HERESIES ADOPTED BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH....THOSE WHO GAVE YOU THE NEW TESTAMENT NO LESS

Constantly we at Bet Emet are not understood when being critical of much of what the New Testament teaches. We understand such misunderstanding because most of our readers have not had the opportunity to read and study to the level we have over the last 15 years where we discovered much that forced we make changes in our religious belief system. Simply we found, based upon our studies, that much of the New Testament, especially in doctrinal positions, was a replacement of the actual beliefs of a Rabbi named Yeshua who lived in the first century. A cursory reading of the New Testament does not always provide such an understanding, for most read it as if it is “inspired, infallible, and inerrant.” Upon just a little personal study into this area and when using good sources one quickly can see that they have deceived in this crucial area of their life.

Understand such a false trust and belief in the New Testament by most Christians today is not based upon the reader’s individual study, but rather upon the hearsay he has picked up by listening to others express such trust in the New Testament. The sad fact of the matter is that those who say such things have never done their homework to the depth necessary to see the problems inherent in accepting the New Testament as authoritative.

The New Testament was never meant to be a replacement book for the Jewish Scriptures, but sadly has become that today for the vast majority of non-Jewish believers in God.

Doctrine, when found in the New Testament, to be true must conform to the Word of God.....THE OLD TESTAMENT: "To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." (Isaiah 8:20)

Answer for yourself: Do you believe the above statement by Isaiah the prophet? If you do not, then you need to read no further for this study will not have benefit you for you since you have in reality no substance for your authority. One then believes what he wants and not what was intrusted to Holy men of old preserved and handed down to others who paved the way for the Messiah to come.

Thus if we find doctrines in the New Testament which contradict the Jewish Scriptures...such doctrines are to be understood as fables and lies. To fail to do so contradicts Isaiah the Prophet as well as Moses.

Before you read the following...understand that those who gave you the following man-made doctrines are the same ones who gave you the NEW TESTAMENT that has ended up replacing the Bible Jesus used…the Old Testament as taken from the Jewish Tankah (the true Masoretic Text).

Can we trust the Holy Spirit to have led these early anti-Semitic Catholics into all truth, and should we trust their collection of writings called the New Testament when they, in many places, contradict Moses and Jesus?

We at Bet Emet cannot, and we offer no man apologies.

Just understand that when you read the NT, with all its additions, purposeful misquotes of the Jewish Scriptures, changes, deletions and doctrinal creationism over the early centuries of the Gentile Church, these were the doctrines behind the men who did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HERESY	DATE

OF ALL THE HUMAN TRADITIONS taught and practiced by the Roman Catholic Church, which are contrary to the Bible, the most ancient are the prayers for the dead and the sign of the Cross. Both began 300 years after Christ.	310
Wax Candles introduced in church. about	320
Veneration of angels and dead saints.	375
The Mass, as a daily celebration, adopted.	394
The worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the use of the term, "Mother of God", as applied to her, originated in the Council of Ephesus	431
Priests began to dress differently from the laity	500
The doctrine of Purgatory was first established by Gregory the Great	593
The Latin language, as the language of prayer and worship in churches, was also imposed by Pope Gregory I 600 years after Christ.	600
The Bible teaches that we pray to God alone. In the primitive church never were prayers directed to Mary, or to dead saints. This practice began in the Roman Church (only 2 hundred years after canonizing the New Testament)	600
The Papacy is of pagan origin. The title of pope or universal bishop, was first given to the bishop of Rome by the wicked emperor Phocas. This he did to spite Bishop Ciriacus of Constantinople, who had justly excommunicated him for his having caused the assassination of his predecessor emperor Mauritius. Gregory 1, then bishop of Rome, refused the title, but his successor, Boniface III, first assumed title "pope." Jesus did not appoint Peter to the headship of the apostles and forbade any such notion. Note:-- Nor is there any mention in Scripture, nor in history, that Peter ever was in Rome, much less that he was pope there for 25 years; Clement, 3rd bishop of Rome, remarks that there is no real 1st century evidence that Peter ever was in Rome."	610
The kissing of the Pope's feet. It had been a pagan custom to kiss the feet of emperors. The Word of God forbids such practices.	709
The Temporal power of the Popes. When Pepin, the usurper of the throne of France, descended into Italy, called by Pope Stephen II, to war against the Italian Lombards, he defeated them and gave the city of Rome and surrounding territory to the pope. Jesus expressly forbade such a thing, and He himself refused worldly kingship.	750
Worship of the cross, images and relics was authorized. This was by order of Dowager Empress Irene of Constantinople, who first caused to pluck the eyes of her own son, Constantine VI, and then called a church council at the request of Hadrian I, pope of Rome at that time. Such practice is called simply IDOLATRY in the Bible, and is severely condemned. (Read Ex. 20:4; 3:17; Deut. 27:15; Psalm 115).	788
Holy Water, mixed with a pinch of salt and blessed by the priest, was authorized	850
The veneration of St. Joseph began	890
The baptism of bells was instituted by Pope John XIV	965
Canonization of dead saints, first by Pope John XV. Every believer and follower of Christ is called saint in the Bible.	995
Fasting on Fridays and during Lent were imposed. Imposed by popes said to be interested in the commerce of fish. (Bull, or permit to eat meat), some authorities say, began in the year 700. This is against the plain teaching of the Bible.	998
The Mass was developed gradually as a sacrifice; attendance made obligatory in the 11th century.
The celibacy of the priesthood was decreed by Pope Hildebrand, Boniface VII. Jesus imposed no such rule, nor did any of the apostles. On the contrary, St. Peter was a married man, and St. Paul says that bishops were to have wife and children.	1079

The Rosary, or prayer beads was introduced by Peter the Hermit, in the year 1090. Copied from Hindus and Mohammedans. The counting of prayers is a pagan practice and is expressly condemned by Christ. (Matt. 6:5-13).	1090
The Inquisition of heretics was instituted by the Council of Verona in the year 1184. Jesus neve taught the use of force to spread his religion.	1184
The sale of Indulgences, commonly regarded as a purchase of forgiveness and a permit to indulge in sin. Christianity, as taught in the Bible, condemns such a traffic and it was the protest against this traffic that brought on the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.	1190
The dogma of Transubstantiation was decreed by Pope Innocent III, in the year 1215. By this doctrine the priest pretends to perform a daily miracle by changing a wafer into the body of Christ, and then he pretends to eat Him alive in the presence of his people during Mass. The Bible condemns such absurdities.	1215
Confession of sin to the priest at least once a year was instituted by Pope Innocent III., in the Lateran Council. The Bible commands us to confess our sins direct to God. (Read Psa. 51:1-10; Luke 7:48; 15:21; I John 1:8-9).	1215
The adoration of the wafer (Host), was decreed by Pope Honorius. So the Roman Church worships a God made by human hands. This is plain idolatry and absolutely contrary to the spirit of the Gospel. (Read John 4:24).	1220
The Bible forbidden to laymen and placed in the Index of forbidden books by the Council of Valencia. Jesus commanded that the Scriptures should be read by all. (	1229
The Scapular was invented by Simon Stock, an English monk. It is a piece of brown cloth, with the picture of the Virgin and supposed to contain supernatural virtue to protect from all dangers those who wear it on naked skin. This is fetishism.	1287
The Roman Church forbade the cup to the laity, by instituting the communion of one kind in the Council of Constance. The Bible commands us to celebrate the Passover.	1414
The doctrine of Purgatory was proclaimed as a dogma of faith by Council of Florence. There is not one word in the Bible that would teach the purgatory of priests.	1439
The doctrine of 7 Sacraments affirmed.	1439
The Ave Maria. It was completed 50 years afterward and finally approved by Pope Sixtus V, at the end of the 16th century.	1508
The Council of Trent, held in the year 1545, declared that Tradition is of equal authority with the Bible. By tradition is meant human teachings. The Pharisees believed the same way, and Jesus bitterly condemned them, for by teaching human tradition, they nullified the commandments of God.	1545
The apocryphal books were added to the Bible also by the Council of Trent. These books were not recognized as canonical by the Jewish Church.	1546
The Creed of Pope Pius IV was imposed as the official creed 1560 years after Christ and the apostles. True Christians retain the Holy Jewish Scriptures as their creed. Hence their creed is 1500 years older than the creed of Roman Catholics.	1560
Pope Pius IX declared the Virgin Mary to have had an Immaculate Conception. The Bible states that all men, with the sole exception of Christ, are sinners. Mary herself had need of a Savior. (Read Rom. 3:23; 5:12; Psa. 51:5; Luke 1:30,46,47).	1834
In the year 1870 after Christ, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of Papal Infallibility. This is a blasphemy and the sign of the apostasy and of the anti-christ predicted by St. Paul. Pope's title: "VICARIVS FILII DEI." -- V-5, I-1; C-100, I-1; V-S, I-1; L-50, I-1; I-1; D-500, I-l Total, 666.	1870
Pope Plus X, in the year 1907, condemned together with "Modernism", all the discoveries of modern science which are not approved by the Church Pius IX had done the same thing in the Syllabus of 1864.	1907
In the year 1930 Pius XI, condemned the Public Schools	1930
In the year 1931 the same pope Pius XI, reaffirmed the doctrine that Mary is "the Mother of God". This doctrine was first invented by the Council of Ephesus in the year 431. This is a heresy contrary by Mary's own words. (Read Luke 1:46-49; John 2: l-5).	1931
In the year 1950 the last dogma was proclaimed by Pope Pins XII, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary	1950

UNDERSTANDING THE ABOVE INFORMATION

Answer for yourself: If you have difficulty in accepting these above heresies as truth, then why do you accept their other beliefs hidden within the New Testament that violate the Laws, the Prophets and the Writings?

This knowledge as given in the above chart alone should at least make one suspicious that other such "heresies" might be contained within the New Testament which you might not at present be aware. This should spur you into your own personal study to find out if such things be so. Believe us at Bet Emet, they are there hidden beneath the contexts of many events which are displayed in the New Testament which are simply unhistorical and can be proven to be in violation of facts and evidence of history which will prove them wrong upon study.

Answer for yourself: If you have difficulty in accepting these above heresies as truth, then why would you accept their other beliefs cleverly contained in the New Testament which, without through knowledge of the Old Testament, will not be noticed as fraudulent in simple reading of the New Testament?

The Roman Church says it never changes; yet, it has done nothing else but invent new doctrines which are contrary to the Bible and the original belief system of Yeshua, and has practiced rites and ceremonies taken bodily from paganism. Some scholar has found that 75% of the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Church are of pagan origin. We trust that you desire to be a follower of Jesus/Yeshua more than a follower of your Denomination or Church and its inherited traditions!

Don't look now my Protestant friends because much of what you practice in your church comes from these pagan background...and most of you are not aware!

THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS INCRIMINATE THEMSELVES AND THE GENTILE CHRISTIAN FAITH...AND I BET YOU NEVER KNEW THIS...DID YOU?

In Seminary I remember looking at the Library shelves that supported the multiple volumes of the Ante-Nicean Fathers. I beheld thousand and thousands of pages of their writings. I even amused myself that to read and understand such a large volume of literature would take years. It did!

What I came to admire about such writings is when you read enough of them you find that these "pro-Christian" writers often incriminated themselves with what they wrote. The following examples are for your benefit.

JUSTIN MARTYR

Eusebius, in his Church History, tells us that Justin, in his Dialogue with Trypho, says "there exists not a people, civilized or semi-civilized, who have not offered up prayers in the name of a crucified Savior to the Father and Creator of all things" (Hist. Eccl. lib i. ch. iv).

The honesty of Justin Martyr as portrayed here is the heart of the subject matter of these web pages. I intend to show you that from the beginning of time the pagan nations had their "crucified Sun-gods" and much recorded about Jesus of Nazareth in the New Testament is nothing more than the "re-telling" of the same Sun-Myths; the only difference is that now they are applied to the life of Jesus the Jew. Do you want the truth before you die? Then keep reading.

EUSEBIUS

Eusebius says that "the names of Jesus and Christ were both known and honored by the ancients" (Hist. Eccl. lib. i. ch. iv). How could this be?

Eusebius, the great champion of Christianity, admits in his book: "that which is called the Christian religion is neither new nor strange, but-if it be lawful to testify the truth-was known to the ancients"

(Hist. Eccl. lib. 2, ch. v.). How could this be?

Eusebius, who is our chief guide for the early history of the Church, confesses that he was by no means scrupulous to record the whole truth concerning the early Christians in the various works which he has left behind him (Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., ch. viii. p. 21).

Edward Gibbon, speaking of Eusebius says: "The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related what might rebound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion. Such an acknowledgment will naturally excite a suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not paid a very strict regard to the observance of the other; and the suspicion will derive additional credit from the character of Eusebius, which was less tinctured with credulity, and more practiced in the arts of courts, than that of almost any of his contemporaries" (Gibbon, Rome, vol. ii., Philadelphia, 1876).

SAINT AUGUSTINE

Augustine is quoted as saying: "That in our time is the Christian Religion, which to know and follow is the most sure and certain health, called according to that name, but not according to the thing itself, of which is the name; for the thing itself which is now called the Christian Religion really was known to the ancients, nor was wanting at any time from the beginning of the human race until the time when Christ came in the flesh, from whence the true religion, which had previously existed, began to be called "Christian;" and this in our days is the Christian religion, not as having been wanting in former times, but as having in later times received this name" (Opera Augustini, vol. i. p. 12; quoted in Taylor's Diegesis, p. 42).

Now if you read these quotes you have to admit that they are very troubling to the contemporary Christian. I always heard: "Where there is smoke there is fire" [pardon the pun please]. If you find the courage to look beyond these quotes then you will find the kindling used for the paganization of Christianity by the Gentile Church whereby it become little more than another manifestation of Sun Worship. Jesus know the difference and you should as well.

TERTULLIAN

Tertullian, one of the Christian Fathers (A.D. 200), originally a Pagan, and at one time Presbyter of the Christian Church in Africa, reasons in the following manner on the evidences of Christianity: "I find no other means to prove myself to be impudent with success, and happily a fool, than by my contempt of shame, - as, for instance, I maintain that the Son of God was born. Why am I not ashamed of maintaining such a thing? Why, but because it is itself a shameful thing. I maintain that the Son of God died. Well, that is wholly credible, because it is monstrously absurd. I maintain that after having been buried he rose again; and that I take to be mainly true, because it was manifestly impossible" (Taylor, Diegesis, p. 326).

For example, early Church Father Tertullian (160-220 C.E.), an "ex-Pagan" and Bishop of Carthage, ironically admits the true origins of the Christ story and of all other such god-men by stating in refutation of his critics, "You say we worship the sun; so do you" (Wheless, Forgery in Christianity, p. 147).

Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced Christianity. (Wheless, Forgery in Christianity, p. 147).

Cardinal Newman, in his book, The Development of the Christian Religion, admits that ... "Temples, incense, oil lamps, votive offerings, holy water, church holidays and season of devotions, processions, blessing of fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure (of priests and monks and nuns), images ... are all of pagan origin..." (Page 359).

HERESIES are those doctrines and practices which are contrary to the Bible. They are also called "human traditions" or "doctrines of men". Both Peter predicted and warned that in the later times "false teachers" would rise within the Church and bring in "damnable heresies" and "doctrines of devils". (Read II Peter 2:1-3). Jesus rebuked the Pharisees, for they transgressed the commandments of God by keeping their traditions. "in vain," He said, [speaking in the first person representing the Father] "they worship me by keeping for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matt. 15:3,9).

The testimony of their heresies can be found in much of the New Testament today which did not even become recognized until the fourth century.

The Word of God commands us to get out of Idolatry and pagan expressions of religious faith. All true "Christians" SHOULD desire to be faithful to the religion of Jesus as taught in the Jewish Bible.....the Jewish Scriptures...the Jewish Tanakh, and many of them can can still be detected within the New Testament with a little study. However, so much more is alien to what the true Yeshua both believed and practiced. Now is the time to study. I hope you take the challenge. Your rewards are eternally waiting....will you merit them?

Heresies adopted by the roman catholic church

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