Posted on 05/17/2018 10:20:04 AM PDT by ebb tide
I am not justifying worshiping Mary, I am denying it categorically. Catholics do not believe Mary is God. It is not I who am performing grammatical gymnastics. You have picked one word from one prayer and are insisting that it means we believe Mary is God when it means we believe Mary is Holy. Knowledge of synonyms and grammar are exactly what disprove your condemnation of Catholics based on your interpretation of a single word.
Besides, I accept Jesus as my only Lord and Savior. Therefore I am saved. If I am accidentally worshiping Mary and other Saints by believing that they can hear our prayers, it doesn’t matter because I cannot possibly lose my salvation, right?
Love,
O2
Keep spinning O...keep spinning. Yes, you are performing grammatical gymnastics with your efforts.
But let's examine the prayer shall we?
“August Queen of Heaven
A title no where assigned to Mary in Scripture.
sovereign queen of Angels
A title no where assigned to Mary in Scripture.
, you who at the beginning received from God the power and the mission to crush the head of Satan,
A false doctrine based on an undefendable rendering of Genesis 3:15 in the Greek as admitted by the Catholic Encyclopedia Online.
we beseech you humbly, send your holy legions so that,
No where in Scripture is Mary ever assigned armies.
on your orders and by your power, they will track down demons, fight them everywhere, curb their audacity and plunge them into the abyss.
In Revelation it is noted that Jesus, as King of Kings and Lord of Lords is the One Who defeats Satan....not Mary. Rome has taken away from revealed inspired Scripture the victory assigned to Christ and has given it to Mary.
>Who can be compared to God?
This phrase should be the troubling one to the Roman Catholic. This whole passage is about Mary....and now this is thrown in?
Oh good and tender Mother, you will always be our love and our hope.
Scripture tells us Jesus is to be our hope....not Mary. Again Rome has ascribed something to Mary, a created being, that Scripture rightfully belongs to the Son.
Further, Mary is called Mother....she is the mother of Christ and His brothers and sisters. She is not the mother of anyone else.
Oh divine Mother, send the Holy Angels and Archangels to defend me and to keep the cruel enemy far from me. Holy Angels and Archangels defend us, protect us.
In Scripture we are told Jesus is the One who protects and keeps us. Again, Roman Catholicism has assigned to Mary attributes of the Son.
Besides, I accept Jesus as my only Lord and Savior. Therefore I am saved. If I am accidentally worshiping Mary and other Saints by believing that they can hear our prayers, it doesn’t matter because I cannot possibly lose my salvation, right?
You are by no means accidentally worshiping Mary and other Saints. It is intentional.
For Mary, a created being who possess limited abilities, to be able to handle all of the prayers of Roman Catholics she has to be able to do the following:
Presume only 500,000,000 Roman Catholics pray to Mary in one day and just once during the day. That is 1/2 billion prayers.
She has to precisely know the heart and understand what each person is praying about and how to answer it and/or convey it to God. She has to understand every possible language in which Roman Catholicism is present.
Romans 8:26-27 tells us that is what the Holy Spirit, who is eternal, is doing.
26In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Romans 8:26-27 NASB
Roman Catholicism has elevated Mary's capabilities to that of the Holy Spirit. Indeed....in Roman Catholicism she has replaced the Holy Spirit.
One could argue she has replaced the Son as well as we are told Jesus is at the right hand of God interceding for us (Romans 8:34). No where in Romans does Paul ever attribute any of the characteristics or abilities to Mary that Roman Catholicism has. No where.
For Mary to have to be able to do what Rome claims she has to be divine...defined as of, from or like God or a god.
If you cannot publicly deny the above prayer as being false then I seriously question the remainder of your post.
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