THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH:
Nero Claudia Caesar Augustus Germanicus, born in 37
AD, becomes a Roman Emperor after succeeding His
uncle Claudia from 54 to 68 AD. Nero is educated at
the feet of the philosopher Seneca whom he
eventually causes to commit suicide. He is the Last of
the Julio-Claudanian Dynasty. In 64 AD, most of Rome
is destroyed in The Great Fire of Rome which many
Romans believe he has started. The fire is blamed on
Christians. Nero’s rule is often associated with
Tyranny and extravagance. He is known for many
executions including that of His own mother and
probable murder by poison of his stepbrother. He is
infamously known as the emperor who fiddled while
Rome burned and as the early persecutor of
Christians. He was known for having captured
Christians to burn them in His garden at night for a
source of light.
On 324AD, a Roman emperor Constantine the great
who built the Vatican converts into Christianity. In
Constantine reign, the once persecuted religion
becomes the official creed of the mightiest religion on
earth. Christian bishops have real power now.
Catholicism is now a state religion and the state
church. The Roman emperor comes up with another
word, heresy. Heretics are people who do not believe
in catholic’s faith. He later states that if you do not
believe in Catholic faith, you are in league with the
evil one. A law is passed that all heretics be put to
death therefore causing millions to convert to
Catholicism.
Under the powerful Roman Empire, Catholicism grows
quickly. But the bishops worry that the Roman gods
are too popular. Romans still pray to the winged
Goddess Fortuna, the bringer of luck. But there is a
more feared deity to the Christian church, Pan. They
see him as a serious threat that must be discredited.
He is a God of Music, Love making and happiness.
Pan as a pagan God has goat like features. His body
is hairy; He has horns and hoofed feet. The Romans
adopt Pans’ features to Satan. So, Satan becomes an
ugly hoofed creature with horns and a tail. This is
easy because Pan is also referred as Sata.
In this Era, the church is desperate to gain more
followers. So, it incorporates Pagan Ceremonies with
Christian ceremonies. 25th Dec, a pagan holiday of
the birth of the sun and the coming of Santa Claus, is
marked as the day of the birth of Christ. The same
happens to Easter holiday. This is to persuade more
pagans to become Christians.
A Roman Pope by the name Mercury rises into
Papacy. The church is desperate again. There is no
way they’ll let a pope hold a name of a Roman Pagan
God; Mercury. The pope is then urged to choose
another name.
In the year 325 Constantine holds a council called the
Cancel of Nicea. It is preceded by Alexander of
Alexandria. The main aim of the council is to form
one Catholic faith. The main topics of discussion are;
Arianism, the nature of Christ, celebration of
Passover; Easter, ordination of eunuchs, prohibition of
kneeling on Sundays and from Easter to Pentecost,
validity of baptism by heretics, lapsed Christians,
sundry other matters.
Its main accomplishmentsare settlement of the
Christological issue of the nature of the Son of God
and his relationship to God the Father, the
construction of the first part of the Creed of Nicaea,
establishing uniform observance of the date of Easter,
and promulgation of early canon law.
The First Council of Nicaea is the first ecumenical
council of the Church. Most significantly, it results in
the first, uniform Christian doctrine, called the Creed
of Nicaea. With the creation of the creed, a precedent
is established for subsequent local and regional
councils of Bishops to create statements of belief and
canons of doctrinal orthodoxy the intent being to
define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom.
The council settles, to some degree, the debate within
the Early Christian communities¬ regarding the
divinity of Christ. This idea of the divinity of Christ,
along with the idea of Christ as a messenger from
God (The Father), has long existed in various parts of
the Roman Empire. The divinity of Christ has also
been widely endorsed by the Christian community in
the otherwise pagan city of Rome. The council affirms
and defined what it believed to be the teachings of
the Apostles regarding who Christ is: that Christ is the
one true God in deity with the Father.
Derived from Greek oikoumenikos( Greek:οἰκουμένη),
"ecumenical" means "worldwide" but generally is
assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire.
One purpose of the council is to resolve
disagreements arising from within the Church of
Alexandria over the nature of the Son in his
relationship to the Father: in particular, whether the
Son had been 'begotten' by the Father from his own
being, or rather, created out of nothing, a
characteristic shared with other creatures. St.
Alexander of Alexandria and Athanasius takes the
first position; the popular presbyter Arius, from whom
the term Arianism comes, takes the second. The
council decides against the Arians overwhelmingly (of
the estimated 250–318 attendees, all but two agree to
sign the creed and these two, along with Arius, are
banished to Illyria).
Another result of the council is an agreement on when
to celebrate Easter, the most important feast of the
ecclesiastical calendar, decreed in an epistle to the
Church of Alexandrian which is simply stated: We also
send you the good news of the settlement concerning
the holy pasch, namely that in answer to your prayers
this question also has been resolved. All the brethren
in the East who have hitherto followed the Jewish
practice will henceforth observe the custom of the
Romans and of yourselves and of all of us who from
ancient times have kept Easter together with you.
These and the later councils are what leads to the
translation of the bible, removal of Gnostic gospels
from the bible and even burning of biblical
translations which are then declared as heresy to
change God’s word into another language. Thousands
of biblical translations are burned by the other
councils that follow.
In 1215, the Fourth Council of the Lateran makes it
canon law that every catholic goes to confession in
his parish at least once a year. The specification to
his own parish is later dropped. This is before Basil
the great (330-379 AD) and St Augustine the Hippo
(354-430), have declared it necessary to confess your
sins to the priest. This arises from fear that there
might be spies inside the walls of Vatican. And since
the priest is a Vicar of Christ and has the ability to
forgive sins, why not use the priest whom power have
been invested in by Christ to forgive sin after they
confess them?
Vatican starts to mock God with names such as
Father while we know that there is only one father
who is God. A blasphemous phrase is introduced;
“Forgive me father for I have sinned.” Then the priest
punishes you for your sins with a prayer. These acts
are justified with two things: First, a priest has the
ability to forgive sins after you confess them to him
since he is a representative of the son of God, who
holds the power of God and is like God. So, the priest,
Jesus and God are more or less equal and hold the
same power. Second, there are many letters in the
New Testament teaching that we should confess our
sins to one another. These letters have been
completely misinterpreted.Christ, as the supposedly
figure a priest should imitate never asked what sins
one had committed before He forgave them and no
authority.
Truth be told, not all scriptural translations are right. It
all depends on the translator's intentions. The
Pharisees too quoted the scripture to try and trap
Jesus. Trapping Jesus was their intention. So, they
tried to wrongly quote the scripture to meet their
goal.
Catholic Encyclopedia: The confession is not made in
the penitent’s heart nor to a layman as a friend and
an advocate , nor to a representative of Human
authority, but to a duly ordained priest with requisite
jurisdiction and with the ‘Power of the keys’, i.e., the
power to forgive sins which Christ granted to his
church. On the contrary, in the early church, publicly
known sins were often confessed publicly and private
confession was still used for private sins. Also,
penance was done before absolution rather than after.
These wrong misinterpretations of the bible are later
used to enslave people with satanic philosophies.
Authority from the Catholics higher ups should not be
questioned since it came directly from god’s superior
servant. So, if a priest tells you to kill or commit
suicide, you should never question that command
since it is from a representative of God and so it is
from God.
By medieval ages, the church has convinced their
followers that Satan is real. This gives rise to
Gnosticism. The Gnostic Christian has another
concept. They have a philosophy of a Good God who
created everything spiritual and an evil god who
created everything physical. One group which is
taking enthusiasm to the Gnostic ideas is the Cathers
of Southern France. To the Cather’s all material
possessions belong to the Devil. This concept can
also be seen in Christianity where Satan offers to give
Jesus all the earthly material wealth including
Kingdoms and riches. Jesus does not dispute Satan by
Saying that they belong to His father but only turns
down Satan’s offer.
For a church now wealthy and powerful, this is seen
as an uncomfortable and a dangerous threat. The
common people admire the Cathers who walk around
feeding the poor, healing the sick and preaching good
news. So, the church declares that the Cather’s are in
league with Satan. Pope innocent the III announces a
crusade against the Cathers in 1209. He tries to
convert them back to Catholicism but it doesn’t work.
The only thing left is to kill them. This crusade turns
into a 45 year old war. At least 100, 000 people die for
saying that Satan is more powerful than the church
says he is.
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