The Church in History, part 1

The Fact and Process of Apostasy

THE ISSUE IF there was apostasy took place is vital for the Roman Catholic Church. If there was, the Catholic Church is not the Church founded by Christ, instead she’s the apostatized church. This is the reason why the Catholic Church using every possible way to cover the biblical and historical facts of the apostasy that took place.

TRINITY: A DIFFERENT GOSPEL

Trinity: A Different Gospel

THE TRINITARIANS KNEW that if they cannot prove that the doctrine of the trinity is biblical, this doctrine cannot be accepted by true Christians because according to Apostles Paul we must condemned the “different gospel.” In Galatians 1:6-8, this is what Apostle Paul said:

“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -  which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.  But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!” (Galacia 1:6-8 NIV)

According to the Apostles Paul, “Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.”  The beloved apostle called their teaching as “a different gospel” and admonish the Christians to condemned these teachings.

Apostle Peter clearly warned us that false teachers will appear and will,bring destructive, untrue doctrines:

1False prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction. II Peter 2:1 TEV

What Apostle Peter calls as “destructive, untrue doctrine” is what Apostle Paul calls as “different gospel,” which is a perverted gospel of Christ.

What is an example of what the Lord Jesus Christ teach that will “pervert” and “confused” by the false teachers? In John 17:1 and 3, this is what the Lord Jesus Christ said:

“After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.

“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:1 and 3 NIV)

Christ taught us that there is only one true God, the Father. This is the gospel or the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ regarding the true God that we all must recognize and acknowledge. He said, “Father…this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God.”

According to Apostle Paul, “Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.” Thus, the false teachers will confused and pervert the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ that the “Father is the only true God.” Apostle Paul also said that this is “a different gospel – which is really no gospel at all.”

Which is the "different gospel" about God? how did the false teachers perverted the gospel of Christ about God that there is only one true God, the father?

An Ounce of Truth A Day Keeps the Deceiver Away Thursday, 3 January 2013

Do you know that the Roman Catholic Church believe that Catholic priests are “Alter Christus” or “Another Christ”?

“When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and place Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the victim for the sins of man. It is a power greater than that of monarchs and emperors: It is greater than that of saints and angels, greater than that of Seraphim and Cherubim. Indeed it is greater even than the power of the Virgin Mary. For, while the Blessed Virgin was the human agency by which Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ down from Heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man – not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest’s command…No wonder that the name which spiritual writers are especially fond of applying to the priest is that of ‘alter Christus.’ For the priest is and should be another Christ.”” (O’brien, Rev. John A. The Faith of Millions – Credentgials of the Catholic Religions. Nihil Obstat: Rev. Edward A. Miller, Censor Librorum. Imprimatur: Rev. John Francis Noll, D.D., Archbishop. Bishop of Fort Wayne. USA: Our Sunday Visitor Huntington Ltd., 1938, pp. 266-267.)

According to a Catholic priest, Rev. John A. O’brien, that the power of the Roman Catholic priests is greater than that of monarchs and emperors, of saints and angels, and of the Virgin Mary. He said, “the priest brings Christ down from Heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man – not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest’s command.”

For this reason, according to the author, “the name which spiritual writers are especially fond of applying to the priest is that of ‘alter Christus..” However, the author also explains that “the priest is and should be another Christ,” thus, confirming what the “spiritual writers” wrote that the priests are “Alter Christus” or “another Christ.”

The Bible says:

“Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you.  For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.” (Matthew 24:4-5 NIV)