<TITLE>15. Par 124-131</TITLE>L-124 Now, notice. Now, we find out then that they had to get away from the Bible teaching in order to have these things to please the emperors and so forth, to bring in pagans.
Now, look. Peter was a Jew. Is that right? Could you imagine Saint Peter adopting the idea of putting up idols in a church, a Jew who was forbidden to even look around to idols? Could you imagine him doing a thing like that? Not Peter. Could you imagine him saying, "All my writings back there in the beginning was all wrong; I'll just throw them down now. I'm going to live as a spirit in this Roman church, and I'm going to adopt..." Well, it'd be a changed man.
Therefore, to do that, they had to start a dogma that Peter was buried in the church, and had left all the commandments with them, and they were the original Catholic church. They're not. There's no Scripture; there's no history nor nothing to prove it; not a thing. They wasn't.

L-127 And that pagan priest of the first Roman church is just exactly like the same one today. They believe that that bread is the body of Christ, that somehow, Christ comes down and jumps into that piece of bread laying on the altar (that the mice will pack away overnight). See? Believe... And that's the reason the Catholic believes you must go to the church to worship, because God is in that church. That's the reason they bow and cross themselves around the church, because that piece of bread is God. It's nothing but a representation of a Baalim sun god. There's no Scripture to it at all. Yes, that round wafer laying on the altar...

L-128 Now, therefore, they did not accept the Christian teaching that... Irenaeus, Polycarp, and those early brethren, Paul... We find out, the oldest disciple was--lived the longest, was John. He was exiled three years out on Patmos, because he had a school. He was transmitting or fixing the Word of God, putting It together, the Epistles together. They found him and his scholars a-doing it, and they excommunicated him for three years. After the death of the emperor he was brought back, and then he wrote the Book of Revelation.

L-129 And talk about, "God in His church, or God in His Word?" The Bible said that the Word is God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us...
Besides, any teaching of any church, let it be Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Pentecostal, or whatever it may be that don't stay letter by letter with this Bible is wrong. For John said in the Isle of Patmos, the Holy Spirit, or Christ, speaking to him said this, "If any man shall take anything out of This or add anything to It..." So how you going to add these pagan idol worship symbols, making three god out of One, and all these other pagan affairs which, the early church never taught it and was against it?

L-131 The Nicene Council, whether He was three substance or one substance, the great debate... Them martyrs come up there, some of them was... With one guy, they--the bishop, Pentecostal preacher, for laying hands on the sick, they put a hot rod across his arms and pulled his arms back like this. Others, standing where they take a sword and gouge his eyes out... Looked like a bunch of martyrs that stood for this Word. Hallelujah. They mingled their blood with the prophets of old. This Word, brother. It's God's Word.


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