Exodus 20:3 – You shall have no other Gods before Me.
Exodus 20:7 – You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Philippians 2:9-10 – Therefore God has also highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth.
Psalm 138:2 – I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth; for You have magnified Your word above all Your name.
As you can see from the Scriptures above, there is only one God and the only real truth is God’s word. If anyone comes to you professing to be God’s only representative on earth (i.e., vicar of Christ) they are lying to you. Believers are the church of God and not a church leader (i.e., the pope) or some building constructed by man (i.e., the Vatican). For a believer God’s temple is our bodies which are indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. When we worship God our spirit communes with the Spirit of God inside us. There’s no need for an intermediary such as a church leader or physical church in order to speak to God or to be saved. If anyone comes to you declaring you must be a member of their church in order to be saved (i.e., the Catholic church) they are lying to you. If anyone comes to you saying only the head of their church can grant you eternal life in heaven (i.e., the pope) they are lying to you. If any church leader comes to you declaring only they can interpret what God means in his word (i.e., the pope) they are lying to you. God made his word available so that every man and woman could read it themselves for knowledge, understanding and wisdom. Don’t let anyone spoon feed religion to you or tell you what God requires of you. Everything you need to know to please God is in his word so read it for yourself. Every man has to deal with God directly for their salvation by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Nobody else can condemn you or save you. You have to make that decision yourself.
John 14:6 – (Jesus speaking) – I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Romans 3:4 – Let God be true but every man a liar.
Numbers 23:19 – God is not man, that He should lie.
Galatians 1:8 – But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
John 12:48 – (Jesus speaking) – He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him – the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
Anyone who comes to you declaring they are another Christ (i.e., the pope) and what they say takes precedence over what God says, they are lying to you. If anyone says only they can save you unto eternal life in heaven because they’re Christ on earth (i.e., the pope) you are being lied too. If anyone says only they have the right to send someone to heaven or hell forever (i.e., the pope) they are lying to you. The Roman Catholic pope has declared that since he is Christ on earth his priests in the Roman Catholic church are also Christ on earth because they are his appointed representatives. I now understand what Jesus was talking about in Matthew 24:5,11. When Jesus said many will come claiming to be Christ he was referring the pope and priests of the Roman Catholic church. When Jesus said many will come claiming to be prophets of God he was referring to the popes of the Catholic church who claim to speak for God in earthly matters.
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.
Hebrews 12:2 – Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 10:12-13 – But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.
Hebrews 7:25 – Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
There have been 266 popes and all except maybe a very few at the beginning have all claimed to be Christ on earth and prophets of God. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and it wasn’t long before the Roman Catholic popes thought of themselves as God. They will all show up at the Great White Throne judgment expecting to receive honor and glory from God. Instead they will be condemned by Jesus for leading millions of people straight to hell and for stealing God’s glory and shaming Jesus Christ with their satanic mass. The Catholic mass is an abomination to God! After final judgment an angel of God will grab hold of each pope and throw them into the lake of fire. Believers will be there to see it all unfold.
John 1:1-2 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
2 Corinthians 11:3-4 – But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached (i.e., the pope), or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted – you may well put up with it!
John 8:44 – (Jesus speaking) – You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Romans 1:25 – (Men) Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature (Satan) rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Roman Catholic doctrines, traditions and dogma are all utter nonsense. If you want to know the truth of God go straight to the source and read the Bible for yourself. Cut out the middleman who seeks to tell you, for his own evil purposes, what you should do and what you should believe about God. For the Roman Catholic church it’s all about power, control and money. The church wants to force you to become members by saying you will go to hell if you don’t. They are dead wrong. Everything the Roman Catholic church stands for is nothing but a pack of lies! The Roman Catholic church is Satan’s church not God’s. The Bible says we’re saved by faith alone. The church wants to make you follow nonsensical doctrines, dogma and vain repetition (i.e., the rosary) by threatening eternal damnation if you don’t. It’s an empty threat because only God can send someone to hell. On the flip side, salvation unto eternal life in heaven is a gift from God.
Matthew 10:28 – (Jesus speaking) – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Hebrews 9:27 – And it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.
1 Corinthians 8:6 – Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
Ephesians 2:8-9 – For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourselves; it is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Scripture confirms that only God the Father can condemn a human soul to hell for all eternity. The Roman Catholic church just makes stuff up in order to control their flock with the threat of going to hell. The Roman Catholic church is nothing but an evil giant business enterprise and they’re all about keeping the money flowing into the church coffers at all costs. The Roman Catholic church invented “purgatory” in order to squeeze more money out of their flock by having them work for their salvation. Scripture says after death we’re all judged; period! The Roman Catholic church would have you believe the pope is another Christ on earth who is infallible and what he says takes precedence over what God says. What rational person would believe a man can tell God what to do? It is blasphemy!
2 Peter 3:16 – As also in all his (Paul’s) epistles, speaking in them of these things (salvation), in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
Hebrews 9:28 – So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time (the rapture), apart from sin, for salvation.
Hebrews 9:10-11 – And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Hebrews 6:4-6 – For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
Basically the Roman Catholic church is saying the pope is God on earth. Can you buy that load of bull? I know I can’t. I have a book in my library on the history of the papacy and just about every pope in the book was a documented sinner of the worst sort. Yet popes are considered holy, infallible and Christ on earth. Give me a break! When the pope appoints a priest they also become Christ on earth, which is why they are able to hear confessions and forgive sins. Can you believe it? Only Jesus can forgive sins and not some priest in a box who may be a child molester which, by the way, the church knows many priests who are yet they try their best to cover it up. The Catholic church still gives lip service to Jesus only because they have to retain some semblance of Christianity in order to fool the faithful into thinking they are worshipping God when in reality they’re worshipping Satan. It’s the old bait and switch. The Eucharist is a part of the mass where a priest forces Jesus Christ to come from heaven to his church where Jesus is then turned into a cookie and eaten by the flock so that Jesus experiences crucifixion over and over again at each and every church service along with the shame that goes with it.
1 John 5:11-12 – And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 Corinthians 1:18 – For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Hebrews 4:16 – Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
2 Corinthians 4:3 – But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
Do you buy the story that a creature of God (a priest) has the power to drag the omnipotent Creator of the universe out of heaven against his will and make him suffer the shame of crucifixion repeatedly in every Catholic church throughout the world? If you believe that I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I’d like to sell you. Hebrews 6:4-6 and Hebrews 12:2 both say to crucify Jesus again is to openly shame the Lord. I wouldn’t want to be the person taking part in that service and have to face Jesus on the last day. The Catholic church has convinced their flock that Jesus is nothing more than a cookie to be crucified over and over again at every mass in every Catholic church throughout the world. The Bible says Jesus Christ was crucified once for the sins all men so there is no need for continual crucifixion of our Lord and Savior. To claim otherwise is shaming Jesus and calling God a liar to his face. To attend Catholic mass is to worship Satan. Woe unto that person on the last day!
Acts 20:28-30 – Therefore take heed of yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after My departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
Matthew 24:23-25 – (Jesus speaking) – Then if anyone says to you, “Look, here is the Christ!” or “There!” do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.
James 5:16 – The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
Isaiah 48:11 – And I will not give My glory to another (i.e., to popes or priests).
When you read the Bible you can be confident you’re receiving the unfiltered truth of God with no middleman (church leader or physical church) to distort the divine message from God. God cannot lie but his words can be twisted by evil ungodly men. Detractors have been trying for 2000 years to discredit the Bible but no errors or inconsistencies have ever been proven to exist. However, evil men with their own agenda can and will lie to twist the truth of the Bible to suit their own purposes. As a believer and disciple of Christ you must trust only God and his word. Take what men say with a grain of salt because all men are sinners. Make sure your church teaches the Bible and not the doctrines, sacraments and traditions created by evil men seeking to gain power, money and control over their flock. The Roman Catholic church is a perfect example of this.
1 Peter 5:8 – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may destroy.
Ephesians 6:12 – For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.
2 Corinthians 5:11 – Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.
Ephesians 6:19 – And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel.
Satan couldn’t stamp out the early church by persecuting Christians so he switched tactics. If you can’t beat them then join them. Satan started a campaign to corrupt the Catholic church from within and he was so successful that by the time of the papacy of Gregory the Great around 600 AD Satan owned the Catholic church lock, stock and barrel. How do I know this? Because Satan hates God. Because every single doctrine, sacrament and tradition of the Catholic church is the exact opposite of what God commands us to do in his word. The odds of this all happening accidentally is zero so someone had to cause it and that person is Satan, the second most powerful being in the universe. There is no other logical explanation to account for this.
John 17:11 – (Jesus speaking) – Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
John 1:3 – All things were made through Him (Jesus), and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Ephesians 3:9 – And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 9:24 – For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
The Bible says Jesus Christ is the word of God. God came off his throne in heaven and came to earth in the incarnation of Jesus Christ the man in order to die on the cross in our place. Jesus died in our place so that our sins could be forgiven by God through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. God intentionally made salvation a simple process for man. There is no path to heaven other than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by believing on his name. A man can’t save you. The pope can’t save you because he’s not Christ. He’s just a man with a large ego. A priest can’t save you because he can’t even save himself. Being a member of a church can’t save you. Following a set of church doctrines, sacraments and traditions gains you nothing. Every man must save himself by personally going to God in prayer, repenting of their sins and accepting the grace of God through the shed blood of Christ for the forgiveness of their sins.
Philippians 4:6 – Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Colossians 3:17 – And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Ephesians 1:13 – In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 – For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance.
The Roman Catholic church has found a way around the truth of God. The church has declared the pope to be Christ on earth with the power to interpret Scripture. The church has declared that all priests ordained by the pope are also Christ and can therefore forgive sins. In Roman Catholic theology a priest is “alter Christus” or “another Christ.” The church directed the flock to bypass Jesus with their prayers and instead pray to Mary, the mother of Jesus, a human being who cannot hear the prayers of man. Mary is shedding tears in heaven right now because man is praying to her instead of our blessed Savior Jesus Christ. Scripture is clear we are to pray to God and no one else. God says we’re not to make any carved image of God to worship yet the Catholic church is full of carved images of Jesus Christ on the cross. Satan wanted his church to have a constant reminder of the shameful death of Christ displayed prominently. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Every single thing the Roman Catholic church does is the opposite of what God requires and we have Satan to blame. If you’re a Catholic leave the church immediately before the wrath of God comes for you.
Matthew 24:5 – (Jesus speaking) – For many will come in My name, saying, “I am Christ,” and will deceive many.
Matthew 24:11 – (Jesus speaking) – Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
Matthew 24:26 – (Jesus speaking) – Therefore if they say to you, “Look, He is in the desert!” do not go out; or “Look, He is in the inner rooms!” do not believe it.
Matthew 24:27 – (Jesus speaking) – For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
During his Mount of Olives discourse Jesus was discussing with his disciples things that will occur at the end of time. I’ve always been confused by Matthew 24:5,11, where Jesus says many will come claiming to be Christ and many will come claiming to be prophets of God. I thought how could that even be possible. Who could get away with making those claims today? It makes perfect sense to me now that Jesus was talking about the Roman Catholic church because the popes have been claiming to be Christ for centuries. Every pope says they speak on behalf of God and are therefore prophets of God. Popes call themselves “Holy Father” when this title belongs only to God. The pope sits as Christ in the Vatican. And when the pope speaks ex cathedra, he speaks for God, in place of the Holy Spirit. The pope is given, in essence, all the titles of the Triune Godhead combined. This is not a one off. The popes are supposed to be infallible. Look at what they’ve said:
Pope Innocent III – He (the pope) judges all and is judged by no one.
Pope Boniface VIII – We declare, assert, define, and pronounce: To be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation.
Pope Leo XIII – We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
John 19:30 – So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Matthew 27:50 – And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
John 14:15 – (Jesus speaking) – If you love Me, keep My commandments.
1 Samuel 15:22 – Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.
If you’re a Catholic you face a very important decision. Your eternal destiny depends on it. God’s Holy Word will judge you when you stand before the Lord Jesus Christ on the last day, just like it says in John 12:48. Many Catholics are saved, not because of the church, but in spite of it. Many Catholics have disregarded what the church says and they have personally accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. On the other hand, there are many Catholics who don’t have a personal relationship with Christ. Instead they depend on the church membership, church sacraments, the pope, and priests for their salvation. Many Catholics don’t see the need to go directly to Jesus because they think they’re already saved so what’s the point. They’re dead wrong! The Roman Catholic church and Satan are lying to you! Jesus Christ commands all believers to come to him for salvation. Catholics are told to come out of the church (Revelation 18:4) because it’s Satan’s church; the mother of abominations and the whore of Babylon. Will you choose to believe God … or men? If Roman Catholic teaching disagrees with God’s word, and it does in virtually every instance, then it’s wrong in God’s eyes. Many Roman Catholics are sincerely trying to please God but they’re going about it the wrong way. They’re obeying the church thinking that will save them when they should instead be obeying what God says in the Bible.
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 of her plagues.”
2 Peter 3:9 – The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
Romans 3:28 – Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Acts 4:12 – Nor is there salvation in any other (but Jesus), for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
The Catholic religious system is evil because it’s leading millions of people straight to hell and they don’t even know it. Satan is the pied piper leading man straight to hell. Many of the church faithful who think they’re saved unto eternal life in heaven will be shocked on the last day to discover they’ve been hoodwinked by Satan and they’re going to hell instead. Going back to my original question in this blog, “Is there another Christ?” The answer is, “No, there is only one Jesus Christ and he sits at the right hand of the Father in heaven as our mediator.” Jesus will one day come back to the earth, in the air, to rapture the saints of his church to himself and take them back to heaven. After this, Jesus will next set foot on the Mount of Olives at his Second Coming on the last day; at the battle of Armageddon to save Israel from destruction and set up his millennial kingdom on earth.
Romans 3:10 – There is none righteous, no, not one. (this includes popes & priests)
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.
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.
Being a member of the Roman Catholic church, or any church, doesn’t really matter. If you follow church sacraments, doctrines and traditions it’s all meaningless mumbo jumbo. By obeying the pope, priests, and pastors you gain nothing. You only get one shot at salvation so don’t screw it up because eternity is a very long time. An eternity in hell means being in pain and agony 24/7 forever and ever. That’s the worst possible decision anyone can make yet most of the people in the world are going to make that choice and go straight to hell. Don’t be one of them. See, I have told you what you should do but the ultimate decision is yours to make. God has given you the free will to choose your destiny. Will you choose to serve God or Satan? As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I rebuke Satan and his Roman Catholic church for leading millions of people straight to hell. In the name of Jesus I rebuke the Roman Catholic church for twisting the word of God to suit their evil purposes. In the name of Jesus I rebuke the Catholic pope and all his priests for claiming to be God when they are not, and never can be, the Lord Jesus Christ.