Mark 8-9, “For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the
tradition of men... And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the
commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
The Catholic Church is straight
out of the pits of Hell, teaching for doctrines the traditions of men...
Mark 7:6-9 and 13, “He answered and
said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is
written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is
far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye
hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many
other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject
the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
...Making the word of God of none
effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such
like things do ye.”
Did you read what Jesus said in
Verse 8, “For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of
men...” That is exactly what the Vatican does, and the Holy See, and the
Popes, and their Archbishops—they have laid aside the commandments of God in
the Bible, substituting them instead with their own sinful manmade
traditions. They have made the Word of God of NONE EFFECT unto
themselves because of their wicked traditions.
Here's a list of Roman Catholic TRADITIONS fabricated over the centuries by
men.
Acts
10:43 simply states, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through
his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”
This is the simple Gospel, i.e., Good News of Christ crucified and risen.
The Bible declares that all men are guilty sinners, guilty of breaking God's
Laws (Romans 3:19-23), and that there is a penalty for those sins, which is
death (Romans 6:23). But thanks be to God, in His wondrous love, God sent
His only begotten Son into the world to pay for our sins. Jesus paid a debt
that He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. The Gospel is
simply that we are sinners in need of a Savior, Who is Christ Jesus, the
God-man, the Son of God.
Ecclesiastes 11:9,
“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the
days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of
thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things
God will bring thee into judgment.”
Now the Catholic religion comes along and says
something entirely different. The Vatican teaches that it's not enough to
simply trust upon the Lord for salvation. They also require their followers
to join the Catholic Church. Then the Vatican requires its members to be
water baptized and partake of Holy Communion and perform a total of seven
sacraments in order to be saved. These sacraments are not optional in
Catholicism; but are mandatory for salvation within their religion.
Catholics are also required to do good works, help the unfortunate, recite
the Rosary and live a good life to get to Heaven. If a Catholic sins,
they are required to confess their sins to a Catholic priest in a
confessional booth to absolve any mortal sins, to avoid going to Hell.
Catholics believe that a person who commits suicide automatically goes to
Hell because they can't ask the priest to forgive them. How absurd! Ladies
and gentleman, that is all a false gospel which the Catholic Church teaches.
In fact, it is no church at all. The Bible
calls the teachings of Catholicism... DOCTRINES OF DEVILS (1st
Timothy 4:1-3). There is only
one true church in the world today and its the New Testament Church which Jesus started, which
is composed of only born-again believers. The true church is not found in a
building made with hands; but in the heart of every born-again believer, who
meet in local assemblies (groups).
Jesus said, “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
There is no Universal Church. The Body of
Christ is not the Church. The Body of Christ is composed of all born-again
believers worldwide; whereas, the local New Testament Church is a group of
believers that gather together for the work of the Lord. The Body of Christ
will be gathered together for the first time in history at the Rapture (the
time when every believer will be CAUGHT UP to meet the Lord in
the air, 1st Thessalonians 4:17).
In Galatians 1:9 the Apostle Paul, writing
under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, plainly states that anyone who
teaches a gospel different than the one taught in the Scriptures is CURSED!
This means every Catholic priest is CURSED! The Pope is CURSED! Those who
teach Mormonism, Buddhism, Baha'i Faith, Scientology, Seventh-Day Adventism,
Jehovah's Witnesses, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam are CURSED! All of these
religions teach a false gospel, a false plan of salvation. Jesus proclaimed
that the only way to God the Father is through Himself, i.e., through the
Lamb of God Who shed His blood to pay for our sins and redeem us back to God
(John 14:6). Amen!
The popular public opinion today is that no one
has a right to criticize someone else's beliefs. I truly hope you don't
believe that, because that is COMMUNISM! Should it be surprising that the
American public has just voted a flaming Socialist, Barack Obama, with
hordes of Communist supporters, into office as U.S. president? Whatever
happened to free speech? I have every right to criticize your beliefs, and
you mine. Now I don't have a right to be mean or unkind to you, but you're
going to accuse me of that anyway because I'm criticizing your beliefs. This
is the nature of a free-speech society. People get upset. It is not unkind
to criticize someone's beliefs or opinions. Only in a truly free society is
it safe to be unpopular.
So I say to you, the Catholic Church is
demonic, of the Devil and straight-out-of-the-pits-of-Hell. Luke
11:44,52, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as
graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of
them... for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in
yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” Jesus ripped
and scathed the religious hypocrites of His time, whom we still have with us
today in larger numbers. Jesus said they are like open graves, traps,
waiting for their next victim. The Lord accused them of corrupting the
gospel to prevent people from getting saved. The gospel of the Catholic
Church is a perverted gospel of death, a trap door leading into Hell, a
cursed teaching.
Oh, listen my friend, if religion could save
you and me, then Jesus wouldn't have had to bleed and die for our sins.
Religion wants to fit us with glasses; but Jesus wants to open our eyes. You
don't need the Catholic Church to go to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You
don't need ANY religion or church to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You
don't need good works to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't need
water baptism to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't need to stop
living in sin to go to Heaven, you just need Jesus. When Jesus saves you,
then He'll do a work in your heart that'll cause you to want to stop living
in sin; but all you need to be saved is Jesus. You don't need to keep the
seven sacraments to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't have to
confess your sins to a priest to be forgiven, you just need Jesus. JESUS!
JESUS! JESUS! END
Compiled by Rev. Stephen L.
Testa
And HUMAN TRADITIONS ADOPTED and PERPETUATED
by the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH in the COURSE OF 1600 YEARS.
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free" Jesus in John 8:32
Notice:- These dates are in many cases
approximate. Many of these heresies had been current in the church years
before, but only when they were officially adopted by a church council and
proclaimed by the pope as dogma of faith, did they become binding on
Catholics.
And doctrine to be true must conform to the
Word of God. "To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according
to this word, it become there is no light in them." ( Isaiah 8:20 ).
At the Reformation in the 16th Century these
heresies were repudiated as having no part in the Religion of Jesus as
taught in the New Testament.
1. OF ALL THE HUMAN TRADITIONS taught and
practiced by the Roman Catholic Church, which are contrary to the Bible, the
most ancient are the prayers for the dead and the sign of the
Cross. Both began 300 years after
Christ................................................................................310
2. Wax Candles introduced in church
about...........................................................................320
3. Veneration of angels and dead saints
about...................................................................375
4. The Mass, as a daily celebration,
adopted.........................................................................394
5. The worship of Mary, the mother of
Jesus, and the use of the term, "Mother of God", as applied to her,
originated in the Council of Ephesus
in..............................................................431
6. Priests began to dress differently from the
laity in.................................................................500
7. The doctrine of Purgatory was first
established by Gregory the Great about the year.......593
8. The Latin language, as the language
of prayer and worship in churches, was also imposed
by Pope Gregory I. 600 years after
Christ...............................................................................600
The Word of God forbids praying and teaching in
an unknown tongue ( 1st Corinthians14:9).
9. The Bible teaches that we pray to God alone.
In the primitive church never were there
prayers directed to Mary, or to dead saints. This practice began in the
Roman Church
about......................................................................................................................................600
(Matthew 11:28; Luke 1:46; Acts 10:25-26;
14:14-18)
10. The Papacy is of pagan origin. The
title of pope or universal bishop, was first given to the bishop of
Rome by the wicked emperor Phocas, in the
year.....................................................610
This he did to spite Bishop Ciriacus of
Constantinople, who had justly excommunicated him for having caused the
assassination of his predecessor emperor Mauritius. Gregory I, then bishop
of Rome, refused the title, but his successor, Boniface III, first assumed
title "pope".
Jesus did not appoint Peter to the leadership
of the apostles and forbade such notion.
(Luke 22:24-26; Ephesians 1:22-3; Colossians 1:18; 1st Corinthians 3:11 ).
Note:- Nor is there any mention in
Scripture, nor in history, that Peter ever was in Rome, much less that he
was pope there for 25 years; Clement, 3rd. bishop of Rome, remarks that
"there is no real 1st century evidence that Peter ever was in Rome."
11. The kissing of the Pope's feet began
in.........................................................................709
It had been a pagan custom to kiss the feet of
emperors. The Word of God forbids such practices. (Read Acts 10:25-26;
Revelation 19:10; 22:9).
12. The Temporal power of the Popes
began
.....................................................................750
When Pepin, the usurper of the throne of
France, descended into Italy, called by Pope Stephen II, to war against the
Italian Lombards, he defeated them and gave the city of Rome and surrounding
territory to the pope. Jesus expressly forbade such a thing, and He Himself
refused worldly kingship (Read Matthew 4:8-9; 20:25-26; John 18:38).
13. Worship of the cross, of images and
relics was authorized in........................................788
This was by order of Dowager Empress Irene of
Constantinople, who first caused to pluck the the eyes of her own son,
Constantine VI, and then called a church council at the request of Hadrian
I, pope of Rome at that time.
Such practice is called simply IDOLATRY in the
Bible, and is severely condemned (Read Exodus 20:4; 3:17; Deuteronomy 27:15;
Psalm 115).
14. Holy Water, mixed with a pinch of
salt and blessed by the priest, was authorized in .........850
15. The veneration of St. Joseph began
in............................................................................890
16. The baptism of bells was instituted
by Pope John XIV, in the year...................................965
17. Canonization of dead saints, first
by Pope John XV in...................................................995
Every believer and follower of Christ is called
saint in the Bible (Read Romans 1:7; 1st Corinthians 1:2).
18. Fasting on Fridays and during
Lent were imposed in the
year.........................................998
Imposed by popes said to be interested in the
commerce of fish. (Bull, or permit to eat meat), some authorities say, began
in the year 700. This is against the plain teaching of the Bible (Read
Matthew 15:10; 1st Corinthians 10:25; 1st Timothy 4:1-3).
19. The Mass was developed gradually as
a sacrifice; attendance made obligatory in the 11th century.
The Bible teaches that the sacrifice of Christ
was offered once and for all, and is not to be repeated, but only
commemorated in the Lord's Supper (Read Hebrews 7:27; 9:26-28; 10:10-14).
20. The celibacy of the priesthood was
decreed by Pope Hildebrand, Boniface VIII, in ......1079
Jesus imposed no such rule, nor did any of the
apostles. On the contrary, St. Peter was a married man, and St. Paul says
that bishops were to have wife and children (Read 1st Timothy 3:2,5 and 12;
Matthew 8:14-15).
21. The Rosary, or prayer beads was
introduced by Peter the Hermit, in the year 1090. Copied from Hindus
and Mohammedans.
The counting of prayers is a pagan practice and
is expressly condemned by Christ (Matthew 6:5-13).
22. The Inquisition of heretics was
instituted by the Council of Verona in the year 1184. Jesus never taught the
use of force to spread His
religion.................................................................1184
23. The sale of Indulgences, commonly
regarded as a purchase of forgiveness and a permit to indulge in sin, began
in the
year..............................................................................................1190
Christianity, as taught in the Bible, condemns
such a traffic, and it was the protest against this traffic that brought on
the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
24. The dogma of Transubstantiation was
decreed by Pope Innocent III, in the year...........1215
By this doctrine the priest pretends to perform
a daily miracle by changing a wafer into the body of Christ, and then he
pretends to eat Him alive in the presence of his people during Mass. The
Bible condemns such absurdities; for the Lord's Supper is simply a memorial
of sacrifice of Christ. The spiritual presence of Christ is implied in the
Lord's Supper. (Read Luke 22:19-20; John 6:35; 1st Corinthians 11:26).
25. Confession of sins to the priest at
least once a year was instituted by Pope Innocent III, in the Lateran
Council, in the
year.............................................................................................1215
The Bible commands us to confess our sins
direct to God. (Read Psalms 51:1-10; Luke 7:48; 15:21; 1st John 1:8-9).
26. The adoration of the wafer (Host),
was decreed by Pope Honorius in the year..............1220
So the Roman Church worships a god made human
hands. This is plain idolatry and absolutely contrary to the spirit of the
gospel. (Read John 4:24).
27. The Bible forbidden to layman and
placed in the Index of forbidden books by the
Council of Valencia
in...........................................................................................................1229
Jesus commanded that the Scriptures should be
read by all (John 5:39; 1st Timothy 3:15-17).
28. The Scapular was invented by Simon
Stock, an English monk, in the year.......................1287
It is a piece of brown cloth, with the picture
of the Virgin and supposed to contain supernatural virtue to protect from
all dangers those who wear it on naked skin. This is fetishism.
29. The Roman Church forbade the cup to
the laity, by instituting the communion of one kind in the Council of
Constance in 1414
The Bible commands us to celebrate the Lord's
Supper with unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine (Read Matthew 26:27;
1st Corinthians 11:26-29).
30. The doctrine of Purgatory was
proclaimed as a dogma of faith by the
Council of Florence
in...........................................................................................................1439
There is not one word in the Bible that would
teach the purgatory of priests. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from
all sins. (Read 1st John 1:7-9; 2:1-2; John 5:24; Romans 8:1).
31. The doctrine of 7 Sacraments
affirmed in
......................................................................1439
The Bible says that Christ instituted only two
ordinances, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. (Read Matthew 28:19-20;
26:26-28).
32. The Ave Maria, part of the last half
in
..........................................................................1508
It was completed 50 years afterward and finally
approved by Pope Sixtus V., at the end of the 16th century.
33. The Council of Trent, held in the year
1545, declared that Tradition is of equal authority
with the
Bible........................................................................................................................1545
By tradition is meant human teachings. The
Pharisees believed the same way, and Jesus bitterly condemned them, for by
teaching human tradition, they nullify the commandments of God (Read Mark
7:7-13; Colossians 2:8; Revelation 22:18).
34. The apocryphal books were added to
the Bible also by the Council of Trent in...............1546
These books were not recognized as canonical by
the Jewish Church (See Revelation 22:8-9).
35. The Creed of Pope Pius IV was
imposed as the official creed 1528 years after
Christ and the apostles, in
....................................................................................................1560
True Christians retain the Holy Scriptures as
their creed. Hence their creed is more than 1528 older than the creed of
Roman Catholics (Read Galatians 1:8).
36. The Immaculate Conception of the
Virgin Mary was proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in .....1854
The Bible states that all men, with the sole
exception of Christ, are sinners. Mary herself had need of a Saviour (Read
Romans 3:23; 5:12; Psalms 51:5; Luke 1:30, 46, 47).
37. In the year 1870 after Christ, Pope Pius IX
proclaimed the dogma of Papal Infallibility..1870
This is a blasphemy and a sign of the apostasy
and of the antichrist predicted by St. Paul (Read 2nd Thessalonians 2:2-12;
Revelation 17:1-9; 13:5-8,18).
Many Bible students see the number of the beast
(Rev.13:18), 666 in the Roman letters of the Pope's title: "VICARIVS FILII
DEI". - V-5, I-1, C-100, I-1, V-5, I-1, L-50, I-1; D-500, I-1 - Total, 666.
38. Pope Pius X, in the year 1907, condemned
together with "Modernism", all the discoveries
of modern science which are not approved by the
Church................................................... .1907
Pius IX had done the same thing in the Syllabus
of 1864.
39. In the year 1930 Pius XI, condemned the
Public Schools.............................................1930
40. In the year 1931 the same pope Pius XI,
reaffirmed the doctrine that Mary is
"the Mother of God".........................................................................................................1931
This doctrine was first invented by the Council
of Ephesus in the year 431. This heresy contrary by Mary's own words (Read
Luke 1:46-49; John 2:1-5).
41. In the year 1950 the last dogma was
proclaimed by Pope Pius XII, the
Assumption of the Virgin Mary.........................................................................................1950
CONCLUSION
What will be the next invention? The Roman
Church says it never changes; yet, it has done nothing else but invent new
doctrines which are contrary to the Bible, and has practiced rites and
ceremonies taken bodily from paganism. Some scholar has found that 75% of
the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Church are of pagan origin.
Note:- Cardinal Newman, in his book, "The
Development of the Christian Religion", admits that..."Temples, incense, oil
lamps, votive offerings, holy water, holidays and season of devotions,
processions, blessing of fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure (of
priests and monks and nuns), images....are all of pagan origin..." (page
359).
HERESIES are those doctrines and practices
which are contrary to the Bible. They are also called "human traditions" or
"doctrines of men". Both Peter and Paul predicted and warned that in the
later times "false teachers" would rise within the Church and bring in
"damnable heresies" and "doctrines of devils". (Read 2nd Peter 2:1-3,
and 1st Timothy 3:2-5). Jesus rebuked the Pharisees, for they
transgressed the commandments of God by keeping their traditions, "In vain",
He said, "they worship me by keeping for doctrines the commandments of men"
(Matthew 15:3,9).
The real heretics therefore , are the Roman
Catholics and the true orthodox are the Evangelical Christians.
BRETHREN! The Word of God commands us to
get out of Babylon, saying: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Revelation
18:4). All true Christians will remain faithful to the religion of Christ as
taught in the Bible, and heed the warning of the Apostle Paul, who said:
"But thought we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you
than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." (Galatians
1:8).
“In flaming fire
taking vengeance on them that know not God,
and that obey not
THE
GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ.” —2nd Thessalonians 1:8
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