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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the QUEEN OF HEAVEN...that they may provoke me to anger.
Let's continue our look into darkness--the worship of Mary as the queen of heaven and CO-REDEEMER with JESUS CHRIST. First of all, the Mary of the Catholic religion is NOT the Mary of the Bible. They have simply taken her name and superimposed it on top of a pre-existing goddess. The above passage from Jeremiah was written hundreds of years BEFORE Mary was born--the queen of heaven was already being worshipped and the people were making God angry. This is the Bible, we're not looking at history books, we are looking at God's holy word. Blessed be the Lord Who hath preserved His word (Psalm 12:6-7) so that we don't have to be deceived.
The following links are provided from the Roman Catholic Encyclopedia regarding Mary:
The Immaculate Conception - Roman Catholic Encyclopedia
The Feast of the Assumption defined by Rome
Mary - Mother of God - according to the Church of Rome
Worship of the Virgin Mary - according to Rome
The following links are from The Two Babylons by Reverend Alexander Hislop who traced the emergence of the Babylonian mystery religions into corrupted Christianity:
The Beginnings in Babylon
The Madonna and Child in Paganism
The idea that God had a mother began with the introduction of the Greek word "theotokos" meaning "God-bearing" as related to Mary. The Latin wing of the church supported this. The Eastern wing protested. Not until the Council of Chalcedon in 451AD was the Church of Rome able to insert this word into doctrinal statements. The true God has no mother and no beginning. Only pagan deities have mothers. This concept originated in Babylon.
Modern Doctrine of the Church of Rome based on contradicting Scripture
The origins of the rosary
I've heard Catholics say things like, "I don't really pray to Mary, I just talk to her. She helps me and she can talk to Jesus for me." What is praying but talking to the Lord? Where do you read in the Bible that you are supposed to ask Mary for anything? You can't find that command anywhere in the Bible because we are supposed to ask Jesus Christ Himself.
For there is one God, and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 2:5
"But tradition and the Popes say...". Let's break it down to see what Jesus Christ thinks about the tradition of men (MATT 15:3)
And he said unto them, Full well ye REJECT the commandment of God, that ye may KEEP your own tradition.Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."Mark 7:9, 13
Is there any question about what the Lord thinks of tradition?
"But the new catechism has changed things." No it hasn't. The Catholic religion is the same with its false sacramental gospel(Another Gospel - Galatians 1:8-9). There is no purgatory and no outward activity like belonging to an organization can save your soul. According to the 1992 catechism, Mary is sinless, a perpetual virgin, the mother of God (God has no mother!), queen of heaven and co-redemptrix with Jesus Christ. This is blasphemy! How can she be co-redeemer with Jesus Christ when the Bible says (speaking of Jesus):
"Neither is there salvation in ANY other: for there is NONE other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12
You can't get more clear than that.
"But, the immaculate conception..." That's not in the Bible. "But she was sinless..." That's not in the Bible. "But she is our intercessor to Jesus..." That's not in the Bible. "But she's the mother of God..." That's not in the Bible. "But she suffered as much as Jesus did on the cross..." That's not in the Bible. "But she's more compassionate than God--like your mom is more compassionate than your dad..." That's not in the Bible. "But my family is catholic..." Your family does not determine your eternal salvation. Your relationship with Jesus Christ does:
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 2 Corinthians 6:17-18
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