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"It is obvious by even this brief glimpse into the doctrines of mortal and venial sins, confession, penance, and purgatory, that the Roman Catholic Church has constructed one of the most unbiblical doctrinal systems that has ever been considered "Christian". The fear, anguish, and religious bondage that such a system of "reward and punishment" creates, has tormented millions of lives for centuries, and continues to prey on those who are ignorant of the biblical way of salvation.

To merely call such a system "a cult", would be to throw it into the vast category of religions and quasi-religions that are currently making the rounds of our college campuses and city streets, snatching up many an unsuspecting youth. No, the Roman Church is not a cult. It's an empire!"

Tune in to this simple video, and compare some of their teachings with the simple and plain Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am a former Roman Catholic who was delivered from that demonic system of darkness in 1989. There is blood on the hands of the compromising "Evangelical" and "Protestant" ministers in the world, who play games and work hand in hand with this system. May the Lord wake them and shake them all, before it is too late!

I think this thread is quite interesting:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-5922.224.html#msg2110455

Read it through. Lady's contribution is interesting too about whether Mary was ever called Mother of God in the bible.

The stance of the Protestants is that never was she called "MOTHER OF GOD" this is infact true.
But let's also keep in mind that never did Jesus call himself GOD.

The thread also has some nice side dishes served up by Pilgrim and Olabowale on Islam.

And for more unbiblical doctrines we mustn't forget the Doctrine of Trinity.

I found this post I made years ago about a brief history of christianity. It goes into the institutionalisation of christianity as the imperial religion and also into the formation of some of it's core doctrines.

This is a very interesting debate. I would like to offer a brief overview of the history of christianity.

From the very start it would appear that there were numerous group following Jesus which were not even aware of themselves. There is the instance in the gospels where the disciples come across a group preaching Christ. They tried to stop these guys. 'what right had they'? They reported this to Jesus and to their shock this group had Jesus' approval.

By the time of Paul's mission there were yet again evidence of many different christian movements. In Galatians chapter 1 vs 6 Paul is warning his followers against following another gospel. There were the ultra Jewish christians who did not see christianity as a religion for non jews. The divisions were mostly doctrinal and none were so prone to doctrinal deviance as the gnostics. The gnostics in fact put little importance in doctrine and emphasised rather the experience of christ. Consequently they felt free to adopt and invent doctrines as they felt would be most useful to their practice.
This was the beginning of a centuries long conflict. Those that insisted on the importance of doctrine went to great pains to establish what they believed, and what concepts were acceptable. They called themselves the Orthodox christians. Orthodox means Right Thinking. To be orthodox you had to accept the 'Right' doctrine. Opposed to them were those who said that the direct experience of Christ and the holy spirit was what matter no the terminology and concepts that you formed to understand it. They felt free to experiment with doctrines and 'invent myths', as one of the church fathers put it.

One of the Orthodox bishops was Irenaeus of Lyon. To restrict the number of ideas going around he suggested that there should only be 4 orthodox gospels. The bible hadn't been compiled yet at this point. He began a campaign to ban other gospels and unorthodox writings. When Emperor Constantine made christianity the Roman state religion he established the orthodox bishops as the leaders and thus began a pogrom against the greater part of christianity which were gnostics or other doctrinal christians whose doctrines just happened to be considered Unorthodox by those in power. In fact many contemporary accounts state that when the christian bishops took over the previously pagan temples and offices what was most notable about them was the greed and avarice with which they went for the material wealth and political power.

Inspite of mass genocide against the majority of christians who were not considered orthodox (in other words their thinking wasn't right.) the church could still not unite under one doctrine that everybody accepted. Those christians that were not politically powerful were just killed off. There were 3 main centers of orthodox christianity that were to powerful to wage pogroms against themselves and so the differences were settled by church councils.

These 3 great parties were 1. The Church in Egypt, based in Alexandria. These were headed in turn by first Bishop Cyril and then Bishop Dioscurus. Cyril was canonised and is now Saint Cyril while Dioscurus was declared an heretic (heretic is basically someone who thinking isn't right. unorthodox, in other words they have a different opinion from you). The funny thing is that Cyris and Dioscurus said exactly the same thing. Namely that Jesus Christ was God. He was divine.

2. the second party was the Church in Antioch headed by Nestorius. They stressed the humanity of christ. Jesus was a human being. Nestor was eventually charged with heresy but his beliefs persisted throughout the history of christianity.

3. The third party was the church in Rome. The pope was concerned with getting a bit of respect as the descendant of Peter and therefore the Rock on which the church was to be founded. However he was just getting ignored. For a start Christianity was biggest in the middle east and eastern europe. And secondly because world affairs were centered in asia the Emperor constantine had actually moved his capital away from Rome and set up in Constantinople which is in modern day Turkey. So basically there was nothing going on in Rome and nobody was taking notice of that Pope guy.

Of course the problem with doctrine and doctrinal faiths is that no two people in the whole world can think the same thing or have exactly the same opinion on anything. subsequently the harder one tries to impose an orthodoxy the more heretics will keep popping up until you have slaughtered half your congregation.

When Nestor became bishop of Constantinople as an Antioch christian he insisted that Jesus was human. The argument started from the proposition that if all men are sinners and christ was not a sinner then Christ could not have been a man. The antioch guys countered this by saying that where there is a human soul in most men in Jesus was the Logos. Since the human soul is created in the image of the Logos it therefore follows that Christ was even more human than us because we have the copy while he is the original.
What upset Nestor the most was the suggestion that the Virgin Mary could be considered the mother of God (theotokos in latin). His words apparently were,' I cannot speak of God as being two or three months old . . . Well, anyhow, don't make the virgin a goddess!".

Meanwhile Bishop Cyril of Alexandria together with the pope Clement l supported the idea of theotokos (mother of God). A synod was called in Rome where Nestor was denounced. Again in Alexandria he was denounced. As they were denouncing him in Rome and Alexandria he too was denouncing them in Constantinople. The yabis was flying back a forth all parties quoting scriptures at each other (nothing as changed much in 1500 years as you guys are still doing the same thing here on nairaland).

When the Emperor began to have enough of all the bickering (emperor Theodosius II) he called a council in Ephesus in the year 431 and told them to sort it out. It was at this council that once and for all the Virgin was declared to be Theotokos (mother of God). Nestor was condemned although he condemned them back one last time before he was removed from his post as bishop. He was eventually murdered by a monk in the egyptian desert.
Cyril was made a saint and when he died his place was taken by Dioscurus. In rome the pope was now Pope Leo the Great, the first pope to be taken seriously. That was when some guy suggested a solution that Jesus in fact had two natures. He was divine and human. Pope leo denounced him. Theodosius called another council to sort it out. That was when Leo started making strong claims that if there are any councils they should be held in Rome. He was still getting ignored despite his writing letters to everyone that mattered. Slowly he was getting friends in high places. The council was held in Ephesus again and the guy was vindicated and it was accepted that Jesus had two natures.

When Theodosius died Pulcheria became the empress and she was better disposed towards the pope. They called another council and these time the poor guy was denounced. Not only that but Pope Leo made quick moves to banish Dioscurus from his see and he was declared heretic. That is how Cyril is a saint but his successor Dioscurus who had the same views is today a heretic. As a result of Banishing Dioscurus the Coptic orthodox church broke away and started appointing it's own bishops independent of the empire. Eventually orthodox christianity would split with Rome taking over western europe and eastern europe comprising of various orthodox churches from Greek orthodox to Russian orthodox.


This is getting long. I will continue part two at a later date. I hope you all find this informative.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=127656.msg2165126#msg2165126

I never got to do part 2. I think the catholics came down on my backside with such an onslaught that there was no longer any point.

Problem is many Catholics cannot comprehend that mankind can be saved through the simplicity of the gospel , they add idol worship practises such as burning incense, burning candles, holy water, praying to dead saints etc, making the gospel a complex web of madness.


Moreover we need to pray for them, we are dealing with a cult which has been steadily built over a thousand years ago , on layers and layers of lies, deception, trickery and sheer evil.

the pope is an outright usurper of the position of Christ who is the real head of the church.

CATHOLICS ARE NOT CHRISTIANS! WHY U MAKIN A POST ON FALSE DOCTRINES?DEY R NT CHRISTIANS! dey have their own bible dey teech a worksbased salvation and practise idolatory!

The BLESSED SACRAMENT, The HOLY EUCHARIST is the center of our worship. You free to criticize the RCC, but believe you me, there are more people converting to RCC than there are leaving(some of which later return back). 1 thing remain, there is no how Christ would fold His hands and watch His church turn into a cult(or whatever you wish to call it). You will keep making noise while the RCC is waxing stronger and stronger and stronger, I will advice you use your time and preach to non xtians to convert to xtianity