goddess worship

[Chrystalwuzhere]

Man has always had their goddesses to worship. In the Old Testament it was the Asherah. In the New Testament they had Diana and others. In this generation, they have Mary.

goddess worship (small g - I wanted to stress that).


MARY AND THE POPE




Everyone knows whatever the pope says - goes. When it comes to an emphasis on Mary and visitations of a woman claiming to be Mary, Pope Benedict has a lot to say. So what has he said? Today’s program will provide documentation.

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In 1984, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the head of the Roman Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made the following statement: “…one of the signs of our times is that the announcements of ‘Marian Apparitions’ are multiplying all over the world. Reports are arriving from Africa and from other continents…” [1] (http://www.understandthetimes.org/current_transcripts/text/may2006/1963.shtml#_ftn1)

On April 19, 2005 Joseph Ratzinger succeeded Pope John Paul II as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church. In his first public greeting Pope Benedict XVI ended with the following benediction:

In the joy of the risen Lord, confident of his permanent help, let us go forward. The Lord will help us. Mary, his Most Holy Mother, is on our side. Thank you.[2] (http://www.understandthetimes.org/current_transcripts/text/may2006/1963.shtml#_ftn2)

On the very next day, during the new Pope’s message at the end of the Eucharistic Concelebration with the members of the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict said:

To support me in my promise, I call on the motherly intercession of Mary Most Holy, in whose hands I place the present and future of the Church and of myself. [3] (http://www.understandthetimes.org/current_transcripts/text/may2006/1963.shtml#_ftn3)

Further, on April 22, 2005, during Pope Benedict XVI’s address to the members of the College of Cardinals, he said:

I entrust all of us and the expectations, hopes and worries of the entire community of Christians to the Virgin Mother of God, who accompanied the steps of the newborn Church with her silent presence and comforted the faith of the Apostles. I ask you to walk under the motherly protection of Mary…[4] (http://www.understandthetimes.org/current_transcripts/text/may2006/1963.shtml#_ftn4)

Then, three days later, on April 25, the new Pope spoke these words while addressing German pilgrims:

And let us pray to Mary, Mother of the Lord, so that she will enable us to feel her love as a woman and a mother, in which we can understand all of the depth of Christ's mystery.[5] (http://www.understandthetimes.org/current_transcripts/text/may2006/1963.shtml#_ftn5)

Since elected as shepherd of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict has consistently invoked Mary and pointed the faithful to her maternal. One more example will suffice to show that the new Pope entrusts his whole being and all of humanity to her care. In a message for the Feast of the Assumption he said:

Mary is taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven and she is Queen of heaven and earth. While she lived on this earth she could only be close to a few people… She has been given to us, always listens to us, and is always close to us. Being Mother of the Son, she participates in the power of the Son and in his goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother, who is not far from any one of us.[6] (http://www.understandthetimes.org/current_transcripts/text/may2006/1963.shtml#_ftn6)

So there it is. According to the pope Mary is omnipotent and omnipresent. Pope Benedict, as John Paul II, places a lot more emphasis on “Mary”, than we find in the Bible. In fact the Word of God reveals the pope’s position on Mary is not only unfounded, it is antibiblical.

I am Roger Oakland. This has been a biblical perspective to help understand the times.

[InTheWind]

And let us pray to Mary, Mother of the Lord, so that she will enable us to feel her love as a woman and a mother, in which we can understand all of the depth of Christ's mystery

I thought that was the Holy Spirits job to minister too us and help us understand Gods teachings. :nod: May God have mercy :swoon:

[CoreIssue]

I always feel in the RCC Mary is more important than Christ. As if she is still his mother and he is under her will.

[Jessie]

Mary could be on our side but what help would that be?



qoute:
And let us pray to Mary, Mother of the Lord, so that she will enable us to feel her love as a woman and a mother, in which we can understand all of the depth of Christ's mystery

maybe its just me but that makes absolutly no sense.
it does'nt even connect in common sense.

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[Chrystalwuzhere]

I always feel in the RCC Mary is more important than Christ. As if she is still his mother and he is under her will.

:nod:

Mary has been deified. In the RCC, she is a perpetual virgin who committed no sin, and did not suffer death, but was instead assumed into Heaven without death. Sounds like deification to me.

She is their goddess.

[CoreIssue]

Isn't it strange Mary is called a perpetual virgin while Asherah was the goddess of fertility? Her rituals pointed to sex and reproduction and often included sex acts?

[Jessie]

not getting what your trying to say...

[CoreIssue]

not getting what your trying to say...
The Catholics have it backwards. And the significance of what they are saying when viewed from a Pagan perspective is startling.

Mary, a non-Virgin, is like their Vestal Virgins before their alter. A High Priestess. False worship of a false goddess.

But Easter, which celebrates new spiritual life, from a Christian perspective, is attached to a Pagan holiday that celebrated new life from natural birth.

New life, to them, rises through the womb, and was celebrate with sex. Birth which means born with sin taint and destined for spiritual death. They celebrated carnal new life.

Life through Christ is rising from being spiritually dead to spiritually alive. For them it is birth into spiritual death.

Hope you can see what I am getting at.