I’m biased against the Roman Catholic church and you need to be aware of that as I post this blog. Like most believers today I too was once naive. I’m a Southern Baptist and I thought Catholicism was merely another denomination of Christianity. I didn’t know any better. It wasn’t until I started studying God’s word that the truth dawned on me. In my youth I even went to a Catholic service with a friend who was Catholic. I thought the service was a bit strange but it never entered my head that Catholics weren’t Christian. If you google world religions you’ll see there are supposedly 2.5 billion Christians so the whole world thinks all Catholics are Christians, including themselves. The whole world is wrong. Roman Catholics make up approximately two thirds of Christianity (1.5 billion people). Here’s the rub. While there are many Catholics who are Christian believers who are going to heaven, the majority aren’t. The majority of Catholics think they are saved unto eternal life in heaven but that’s simply not the case. I’m not making the call here. I’m simply stating what it says in God’s Word, which is the ultimate authority on who is going to heaven and who isn’t. If you believe the Bible is without error, as I do, then you must agree with me. To do otherwise is to stick your head in the sand. Let me explain myself.
Romans 3:4 – Let God be true but every man a liar.
Isaiah 48:11 – And I (God) will not give My glory to another.
Salvation is a personal thing between a person and the God who made them. There are many believers who are members of the Catholic church because they have personally gone to God in prayer and accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. These people are saved unto eternal life in heaven not because they’re members of the Roman Catholic church; but in spite of it. To their credit, these individuals are risking the wrath of the church because they’ve gone against Catholic doctrines, traditions and dogma in order to save themselves. The Roman Catholic church wants salvation to run exclusively through them; bypassing God altogether. That’s not possible. Why do Catholic believers remain in the Catholic church? I don’t know the reason. Maybe their family and friends have always been Catholic and they don’t want to rock the boat. Scripture says believers are the church and Jesus is the head of the church and he’s in heaven sitting at the right hand of God the Father as our mediator. The Holy Spirit indwells the body of each believer to prove they are God’s possession and the Catholic church has no impact on that spiritual truth of heaven.
Psalm 29:2 – Give unto the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Psalm 86:5 – For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.
Nowhere in Scripture does it say Jesus will appoint a church leader on earth to take his place (i.e., the pope). The Roman Catholic church likes to tie their legitimacy as God’s church to the conversation Jesus had with Peter where he said, “On this rock I will build my church.” They mistakenly thought Jesus was talking about Peter as the rock who would build God’s church . Since the Roman Catholic church has claimed Peter as the first pope that means they think they have the sole mandate to be God’s church. The Roman Catholic church claims that every pope who came after Peter has inherited the mantle of church leadership (i.e., the pope) through Peter. That’s a lie. That is a totally false assumption based on the interpretation of a single verse of Scripture taken out of context. If you look at the surrounding verses you’ll see Jesus was actually talking about the gospel message of Christ as being the “rock” upon which the church will be built and not Peter himself.
2 Corinthians 6:17 – Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
Revelation 18:4 – And I hear another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her My people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive her plagues.”
Jesus never mentions the presence of the Catholic church directly by name nor does he make any reference to a pope who will lead his church. The Bible clearly says Jesus is the head of the church and no one else. However, I know of at least two places in the Bible where God commands believers to come out of an unholy church that professes to be the true church of God. This can only be a reference to the Roman Catholic church we know today. When I claim there are 500 million believers in the Catholic church I’m really just guessing and hoping there are that many believers in the Catholic church. I think I’m a bit on the high side but I’m always optimistic. Common sense tells me if God commands believers to come out of the Roman Catholic church then they’re in the minority and the majority who are left are nonbelievers. Believers are clearly in the minority whatever the true percentages are. By my math that leaves approximately one billion people who claim to be Catholics but who aren’t saved unto eternal life in heaven but who think they are. That’s tragic because on the last day they’ll have to stand before Jesus Christ and find out they’re condemned to an eternity in hell because Satan has put blinders over their eyes and hid the truth of God from them.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 – All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 – Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
I share the truth of God through my blog because it’s an integral part of the ministry I received from the Holy Spirit. I don’t want to offend anyone but the truth needs to be told. If I don’t do it who will? If you’re a Catholic who hasn’t personally accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior then you are in great peril. What I’m telling you is backed up by Scripture. You don’t have to believe what I’m saying. You can go read it for yourself in the Bible. If you examine any of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church you’ll see they are all diametrically opposed to what the Bible says we must do. They are all 180 degrees in the opposite direction! If you believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God then you must agree with me that the Roman Catholic church is a fraud and is, in fact, the church of Satan. If you look at Roman Catholic church traditions and dogma it’s the exact same thing. They’re all the opposite of the truth of God. If it was only one or two things maybe it could be a coincidence but when 100% of the Roman Catholic church doctrines, traditions and dogma are aligned against God’s word and for Satan’s agenda then it has to be on purpose and driven by a hatred of God. The odds are just too great for it to be a coincidence.
Matthew 6:7-8 – (Jesus speaking) – And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do (i.e., the rosary). For they think they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.
Matthew 15:9 – (Jesus speaking) – And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
If you’re a Catholic and you think you’re saved why not hedge your bets and make damn sure you are. What’s the harm in that? After all, your eternal soul hangs in the balance. Think of it as your salvation backup plan or your eternal insurance policy. Start by reading your Bible and then start praying directly to God. Read the verses in the “Roman Road” to salvation in the order I have them listed (John 3:16; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; Romans 5:8; and Romans 10:9). Obey the commandments of God. Google “sinner’s prayer” and verbally follow the script; just you and God alone in prayer. If you believe what you’re saying to God when you pray then you’re saved unto eternal life in heaven, because God said so and God cannot lie. In the Bible God says salvation is simple and it is. As a new believer you can still remain in the Catholic church if you want to and nobody will be the wiser. You can have your cake and eat it too. However, I advise you to leave the Catholic church because it’s Satan’s church. Why would you want to be in the house of your enemy who seeks your destruction?
Isaiah 43:11 – I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.
Matthew 7:23-23 – (Jesus speaking) – Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” And I will then declare to them, “I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.”
Satan hates God and vice versa. Satan is the second most powerful being in the universe and only he has the power to effectively implement the evil that is inside the Roman Catholic church. We know God didn’t act against his word to perpetrate this evil so who else is there? Only Satan. When Satan couldn’t stamp out the early church he switched tactics and decided to corrupt the church from within. By the time of the papacy of Gregory the Great in 590 AD the Roman Catholic church belonged to Satan, and probably well before then. Catholic popes started declaring themselves infallible God’s who could interpret Scripture better than God the Father himself. The popes also stole God’s glory by declaring that they had the exclusive right to decide who goes to heaven or hell. Let’s take a look at the lives of a few of the 266 popes who ruled the Roman Catholic church over the last two thousand years. The Roman Catholic church says God works through men to choose the pope God wants to be his representative on earth; his “vicar of Christ.” I posit that Satan owns the Roman Catholic church and he makes sure each pope is an evil spawn of the devil:
Pope Stephen VI – (896 – 897 AD) – It was obvious to everyone from the beginning that this pope was insane, which led to riots that removed him from office after only one year as pope. Stephen came from an aristocratic Italian family that had apparently been badly mistreated by the previous pope and when Stephen was elected pope he became highly vindictive toward his predecessor. Stephen had the stinking corpse of the previous pope (Formosus) dug up and put on trial for his crimes. Stephen personally served as the prosecuting attorney while the dead pope was propped up on a papal throne and dressed in papal vestments. The dead Formosus was found guilty of course and Stephen then cut off the fingers of the dead pope, stripped off his papal vestments and then buried the dead pope in a pauper’s grave. Stephen’s anger still wasn’t appeased so later on he dug up the dead pope again and this time had his corpse thrown into the Tiber River. This insane pope was later imprisoned and strangled to death in his cell.
Would God make the mistake of choosing someone insane to lead his church? Would God choose someone so obviously full of pride, vengeance and hate? I don’t think so. Scripture says a good tree will produce good fruit and a bad tree bad fruit, but not vice versa. This spiritual truth of heaven also applies to God. God cannot produce the bad fruit that is pope Stephen VI but obviously Satan can and did. Can you see the fingerprints of Satan on all these evil popes? I certainly can. God does only good and God doesn’t make mistakes.
Matthew 7:17-18 – (Jesus speaking) – Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Pope Sergius III – (904-911 AD) – This bloodthirsty and murderous pope had the distinction of being the only pope guilty of killing another pope; and he did it twice. In order to become pope Sergius killed two of his predecessors, Pope Leo V and his son Pope Christopher. Sergius was also shacked up with Marozia, the daughter of a powerful nobleman and ally. His illegitimate son grew up to be Pope John XI.
Throughout the history of the early church several powerful aristocratic Italian families fought among themselves to capture the Holy See and make one of their family members the pope. Bribery, treachery and force of arms usually decided who would be pope and not God. In the case of Sergius, he was from one of those aristocratic families and he used his army to capture Rome and have himself elected as pope. If someone becomes pope by the force of arms does that prove God didn’t choose them? Yes it does because God would never do it that way. Would God choose a murderer and a fornicator to lead his church? Not a chance. None of that is God’s doing. It’s Satan’s doing. Popes are chosen by evil men under the sway of Satan.
Pope John X – (914-928 AD) – This promiscuous pope took over his predecessor’s lover as his own mistress. He also later slept with Marozia’s mother. Marozia turned on Pope John X and married the pope’s greatest enemy; who then overthrew the papacy and had John X thrown into a dungeon where he was later smothered to death with a pillow.
Would God choose a pope who was a known fornicator who would sleep with anyone? Would God chose a pope who sleeps with a woman and her mother too? That illicit sex is an abomination to the Lord. How could God violate his word and choose such a person as pope? There is no way God could do that or he wouldn’t be God. Satan would, but not God.
Pope Paul II – (1464 1471 AD) – A repressive and autocratic ruler of the church who devoted his energies to games and festivities. A shallow man who lived in splendor. Paul was thin skinned and he had his critics imprisoned and tortured to death. He died in 1471 while he was being sodomized by a young page.
Would God choose a murderer to lead his church? How about someone who tortures people to death? Would God choose a sodomite to be pope when God declares that kind of sexual perversion to be an abomination before the Lord? I think not; but Satan would.
Pope Alexander VI – (1492 – 1503 AD) – Alexander VI openly sold church offices to the highest bidder. He fathered nine illegitimate children, including four with his live-in mistress. He had an incestuous affair with his own daughter. This pope bribed his way to becoming pope. He threw lavish parties and often hosted orgies at the papal palace.
Would God pick a pope who slept with his own daughter? That’s an abomination to God. Would God pick a leader who would sell the church for filthy lucre? Would God pick a pope who was such a notoriously promiscuous fornicator as his representative on earth? God wouldn’t but Satan would.
Pope Leo X – (1513 – 1521 AD) – An openly homosexual and promiscuous pope. This pope engaged in the wholesale selling of indulgences to raise money for his pet projects. An indulgence was a papal document attesting that the pope would move a person out of purgatory and into heaven for a price. The actions of this pope led Martin Luther to start the Protestant reformation because Martin Luther believed God’s word where it said we are saved by faith and not works. Martin Luther chose to believe God and not man. All Catholics should follow the example of this brave man and throw off the yoke of Satan.
God considers a homosexual to be an abomination. We’re supposed to accept such things in our politically correct world but I’ll stand on the word of God in such matters, against all comers. God hates sodomites. God hates fornicators. God hates liars. Would the Lord ever choose such a person as Leo X to lead his flock on earth? Not a chance; but Satan would.
Pope Paul III – (1534 – 1549 AD) – This pope was a known fornicator who was notoriously corrupt, murderous and a sexual pervert to boot. Paul took charge of the thousands of prostitutes in Rome and organized their trade. In exchange Pope Paul III took a cut of their earnings hence he is referred to as “pimp pope.” His daughter was his lover.
God hates whoremongers, murderers and sexual deviants. Incest is an abomination to God. Do you really think God would select someone like this to lead his church? Hell no he wouldn’t but this kind of person would be right up Satan’s alley.
Pope John XII – (955 – 963 AD) – The father of this pope was Alberic II, Duke of Spoleto. Because of his family wealth and power Alberic extracted a promise from the Roman nobility that it would make his son John the next pope. John XII became pope at age 18 and he wasn’t up to the job. He knew nothing about God. John turned the papal palace into a whorehouse. He was devoted to hunting, gambling, wine and women. He had a habit of toasting the devil and invoking pagan gods during dice games in the palace. He was a violent psychopath who once castrated a deacon before killing him. When his own confessor angered him he had him blinded before killing him. The papal palace was notorious for its orgies and drunken parties. John had sex with both men and women in his palace and raped whoever he wanted to have sex with, including a niece and his two younger sisters. After nine years as pope he was killed by an angry husband who caught him having sex with his wife.
This sordid pope did everything evil under the sun. God cannot abide sin and he certainly wouldn’t pick a vicar of Christ who openly worshipped Satan. This pope worshipped Satan and did unspeakable things in the name of the devil. Do you really think God would select a devil worshipper to be the pope of the Roman Catholic church? That’s simply not possible because then God would be a liar and not faithful to his word. God forbid! Satan is the god of this world and he controls the Roman Catholic church and he decides who will become pope. Satan always chooses one of his own. It can happen no other way.
Pope Benedict IX – (1032 – 1044 AD) – (1045) – (1047 – 1048 AD) – This pope had the distinction of being deposed as pope by force on three separate occasions and reinstated by force of arms each time. Benedict first became pope at age 20 because his powerful father used his family connections and bribery to secure his election. He hosted orgies and raped men, women, boys and girls. Benedict was a sadist who enjoyed torturing, burning, drowning, and flaying to death those who angered him. Benedict IX finally decided to retire after his third stint as pope so he sold the papacy to a priest.
I don’t know who was worse; this pope or John XII. This pope was despicable. He did unspeakable evil in the sight of God and he would be the last person God would chose to lead the Roman Catholic faithful. This pope was obviously one of Satan’s children. God cannot abide such sinful behavior. Who can argue otherwise?
Pope Julius III – (1550 – 1555 AD) – This pope was chosen even though he was a known pedophile who regularly had sex with children in the papal palace and he did it openly. Why didn’t some church official oppose this sordid behavior? Julius also looted the church treasury for his own purposes.
Children have a special place in God’s heart and to exploit them sexually is an abomination to God. Pedophiles and those who condone that behavior have a special place in hell reserved for them. God would never pick a pedophile to lead his church but Satan would.
God is faithful to his word and consistent in all his actions. God doesn’t change. In deciding whether or not God chooses who becomes pope of the Roman Catholic church there are only two logical choices because it doesn’t make any sense for God to pick some popes and not others. Either God selects all the popes or he selects none of them. Either the Roman Catholic church is God’s church or it isn’t and the two issues are tied together. God never sleeps. God never takes a day off or goes on vacation. God never takes his eyes off his creation. When we examine the facts and we see that the church has elected evil sinful popes then we must conclude that a holy God was not involved because God cannot abide sin. If God didn’t pick any of these evil popes I mentioned the he doesn’t pick any of the popes. When the Roman Catholic church does the exact opposite to what God says we must do in his word then we also have to conclude that the doctrines, traditions and dogma of the church did not come from God for the same reason. For those believers who are spiritually aware it’s obvious that the Roman Catholic church is Satan’s church not God’s. Anyone with an open mind who takes an honest look at the evidence in the Bible must come to the same conclusion I have. Satan has put blinders on the eyes of nonbelievers so they cannot see the truth of God. Nonbelievers must start praying to the Lord and start reading the Bible in order for the scales to be lifted from their eyes so they can see the glory of God and the love he has for them.
Romans 3:10 – There is none righteous, no, not one.
Exodus 20:4 – (God speaking) – You shall not make for yourself a carved image – 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.
In this blog I’ve just reviewed ten of the worst popes in history to prove they are not godly men chosen by God to lead the Roman Catholic church. The rest of the popes may not be as bad as the ones I mention but they were all sinful, arrogant men who lied, cheated, and in many cases bribed their way to the top position. Throughout the history of the Roman Catholic church popes have personally led or directed armies in wars of conquest that have caused the death of millions of people in the name of God. It’s obvious the popes are not children of God. By their fruit they have shown themselves to be the children of Satan pursuing the devil’s agenda. The popes and the Roman Catholic church are consistent in their actions against the Lord, the one true God. Show me where I’m wrong? You cannot do it because everything I’m saying is backed up by Scripture. You don’t have a leg to stand on other than the lies that evil men have taught you. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if not a single pope makes it to heaven because of the evil they do on earth. Please wake up! Read the Bible yourself so you know the truth of God within your spirit while you still have time.
Isaiah 42:8 – I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another.
Isaiah 5:20 – Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
The Roman Catholic church has the trappings of Christianity to fool their followers into thinking they are worshipping God when in reality they’re not. The Roman Catholic church worships Satan; also known as the devil; and sometimes referred to as the dragon or the beast. The church pays lip service to Jesus Christ while in their heart they elevate the pope and priests above God. The pope and priests declare themselves to be Christ on earth to steal God’s glory. They shame Jesus with their satanic mass by turning him into a cookie that they crucify again at every service (the Eucharist). Catholics are directed to pray to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and not God. Mary is a human being and she can’t hear our prayers. In the Bible believers are told to pray to God because only Almighty God can hear the prayers of the creatures he created. Satan does this to steal God’s glory so don’t be gullible enough to help him by praying to Mary or anyone else but God. Woe unto the popes and priest who lead their flock down to the pit! God will repay them for their iniquity. Popes and priests cannot forgive the sins of men. Only God can to that. Popes and priests can’t save you or condemn you. Only God can do that. There’s no such place as purgatory or God would have told us in the Bible. It’s an evil doctrine of the Catholic church to keep their flock shelling out money for their salvation. Catholicism is just an evil worldwide business enterprise.
Revelation 2:10 – Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 1:3 – Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
At the beginning of this blog I said I was biased against the Roman Catholic church. The truth is, I really hate the Roman Catholic church. I’ve accepted the fact that for the last two thousand years the church has led hundreds of millions of people straight to hell by fooling them into thinking they were saved when they weren’t. I’ve learned to accept the fact that the church in Rome blatantly disrespects God and steals his glory at every turn. I’ve studied the Bible for over twenty years and I’m a student of Bible prophecy. I know what’s coming during the seven year tribulation so let me warn you. My hatred of the Catholic church stems primarily from the fact that they’ll be the one world religion at the end of human history and the Catholic pope will be the prophesied false prophet of the antichrist.
Psalm 44:22 – Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Matthew 7:7 – (Jesus speaking) – Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.
I’ll be raptured to heaven before the tribulation begins because Jesus will come in the air for all believers. During the seven year tribulation period all nonbelievers will be left on earth but many millions of them will see the truth of God after the rapture and find salvation by turning to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Better late than never. The antichrist and the false prophet (the pope) both belong to the devil and they will hunt down all the Jews and saints and cut their heads off if they refuse to worship the antichrist and take his mark on their hand or forehead. It would be far better to suffer a martyr’s death than to take the mark of the beast (666) and be condemned to hell for all eternity. I cannot forgive the Catholic church for what they are going to do to the children of God during the tribulation period. As a believer, if you find yourself in this unenviable position things are dire but all is not lost. Revelation 2:10 and Psalm 44:22 were written to guide you during this perilous time. Grab your Bible. Find a hole, crawl into it and wait out the coming wrath of God. You won’t be able to work, buy food or do anything else without the mark of the beast so you’ll need to make your preparations for survival beforehand. If you’re very lucky you may be able to be one of the few to hold out until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to the earth.
Romans 5:1 – Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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.
Romans 3:28 – Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.