Posted on 05/09/2015 7:44:31 AM PDT by RnMomof7
Millions of sincere Catholics wear the brown scapular thinking by doing so it will help them spiritually. They believed the report that Mary made and is backing a salvation promise in connection with the brown scapular hundreds of years ago based on their religious traditions. Over the years wearing the brown scapular has been perpetuated by sincere Catholic leaders, such as the one in this video, but it is in complete futility that it is worn. It is a false hope and a spiritual snare. 
It is not based on God’s truth and is, therefore, just as deadly for the sincere Catholic as it is for the Hindu who bathes in the Ganges River thinking his sins will be washed away in the water or for the Muslim who kisses the black stone of Kaaba to be forgiven! [The picture to the right is Mel Gibson, the director of the Passion of Christ, wearing a brown scapular as he smokes.]
I too once wore the brown scapular as an Ex Roman Catholic. I know what it is like to be taught something and accept it as truth to find out later it is not only unscriptural, but anti-scriptural. It hurts, but TRUTH is what we must stand on to be safe. It takes humility in such cases to turn.
NOTE: At about 2:23 time-wise into the video, the speaker is quoted below. How could anyone deny that Mary is deified in Catholicism? Surely, this rampant idolatry is grieving to the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father. This is what Catholicism teaches about the brown scapular:
And so, wearing of the brown scapular reminds us, should remind us, of three things. First, that we are children of Mary. Second of all, that we need to work for our Lady. And finally, it should be a garment of humility and penance. First, by the brown scapular we profess ourselves to be children of Mary. The scapular of our Lady is a badge or a uniform so to speak by which we profess to whom we belong and who we serve. Likewise, our Lady in turn by wearing the brown scapular, she recognizes us as her children, as her special children. And because of that, she consequently protects us and watches over us. The brown scapular should also remind us that we need to work for our Lady because the scapular, which means shoulder garment, was originally that, it was a garment worn by religious in order to protect their habit, their religious habit that they wore on a daily basis during those periods of work to keep it from getting dirty, stained, from ripping, etc. and so therefore the scapular is a working garb. And so this should remind us that there’s no room for lazy piety. If we wear the brown scapular and we consider ourselves our Lady’s children, there’s no place for lazy piety but rather we should fill our lives with good works. This brown scapular should remind us the need to faithfully fulfill our daily duties, and to make another adaptation of Scripture, to labor as good soldiers of the Immaculate. Finally, the third place, the brown scapular is also a garment of humility and of penance. So in a spirit of penance, we should accept all the difficulties of our state of life and all the sufferings that our Lady may want to send us. And the scapular will give us the strength to do this. In all of our difficulties, we can always grab onto our brown scapular, remind ourselves of our Lady’s protection, her watchfulness, her presence and especially at the moment of death, when we can call to mind our Lady’s promise of salvation. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.
* Not a single word about Jesus was mentioned there.
* The brown scapular is 100% religious mythology and idolatry, as Mary is deified as a type of Savior.
* No Bible light shines from such brown scapular Catholic tradition.
There is a 4th choice ... rightly divide the word of God. Something Catholics have demonstrated they and their church are unable to do.
The entire OT is about Christ ..yes everything.
It is true and infallible showing the true character of men and the true sovereignty of God...The entire OT points us to Christ..
I do not have a "spiritual mother". I was a lost orphan when My heavenly Father adopted me...and He does not have a wife.. so it was a single parent adoption .
Like “rightly divide the word of God” is substantially different from “Make moral judgements about what to accept and how to interpret conflicts”
Fudamentalist literal reading doesn’t work, unless you actively participate in denying the obvious.
JERUSALEM is our spiritual mother.
Mary is the mother of Jesus and His siblings.
She is not anybody else’s mother physical or otherwise.
It’s a warm, fuzzy, feely good wish with no basis in truth.
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Hey LC, one who dies as an infant never becomes aware the he has sinned! He has no opportunity to repent.
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“I will no longer address your questions on this thread.”
Unable to refute a single point on substance.
Resorting to personal attack.
I accept your surrender.
That's why nobody does that. They rightly divide the word of Truth.
Your liberal, atheistic, God hating talking points are showing. The only ones I ever saw get on the literalist interpretation bandwagon are those out to attack the word and discredit reading it and those who do.
You're doing the work of the enemy in attacking God's word.
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You confuse Tallyman and Talisman?
Weak!
Ealgeone can refute every point you made and has tried, but there’s wisdom in recognizing when the effort is a waste of time because it’s falling on deaf ears.
Anyone bound and determined to undermine the word will not listen to reason about it so ealgeone obviously doesn’t see the point in trying to reason about it any more.
He did not surrender.
It’s more like shaking the dust off.
ES...we are not sinners because we sin..we sin because we are sinners ...to believe man is born pure is a heresy of the early church .... Pelagianism.....
Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.Ps 51:5
Job 14:4 Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one Job14;4
Psalm 58:3 Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.Ps 58;3
This entire discussion is unnecessary. As Christians we should attend to our prayers and support our fellow Christians who are being slaughtered. The daily grind of hearing how evil we are because of our ancient practices is wearing and uncharitable. Can it really be pleasing to Our Lord?
1 Corinthians 2:14
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
From some remarks I have read, that is exactly what they want.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Mary is not mother of us all. Nor is she mother of God.
Amen. You are so right.
You may not get any answers because they know they are wrong. I don’t think some even know what the Bible says. They seem to be putting their trust in man mad objects instead of Jesus. Tis a real shame.
Nope.
Yep. Some can not see the truth when shown it.
We have a sin nature at birth.
That does not mean that we have sinned.
One’s sin cannot be unto death if he hasn’t an awareness of sin. We do have a just God. We need not have a God-phobia, it is our selves that we need to fear most.
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