Are Catholics Christian?, page 1

Two Branches of Christianity

Simon Magus became the father of one of the greatest deceptions
ever foisted upon mankind. He set out to establish a counterfeit
of what he saw the disciples doing. In order to accomplish his
new pursuit of self-aggrandizement, he went so far as to take
upon himself the name of the chief apostle to the Jewish people,
Simon Peter. Since the disciples were establishing a church, he
continued his great lie by establishing his own version of
Christianity and a different church.
He began to mix his own ideas and past beliefs with what he
had witnessed and learned from Peter, John and Phillip. It was
from this very moment in time that a counterfeit of the true
Church emerged on the scene. Two branches, both calling
themselves Christian, began to grow. One would always be
small, and it would always be rejected by the world. This small
Church was the one, true branch because it was from God and it
was sustained by His great power. It is the true Church of God.
The other branch was counterfeit and became filled with
pagan rituals and teachings. It was established by Simon
(Magus) Peter and it grew and flourished, becoming larger and
more popular in the world. God’s Church has never greatly
flourished; it has not been popular in the world. Many are going
to hate this knowledge about a counterfeit tree of Christianity
because man resists the truth of God and seeks to hold onto his
own ways which are false. It doesn’t really matter who gets mad
or who hates what is being said. Those with such attitudes are
going to have a very difficult road to walk in the next few years
before Jesus Christ returns. God is not concerned with the
whimpering, irritated and puffed up egos of those who refuse
Him and insist on following their own stubborn beliefs in
counterfeit Christianity. All counterfeit Christianity is about to
be destroyed!
This new church of Simon (Peter) Magus called itself
Christian. The traditional Christianity of today has its roots in
that great false church.
The true Church of God has continued from the day it
began in 31 A.D. It had as its chief apostles, Peter and Paul.
Peter was over the portion of the Church that was sent to the
Jewish people and Paul was over the other portion that was
sent to the gentiles. The Church of God has never been large.
God never intended it to be large, since this was not the time
for salvation to be given to the world. Only those called out of
the world, who were to be trained to become part of God’s
future government (among the 144,000), were part of the
Church of God.
However, the church that began to grow and become large
was the one that Simon (Peter) Magus established. By mixing
various beliefs of the truth he had heard from the disciples
with the false teachings of other religions in the world around
him, he made his counterfeit of Christianity attractive to many.
Simon was quite clever, as were those who succeeded him, in
devising a charismatic religion that would exercise great
influence over the fears and superstitions of man.
Human nature does not want the authority of God to rule
over it. Human nature does like to worship a god that
appeals more to its own nature, one of its own devising,
with its own structure of government and authority, along
with the power to establish or reject doctrine, and the power
to choose whom it wants to convey its ideas and represent
its vision to others.
It is by this means that Simon Magus attracted people to
his new-found religion. It would be beneficial at this point to
consider some of the methods that Simon Magus and his
successors used to counterfeit the true Church of God.
God commands man to worship Him on the seventh-day
Sabbath. However, during Simon Magus’ time, people had their
false gods, and the most popular belief at this time concerned the
various forms of worship that revolved around ideas of a sun god.
The day for such worship became sunday