"The Bible Does NOT Speak of The Roman
Catholic Church"
I
am speaking as a Biblical Born-Again Evangelical
Christian.
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Catholicism
claims their popes go back to Peter and that Acts 9:31 in scripture
is speaking of the Roman Catholic Church. While nothing could be
further from the truth.
The scripture that the RCC uses is
where Jesus asked Peter who he said Jesus is. To which Peter
replied, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus
then responded to Peter with, "And I say also unto thee, That thou
art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it."
Jesus was speaking to
Peter about the truth that Peter spoke. The name Peter means
little rock. Jesus is the Rock. It is the difference between
the names "Christian" and "Christ." Jesus is truth; the Rock that
Jesus would build His church on, not on Peter.
Now let's look
at Acts 9:31, "Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and
Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of
the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were
multiplied."
Catholicism teaches that because
the definition for "the churches" in the Greek language for
this scripture means "universal church," that it is
speaking of the Roman Catholic Church, because the
word "catholic" means universal. Most every church out there that
claims to be Christian has something in its title
that technically could be found in the bible. That does not
mean that all such churches out there are spoken of in
scripture.
Fact
is the only true church that is spoken of in scripture is the
church that is spoken of in Acts 9:31. This would
be the universal church of those who walk in the fear of
the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, a people who go to
many different church gatherings, but are all part of the one universal body
of Christ. This is the church that Jesus spoke of building, the
one that the gates of hell shall not prevail against. It is a
body of people spread out all over this world who are
true biblical believers in Jesus Christ; a body of
people that is not governed by the Roman
Catholic Church, as the Roman Catholic Church quite arrogantly
falsely claims.
The Roman Empire persecuted the real
church for 280 years in the history of Christianity. It was in the
300s when the Roman Emperor Constantine claimed to become a
Christian and legalized Christianity in Rome. The Roman
Catholic Church was soon formed, as a result of Constantine wanting
to unify the people of Rome into one faith belief. Knowing that
he could never get the people who practiced paganism to give up that
practice, Catholicism became a mixture of some things from true
Christianity and much from Roman paganism. This is why we see such
things as Mary worship and praying to people who have died, among
other pagan practices within Catholicism. This is also
why Catholicism denies that the bible is the final authority
and instead says the Roman Catholic Church is such,
because they know that their paganism does not mix with scripture
and that so much of what they do is not mentioned in the bible, as
their church is
not.
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