Hello, Dscherck:
In all respect to your Catholic understanding about God, I am not aware of any specific "satanic counterfeit to real Christianity" considering I have not been around for two millenia, as the RCC has, to obtain such proof.
The only proof I have of Who Jesus is and what God requires of me is the 40 something years Yours Truely has had the opportunity to be exposed to the reading of the Holy Bible, and my own hobby to read history relevant to the Bible. As the Lord Jesus said it Himself, "you are already clean because of the word which I HAVE SPOKEN to you."
For a one King, so very long ago, to have been born in a stable to very humble parents, to become a one Jewish carpenter speaking wisdom over the course of about 3 years, in an insignificant dusty town, in an insignificant crossroads corner of a great Empire collapsing on its own corruption, and His wisdom completely and irreversably changed the course of mankind to such a degree to still be making a difference in the lives of so many sinners today is truely what I've been after, live for and adamantly proclaim to others, for the love of God.
This is something only God can accomplish. All "satanic counterfeit" is frankly irrelevant to come "to know Christ and Him crucified."
Here's a blessing for you:
"The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe." ~Proverbs 18:10
The main "satanic counterfeit to christianity" I see are preachers like Benny Hinn and other false Protestant teachers. Though I perceive that Rome is in heresy from the One Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, they still hold fast to holy tradition which teaches people how to live holy lives. Protestantism on the contrary doesn't teach people how to live a holy life because it has no ancient tradition from which they can learn from and be guided by.
In my eyes and by what I was taught, Roman Catholicism is a divergence from the original Church (the Eastern Orthodox Church), but it was the Protestant Reformation that started
huge divergences and divisions in the body of Christ, causing thousands of different beliefs and Churches to be formed over the course of 500 years. This "reformation" led not to a uniform formation of just one Protestant "Church", but a huge host of many different Churches all with different theologies and teachings. This huge hose of "Churches" I like to call "Christian Babylon", because there is SO MUCH confusion in the Protestant Christian world today, because no-one can agree on "One Faith", "One Lord" and "One Baptism" (Ephesians 4:4-5) and there is no "Unity of the Faith" (Ephesians 4:13).
If you would read Ephesians 4 over carefully, you can see that it was not God's will that there be many Faith's or many Lord's. Jesus gave the original Church "pastors and teachers" (Ephesians 4:11) so that we all could come to the "unity of the Faith" (Ephesians 4:13). Paul is talking about his own times, so this means that the "unity of the faith" has already been accomplished. But where is it accomplished? in the Eastern Orthodox Catholic (universal) Church. Only in this Church is there One Lord, One Baptism and One Faith, just as the Lord intended when he said, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it". For Paul also said that this Church is the one and only holder of the Truth,
"the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth. (1 Timothy 3:15).
Ephesians 4:11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
12 for the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,
13 until we all arrive to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we may no longer be infants, being tossed as by waves, and being carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in regard to deceitful scheming,
15 but speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ;
16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the working of the measure of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the edification of itself in love.
