The Catholic Church October 5, 2007

 Most Christians used to think that the Catholic Church was a cult.  Today most "Christians" do not believe the Catholic Church is a cult.  Since this blog post was written back in 2007 there has even been an interfaith movement between Catholic's and certain "Christian" denominations to promote understanding and better relations.  You cannot find books on Catholicism as an occult religion in Christian book stores anymore. So let's look at this religion and ask Three questions: 

1.  Are its rituals Biblical?;   2.  Who do they worship and pray to?;   3.  Who is their leader?  

ARE ITS RITUALS BIBLICAL? 

     Does God tell us to go to a priest, pastor, minister, or layman and confess our sins to that person so that our sins will be forgiven? The Bible says Jesus Christ is our advocate to our father in heaven in 1 John 2:1 and our only mediator between God and men in 1 Timothy 2:5.  Here are some of the qualifications and duties of a minister of God:  They should be blameless, a husband of one wife, preach the Gospel, rule well his own family, cannot be bought (take bribes), must not be violent or riot, and live a godly life. Read the Second  Epistle to Timothy, and Titus. Yes a priest or pastor may marry.  Peter the Apostle was married. Jesus healed Peter's mother-in-law Matthew 8:14-15.

You will not find Rosary beads in the Old or New Testament, nor the Mass, which is said that a round wafer turns into the body of Christ; and wine that turns into the blood of Christ by a priest who blesses the wafer and wine in a ritual sacrifice of our Lord over and over again, who was Biblically sacrificed once and for all on the cross.       

Hebrews 9:25-28 NKJV- 25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 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, apart from sin, for salvation.  

Hebrews 10:10-12NKJV- 10 By that will we have been [a]sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God

  Also their altar is called the "Altar of Sacrifice, and it stands as a symbol of Christ Himself.  In kissing the altar and in incensing it, the priest is showing reverence for Christ.  Moreover, the altar is commemorative of the table at which Christ, at the Last Supper, offered the first Mass.  Relics of martyrs, who sacrificed their lives for God, are enclosed within the altar."  This is part of the Catholic communion, for the Biblical order of the Lords table read 1 Corinthians 11:23-34.  By the way, Mass means death. Yet our Lord and Savior is alive in Heaven and no longer hanging on a cross. 

   

 WHO DO THEY WORSHIP, AND PRAY TO? 

    Catholics really worship the Queen of Heaven, which is represented as Mary the Mother of Jesus. One of the Catholic Mysteries (there are fifteen of them): The Coronation.  "Upon her assumption into heaven our Blessed Mother was received by her Son and crowned as Queen of Heaven in the presence of the angelic choirs and all the saints.  She is waiting there for us, ready to welcome us when we, too, shall have fought the good fight and come to receive the victor's crown to offer Mary-the Rosary, the precious chaplet of prayers in which we celebrate her excellence and beseech her intercession.  Let us seek to make this crown worthy of our Lady, praying devoutly.   Let us offer her no withered or imperfect roses." 

     The queen of heaven is in the Old Testament, and the New Testament. She has many names like:  Semiramis, Nimrod's wife; Ashtoreth, and Ishtar, to name a few.  You may find these names in I Samuel 31:10,  I Kings 11:1-43, II Kings 23:13, Jeremiah 44:15-30.  Easter comes from the name Ishtar, and Easter eggs were also known as Ishtar eggs.  King Solomon, son of King David, built groves, and worshiped her with his heathen wives. This is why Jesus' genealogy doesn't go through Solomon but goes through his brother Nathan (Luke 3:31).  Diana, in the Book of Acts 19:23-41, is the goddess of fertility, and so was the queen of heaven, and the people worshiped her through sex acts and orgies. The Temple to the goddess Diana in Ephesus was three times the size of the Parthenon and was one of the seven wonders of the world. The Temple housed over 1000 Temple prostitutes who were considered priestesses. Their parishioners would have sex with them as a way of worshiping their goddess. Actually the names kept changing throughout the ages. But the gods and goddess are still the same; like Diana, her statue is the same as the statues in ancient Greece (Artemis) as they are in Rome.  Only the names changed like Rhea the Greek goddess of the earth (she is supposed to be the daughter of Mother Earth and Mother of the gods) is the same as Semiramis in Babylon and her name means mother.  The statues in Rome of Mary and Baby Jesus are the same as the ancient mother and child statues found in different Empires and cultures,  pagan religions found around the world. 

     The son is the next god the Catholic church adopted and is Tammuz, who they say is Jesus. The statue is supposed to be Mary and baby Jesus, or the Madonna and child, who was supposed to be Nimrod, Semiramis'  husband reborn after he died.  I kid you not, look it up online (The ancient queen of heaven with child statue) . Then it became Semiramis and Tammuz. The baby Tammuz, who was conceived after Nimrod, Semiramis' husband was killed but was supposed to still be the son of, the god Nimrod. But the mighty hunter Tammuz was killed by a boar at the age of forty (which is the real reason for the 40 days of Lent), so Semiramis said that he will come back down from the sky in an Ishtar egg (Easter egg) which would be laid by a bunny rabbit (Rabbits were an ancient symbol of fertility and new life).  Reincarnation started way back then.  Read Ezekiel 8;13-18, Jeremiah 44:15-19, 25-26, where it talks about the weeping of Tammuz and how they made cakes for the queen of heaven.  Other names of Tammuz are Cupid, Eros son of Venus, Aries, and Oannes.

   

    Then there is the Father. Most Catholics don't realize that they are actually worshiping Nimrod, or possibly Cush, the first pagan gods after the flood. In Genesis 10 it gives the genealogy of Noah's family after the flood. Verse 8 and 9 says, "And Cush begat Nimrod;  he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: Wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD." Nimrod is the son of Cush, and Cush who is also called Hermes or Mercury (the guy on the dime), is the son of Ham. God did not curse Ham, He cursed Canaan, the son of Ham in Genesis 9:22.  Nimrod's name means the subduer of the leopards.  Nimrod's first kingdom was Babel, its name means the gate to god. It's where Shinar started; better known as Babylon. It is said that Shem, the son of Noah and Nimrod's great uncle killed Nimrod and cut him up into pieces.  In the Old Testament Nimrod is known as Baal, Numbers 22:41, Judges 2:13, I Kings 16:30-34.  He is pictured as a bull with a face of a dark skin man with a long beard and wings.   He was called the lord of wings and the lord of wrath.  Osiris, Ra, Jupiter are also names of Nimrod.  

WHO IS THEIR LEADER?

The catholic church's leader is the Pontifex Maximus, the Vicar of Christ, today he is called the Bishop of Rome.  Better known as the Pope. He is said to be the successor of the first pope, Simon Peter the Apostle.  At his coronation he is entitled (get this), Father of Princes and Kings, Ruler of the World. He is Vicar of Christ,  I guess you can say in place of Christ on earth. The pope is not the successor of Peter but the successor of the pagon gods and goddesses of Babylon,  Cush, Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz etal.  Along with a few others I did not mention. In the Book of Colossians it tells us Christ is the image of the invisible God, the first of all things created and the head of the body which is the church.

 Colossians 1:12-18 -12 giving thanks[a] to the Father, who has qualified you[b] to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by[c] him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Read Ephesians Chapter 5 also where it tells us just like the husband is the head of the wife, Christ is the head of the church not the Pope. So in closing Biblically, for the Christian truly studying and following the Word of God the Bible, the Catholic Church’s rituals, worship and leadership don’t follow how the Bible tells us to worship God and put Christ first above all things and should therefore be viewed as a cult. 

The quotes  that I used are out of  the Holy Bible, The DOUAY-CHALLONER TEXT; THE CATHOLIC PRESS,INC., Chicago : Illinois, Copyright 1954, 1952, 1950.

Accepting Jesus Christ's free gift of salvation is as easy as the ABC's

A = Admit you are a sinner, Romans 3:23 tells us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

B=Believe in Jesus, Romans 5:8 tells us God shows how much he loves us in while we still are sinners Christ still died for us. 

C=Call on the name of Jesus to save you from your sins, Romans 10:13 tells us all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.

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