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Fabricated Documents
Over the centuries the Catholic church
has forged numerous documents, ranging from letters written by Augustine, the Apostles
Creed, the Immaculate Conception, to the so called "apostolic writings" by Barnabas
and the Shepherd of Hermas (O. C. Lambert, Catholicism Against Itself, 1956,
pgs. 54-68.)
(Lambert lists Augustine's forgeries:
De Condition Cordis, Summa, Part III, Fourth Number, 119, De Penitentia, Summa, Part
III, Third Number, 57 and Hypognosticon, Summa, Part III, Third Number, 77.
In the Catholic Encyclopaedia, Vol.
VI, pg. 136, we have following frank admission:
"Substituting of false documents and tampering with
genuine ones was quite a trade in the Middle Ages."
And then we have the following quote
too:
"One is forced to admit that the gradual
corruption of Christianity began very early" (Catholic Encyclopaedia, Vol.
XII, pg. 414.)
One of Rome's most bogus claims has
been that of apostolic succession. Yet amazingly the Catholic church (much
later on) was forced to own up and say the following about the Apostolic Canons, which
allegedly deal with how the Apostles dictated material to St. Clement of Rome:
"A tradition (accepted because unexamined)
long prevailed that these canons were dictated by the Apostles to St. Clement of Rome,
who committed them to writing. Accurate research has dispelled this notion."
(Catholic Dictionary, pgs. 41, 42.)
The following quote, which has long
been refuted since the 16th century as being "authentic," is still cited and used
by Catholics today, when wishing to uphold its hierarchical structure:
"A letter from Clement to James forms
an epilogue to H. In it Clement relates how Peter before his death gave his last instructions
and set Clement in his own chair as his successor in the See of Rome...The writer
knows a complete system of ecclesiastical organisation. Peter sets a bishop over each
city, with priests and deacons under him; the office of bishop is well defined" (Catholic
Encyclopaedia, IV, pgs. 14-144.)
The above is inaccurate in many ways. The
apostolic constitution of 270AD taught Linus as successor to Peter, not Clement. Yet
this source (written allegedly by Clement himself) was later deemed a fake (authored
325AD), by the Catholic church:
"We must nevertheless abandon any
attempt to argue from Clementine [20 books by this author], since the oldest parts
betray themselves more and more as a product of the third century - he was guilty
of arbitrary inventions and changes" (Catholic Encyclopaedia, VII, pgs. 327.)
Once again Rome was forced to come
clean after some real scholars raised their game and exposed forgeries with Christendom,
dating back centuries.
Interestingly, Lambert remarks in
page 56, how Thomas Aquinas embarrassingly quotes "seven times from these forgeries."
An Infallible church, with infallible popes,
churning out forgeries, with their own scholars not knowing the difference between
forgeries and the real thing, how are the poor old laity supposed to make heads
or tails of it!
One may ask: how did Rome get away
with lying for so long to the masses? Well, if Emperor Leo (401-474AD) couldn't read
or write, one can easily guess have rampant ignorance was too the rest of the then
Catholic world (Lambert, pg. 63.)
"Writers of the forth century were
prone to describe many practises (i.e., The Lenten Fast of Forty Days) as apostolic
institutions which certainly had no claim to be so regarded" (Catholic Encyclopaedia,
Vol. III, pg. 484.)
Rome also forged the infamous The
Donation of Constantine, dated 30 March 315AD.
"The supposed donation of Emperor
Constantine, [was] probably forged in the eight century" (Catholic Encyclopaedia, XIV,
pg. 714.)
This forged document records how Constantine
not only contracted leprosy all over his body (which pagan priests failed to cure),
but also received a vision from Peter and was told to contact "pope" Sylvester, hiding
on Mount Soracte, who would cure him. Apparently Sylvester made him well and Constantine
restored Christian Churches worldwide to their former glory. Also part of this forged
document was how Constantine had kindly handed over his own power and sovereignty
to the bishop of Rome.
This elaborate hoax circulated throughout
the Catholic church for years and helped build up their so-called apostolic authority throughout
the pagan world, but it was totally false and had no truth whatsoever within it.
It should also be said that when Luther
became aware of this, it convinced him even more to launch the Reformation.
Constantine did, however, "convert"
to Christianity through the Arian bishop Eusebius, but only on his deathbed, at the
11th hour, in 337AD (Dr. Peter De Rosa, Vicar's of Christ, pgs. 55, 56.)
And in 1944 we discover how a Dr.
J.V. Simcox, professor of Canon Law at St. Edmunds College Ware - the Roman Catholic
ecclesiastical seminary for the Archdiocese of Westminster - finally broke ranks (he
had held his post for 23 years), and decided to publicly complain of other forgeries
and deceptions:
"God does not need our lies;
and Catholics who fear truth in matters of religion confess that they do not really
believe Catholicism to be from God" (Is the
Roman Catholic Church a Secret Society?, pg. 30.)
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