To all pastors and believers who uphold the Trinity and the Apostles’ Creed, I ask plainly: who truly made the Trinity and the Apostles’ Creed? Was it the Roman Church—the greatest heretical religion on this earth, which under the pretext of “Holy Mother” worshiped a goddess—or was it Christianity itself? The truth of this matter must now be made clear.
What other religion on this earth, besides Christianity, borrows and imitates the thoughts and doctrines of another faith, and even centers and teaches the very ideas of a heretical religion they themselves call heresy? How can a religion that teaches doctrines invented by heretics claim to be the religion of Christ? How can doctrines created by heresy be called the gospel and the Word of Christ? Is Christianity nothing but a sect that follows the heretical doctrines of Rome, which were devised to steal tithes and offerings? Or is it truly the church of Christ that leads us to resemble God by following the love of the cross unto salvation? This must be decided without ambiguity.
In the heart of feeding, giving, and sharing through charity and service—caring for and serving one another—the love of the cross is given, which is the character God requires of His children to be worthy of the Kingdom. The way of salvation is the sacrifice of the cross and the love of the cross; therefore, there can never be any commandment, teaching, or truth greater than the love of the cross. From creation itself, all things—every creature, every word, every life, every shepherd, the Sabbath, the offerings, faith, and hope—exist to shape in us the character that resembles the heart of God, which is the love of the cross. This is why the Word says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The love of the cross is the way that leads us into God’s beautiful kingdom, the truth that makes us fit to live forever, and life itself.
But the Apostles’ Creed was made to deny and oppose this gospel of the love of the cross, by stealing the tithes and offerings meant to feed, give, and care for the needy. It is nothing more than a man-made commandment, created to justify their theft, lawlessness, and lies—designed to make people believe only in their words and theories, not in living according to the Word. In the end, it denies the love of the cross and establishes a pretext for theft. How can a church that claims to be a true apostolic tradition teach and lead people to pray with a man-made creed, fabricated in lies, instead of the living Word of God?
Where is the record of the apostles who lived out the love of the cross by feeding, giving, and sharing with the poor and needy? Instead, we see only the Apostles’ Creed—a solemn, pious, fabricated prayer that bears the appearance of holiness—yet it is not Christ, nor is it God, who grants us the true character of salvation, the temple of the heart, the Spirit.
The Apostles’ Creed began in Rome, created by Romans. It was developed by the rulers of Rome to rationalize their worship and traditions of theft and has been passed down through history. They claim its beginnings come from Peter and Paul, but this is nowhere to be found in any document, record, or trace of the apostles. It was nothing more than a fabricated claim to give their religion legitimacy. The Apostles’ Creed was invented as a pretext to disguise their religion with the gospel of Christ, to use His name as a cover.
In truth, it was a philosophy of words, devised to justify their own church that had stolen tithes and offerings from the flock. Their cunning, designed to rationalize their religion’s supposed legitimacy, put the cross at the forefront but denied the love of the cross; it exalted Mary holding the baby Jesus and replaced Christ’s cross with human sentimentality; it put forward the Lord’s Prayer as a means to quietly introduce human commandments; and it exalted the Apostles’ Creed. To this very day, Christianity has been carried on by those who wear the sheepskin of religion but are wolves within, living for their own worldly power and wealth, using hypocrisy and pretense. They hold up the cross but deny its love; they hold up man-made commandments (the Trinity and the Apostles’ Creed) while eliminating the practice of feeding, giving, and sharing; they preach words without doing the Word. These are churches that steal the tithes and offerings meant to feed the sheep, building up only their own power. They are churches built with bricks paid for by the blood of poor, hungry, and helpless sheep, whose lives they let perish by taking away their sustenance.
From creation to this day, the blood of every apostle who died will come upon their churches. This is the proof of God’s holy Word, that not one stone will be left upon another, but all will be torn down.
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.(Luke 21 : 5~6)
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.(Zechariah 5 : 4)
Putting forward hypocritical acts of charity and ostentatious good works merely to boast of and advertise their religion, they exalt a love no different from that which even worldly people naturally practice. In doing so, they mock the noble love of the cross and sell the blood of Christ for hypocrisy and self-display. Though they possess wealth and resources that could feed and care for souls perishing in hunger and poverty, they give only token charity, hypocritically and for show, thereby profaning the love of the cross. Such people bear only the name of God and the pretext of the cross, yet in truth are shameless deceivers of God and His people, cloaked for the sake of their religion’s power, influence, and honor. They steal the tithes and sacred offerings meant to feed God’s lambs—poor and hungry as infants—and, driven by cruel greed that leads them to death, they present their hypocrisy and pretense as though it were the love of the cross. What they call “charity” and “service” is nothing more than hypocrisy and self-display, modeled after worldly enterprises that boast of their corporate works; their teachings about “service” are nothing more than ordinary human kindness and expected love, the same as any worldly person might do. Yet they pervert the love of the cross—where one sacrifices even life, ideals, and existence—to nothing more than a self-serving ethic, reducing it to worldly values dressed up as morality and advertisement. Such are today’s churches and pastors, armed with the false charity of hypocritical service, turning tithes and offerings into tools for expanding their own enterprises.
First, the Apostles’ Creed was created to deny and corrupt the true faith of Christ, which is the faith that builds the temple of the heart through the love of the cross—feeding, giving, and sharing, and thereby leading to salvation.
The repeated words in the Creed—“I believe,” “we believe”—bear a meaning utterly different from the true meaning of faith as recorded in the Scriptures. The true meaning of faith in all of the Word is this: the faith of those who possess a heart united with the love of the cross, a faith worthy to lead unto salvation. In other words, it is the faith of the children of God, who as God’s children must have hearts shaped by God’s own character—the temple of the heart, the Holy Spirit. Because their worship was corrupted by theft, and they could not teach the faith that follows the love of the cross of giving and sharing, they created the Apostles’ Creed as a pretext to corrupt and replace the true faith of Christ. The words “I believe” were crafted with cunning design, to deny the true gospel and faith of the cross, to strip it of its meaning, and instead to provide a subtle but powerful pretext for theft, cloaked in the language of faith.
Second, the Apostles’ Creed distorts the very substance and meaning of true biblical faith. By doing so, it rationalizes their thieving worship and substitutes the true faith of Christ—centered on the love of the cross—with blind loyalty to their church, their religion, and their pastors. It is a tool of indoctrination, meant to make believers revere and submit to men, rather than walk in the love of Christ.
When the Creed says, “I believe in God the Father,” the meaning is essentially, “I choose to believe in God.” But this implies that it is not God who chooses man, but man who chooses God. This denies that God leads mankind and that faith comes from God. How can man dare claim to know the One greater than the heavens by his own will? With human eyes and ears man cannot find God; therefore God sent Christ and governs the human heart so that men might seek Him. How, then, could foolish men of the flesh dare presume to find God of themselves, by their own eyes and ears?
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.(John 15 : 16)
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.(John 6 : 44)
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.(Deuteronomy 29 : 4)
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.(1 Corinthians 2 : 9)
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.(Isaiah 64 : 4)
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.(Romans 11 : 8)
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.(Isaiah 29 : 9)
Is it not by God’s making, calling, establishing, and guiding us that we receive the grace to dare stand before the holy God? O you who gird yourselves with pride and cast away your conscience with lies! Where is there any man who has ever sought God of himself? Is it not because God has chosen mankind, having appointed us from before the foundation of the world, that we are now able to stand before Him?
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.(2 Thessalonians 3 : 2)
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.(Matthew 17 : 20)
If, as they claim, the resolve and determination of the moment one “believes” were truly the faith of Christ, then we would surely see mountains moved, seas parted, the dead raised, and the blind given sight as commonly as daily bread. But though there are not thousands, but hundreds of millions who are taught that “nothing shall be impossible to the one who believes,” where, then, is even the evidence of faith as small as a mustard seed in this earth? What connection does the will and determination of “believing,” as expressed in the Apostles’ Creed, have to the saving faith that follows the love of the cross? This distortion arose because faith, hope, and love were taught according to worldly standards and human examples, rather than the true meaning of Scripture. The faith and hope that Christians today hold as their standard are nothing more than momentary pride and conviction born of human awakening and will, swayed by circumstances and conditions, and are by no means the faith, hope, or love of a true Christian that fulfills the love worthy of leading to salvation.
Third: The Apostles’ Creed was devised to deny the true reality of Christ’s faith, and to lead people, as its authors intended, into unconditional obedience as absolute submission. By corrupting the true meaning of Christ’s faith, which is born of the love of the cross, the Creed was made to imprint upon believers blind loyalty and absolute submission to the church and its leaders. By teaching the Creed, they established a framework and pretext to corrupt the original purpose and meaning of faith—shifting it to human will, determination, and conviction—and thus misled countless people, who to this very day mistake their own resolutions and assurances as if they were the faith of Christ.
In truth, the Apostles’ Creed is a man-made commandment, crafted as a tool to deny the true gospel and faith of Christ, which builds the temple of the heart through the love of the cross—feeding, giving, serving, and caring. Instead, it reduces faith to something easily swayed by conditions, born of human pride and self-confidence.
Fourth: The Apostles’ Creed was also created as a scheme to attract large numbers of people—especially the wealthy—and to justify their religion by enticing them with a creed that concealed their true intent: to gather material wealth. The words “I believe” in the Creed were crafted to force an impression upon the congregation, subtly compelling them into blind obedience, while denying the faith born of the love of the cross. For those with great wealth, it is exceedingly difficult to follow Christ’s faith that requires sacrificing even one’s life. Therefore, for Rome, which coveted the riches of the wealthy, this was a mountain that had to be overcome. Thus they made a creed and a pretext suited to draw in the rich, and that pretext was the Apostles’ Creed.
Because they served God alongside the world and material things, with two masters and two hearts, their lives became double-minded: their behavior inside the church different from that outside, their words and actions not matching their inner motives, always repenting and reflecting yet returning again to sin. Such faith, bound by sin, became a mere pretext for excuses and rationalizations. In lives where sin and regret are repeated like daily meals, countless resolutions and determinations are made but never kept. Faith becomes nothing more than a return to the same place, an endless cycle of vain religion. This is the fruit of the so-called “confession of faith” (the Apostles’ Creed).
Thus, many who call themselves Christians live with double hearts—acting like good sheep within the church while outside they follow self-interest and gain, sinning without hesitation. Their lives are marked by envy, greed, slander, and strife no different from worldly people. Such hypocrisy reveals their faith to be only words, a shell without the example of the love and sacrifice of the cross.
Faith that is only outward appearance, founded on words and theories, without the temple of the heart shaped after God, can never yield the character of salvation. Outward values only breed lies, distortion, corruption, and lawlessness. Salvation is never attained through church, pastor, words, or theories, but only by those who follow the love and sacrifice of the cross, forming in themselves the divine nature that is worthy of salvation.
The value of salvation—of forming the temple of the heart in God’s likeness—is the inner grace and love of God at work in hope, in things not seen.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:24–28)
But those who are bound to the world and the flesh pursue only visible values. They learn, memorize, and cling only to words and theories, boasting of perishable signs and symbols. These are nothing but crosses of wood and iron—idols that cannot bring salvation. Such words and theories are excuses invented to deny the love of the cross. These are people of two hearts, serving both God and material wealth, clinging to perishable hopes and desires of the flesh. Their faith is only perishable faith, belonging to the world.
…No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?(Matthew 6 : 19~25)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.(James 4 : 3~4)
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.(1 John 2 : 15~17)
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.(Romans 1 : 21~25)
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.(2 Timothy 3 : 2~5)
He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.(Matthew 13 : 37~43)(Matthew 25 : 31~46)(Matthew 24 : 45~51)
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.(Matthew 7 : 21~23)