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MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS
And he answered
and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these
which hear the word of God, and do it.
Luke 8:21 |
v The Parallel of Mary to Jesus
In spite of the
Biblical truth, 'My glory will I not give to another,'
Roman Catholicism constructs a parallel of Mary to
Jesus, and even to the Holy Spirit. |
v What view should Christians have
of Mary
The Bible nowhere
refers to her as the mother of God or implies in any way
that she was born without sin. In fact, she herself
recognized her need of a Saviour
(Luke 1:47).
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v Hail, Mary Co-Redeemer?
The prayer life of the Roman Catholic is quite different
from the Bible believing Christian. |
v The
myth of Mary's life-time virginity
The
Word of God could not have made it any clearer that Mary
had four sons besides Jesus, and that Jesus had both
brothers and sisters. |
v Did Mary have
other children?
The Bible is very
specific in saying that Mary, the mother of Jesus, did
have other children after Jesus was born. |
v The Virginity of Mary
Mary was a virgin at
the conception and the birth of Jesus, her first-born
son. However, the perpetual virginity of Mary is not
taught in the Bible. This belief is an invention of
human tradition. |
v The Assumption of Mary
This extraordinary
claim was only officially declared to be a dogma of
Roman Catholic faith in 1950. |
v The Crucified Jesus, Mary & the
Dying Thief
The penitent thief had
no need of an intercessor to touch the heart of Jesus.
Although the mother of the Saviour was there present, he
had not even a thought of addressing her. He understood
that Jesus was his friend, his Saviour, and his God; and
he did not deceive himself. He put his trust in Jesus
and in Jesus alone. |
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The Dogma of the Immaculate
Conception
The
first real advocacy of the dogma comes in the twelfth
century in the writing of a British monk Eadmer. |
v The Dogma of the Assumption of
Mary
Mary is last mentioned
in Acts 1 where she is found praying with the other
disciples before Pentecost. After that, the Bible is
silent about her life and death. |
v Mary Worship
As a faithful Catholic,
and later as a nun, I practiced Mary worship for many
years without realizing it.
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Mother
and Child Worship
The story of the mother and child was widely
known in ancient Babylon and developed into an established worship.
Numerous monuments of Babylon show the goddess mother Semiramis with
her child Tammuz in her arms.
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