Pentecostal Church Report Warns of False Prophets

Ichthus »

Thu May 15, 2008 12:27 pm Agree: 4   Disagree: 0

The Catholic claim to "Apostolic succession" is nonsense. The RC church does not have an unbroken line of Apostles going back to Christ. Study Roman Catholic history. This so called line has been broken several times. More than once there have been plural individuals all at once claiming to be the "True Pope" At one time there were 5 popes all at once, all fighting each other and excommunicating each other. The councils booted them all and put in a new guy. Some popes by their own writings declared themselves to be God himself! Some popes were very corrupt, known for their many lovers and for the orgies held in the papal palace. One pope was strangled by his lover, who then placed her son on the Papal Throne. Roman Catholicism teaches Peter to be the first pope, but we find just the opposite. Compare Peter to the Roman Pontiff. The Roman Pontiff for centuries has been carried around on a golden throne and people bow to him and prostrate themselves before him to this day. On the contrary, a man tried to kneel before Peter and Peter yanked him up and forbid him to kneel before a mere man.

"As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. But Peter made him get up. "Stand up," he said, "I am only a man myself."
(Acts 10:25,26)

Some first pope, huh?
In Catholicism the pope is infallible and cannot error in spiritual matters ( in spite of many popes contradicting their predecessors or saying something completely opposite.) But in the Bible, Peter (the so called "first pope" was openly rebuked and corrected by Paul when he was in error about a spiritual matter:

"When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong."
(Galatians 2:11)

The so called "Apostolic succession of modern popes has no connection whatsoever to the Apostles in the Bible.

Pentecostal Church Report Warns of False Prophets

Ichthus »

Thu May 15, 2008 12:24 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 0

The Roman Catholic Church is by no means the church founded by Jesus Christ. It is an organization that is a product of hundreds of years of evolution and mixture with political power (State Church) and paganism. Compare it to the church in the New Testament and there are no similarities. The Church in the NT was all made up of individuals who had had a personal conversion to Christ and were born again since Jesus stated that is a requirement to see heaven. The vast majority of Catholics have no born again experience and are unconverted. (The pope himself made a statement about "re-evangelizing the baptized" because it is pretty hard to deny the obvious!) Catholicism teaches that involuntarily having water put oin your head as an infant makes you a Christian and a part of Christ's church. The Bible teaches infant baptism nowhere and teaches faith and conversion before baptism always. Christ's church is made up of those who are saved. It is not a vast organization whose majority know nothing about salvation , nor even care and for whom the term "Jesus Christ" is little more than a curse word. Those are the catholics I grew up with. Sure, there are born again catholics, but they are a tiny minority and sometimes even looked down on and persecuted by the catholic leadership in their countries. The True Church of Jesus Christ cannot be one that forbid the Scriptures to the people, fought the distribution of the Word of God, burned Bibles by the hundreds of thousands as well as burning at the stake those who printed or distributed Bibles for centuries as the Catholic church did.