<TITLE>17. Par 148-155</TITLE>L-148 So they formed the first church, the first Roman Catholic church. And instead of calling the--him bishop, which they always had called him, now they called him "Father." They still do. And they say here, "You have to admit it, that this wafer is the Body of Christ. And in so far, the priest is a god, because God is obliged to listen to the voice of the priest that changes this wafer to the literal body of Christ." And then smart men let that be poked down their throat. Oh, my. Oh, how...
But the true worshippers, the true bishops, stayed with the Word. They stayed right there in that Nicene Council. They held that Word right there. Yes, sir. They come in like martyrs, everything else. But they stayed with that Word. They wanted no idolatry at all.

L-150 And I want somebody to show me where Saint Patrick was ever a Roman Catholic. There is no such thing. He protested that Roman church. He was the nephew of Saint Martin. I was reading here in, a woman that wrote a... Hazeltine, Mrs. Hazeltine, "Excerpts of the Nicene Council," said that she went to the card at Oxford to get the--the card for the--a--the--a--"The Life of Saint Martin," and this fellow said, "But he wasn't canonized by the Roman church." Certainly not, he protested the thing. And so did Saint Patrick. The men who stayed with the Word of God, built their own schools. They got away from them kind of things.

L-151 Now, we find out, so it is today. The Roman church continues right on with their same round biscuit, believing that Christ comes down and jumps in. And listen, do you know the priest drinks the wine? When they're to take it one with another, "He passed the cup one to another." But in the pagan form, the priests drink the wine. See? You still... It's all pagan, just exactly. They don't care.
They tell you, "I won't talk to you about no Bible." That minister, or priest, said to me up there, said, "Mr. Branham, you're trying to talk about a Bible; I'm talking about a church."
I said, "God is the Word." Right. Now, all right.
We find in this, to this day, that's why the Roman Catholic church has to go to church to worship. They are taught that God is in this round wafer, the host in the tabernacle. See? Can't you see that's pagan? Sure, it is.

L-154 Can't you see that people that will adopt anything--anything contrary to this Word is the same outfit? Didn't the Bible, in Revelations 17, call the Catholic church "a whore?" Didn't It call the Protestants the mother of--that she was the mother of harlots? The same thing. She give out doctrine from her cup of the filthiness of the abomination of her fornications: dirt and filth, the makeup of mere man instead of the Word of the living God which is true and unadulterated. O God, have mercy on us, is my prayer.

L-155 Irenaeus said, I wrote down a note here what he said. Said, "The Word of God is like a fine bunch of nice big jewels that was placed out to make a statue of a great mighty King. But said, "Creeds, dogmas, denominations, take those beautiful jewels, and make the form of a dog out of it, and deceive the ignorant of the Word. This they do to corrupt the ways of God and to bring a reproach upon It." Hallelujah.
You try to make the Word of God say something to fit your organization, you're taking the jewels out of the great King's Body and making a image of dog, or a fox, or a hog, or something, out of it. And you deceive the ignorant of the Word.
Hallelujah. There are some who have the Spirit of God, that stands for the Word incarnate. God, increase our ranks. The Word, nothing but the Word, take that Word where Jesus said in there, "All heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not."


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