No offense, but the RCC, the Pope, etc.. seems pretty strange to me. In fact, I can find things in every sect of denomination that is plain bogus. Really though, do you think that God would show one truth to one person and another truth to another person, and that these truths would be so different that Christians would form into splinter groups, each adherring to their special, unharmonious revelation? Do you seriously accept the four gospels, the Sermon on the Mount, the Apostle's Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the 10 commandments as being the basic doctrines of Christianity? It's obvious people practice in error and after a period of time they make a doctrine of it and then finally doctrinal errors manifest themselves in creeds, rules and commandments of men. It's a fact that spiritual darkness has engulfed the Christian world, and "religion" (man-made forms of worship) now define Chrisitanity. What do you think initiated the different so-called "bodies"? Even Paul declared in his second letter to Timothy, "that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me." So even before the end of Paul's lifetime, the full comprehension of the revelation concerning the great mystery was really forgotten. Very, very very few people have recaptured the basic truth of the revelation of the great mystery. The first truth to be lost is usually the last to be regained. Much of today's confusion is brought on by not knowing that different parts of the Bible are addressed to different groups of people. Today there is such ingnorance among most Christians. Only the understanding and acceptance of the great revelation will deliver a believer from all the new sects, doctrines, theories, and schools of thought. There is no subject of greater importance then the great mystery. The time of it began with the day of Pentecost and terminates with the gathering together of the believers. Yet, nobody on these forums have even mentioned the revelation of the great mystery. Most people's center or focal point of almost every church is the alter and the cross. They do not spiritually go beyond Jesus Christ and his cruicifixion.