My Last Confession

A Conversation In A Catholic Confession Booth

Catholic penitent: Bless me father, for I have sinned. It has been something like 25 years since my last confession, if my memory is correct.

Catholic priest: My, that’s a long time… I’ll have to assign you 20 Hail Mary’s just for being such a procrastinator. What took you so long to come in for confession?

Catholic penitent: I didn’t want to be molested by you creeps! Just kidding!

Catholic priest: That’ll be another 20 Hail Mary’s, even if it was a joke. I don’t like people reminding me of what a wicked organization I belong to. So what sins are you here to confess?

Catholic penitent: All of them, of course!

Catholic priest: Well I hope so, but I need to know specifically which sins and how many times for each sin so I can calculate the proper number of Hail Marys and Our Fathers.

Catholic penitent: You think I can remember all that after 25 years? You gotta be kidding! How about you just give me a whole lotta stuff to recite over and over – enough to make sure that I’m in the clear with the Lord.

Catholic priest: Sorry, but the rules of the church don’t allow me to do that. You need to tell me the specifics, as best as you can remember things, especially the really juicy stuff… I mean the really serious stuff.

Catholic penitent: OK, but how about you telling me your sins too. What’s fair is fair, right?

Catholic priest: No, my sins are none of your business… they’re between me and God.

Catholic penitent: Oh really? What about me? Aren’t my sins against God and not against you?

Catholic priest: Technically yes. However, since we Catholic priests claim to be God’s intermediators for you poor slobs – I mean poor souls – here on earth, you need to come to us priests so we can go to God on your behalf (and so we can have something to blackmail you with if the need arises – hee hee).

Catholic penitent: Well how do I know that God hears you?

Catholic priest: Because I say so and because “mother church” says so.

Catholic penitent: Oh. Well how do YOU know that God is satisfied by me saying so many Hail Marys and Our Fathers? And where do you come up with your numbers for how many times I should repeat those prayers?

Catholic priest: You ask too many questions. Just trust me. I’m your spiritual father, remember? That’s why you need to call me “father”.

Catholic penitent: But what if your calculations are wrong? What if I don’t say enough Hail Marys and Our Fathers?

Catholic priest: Well then, when you die, your relatives will have to pay me and “mother church” to say masses for you, to get your soul out of Purgatory.

Catholic penitent: But my neighbor says that there is no such place as Purgatory, only Heaven and Hell. He told me that the Bible says “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” [Hebrews 9:27]. So what good would it do for my relatives to pay you to say masses if there is no such place as Purgatory and if instead I’m forever damned in Hell?

Catholic priest: Who are you going to believe? Me or some Bible quoting neighbor?

Catholic penitent: But my neighbor has nothing to gain by what he told me. But you and the Roman Catholic church stand to gain money from people who pay you to say masses for the dead.

Catholic priest: We need the money to operate our business… I mean our church. So quit beating around the bush and just tell me your sins, so I can get back to the convent… oops… I mean back to the rectory.

Catholic penitent: But I am still wondering how I can get rid of my sins just by reciting some prayers. How does that make up for all the bad things I’ve done and why did Jesus die on the cross if I could get rid of my sins simply by chanting a bunch of words over and over again?

Catholic priest: Those words are no ordinary words. They are very special words, almost magical words! You need to recite them to prove that you are really sorry for your sins and we priests do the rest! Jesus did his part and now you and I have to do our part.

Catholic penitent: But I read in the Bible that God condemns repetitious prayers like the ones you priests assign us to recite for penance. In Matthew 6:7 Jesus said “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”

Catholic priest: Don’t worry about what Jesus said. Just do what I tell you to do.

Catholic penitent: I’m not sure I like what you’ve been telling me, nor do I even like this whole confession system. So before I confess my sins to you I have just one more question.

Catholic priest: Ok. What is it?

Catholic penitent: Well, I started reading the Bible for myself and it says in the gospel of Mark, chapter 2 and verse 7: “Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?”. That sure sounds to me like only God can forgive sins.

Catholic priest: Who said you can read the Bible for yourself, let alone interpret the Bible for yourself? Don’t you know that you need to leave it to us priests and “mother church” to tell you what the Bible means? In fact, you should not even be reading the Bible. It will only confuse you. Even though what you read sounds like only God can forgive sins, you must remember that what “mother church” says always overrides what the Bible says.

Catholic penitent: I think I’d rather take my chances with the Bible and what God says in that Bible.

Catholic priest: Now you’ve done it! You’ve proven yourself to be a heretic. If you don’t recant what you just said, and say 523 Hail Marys by sundown, I’ll have to excommunicate you.

Catholic penitent: Well then, excommunicate me. I’d rather have Jesus anyway – the real Jesus that is. He said in John 6:37 “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”

Catholic priest: Get out of my confession booth you Bible quoting heretic! Away with you!

“But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
[Matthew 15:9]

If this article about Catholic confession offends you, bear in mind that GOD is highly offended by the Catholic MAN-MADE confession system that substitutes the clergy of the Catholic Church for the ONE mediator God has provided, which is His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ…

“For there is one God, and ONE mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” 1 Timothy 2:5

And don’t believe the lie of the Catholic Church that it is OK to pray to their man-made saints because (as they claim) they are not mediators but only intercessors, which is nothing more than one of many word-twisting exercises of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Catholic confession “system” is a license to sin, allowing Catholics to “get rid of their sins” simply by reciting some arbitrary number of “Hail Marys”. When a person sins, they are to confess to God, because their sins are violations of GOD’S LAWS. Also, when a person sins, they have not sinned against the priest at confession, they have sinned against others – if they lied to, cursed at, stole from or attacked or slandered someone. We are to confess to God and to the person sinned against. Also, we should apologize to and make restitution to the person offended. A Catholic priest should not even be part of the equation… So that whole Catholic confession system is illogical and useless and unbiblical.

Also, on a more personal note, my own mother was verbally harassed by a Catholic priest in a confession booth when she was a young woman. The ungodly priest was not satisfied with her confession and wanted her to tell him something more “juicy” as they say. Later on in life, I had a complete stranger, a 60 year old man, share with me that a Catholic priest had tried to rape him when he was just a 10 year old altar boy. That boy was spared when the priest chose another altar boy to rape who as an easier target. Please think long and hard about these things before you violate God’s commandments and go to some false priest instead of the living and true High Priest – the Lord Jesus Christ – to confess your sins.— RM Kane

“Seeing then that WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:14-16

Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther
on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

by Dr. Martin Luther (1517)

Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter. In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance.

2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests.

3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no inward repentance which does not outwardly work divers mortifications of the flesh.

4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

5. The pope does not intend to remit, and cannot remit any penalties other than those which he has imposed either by his own authority or by that of the Canons.

6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God’s remission; though, to be sure, he may grant remission in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven.

7. God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same time, humble in all things and bring into subjection to His vicar, the priest.

8. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying.

9. Therefore the Holy Spirit in the pope is kind to us, because in his decrees he always makes exception of the article of death and of necessity.

10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for purgatory.

11. This changing of the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown while the bishops slept.

12. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition.

13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are already dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be released from them.

14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the imperfect love, of the dying brings with it, of necessity, great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater is the fear.

15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say nothing of other things) to constitute the penalty of purgatory, since it is very near to the horror of despair.

16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ as do despair, almost-despair, and the assurance of safety.

17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror should grow less and love increase.

18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that they are outside the state of merit, that is to say, of increasing love.

19. Again, it seems unproved that they, or at least that all of them, are certain or assured of their own blessedness, though we may be quite certain of it.

20. Therefore by “full remission of all penalties” the pope means not actually “of all,” but only of those imposed by himself.

21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who say that by the pope’s indulgences a man is freed from every penalty, and saved;

22. Whereas he remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to the canons, they would have had to pay in this life.

23. If it is at all possible to grant to any one the remission of all penalties whatsoever, it is certain that this remission can be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to the very fewest.

24. It must needs be, therefore, that the greater part of the people are deceived by that indiscriminate and highsounding promise of release from penalty.

25. The power which the pope has, in a general way, over purgatory, is just like the power which any bishop or curate has, in a special way, within his own diocese or parish.

26. The pope does well when he grants remission to souls [in purgatory], not by the power of the keys (which he does not possess), but by way of intercession.

27. They preach man who say that so soon as the penny jingles into the money-box, the soul flies out [of purgatory].

28. It is certain that when the penny jingles into the money-box, gain and avarice can be increased, but the result of the intercession of the Church is in the power of God alone.

29. Who knows whether all the souls in purgatory wish to be bought out of it, as in the legend of Sts. Severinus and Paschal.

30. No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much less that he has attained full remission.

31. Rare as is the man that is truly penitent, so rare is also the man who truly buys indulgences, i.e., such men are most rare.

32. They will be condemned eternally, together with their teachers, who believe themselves sure of their salvation because they have letters of pardon.

33. Men must be on their guard against those who say that the pope’s pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to Him;

34. For these “graces of pardon” concern only the penalties of sacramental satisfaction, and these are appointed by man.

35. They preach no Christian doctrine who teach that contrition is not necessary in those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessionalia.

36. Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon.

37. Every true Christian, whether living or dead, has part in all the blessings of Christ and the Church; and this is granted him by God, even without letters of pardon.

38. Nevertheless, the remission and participation [in the blessings of the Church] which are granted by the pope are in no way to be despised, for they are, as I have said, the declaration of divine remission.

39. It is most difficult, even for the very keenest theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people the abundance of pardons and [the need of] true contrition.

40. True contrition seeks and loves penalties, but liberal pardons only relax penalties and cause them to be hated, or at least, furnish an occasion [for hating them].

41. Apostolic pardons are to be preached with caution, lest the people may falsely think them preferable to other good works of love.

42. Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend the buying of pardons to be compared in any way to works of mercy.

43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better work than buying pardons;

44. Because love grows by works of love, and man becomes better; but by pardons man does not grow better, only more free from penalty.

45. 45. Christians are to be taught that he who sees a man in need, and passes him by, and gives [his money] for pardons, purchases not the indulgences of the pope, but the indignation of God.

46. Christians are to be taught that unless they have more than they need, they are bound to keep back what is necessary for their own families, and by no means to squander it on pardons.

47. Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will, and not of commandment.

48. Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting pardons, needs, and therefore desires, their devout prayer for him more than the money they bring.

49. Christians are to be taught that the pope’s pardons are useful, if they do not put their trust in them; but altogether harmful, if through them they lose their fear of God.

50. Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of the pardon-preachers, he would rather that St. Peter’s church should go to ashes, than that it should be built up with the skin, flesh and bones of his sheep.

51. Christians are to be taught that it would be the pope’s wish, as it is his duty, to give of his own money to very many of those from whom certain hawkers of pardons cajole money, even though the church of St. Peter might have to be sold.

52. The assurance of salvation by letters of pardon is vain, even though the commissary, nay, even though the pope himself, were to stake his soul upon it.

53. They are enemies of Christ and of the pope, who bid the Word of God be altogether silent in some Churches, in order that pardons may be preached in others.

54. Injury is done the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or a longer time is spent on pardons than on this Word.

55. It must be the intention of the pope that if pardons, which are a very small thing, are celebrated with one bell, with single processions and ceremonies, then the Gospel, which is the very greatest thing, should be preached with a hundred bells, a hundred processions, a hundred ceremonies.

56. The “treasures of the Church,” out of which the pope. grants indulgences, are not sufficiently named or known among the people of Christ.

57. That they are not temporal treasures is certainly evident, for many of the vendors do not pour out such treasures so easily, but only gather them.

58. Nor are they the merits of Christ and the Saints, for even without the pope, these always work grace for the inner man, and the cross, death, and hell for the outward man.

59. St. Lawrence said that the treasures of the Church were the Church’s poor, but he spoke according to the usage of the word in his own time.

60. Without rashness we say that the keys of the Church, given by Christ’s merit, are that treasure;

61. For it is clear that for the remission of penalties and of reserved cases, the power of the pope is of itself sufficient.

62. The true treasure of the Church is the Most Holy Gospel of the glory and the grace of God.

63. But this treasure is naturally most odious, for it makes the first to be last.

64. On the other hand, the treasure of indulgences is naturally most acceptable, for it makes the last to be first.

65. Therefore the treasures of the Gospel are nets with which they formerly were wont to fish for men of riches.

66. The treasures of the indulgences are nets with which they now fish for the riches of men.

67. The indulgences which the preachers cry as the “greatest graces” are known to be truly such, in so far as they promote gain.

68. Yet they are in truth the very smallest graces compared with the grace of God and the piety of the Cross.

69. Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of apostolic pardons, with all reverence.

70. But still more are they bound to strain all their eyes and attend with all their ears, lest these men preach their own dreams instead of the commission of the pope.

71. He who speaks against the truth of apostolic pardons, let him be anathema and accursed!

72. But he who guards against the lust and license of the pardon-preachers, let him be blessed!

73. The pope justly thunders against those who, by any art, contrive the injury of the traffic in pardons.

74. But much more does he intend to thunder against those who use the pretext of pardons to contrive the injury of holy love and truth.

75. To think the papal pardons so great that they could absolve a man even if he had committed an impossible sin and violated the Mother of God — this is madness.

76. We say, on the contrary, that the papal pardons are not able to remove the very least of venial sins, so far as its guilt is concerned.

77. It is said that even St. Peter, if he were now Pope, could not bestow greater graces; this is blasphemy against St. Peter and against the pope.

78. We say, on the contrary, that even the present pope, and any pope at all, has greater graces at his disposal; to wit, the Gospel, powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written in I. Corinthians xii.

79. To say that the cross, emblazoned with the papal arms, which is set up [by the preachers of indulgences], is of equal worth with the Cross of Christ, is blasphemy.

80. The bishops, curates and theologians who allow such talk to be spread among the people, will have an account to render.

81. This unbridled preaching of pardons makes it no easy matter, even for learned men, to rescue the reverence due to the pope from slander, or even from the shrewd questionings of the laity.

82. To wit: — “Why does not the pope empty purgatory, for the sake of holy love and of the dire need of the souls that are there, if he redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake of miserable money with which to build a Church? The former reasons would be most just; the latter is most trivial.”

83. Again: — “Why are mortuary and anniversary masses for the dead continued, and why does he not return or permit the withdrawal of the endowments founded on their behalf, since it is wrong to pray for the redeemed?”

84. Again: — “What is this new piety of God and the pope, that for money they allow a man who is impious and their enemy to buy out of purgatory the pious soul of a friend of God, and do not rather, because of that pious and beloved soul’s own need, free it for pure love’s sake?”

85. Again: — “Why are the penitential canons long since in actual fact and through disuse abrogated and dead, now satisfied by the granting of indulgences, as though they were still alive and in force?”

86. Again: — “Why does not the pope, whose wealth is to-day greater than the riches of the richest, build just this one church of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers?”

87. Again: — “What is it that the pope remits, and what participation does he grant to those who, by perfect contrition, have a right to full remission and participation?”

88. Again: — “What greater blessing could come to the Church than if the pope were to do a hundred times a day what he now does once, and bestow on every believer these remissions and participations?”

89. “Since the pope, by his pardons, seeks the salvation of souls rather than money, why does he suspend the indulgences and pardons granted heretofore, since these have equal efficacy?”

90. To repress these arguments and scruples of the laity by force alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to expose the Church and the pope to the ridicule of their enemies, and to make Christians unhappy.

91. If, therefore, pardons were preached according to the spirit and mind of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved; nay, they would not exist.

92. Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, “Peace, peace,” and there is no peace!

93. Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, “Cross, cross,” and there is no cross!

94. Christians are to be exhorted that they be diligent in following Christ, their Head, through penalties, deaths, and hell;

95. And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather through many tribulations, than through the assurance of peace.

List Of Heresies – False Doctrines Or False Branches Of Christianity

An Excerpt From The Book: Truth’s Victory Over Error

by David Dickson (1684)

These “heresies” are errors or false doctrines or false branches of Christianity as noted below.

An alphabetical list of the proper and patronymic names of the authors of the old and late heresies confuted in the foregoing treatise.

Adamites: so called from one Adam, the author of their sect, or from the first man Adam, whose nakedness they imitate in their stoves and conventicles, after the example of Adam and Eve in paradise.

Anthropomorphitans: so called from two Greek words, Anthropus, a man, and Morphe, a form, figure, or shape, because they maintained that God had a body, and was endued with human Shape.

Arians: from Anus a Lybian by birth, and a presbyter of Alexandria by profession. This heresy brake out under Conistantine, 290 years after Christ, and over ran a great part of the world. It was condemned in the first famous council of Nice, gathered by Constantine’s appointment, anno 325.

Arminians: so called from James Arminius, divinity reader in Leyden, who, i6og, published and maintained five articles, which have occasioned great trouble to the church of God, being eagerly maintained by his followers, called remonstrants. The live articles are concerning predestination, redemption, God’s grace, freewill, and perseverance.

Anabaptists: so called from re-baptizing, had for their author one Nicholas Storck, who pretended familiarity with God, by an angel promising him a kingdom, if he would reform the church, and destroy the princes that would hinder him.

Antinomians: so called from two Greek words, anti, against, and nomos, the law. They sprung up from one John Agricola, who affirmed, that the moral law was altogether needless, and that Christians were not tied to the observation thereof. This sect sprung up about the year 1535.

Arabians: so named from Arabia, the country where their heresy was broached, and maintained under Philip the emperor, 217 years after Christ.

Brounists: so called from their author, Mr. Robert Broun, of Northamptonshire in England, sometime a schoolmaster at Southwark, hold there is no other pure church in the world, but among themselves as did the Donatists of old.

Dominicans: one of the popish orders, so called from Dominicus, a Spaniard. They were instituted by pope Innocent III anno 1205 This man with twelve abbots, were appointed to preach down the doctrine of the Albigenees, who by their preaching did same religion with the old Non-conformists in England who were called Puritans.

Donatists: from Donatus, born in Humidia, in Africa who, because Cecilian was preferred bishop before him to the bishopric of Carthage, accused him, and all the bishops which had ordained him, to be Traditores; that is, such as had delivered, up their Bibles to be burned by idolators, under the persecution of Maximius.

Epicurians: from one Epicurus, an old heathen philosopher, who placed men’s chief happiness in the pleasure of the mind. He denied providence, and taught the world was made by the concourse of atoms.

Eutychians: so named from Eutyches, an abbot of Constantinople. This man’s heresies were condemned by the fourth general council held at Chalcedon under the emperor Martianus, anno 451.

Erastians: so called from Thomas Erastus, a physician in Heidelberg in Germany, who following this man’s foot steps, having taken away from the church all discipline and government, and put it into the hands of the civil magistrate.

Enthusiasts: so called from the Greek word, Enthusiadso, or Euthusiao, in Latin Fanatico I am inspired, or acted, with a prophetical or divine fury.

Franciscans: another popish order, so called from one Francis, an Italian merchant, who before his conversion, as the Papists say, lived a wicked and debauched life. He gathered many disciples, anno 1198, and appointed them to be obedient to Christ and the pope.

Familists: or of the family of love, whose author was one Henry Nicholas, a Hollander. The first founder was one David George of Delst who called himself the true David, that should restore the kingdom to Israel. They maintained many dangerous opinions.

Greeks: are those who inhabit Greece, viz. Macedon, Epirus, Bulgaria, Moldavia, &c. They place much of their religion in the worship of the virgin Mary; and of painted, but not carved, images.

Hermerobaptists: so called from two Greek words, Hermera, a day, and Baptidso, to baptise, because they maintained, that men and women, according to their faults committed every day, ought every day to be baptised.

Jesuits: so called from our blessed Saviour’s name, Jesus, which they falsely assume to themselves. They were instituted anno 1540, by Ignatius Loyola, first a soldier; they are all well bred in philosophy, and school divinity, and in many other arts and sciences, and therefore they are employed as emissaries from the pope and his conclave to advance the popish religion.

Judaisers: so called, because they think that the Jewish ceremonies are still in force, and binding on us who live under the gospel.

Independents: so called, because they will have every particular congregation to be ruled by their own laws, without dependency upon any other church.

Libertine: from the liberty and freedom they take and hive to others to commit sin. Their first author that whatsoever good or evil we did, was not done by us, but by God’s Spirit in us, and many other blasphemous opinions.

Lutherans: who so call themselves, lyingly and falsely, from Martin Luther, that eminent man of God.

Manicheans: from one Manos, a Persian by birth, and a servant by condition. The Manichean sect was the sink of all former heresies.

Macedonians: so called from Macedonus bishop of Constantinople, 312 years after Christ. Their heresy was condemned in the second general council held at Constantinople, by Gratian and Theodosius, anno 380. His followers were called Pneumato machians, fighters against the Holy Spirit, Pneuma, a Spirit, and Machesthai, to fight.

Marcionites: from one Marcion, a Paphlagonian, hear the Euxine sea, who was Cerdon’s scholar, a grand heretic. He maintained Cerdou’a heretics at Rome, about 133 years after Christ.

Nestorians: so called from Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople, who broached his errors under Theodosius the younger, 400 years after Christ. They made Christ to be two persons, as he had two natures. This heresy was condemned by the third general council, held at Ephesus, under Theodosius, the younger, anno 431.

Novatians: so called from Novatus, wito lived under Decius the emperor, 220 years after Christ. He was an African by birth.

Origenists: so called from the famous Origen: His errors began to spread about the year of Christ 247 under Aurelian the emperor, and continued about 334 years.

Pneumatomachians: See letter M.

Pelagians: from Pelagius, a Briton, as they say, by birth. A monk at Rome, afterwards a presbyter, under Theodosius the younger Puritans, otherwise Kathari, because they esteemed themselves purer and holier than others.

Photinians: from Photinius, born in the lesser Galatia. He began to spread his heresies about the year 323 at Syrmium, where he was bishop under Constantinus the emperor.

Papists are too well known: they are to be found in every page almost of the book.

Quakers: so called, because some times they use to quake and tremble when they prophesy, or when they are in a rapture.

Sociniant: so called from one Faustus Socinus, an Italian of Stena, they place all religion in the old condemned heresies, following their matter, a most vile heretic.

Sabellians: so called from Sabellus, an African by birth. His heresies began anno 224.

Separatists: so called, because they withdrew themselves from the Christian communion, and followed others in the worship of God.

Sceptics: commonly called Seekers, maintain, that the whole universal church hath perished a little after the apostles times, and are not to this day restored, until Christ from heaven shall send new apostles for raising up again the church visible.

Sabbatarians: so called, because they observe the Jewish Sabbath, imagining there is no precept or example in the New Testament, for observing the first day of the week.

Tritheits, or Tritheotae: so called, because they divided the indivisible essence of the Godhead into three parts; the one they called the Father, the other the Son, the third the Holy Ghost.

Tertullianists: were so called, from that famous lawyer and divine, Tertullian, who lived under Severus the emperor, about 170 years after Christ.

Vorstians: from one Vorstus, an old heretic, who taught, that God had a body, and was endued with parts, as the Anthropomorphitans affirmed.

Vaninians: from one Vaninus, a great promoter of Atheism. He was publicly burnt at Tholouse.

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The above text is a portion of the book: Truth’s Victory Over Error”, by David Dickson, 1684. This book is a commentary on all the chapters of the (Westminster – RB) confession of faith, by way of question and answer: in which, the saving truths of our holy religion are confirmed and established; and the dangerous errors and opinions of its adversaries detected and confuted… To this edition is prefixed, a short account of the author’s life, by the late Mr. Robert Wodrow” 296 pages. The entire book can be ordered from Still Waters Revival Books.

The Fake Catholic Jesus:

A Counterfeit Jesus And An Impotent Savior

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The Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church is a fake Catholic Jesus, far from anything like the real Jesus of the Bible.

Why we can say that the Catholic Jesus is a fraud, a weak, useless and imaginary savior:

He needs an imaginary goddess named Mary to help save you.
He needs your penance to help save you.
He needs the merits of dead Catholic-designated saints to help save you.
He needs the local Catholic priest to help save you.
He needs you to eat the magic wafer (the Eucharist) to help save you.
He needs you to recite repetitious prayers (like the rosary and novenas) to help save you.
He needs you to be baptized by a man in a religious costume to help save you.
He needs the imaginary place called Purgatory to help save you.
He needs the “stations of the cross” to help save you.
He needs masses for the dead to help save you.
He needs the “sacrifice of the mass” to help save you.
He needs the “last rites” (a.k.a. extreme unction) to help save you.
He needs you to attend mass on Catholic-designated holy days of obligation to help save you.
He needs you to fast during “Lent” to help save you.
He needs you to avoid eating meat on certain days to help save you.
He needs “miraculous medals”, rosary beads, scapulars and other superstitious trinkets to help save you.
He needs you to genuflect (bow down) in front of plaster statues to help save you.
He needs a world-wide network of nuns, priests, monks, bishops and cardinals to help save you.
He needs a self-righteous highly exalted sinner called the “pope” (who thinks he is a super spiritual “holy father”) to help save you.
And lastly, he needs you to confess your sins to a priest to help save you, a priest who for all you know may be a gay pedophile.

The REAL Jesus needs none of those useless rituals, traditions, or self-righteous works of spiritually dead sinners. He can save whom He wills, when He wills by the power of His Spirit and the power of His Word. The real Jesus is a member of the triune Godhead, which makes Him all powerful and all knowing. He has no need for any help from anyone or any thing, not from any sinful, fallible person and not from any man-made object. Neither will He ever share his glory with the world’s largest false church – the Church of Rome! Do yourself a BIG favor and LEAVE that Church and start reading the Bible so that you can know God’s true plan of salvation (by the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ alone) and so that you will be able to properly identify a BIBLICAL church… one that follows the teachings and practices of the New Testament.

“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. [Titus 3:5]

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” [Romans 10:17]

“Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” [Hebrews 7:25]

“But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” [Matthew 15:9]

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Additional Articles About False Catholic Doctrine:

Statues-R-Us

Well here she is, the most famous idol on earth… the super-glorified man-made version of Mary:

The Queen of Heaven (only God doesn’t know she’s the queen)…
The Mother of God (only God never had a mother)…
Our Lady Of Grace
The Blessed Virgin

The one, the only, the goddess of … plaster, the Catholic Virgin Mary! Want to feel devout and holy?… stick her in your front yard. Want to feel safe while driving?… stick her on the dashboard of your motor vehicle. She’s portable and available in quantity. She’s quiet. She’ll never talk back to you. She’s a goddess that won’t interfere in your life, unless you use her for a doorstop and accidentally trip over her. So, what’s the greatest part of having her around? She will make you feel quite comfortable in your spiritually dead condition. And what could be better than that?

Please note: the Catholic Mary is NOT the REAL Mary of the Bible. The real Mary was not a perpetual virgin, but had children with her husband Joseph as the Bible makes clear in Matthew 12:46, Matthew 13:55-56, Mark 6:3, Galatians 1:19 and elsewhere.[1]

These porcelain statues are no more than idols. People bow down to these things and pray to them. Shame on them! God alone is worthy of the worship and adoration that people give to these dried pieces of clay. And the poor deceived souls that worship them have been well discipled into thinking that they are not really worshipping idols. They claim it is not worship and they claim they are praying to the person behind the idol or associated with the idol. Yet they are NO DIFFERENT in their actions and attitudes towards their Mary and “saint” idols than the Buddhists are towards their Buddha dolls or the Hindus are towards their elephant statues.

More Catholic Idols:

Many Catholics cling to their idols as if they were in fact real gods and goddesses. They don’t realize they are acting just like the idol worshippers at the time of the apostle Paul who got this reaction when he told people their idols were not to be worshipped or venerated…

“Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” [Acts 19:26-28]

“Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.” [Psalms 115:2-8]

[1] BIBLE REFERENCES:

Matthew 12:46 – “While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.”

Matthew 13:55-56 – “Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?”

Mark 6:3 – “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.”

Galatians 1:19 – “But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.”