Immaculate Conception Of course if Jesus was perfectly pure, then His mother had to be pure also and so they invented the concept immaculate conception of Mary. But this opens a Pandora box, for her mother too would have had to be conceived immaculately, and her mother and her mother, eventually getting to Eve. Yet Mary herself acknowledges her sinful nature in crying out for a Saviour: And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. (Luk 1:47 AV) If she had been immaculate she would not have had a need to be saved. We sin for we have inherited a sinful nature from Adam and if Mary was born immaculate she would not have had this nature and thus incapable of sinning and no need for a Saviour. Once this dogma is accepted the step to Mary being co-redemptrix, mediatrix, and advocate with Jesus is very small. Assumption of Mary Naturally, if Mary was immaculately conceived and had lived a sinless pure life knowing no man, then she could not possibly taste death and had to have a bodily assumption to heaven as Jesus had. Nothing less would do for the Queen of the Universe. The sequence is quite logical, once the first dogma is accepted. Scripture has absolutely no reference to such fantastic notions; in fact these blasphemous suggestions would be totally rejected by the Apostles that made no reference to Mary as being noteworthy in their writings. The last writing of the NT was just before year 100 by John, by then Mary would have died long before and the Apostles would have recorded such an important thing as bodily assumption, but Scripture is totally silent on this issue. Mary Co-Mediatrix The above dogmas quite logically lead to popes and divines of the Roman Catholics referring to Mary as co-redemptrix, mediatrix, and advocate. BUT what saith Scripture?: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1Ti 2:5 AV), is not this statement of Scripture exclusive and clear enough? ONLY the man Christ Jesus is the Mediator, NONE else. Conclusion The Paganisation of the Christianity of the Roman Catholics really started when the Roman emperor Constantine declared the Catholic Church as the only lawful religion of the empire in 313 AD declaring himself the Bishop of the church, ordained by God. This declaration opened the Roman Catholicisms door to all sort of symbiosis between Christianity and Paganism, such as Diana/Mary. The direct result of that decision is clearly seen even in these modern days.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:20:32 +0000
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