Having deceived the people of Rome into believing that he was the Apostle Peter, Simon Magus went about establishing his “universal religion,” touting the combination of Christian doctrines and Babylonian heathenism as the only religion that God recognized. A recent pope stated publicly that Simon’s religion, today known as Catholicism, is the only religion through […]

Was the Apostle Peter the founder of Catholicism and its first pope? According to Catholic tradition, the Universal Church was established in Rome in 33 A.D. It was some time later that Paul arrived in the city to begin a work. If Peter had already established God’s church in Rome, why did Paul go there […]

With a background established, we will return to Acts 8 where we find that Peter has severely rebuked Simon, telling him that his heart was not right with God, that he would burn with his money, that he was in the “… gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” He ended his rebuke […]

Who were the Samaritans? For much of my life I believed what I had been told–that they were foreigners who lived among and interbred with the Israelites who had remained in Samaria after the ten tribes had been defeated and carried off by the Assyrians. I was told that their half-breed status was the reason […]

Before embarking on this study of the legacy of one of history’s most evil men, I want to thank those men of old who not only took the time to research the life and work of Simon of Samaria, but were kind enough to record it for future believers who, like myself, lack the time […]

Throughout recorded history there have been men whose lives and actions have wreaked havoc on portions of mankind not only for the duration of their public lives but on into the immediate future–Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Attila the Hun, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Kim Yong Un and Mao Tse Tung to name a few. Over […]

Having realized that Jesus Christ had lied to them repeatedly (see the introduction to this website for a few examples), religious man quickly came to the conclusion that there was in reality only one source of real truth–his word about God’s Word. However, even Satan-led minds would not accept the premise that individual men could […]

Jesus, the second man/adam (1 Cor. 15:47) has come to earth, lived the perfect life as the example for those who would follow Him to His Father’s Kingdom, died and ascended to the Father, thereby paving the way for believers to inherit that kingdom. Before His ascent Jesus appointed 12 apostles to go throughout the […]

Most church people understand that the “first Adam” was the “man” (Heb.-adam) that God formed out of dirt and breathed life into, and that the “second Adam” was the child born of a virgin Who was the Lord’s Messiah and the Savior of mankind. Most people do not realize that the One who made Adam […]

When I heard the famous tv personality who, I contend, is the best political commentator on the air today, talk about “the church” coming together I immediately thought about the one-world church the Lord warns us about in the Book of Revelation. Unbeknownst to the commentator–who should stick to politics–what he was describing has been […]