Mary

The New American Bible, Translated from the Original Languages with Critical Use of All Ancient Sources and The Revised New Testament Authorized by the Board of Trustees of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and Approved by the Administrative Committee/Board of The National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference, Nihil Obstat: Stephen J. Hartdegem, OFM, SSL. and Christian P. Ceroke, O. Carm., S.T.D. (Nashville: Catholic Bible Press a division of Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1987)

The Fatima Crusader asserts:

Heaven wants the Message of Our Lady of Fatima to be central to our world view.

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Here we will see the dangers of taking on a world-view based on experience alone. In other words, people are seeing visions, experiencing miracles and are being given information by apparition, but these things do not stand up to Scripture when we test all things.

Mary in the Trinity:

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Louis de Montfort was a proponent of consecrating oneself to Jesus through Mary and in general a strong proponent of Marian devotion. Here you will see a Catholic apologist admitting that dogmas about Mary are all too easily misunderstood if one is not acquainted with the minutia of technicalities and semantics. Of course, as we have see in all the essays in this series, even when we take all the technicalities into consideration it does not help matters.

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Roman Catholic traditions do not merely come from the historically verifiable teachings of the Apostles. They come from the popular beliefs of lay people, from apparitions, from the writings of various saints and Popes.

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If Mary is our savior then what did Jesus do? By technicalities the Catholic Church states that she is not our savior but she has a part in the plan of salvation and points us to Jesus. However, from here Catholic apologists, theologians, saints and Popes blur the line between the one and only savior Jesus Christ and Mary the blessed human being. She is then transformed into her own savior and that of the world.

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The Bible teaches that there is only one intercessor. Or does it? Can we not intercede for each other and cannot our dead relatives and dead saints intercede for us? We living people, intercede for each other in the name of Jesus, which makes Him the intercessor. We are not to communicate with the dead and so if they are interceding for us we appreciate it (although the Bible does not tell us) but we are not to pray to the dead, but to God only.

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Related to the labeling of Mary as Queen of Heaven is the teaching that after her assumption into heaven she is said to have been crowned and given power and authority, which the Bible states belong to Jesus alone.

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On the surface the teaching of Mary’s body and soul assumption into heaven is what all believers look forward to. However, this teaching is not in the Bible and it does play a part in the hyper-exaltation of Mary.

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This issue is more so than not wrapped up in ancient linguistics. It is very plain that the Bible mentions brothers and sisters of Jesus, this is countered by claiming that they were close relatives referred to as brothers and sisters due to ancient customs. However, we will see that this is an issue that touches more upon social and political trends than on what the truth of the matter might be.

The Linguistics:

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If Mary was sinless, she could have been the ultimate sacrifice and truly our savior. Yet, Mary in her humility declared God to be her savior, she knew the true state of her soul. Again the Catholic apologist come to the rescue of un-Biblical teachings but these semantic loopholes do not suffice, nor do they lessen the impact of declaring that a mere human being can be sinless.

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Since God is the creator and Mary is one of His creations she cannot be His mother, this is not lost on the Roman Catholic Church, and so we find technicalities which attempt to teach us that she is referred to as such in order to glorify God, but does it? Or does in exalt her beyond what is proper?

New American Bible:

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The Bible teaches that it is God, it is Jesus, who is full of grace. The Catholic prayer Hail Mary includes some un-biblical teachings.

Roman Catholic Prayer, “Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among woman, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”This prayer is also known as the Angelic Salutation or Ave Maria.

Our Lady of Fatima is reported to have stated,

Jesus wants to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. To whoever embraces this devotion I promise salvation; these souls shall be dear to God, as flowers placed by Me to adorn His throne.

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In this essay we will present two extremes. One falls under the heading of Catholic Apologetic Theory, under this tile we place the more sober Catholic teaching, many of the quotes here are made in the context of Catholic-Protestant unity and are somewhat well balanced. However, the other extreme, Actual Practice, will show how the ideals are far from lived up to, and to just what extremes Marian Dogma is taken. We have included comments on some of the quotes.

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Reading everything that the Bible has to say about Mary it is very clear why the Roman Catholic Church must combine Scripture, plus tradition, plus apparition messages. Because taking into consideration everything that the Bible does say about Mary it is utterly impossible to even imagine a Mary who is immaculately conceived, sinless, co-redeemer, assumed into heaven and crowned queen of heaven, intercessor, our mother, etc., etc.