The Roman Catholic System: a False Church Preaching a False Gospel

The Manhattan Declaration brings together Catholics and Evangelicals to stand against abortion, gay marriage, and attacks upon religious liberty.

But in so doing, the identity of Bible Christianity and of Christ's true Church is confused, and the enemies of the Cross are given aid and comfort by true Believers.

Our culture has corrupted the true meaning of the terms "Christian" and "Church" so that they have become cultural and political categories.

True Christians trust in Christ's Gospel for their eternal salvation. All true believers make up Christ's Body the Church. That church appears in local congregations of called out Believers.

But carnal men long for temporal organization and power and structure. This desire, first witnessed at Babel, has corrupted the concept of Church, so that now we call "Churches" those institutions which men have constructed. There is no Scriptural warrant for the structures and organizations such as denominations, the Roman Catholic system, or the various state-churches which have grown up since the time of Constantine.

The Roman Catholic system preaches a false Gospel that substitutes ritual and good works for the true Righteousness that only comes from Christ. That system also usurps the offices of Christ and promotes rank idolatry in the blasphemous mass.

Every Roman mass, baptism and confession is a false gospel that God says is accursed. Such persons as popes, bishops, and priests who deny the imputed Righteousness of Christ for a false righteousness according to the keeping of the law are the enemies of the cross of Christ.

Thus, it can never be proper to join with the accursed of God in the name of Christ.