What is the origin of the Roman Catholic Church?

What is the origin of the Roman Catholic Church? We're going to answer that question. The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately A .D. 30.

The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the church that Jesus Christ died for, the church that was established and built by the apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary.

The Catholic Church’s Claimed Origin and Apostolic Foundations

Even a brief reading reveals that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship or adoration of Mary, praying to saints, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of a sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and scripture.

If the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, then what is its true origin? For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted.

This changed when Roman Emperor Constantine converted and provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan, lifting the ban on Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire.

However, the results were anything but positive. The Christian Church that Constantine and his successors promoted became a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism. Here are some examples. Most Roman Catholic beliefs and practices regarding Mary are completely absent from the Bible.

Mariology, the Lord’s Supper, and Prayers to Saints

Interestingly, the first hints of Catholic Mariology resemble Isis worship. The Lord's Supper being a conception of the literal body and blood of Jesus is not taught in the Bible. Roman Catholicism has saints one can pray to in order to gain a particular blessing.

Nowhere is even a hint of this taught in scripture. The idea that the Roman Bishop is the vicar of Christ, the supreme leader of the Christian Church, is utterly foreign to the word of God. The supremacy of the Roman Bishop, the Papacy, was created with the support of Roman Emperors.

Eventually, the Popes took on the title that had previously belonged to the Roman Emperors, Pontifex Maximus. Many more examples could be given. Recognizing that many of its beliefs and practices are utterly foreign to scripture, the Catholic Church is forced to deny the authority and sufficiency of scripture.

The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, the Catholic Church became the supreme religion in the Roman world for centuries.

However, it also saw the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God's word. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.

Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

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