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To: metmom
Wasn't mexico influenced by the apparition "our lady of guadalupe"? This might be where we want to start looking.

Juan Diego said that the young girl looked as if she was of Aztec descent. Mary was Jewish, from the line of David.

• Many accounts claim that the girl said, “I am the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God.” Catholics believe Mary to have an exalted place in heaven, with the most direct access to Jesus and God the Father. They also believe Mary was a perpetual virgin. Such a concept is nowhere taught in Scripture. Also, the Bible never calls Mary the “mother of God.”

• The young girl that Diego saw asked for a shrine to be built in her honor. The biblical Mary would never ask for anything to be done in her honor. Rather, she would instruct people to honor and worship God (see Luke 1:46).

• In some accounts of the story, the lady says she would answer prayer. This is also unbiblical. God alone answers prayer.

Did something supernatural occur on Tepeyac Hill and witnessed by Juan Diego? Yes, probably. Did Mary actually appear to him? No. Was the message from God? Based on its disagreements with the Word of God, no.

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/Lady-of-Guadalupe.html#ixzz3dLFRW8e8

64 posted on 06/17/2015 10:30:19 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
2 Corinthians 11:14-15And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
65 posted on 06/17/2015 12:28:19 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ealgeone

But the children and residents of Fatima had a good UFO sighting.


70 posted on 06/17/2015 7:25:26 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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