I hate that total BS summary! 1.2 billion catholics did NOT originate from the apostles. In fact, Roman Catholicism is totally and completely ANTI-Christian and goes against everything our Lord Jesus stands for! And I'll even go a step further: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE BEAST AND HARLOT REFERENCE IN REVELATIONS 17:4! The entire papal church is evil, corrupt and apart from Satan himself, the greatest enemy of The Lord! Please DO NOT be deceived!
Also, the True followers of Christ can simply use a mixture of spiritual discernment with a touch of 'common sense' to easily realize that every word I have spoken is the TRUTH because it's not what I'M saying, but rather what GOD himself has said ALL THROUGHOUT REVELATIONS and it's what HE still says today!
Look at the facts:
1) Rev. 13v.11; And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth. And he had two horns like a lamb, AND SPAKE AS A DRAGON
**{{{The Catholic Church 'presents' itself as Christian, yet practices blasphemy and idolatry,,worshipping saints, angels and even man (pope) above God Himself.}}}**
2) Rev. 13v.13-15; 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the prescence of men.
14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the prescence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.
15 And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
**{{{The clergy of the Roman Catholic Church have long believed the notion that they alone are the only true ministers of Christ-that they have such 'great influence' in heaven as to not only be able to forgive sin (HERESY;God The Father and God the Son alone may forgive sin), but may also grant indulgences to sin for certain sums of payment. The pope even goes so far as to claim to be able to deliver souls from their make believe "purgatory". The papacy has also labeled all those who oppose their authority as heretics. And, as a PROVEN FACT OF HISTORY, have tortured and murdered (burning at the stake ring any bells??) all those who would not submit to their idolatry; those brave few that worshipped and glorified GOD and NOT their "church"!
Through my faith in The Lord Yeshua (Jesus), I can say with all confidence that I could go on and on and then some! Research the history of the Catholic Church! READ REVELATIONS!!
Here's another fun fact: Rev. 14v.19-20 says
19 So the Angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the WRATH of God.
20 And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses' bridles, for a distance of TWO HUNDRED MILES or A THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED FURLONGS.
The state of the church or St. Peter's patrimony, extends from Rome to the Po, TWO HUNDRED ITALIAN MILES!! EXACTLY ONE THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED FURLONGS!