By David J. Stewart
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." -1st Timothy 2:5
The
Mary which Roman Catholics worship is not the Mary of the Bible.
Biblically, Mary was only human. God chose her to be a vessel to bring
His beloved Son into the world. But Roman Catholics bow down to
statues of Mary, exonerate and venerate her more then Christ Jesus.
In Exodus 20:4,5 God said, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them..." Mary would never be a part of this! She was not there when Christ created the universe. Christ was God long before she was ever born. Bowing to Mary is a sin!
Roman Catholic teaching states Mary was sinless. That is not true. In Luke 1:46-47, she too admitted that she needed a Savior. Like all Jewish mothers, Mary gave a sacrificial offering of two turtle doves (Luke 2:21-24). Romans 3:23 declares, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."
Catholics have created a monster, called The Blessed Virgin, or Queen of Heaven. The Catholic Mary is a fraud, a demonic myth. Catholics teach that Mary was born without a sin-nature (called the Immaculate Conception), lived a sinless life, remained a perpetual virgin, and was bodily assumed into Heaven. Not one of these false doctrines can be supported with the Bible. Yet, Catholics fully reject the Word of God to keep their own TRADITIONS instead (Mark 7:9).
Mary saw her son crucified, but He came to die and pay the price for all the sins of mankind, including her own. God's blood ran through Jesus' veins (John 3:16; Acts 20:28). If you are saying that Christ is without sin, then you are right. You can find this teaching in 2nd Corinthians 5:21 and 1st Peter 2:22. The Scriptures state there is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4) and one Mediator between God and men, and that is Jesus Christ (1st Timothy 2:5). Jesus is the ONLY one we can go to for salvation (Acts 4:10-12). In John 14:6, Jesus said He is the ONLY way to Heaven. There are absolutely NO two mediators.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." -John 14:6
A Catholic recites "Hail Mary" 53 times in EACH Rosary. This amounts to saying "Hail Mary" 1,005,940 times in a Catholic's lifetime (if prayed daily for 52 years). How can Catholics claim not to worship Mary? As defined by Webster's dictionary...
Worship: extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem
Yep, I'd say Catholics worship Mary, by every definition of the word.
Catholicism: A Prisonhouse of Religion!
