctrine.
So I ask you, a fellow believer as many are, “Will you believe Yah’s Word, or will you believe a proven corrupt man and his self-made doctrine?” Come with us at CCGJ-GCC and learn the profound truth from Yah’s Holy Word and the life of His only begotten Son that He gave for all. We can walk hand in hand in this truth and peace from Yah. One will not hurt without the other hurting also. One will not fall to the wayside to be left by themselves. No. We will help you up, or sit with you until you can stand and walk again. You are my brother. You are my sister. We are all His children and we all wait to be with Him.
We at CCGJ-GCC invite you all, whomever you are, to come to the Light. Come out from among the heathenistic doctrines that so many follow to their perpetual doom. Please use this article to reach loved ones, friends and even strangers to bring them to the Light, Yahwashag. We love each of you and we do not want anyone lost to doctrines of devils.
Titus 3:15, “All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.”
Your brother in Christ,
CCGJ-GCC CHURCH DEACON,
COUNCILOR BISHOP,
COMMUNITY ELDER, Th.D.A., Ecc.D.A.
Christened: Michael Paul Hoshayah
Joel R. McGee
