The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item. God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked. What does the Bible say? 1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands. 2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God. 7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods! Worship God in spirit and in truth 8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” God shares his glory with no one 9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols. 10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.” Reminders 11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame. 12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom 15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. End times 17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples 19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!” 21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS In that case let's destroy entire history of art, let not allow children to paint anything that in on heaven in earth in water and so on. Let us forbid all notebooks, books because they have that images. Let's not use our phone to picture anything because we are having pictures of something on earth. That is idolatry right? Let throw all national flags do not allow that because flag image of something that is in earth. That is idolatry right? According to your logic yes it is. According to your logic we should also throw our family album in the trash, because we are holding pictures of something that is an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. Oh but you will say but that is not God for me! Exactly. Statues icons are just like that. If a mother kiss the image of their son or daughter who traveled long away she is not kissing piece of the paper she is kissing person that is on the paper. Can you Prots just stop with this Bible butchering. It is explained for a million times but you insist on promoting your lukewarm faith. We do not want your lukewarm faith we want real relationship with Saints, Holy Theotokos and above all of them one and only Triune GOD.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS In that case let's destroy entire history of art, let not allow children to paint anything that in on heaven in earth in water and so on. Let us forbid all notebooks, books because they have that images. Let's not use our phone to picture anything because we are having pictures of something on earth. That is idolatry right? Let throw all national flags do not allow that because flag image of something that is in earth. That is idolatry right? According to your logic yes it is. According to your logic we should also throw our family album in the trash, because we are holding pictures of something that is an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. Oh but you will say but that is not God for me! Exactly. Statues icons are just like that. If a mother kiss the image of their son or daughter who traveled long away she is not kissing piece of the paper she is kissing person that is on the paper. Can you Prots just stop with this Bible butchering. It is explained for a million times but you insist on promoting your lukewarm faith. We do not want your lukewarm faith we want real relationship with Saints, Holy Theotokos and above all of them one and only Triune GOD.
I am not Catholic, nor do I consider myself "Protestant". This is an issue I have prayed about... but have always considered her "blessed among women". So, thanks for this discussion.
@@waynelawrence6972 A suggestion: “IF” you have not already, please consider going to Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament (also known as “Holy Hour”). Call your local parish and find out when they offer it. Then, just go and sit in silence in Christ’s Presence. Take your bible. Read scripture, pray, contemplate. Tell the Lord of your search for truth, of your doubts, worries, even fears. Then, be as patient with Him as He has been with you. When you receive the grace to know that HE IS THERE, you will be forever changed. Miracles occur in Christ’s presence - of that I can personally attest.
@@davidn9518 That is very flawed and wrong logic… Just because the Bible doesn’t explicitly state something, it doesn’t automatically make the opposite true. The Bible doesn’t specifically say ‘saints can’t hear us,’ but it also doesn’t say they can. The argument that ‘if the Bible doesn’t forbid it, it must be allowed’ is dangerous because it could be applied to many false practices. For example, The Bible doesn’t specify that it’s wrong to abuse animals, so can we conclude that animal cruelty is acceptable?
@@BiglariProductions but Protestants claim they can't as if it is fact. A Protestants favorite saying is where is that in the Bible. So I'm using your logic. Let's make it even easier, where in the Bible does it say God is omnipresent. Remember you need the exact word omnipresent just like denying the Eucharist because the word was not used. So citation please.
@@davidn9518 Well you shouldn’t clump all Protestants into one bubble, brother. I don’t agree with that technique which you are right, a lot of protestants use. Of course it is important for something to be based in the word of God, but yes there are some things which aren’t in it - for example using wedding rings when you get married etc. thats not in the bible yet it is completely fine. But anyways i just don’t think its normal for a human who has moved on to the next life to be able to hear people on this earth. I believe only God can hear us. Now what I realized is that I wouldn’t have a problem with someone praying to God to ask for Him to tell the saints to pray for us, but my problem is with the idea that one can speak to Saints who aren’t living on Earth. For example If be okay with saying “My heavenly Father, please have your saints pray for me for this situation im facing.” But I wouldn’t say “Saint Joseph pray for me in this situation I’m facing” It makes it seem as if one speaks directly to saints who aren’t on Earth… What are your thoughts on this?
Remember the ark brother…stayed in the hill country for 3 months…Mary stays with Elizabeth for 3 months…remember king David would dance in front of the ark…John leaps In Elizabeth’s womb
Those are some shotty & highly speculative connections & conclusions to say the least. Remember that Jesus now comes to live inside all believers. I guess that makes us the Ark of the covenant now? What erroneous speculative conjectures you come up with... This is not the result of exegesis but reading into the text what you want it to say. Stick to eating the eucharist and counting your beads.
@@damonmeier3652 My pointing out heresy that leads to hellfire is offensive? I guess following the example of the Mother Harlot in Rome (torture, burn, and unalive millions of innocent people) is the "Christ like" example we should follow? Oh And heaven forbid we become offended by it.. Let's just turn a blind eye and pretend it never happened.. Very evil that Harlot and her followers that get offended for the smallest things yet commit the gravest of sins. Yet real followers of Christ around the world are martyred (mostly evangelicals) every day for their Faith, but you're offended because I said eat your wafer and count beads???
The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item. God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked. What does the Bible say? 1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands. 2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God. 7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods! Worship God in spirit and in truth 8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” God shares his glory with no one 9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols. 10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.” Reminders 11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame. 12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom 15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. End times 17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples 19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!” 21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS Where does it say exactly what you claim it says? It does not. You are adding to scripture which is equally fatal as Pagan idolatry. Some ignorant but well-meaning person has taught you to bear false witness. I would repent of that. You are a child of the "reform" - which was incited by egotistical men who suddenly developed a hatred of sacred icons. But wait! Each of these self-appointed saviors took time to pose for numerous portraits of THEMSELVES! Talk about idolatry! I repented and I urge you to repent.
@@raulmedina9898 she doesn't directly but we believe as orthodox and catholics that saints are alive and that in heaven they also go to divine liturgy, so during the church service in heaven jesus would ask the people there if they want to pray for the people who asked for the prayers. basically God gives the saints this information , just like God gives the angels the information they need to protect us
Is a bible verse that you can give me or a teaching of the apóstols that that I can read? What I understand you is that no body pry to Mary you pray to Jesus to tell Mary if she can ask Jesus for your petitio. Is that correct?
@@Spiritof76Catholic you said it clearly in your comment, you worship the church. Leave your dead works, take up your cross and follow Christ brother repent of your rituals and sorcery, repent and ye shall be saved! ...There, see how that looks? You are being a jerk.
Not only is The Theotokos the mother of God, but she is the Nee Ark Of The Covenant. She holds the the living law of man in her womb. Who can contain the entire universe in her womb? Who can contain the power of God in her womb? This is not just a parable. Just like Moses put the tablets of the law in the Ark.
@@MM-jh4cp 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, Thats Romans 1: 21 23 Now i really need your attention for the following part... you ready? Here it goes: Romans 1: 25 "25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. From my responds.. i hope your question is answered.
Nobody worships Mary over God, so you answered nothing because just like other protestants you are dumb and have to distort scripture in order to use it against hia church...@@timotheus6347
Just started to follow you Sam. I am Catholic and feel embarrassed that I have now truly understood my faith until I have listened to your knowledge and understanding. Thank you and God bless you Sam. Gerard From Ireland
First of all, Protestants do not denigrate Mary. It’s unfortunate that he used that word. Mary was the vessel through which Christ came into the world, and her role in His birth is deeply appreciated. However, nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to give her the kind of veneration that Catholics do. The Bible does not ask us to pray to Mary, nor does it state that she intercedes with the Father on our behalf as Jesus does. Therefore, we are not called to include her in our prayers in the way Catholics do.
Sam, God bless your integrity and humbleness. It is not easy for humans saved or unsaved, to admit when we’ve been wrong. But you’ve given your brothers an example to follow. I get discouraged t times when I see Christians from different faith traditions get caught up in petty disagreements, rather than coming together in harmony with our commonality. I was raised in the Catholic Church and school system. When I came to salvation it was in the Protestant church. And I wouldn’t change that for all the money in the world. But it did give rise to questions and concerns about some Catholic practices. For example the exoneration of the Mother Mary. But after watching a couple of your videos on the subject, I feel I can relax and reach out to Mary as well for example my Mom, who I know is in heaven. She was the faith leader/Christian Matriarch of our family. I just always thought, once she’d left to be with Lord, all knowledge of her family and 7 children would be wiped away. It’s a comforting thought knowing she is with Jesus, and still watching out for her family, even my children and grandchildren. And know understanding she’s achieved perfection in the Lord, I finally understand that her attendance to heavens Church and prayers would be so much more heard my the Lord❤
Sam is right, at a point in my life I thought like a Protestant. I used to say Mary and the other Saints will be bowing down to Christ with me. As if I had the same status as Mother Mary. Lord please forgive me for my arrogance. I wish I had the fervent passion the Lord requires of us as shown by the Early Church!! I pray He increases my knowledge and maintains in me a clear heart, devoted to our Lord and enhance by His Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, of which I came back to and am now, with my wife, raising our 5 kids in the fullness of the Truth.
You want to raise your kids in this fullness of delusion?!!? I can hardly wait to explode on the scence and let everything out with all vim and vigor... THIS has to stop. Are you so easily convinced, so easy to be led astray? Simpletons
@@ernestannapetrone7106 what exactly dont you understand when it is said " every knee shall bow, and every tounge confess that Jesus Christ is Lord?!?!?!
@@timotheus6347 I understand that and agree with you. I’m saying I am not worthy enough like Mother Mary or the Saints who having found grace by God led blessed lives. Obviously they hold special places in the Kingdom which for me is deserving of respect.
Catholics have no idols in Christ in His Church. But His Mother is honored in our churches.. He would never refuse His mother. At her request, against His thinking of His time not right before the Heavenly Father, obeyed His mother performing His first miracle at the wedding of Cana. No one can see God can live. But Mary every day and night saw the face of God in her son. We do not take God casually Who can refuse us at the gate of heaven. To be Christ’s mother is a reality beyond us. Likewise she shared only what Christ wanted, our redemption and salvation. Mary cared for nothing else but to fulfill God’s mission for her. Her eyes did not wander or seek physical pleasure.
We never said that he doesn't bless the people who do the word of God also, what is the protestant obsession with humiliating mary? What did she do to you
@@Abeliever000 not true, when the angel visited Mary in Luke1, he told her that she's blessed among women and will be known as blessed for all generations, then he used the word hail meaning chaire in Greek, which In those days was only used for a superior, then there's an entire song about how blessed she is and how blessed the fruit of her womb, also no one ever did the word of God like Mary since she was obedient to him from birth till the cross and after his resurrection, she never abandoned him, also she literally gave birth to God, no one else ever has, but protestants insist she has no important role whatsoever
@@kingoflebanon1986 God chose her to give birth to Jesus...He can choose any vessel. That doesn't make anyone superior! Also no one knows about her childhood. She was obedient to 1 command and that's all that's known from the Bible. Now stop.
Question: Why did Christ say "Woman, what have I to do with you?" (Yes I know He then fulfilled her request, which makes one question all the more what the point of His statement was). Next one: If the interpretation of all generations calling her blessed must be that making appeals to her spirit/ glorified being must be a required liturgical element, rather than acknowledgement simply affirmed in the course of reading those passages, and of course especially highlighted by and through the Spirit as a testimony at the time and place the events occurred, just as the Spirit has attested other events at the time they happened, then why do none of the epistles make mention of her in their beginning and ending blessings? I definitely call Mary blessed, I affirm that she was a singular human being granted a privilege and responsibility conferred on no other, and that perhaps only meeting Christ Himself will outshine the opportunity to meet her in eternity. I have a hard time getting around one God, and one mediator between man and God, however.
thank you for clipping this bro. I used to think like a protestant before. Until I grew more into His word and had a personal experience by the Blessed Mother, I honor her each day and more. It's a miracle. GBY brothers and sisters.
The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item. God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked. What does the Bible say? 1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands. 2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God. 7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods! Worship God in spirit and in truth 8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” God shares his glory with no one 9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols. 10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.” Reminders 11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame. 12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom 15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. End times 17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples 19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!” 21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS Be consistent with your own theology then and remove images that you have of any sort, not only from your home, but from your phone and computer and anything else you may have that can store images, pictures of family, partners, yourself, anything of the sort, even pictures of nature, for if people aren't allowed to have images, even if they dont worship the image itself, then you aren't allowed to have them either in no way, shape or form, not to mention that by your own logic you can't even read the Bible, because words on paper can still be considered an image, therefore you're not allowed to have it, which is funny because then the Bible refutes itself, which it clearly doesnt, but that's what you're arguing for.
@@LeonJohn4444 Clearly you don’t understand the verse am I so called venerating my family members which catholics use that word it’s still falls under idolatry.Catholics kiss the images statues pray and bow to them!And don’t get me started with purgatory if it existed Jesus Christ would of died and resurrected in vain. IF IT IS WRONG TO MAKE GRAVEN IMAGES, WHY DID GOD COMMAND MOSES TO MAKE ONE? PROBLEM: God clearly commanded in Exodus 20:4: “You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath.” Yet here Moses is instructed by God to “make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work” (v. 18). If making images of any heavenly object is wrong, then why did God command Moses to make some on the ark of the covenant? SOLUTION: The prohibition against making graven images was distinctly set in the context of worshiping idols. There are, then, several reasons why making the cherubim does not conflict with this command not to bow down to graven images. First, there was no chance that the people of Israel would fall down before the cherubim in the most holy place, since they were forbidden to go in the holy place at any time. Even the high priest went only once a year on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16). Further, the prohibition is not against making any carved image for decorative purposes, but of those used in religious worship. In other words, they were not to worship any other God or any image of any god. These cherubim were not given to Israel as images of God; they were angels. Nor were they given to be worshiped. Hence, there is no way in which the command to make them violated the commandment in Exodus 20. Finally, the prohibition in Exodus 20 is not against religious art as such, which includes things in heaven (angels) and on earth (humans or animals). Rather, it was against using any image as an idol. That idolatry envisioned is evident from the fact they were instructed not to “bow down to them nor serve them” (Ex. 20:5). The distinction between non-religious use of images and a religious use is important: THE USE OF IMAGES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF GOD Even language about God in the Bible contains images. God is both a shepherd and a father. But each of these is appropriately qualified. God is not just any father. He is our Heavenly Father. Likewise, Jesus is not just any shepherd, but the Good Shepherd who gave His life for His sheep (John 10:11). No finite image can be appropriately applied to the infinite God without qualification. To do so is idolatry. And idols are idols whether they are mental or metal.
@@settingthecaptivesfreeministry Mary is not God, she is the daughter of God The Father, Mother of God The Son and Bride of The Holy Spirit. It is all part of The Tradition, you can read it in The Bible and you can personally ask Jesus if this is true.
Have you read Rev 12, A GREAT SIGN APPEARED WHERE? IN HEAVEN the Woman clothed with the son and A CROWN OF 12 STARS, There she is in heaven wearing a crown. How do you mis this even with a cursory understanding of scripture. Stop these ridiculous objections.
The problem is not knowing that Mary was a blessed amongst all the women on the earth < the problem is when you pray to her and put faith in her image in hopes of a blessed miracle.
So basically , you want to make the title Meaningless and deny her intercesion despite her intercesion being literally what began Christ's Ministry . Protestant ignorance could power a Star with its intensity
May I ask a sincere question as a protestant. If I only have the Bible and I follow it with all my heart, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Savior of my soul from my sins as the Scriptures say, but I dont necessarily agree with all of the Catholic teachings, as a born again believer, am I still saved?
Every person, saint, angel, which is mentioned more than Jesus name, reduces Jesus. The more someone talks about Mary, he talks less about Jesus. The more people thinks, Jesus on the cross was insufficient and failed (statement of the pope himself) the less worth get the sacrifise of the son of God. The more pictures of Mary on the wall, the less focus is on Jesus. The more prayers goes to saint, the less is someone talking and having Relationship to Jesus. The more believers think, Jesus obeys Mary (prayers to be heared and fullfilled) and priests(while Mass), the less God allmighty Jesus gets..... Channels who talks more about Mary than about Jesus, they worship Mary more than Jesus, loves Mary more than Jesus. I have respect to Sam and his knowledge about islam and bible. But even he is not infailable. Nobody is. Trusting in man made rules and leaders. Even (maybe) lies spread centuries ago. Ignore Contradictions and creepy statues inside the Vatican audience Hall..... ignoring the staff of the pope with 3 sticks on the top which is used from witches, given by a female wearing a red wrist band.... Blessing same se* marriage, kissing a quran, Burning bibles in the past history, persecute christians with other believe about salvation.... Even want to baptise aLIEns..... (fallen Angels). Popes which ARE failable.... but trusting them and their "history" and teachings...... I cant understand it. I respect Sam. But i dont think, the fruits of Church leaders were good.... Mary is an humble wonderful woman, who was a awesome vessel and servant to God (she called herself servant and Jesus as her savior which only need sinners). I Love her for what she did. But there is until now a Chance that excalting Mary is false and that in Judgment day or when you die, God could say, Mary isnt the Queen of heaven. Queen of heaven were a goddess of pagan believers too.... And God rebuked that (isaiah or jeremiah).
As a non-Catholic Christian I just can’t bend my mind on praying to her when I’m totally okay with praying to Jesus, my Lord God and Yahweh God. I don’t worship her bc Jesus and God have said do not worship any other god. I don’t have any thing bad to say about Mary, the mother of Jesus and I if asked about her I do honor in the way that she was chosen and blessed among all women to carry Jesus. I do honor her in that way. I will never kneel to pray to her image or her w/o the image, never. I have Jesus and God to pray to and put all my faith into and believe in them. I posted this before listening to your message. Will hear you now.
Prayer - Is a form of communication. (It does not mean Worship) Explanation: Prayer is a way to talk to God, like having a conversation. While some prayers include worship (such as praising God’s greatness), others are simply requests, confessions, or expressions of gratitude. Example: . If you pray to God asking for help with your monthly bills, that prayer is a request - not an act of worship. You are sharing your needs, not worshipping God because of your financial situation. . Just like when you ask someone to pray for you, the difference is that Mary, Jesus’ Blessed Mother, is literally with Jesus right now in Heaven. Isn’t it more likely that Jesus would listen to His Blessed Mother(who He specifically choose to be inside her belly/physically designed to come into the world) who is right beside Him, just like He did at the wedding at Cana? (John 2:1-11): When the wine ran out, Mary told Jesus, “They have no more wine.” Even though Jesus initially said, “My hour has not yet come,” He still performed the miracle at her request.
veronicaleon8075 You are bearing false witness thereby going against the 9th Commandment by saying Catholics worship the Virgin Mary. If that is not the case, you have a pagan mindset as prayer does not equate to worship, only pagans think like this.
It is interesting that Sam says when he humbled himself the Holy Spirit showed him the truth about Mary. At the same time on the Protestant side they are people that say absolutely the same and a different truth is revealed to them. We can come with a lot of counter arguments against one or another but the reality I think will be revealed to us I heaven.
Look how Apostle Paul handles Mother Mary. Galatians 4 4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, ... 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother When he talks about Jesus coming through woman, Paul never exalts Mother Mary or specially mention her, he just states her as "a woman," but in the SAME CHAPTER when he talks about the holy city of Jerusalem, he calls it "Our mother." Apostle Paul never had any interest in exalting Mary, nor he needed to. Imagine what these "Apostolic Priests" would've said if they were writing that verse. they would've said "born of a woman, our holy mother, the closest human being to our Lord, higher than any human, dwells up in the heaven, our most highness Saint Forever Virgin Mary." Paul says A woman. That's all. God sent Jesus through a woman, whom was Mary, she was used for that, and she is a blessed woman for that. End of the story. That is "APOSTOLIC."
It doesn't discount what Luke wrote.We should interpret according to the entirety of the scripture and the norm and the belief from the Early Churches.The Lord called his mother WOMAN too at the crucifixion : Before He died, while hanging on the cross, Jesus looked at His mother and His beloved apostle, John (the only one present) and said “'Woman, behold, your son! ' Then He said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother! '” . Whose mother ? and And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”So this Woman is essential if you see the connection rather than saying our Holy Mother.
God wants us to worship him only for he is a jealous God. You cant go wrong to pray to him alone because the bible says so .I m surprised about this video from brother Sam. Mary was blessed and is well respected by protestants she was chosen by God to fulfill .
Yes, Mary is blessed as the scripture says. The apostles are blessed as they too heard the word and accepted the word of God. Today all believers who hear the Word and accept it is also blessed. Real contention. You must only worship the Lord/Father/Haly Spirit. No worship to Saints or any other. Only Jesus and in His name.
AMEN!!!! Everybody who does the will of God means anybody who does the will of God,Abraham did the will of God,not mary primarily,not worship of mary,although she did have an important PART in God's plan,so did Moses,Joshua,Abraham etc,etc. I don't buy into Sam's "excegesis"... It's bloody obvious He doesn't call her Holy Mother ( unscriptural)
STOP this insanity Show me where the Catholic Church teaches to Give the Saints Worship as we do God? Show me. Get a Catechism and read it then stop telling these lies.
@@ServusViva interesting that you all say it is veneration and not worship. I was just in a catholic church and watched the people crawling a long isle to the foot of mary statue. Didnt see any crawling to Jesus statue. Just wondering what the tipping point is from veneration to worship?
Not worshipping and praying to her is not 'denigrating' her, its just not defying what the Bible warns NOT TO DO! Sam needs to stop the constant "if you don't do what we do you are therefore ... " then jumping to the extreme opposite end of the spectrum, its cheap and lousy and indeed in bad faith.
Catholics believe Mary intercedes to the father on our behalf (just like Jesus)...which is false teaching. No where in the Bible does it say any person other than Jesus intercedes to the father on our behalf. Also Catholics pray to Mary. Direct me to where in the Bible we are instructed to pray to Mary@@davidgomez1187
@blackwhite2361 big dummy.. Catholics do not teach Mary intercedes for us to the Father...she intercedes to Jesus for us. This is seen in the bible. The old testament we can see that the kings queen was not the wife but the mother. And the queen mother would intercede for the people to the king. But now Jesus is the real king. And guess what? Mary is his mother making her the real queen that intercede for us to the king Jesus 🙌🏽..
@@blackwhite2361to pray in old English means to ask. If I say “pray tell”, I’m asking you to explain. I’m basically asking Mary to pray for me. Protestants do this very same thing when they ask fellow Christians to pray for them. And guess what they’re doing? They’re intervening on their behalf, or interceding. The only difference is that Mary is closer to God than you.
When I was a Protestant, I was never instructed to denigrate Mary. It was never brought up to me to denigrate her. Why would that be an issue to denigrate Mary. However; Elizabeth’s greeting of Mary is not commanded of us to either worship or pray to Mary. Mary, as everyone else, other than Yeshua and Enoch are carried to or ascended to heaven. Your definition of Honoring Mary is not the same as worshipping or praying to her.
That was also my immediate reaction. "Denigrate Mary?" Of course not! As many here are saying, there's HONORING Mary and then there is WORSHIPPING Mary! That's the line we're considered with.
Yeah, Mary was blessed, but there are women who will birth a child for someone, but very few like Stephen (who was really "full of grace") who will die in pain for Christ (saying forgive them). I seriously wonder how much this distracts from Christ.
To most protestants the lines are blurred than to most Catholics. They judge what THEY think is in a Catholic person's heart. The majority of Catholics know what is what. We worship only the HOLY TRINITY. FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT. The LORD JESUS is our only savior. Our whole church is about JESUS. We revere the saints, prophets, angels and martyrs that dedicated their lives to our LORD.
@timotheus6347 It's probably not going to make much sense to you now but, much of the language of old prayers had different meaning than the modern English that we use in America. I won't try to explain because I'm not an expert in anything but the Three Stooges, but I know as a Catholic we aren't allowed to worship Mary. The church doesn't promote Mary on the same level as GOD the FATHER or The SON or The HOLY SPIRIT. She's the most blessed human but only JESUS is our savior. I know it's hard for someone from outside of the church to believe this but it's true. We can't worship Mary as we do GOD.
@timotheus6347 You can look up where that prayer came from and see the explanation for why certain words back then didn't have the same meaning as we interpret today. I know that sounds kinda tricky but still us Catholics do not worship The Blessed Mother Mary. It looks like a fine line between worship and reverence. Again I'm not eloquent enough to explain the Old English meaning of certain words from that prayer but, there are explanations that you can research.
Also, I don't know of protestants who denigrate Mary, and we don't say she's not blessed. We know and accept that she is, and it's great because she's been chosen for that particular task or instance. I do however know that we don't all agree that she is the mother of God. We also know that you believe she is the mother of God. I don't, because if I do, that it means that I believe there is more than one god.
God gives life to everyone, he brought Mary's Spirit to Earth for this very reason, he chose her for this mission to bring Jesus to life. His Angel's protecting her from satan from her Birth.
Sam if my old ears serve me right I thought you may have said Mary is greater than God, but I think you may have misspoke and really meant she is greater than St John at time stamp 17:04? Our Blessed Mother is not only greater than any saint, angel, or other creature, but she is greater than all the creatures combined which is right and just since she is the new covenant Ark and Tabernacle and eternally perfect as He would want her to be, yet she worships her Son just as we must worship Him. We love her just as He loves her. I will never forget what Roy Schoeman heard her say when he had an apparition of her: "Oh you don't understand, I am nothing, He is EVERYTHING!" We won the eternal lotto to be made from nothing, and to top that off He also made us His children, and on top of that we sinned which made us even lower than nothing yet He forgives us by His own tortures and death. All for the greater good to have more eternal gratitude! GOD BLESS YOU SAM, wally
Hi guys, I dont have a denomination as things stand. Im currently Bible only. I wanted to ask, genuinely so, regarding veneration which I do not understand. Im not for or against it. But rather im seeking the truth. Is Mary able to hear all our prayers to the Lord? When catholics ask her to pray on their behalf, how is she able to hear all those requests? Also since Jesus said "I am the Way the Truth & the Life, no one gets to the Father except through me" did he mean that anything we ask in his name will be granted by the Father? If that is the case, wouldnt that mean that we NEED only Jesus? & Veneration is an acknowledgement and showing respect to the saints? Essentially what I am asking is does Veneration affect salvation?
If Marry was so important then why didn't Jesus confirmed her? No one isn't saying she isn't important in the long line of preparation for Jesus's coming. Don't let anyone take your eyes off Jesus! No one stands between man and Jesus. Jesus was very clear. He is the only way...
We can never Love and Honor Mary more than Jesus does. "Behold your Mother.” Jesus made her perfect and without sin. Thank You Jesus for sharing Your Mother with us from the Cross. John 19:26-27
POWERFUL POWERFUL POWERFUL 💯 💪 FACTS YOUR ALWAYS IN MY PRAYERS SAM A CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC ROMAN CATHOLIC, A SINNER OF SINNERS WHO GREW UP WITH MS13 AND LIKE YOU MY BROTHER AND LIKE SAUL AKA ST. PAUL GOD ALMIGHTY IN JESUS HOLY NAME WITH AND IN THE HOLY GHOST THRU THE POWER OF THE HOLY TRINITY, HAS BLESSED ME MUCH WISDOM ASWELL, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MY BROTHER IN CHRIST AND JUST KNOW UR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN , , NOTHING LIKE HOLY MASS THE ETERNAL COVENANT, PRAYER THE HOLY ROSARY AND MEDITATION OF HIS WORD THE MEMRA THE LOGOS....
21:50 Mary is blessed, as are all believers in the word of God. 🤷♂️ "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man christ Jesus." We honour Mary as we honour all believers. Where in the scriptures it says that we must ask Mary to pray for us?? 🤷♂️ Christ is the mediator who intercedes for us. Not Mary.
I totally agree with you. Usually Sam is on point, but this is a very weak argument. I don't want to go through with several passages and point out the problems with his logic, but I'll leave with just one. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
I believe you aren’t understanding just as I was when I was a Protestant. Intercession and mediation are two different things. Praying to Mary or other saints is asking for intercession. Just as you a Protestant would ask a church member to pray for you, you are asking for intercession. What Protestants don’t have is 2000 years of church history and tradition. Therefore they do not understand the church militant and church triumphant of the body of Christ. Those who have passed on in the body are in the church triumphant. Prayer from one who is holy is powerful. Who is truly holy other than those who have been redeemed? Why can’t you ask for prayer/intercession from the church triumphant? That Is a Christian tradition for 2000 years. Most Protestant denominations today started from the 1800s to the last 50 years. Protestants do not have these traditions and teachings passed on my the apostles and church fathers. In essence Protestants made up their own church based on interpretations of each individual who started that church.
I will point to where it says pray for one another… So Mary is one of us… Let me guess, you will say she’s dead… Then you’d have to refute the words of Christ Mt: 22:29-32… You know you don’t honor Mary, because I will ask you, how do you honour her and you would not be able to answer… Moreover, you should read Lk1:48… Have you called her Blessed Mary ever??? If you have not acknowledged this, when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her and Jesus Christ was in her womb, and she uttered those words, then you have not even honored her one bit… Edit: Do you ask Jesus to pray for you??? If you think asking Mary to pray for you is worship, I dare you to say Jesus pray for me… Jesus is our mediator right??? And you can ask only the mediator to pray for you, so I dare you to say it…
The Holy Theotokos is the Uncut Mountain of Daniel. She's the Lady of Rev 12. Teach Protestants about Holy Joachim and Anna, and how the Holy Theotokos lived in the Great Temple from age 3 to her betrothment at age 13 to the very aged St. Joseph, a widower, who had children from his late wife. Children like St. James, adopted brother of Christ.
i don't know why it's so complicated to understand that Mary was a perpetual virgin..some sources say Joseph was 90 yrs old when they got married..which only adds credibility to the fact they couldn't have been together physically..and about the brothers of Jesus, it would only add credibility that they were his brothers from the line of joseph probably trough one of his previous marriages..or as sam says cousins..
I am protestant and I dont know anyone who denigrates Mary, but I see Catholics crawling to statue of Mary. Your points confirm my belief that Mary is special but not above any believer. Like you said, Mary obeyed Gods WORD and did it. So do all the faithful. Love your teaching.
Crawling to statue? Not above any believer. I hope you always do Gods will and just imagine if you can take on that kind of favor of being God the Sons parent with that pure heart. Protestant is a real illness. You would prefer to reject the truth and graces just to one up Catholicism.
@@renantedinoy2862Catholics believe Mary intercedes to the father on our behalf (just like Jesus)...which is false teaching. No where in the Bible does it say any person other than Jesus intercedes to the father on our behalf. Also Catholics pray to Mary. Direct me to where in the Bible we are instructed to pray to Mary
I do no seek to argue with anyone, But it is important to understand. This is what Virgin Mary said. Luke 1:47 47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. Sam, Did she also needed God’s salvation? Because in Mexico the church teaches that She was conceived without the original sin. Is this Biblically true? Does this need to be explained? John 7:5-8 5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7 “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil. 8 “You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.” ? My Dear Mom and later my Dad, they both died, Are you able to tell me how many indulgences in the form of masses , that we should purchase, in order that WE rescue them both out of purgatory? Because you see, they were not wearing the scapular of the Virgin, so that she could come and rescue them on the first Saturday after their death. ? Question, what do we need to do to obey God in this verse? not to be confused with Exod 20:3 Exodus 20:4 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
nobody says the catholic church has not been controlled by evil men...but and by the catholic church the religion stood strong until the printing press....sure the church was like the pharisees...many believe the first church was in Britain built in 47AD....HIS BROTHERS WERE jOSEPH'S CHILDREN....wHY WOULD THEY BELIEVE HIM UNTIL HE BECOME FULLY ENLIGHTENED.
@gerardoreyes 721 The original reformers, Luther, Calvin and Zwingli, not only accepted but openly expressed their belief in Mary remaining a virgin her whole life. And even some of the latter important Protestant figures like Cranmer and Wesley kept this belief. Cardinal Newman, a convert to the Catholic faith - “nothing can bring a clean thing out of an unclean.” In other words, to bear the perfect sinless Son of God, Mary must be sinless herself - as Catholics would say, immaculately conceived. That Christians from the very beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is obvious. The catacombs are the cradle of all Christian art. Since their discovery in the sixteenth century-on May 31, 1578, an accident revealed part of the catacomb in the Via Salaria-and the investigation of their contents that has gone on steadily ever since, we are able to reconstruct an exact idea of the paintings that adorned them. That the first Christians had any sort of prejudice against images, pictures, or statues is a myth (defended amongst others by Erasmus) that has been abundantly dispelled by all students of Christian archaeology. The idea that they must have feared the danger of idolatry among their new converts is disproved in the simplest way by the pictures, even statues, that remain from the first centuries. Even the Jewish Christians had no reason to be prejudiced against pictures, as we have seen; still less had the Gentile communities any such feeling. They accepted the art of their time and used it, as well as a poor and persecuted community could, to express their religious ideas
Amen, all thanks and praise be to God. 'Blessed is Mary and blessed is the fruit of her womb Jesus.' PS. God's messenger, the angle relayed God's words, not Calvin's opinions, not no TV evangelists opinion, not no 16th century heretical theories. ALL THANKS AND PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, THE CREATOR OF ALL THAT IS SEEN AND UNSEEN. Protestants, your pride and arrogance,.your hatred and narcissism (love of thyself) is outright BLASPHEMY. We are praying for you. Tenete Traditiones (as ordered), God bless.
Come on, so John The Baptist was greater than Mary *until the Pentecost* and then they switched positions? That's a weak reasoning. Moreover, don't you realize that The Great Apostles of our Lord received The Word of Jesus and did them, to the point that even Paul could say, " Follow me as I follow Christ."? Mary didn't say that, neither did any of them say, " Follow Mary as she followed Christ.". If you think that protestants, by expressing their stance in Mary's dogmas, are denigrating her, you should be happy rather than spending your energy to find out how you can defend and elevate her by The Word of God, which you actually twist. Doesn't our Lord say, not simply said but *still says* that if we were maligned, it's for our glory? Don't you know that we even need not defend our Lord Jesus Christ, however non-believers may depict Him? We don't need to bomb Jesus's blasphemers as the Muslims do when Mohammed is insulted. We ought to defend THE WORD OF JESUS CHRIST in its entirety. And no one rejects anything Mary said within the covers of The Scriptures. Outside of The Scriptures, no matter what the so-called church fathers wrote or believed, whatever is attributed to Mary is a shaking ground.
Sam, I see how a connection can be made between Luke 11:28 (a general definition of those blessed; "...they that hear the word of God, and keep it") and Luke 8:21 (specific definition of those blessed: "...My mother and my brethren are these..."). However, both these verses use plural language and, if actually intended by the Holy Spirit to be connected, must necessarily refer to the entire group of people Jesus spoke about: His mother & His brothers. Within the language of those verses I see no room for elevating Mary, the mother of Jesus, above Jesus' brothers. With this understanding of these verses I don't read any "denigration" into the text, nor do I read a singular (Mary only) into the text since Jesus included His brothers when He defined who "...they that hear the word of God, and keep it" are. --- As for Elisabeth's experience with the Holy Spirit after Mary's greeting, I see that as one of the two witnesses required ("In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established"), and Joseph being the other after his dream stopped him from discharging Mary. Without those two witnesses attesting to Mary's visitation by the angel we can assume there would be nothing to write about in the Bible since Mary would eventually be proven a liar one way or the other: Either she wouldn't give birth or she would have been shown NOT to be a virgin before she gave birth.
But does that make her the queen of heaven? As Iv been told ever since I could remember. I grew up Catholic, over the past 20 years I have been on a journey to seek truth, and gain a relationship with Jesus. I believe the Lord has sent me on quite the journey, and it may lead full circle. I have always believed that Mary is blessed among all other women because God chose her, specifically. So of course she’s exceptionally blessed and deserves more honor than ordinary women. We learn, in the Bible, that men are not greater than women, each hold different rolls but are still equally the same. Since Jesus is the infinite God and the King of heaven, is Mary equal to him while being the Queen of heaven?
I don't understand... Sam is thinking that Protestants insist that Mary "didn't" hear the word the God, and obey it? Of course not, right? Protestants are saying Mary isn't "blessed?" Huh? Where? Scripture is saying that Mary is the most blessed obedient handmaiden of God, Protestants recognize this, do they not? Yes, the Holy Spirit loves Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Of course! I don't see Protestants arguing any of this!
I also cringe, when he insists that human error and distortion could never have crept into the evolution of Church and tradition? Did not distortions creep into the God ordained faith of the Old Covenant Jews? Jesus said, "yes." Would this Divine Protection and Guidance of the Church be there during the dreaded Middle Ages? Was it there for the modern "Pedophile relocation program?" Just some cringe inducing stuff.
This is a sad fixation. Yes Mary was important and blessed, afterall she carried Jesus. But there were was e.g. another man "full of grace" who died in agony for Christ (Stephen). He performed a great (greater?) role. Do we then deify, venerate, immaculately conceive, bodily assume on him? Look to Christ beyond ANY servant of Christ. He must increase, I must decrease
it’s not wrong to venerate someone who died especially in the LORDS name…no IF anything it PROVES GOD can AND has selected certain people who HAVE a certain attitude towards gods Grace…which INCREASES there response to Gods love and affection…I could say a different analogy for Judas He was a follower Of Christ but didn’t persevere in Christ and rejected Christ…Mary did the opposite she confirmed to Gods will so that God could be BORN…respect your mother
Jesus didn't say that Sam... not His mother, but anyone is blessed who hear and do the Word of God. Jesus is correcting them Sam. How can you be so confused of this? My mother is a devout Christian. So, who is more blessed, my mother or Mary? Who is greater? Who among human is greatest in heaven?
So. What about everyone else who hears and does his word. Certainly she is as blessed us all of us who is saved. But she isn't God, this she should not be prayed to as the RC believe.
We ask for intercession to help our prayer reach Jesus. As the miracle in Cana, workers told Mary they ran out of wine. Mary reported it to Jesus and Mary told the worker to do what Jesus would tell them to do.
@@isans0507 The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item. God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked. What does the Bible say? 1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands. 2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God. 7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods! Worship God in spirit and in truth 8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” God shares his glory with no one 9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols. 10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.” Reminders 11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame. 12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom 15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. End times 17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples 19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!” 21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
Catholics believe Mary intercedes to the father on our behalf (just like Jesus)...which is false teaching. No where in the Bible does it say any person other than Jesus intercedes to the father on our behalf. Also Catholics pray to Mary. Direct me to where in the Bible we are instructed to pray to Mary
@blackwhite2361 Do you pray to God the Father and recite the Lord's Prayer taught by Jesus? Do you ever asked your family members, friends, relatives etc to pray for you and for others? Why did Jesus pray to the Father? Can't we pray direct to the God the Father like Jesus did?
Honestly the first time I ever heard what Protestantism is, the name simply threw me off. Why would you ever want your nature to be anything "protesting" when it comes to God? That shouldnt make sense
Divine Awareness: Many Christians believe that John the Baptist, even in the womb, had a unique awareness of the presence of Jesus. This suggests a special connection to the divine mission that John would later fulfill as the forerunner of Christ. His leap can be seen as an instinctive response to the presence of the Messiah. Holy Spirit's Influence: According to Luke 1:41, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit when she heard Mary’s greeting. This filling of the Holy Spirit likely extended to John as well, causing him to leap for joy. This highlights the belief that God's Spirit can influence even the unborn. Joyful Recognition: The leap can be interpreted as an expression of joy and recognition of Jesus’ significance. It symbolizes the deep joy that comes from encountering the Savior, even at such an early stage of life. This moment emphasizes the sanctity and value of life before birth, indicating that even the unborn can experience spiritual joy. Significance of Mary’s Role: Mary’s visit to Elizabeth also underscores her role in God's plan. By carrying Jesus, the Incarnation, Mary brings the presence of God into the world. John’s response reflects the importance of Mary’s role as the mother of the Messiah and foreshadows the joy that Jesus will bring to many. Covenantal Fulfillment: From a theological perspective, John’s leap can signify the fulfillment of God's promises throughout the Old Testament. His joyful response to the presence of Jesus illustrates the anticipation of the Messiah's coming and the hope that accompanies that event. In summary, the leap of John the Baptist in Elizabeth's womb is a powerful moment that reflects divine awareness, the influence of the Holy Spirit, and the joy of recognizing Jesus’ presence, highlighting the significance of life and the roles of Mary and John within the biblical narrative.
@@builder101-x9j But this Divine awareness waited for Mary to be present first, then, secondly to greet Elizabeth. Does that not speak Volume to you about Mary. Let me advice you, if you play down, the significance of Mary in the scheme of salvation, you are clearly insulting Christ, and you are no friend of His. But, thank God, you clearly understands the indisputable role of Mary in Salvation history. God bless.
Acerca de si la iglesia pudo haber estado equivocada en esos tiempos iniciales, le recuerdo que la obra de los nicolaitas estaba bastante difundida entre las iglesias, tanto así, que cuando Jesús reveló el Apocalipsis se cree en el año 93 o 95, ya en ese entonces Jesús profetizó a las iglesias y todas tenían errores. Algunas creencias no eran universales según se hicieron los "concilios" y estos se hicieron para tomar una u otra orientación porque no eran universales. Si hubieran sido universales no hubiera registro de defensores y detractores de algunas doctrinas, y en el caso de la preeminencia del primado de Roma, por ejemplo así como en el caso de la perpetua virginidad de Maria o su Ascención, etc.
Do I believe Mary was the most blessed among women? Yes I do. The scripture says so. She was chosen to be the mother of Jesus because of her faith. Do I, or would I, ever pray to or ask Mary or any of the saints, to intercede with Jesus for me? No. Because the scriptures are clear that Jesus is the intercessor. No where in the scriptures did anyone teach to pray to a passed on believer or prophet or Mary on your behalf to God or Jesus. You are taught to pray for earthly brothers and sisters to the Father through Jesus, not pray to Jesus through his mother. And no one in the Bible was ever shown to do so. Not one single person in the Bible, not even Jesus, did. But the Bible did state not to add or subtract or teach anything not written in the Bible after revelations. So if praying to Mary and/or the saints was something believers were supposed to do, why wasn’t that put in the scriptures clearly?
The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item. God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked. What does the Bible say? 1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands. 2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God. 7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods! Worship God in spirit and in truth 8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” God shares his glory with no one 9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols. 10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.” Reminders 11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame. 12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. 13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom 15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. End times 17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples 19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!” 21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS so in your 1-dimension, shallow, ignorant, diluted "christian" Protty way - what is "graven" that is explicitly described in the Holy Bible? Also, in the Holy Bible, where is the explicit way/recipe stated and what is and how to "worship". for the love of God, plz be honest and brave for Him: what is your faith denomination's tradition name: non-denomination, reformed/what kind of reformed, baptist, etc. Bcoz, apparently you and your faith denomination wasn't there at the compilation and preservation of the Holy Bible. So here you are, modern man 2000yrs later the FULL TRUTH as finally revealed to you and therefore knows more than all those early Christians - - does that sound reasonable and logical?
@@VALLERONUEVEROS That Christians from the very beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is too obvious and too well-known for it to be necessary to insist upon the fact. The catacombs are the cradle of all Christian art. Since their discovery in the sixteenth century-on May 31, 1578, an accident revealed part of the catacomb in the Via Salaria-and the investigation of their contents that has gone on steadily ever since, we are able to reconstruct an exact idea of the paintings that adorned them. That the first Christians had any sort of prejudice against images, pictures, or statues is a myth (defended amongst others by Erasmus) that has been abundantly dispelled by all students of Christian archaeology. The idea that they must have feared the danger of idolatry among their new converts is disproved in the simplest way by the pictures, even statues, that remain from the first centuries. Even the Jewish Christians had no reason to be prejudiced against pictures, as we have seen; still less had the Gentile communities any such feeling. They accepted the art of their time and used it, as well as a poor and persecuted community could, to express their religious ideas.
I once had a lengthy discussion online with a protestant that insisted Mary was just another woman and totally irrelevant because only Jesus mattered. I dared him that next time he prays to Jesus he tells Jesus that His mother was just 'another woman and irrelevant'. I got no more replies from him after that.
Mary was blessed and it was for her an ultimate honor, if i may put it that way, to bare the messias. But she was still born in sin just like the rest of humanity. Praying to her, kneeling to her statue etc or asking her anything is blasphemy.
Good 👍➕ I have 2 different approaches. Henry VIII and early Protestants venerated the Blessed Virgin Mary. Over the centuries, veneration has decreased. Judaism ✡ influenced the status of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The queen-mother 👩 was in high regard. The morher of King David is an example. BV Mary echoes that role.
The problem with the orthodox or catholics are that they call her super Holly , Παναγία-Panagia.But Mary wanted to show authority on her son Jesus, as the passage Mathew 12:46-50, and in the wedding of Kana, and Jesus heald the proudness in her heart . !
This is what John Chrysostom said about Mary. He was a church father and archbishop of Constantinople fm the 4th century. The early church fathers didn't always agree, although people like to think they did. It would be nice for things to fit neatly in the box.
@afroditetrombetta-kioupour1593 Mary had no proudness in her heart. Some Protestants honor Mary. Luther believed that Mary was conceived without original sin, and that her flesh and blood were purified. He called this his "Immaculate Purification" position. He referred to Mary as "the most blessed Mother of God" and "the Mother of Christ". He believed that Mary was the true mother of God and the spiritual mother of all Christians. Luther believed that Mary should be honored, and that Christians should learn from her faith and virtues. He celebrated the feasts of Annunciation, Visitation, Purification, and Christmas. Luther believed that Mary remained a virgin after giving birth to Jesus. Luther believed that Mary was in heaven. He believed that she would not undergo death because she was free from sin. Baptist scholar Timothy George Writes that Mary was the mother who cared for Jesus' physical needs, and that evangelicals should celebrate her as the mother of God. Protestant theologian K. E. Skydsgaard Writes that Mary's name should be praised as holy. German Evangelical Adult Catechism Says that Mary is the mother of Jesus and closer to him than his disciples
Mary exemplifies profound faith and stands as a truly blessed and unique figure as the mother of Jesus. The practice of creating statues of her and praying to them strikes me as fundamentally inappropriate. One can reasonably argue that she would not condone such actions, given her unwavering dedication to praising God and adhering to His directives. It’s crucial to recognize that, while she is a significant figure in the narrative of Christianity, she remains part of creation, just as we all are. Our worship should be directed toward the Creator, not the created. All prayer, worship, or praise must be aimed at the Trinity, which reflects the foundational belief that God alone is worthy of such reverence. Moreover, praying to any individuals mentioned in the Bible, aside from God, is considered a sin. This distinction serves to maintain the integrity of our spiritual practice and emphasizes the importance of cultivating a direct relationship with the divine.
@builder101-x9j That Christians from the very beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is too obvious and too well-known. The catacombs are the cradle of all Christian art. Since their discovery in the sixteenth century-on May 31, 1578, an accident revealed part of the catacomb in the Via Salaria-and the investigation of their contents that has gone on steadily ever since, we are able to reconstruct an exact idea of the paintings that adorned them. That the first Christians had any sort of prejudice against images, pictures, or statues is a myth (defended amongst others by Erasmus) that has been abundantly dispelled by all students of Christian archaeology. The idea that they must have feared the danger of idolatry among their new converts is disproved in the simplest way by the pictures, even statues, that remain from the first centuries. Even the Jewish Christians had no reason to be prejudiced against pictures, as we have seen; still less had the Gentile communities any such feeling. They accepted the art of their time and used it, as well as a poor and persecuted community could, to express their religious ideas. Some Protestants honor Mary. Luther believed that Mary was conceived without original sin, and that her flesh and blood were purified. He called this his "Immaculate Purification" position. He referred to Mary as "the most blessed Mother of God" and "the Mother of Christ". He believed that Mary was the true mother of God and the spiritual mother of all Christians. Luther believed that Mary should be honored, and that Christians should learn from her faith and virtues. He celebrated the feasts of Annunciation, Visitation, Purification, and Christmas. Luther believed that Mary remained a virgin after giving birth to Jesus. Luther believed that Mary was in heaven. He believed that she would not undergo death because she was free from sin. Baptist scholar Timothy George Writes that Mary was the mother who cared for Jesus' physical needs, and that evangelicals should celebrate her as the mother of God. Protestant theologian K. E. Skydsgaard Writes that Mary's name should be praised as holy. German Evangelical Adult Catechism Says that Mary is the mother of Jesus and closer to him than his disciples
@@diego1590Yes I agree that we will live forever if we believe in him but still it doesn't mean we can pray to the saints..Can you show me anywhere from the Bible where people prayed to saints???
Christian’s used to teach that Mary was pure and perfect… All my life until I started hearing other church members say how Mary was just a person . How the Bible pages was taken out by Catholics when in reality The Protestants did… My heart broke after hearing and understanding Catholic doctrine..
@@sweetpeaa4512 what on earth are you talking about? When did Christians use to teach Mary was pure and perfect?? No one is pure and perfect but God. Amen.
@@BiglariProductions Back in the day . Well she is . If you actually define blessed she also said everyone shall call me blessed so please go and define blessed.
@@sweetpeaa4512you are blessed being healthy, you are blessed when you succeed in endeavours, or anything in life.. You can be blessed by so many things.. What it *does not* is making you sinless.. God stated *many* times that all humanity is in sin and need a saviour.. Do you wanna call God a liar?
@@timotheus6347 when you define Blessed in the merriam Webster it will say reference veneration and other definitions as Holy… As Mary said everyone will call me blessed.
@@timotheus6347 you defined blessed in a different context then in a religious context. I can say I won the lottery am I’m blessed . That isn’t religious example.
5:01 But Sam, wouldn't that make every woman who keeps his words and ... his mother. So I can say every woman I know who are faithful in Christ are my other?
Parece olvidar los dos pasajes paralelos donde no deja duda al decir quiénes eran su madre y sus hermanos: referiéndose y señalando a sus discípulos. En Lucas simplemente no se acotó esto. En el magnificat ella misma dice mi señor, mi salvador (Jesús) y ella misma reconocia su bajeza. Ella reconocía que necesitaba un Salvador y era el señor, Jesús. Se le puede llamar bendecida, eso es lo que ella dice, me diran bendecida, punto.
This is another gospel Galatians 1:6-9 [6]I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: [7]Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. [8]But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. [9]As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
First of all, Protestants do not denigrate Mary. It’s unfortunate that you used that word. Mary was the vessel through which Christ came into the world, and her role in His birth is deeply appreciated. However, nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to give her the kind of veneration that Catholics do. The Bible does not ask us to pray to Mary, nor does it state that she intercedes with the Father on our behalf as Jesus does. Therefore, we are not called to include her in our prayers in the way Catholics do.
Jeremiah 23:36 But ‘the burden of the Lord’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
Jesus also never claimed to shed the blood for „everybody“. Why the sinners are acting that way? For many „not for all“! Think about it! Matthew 26:28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
She is full of grace, immaculately conceived and did not have other children. She was exactly the new arc of the covenant. Not to be touched by human hands. She was covered by the glory cloud she was perfect form birth. The Lord gave her to John a non relative as he was dying on the cross. In the world especially in Jesus tradition only family took in other family members so if Jesus had siblings why didn’t he leave her care to one of them!
Amen !! Sam you are led by the holy spirit and giving us wisdom and knowledge to educate us AVE MARIA AMEN!
Mary, Seat of Wisdom, Arc of the Covenant, pray for us.
The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item.
God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked.
What does the Bible say?
1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.
6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God.
7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods!
Worship God in spirit and in truth
8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
God shares his glory with no one
9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.
10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.”
Reminders
11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame.
12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom
15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
End times
17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples
19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!”
21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS In that case let's destroy entire history of art, let not allow children to paint anything that in on heaven in earth in water and so on. Let us forbid all notebooks, books because they have that images. Let's not use our phone to picture anything because we are having pictures of something on earth. That is idolatry right? Let throw all national flags do not allow that because flag image of something that is in earth. That is idolatry right? According to your logic yes it is. According to your logic we should also throw our family album in the trash, because we are holding pictures of something that is an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. Oh but you will say but that is not God for me! Exactly. Statues icons are just like that. If a mother kiss the image of their son or daughter who traveled long away she is not kissing piece of the paper she is kissing person that is on the paper. Can you Prots just stop with this Bible butchering. It is explained for a million times but you insist on promoting your lukewarm faith. We do not want your lukewarm faith we want real relationship with Saints, Holy Theotokos and above all of them one and only Triune GOD.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS In that case let's destroy entire history of art, let not allow children to paint anything that in on heaven in earth in water and so on. Let us forbid all notebooks, books because they have that images. Let's not use our phone to picture anything because we are having pictures of something on earth. That is idolatry right? Let throw all national flags do not allow that because flag image of something that is in earth. That is idolatry right? According to your logic yes it is. According to your logic we should also throw our family album in the trash, because we are holding pictures of something that is an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. Oh but you will say but that is not God for me! Exactly. Statues icons are just like that. If a mother kiss the image of their son or daughter who traveled long away she is not kissing piece of the paper she is kissing person that is on the paper. Can you Prots just stop with this Bible butchering. It is explained for a million times but you insist on promoting your lukewarm faith. We do not want your lukewarm faith we want real relationship with Saints, Holy Theotokos and above all of them one and only Triune GOD.
@@VALLERONUEVEROSis the Ark of the Covenant a graven image?
@@diego1590 Least Idolatrous and Satanic Protestant:
I am not Catholic, nor do I consider myself "Protestant". This is an issue I have prayed about... but have always considered her "blessed among women". So, thanks for this discussion.
@OHCA-p5cIndeed. But for the moment, after leaving CofE, it is just me and Mrs. (Matthew 18:20) and seeing where the Lord leads us.
@@waynelawrence6972 A suggestion: “IF” you have not already, please consider going to Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament (also known as “Holy Hour”). Call your local parish and find out when they offer it. Then, just go and sit in silence in Christ’s Presence. Take your bible. Read scripture, pray, contemplate. Tell the Lord of your search for truth, of your doubts, worries, even fears. Then, be as patient with Him as He has been with you. When you receive the grace to know that HE IS THERE, you will be forever changed. Miracles occur in Christ’s presence - of that I can personally attest.
@OHCA-p5c our lady was in the upper room.
“Everyone will call her blessed”
What do you consider yourself?
Joseph and mother Mary accepted the will of God so thus they were blessed,,🙏♥️
@OHCA-p5che cant hear you.. unless maybe he is omnipresent or omniscient?
@@BiglariProductionscan you cite where in the Bible it says they cant hear our prayers?
@@davidn9518 That is very flawed and wrong logic…
Just because the Bible doesn’t explicitly state something, it doesn’t automatically make the opposite true.
The Bible doesn’t specifically say ‘saints can’t hear us,’ but it also doesn’t say they can.
The argument that ‘if the Bible doesn’t forbid it, it must be allowed’ is dangerous because it could be applied to many false practices.
For example,
The Bible doesn’t specify that it’s wrong to abuse animals, so can we conclude that animal cruelty is acceptable?
@@BiglariProductions but Protestants claim they can't as if it is fact. A Protestants favorite saying is where is that in the Bible. So I'm using your logic. Let's make it even easier, where in the Bible does it say God is omnipresent. Remember you need the exact word omnipresent just like denying the Eucharist because the word was not used. So citation please.
@@davidn9518 Well you shouldn’t clump all Protestants into one bubble, brother.
I don’t agree with that technique which you are right, a lot of protestants use.
Of course it is important for something to be based in the word of God, but yes there are some things which aren’t in it - for example using wedding rings when you get married etc. thats not in the bible yet it is completely fine.
But anyways i just don’t think its normal for a human who has moved on to the next life to be able to hear people on this earth. I believe only God can hear us.
Now what I realized is that I wouldn’t have a problem with someone praying to God to ask for Him to tell the saints to pray for us, but my problem is with the idea that one can speak to Saints who aren’t living on Earth.
For example If be okay with saying “My heavenly Father, please have your saints pray for me for this situation im facing.”
But I wouldn’t say “Saint Joseph pray for me in this situation I’m facing”
It makes it seem as if one speaks directly to saints who aren’t on Earth…
What are your thoughts on this?
Remember the ark brother…stayed in the hill country for 3 months…Mary stays with Elizabeth for 3 months…remember king David would dance in front of the ark…John leaps In Elizabeth’s womb
Those are some shotty & highly speculative connections & conclusions to say the least. Remember that Jesus now comes to live inside all believers. I guess that makes us the Ark of the covenant now? What erroneous speculative conjectures you come up with... This is not the result of exegesis but reading into the text what you want it to say. Stick to eating the eucharist and counting your beads.
@@GoldenCup888wow man that ain’t Christ like at all. Humble your self brother and speak with kindness to a fellow brother of Jesus.
@@damonmeier3652 My pointing out heresy that leads to hellfire is offensive? I guess following the example of the Mother Harlot in Rome (torture, burn, and unalive millions of innocent people) is the "Christ like" example we should follow? Oh And heaven forbid we become offended by it.. Let's just turn a blind eye and pretend it never happened..
Very evil that Harlot and her followers that get offended for the smallest things yet commit the gravest of sins. Yet real followers of Christ around the world are martyred (mostly evangelicals) every day for their Faith, but you're offended because I said eat your wafer and count beads???
@@damonmeier3652 Many evangelicals around the world are being martyred for their Faith, yet you're offended by "eat your wafer and count your beads?
@@GoldenCup888pray that those scales blocking your eyesight will eventually fall off for you yo see the truth.
No one today listens. They all learn by talking. This man is revealing the richness in scripture and know-it-alls and smart asses don't want it.
@@HAL9000-su1mz know it alls and smart asses such as yourself
The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item.
God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked.
What does the Bible say?
1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.
6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God.
7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods!
Worship God in spirit and in truth
8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
God shares his glory with no one
9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.
10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.”
Reminders
11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame.
12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom
15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
End times
17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples
19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!”
21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS Where does it say exactly what you claim it says? It does not. You are adding to scripture which is equally fatal as Pagan idolatry.
Some ignorant but well-meaning person has taught you to bear false witness. I would repent of that.
You are a child of the "reform" - which was incited by egotistical men who suddenly developed a hatred of sacred icons. But wait! Each of these self-appointed saviors took time to pose for numerous portraits of THEMSELVES!
Talk about idolatry!
I repented and I urge you to repent.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS
Least Idolatrous and Satanic Protestant:
@@VALLERONUEVEROSno catholic is worshipping Mother Mary! You got it wrong.. just listen to what Sam here id discussing on his podcast.
So beautiful, Sam. You bring the scene to vivid life ❤❤❤. Thank you.
Thank you brother Sam for bringing this subject to light.
Repent and believe in the Gospel.
Mary please pray for protestants and their conversion to your son and his one holy catholic and apostolic Catholic Church.
How she can hear millions of prayer at the same time? Can you explain it to me please
@ Please listen to the video. I believe the channel host mentioned something about it. He’s a far better communicator than me.
@@raulmedina9898 she doesn't directly but we believe as orthodox and catholics that saints are alive and that in heaven they also go to divine liturgy, so during the church service in heaven jesus would ask the people there if they want to pray for the people who asked for the prayers. basically God gives the saints this information , just like God gives the angels the information they need to protect us
Is a bible verse that you can give me or a teaching of the apóstols that that I can read? What I understand you is that no body pry to Mary you pray to Jesus to tell Mary if she can ask Jesus for your petitio. Is that correct?
@@Spiritof76Catholic you said it clearly in your comment, you worship the church. Leave your dead works, take up your cross and follow Christ brother repent of your rituals and sorcery, repent and ye shall be saved! ...There, see how that looks? You are being a jerk.
The Holy Spirit filled Elzabeth to give her prophecy about Mary.
Sure, including Lord muted his husband until the name John was accepted!
Not only is The Theotokos the mother of God, but she is the Nee Ark Of The Covenant. She holds the the living law of man in her womb. Who can contain the entire universe in her womb? Who can contain the power of God in her womb? This is not just a parable. Just like Moses put the tablets of the law in the Ark.
You people are insane
@@timotheus6347 please explain. This is the kind of answer of a brainwashed person. Are you atheist? New age Christian? Mormon? SDA
@@MM-jh4cp 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,
Thats Romans 1: 21 23
Now i really need your attention for the following part... you ready? Here it goes:
Romans 1: 25
"25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
From my responds.. i hope your question is answered.
Nobody worships Mary over God, so you answered nothing because just like other protestants you are dumb and have to distort scripture in order to use it against hia church...@@timotheus6347
@@timotheus6347 i agree
The Holy Spirit is truly working through you, because you are sincere in your heart and humble before God. You are truly blessed Sam.
Holy.holy
Sam, even though I'm a Catholic, your explanation of luke opened my eyes to a totally different perspective.
God bless you Sam.
Just started to follow you Sam.
I am Catholic and feel embarrassed that I have now truly understood my faith until I have listened to your knowledge and understanding.
Thank you and God bless you Sam.
Gerard
From Ireland
Wait til Sam becomes Orthodox. Lol.
First of all, Protestants do not denigrate Mary. It’s unfortunate that he used that word. Mary was the vessel through which Christ came into the world, and her role in His birth is deeply appreciated. However, nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to give her the kind of veneration that Catholics do.
The Bible does not ask us to pray to Mary, nor does it state that she intercedes with the Father on our behalf as Jesus does. Therefore, we are not called to include her in our prayers in the way Catholics do.
Sam, God bless your integrity and humbleness. It is not easy for humans saved or unsaved, to admit when we’ve been wrong. But you’ve given your brothers an example to follow. I get discouraged t times when I see Christians from different faith traditions get caught up in petty disagreements, rather than coming together in harmony with our commonality.
I was raised in the Catholic Church and school system. When I came to salvation it was in the Protestant church. And I wouldn’t change that for all the money in the world. But it did give rise to questions and concerns about some Catholic practices. For example the exoneration of the Mother Mary. But after watching a couple of your videos on the subject, I feel I can relax and reach out to Mary as well for example my Mom, who I know is in heaven. She was the faith leader/Christian Matriarch of our family. I just always thought, once she’d left to be with Lord, all knowledge of her family and 7 children would be wiped away. It’s a comforting thought knowing she is with Jesus, and still watching out for her family, even my children and grandchildren. And know understanding she’s achieved perfection in the Lord, I finally understand that her attendance to heavens Church and prayers would be so much more heard my the Lord❤
Sam is right, at a point in my life I thought like a Protestant. I used to say Mary and the other Saints will be bowing down to Christ with me. As if I had the same status as Mother Mary. Lord please forgive me for my arrogance. I wish I had the fervent passion the Lord requires of us as shown by the Early Church!! I pray He increases my knowledge and maintains in me a clear heart, devoted to our Lord and enhance by His Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, of which I came back to and am now, with my wife, raising our 5 kids in the fullness of the Truth.
Amen! Blessings from our Triune LORD on your family!
Welcome Home
You want to raise your kids in this fullness of delusion?!!?
I can hardly wait to explode on the scence and let everything out with all vim and vigor... THIS has to stop.
Are you so easily convinced, so easy to be led astray?
Simpletons
@@ernestannapetrone7106 what exactly dont you understand when it is said " every knee shall bow, and every tounge confess that Jesus Christ is Lord?!?!?!
@@timotheus6347 I understand that and agree with you. I’m saying I am not worthy enough like Mother Mary or the Saints who having found grace by God led blessed lives. Obviously they hold special places in the Kingdom which for me is deserving of respect.
Im protestant but of course, Bless-ed Mary, is by far the greatest Woman of all time. ❤
Yes she was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and the WORD became flesh. She is The spouse of the Holy Spirit I ont htink many get that.
She is the ark of the new covenant in the new testament
I was going to write some things about Mary, but all that came out were blessings. ❤
Catholics have no idols in Christ in His Church.
But His Mother is honored in our churches.. He would never refuse His mother. At her request, against His thinking of His time not right before the Heavenly Father, obeyed His mother performing His first miracle at the wedding of Cana.
No one can see God can live.
But Mary every day and night saw the face of God in her son.
We do not take God casually Who can refuse us at the gate of heaven.
To be Christ’s mother is a reality beyond us. Likewise she shared only what Christ wanted, our redemption and salvation. Mary cared for nothing else but to fulfill God’s mission for her. Her eyes did not wander or seek physical pleasure.
He was blessing her, but likewise saying all who follow suit are blessed. Not setting her up above everyone else.
Exactly! How did they miss this? That He's blessing "everyone" who hear and obey God.
We never said that he doesn't bless the people who do the word of God also, what is the protestant obsession with humiliating mary? What did she do to you
@@kingoflebanon1986 saying Mary is as blessed as everyone else who follows Jesus is 'humiliating'? That's exactly what Jesus said. Word for word.
@@Abeliever000 not true, when the angel visited Mary in Luke1, he told her that she's blessed among women and will be known as blessed for all generations, then he used the word hail meaning chaire in Greek, which In those days was only used for a superior, then there's an entire song about how blessed she is and how blessed the fruit of her womb, also no one ever did the word of God like Mary since she was obedient to him from birth till the cross and after his resurrection, she never abandoned him, also she literally gave birth to God, no one else ever has, but protestants insist she has no important role whatsoever
@@kingoflebanon1986 God chose her to give birth to Jesus...He can choose any vessel. That doesn't make anyone superior! Also no one knows about her childhood. She was obedient to 1 command and that's all that's known from the Bible.
Now stop.
A truly beautiful and worthy teaching on our Blessed Mother
My love for the holy Mary keeps increasing daily
Question: Why did Christ say "Woman, what have I to do with you?" (Yes I know He then fulfilled her request, which makes one question all the more what the point of His statement was). Next one: If the interpretation of all generations calling her blessed must be that making appeals to her spirit/ glorified being must be a required liturgical element, rather than acknowledgement simply affirmed in the course of reading those passages, and of course especially highlighted by and through the Spirit as a testimony at the time and place the events occurred, just as the Spirit has attested other events at the time they happened, then why do none of the epistles make mention of her in their beginning and ending blessings? I definitely call Mary blessed, I affirm that she was a singular human being granted a privilege and responsibility conferred on no other, and that perhaps only meeting Christ Himself will outshine the opportunity to meet her in eternity. I have a hard time getting around one God, and one mediator between man and God, however.
Jesus was calling his mother by her title: She is the Woman (The new Eve). She is the woman who will crush the serpent's head. Genesis chapter 3.
Thanks much for this video
Genius. I needed this.
thank you for clipping this bro.
I used to think like a protestant before. Until I grew more into His word and had a personal experience by the Blessed Mother, I honor her each day and more.
It's a miracle.
GBY brothers and sisters.
@@SomeOrthoBro what was the experience like??
What was your experience?
The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item.
God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked.
What does the Bible say?
1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.
6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God.
7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods!
Worship God in spirit and in truth
8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
God shares his glory with no one
9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.
10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.”
Reminders
11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame.
12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom
15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
End times
17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples
19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!”
21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS Be consistent with your own theology then and remove images that you have of any sort, not only from your home, but from your phone and computer and anything else you may have that can store images, pictures of family, partners, yourself, anything of the sort, even pictures of nature, for if people aren't allowed to have images, even if they dont worship the image itself, then you aren't allowed to have them either in no way, shape or form, not to mention that by your own logic you can't even read the Bible, because words on paper can still be considered an image, therefore you're not allowed to have it, which is funny because then the Bible refutes itself, which it clearly doesnt, but that's what you're arguing for.
@@LeonJohn4444 Clearly you don’t understand the verse am I so called venerating my family members which catholics use that word it’s still falls under idolatry.Catholics kiss the images statues pray and bow to them!And don’t get me started with purgatory if it existed Jesus Christ would of died and resurrected in vain. IF IT IS WRONG TO MAKE GRAVEN IMAGES, WHY DID GOD COMMAND MOSES TO MAKE ONE?
PROBLEM: God clearly commanded in Exodus 20:4: “You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath.” Yet here Moses is instructed by God to “make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work” (v. 18). If making images of any heavenly object is wrong, then why did God command Moses to make some on the ark of the covenant?
SOLUTION: The prohibition against making graven images was distinctly set in the context of worshiping idols. There are, then, several reasons why making the cherubim does not conflict with this command not to bow down to graven images. First, there was no chance that the people of Israel would fall down before the cherubim in the most holy place, since they were forbidden to go in the holy place at any time. Even the high priest went only once a year on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16).
Further, the prohibition is not against making any carved image for decorative purposes, but of those used in religious worship. In other words, they were not to worship any other God or any image of any god. These cherubim were not given to Israel as images of God; they were angels. Nor were they given to be worshiped. Hence, there is no way in which the command to make them violated the commandment in Exodus 20.
Finally, the prohibition in Exodus 20 is not against religious art as such, which includes things in heaven (angels) and on earth (humans or animals). Rather, it was against using any image as an idol. That idolatry envisioned is evident from the fact they were instructed not to “bow down to them nor serve them” (Ex. 20:5). The distinction between non-religious use of images and a religious use is important:
THE USE OF IMAGES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF GOD
Even language about God in the Bible contains images. God is both a shepherd and a father. But each of these is appropriately qualified. God is not just any father. He is our Heavenly Father. Likewise, Jesus is not just any shepherd, but the Good Shepherd who gave His life for His sheep (John 10:11). No finite image can be appropriately applied to the infinite God without qualification. To do so is idolatry. And idols are idols whether they are mental or metal.
Those who have an ear let him here what the spirit of the lord say on to him .
So should we give Mary the status that chotlics give her " THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN" ? "CO-REDEEMER WITH JESUS"? A "GODDESS "
Yes you should
@@universalflamethrower6342 not today Satan
No, she’s not a god. I love Sam but I disagree with him on this topic.
@@settingthecaptivesfreeministry Mary is not God, she is the daughter of God The Father, Mother of God The Son and Bride of The Holy Spirit. It is all part of The Tradition, you can read it in The Bible and you can personally ask Jesus if this is true.
Have you read Rev 12, A GREAT SIGN APPEARED WHERE? IN HEAVEN the Woman clothed with the son and A CROWN OF 12 STARS, There she is in heaven wearing a crown. How do you mis this even with a cursory understanding of scripture. Stop these ridiculous objections.
"Righteous comes before family." Who is my mother? Who is my father? ❤
Boom. Thank you God❤
You never miss on these videos!!
Jesus is the name above all other names. Even Mary's.
@@christafarion9 Amen Jesus is above all and we give respect and veneration to her.
@@sweetpeaa4512 do me a favor: look up veneration in the dictionary, and then look up worship. The definitions are synonymous.
He would have to apply that logic to the brothers as well who at the time weren’t faithful in Christ before the resurrection.
The problem is not knowing that Mary was a blessed amongst all the women on the earth < the problem is when you pray to her and put faith in her image in hopes of a blessed miracle.
So basically , you want to make the title Meaningless and deny her intercesion despite her intercesion being literally what began Christ's Ministry .
Protestant ignorance could power a Star with its intensity
They put people in their lives on a pedestal but think it’s wrong to do this for Mary…go figure
May I ask a sincere question as a protestant.
If I only have the Bible and I follow it with all my heart, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Savior of my soul from my sins as the Scriptures say, but I dont necessarily agree with all of the Catholic teachings, as a born again believer, am I still saved?
Every person, saint, angel, which is mentioned more than Jesus name, reduces Jesus.
The more someone talks about Mary, he talks less about Jesus.
The more people thinks, Jesus on the cross was insufficient and failed (statement of the pope himself) the less worth get the sacrifise of the son of God.
The more pictures of Mary on the wall, the less focus is on Jesus.
The more prayers goes to saint, the less is someone talking and having Relationship to Jesus.
The more believers think, Jesus obeys Mary (prayers to be heared and fullfilled) and priests(while Mass), the less God allmighty Jesus gets.....
Channels who talks more about Mary than about Jesus, they worship Mary more than Jesus, loves Mary more than Jesus.
I have respect to Sam and his knowledge about islam and bible. But even he is not infailable. Nobody is. Trusting in man made rules and leaders.
Even (maybe) lies spread centuries ago. Ignore Contradictions and creepy statues inside the Vatican audience Hall..... ignoring the staff of the pope with 3 sticks on the top which is used from witches, given by a female wearing a red wrist band....
Blessing same se* marriage, kissing a quran, Burning bibles in the past history, persecute christians with other believe about salvation.... Even want to baptise aLIEns..... (fallen Angels). Popes which ARE failable.... but trusting them and their "history" and teachings......
I cant understand it.
I respect Sam. But i dont think, the fruits of Church leaders were good....
Mary is an humble wonderful woman, who was a awesome vessel and servant to God (she called herself servant and Jesus as her savior which only need sinners).
I Love her for what she did. But there is until now a Chance that excalting Mary is false and that in Judgment day or when you die, God could say, Mary isnt the Queen of heaven.
Queen of heaven were a goddess of pagan believers too.... And God rebuked that (isaiah or jeremiah).
God bless you, Sam.
As a non-Catholic Christian I just can’t bend my mind on praying to her when I’m totally okay with praying to Jesus, my Lord God and Yahweh God. I don’t worship her bc Jesus and God have said do not worship any other god. I don’t have any thing bad to say about Mary, the mother of Jesus and I if asked about her I do honor in the way that she was chosen and blessed among all women to carry Jesus. I do honor her in that way. I will never kneel to pray to her image or her w/o the image, never. I have Jesus and God to pray to and put all my faith into and believe in them. I posted this before listening to your message. Will hear you now.
Do you still keep your words after watching? Now I'm gonna watch it🙂
Stop bearing false witness. Catholics do not worship Mary.
@@veronicaleon8075 Stick to your position but leave us alone.
Prayer - Is a form of communication.
(It does not mean Worship)
Explanation: Prayer is a way to talk to God, like having a conversation. While some prayers include worship (such as praising God’s greatness), others are simply requests, confessions, or expressions of gratitude.
Example:
. If you pray to God asking for help with your monthly bills, that prayer is a request - not an act of worship. You are sharing your needs, not worshipping God because of your financial situation.
. Just like when you ask someone to pray for you, the difference is that Mary, Jesus’ Blessed Mother, is literally with Jesus right now in Heaven. Isn’t it more likely that Jesus would listen to His Blessed Mother(who He specifically choose to be inside her belly/physically designed to come into the world) who is right beside Him, just like He did at the wedding at Cana?
(John 2:1-11): When the wine ran out, Mary told Jesus, “They have no more wine.” Even though Jesus initially said, “My hour has not yet come,” He still performed the miracle at her request.
veronicaleon8075 You are bearing false witness thereby going against the 9th Commandment by saying Catholics worship the Virgin Mary. If that is not the case, you have a pagan mindset as prayer does not equate to worship, only pagans think like this.
It is interesting that Sam says when he humbled himself the Holy Spirit showed him the truth about Mary. At the same time on the Protestant side they are people that say absolutely the same and a different truth is revealed to them. We can come with a lot of counter arguments against one or another but the reality I think will be revealed to us I heaven.
Look how Apostle Paul handles Mother Mary.
Galatians 4
4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
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26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother
When he talks about Jesus coming through woman, Paul never exalts Mother Mary or specially mention her, he just states her as "a woman," but in the SAME CHAPTER when he talks about the holy city of Jerusalem, he calls it "Our mother."
Apostle Paul never had any interest in exalting Mary, nor he needed to.
Imagine what these "Apostolic Priests" would've said if they were writing that verse. they would've said "born of a woman, our holy mother, the closest human being to our Lord, higher than any human, dwells up in the heaven, our most highness Saint Forever Virgin Mary."
Paul says A woman. That's all. God sent Jesus through a woman, whom was Mary, she was used for that, and she is a blessed woman for that. End of the story. That is "APOSTOLIC."
It doesn't discount what Luke wrote.We should interpret according to the entirety of the scripture and the norm and the belief from the Early Churches.The Lord called his mother WOMAN too at the crucifixion : Before He died, while hanging on the cross, Jesus looked at His mother and His beloved apostle, John (the only one present) and said “'Woman, behold, your son! ' Then He said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother! '” . Whose mother ? and And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”So this Woman is essential if you see the connection rather than saying our Holy Mother.
Blessings and Prayers.
God wants us to worship him only for he is a jealous God. You cant go wrong to pray to him alone because the bible says so .I m surprised about this video from brother Sam. Mary was blessed and is well respected by protestants she was chosen by God to fulfill .
Yes, Mary is blessed as the scripture says.
The apostles are blessed as they too heard the word and accepted the word of God.
Today all believers who hear the Word and accept it is also blessed.
Real contention.
You must only worship the Lord/Father/Haly Spirit.
No worship to Saints or any other. Only Jesus and in His name.
AMEN!!!!
Everybody who does the will of God means anybody who does the will of God,Abraham did the will of God,not mary primarily,not worship of mary,although she did have an important PART in God's plan,so did Moses,Joshua,Abraham etc,etc.
I don't buy into Sam's "excegesis"...
It's bloody obvious He doesn't call her Holy Mother ( unscriptural)
STOP this insanity Show me where the Catholic Church teaches to Give the Saints Worship as we do God? Show me. Get a Catechism and read it then stop telling these lies.
Veneration is not worship
@@ServusViva Wrong heretic
@@ServusViva interesting that you all say it is veneration and not worship. I was just in a catholic church and watched the people crawling a long isle to the foot of mary statue. Didnt see any crawling to Jesus statue. Just wondering what the tipping point is from veneration to worship?
Not worshipping and praying to her is not 'denigrating' her, its just not defying what the Bible warns NOT TO DO!
Sam needs to stop the constant "if you don't do what we do you are therefore ... " then jumping to the extreme opposite end of the spectrum, its cheap and lousy and indeed in bad faith.
Catholics do not worship Mary.. stop saying we do!!!
Catholics believe Mary intercedes to the father on our behalf (just like Jesus)...which is false teaching. No where in the Bible does it say any person other than Jesus intercedes to the father on our behalf. Also Catholics pray to Mary. Direct me to where in the Bible we are instructed to pray to Mary@@davidgomez1187
@blackwhite2361 big dummy.. Catholics do not teach Mary intercedes for us to the Father...she intercedes to Jesus for us. This is seen in the bible. The old testament we can see that the kings queen was not the wife but the mother. And the queen mother would intercede for the people to the king. But now Jesus is the real king. And guess what? Mary is his mother making her the real queen that intercede for us to the king Jesus 🙌🏽..
@@blackwhite2361to pray in old English means to ask. If I say “pray tell”, I’m asking you to explain. I’m basically asking Mary to pray for me. Protestants do this very same thing when they ask fellow Christians to pray for them. And guess what they’re doing? They’re intervening on their behalf, or interceding. The only difference is that Mary is closer to God than you.
When I was a Protestant, I was never instructed to denigrate Mary. It was never brought up to me to denigrate her. Why would that be an issue to denigrate Mary. However; Elizabeth’s greeting of Mary is not commanded of us to either worship or pray to Mary. Mary, as everyone else, other than Yeshua and Enoch are carried to or ascended to heaven. Your definition of Honoring Mary is not the same as worshipping or praying to her.
That was also my immediate reaction. "Denigrate Mary?" Of course not! As many here are saying, there's HONORING Mary and then there is WORSHIPPING Mary! That's the line we're considered with.
Yeah, Mary was blessed, but there are women who will birth a child for someone, but very few like Stephen (who was really "full of grace") who will die in pain for Christ (saying forgive them). I seriously wonder how much this distracts from Christ.
Mary is indeed blessed among women. However the problem is not so much with her "denigration" but with her deification.
To most protestants the lines are blurred than to most Catholics. They judge what THEY think is in a Catholic person's heart. The majority of Catholics know what is what. We worship only the HOLY TRINITY. FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT. The LORD JESUS is our only savior. Our whole church is about JESUS. We revere the saints, prophets, angels and martyrs that dedicated their lives to our LORD.
How exactly is the following prayer misintetpreted " Oh Mary to thee we give our hearts, our bodies, and our souls"
Are you insane?!
@timotheus6347 It's probably not going to make much sense to you now but, much of the language of old prayers had different meaning than the modern English that we use in America. I won't try to explain because I'm not an expert in anything but the Three Stooges, but I know as a Catholic we aren't allowed to worship Mary. The church doesn't promote Mary on the same level as GOD the FATHER or The SON or The HOLY SPIRIT. She's the most blessed human but only JESUS is our savior. I know it's hard for someone from outside of the church to believe this but it's true. We can't worship Mary as we do GOD.
@@marcoaguilar2394 i understand.. though i would really like to see, and know what you mean.
@timotheus6347 You can look up where that prayer came from and see the explanation for why certain words back then didn't have the same meaning as we interpret today. I know that sounds kinda tricky but still us Catholics do not worship The Blessed Mother Mary. It looks like a fine line between worship and reverence. Again I'm not eloquent enough to explain the Old English meaning of certain words from that prayer but, there are explanations that you can research.
Also, I don't know of protestants who denigrate Mary, and we don't say she's not blessed. We know and accept that she is, and it's great because she's been chosen for that particular task or instance.
I do however know that we don't all agree that she is the mother of God. We also know that you believe she is the mother of God. I don't, because if I do, that it means that I believe there is more than one god.
God gives life to everyone, he brought Mary's Spirit to Earth for this very reason, he chose her for this mission to bring Jesus to life.
His Angel's protecting her from satan from her Birth.
Sam if my old ears serve me right I thought you may have said Mary is greater than God, but I think you may have misspoke and really meant she is greater than St John at time stamp 17:04? Our Blessed Mother is not only greater than any saint, angel, or other creature, but she is greater than all the creatures combined which is right and just since she is the new covenant Ark and Tabernacle and eternally perfect as He would want her to be, yet she worships her Son just as we must worship Him. We love her just as He loves her. I will never forget what Roy Schoeman heard her say when he had an apparition of her: "Oh you don't understand, I am nothing, He is EVERYTHING!" We won the eternal lotto to be made from nothing, and to top that off He also made us His children, and on top of that we sinned which made us even lower than nothing yet He forgives us by His own tortures and death. All for the greater good to have more eternal gratitude! GOD BLESS YOU SAM, wally
Hi guys, I dont have a denomination as things stand. Im currently Bible only. I wanted to ask, genuinely so, regarding veneration which I do not understand. Im not for or against it. But rather im seeking the truth. Is Mary able to hear all our prayers to the Lord? When catholics ask her to pray on their behalf, how is she able to hear all those requests? Also since Jesus said "I am the Way the Truth & the Life, no one gets to the Father except through me" did he mean that anything we ask in his name will be granted by the Father? If that is the case, wouldnt that mean that we NEED only Jesus? & Veneration is an acknowledgement and showing respect to the saints? Essentially what I am asking is does Veneration affect salvation?
If Marry was so important then why didn't Jesus confirmed her? No one isn't saying she isn't important in the long line of preparation for Jesus's coming. Don't let anyone take your eyes off Jesus! No one stands between man and Jesus. Jesus was very clear. He is the only way...
HE IS NOT DEVIATING FROM THE TRIUNE God...he is saying she is esteemed and blessed.
Jesus did when he told his beloved disciple to take care of her
He said INDEED which means he agreed and then made it clear his mother kept the commandments and so should we to be like her and him
We can never Love and Honor Mary more than Jesus does.
"Behold your Mother.”
Jesus made her perfect and without sin.
Thank You Jesus for sharing Your Mother with us from the Cross.
John 19:26-27
POWERFUL POWERFUL POWERFUL 💯 💪 FACTS YOUR ALWAYS IN MY PRAYERS SAM A CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC ROMAN CATHOLIC, A SINNER OF SINNERS WHO GREW UP WITH MS13 AND LIKE YOU MY BROTHER AND LIKE SAUL AKA ST. PAUL GOD ALMIGHTY IN JESUS HOLY NAME WITH AND IN THE HOLY GHOST THRU THE POWER OF THE HOLY TRINITY, HAS BLESSED ME MUCH WISDOM ASWELL, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MY BROTHER IN CHRIST AND JUST KNOW UR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN , , NOTHING LIKE HOLY MASS THE ETERNAL COVENANT, PRAYER THE HOLY ROSARY AND MEDITATION OF HIS WORD THE MEMRA THE LOGOS....
21:50 Mary is blessed, as are all believers in the word of God. 🤷♂️
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man christ Jesus."
We honour Mary as we honour all believers.
Where in the scriptures it says that we must ask Mary to pray for us?? 🤷♂️
Christ is the mediator who intercedes for us. Not Mary.
I totally agree with you. Usually Sam is on point, but this is a very weak argument. I don't want to go through with several passages and point out the problems with his logic, but I'll leave with just one.
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
I believe you aren’t understanding just as I was when I was a Protestant.
Intercession and mediation are two different things.
Praying to Mary or other saints is asking for intercession.
Just as you a Protestant would ask a church member to pray for you, you are asking for intercession.
What Protestants don’t have is 2000 years of church history and tradition. Therefore they do not understand the church militant and church triumphant of the body of Christ.
Those who have passed on in the body are in the church triumphant.
Prayer from one who is holy is powerful. Who is truly holy other than those who have been redeemed?
Why can’t you ask for prayer/intercession from the church triumphant?
That Is a Christian tradition for 2000 years.
Most Protestant denominations today started from the 1800s to the last 50 years.
Protestants do not have these traditions and teachings passed on my the apostles and church fathers.
In essence Protestants made up their own church based on interpretations of each individual who started that church.
Christ is the mediator but intercession of the Saints is biblical.
I will point to where it says pray for one another…
So Mary is one of us…
Let me guess, you will say she’s dead… Then you’d have to refute the words of Christ Mt: 22:29-32…
You know you don’t honor Mary, because I will ask you, how do you honour her and you would not be able to answer…
Moreover, you should read Lk1:48… Have you called her Blessed Mary ever??? If you have not acknowledged this, when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her and Jesus Christ was in her womb, and she uttered those words, then you have not even honored her one bit…
Edit:
Do you ask Jesus to pray for you??? If you think asking Mary to pray for you is worship, I dare you to say Jesus pray for me… Jesus is our mediator right??? And you can ask only the mediator to pray for you, so I dare you to say it…
@ Well said.
The Holy Theotokos is the Uncut Mountain of Daniel. She's the Lady of Rev 12. Teach Protestants about Holy Joachim and Anna, and how the Holy Theotokos lived in the Great Temple from age 3 to her betrothment at age 13 to the very aged St. Joseph, a widower, who had children from his late wife. Children like St. James, adopted brother of Christ.
i don't know why it's so complicated to understand that Mary was a perpetual virgin..some sources say Joseph was 90 yrs old when they got married..which only adds credibility to the fact they couldn't have been together physically..and about the brothers of Jesus, it would only add credibility that they were his brothers from the line of joseph probably trough one of his previous marriages..or as sam says cousins..
I am protestant and I dont know anyone who denigrates Mary, but I see Catholics crawling to statue of Mary. Your points confirm my belief that Mary is special but not above any believer. Like you said, Mary obeyed Gods WORD and did it. So do all the faithful. Love your teaching.
Crawling to statue? Not above any believer. I hope you always do Gods will and just imagine if you can take on that kind of favor of being God the Sons parent with that pure heart.
Protestant is a real illness. You would prefer to reject the truth and graces just to one up Catholicism.
Do you know why they crawl to her? Or maybe seem its for her? Have yoi ask any of them why?
@@davidgomez1187 No. I dont speak spanish. My bible always says only bend your knee to God. Angels always say "stand up".
@garybeharrell3972 that's your problem stop trying to read Spanish
No one denigrate Mary, they just don't worship her, all consider her blessed for bearing the son
Catholic doesn't worship Mary check the word venerate please you are misinformed..
@@renantedinoy2862Catholics believe Mary intercedes to the father on our behalf (just like Jesus)...which is false teaching. No where in the Bible does it say any person other than Jesus intercedes to the father on our behalf. Also Catholics pray to Mary. Direct me to where in the Bible we are instructed to pray to Mary
Where in the scriptures does it say that we must, or can ask Mary to pray for us??
She obeyed so God blessed her
I do no seek to argue with anyone,
But it is important to understand.
This is what Virgin Mary said.
Luke 1:47
47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
Sam, Did she also needed God’s salvation?
Because in Mexico the church teaches that She was conceived without the original sin.
Is this Biblically true?
Does this need to be explained?
John 7:5-8
5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him.
6 Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.
8 “You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.”
? My Dear Mom and later my Dad, they both died,
Are you able to tell me how many indulgences in the form of masses , that we should purchase, in order that WE rescue them both out of purgatory?
Because you see, they were not wearing the scapular of the Virgin, so that she could come and rescue them on the first Saturday after their death.
? Question, what do we need to do to obey God in this verse?
not to be confused with
Exod 20:3
Exodus 20:4
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
she was a temple virgin until she menstruated and was banish from the temple.
nobody says the catholic church has not been controlled by evil men...but and by the catholic church the religion stood strong until the printing press....sure the church was like the pharisees...many believe the first church was in Britain built in 47AD....HIS BROTHERS WERE jOSEPH'S CHILDREN....wHY WOULD THEY BELIEVE HIM UNTIL HE BECOME FULLY ENLIGHTENED.
Mary was a sinner like everyone else and in need of a savior. The Catholic Church is just another cult. They pervert the gospel in massive way.
@gerardoreyes 721 The original reformers, Luther, Calvin and Zwingli, not only accepted but openly expressed their belief in Mary remaining a virgin her whole life. And even some of the latter important Protestant figures like Cranmer and Wesley kept this belief.
Cardinal Newman, a convert to the Catholic faith - “nothing can bring a clean thing out of an unclean.” In other words, to bear the perfect sinless Son of God, Mary must be sinless herself - as Catholics would say, immaculately conceived.
That Christians from the very beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is obvious.
The catacombs are the cradle of all Christian art. Since their discovery in the sixteenth century-on May 31, 1578, an accident revealed part of the catacomb in the Via Salaria-and the investigation of their contents that has gone on steadily ever since, we are able to reconstruct an exact idea of the paintings that adorned them. That the first Christians had any sort of prejudice against images, pictures, or statues is a myth (defended amongst others by Erasmus) that has been abundantly dispelled by all students of Christian archaeology. The idea that they must have feared the danger of idolatry among their new converts is disproved in the simplest way by the pictures, even statues, that remain from the first centuries. Even the Jewish Christians had no reason to be prejudiced against pictures, as we have seen; still less had the Gentile communities any such feeling. They accepted the art of their time and used it, as well as a poor and persecuted community could, to express their religious ideas
Basically , she points and leads to the real Christ and not the false image they have made of Him .For that they hate her .
Amen, all thanks and praise be to God.
'Blessed is Mary and blessed is the fruit of her womb Jesus.'
PS. God's messenger, the angle relayed God's words, not Calvin's opinions, not no TV evangelists opinion, not no 16th century heretical theories.
ALL THANKS AND PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, THE CREATOR OF ALL THAT IS SEEN AND UNSEEN.
Protestants, your pride and arrogance,.your hatred and narcissism (love of thyself) is outright BLASPHEMY.
We are praying for you.
Tenete Traditiones (as ordered),
God bless.
Jhon said the same thing for one whose whome saddles im unworthy to un do
Come on, so John The Baptist was greater than Mary *until the Pentecost* and then they switched positions? That's a weak reasoning. Moreover, don't you realize that The Great Apostles of our Lord received The Word of Jesus and did them, to the point that even Paul could say, " Follow me as I follow Christ."? Mary didn't say that, neither did any of them say, " Follow Mary as she followed Christ.". If you think that protestants, by expressing their stance in Mary's dogmas, are denigrating her, you should be happy rather than spending your energy to find out how you can defend and elevate her by The Word of God, which you actually twist. Doesn't our Lord say, not simply said but *still says* that if we were maligned, it's for our glory? Don't you know that we even need not defend our Lord Jesus Christ, however non-believers may depict Him? We don't need to bomb Jesus's blasphemers as the Muslims do when Mohammed is insulted. We ought to defend THE WORD OF JESUS CHRIST in its entirety. And no one rejects anything Mary said within the covers of The Scriptures. Outside of The Scriptures, no matter what the so-called church fathers wrote or believed, whatever is attributed to Mary is a shaking ground.
Word
Sam, I see how a connection can be made between Luke 11:28 (a general definition of those blessed; "...they that hear the word of God, and keep it") and Luke 8:21 (specific definition of those blessed: "...My mother and my brethren are these...").
However, both these verses use plural language and, if actually intended by the Holy Spirit to be connected, must necessarily refer to the entire group of people Jesus spoke about: His mother & His brothers.
Within the language of those verses I see no room for elevating Mary, the mother of Jesus, above Jesus' brothers.
With this understanding of these verses I don't read any "denigration" into the text, nor do I read a singular (Mary only) into the text since Jesus included His brothers when He defined who "...they that hear the word of God, and keep it" are.
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As for Elisabeth's experience with the Holy Spirit after Mary's greeting, I see that as one of the two witnesses required ("In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established"), and Joseph being the other after his dream stopped him from discharging Mary.
Without those two witnesses attesting to Mary's visitation by the angel we can assume there would be nothing to write about in the Bible since Mary would eventually be proven a liar one way or the other: Either she wouldn't give birth or she would have been shown NOT to be a virgin before she gave birth.
But does that make her the queen of heaven? As Iv been told ever since I could remember. I grew up Catholic, over the past 20 years I have been on a journey to seek truth, and gain a relationship with Jesus. I believe the Lord has sent me on quite the journey, and it may lead full circle. I have always believed that Mary is blessed among all other women because God chose her, specifically. So of course she’s exceptionally blessed and deserves more honor than ordinary women. We learn, in the Bible, that men are not greater than women, each hold different rolls but are still equally the same. Since Jesus is the infinite God and the King of heaven, is Mary equal to him while being the Queen of heaven?
She is the wife of the Holy Spirit
Daughter of God the Father
Mother of God the Son
Where did you get your theology doctorate? 🧐
I don't understand... Sam is thinking that Protestants insist that Mary "didn't" hear the word the God, and obey it? Of course not, right? Protestants are saying Mary isn't "blessed?" Huh? Where? Scripture is saying that Mary is the most blessed obedient handmaiden of God, Protestants recognize this, do they not? Yes, the Holy Spirit loves Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Of course! I don't see Protestants arguing any of this!
I think he has been shaped by his tradition. It's something we all need to watch.
I also cringe, when he insists that human error and distortion could never have crept into the evolution of Church and tradition?
Did not distortions creep into the God ordained faith of the Old Covenant Jews? Jesus said, "yes."
Would this Divine Protection and Guidance of the Church be there during the dreaded Middle Ages? Was it there for the modern "Pedophile relocation program?"
Just some cringe inducing stuff.
This is a sad fixation. Yes Mary was important and blessed, afterall she carried Jesus. But there were was e.g. another man "full of grace" who died in agony for Christ (Stephen). He performed a great (greater?) role. Do we then deify, venerate, immaculately conceive, bodily assume on him? Look to Christ beyond ANY servant of Christ. He must increase, I must decrease
it’s not wrong to venerate someone who died especially in the LORDS name…no IF anything it PROVES GOD can AND has selected certain people who HAVE a certain attitude towards gods Grace…which INCREASES there response to Gods love and affection…I could say a different analogy for Judas He was a follower Of Christ but didn’t persevere in Christ and rejected Christ…Mary did the opposite she confirmed to Gods will so that God could be BORN…respect your mother
Jesus didn't say that Sam... not His mother, but anyone is blessed who hear and do the Word of God. Jesus is correcting them Sam. How can you be so confused of this?
My mother is a devout Christian. So, who is more blessed, my mother or Mary?
Who is greater? Who among human is greatest in heaven?
So. What about everyone else who hears and does his word.
Certainly she is as blessed us all of us who is saved. But she isn't God, this she should not be prayed to as the RC believe.
Who said she is God? Show me where in the Holy Scriptures says that one can not ask a saint, who is in presence of Holy Almighty God, for a prayer?
We ask for intercession to help our prayer reach Jesus. As the miracle in Cana, workers told Mary they ran out of wine. Mary reported it to Jesus and Mary told the worker to do what Jesus would tell them to do.
@@isans0507 The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item.
God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked.
What does the Bible say?
1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.
6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God.
7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods!
Worship God in spirit and in truth
8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
God shares his glory with no one
9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.
10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.”
Reminders
11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame.
12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom
15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
End times
17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples
19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!”
21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROSis the Ark of the Covenant a graven image?
Who says she is God? You ask your neighbor to pray for you? Is your neighbor GOD? THINK JUST A LITTLE.
1 Timothy 2:5 - Only Jesus
You know, Jesus has the same flesh and blood of his mother Mary!! So why should we deny his mother???
Catholics believe Mary intercedes to the father on our behalf (just like Jesus)...which is false teaching. No where in the Bible does it say any person other than Jesus intercedes to the father on our behalf. Also Catholics pray to Mary. Direct me to where in the Bible we are instructed to pray to Mary
@blackwhite2361 Do you pray to God the Father and recite the Lord's Prayer taught by Jesus? Do you ever asked your family members, friends, relatives etc to pray for you and for others? Why did Jesus pray to the Father? Can't we pray direct to the God the Father like Jesus did?
Honestly the first time I ever heard what Protestantism is, the name simply threw me off. Why would you ever want your nature to be anything "protesting" when it comes to God? That shouldnt make sense
Answer the question, how come a 6 month's old baby leapt for joy, in Elizabeth's womb, in response to Mary's greeting.
Divine Awareness: Many Christians believe that John the Baptist, even in the womb, had a unique awareness of the presence of Jesus. This suggests a special connection to the divine mission that John would later fulfill as the forerunner of Christ. His leap can be seen as an instinctive response to the presence of the Messiah.
Holy Spirit's Influence: According to Luke 1:41, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit when she heard Mary’s greeting. This filling of the Holy Spirit likely extended to John as well, causing him to leap for joy. This highlights the belief that God's Spirit can influence even the unborn.
Joyful Recognition: The leap can be interpreted as an expression of joy and recognition of Jesus’ significance. It symbolizes the deep joy that comes from encountering the Savior, even at such an early stage of life. This moment emphasizes the sanctity and value of life before birth, indicating that even the unborn can experience spiritual joy.
Significance of Mary’s Role: Mary’s visit to Elizabeth also underscores her role in God's plan. By carrying Jesus, the Incarnation, Mary brings the presence of God into the world. John’s response reflects the importance of Mary’s role as the mother of the Messiah and foreshadows the joy that Jesus will bring to many.
Covenantal Fulfillment: From a theological perspective, John’s leap can signify the fulfillment of God's promises throughout the Old Testament. His joyful response to the presence of Jesus illustrates the anticipation of the Messiah's coming and the hope that accompanies that event.
In summary, the leap of John the Baptist in Elizabeth's womb is a powerful moment that reflects divine awareness, the influence of the Holy Spirit, and the joy of recognizing Jesus’ presence, highlighting the significance of life and the roles of Mary and John within the biblical narrative.
@@builder101-x9j But this Divine awareness waited for Mary to be present first, then, secondly to greet Elizabeth. Does that not speak Volume to you about Mary. Let me advice you, if you play down, the significance of Mary in the scheme of salvation, you are clearly insulting Christ, and you are no friend of His. But, thank God, you clearly understands the indisputable role of Mary in Salvation history. God bless.
Acerca de si la iglesia pudo haber estado equivocada en esos tiempos iniciales, le recuerdo que la obra de los nicolaitas estaba bastante difundida entre las iglesias, tanto así, que cuando Jesús reveló el Apocalipsis se cree en el año 93 o 95, ya en ese entonces Jesús profetizó a las iglesias y todas tenían errores. Algunas creencias no eran universales según se hicieron los "concilios" y estos se hicieron para tomar una u otra orientación porque no eran universales. Si hubieran sido universales no hubiera registro de defensores y detractores de algunas doctrinas, y en el caso de la preeminencia del primado de Roma, por ejemplo así como en el caso de la perpetua virginidad de Maria o su Ascención, etc.
Do I believe Mary was the most blessed among women? Yes I do. The scripture says so. She was chosen to be the mother of Jesus because of her faith.
Do I, or would I, ever pray to or ask Mary or any of the saints, to intercede with Jesus for me? No. Because the scriptures are clear that Jesus is the intercessor.
No where in the scriptures did anyone teach to pray to a passed on believer or prophet or Mary on your behalf to God or Jesus. You are taught to pray for earthly brothers and sisters to the Father through Jesus, not pray to Jesus through his mother.
And no one in the Bible was ever shown to do so. Not one single person in the Bible, not even Jesus, did.
But the Bible did state not to add or subtract or teach anything not written in the Bible after revelations. So if praying to Mary and/or the saints was something believers were supposed to do, why wasn’t that put in the scriptures clearly?
Jesus is the mediator. The Saints are intercessors.
How long have you been Catholic, Mr. Shamoum? Welcome home dear brother in Christ. (Teresa))
The Second Commandment is thou shalt not make any graven image. It is idolatry to worship false gods or the true God by statues or pictures. First, no one knows how Jesus looks like so how can you make an image of him? There are graven images in Roman Catholic Churches. Right away you see when Catholics bow down and pray to images of Mary it is idolatry. God is not wood, stone, or metal and he will not be worshipped as if he was a man-made item.
God is extremely serious when it comes to idols. There will be a day when many people who claim to be Christian will be caught lacking and will be thrown into hell for their blatant idolatry against God. Do not be that person who tries to twist Scripture and find any way possible to do something that is not supposed to be done. Nobody wants to listen to the truth anymore, but always remember God will not be mocked.
What does the Bible say?
1. Exodus 20:4-6 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected-even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
2. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
3. Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
4. Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
5. Deuteronomy 4:16-18 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.
6. Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God.
7. Psalm 97:7 All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols- worship him, all you gods!
Worship God in spirit and in truth
8. John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
God shares his glory with no one
9. Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.
10. Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.”
Reminders
11. Isaiah 44:8-11 Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame.
12. Habakkuk 2:18 “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
13. Jeremiah 10:14-15 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
14. Leviticus 19:4 Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. God’s kingdom
15. Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 16. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
End times
17. 1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
18. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Bible examples
19. Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
20. Nahum 1:14 And this is what the LORD says concerning the Assyrians in Nineveh: “You will have no more children to carry on your name. I will destroy all the idols in the temples of your gods. I am preparing a grave for you because you are despicable!”
21. Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
@@VALLERONUEVEROS so in your 1-dimension, shallow, ignorant, diluted "christian" Protty way - what is "graven" that is explicitly described in the Holy Bible?
Also, in the Holy Bible, where is the explicit way/recipe stated and what is and how to "worship".
for the love of God, plz be honest and brave for Him: what is your faith denomination's tradition name: non-denomination, reformed/what kind of reformed, baptist, etc.
Bcoz, apparently you and your faith denomination wasn't there at the compilation and preservation of the Holy Bible. So here you are, modern man 2000yrs later the FULL TRUTH as finally revealed to you and therefore knows more than all those early Christians - - does that sound reasonable and logical?
@@VALLERONUEVEROS That Christians from the very beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is too obvious and too well-known for it to be necessary to insist upon the fact. The catacombs are the cradle of all Christian art. Since their discovery in the sixteenth century-on May 31, 1578, an accident revealed part of the catacomb in the Via Salaria-and the investigation of their contents that has gone on steadily ever since, we are able to reconstruct an exact idea of the paintings that adorned them. That the first Christians had any sort of prejudice against images, pictures, or statues is a myth (defended amongst others by Erasmus) that has been abundantly dispelled by all students of Christian archaeology. The idea that they must have feared the danger of idolatry among their new converts is disproved in the simplest way by the pictures, even statues, that remain from the first centuries. Even the Jewish Christians had no reason to be prejudiced against pictures, as we have seen; still less had the Gentile communities any such feeling. They accepted the art of their time and used it, as well as a poor and persecuted community could, to express their religious ideas.
I once had a lengthy discussion online with a protestant that insisted Mary was just another woman and totally irrelevant because only Jesus mattered.
I dared him that next time he prays to Jesus he tells Jesus that His mother was just 'another woman and irrelevant'.
I got no more replies from him after that.
We can say the same about the apostles as well. So what's your point?
@Abeliever000 Don't quite know what you're on about. But to give you the benefit of the doubt quote me an apostle saying "Jesus' mother is irrelevant"
Mary was blessed and it was for her an ultimate honor, if i may put it that way, to bare the messias. But she was still born in sin just like the rest of humanity.
Praying to her, kneeling to her statue etc or asking her anything is blasphemy.
@Zgmflegend why is that? Because you say so or because Martin Luther said so?
@@Nilunam Quote me a scripture saying "Apostles are irrelevant".
Good 👍➕ I have 2 different approaches.
Henry VIII and early Protestants venerated the Blessed Virgin Mary. Over the centuries, veneration has decreased.
Judaism ✡ influenced the status of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The queen-mother 👩 was in high regard. The morher of King David is an example. BV Mary echoes that role.
The problem with the orthodox or catholics are that they call her super Holly , Παναγία-Panagia.But Mary wanted to show authority on her son Jesus, as the passage Mathew 12:46-50, and in the wedding of Kana, and Jesus heald the proudness in her heart . !
This is what John Chrysostom said about Mary. He was a church father and archbishop of Constantinople fm the 4th century. The early church fathers didn't always agree, although people like to think they did. It would be nice for things to fit neatly in the box.
@afroditetrombetta-kioupour1593 Mary had no proudness in her heart. Some Protestants honor Mary. Luther believed that Mary was conceived without original sin, and that her flesh and blood were purified. He called this his "Immaculate Purification" position. He referred to Mary as "the most blessed Mother of God" and "the Mother of Christ". He believed that Mary was the true mother of God and the spiritual mother of all Christians.
Luther believed that Mary should be honored, and that Christians should learn from her faith and virtues. He celebrated the feasts of Annunciation, Visitation, Purification, and Christmas. Luther believed that Mary remained a virgin after giving birth to Jesus.
Luther believed that Mary was in heaven. He believed that she would not undergo death because she was free from sin.
Baptist scholar Timothy George
Writes that Mary was the mother who cared for Jesus' physical needs, and that evangelicals should celebrate her as the mother of God.
Protestant theologian K. E. Skydsgaard
Writes that Mary's name should be praised as holy.
German Evangelical Adult Catechism
Says that Mary is the mother of Jesus and closer to him than his disciples
A repulsive lie!
Those Protestants who deny Mother Mary is a Mother of Jesus, who also a God, is automaticaly considered also as Islam/Mohammaden/Sarachen.
🙏 amen…praise god
Mary exemplifies profound faith and stands as a truly blessed and unique figure as the mother of Jesus. The practice of creating statues of her and praying to them strikes me as fundamentally inappropriate. One can reasonably argue that she would not condone such actions, given her unwavering dedication to praising God and adhering to His directives.
It’s crucial to recognize that, while she is a significant figure in the narrative of Christianity, she remains part of creation, just as we all are. Our worship should be directed toward the Creator, not the created. All prayer, worship, or praise must be aimed at the Trinity, which reflects the foundational belief that God alone is worthy of such reverence. Moreover, praying to any individuals mentioned in the Bible, aside from God, is considered a sin. This distinction serves to maintain the integrity of our spiritual practice and emphasizes the importance of cultivating a direct relationship with the divine.
@builder101-x9j That Christians from the very beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is too obvious and too well-known. The catacombs are the cradle of all Christian art. Since their discovery in the sixteenth century-on May 31, 1578, an accident revealed part of the catacomb in the Via Salaria-and the investigation of their contents that has gone on steadily ever since, we are able to reconstruct an exact idea of the paintings that adorned them. That the first Christians had any sort of prejudice against images, pictures, or statues is a myth (defended amongst others by Erasmus) that has been abundantly dispelled by all students of Christian archaeology. The idea that they must have feared the danger of idolatry among their new converts is disproved in the simplest way by the pictures, even statues, that remain from the first centuries. Even the Jewish Christians had no reason to be prejudiced against pictures, as we have seen; still less had the Gentile communities any such feeling. They accepted the art of their time and used it, as well as a poor and persecuted community could, to express their religious ideas.
Some Protestants honor Mary. Luther believed that Mary was conceived without original sin, and that her flesh and blood were purified. He called this his "Immaculate Purification" position. He referred to Mary as "the most blessed Mother of God" and "the Mother of Christ". He believed that Mary was the true mother of God and the spiritual mother of all Christians.
Luther believed that Mary should be honored, and that Christians should learn from her faith and virtues. He celebrated the feasts of Annunciation, Visitation, Purification, and Christmas. Luther believed that Mary remained a virgin after giving birth to Jesus.
Luther believed that Mary was in heaven. He believed that she would not undergo death because she was free from sin.
Baptist scholar Timothy George
Writes that Mary was the mother who cared for Jesus' physical needs, and that evangelicals should celebrate her as the mother of God.
Protestant theologian K. E. Skydsgaard
Writes that Mary's name should be praised as holy.
German Evangelical Adult Catechism
Says that Mary is the mother of Jesus and closer to him than his disciples
I’m a Protestant and I definitely don’t denigrate her, it just doesn’t seem correct to pray to her or any saint over praying to Jesus.
Why would it be wrong to pray to a saint??
Because Jesus is the way? Am I wrong? You seek saints and Mary when you can seek Jesus, how is that misunderstood by y'all?@@diego1590
@@diego1590 I’m no expert but doesn’t the Bible say not to pray to the dead?
@@maxeydylan im also not an expert but doesn't Jesus say that whoever dies in him will never meet death, but will live forever??
@@diego1590Yes I agree that we will live forever if we believe in him but still it doesn't mean we can pray to the saints..Can you show me anywhere from the Bible where people prayed to saints???
Christian’s used to teach that Mary was pure and perfect… All my life until I started hearing other church members say how Mary was just a person . How the Bible pages was taken out by Catholics when in reality The Protestants did… My heart broke after hearing and understanding Catholic doctrine..
@@sweetpeaa4512 what on earth are you talking about?
When did Christians use to teach Mary was pure and perfect??
No one is pure and perfect but God. Amen.
@@BiglariProductions Back in the day . Well she is . If you actually define blessed she also said everyone shall call me blessed so please go and define blessed.
@@sweetpeaa4512you are blessed being healthy, you are blessed when you succeed in endeavours, or anything in life..
You can be blessed by so many things.. What it *does not* is making you sinless.. God stated *many* times that all humanity is in sin and need a saviour.. Do you wanna call God a liar?
@@timotheus6347 when you define Blessed in the merriam Webster it will say reference veneration and other definitions as Holy… As Mary said everyone will call me blessed.
@@timotheus6347 you defined blessed in a different context then in a religious context. I can say I won the lottery am I’m blessed . That isn’t religious example.
5:01 But Sam, wouldn't that make every woman who keeps his words and ... his mother. So I can say every woman I know who are faithful in Christ are my other?
Parece olvidar los dos pasajes paralelos donde no deja duda al decir quiénes eran su madre y sus hermanos: referiéndose y señalando a sus discípulos. En Lucas simplemente no se acotó esto. En el magnificat ella misma dice mi señor, mi salvador (Jesús) y ella misma reconocia su bajeza. Ella reconocía que necesitaba un Salvador y era el señor, Jesús. Se le puede llamar bendecida, eso es lo que ella dice, me diran bendecida, punto.
This is another gospel
Galatians 1:6-9
[6]I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
[7]Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
[8]But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
[9]As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
I agree she is blessed I have an issue with some Catholics I know will pray to Mary. Mary has completed her job we pray to God not Mary.
Mary was the first to accept Jesus in that generation.
Wouldn’t Jesus be breaking the fourth commandment if he was saying such a thing to his mother? Which he would do. I’m on the right track.
First of all, Protestants do not denigrate Mary. It’s unfortunate that you used that word. Mary was the vessel through which Christ came into the world, and her role in His birth is deeply appreciated. However, nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to give her the kind of veneration that Catholics do.
The Bible does not ask us to pray to Mary, nor does it state that she intercedes with the Father on our behalf as Jesus does. Therefore, we are not called to include her in our prayers in the way Catholics do.
Jeremiah 23:36
But ‘the burden of the Lord’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.
Jesus also never claimed to shed the blood for „everybody“. Why the sinners are acting that way? For many „not for all“! Think about it!
Matthew 26:28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
She is full of grace, immaculately conceived and did not have other children. She was exactly the new arc of the covenant. Not to be touched by human hands. She was covered by the glory cloud she was perfect form birth. The Lord gave her to John a non relative as he was dying on the cross. In the world especially in Jesus tradition only family took in other family members so if Jesus had siblings why didn’t he leave her care to one of them!
Marry had more children, and she wasn't born of a virgin birth. Marry was a creature just as David was. No man is equal to God...
Like Mary who listens to God all are one in God's sight ... He is not saying mary is superior .....
very detailed Mariology ❤