Who started your Church?

Different founders of each church, yet only One here established the True Church (Source: http://thatssocatholic.blogspot.com/2009/09/really-who-founded-your-church.html)



1. If you are a Lutheran, your church is founded by Martin Luther in October 31, 1517 when he nailed his 95 theses on the door of Wittenburg University. He believes that the Scripture alone is the final authority and that the Pope, Vatican Councils cannot be such. He also teach that faith in Christ alone is needed and no good works are needed in order to attain salvation. But the Scripture says that only those who do the will of the Father will enter heaven and that we are also justified by works (cf. Matthew 7:21, James 2:24)

2. If you are a Calvinist, your church is started by John Calvin. He taught the TULIP, Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace and Perseverance of the Saints.

3. If you are an Anglican, your church started when King Henry VIII broke up from the Church due to the fact that the Pope will not grant divorce to him. The very reason why he was opposed by Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More.

4. If you are a Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), your church was founded by Joseph Smith when he claimed to have seen both Jesus and the Father and wrote on golden plates the "BOOK OF MORMON". He also taught that through polygamy, people may become gods themselves which the Bible itself refutes because God declared that there was no other god nor ever will be before Him (Isaiah 43:10). Also, he taught the Great Apostasy of the Church which the Bible itself refutes since Jesus promised Hell will not prevail against the Church (Matthew 16:18)

5. If you are a Seventh Day Adventist, your church was founded by William Miller and Ellen Gould White. Mrs. White in her books, "THE GREAT CONTROVERSY" and "THE DESIRE OF AGES", teaches that Christians are still bound by the Sabbath law and that Sunday is the day of the pagan god of the sun. But if we will test this in Scripture, Christians worshiped on the first day, not on a seventh day (Acts 20:7) since Sunday is the fulfillment of the Jewish Sabbath. Also, the SDAs taught that the Pope is the Antichrist bearing the title, "VICARIUS FILII DEI". But this title does not appear in the list of the Papal titles and neither was it written on the Pope's tiara. They misuse Revelation 13:18 to prove that the Pope is the fulfillment of this, but the verse says, "the number of a man" and not, "the number of the title of a man".

6. If you are a Jehovah's Witnesses, your church was founded by Charles Taze Russell. He believes that only the 144,000 will be saved and that Jehovah is the True Name of God. But in the Hebrew alphabet, the letter, "J" does not appear and in the tetragammaton, "YHWH". Also the Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is the incarnation of the Archangel Michael. But the Bible says that the Son (Jesus) is greater than the angels (Hebrews 1:4). Also, they manipulated the Holy Scriptures in their "New World Translation" that the Word is "a god" and not God (John 1:1, NWT Bible). But we have to analyze that the Bible says that what the Father has, Jesus also has (John 17:10). So, He must have been God and not "a god" because the Bible says that there is no other god than the LORD (Isaiah 45:21).


7. If you belong to the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ), your church was established by Felix Ysagun Manalo in July 27, 1914. He believes that the Church apostasized (similar to the Mormons) and that this Church was the Roman Catholic Church. INCs deny the Trinity as the Jehovah's Witnesses do since for them, the only true God is the Father alone and that the Holy Spirit is not God (John 17:3, 20:17, 1 Corinthians 8:6). Also, they deny Jesus is God but that He is a human being. They keep on using John 8:40 to prove this that He is a Man telling the truth from God. They also teach that Felix Manalo is the angel in Revelation 7:2-3 and that the Philippines is the Far East in Isaiah 43:5. They also teach "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" (Outside the Church, there is no salvation) which they copied from Roman Catholics.


8. If you belong to the Members of the Church of God International or commonly known as "Ang Dating Daan", your church started when Eliseo Soriano broke from Nicolas Perez's church since his successor was Teresita Gugulan, a woman. Soriano teaches that God is not omnipresent, that Jesus is not Man (though Scriptures say He is in John 8:40) and that He is Mighty God, but not like Almighty God (quite similar to the Jehovah's Witnesses) and that he denies the Trinity. He also taught that God has a "puwet" or an ass.


9. If you belong to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name above every Name, your church was founded by Apollo C. Quiboloy after claiming to have seen visions on 2 mountains, Kitbog and Tamayong. He rejects the Trinity and says that Jesus is the Begotten Son in the Jewish setting who became the Almighty Father in the Gentile setting. His members believe Quiboloy to be "The Appointed Son of God in the last days" and that April 13, 2005 marks the end of the Church Age and the beginning of the Kingdom age. But these claims are being refuted by Scripture. (see my article on "THE ERRONEOUS TEACHINGS OF APOLLO C. QUIBOLOY)

10. If you belong to Assemblies of God, Born Again movements, Presbyterian groups, Baptist churches. Your churches founded only recently and even split itself in terms of doctrine and morals!

11. But if you are a Catholic, be proud of your Faith because your Church started 33 A.D. in Jerusalem, Israel and founded by Jesus Christ Himself on the rock of Peter in Matthew 16:18. For over 2000 years since the glorious light of the Cross illuminated mankind, the Catholic Church stayed strong despite heresies, apostasies and schisms since Jesus Himself promised to be with this Church till the end of time!!

              "To be deep in history is to cease becoming a Protestant" - Cardinal John Henry Newman