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If you think that the information above was relevant only to the distant past, you will be surprised to learn the truth. Most of the gruesome history of the Roman Catholic church in the 20th century has been suppressed and or re-written, and as a result most readers in the 21st century know little or nothing of true Catholicism. The Satanic cruelties inflicted on God's people during the Dark Ages and during the Reformation era is a history that is poorly researched by most modern-day historians. For a period of more than 600 years some 50 million people, including many Bible believing Christians, were persecuted, tortured and murdered as a direct result of the official policies of the ‘Holy Mother Church’, the Roman Catholic church.

Pope Innocent III first instituted the office of the inquisition, which was also officially sanctioned by dozens of subsequent popes — Gregory IX in 1233, Clement VII in 1380, Leo X in 1531, et al. Catholic Popes also authorized the Crusades or so called “Holy Wars” (1095-1272), the French Wars of Religion (1562-98), and the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), a series of wars fought against Bible believing Christians and others who opposed papal doctrine. A Church historian writes:

“The extent of the destruction of life through the Thirty Years' War cannot be estimated. If we take into account the multitudes who died of starvation and exposure, the hundreds of thousands of women and children who were slain in the sacking and destroying of the towns and cities, the fearful waste of life that must have been involved in camp-following, the deaths caused by the war would amount to many millions. In Bohemia, at the beginning of the war, there was a population of two million, of whom about eight-tenths were Protestant; at the close of the war there were about eight hundred thousand Catholics and no Protestants.” (Church History, Newman, 2:392-93).

“When called on the carpet to account for these atrocities, Catholic apologists will invariably take cover behind such rhetoric as, "the spirit of the times," or "the unfortunate acts of an unenlightened age," etc. That this is pure nonsense can be easily confirmed by a survey of Catholic bloodletting in the twentieth century. Reference works such as The Vatican's Holocaust by Avro Manhattan and Convert... or Die! by Edmond Paris present the documented facts that the Catholic church liquidated over 800,000 orthodox Serbians in Croatia, Yugoslavia, during the years 1940-1945.

The next time some bigoted Catholic tries to dismiss his murderous heritage as a "thing of the past," ask him to explain: 250 peasants buried alive in the Serbian district of Bjelovar; 2,000 children gassed in the death camp at Bosanska Gradiska; a father and son crucified together and then burned in their own home in Mliniste; mothers and children (as young as three) impaled on the same stake in Gorevac; a mother forced to hold the basin which caught the blood of her four sons as their throats were slit in Kosinj; and expectant mother having her unborn child cut out of her womb and replaced by a cat in the death camp at Jasenovac; 1,360 prisoners having their throats cut in a single night by one guard during a sadistic throat-cutting contest (also at Jasenovac); not to mention dismemberments; beheadings; crowns of thorns; "graviso" knives for specialized throat cutting; necklaces of human tongues and eyes; the confining of prisoners to rooms filled with blood to the ankles; and ten thousand other atrocities condoned by the Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac who prayed at the opening of the Croatian Parliament in February of 1942, for "...the Holy Ghost to descend upon the sharp knives of the Ustashi (Catholic guerrilla army).” (Final Authority, pp. 193,194).

The hierarchy of the church of Rome has done its best to conceal these disturbing facts and re-write its own history. In 1534 the Jesuit Society, a Catholic organization, was established in Paris, France for the propagation of Catholic dogma and for the subversion of non-Catholic countries. In 1807 the Society was established in the United States. In 1816 John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson stating, “I am not happy about the rebirth of the Jesuits. Swarms of them will present themselves under more disguises ever taken by even the Bohemians, as printers, writers, publishers, school teachers, etc.” The 1904 edition of Webster's Universal Dictionary says: “The power of the organization lies largely in its close scrutiny into affairs, its secret methods.... For the means it has sometimes employed to accomplish its purposes in statecraft it has been condemned as unscrupulous in intrigue and deceptive in purpose, tending to the subversion of legitimate government.” (Webster's Universal Dictionary, 1904, p. 907). Historian Edmond Paris commented on this secretive order: “It is the same today; the 30,000 official members of the Society operate all over the world in the capacity of her personnel, officers of a truly secret army containing in its ranks heads of political parties, high ranking officials, generals, magistrates, physicians, Faculty professors, etc., all of them striving to bring about, in their own sphere,“l'Opus dei”, God's work, in reality the plans of the papacy.” (Secret History, Paris, pp. 27,30).

It is said that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This statement was written by Roman Catholic historian John Acton (1834-1902) in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in April 1887. John Acton, commonly known as Lord Acton, wrote extensively about the history of the Inquisition and the Catholic church. Acton said, “The Inquisition is peculiarly the weapon and peculiarly the work of the popes. It stands out from all those things in which they co-operated, followed or assented as the distinctive feature of papal Rome. It was set up, renewed and perfected by a long series of acts emanating from the supreme authority in the Church. No other institution, no doctrine, no ceremony is so distinctly the individual creation of the papacy, except the dispensing power. It is the principal thing with which the papacy is identified, and by which it must be judged. The principal of the Inquisition is the Pope's sovereign power over life and death. Whosoever disobeys him should be tried and tortured and burnt. If that cannot be done, formalities may be dispensed with, and the culprit may be killed like an outlaw. That is to say, the principal of the Inquisition is murderous, and a man's opinion of the papacy is regulated and determined by his opinion of religious assassination.” (Letters to Mary Gladstone by Lord Acton, in Kerr, p. 235.)

Speaking of the papacy's desire to suppress information, John Acton wrote: “The Council instituted the index of prohibited books, which is the fourth article in the machinery of resistance.... A German divine warned the Pope that if the fathers of Trent were allowed to read Lutheran books they would become Lutherans themselves, and such writings were accordingly forbidden even to cardinals and archbishops. The idea of drawing up a comprehensive list of all that no man should read commended itself to the zeal of Caraffa, having been suggested to him by Della Casa, who had published such a list at Venice.... A congregation was appointed to examine new publications, to issue decrees against them as required, and to make out catalogues from time to time of works so condemned. Besides this, censures were also pronounced by the Pope himself, the Inquisition, the Master of the Sacred Palace, and the Secretary of the Index, separately. In this way an attempt was made to control what people read, committing to oblivion the works of Protestant scholars, and of such men as Machiavelli, and correcting offensive texts, especially historians. Several such corrected editions were published at the time, and many things were reprinted with large omissions.” (Lectures on Modern History, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, London: Macmillan, 1906).

It is obvious why “holy mother” church does not want its members to search Libraries shelves and surf the Internet for information. The Catholic church discourage their followers from researching facts for themselves for the same reason followers of the Jehovah's Witness organization, the Mormon church and the Muslim faith are discouraged from doing their own personal research. The leadership of these organizations know that once their church members begin to personally research historical facts for themselves the church leaders will lose their influence and control over their followers. This is characteristic of all cults. Cult leaders tell their followers only what they want them to know and then discourage or forbid their followers from reading or researching anything that might contradict their teachings.

Most cults discourage their followers from doing their own personal investigating and research by threatening them with excommunication or even eternal damnation. Unfortunately, people who are deceived are seldom aware of the fact that they are being misled. Jesus said, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”(John 8:31). The believers of Berea in the book of Acts “were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11). “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:” (Isaiah 1:18). One cannot reason with a Catholic for the same reason that one cannot reason with a Mormon, Muslim or a Jehovah's Witness. Until the Mormon, Muslim, Jehovah's Witness or Catholic is willing to consider the possibility that they might well be the victims of deception, they will simply not allow themselves to research any facts that contradict the beliefs of their church.

These and other facts exposing the horrendous atrocities of the Roman Catholic church can be found on Library shelves across America, at various book stores, and on the Internet, waiting for anyone with enough humility and honesty to face the truth and read for themselves!


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INQUISITION:

The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, London, 1756
(in Spain, Portugal, &c.) an ecclesiastical court of the church of Rome, erected for the putting a stop to Heresy, and the punishment of Heretics. The rise and progress of this court seems to have been as follows.
Some have observed that before the conversion of the emperor Constantine the Great, none but the bishops examined into doctrines and punished Heresy with excommunication; but after the emperors became Christians, they ordered that such as has been convicted of Heresy and excommunicated, should be banished and their effects confiscated; this practice was continued till about the year 800 after Christ, when the power of the western bishops enlarged to the authority citing persons to their courts, and to convict and punish them by penances or imprisonment.
This continued till the XIIth century, when Heresy, as it was then called, being much increased by the Albigenses and Waldenses, pope Gregory the IXth in the year 1229 in a council held at Thoulouss, established new constitutions, committing the whole management of them to the bishops; but afterwards he thinking that the bishops were too indulgent, he committed the direction of this inquisition to the Dominicans, who for their cruelty were banished from Thoulouss by the inhabitants. And so this court was never firmly established in France; but was received by Italy, except the kingdom of Naples, and in Spain and Portugal and the countries depending.
This court or tribunal takes cognizance of Heresy, Judaism, Mahometanism, Sodomy and Polygamy; and the people of those countries so very much dread it, that parents deliver up their children, and husbands their wives to the officers, without so much as daring to murmur in the least.
In Portugal they erect a theatre capable of containing 3000 persons, on which they place a very rich alter; having seats fixed on each side of it, in the form of an amphitheatre, where the criminals are placed, and over against them there is a high chair, to which they are singly called by one of the inquisitors, to hear their crimes and condemnation.
The prisoners know their doom by the clothes they wear that day, for those who wear their own clothes are discharged, upon paying a fine: they that have a Santo Benito, or a strait yellow coat without sleeves, charged with a St. Andrew's cross, have their lives spared, but their effects forfeited to the royal chamber, and to pay the expenses of the inquisition: they that have flames of red serge sewed on their Santo Benito without any cross, are convicted of having been pardoned before, and threatened to be burnt, if ever they relapse again; but those which besides these have their own pictures round their Santo Benito, with figures of devils, are condemned to die.
The persons charged with or suspected of Heresy, are shut up in dismal dungeons, and there confined for several months, till they accuse themselves, being never let to know their accusers, or confronted by witnesses; their friends go into mourning for them as if dead, and dare not either solicit their pardon or come near them, and are often forced to fly their country for fear of being sent to the inquisition likewise.
Several other countries besides those above mentioned, have had inquisitions; but they have been laid down, by reason of the extraordinary severity and cruelty used in the punishment of those called offenders.
The power of the inquisition is also very much curbed in the republick of Venice, where it seems rather to be a political instrument to preserve the state than the church.
In the Indies it is severe to extravagancy, for those there must be the oaths of seven witnesses to condemn a person, yet slaves and children are allowed to be witnesses against him, and the person is tortured till he accuses himself, the slightest expression against the church or office of inquisition, which they call by the name of the holy office, is sufficient.

A Complete and Universal English Dictionary, by James Barclay, London, 1792
A spiritual court in Roman Catholic countries, appointed for the trial and punishment of heretics.

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by N. Bailey, Glasgow, 1802
The Spanish INQUISITION, a tribunal or great council, first erected by Ferdinand, the Catholic King of Spain, and the Pope, to cause all Moors and Jews living there to be baptized; But now the power of it is exercised with all barbarity and cruelty against Christians, under the notion of heretics, and all that are not stanch Roman Catholics.

An American Dictionary of The English Language, by Noah Webster, New York, 1828
In some catholic countries, a court or tribunal established for the examination and punishment of heretics. This court was established in the twelfth century by father Dominic, who was charged by pope Innocent III. with orders to excite catholic princes and people to extirpate [completely destroy] heretics.

A Dictionary of The English Language, by Samuel Johnson and John Walker, London, 1828
The court established in some countries subject to the pope for the detection of heresy.

A Universal and Critical Dictionary of The English Language, by Joseph E. Worcester, Boston, 1849
A court or tribunal, instituted in some Catholic countries, to inquire into offences against the established [Roman Catholic] religion, especially heresy.

Webster's Universal Dictionary of The English Language, Chicago, 1904
In the Roman Catholic Church, a court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics. It was fully established in 1235 by Pope Gregory IX. It still nominally exists, but its rigor is entirely mitigated [suppressed], its action being confined to the examination of books and the trial of ecclesiastical offenses.

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of The English Language International Edition, New York, 1969
1. A court or tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church for the discovery, examination, and punishment of heretics; specifically, the ecclesiastical tribunal for the discovery and punishment of heretics, active in central and southern Europe in the 13th century; also, the Spanish Inquisition (1237-1834), the notoriously severe tribunal which continued its persecution through the 16th century, put under state control 1480; abolished 1834: also called Holy Office.
2. The Congregation of the Holy Office.

Oxford American Dictionary, New York, 1980
a tribunal established by the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, especially the very severe one in Spain, to discover and punish heretics.

The Random House College Dictionary, New York, 1984
1. an official investigation, esp. one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part on the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishments.
7. (cap.) Rom. Cath. Ch. a. a former special tribunal engaged chiefly in combating and punishing heresy. Cf. Holy Office.

PURGATORY:

An English Dictionary, C. Coles, London, 1717
l. the Papists Place of cleansing (by fire) between Death and Heaven.

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, London, 1724
an imaginary Place of Purgation for the Souls of the Faithful, according to the Roman Catholic Creed, where they are to be purified by Fire before they are admitted to the State of perfect Bliss.

The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, London, 1756
is supposed to be a place to which those persons souls go by way of punishment after the separation from the body, who have not expatiated their sins by acts of sorrow and penance in this life, where they are to bear temporary punishment hereafter. The Roman Catholics, to shorten this time of punishment, conceive the prayers and works of supererogation of persons on earth, and intersession of saints in Heaven, to have a very great efficacy. This doctrine was a stranger in the Christian church for the first 600 years, but in the times of gross ignorance, when visions, lyes, and legends prevailed much, it crept into the Roman church, but the Greeks would never receive this doctrine. At first it became a custom among the Christians to visit the tombs and burying-places of martyrs, in order to excite their minds and raise their courage, to be able to undergo martyrdom; there they repeated what this and that saint had done and suffered, and commended and praised them for them; intimated how agreeable it would be to the saint, if those who were living would imitate them. From this they proceeded to say, that they did hear and approve their resolutions. And as opinions concerning the state of the soul before the day of judgment grew into vogue, they imagined them not so completely happy as they might be, the custom of praying for them, and not long after they proceeded to pray to them. With these notions came in the doctrine of saying masses for souls departed, and building monasteries, and leaving large sums for saying masses, &tc.

A Complete and Universal English Dictionary, by James Barclay, London, 1792
a place where souls, according to the Romish church, are cleansed from carnal impurities before their reception into heaven.

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, Glasgow, 1802
an imaginary place of purgation for the souls of the Faithful, according to the Roman Catholic Creed, where they are to be purified by fire before they are admitted to the state of perfect bliss.

An American Dictionary of The English Language, by Noah Webster, New York, 1828
Among catholics, a supposed place or state after death, in which the souls of persons are purified, or in which they expiate such offenses committed in this life, as do not merit eternal damnation. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are supposed to be received into heaven.

A Dictionary of The English Language, by Samuel Johnson and John Walker, London, 1828
A place in which souls are supposed by the papists to be purged by fire from carnal impurities before they are received into heaven.

A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of The English Language, by John Walker, 1831
An imaginary place of purgation from smaller sins after death.

Todd's Johnson's Dictionary of The English Language, by Thomas Rees, 1834
A place in which the Papists suppose that souls are purged by fire from carnal impurities, before they are received into heaven.

A Universal and Critical Dictionary of The English Language, by Joseph E. Worcester, Boston, 1849
A place of expiation or purification: - according to Roman Catholics, an intermediate state of the souls of the penitent after death, and before the final judgment, during which they are supposed to expiate, by certain punishments, the guilt which they have incurred through life.

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of The English Language International Edition, New York, 1969
1. In Roman Catholic theology, a state or place where the souls of those who have died penitent are made fit for paradise by expiating venial sins and undergoing any punishment remaining for previously forgiven sins.

Oxford American Dictionary, New York, 1980
1. (Roman Catholic belief) a place or condition in which souls undergo purification by temporary punishment.

INDULGENCE (INDULGENCY):

The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, London, 1756
INDULGENCES (with Roman Catholics) pardons which the church gives to penitents, in remitting the punishment due to their sins.

A Complete and Universal English Dictionary, by James Barclay, London, 1792
In the Romish church, the remission of punishment due to a sin, granted by the church, and supposed to save the sinner from purgatory.

An American Dictionary of The English Language, by Noah Webster, New York, 1828
3. In the Romish church, remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the pope or church, and supposed to save the sinner from purgatory; absolution from the censures of the church and from all transgressions.

A Dictionary of The English Language, by Samuel Johnson and John Walker, London, 1828
Grant of the church of Rome; a release of the temporal penalty remaining due to sin.

A Universal and Critical Dictionary of The English Language, by Joseph E. Worcester, Boston, 1849
A power claimed by the Roman Catholic church of granting, to its contrite members, remission, for a certain term, either on earth or in purgatory, of the penalty incurred by their transgressions.

Webster's Universal Dictionary of The English Language, Chicago, 1904
3. In the Roman Catholic Church, remission by church authority, to a repentant sinner, of the canonical penance attached to certain sins in this life, and also of the temporal punishment which would await the impenitent in purgatory.

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of The English Language International Edition, New York, 1969
4. In the Roman Catholic Church, remission, by those authorized, of the temporal punishment still due to sin after sacramental absolution, either in this world or in purgatory; also, a relaxation, in a person's favor, of a particular rule of ecclesiastical law: properly called Dispensation.

DISPENSATION:

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, Glasgow, 1802
a distributing or dealing; also a suffering or permitting a man to do a thing contrary to law; an indulgence from the Pope.

POPE:

A Complete and Universal English Dictionary, by James Barclay, London, 1792
the bishop of Rome, who claims sovereign over all ecclesiastics and civil governors, as being the vicegerent of God; the immediate successor of St. Peter; endowed with infallibility, and invested with the keys of heaven and hell.

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, Glasgow, 1802
a name anciently given to all bishops; but about the end of the 11th Century, Gregory VII, ordered the name of Pope should peculiarly belong to the bishop of Rome, and that he should have supreme authority in the church. As the power of the Popes increased, they extended their supremacy from things ecclesiastic to politics, and for several centuries influenced or regulated every kingdom of Europe; but happily that power is now on the decline, and perhaps nearly extinct.

Noah Webster said that “The pope pretends to be vicar of Jesus Christ on earth.”
(See VICAR in An American Dictionary of The English Language, Noah Webster, New York, 1828)

APOCRYPHA (APOCRYPHAL):

The New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, London, 1724
certain Books of doubtful Authority, which are not received into the Canon of Holy Writ.

A Complete and Universal English Dictionary, by James Barclay, London, 1792
In Theology, books appended to the sacred writings of uncertain authority, and rejected as uncanonical.

A Dictionary of The English Language, by Samuel Johnson, London, 1805
It is used for the books appended to the sacred writings, which, being of doubtful authors, are less regarded.
We hold not the apocrypha for sacred, as we do the holy scripture, but for human compositions. Hooker's

An American Dictionary of The English Language, by Noah Webster, New York, 1828
APOCRYPHAL, a. Pertaining to the apecrypha; not canonical; of uncertain authority or credit; false; fictitious.

A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of The English Language, by John Walker, 1831
APOCRYPHAL, Not canonical.

A Universal and Critical Dictionary of The English Language, by Joseph E. Worcester, Boston, 1849
This word is properly plural, though sometimes used as singular. "The Apocrypha are a series of books not admitted into the canon of Scripture." Scholey's Bible. "The Apocrypha is not a canonical book." Richardson's Dictionary.

Webster's Universal Dictionary of The English Language, Geo. W. Ogilvie, 1904
APOCRYPHAL, Having no authority ecclesiastically; hence, fictitious; false; doubtful.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of The English Language, G. & C. Merriam Co., 1913
APOCRYPHAL, Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of The English Language International Edition, New York, 1969
APOCRYPHA, Fourteen books of the Septuagint in the Vulgate but not in the canonical Hebrew Scriptures nor in the Authorized Version [King James Bible].
APOCRYPHAL, Of doubtful authenticity; spurious.

The Random House College Dictionary, New York, 1984
1. a group of 14 books, not considered canonical, included in the Septuagint and the Vulgate as part of the Old Testament. 2. various religious writings of uncertain origin regarded by some as inspired, but rejected by most authorities.

Webster's New Dictionary of The English Language, Merriam-Webster Inc., 2001
APOCRYPHA, writings of dubious authenticity.
APOCRYPHAL, not canonical : SPURIOUS.

TRANSUBSTANTIATION:

A Complete and Universal English Dictionary, by James Barclay, London, 1792
in Theology, is the conversion or change of the substance of the bread and wine in the Eucharist, into the body and blood of Jesus Christ, which the Romish church hold is wrought by the consecration of the priest.

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, Glasgow, 1802
the act of changing from one substance to another; the supposed change of Bread and wine into Christ's real Body and Blood, as is absurdly held by the papists.

A Dictionary of The English Language, by Samuel Johnson, London, 1805
A miraculous operation believed in the Romish church, in which the elements of the eucharist are supposed to be changed into the real body and blood of Christ. How is a Romanist prepared easily to swallow, not only against all probability, but even the clear evidence of his senses, the doctrine of transubstantiation?

An American Dictionary of The English Language, by Noah Webster, New York, 1828
Change of substance. In the Romish theology, the supposed conversion of the bread and wine in the eucharist, into the body and blood of Christ.

A Universal and Critical Dictionary of The English Language, by Joseph E. Worcester, Boston, 1849
Change of substance: - the doctrine held by the Roman church, that, in the eucharist, the bread and wine are changed into the real body and blood of Christ.

The 1953 Book OF Common Prayer of the Episcopal church in America describes Transubstantiation as “blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.”(Article 31, p. 609). In 1765 Jonathan Mayhew, a Congregationalist minister, Harvard graduate and Pastor of The West Church in Boston, published a sermon entitled “Popish Idolatry.” In this sermon Mayhew addressed, among other idolatrous practices, the popish doctrine of transubstantiation. In his published sermon, Mayhew stated,

“The Romanists do not pretend to deny, but that all the five senses bear testimony against it, as much as they possibly could if it were false, or if the bread and wine remained after the juggling, hocus-pocus trick, which they term consecration.... For the truth of the Christian revelation itself depends on the truth of certain facts, by which there was an appeal made to the senses of men; particularly the miracles and resurrection of our Saviour.... Thus does the church of Rome, by this doctrine, subvert the very foundations of Christianity.... transubstantiation is the grossest imposition and insult, that ever the priesthood itself put upon the superstitious credulity of mankind. This doctrine then, being plainly false, the church of Rome is certainly guilty of idolatry, in worshipping the eucharist as true God.” (Popish Idolatry, Jonathan Mayhew, 1765, pp. 11,12).

The apostle Paul warned us of “that man of sin” and the blasphemous “signs and lying wonders” of “the mystery of iniquity”:

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (II Thess. 2:3-9).

For more than three centuries, the vast majority of American pulpits reverberated with the sound doctrine of the Holy Scriptures. Ministers of the gospel knew the true source of man's salvation as revealed in the Holy Bible. They also knew the source of man's depraved nature and his inclination to follow dangerous heresies. And this is why pastors of churches regularly preached against false doctrines and cunningly devised fables. It is only in the last two generations that many, if not most, American Christians have become ignorant of the history of the world, of the history of their nation, and of the history of the churches both at home and abroad.

It is an undeniable fact that conspiracies exist. It is also un under appreciated fact that most people have been conditioned to pay little or no attention to conspiracies. Misinformation is often circulated in the media and elsewhere for the purpose of leading people away from the truth. The following information reveals some of the methods employed to deceive. “Morals and Dogma” is an official Masonic book written by occultist Albert Pike. Pages 104 and 105 of this Satanic occult book states:

“Masonry, like all the religions, all Mysteries, Hermetiscism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve to be mislead;”
“So Masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray. (Morals and Dogma, pp. 104, 105)

In his informative book, A History of the Holy Catholic Inquisition, Cyrus Mason wrote in 1835,

“They [Jesuits] regard our country [the U.S.A.] as an open field, where they may pursue their schemes without molestation, and with entire success; where they may profit by the toleration enjoyed under our mild and free institutions.”
“These sworn servants of a foreign potentate [the pope] have as a leader an avowed defender of the inquisition.... They believe that her intolerance of all modes of faith but her own, is for the glory of God and the good of the whole world; and, holding her infallibility, they must, of course, defend the machinery by which she has, in former ages, carried out her spirit of intolerance against those who have dared to think and speak for themselves in the interpretation of the Scriptures.”
“The practical effects of the Catholic religion, in the hands of these [Jesuit] agents of the pope, will be the same in our country as they are in the old world, only they must be more slowly disclosed, and defended with caution.... There is nothing like a gradual initiation to a new order of things.”(A History of the Holy Catholic Inquisition, pp. 5,6,7)

Throughout the Dark Ages true Christians preserved the true scriptures, the scriptures that revealed Christ and exposed antichrist. From the early 1600's to the 20th century our Bible believing American ancestors and forefathers knew Christ as well as antichrist, because the scriptures clearly reveal both. “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” (Psa. 119:130). For this reason, more than 600 years ago, the Roman Catholic Church placed the Holy Scriptures on its official list of banned books*, and for centuries confiscated and burned Bibles and condemned Bible believers to death. But when these methods failed to win converts, the papacy devised new strategies. Through its overt and covert policies, "Holy Mother Church" began infiltrating Protestant communities, schools and churches. And by hiding its past and re-writing history, the Catholic Church spread its propaganda from one Protestant generation to the next, till at last most modern-day Christians no longer recognize “THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (Rev. 17:5). (The Catholic Church has never removed the KJV Holy Bible from its list of forbidden books; * Pope Innocent III, 1199; Council of Toulouse, 1229; Council of Tarragona, 1234; Synod of Oxford, 1408; Pope Pius IV, Index of Trent, 1559; Dogmatic Constitution, Pope Clement XI, 1713; Constitution Auctorem fidei, Pope Pius VI, 1794; Ubi Primum, Pope Leo XII, 1824; Traditi Humilitati, Pope Pius VIII, 1829; Inter Praecipuas, Pope Gregory XVI, 1844; Quanta Cura, Pope Pius IX, 1866; Pope Leo XIII, Apostolic Constitution Officiorum ac Munerum, 1897; Code of Canon Law On Censorship And Prohibited Books, 1918; Index Of Prohibed Books, 1930; Code of Canon Law On Vernacular Bibles, 1983)

“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many”, “Who...by himself purged our sins” (Heb. 1:3; 9:28)). For “we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.... But this man,.. offered one sacrifice for sins for ever.... For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin” (Heb. 10:10-18).

No amount of suffering we could go through, either in “this present evil world” or in some fictitious purgatory, would cleans us from one single sin (Gal. 1:4; Heb. 9:27; John 12:47,48). Otherwise, Jesus Christ was born, lived a sinless life, and died for nothing. If we can be saved by our own righteousness or by our own sufferings “then Christ is dead in vain.” (Gal. 2:21). No man can pay for his or anyone else's sins. A man will reap what he sows, but he cannot pay for his sins (Gal. 6:7).

“But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” (Titus 3:4-7). “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb. 12:2). “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” (Gal. 2:16). “But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.... For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:22,26). “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Eph. 2:8,9). “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;” (Rom. 3:23-25). “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” (Rom. 5:9). “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;” (Eph. 1:7). “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:” (Col. 1:14).

As late as 1953 The Book OF Common Prayer of the Episcopal church in America in its ARTICLES OF RELIGION states:

ART. XXXI. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.
The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.

Let us again hear what the sound doctrine of the holy scriptures contained in the Holy Bible says:

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Rom. 5:12). “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Rom. 5:19). “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:” (Rom. 8:3). “For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.” (Rom. 11:32). “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” (Gal. 4:4,5). “And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.” (Heb. 9:15). “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” (I Tim. 2:5).

As we can see, good dictionaries, honest historians, and trustworthy scholars and ministers, are all in agreement with the Holy Scriptures. People can try to hide the truth, or they can try to hide from the truth, but God will always bring the truth to light. Jesus said, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31,32). “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” (John 12:46-48).

"A FALLING AWAY" II Thess. 2:3

The following was taken from the 1953 edition of The Book OF Common Prayer of the Episcopal church in America:  

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
and Administration of the Sacraments
and Other Rites and ceremonies
of the Church
ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1790, 1801, 1892, 1928, 1953
ARTICLES OF RELIGION
ART. VI. Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation.
Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation....
ART. XI. Of the Justification of Man.
We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only, is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort,...
ART. XIV. Works of Supererogation.
VOLUNTARY Works besides, over and above, God's Commandments, which they call Works of Supererogation, cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety: for by them men do declare, that they do not only render unto God as much as they are bound to do, but that they do more for his sake, than of bounden duty is required: whereas Christ saith plainly, When ye have done all that are commanded to you, say We are unprofitable servants.
ART. XIX. Of the Church.
The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, have erred; so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of faith.
ART. XXII. Of Purgatory.
The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping and Adoration, as well of Images as of relics, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God.
ART. XXVII. Of the Lord's Supper.
Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and given occasion to many superstitions.
ART. XXXI. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.
The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.
ART. XXXII. Of the Marriage of Priests.
Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

The following was taken from the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith of the church of England:  

The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)
Chapter I
Of the Holy Scripture
ART. I. Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable;[1] yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of His will, which is necessary unto salvation.[2] Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church;[3] and afterwards for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the Church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing;[4] which makes the Holy Scripture to be most necessary;[5] those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now ceased.[6]
ART. III. The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.[8]
ART. IV. The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, depends not upon the testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.[9]
ART. VII. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all:[15] yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.[16]
ART. IX. The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.[23]
ART. X. The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.[24]

In this day of apostasy of the churches we thank God for the remnant of Bible believing Christians who have not fallen away from “the faith which was once delivered unto the saints”. In this day of compromising with “this present evil world” we thank God for the faithful in Christ Jesus who refuse to turn away their ears from the truth of the scriptures unto fables, and doctrines of devils, and commandments of men (II Thess. 2:3; Jude 1:3; Gal. 1:4; I Tim. 4:1-5; II Tim. 4:1-4).

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