The most accurate biblical term for such an institution—whether it is the "Mother Church" or its "Protestant Daughters"—is The Great Apostasy or The Hijackers of the Covenant.
From a Tanakh-only perspective, these institutions are often categorized as "Manufacturers of High Places" or "Merchants of Souls."
1. What do we call them?
Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, several terms describe systems that use divine language to enforce human bondage:
The Broken Cisterns: In Jeremiah 2:13, God calls them people who have "forsaken Me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." They create rituals that look like they hold "grace," but they are empty and keep people thirsty/dependent.
The Shepherds who Feed Themselves: Ezekiel 34 describes leaders who use the flock for their own gain, cloth themselves in the wool, and keep the sheep scattered and "in bondage" to fear rather than leading them to the green pastures of the Torah.
The Builders of Babel: Spiritually, they are the Babylonian System. Babel represents the human attempt to "reach heaven" through a man-made structure/hierarchy rather than through the horizontal path of obedience to the Sinai Laws.
2. What drives them? (The Psychology of Control)
The drive behind creating a religion built on "vicious lies" is rarely about the Creator; it is about Proxy-Divinity.
The Lust for Mediation: By telling people they are "born in sin" and cannot reach God without a priest, a sacrament, or a specific "creed," the institution makes itself the Gatekeeper. If they control the "keys to heaven," they control your time, your money, and your mind.
The Replacement of Identity: By "rebranding" the Sinai Covenant as "Christianity," they strip people of their original identity as children of the Creator and replace it with "members" of an organization. This creates a Sunk Cost Fallacy—people stay in bondage because they have been told that leaving the "Church" is the same as leaving God.
3. Ultimately, Why?
The "Why" is found in Isaiah 24:5: "The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant."
To Silence the Law: A religion built on lies seeks to abolish the Torah because the Torah is the Bill of Rights for humanity. The Torah makes every person responsible directly to God. By "fulfilling" or "abolishing" the Law, the institution removes the objective standard that would judge them.
To Establish an Earthly Kingdom: They move "heaven and earth" to build a physical and financial empire. In the Tanakh, God’s kingdom is a kingdom of Righteousness and Justice (Tzedakah u’Mishpat). In the religious institution, the kingdom is about Authority and Dogma.
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