<TITLE>13. Par 106-112</TITLE>L-106 And it was said that Peter... or they believe it, that Peter established the Roman church. I want the Scripture. I want the place that you can say that Peter was ever in Rome under any conditions as the Roman church said, "He was there from 41 to 46."
And, at that very same time, Claudius was emperor in Rome, which made all the Jews leave. Read Acts the 18th chapter, and you'll find out that Paul, when he went up into Ephesus, he found Aquila and Priscilla, which was actually Jews, and had been taken out during the time of the persecution. And they were here in Palestine again because Claudius had commanded all Jews to leave, both Christian and orthodox. Aquila and Priscilla established the church in Rome, and they had to leave because of the rising of Claudius, had taken all of the church--or the Christians and all the Jews out of Rome.

L-108 Now, Peter being the bishop of the church... And I can show you Scripture, plumb on down to at least nearly seventy years, that Peter never was out of Palestine. Right in the Scripture. And you say that Peter was murdered in Rome, and Paul had his head cut off in Rome. That's dogma. I've read all of the martyrologys I can find, and there's not one of them that states anything about Peter or Paul, either one being killed in Rome. Of the earliest authentic martyrologys that we can read, there's none of them that says anything about it. He wasn't. It's a dogma.
I'm here to expose paganism, so we're--we're going to do that by the help of the Lord and His Word (See?) just show you how the church is. You're hollering about Catholic, but just wait a few minutes.

L-110 Now, now, we find out that after Aquila and Priscilla, according to Scripture, was taken out of Rome, the little church was left as an orphan. All was in there were converted pagans that came over into the Roman Christian church, the early church that Aquila and Priscilla and another couple that had established this church and had nourished it.
Then we find out, as soon as they left, that they made their own bishops, and took their own doctrine. And then they adopted... To find favor with the emperor Constantine and those who later came, to find favor, because they had to get members in there to stand in the political hold up of the nation. They brought in members of the church. And taking them in on perfect, just confession, knowing no more about God than some of these people we got in America today does; just as a profession, which was a great big mouthful for them to profess Christ, another God besides their own god. And in there they adopted into their constitution of the church, pagan ceremonies.

L-112 Now, the Roman priest... Then they adopted this by taking and making the communion... The first thing come up was making the communion. Instead of a broken parcel like the body of Christ, they would make it round like the sun or like the moon. And to this day, it's still round. Sure. It's still a round wafer and not a broken piece of His body. It's round and smooth. Roman priests today lay this round wafer on the altar and call it the literal body of Christ.


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