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“The great whore that sitteth upon
many waters.” (a multitude of people), “the inhabitants of the
earth have been made drunk (utter religious and cultic
intoxication) with the wine of her fornication.” “…sit upon a
scarlet coloured beast, (an antichrist world system) full of
names of blasphemy…” (This is the Catholic false system)
(Revelation 17: 1b; 2b; 3b) There has never been a worldwide
religious entity that has any similarity to this Biblical
prophecy except the Roman Catholic system. If the Roman Catholic
Church is a Christian institution, then the Bible is imperfect,
incomplete, and woefully lacking. Either the Bible is wrong, or
this religious institution is an utterly false system of pagan
religion. You must decide, and your eternal soul is in the
balance of your decision.
But the truth is “…the scripture
cannot be broken.” (St. John 10:35b) This same John that wrote
the Gospel of John also wrote the book of Revelation and he
uttered what the Spirit said through him. “For I testify unto
every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book,
If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him
the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall
take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall
take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy
city, and from the things which are written in this book. He
which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly.
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” (Revelation 22:18-20)
John declared that Jesus, by the
Spirit, had given him these words by saying, “He which
testifieth these things.” Millions of saints, over nearly two
thousand years, have died by burning at the stake, drowning,
stoning, being slaughtered by Catholic armies, being brutally
killed by Jewish priests, etc., because they refused to deny
that the Bible alone was the totality of truth. The very
doctrines that I will prove to you are blasphemy were the same
doctrines that these millions of brave saints refused to
acknowledge as truth. They chose death by the most horrible
means of suffering because they would not bow to blasphemous
names or ideas that the Catholic Church imposed upon the world.
The doctrines of Catholicism are
indeed blasphemous. It is impossible to sanctify an endless list
of false teachings by using the name of Jesus. It is even worse
to debauch His wonderful name by attaching that name to a false
idea of the Mother of God or to connect that name to a wafer
that some priest claims has become His literal body. The name of
Jesus Christ can never make a false idea holy or purify some
doctrine of a purgatory where the unclean can pass after death
before entering the presence of the Lord. Saying you believe in
the cross of Christ and His resurrection as the propitiation for
sin while entering a confessional to have some unknown man
absolve you of sin makes a mockery of His sacrifice. On the
primary teachings of Roman Catholicism, each are very clearly
“names of blasphemy” and they are so numerous that the Holy
Spirit speaking through John, says that she is full of these
names. Let’s look at some of the names that fill her cup until
God is preparing to judge her for her spewing of these doctrines
on the millions of innocent and blinded souls who will spend
eternity in hell because of this whore system.
Full of Names of Blasphemy
Let’s begin with some of the lesser-known doctrines of
blasphemy. Most people have heard these names but know little of
their importance to the Catholic Church. Every idea we discuss
is demanded upon the faithful members, and all of them have been
used to condemn and put to death martyrs throughout the
centuries. Once an idea has been declared truth, then no future
pope or true Catholic can deny or refuse that doctrine. If the
climate of the political world is such as it was in the dark
ages, this system would once again impose these doctrines with
the threat of death. Just today I received an e-mail that said
the following words to me: “The articles written by Joseph
Chambers, The Mother of Harlots and Her Children, is shameful.
Its author could not be more ill-informed and ignorant of the
truth. It is grievous to the Holy Spirit when a member of the
Body of Christ intentionally misleads their fellow Christians
with such vile, hateful and evil religious sectarian propaganda.
The Catholic Church is the Church founded by our Lord Jesus
Christ over two thousand years ago. Its teachings and tradition
have been the bedrock of civilization and have remained
constant. The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic church continues
to strive for ecumenical union with the Protestant members of
the Body of Christ. Mr. Chambers is to be pitied if he really
believes the repulsive lies he has composed about the Church.
According to Christ, it would be better for one such as he to
never have lived than to stand accused before our Beloved Lord
of misleading any of the faithful of His flock.” This last
sentence is the justification used by the Catholic system to
martyr millions of saints.
Indulgences: The Name of
Blasphemy
“An indulgence is the extra-sacramental remission of the
temporal punishment due, in God’s justice, to sin that has been
forgiven, which remission is granted by the Church in the
exercise of the power of the keys, through the application of
the superabundant merits of Christ and of the saints, and for
some just and reasonable motive.” (Catholic Encyclopedia,
www.newadvent.org)
Several points show the blasphemy of
this entire idea. There is no forgiveness of sin except the
merit of His death and sacrifice and nothing is needed to add to
that forgiveness. This statement says, “the superabundant merits
of Christ and of the saints.” There is no merit of forgiveness
of any saint, regardless of their holiness, that can add to the
sacrifice of Christ, nor is any needed. This statement spoke of
“extra-sacramental remission of the temporary punishment due…to
sin that had been forgiven.” How do you offer “extra-sacramental
remission” to something that has already been forgiven? Has the
blood of Christ no power to rid us of all sin and all
consequences of sin when it is applied? It is blasphemy to speak
of double forgiveness needed in the great economy of His
sacrifice.
This is nothing but ecclesiastical
bondage on the saints that gives power to priests to extract
money from the faithful. Stories abound throughout the centuries
of the representatives of the pope who traveled the countryside,
and robbed the poor and innocent with fear of hell or purgatory,
or promise of forgiveness for the proper offering. Here is a
further statement that reveals the power this doctrine would
provide the pope and his priests over the people. “An indulgence
is valid both in the tribunal of the Church and in the tribunal
of God. This means that it not only releases the penitent from
his indebtedness to the Church or from the obligation of
performing canonical penance, but also from the temporal
punishment which he has incurred in the sight of God and which,
without the indulgence, he would have to undergo in order to
satisfy Divine justice.” (Catholic Encyclopedia: Indulgences,
www.newadvance.org) Such an idea is loaded with fear and
bondage. To think I need a priest that can set an amount of
money by which he can free me of the penalty of my sins that
Jesus Christ has already forgiven is blasphemy against God and
against His saints. This one doctrine, and the many facets the
Catholic Church has attached to it, is enough to condemn
Catholicism to the core.
Relics: The Name of Blasphemy
“The teaching of the Catholic Church with regard to the
veneration of relics is summed up in a decree of the Council of
Trent (Sess.XXV), which enjoins on bishops and other pastors to
instruct their flocks that the holy bodies of holy martyrs and
of others now living with Christ – which bodies were the living
members of Christ and ‘the temple of the Holy Ghost’ (1 Cor. vi,
19) and which are by Him to be raised to eternal life and to be
glorified are to be venerated by the faithful, for through these
[bodies] many benefits are bestowed by God on men.” “The
justification of Catholic practice, which is indirectly
suggested here by the reference to the bodies of the saints as
formerly temples of the Holy Ghost and as destined hereafter to
be eternally glorified, is further developed in the
authoritative ‘Roman Catechism’ drawn up at the instance of the
same council. Recalling the marvels witnessed at the tombs of
the martyrs, where the blind and cripples are restored to
health, the dead recalled to life, and *devils* expelled from
the bodies of men the Catechism points out that these are facts
which St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, most unexceptionable
witnesses, declare in their writings that they have not merely
heard and read about, as many did but have seen with their own
eyes.” (Catholic Encyclopedia, Relics, www.newadvent.org)
Honor to the great saints of God
passed on to glory is indeed beautiful, but to use their
clothing, past possessions, and even bits of hair or other
matter, is blasphemy. Why would we even consider the need of
such in a household of believers where every believer is a
priest, and every saint a vessel of the Holy Ghost. This is
actually pagan to the core, and is so identified in the Catholic
Encyclopedia. It mentions the Buddhists, as well as other
religions and that this is an ancient practice adopted by the
Catholic system. This following statement comes directly out of
the Catholic Encyclopedia. “At Athens the supposed remains of
Oedipus and Theseus enjoyed an honour which it is very difficult
to distinguish from a religious cult, while Plutarch gives an
account of the translation of the bodies of Demetrius (Demetr.iii)
and Phocion (Phoc.xxxvii) which in many details anticipates the
Christian practice of the Middle Ages. As for the Far East, the
famous story of the distribution of the relics of Buddha, an
incident which is believed to have taken place immediately after
his death, seems to have found remarkable confirmation in
certain modern archaeological discoveries. In any case of
extreme development of relic worship amongst the Buddhists of
every sect is a fact beyond dispute.” (Catholic Encyclopedia:
Relics, www.newadvent.org) This provides incredible proof of the
Catholic practice of adopting and sanctifying ancient paganism
into its traditions and doctrines. This is utter blasphemy.
The Rosary: The Name of Blasphemy
“‘The Rosary’, says the Roman Breviary, is a certain form of
prayer wherein we say fifteen decades or tens of Hail Marys with
an Our Father between each ten, while at each of these fifteen
decades we recall successively in pious meditation one of the
mysteries of our Redemption. The same lesson for the Feast of
the Holy Rosary informs us that when the Albigensian heresy was
devastating the country of Toulouse, St. Dominic earnestly
besought the help of Our Lady and was instructed by her, so
tradition asserts, to preach the Rosary among the people as an
antidote to heresy and sin. From that time forward this manner
of prayer was most wonderfully published abroad and developed [promulgari
augerique coepit] by St. Dominic whom different Supreme Pontiffs
have in various past ages of their apostolic letters declared to
be the institutor and author of the same devotion.” (Catholic
Encyclopedia: The Rosary, www.newadvent.org)
One rosary, called the Greek rosary,
is prescribed as follows: “O Lord Jesus Christ Son and Word of
the living God, through the intercessions of the immaculate
Mother [tes panachrantou sou Metros] and of all thy Saints, have
mercy and save us.”
It is wonderful to know that I need
no other, such as Mary or the saints, to make intercession for
me. But further, there “…is one God, and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5) To impose
another, whether the virgin Mary or a passed saint, is
blasphemy. A few minutes after Pope John Paul II died, I heard a
leader of the Catholic laity in America say, “A few minutes ago
I was praying for the Pope, now I’m praying to him.” He went on
to speak of the great good that would now come because the
deceased Pope would be making intercession to God for the
living. This is not Biblical Christianity but a harlot system
imposed upon the multitudes of unconverted Catholics. The name
of the Rosary is blasphemy.
Sign of the Cross: The Name of
Blasphemy
“Most commonly and properly the words “sign of the cross” are
used of the large cross traced from forehead to breast and from
shoulder to shoulder, such as Catholics are taught to make upon
themselves when they begin their prayers, and such also as the
priest makes at the foot of the altar when he commences Mass
with the words: “In nominee Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.”
(At the beginning of Mass the celebrant makes the sign of the
cross by placing his left hand extended under his breast; then
raising his right to his forehead, which he touches with the
extremities of his fingers, he says: In nominee Patris; then,
touching his breast with the same hand, he says: et Filii;
touching his left and right shoulders, he says; et Spiritus
Sancti; and as he joins his hands again adds: Amen.)” (Catholic
Encyclopedia: Sign Of The Cross, www.newadvent.org.)
Nothing is more powerful or more
absolutely intrinsic to our great Christian faith as communion
with our Father and our Lord in devotion of prayer. Anything
that robs prayer of simple fellowship and communion is
devastating to our spiritual life. Yes, maintaining a powerful
prayer life requires constant devotion, and anything that makes
it rote and formal, and adding the constant sign of a cross, is
mighty to destroy. To reduce prayer to a form, and to just
repeat that form, makes the whole of it no better than the noise
of the heathens. When the priests control the prayer life and
the language of that prayer life, the people are in utter
bondage to those priests. This helps us understand how millions
of Catholics can tolerate a priesthood saturated with
homosexuals, pedophiles and immorality, and still remain
faithful to the system.
This blasphemous system of prayer
leaves the faithful Catholics spiritually empty and dependent on
the confessional for peace of mind and assurance. All intimacy
of prayer is gone and the only hope left is to hurry to Mass so
a wafer can be consumed in the hope of salvation. Every Catholic
I have ever known lives a very careless life as it relates to
Biblical standards because their hope is in the sign of the
cross, the rosary, and other blasphemous traditions of this
perverted system. If they confess sins, they are commanded to
say a set number of “Hail Marys” and to repeat the rosary a
given number of times while making the sign of the cross. What
blasphemy!
Purgatory: The Name of Blasphemy
“Purgatory (Lat. purgare, to make clean, to purify) in
accordance with Catholic teaching is a place or condition of
temporal punishment for those who, departing from this life in
God’s grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have
not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgression. The
faith of the Church concerning purgatory is clearly expressed in
the Decree of Union drawn up by the Council of Florence
(Mansi.t.XXXI.col.1031), and in the decree of the Council of
Trent which (Sess.XXV) defined: ‘Whereas the Catholic Church,
instructed by the Holy Ghost, has from the Sacred Scriptures and
the ancient tradition of the Fathers taught in Councils and very
recently in this Ecumenical synod (Sess. VI. Cap.XXX; Sess. XXII
cap.ii,iii) that there is a purgatory, and that the souls
therein are helped by the suffrages of the faithful, but
principally by the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar; the Holy
Synod enjoins on the Bishops that they diligently endeavor to
have the sound doctrine of the Fathers in Councils regarding
purgatory everywhere taught and preached, held and believed by
the faithful.’” (Catholic Encyclopedia: Purgatory,
www.newadvent.org)
This doctrine is one of the most
blasphemous of all and will be the damnation of a multitude. The
sheer insanity of creating a “half way house” toward heaven and
confining the faithful to this place of limbo while the saints
pray, say their rosaries, attend the Mass, and give money to the
system is totally evil. That it involves giving of money is
clearly stated. “In the New Testament as well as in the Old,
almsgiving and fasting, and in general penitential acts are the
real fruits of repentance (Matt.iii, 8; Luke xvii, 3;iii 3) The
whole penitential system of the Church testifies that the
voluntary assumption of penitential works has always been part
of true repentance and the Council of Trent (Sess. XIV, can.xi)
reminds the faithful that God does not always remit the whole
punishment due to sin together with the guilt. God requires
satisfaction, and will punish sin, and this doctrine involves as
its necessary consequence a belief that the sinner failing to do
penance in this life may be punished in another world, and so
not be cast off eternally from God.” (Catholic Encyclopedia:
Purgatory, www.newadvent.org)
The blood of Jesus Christ saves.
“Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them.” (Hebrews 7:25) The Bible is beautiful to promise,
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins
and their iniquities will I remember no more. And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these
is, there is no more offering for sin.” (Hebrews 8:12; 10:17-18)
He does not remember our sin against us when we are thoroughly
converted and forgiven. We do good works, not to merit salvation
but because our heart has been changed and our appetites have
been cleansed. We give our tithes and offerings because the
Kingdom of God becomes one’s delight, not to merit cleansing or
to extract a soul from the “half way house.” This vile doctrine
is blasphemy.
Extreme Unction: The Name Of Blasphemy
“A sacrament of the New Law
instituted by Christ to give spiritual aid and comfort and
perfect spiritual health, including, if need be, the remission
of sins, and also, conditionally, to restore bodily health, to
Christians who are seriously ill; it consists essentially in the
unction by a priest of the body of the sick person, accompanied
by a suitable form of words. As administered in the Western
Church today according to the rite of the Roman Ritual, the
sacrament consists (apart from certain non-essential prayers) in
the unction with oil, specially blessed by the bishop, of the
organs of the five external senses (eyes, ears, nostrils, lips,
hands), of the feet, and, for men (where the custom exists and
the condition of the patient permits of his being moved), of the
loins or reins; and in the following form repeated at each
unction with mention of the corresponding sense of faculty:
‘Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the
Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed [quidquid
deliquisti] by sight [by hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking,
carnal delectation]’. The unction of the loins is generally, if
not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it
is of course everywhere forbidden in the case of women. To
perform this rite fully takes an appreciable time, but in cases
of urgent necessity, when death is likely to occur before it can
be completed, it is sufficient to employ a single unction (on
the forehead, for instance) with the general form: ‘Through this
holy unction may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults
thou hast committed.’” (Catholic Encyclopedia: Extreme Unction,
www.newadvent.org)
To die, believing that this ceremony
by a priest frees the dying individual of sins in deceitful
beyond measure. It is cruel beyond common sense to offer such
empty hope to a dying faithful of the Church. Even the death of
a Catholic has to be manipulated by the priest because he is in
control of the entire life and destiny of faithful members. It
is pitiful to be in such moral, spiritual, and eternal bondage.
The whole system is called by Scripture “the doctrine of the
Nicolaitanes.” The Lord spoke of this to the Church of Ephesus.
“But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the
Nicolaitans, which I also hate.” (Revelation 2:6) This first
church hated the doctrine but by the time of the church of
Pergamos, the doctrine had taken hold in the house of God. The
Lord said to them, “So hast thou also them that hold the
doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.” (Revelation
2:15) This was a doctrine of control by the upper echelon of
priests over the people of God.
This blasphemous name of “Extreme
Unction” shows how totally the Catholic Church has fallen to the
pagan ideas of priests above the people instead of the
priesthood of all the saints. This is a name of blasphemy.
Eucharist: The Name of Ultimate
Blasphemy
“The organic connection of this mysterious triad is clearly
discerned, if we consider Divine grace under the aspect of a
personal communication of God. Thus in the bosom of the Blessed
Trinity, God the Father, by virtue of the eternal generation,
communicates His Divine Nature to God the son, ‘the only
begotten son who is in the bosom of the Father’ (John, I, 18),
while the Son of God, by virtue of the hypostatic union,
communicates in turn the Divine nature received from His Father
to His human nature formed in the womb of the Virgin Mary (John,
I, 14), in order that thus as God-man, hidden under the
Eucharistic Species, He might deliver Himself to His Church,
who, as a tender mother, mystically cares for and nurtures in
her own bosom this, her greatest treasure, and daily places it
before her children as the spiritual food of their souls. Thus
the Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist are really welded
together like a precious chain, which in a wonderful manner
links heaven with earth. God with man, uniting them most
intimately and keeping them thus united. By the very fact that
the Eucharistic mystery does transcend reason, no rationalistic
explanation of it, based on a merely natural hypothesis and
seeking to comprehend one of the sublimest truths of the
Christian religion as the spontaneous conclusion of logical
processes, may be attempted by a Catholic theologian.” (Catholic
Encyclopedia: Eucharist, www.newadvent.org)
High-sounding words, but poison is
in the pot. Jesus Christ made it plain that this grace of Jesus
Christ is not flesh. He said, “It is the spirit that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life.” (St. John 6:63) To take
communion away from the Holy Spirit and put it in the hands of
fallible men is a dark choice. Please note the words in the
above quote and look carefully. This document says of the
God-man, Jesus Christ, “…hidden under the Eucharistic Species,
(wafer and wine), He might deliver Himself to His church.” This
bypasses the great work of His Vicar, the Holy Spirit, and
instead makes it a substitute event fully controlled by the
hierarchy of the system. A faithful Catholic will kneel before
the wafer as though it was the Eternal Son of God. This reduces
our Savior from the Exalted One seated at the Father’s right
hand, to a tool of a system that wants full control of your life
and destiny. The Eucharist is a name of blasphemy.
Conclusion
There is no room for an additional myriad of blasphemous
names. From the Mother of God idea, to the wild speculations of
apparitions, to the confessional where a priest, a possible
drunk, homosexual, pedophile, adulterer, and often, a good,
decent man, proposes to absolve you of your confessed sin, it is
all blasphemy. No, all Catholics are not bad people. We are not
anti-anything. We are pro-Bible. The Word of God is infallible
and this system as all human systems is the imagination of men.
Your soul is either in the hands of
the Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit or in the hands of men
elevated beyond common sense, much less the great truth of
Scripture. The Catholic Church says, “St. Chrysostom proves the
dignity of the priesthood by showing, among other arguments,
that the priests by their spiritual ministry do more for us than
our own parents can do. Whereas our parents only beget our
bodies, which they cannot save from death and disease, the
priests regenerate our souls in baptism and have power,
moreover, to remit post-baptismal sins, a power which St.
Chrysostom proves by quoting the text of St. James.” (Catholic
Encyclopedia, Extreme Unction, www.newadvent.org)
It is time to return to “Sola
Scriptura.” The Word of God “cannot be broken.” It is the script
by which God and Christ will judge all of us accordingly. If we
depart from truth, we depart from God because He lives in His
Word, and His word lives in Him. “For ever, O LORD, thy word is
settled in heaven.” (Psalm 119:89) Blessings to those who walk
in the Word and trust only in the Lord.The Bible says, “But my
God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory
by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19) |