WEBVTT 00:27.110 --> 00:27.990 Good morning. 00:28.170 --> 00:29.730 Welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:30.010 --> 00:32.730 My name is Tom Friess, and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:33.270 --> 00:35.710 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:35.770 --> 00:36.290 Good morning. 00:36.450 --> 00:37.450 Thanks for tuning in. 00:38.550 --> 00:42.470 We're going to pick up where we left off yesterday in the book, A Woman Rides the 00:42.470 --> 00:43.730 Beast, by Dave Hunt. 00:43.730 --> 00:47.590 Chapter 27 is entitled, What About Mary? 00:48.330 --> 00:52.970 We're going to begin a discussion about Mariology, that is the study of Mary, 00:53.470 --> 01:01.030 and Mariolatry, the worship of Mary, and how it is not supported in Scripture, 01:01.410 --> 01:04.630 and is one of the great abominations of the Roman Catholic Church. 01:05.490 --> 01:10.170 Mary has literally taken the place of Christ in the Catholic gospel. 01:10.930 --> 01:17.430 It's another gospel, and we are to repudiate it, condemn it for what it is. 01:17.950 --> 01:25.750 To demonstrate the Roman Catholic Church's worship of Mary, Dave gives us some quotes 01:25.750 --> 01:27.390 from Roman Catholic saints. 01:27.390 --> 01:33.730 This one, St. Germanus, quote, There is no one, O Most Holy Mary, 01:34.210 --> 01:38.210 who can be saved or redeemed but through Thee. 01:38.290 --> 01:43.410 That, in a nutshell, tells you what the Roman Catholic Church has done with Mary. 01:43.550 --> 01:48.650 They've literally replaced Christ with Mary, whom they call the Queen of Heaven, 01:48.770 --> 01:52.570 by the way, which is mentioned specifically in the Scriptures. 01:53.430 --> 02:01.430 It is an ancient worship that precedes the Christian era. 02:01.970 --> 02:07.430 It goes all the way back to Babylon, and that's why the Roman Catholic Church 02:07.430 --> 02:09.470 is called Mystery Babylon the Great. 02:10.210 --> 02:14.470 Here's another quote from another Roman Catholic saint demonstrating the apostasy 02:14.470 --> 02:15.930 of this belief. 02:15.930 --> 02:22.930 Quote, As we have access to the Eternal Father only through Jesus Christ, 02:23.730 --> 02:27.690 so have we access to Jesus Christ only through Mary. 02:28.530 --> 02:35.330 By Thee we have access to the Son, O blessed finder of grace, bearer of life, 02:35.430 --> 02:36.670 and mother of salvation. 02:37.330 --> 02:37.930 Unquote. 02:37.930 --> 02:45.670 Another quote from a popular booklet entitled Devotions in Honor of Our Mother 02:45.670 --> 02:47.010 of Perpetual Health. 02:47.490 --> 02:53.630 Quote, In Thy hands I place my eternal salvation, and to Thee do I entrust my 02:53.630 --> 02:54.070 soul. 02:54.810 --> 02:59.890 For if Thou protect me, dear Mother, I fear nothing, not from my sins, 03:00.050 --> 03:05.850 because Thou wilt obtain for me the pardon of them, nor from the devils, because Thou 03:05.850 --> 03:12.950 art more powerful than all hell together, nor from Jesus, my judge himself, 03:13.310 --> 03:18.090 because by one prayer from Thee he will be appeased. 03:18.690 --> 03:25.610 But one thing I fear, that in the hour of temptation I may neglect to call on Thee, 03:25.850 --> 03:27.850 and thus perish miserably. 03:27.850 --> 03:31.910 Obtain for me then the pardon of my sins. 03:32.630 --> 03:33.050 Unquote. 03:33.730 --> 03:36.090 They go to Mary for forgiveness of sins. 03:37.790 --> 03:44.950 Now, a quote from the Bible, the word of God, Luke chapter 8 verse 20 and 21. 03:45.570 --> 03:51.710 And it was told him, Jesus, Thy mother and Thy brethren stand without, desiring to 03:51.710 --> 03:52.270 see Thee. 03:52.270 --> 03:58.210 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which 03:58.210 --> 04:00.490 hear the word of God and do it. 04:00.950 --> 04:05.310 And also from Luke chapter 11 verse 27 and 28. 04:05.710 --> 04:12.010 And it came to pass that a certain woman said unto him, that is Jesus, Blessed is 04:12.010 --> 04:15.850 the womb that bare Thee, and the paths that Thou hast sunk. 04:16.700 --> 04:22.550 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it. 04:23.150 --> 04:24.910 Now on to chapter 27. 04:25.610 --> 04:27.190 What is all this about Mary? 04:27.850 --> 04:34.290 We have identified the woman astride the beast as Vatican City and the false world 04:34.290 --> 04:37.150 church which will eventually be headquartered there. 04:37.670 --> 04:41.550 But why a woman on the beast and not a man? 04:41.550 --> 04:45.530 Why is this false world church seen as a woman? 04:46.330 --> 04:51.830 Again, this criteria, like all others in Revelation 17, fits the Vatican perfectly. 04:52.650 --> 04:56.570 The most prominent figure by far in Roman Catholicism is a woman. 04:57.410 --> 05:00.830 She overshadows all else, including even God himself. 05:01.710 --> 05:05.510 More prayers are offered by Roman Catholics to the Catholic Mary, 05:05.850 --> 05:10.270 and more attention and honor is given to her than to Christ and God combined. 05:10.270 --> 05:16.270 There are thousands of shrines to Mary around the world, and hundreds of shrines 05:16.270 --> 05:21.810 to other saints, but scarcely more than a handful of minor shrines to Christ 05:21.810 --> 05:22.330 himself. 05:23.150 --> 05:27.810 Now a point that I would like to make out, in the true body of Christ there are no 05:27.810 --> 05:31.430 shrines at all, either to Christ or to Mary. 05:32.230 --> 05:36.530 Because we understand from the scriptures that we are the vessels of the Holy 05:36.530 --> 05:37.010 Spirit. 05:37.570 --> 05:39.850 That God dwells within each one of us. 05:40.490 --> 05:43.870 God is not found in shrines and temples made with ants. 05:44.430 --> 05:48.230 That's why in the true body of Christ you don't see any shrines. 05:48.230 --> 05:53.510 Some Catholic leaders even boast that in this day of burgeoning goddess 05:53.510 --> 05:58.670 consciousness and women's liberation, that ought to tell you something about the 05:58.670 --> 06:04.950 origin of the women's liberation, the Roman Catholic Church is right in tune 06:04.950 --> 06:05.750 with the times. 06:06.230 --> 06:11.030 I would suggest that the Roman Catholic Church is the author of the times. 06:12.390 --> 06:17.470 He continues, a woman holds the position of highest honor and power. 06:17.470 --> 06:24.970 In Catholicism it is a woman through whom all graces, gifts, blessings and power 06:24.970 --> 06:25.530 flow. 06:25.910 --> 06:32.090 A woman, who as we shall see, has the amazing potential to unite the entire 06:32.090 --> 06:36.810 world, including even the Muslims, in one world religion. 06:37.890 --> 06:44.950 This quote-unquote perpetual virgin, however, is a fiction that bears no 06:44.950 --> 06:48.250 relationship whatever to the real Mary of the Bible. 06:48.630 --> 06:53.730 A woman who was not only Christ's mother, but also Joseph's loving wife. 06:55.050 --> 07:00.150 Was Mary truly ever virgin as is taught in the Roman Catholic Church? 07:00.690 --> 07:05.310 The Bible teaches that Mary was a virgin until the time that she bore Jesus. 07:06.450 --> 07:10.730 Subsequently, she had a number of other children by Joseph, her husband. 07:11.550 --> 07:16.150 This fact is clearly expressed by the statement that Jesus was, quote, 07:16.530 --> 07:23.530 her firstborn son, unquote, and that Joseph, quote, knew her not until, 07:24.450 --> 07:26.370 unquote, Christ was born. 07:26.590 --> 07:28.330 Matthew chapter 1 verse 25. 07:29.250 --> 07:33.710 There are repeated references to Jesus' brothers and sisters in the Gospels, 07:34.030 --> 07:36.910 some of whom are even mentioned by name. 07:37.690 --> 07:44.390 The people who knew Jesus, where he grew up in Nazareth, quote, were astonished and 07:44.390 --> 07:49.270 said, whence hath this man this wisdom and these mighty works, unquote. 07:49.790 --> 07:52.130 They went on to argue, quote, 07:58.550 --> 08:04.510 and Simon and Judas and his sisters, are they all not with us? 08:05.350 --> 08:09.570 Whence hath this man all these things, unquote. 08:10.030 --> 08:16.590 Matthew chapter 13 verse 55, 56, and also Mark chapter 6 and verse 3. 08:17.330 --> 08:21.870 Catholic apologists such as Carl Keating insist that these brothers and sisters 08:21.870 --> 08:27.510 were really Christ's cousins and that Matthew and Mark had to use the word for 08:27.510 --> 08:32.550 brothers and sisters because neither Hebrew nor Aramaic had the word for 08:32.550 --> 08:32.990 cousins. 08:33.590 --> 08:36.570 There's no basis for such an unbiblical supposition. 08:37.190 --> 08:39.970 Furthermore, Matthew and Mark were written in Greek. 08:40.890 --> 08:50.250 Keating insists that although there was a word for cousins, which is anepsios in the 08:50.250 --> 08:56.310 Greek, it was common for Jews writing in Greek to continue the Hebrew practice of 08:56.310 --> 09:00.890 referring to all relatives as brothers and sisters, adelphos. 09:02.110 --> 09:07.030 He cites examples from the Septuagint, but none from the New Testament, 09:07.570 --> 09:08.910 because there are none. 09:09.670 --> 09:16.230 In fact, anepsios is used in Colossians chapter 4 verse 10 to refer to the cousin 09:16.230 --> 09:17.070 of Barnabas. 09:17.070 --> 09:22.550 Moreover, the brethren of Jesus are usually mentioned as being in the company 09:22.550 --> 09:29.870 of Mary, indicating that they were her children in her charge, or, if grown, 09:30.410 --> 09:33.190 they were traveling with her as part of the immediate family. 09:33.950 --> 09:38.970 The Catholic argument goes on to insist that for Christ to be born of a womb that 09:38.970 --> 09:44.270 would later conceive and give birth to other children would somehow contaminate 09:44.270 --> 09:44.770 Christ. 09:44.770 --> 09:50.530 That argument, again, is not only without biblical basis, but takes away from 09:50.530 --> 09:53.570 Christ's very humility in becoming a man. 09:54.450 --> 09:59.350 Peter De Rosa, a name that's often mentioned in this book, Peter De Rosa was 09:59.350 --> 10:02.450 a Jesuit priest, and he was a celibate. 10:03.150 --> 10:09.270 He says Peter De Rosa, as a Catholic, gives some interesting insights into why 10:09.270 --> 10:13.990 Rome can't allow Mary to have sexual intercourse, even after giving birth to 10:13.990 --> 10:14.290 Jesus. 10:14.290 --> 10:20.690 Here's what he says, quote, We noted that priests, especially popes, have developed 10:20.690 --> 10:22.670 a cult of the Virgin Mary. 10:23.410 --> 10:28.730 For celibates, the ideal woman is an asexual being who gave birth to a child. 10:29.650 --> 10:32.630 Mary had a baby without sexual intercourse. 10:33.170 --> 10:35.490 That is perfection, unquote. 10:35.850 --> 10:42.470 And I want to remind you that the Jesuit order and all Jesuit priests swear oaths 10:42.470 --> 10:42.910 to Mary. 10:42.910 --> 10:46.170 Mary is the patron saint of the Jesuit order. 10:47.010 --> 10:54.950 And here, this Jesuit priest, Peter De Rosa, is calling this... well, 10:55.070 --> 10:56.510 he's calling it a cult. 10:56.990 --> 10:59.890 This worship and veneration of Mary. 11:00.670 --> 11:04.970 Now, this is in defiance of his own order. 11:05.590 --> 11:10.970 Somewhere along the line, Peter De Rosa had a come-to-Jesus meeting, or a 11:10.970 --> 11:16.110 come-to-the-scriptures meeting, and he told the truth about the cult of 11:16.110 --> 11:16.390 Mary. 11:17.110 --> 11:24.350 He says, Dave says, If Mary had taken a vow of virginity, however, and that was 11:24.350 --> 11:30.150 what she meant by her response to Gabriel, then, as Martin Luther pointed out, 11:30.610 --> 11:36.690 by allowing Joseph to marry her, she would have committed treachery and 11:36.690 --> 11:39.250 poured contempt upon the holy covenant of marriage. 11:40.090 --> 11:46.430 You don't get married and then pronounce yourself a celibate, which is what Roman 11:46.430 --> 11:49.770 Catholicism says of Mary. 11:50.050 --> 11:54.490 That she was married to Joseph, but she was never a wife to Joseph, 11:54.710 --> 11:55.690 if you know what I mean. 11:55.690 --> 11:59.790 Now, this, in the Bible, is called fraud. 12:00.670 --> 12:06.850 The man and the wife are to take care of one another in that regard, and neither 12:06.850 --> 12:15.030 should depart or abstain from the other for any length of time without permission 12:15.030 --> 12:19.710 from the other partner, lest one or the other be driven to sin. 12:21.290 --> 12:27.690 Marriage is a holy thing, instituted by God, and the sexual relationship between a 12:27.690 --> 12:30.050 man and a woman is a blessing. 12:31.030 --> 12:36.310 And Mary, had she withheld herself from her husband Joseph, would have been 12:36.310 --> 12:39.130 committing fraud against him, according to the Scripture. 12:39.990 --> 12:41.710 It just didn't happen. 12:41.710 --> 12:49.730 Mary was the mother of other children by Joseph, after Jesus was born. 12:50.090 --> 12:54.170 But that just won't suffice in the cult of Mary. 12:54.330 --> 12:55.870 That cannot be tolerated. 12:56.550 --> 13:02.250 Now, Dave continues, he says, Even the Catholic Church doesn't allow a wife to 13:02.250 --> 13:05.930 take a vow of continence at her own pleasure. 13:06.670 --> 13:11.830 Even the Roman Catholic Church realizes, and acknowledges, that a woman can't get 13:11.830 --> 13:13.450 married and say, Hands off! 13:14.270 --> 13:20.210 As a matter of fact, according to the Roman Catholic Church, a marriage isn't 13:20.210 --> 13:24.950 even consummated until after sexual relationship between the man and his 13:24.950 --> 13:25.430 spouse. 13:26.210 --> 13:31.750 This is one of the charges they make for justification of annulments, which is 13:31.750 --> 13:37.230 nothing more than a Catholic divorce, if the marriage was not consummated by 13:37.230 --> 13:38.090 this act. 13:38.710 --> 13:44.830 It says again, Even the Catholic Church doesn't allow a wife to take a vow of 13:44.830 --> 13:49.570 continence, in other words, keeping herself from her husband, keeping to 13:49.570 --> 13:59.110 herself continence, they will not allow the wife to take a vow of continence at 13:59.110 --> 14:00.170 her own pleasure. 14:01.030 --> 14:02.790 And the Bible is against it. 14:02.790 --> 14:07.350 Declaring that the marriage bed is God's will for married couples. 14:08.170 --> 14:22.830 See Genesis 1.28, 2.21-24, 1 Corinthians 5.3-5 And that marriage is honorable in 14:22.830 --> 14:23.550 all. 14:24.150 --> 14:26.910 The marriage bed is honorable in all. 14:27.010 --> 14:35.450 Hebrews 13.4 Clearly, Mary's words to Gabriel, How shall this be, seeing I know 14:35.450 --> 14:36.190 not a man? 14:36.850 --> 14:42.650 Luke 1.34 Simply refer only to her condition at that time. 14:42.830 --> 14:46.750 At that time she was a virgin, had never known a man. 14:47.410 --> 14:53.190 Now this was not a declaration that she had taken a vow of celibacy, or rather 14:53.190 --> 14:55.410 chastity is a more correct term. 14:55.410 --> 15:00.510 If she had, she would not have been engaged to Joseph. 15:01.250 --> 15:02.530 See verse 27. 15:03.350 --> 15:09.630 And if her perpetual virginity isn't true, neither are the other fantasies about 15:09.630 --> 15:15.250 Mary, which Roman Catholicism has invented, such as her immaculate 15:15.250 --> 15:20.610 conception, which means that it wasn't Jesus, it was Mary that was born, 15:21.030 --> 15:23.170 without the stain of original sin. 15:23.170 --> 15:29.710 And also the assumption of Mary's body into heaven, which is not biblical. 15:30.790 --> 15:34.990 And these are what is taught about Mary in the Roman Catholic Church, that she was 15:34.990 --> 15:40.650 born without the stain of original sin, was outside the curse of all humanity, 15:40.930 --> 15:44.810 and that after she died her body was assumed into heaven. 15:45.590 --> 15:48.010 That's what is taught in the Roman Catholic Church. 15:48.230 --> 15:49.150 None of it is true. 15:50.390 --> 15:51.650 So why? 15:52.010 --> 15:55.210 Why have they made up all these things about Mary? 15:56.950 --> 16:02.150 Under the subtitle, Mary the Mother of God, Dave Hunt writes, The most 16:02.150 --> 16:07.650 authoritative book written on Roman Catholicism's virgin Mary is by Cardinal 16:07.650 --> 16:13.210 and Saint Alphonsus de Liguri, titled, The Glories of Mary. 16:14.050 --> 16:18.490 It is a virtual compendium of what the great saints of the Roman Catholic Church 16:18.490 --> 16:21.490 have had to say about Mary down through the centuries. 16:22.190 --> 16:26.390 The chapter headings are staggering, crediting Mary with attributes, 16:26.750 --> 16:30.230 abilities, titles, and functions that belong to Christ alone. 16:30.670 --> 16:34.350 Quote, Mary, our life, our sweetness. 16:35.410 --> 16:36.870 Mary, our hope. 16:37.750 --> 16:39.150 Mary, our help. 16:40.050 --> 16:41.610 Mary, our advocate. 16:42.670 --> 16:44.190 Mary, our guardian. 16:44.970 --> 16:46.950 Mary, our salvation. 16:46.950 --> 16:48.310 Unquote. 16:48.890 --> 16:53.870 Here is a sample of Liguri's quotes of what the saints have said concerning 16:53.870 --> 16:55.290 Mary's role in salvation. 16:56.110 --> 17:01.330 Quote, Sinners receive pardon by Mary alone. 17:02.190 --> 17:06.190 He falls and is lost who has not recourse to Mary. 17:07.030 --> 17:11.790 Mary is called the gate of heaven because no one can enter that blessed kingdom 17:11.790 --> 17:13.270 without passing through her. 17:13.270 --> 17:18.730 The way of salvation is open to none otherwise than through Mary. 17:19.610 --> 17:24.230 The salvation of all depends on their being favored and protected by Mary. 17:24.990 --> 17:28.370 He who is protected by Mary will be saved. 17:29.010 --> 17:31.170 He who is not will be lost. 17:31.950 --> 17:34.290 Our salvation depends on thee. 17:34.870 --> 17:38.510 God will not save us without the intercession of Mary. 17:38.510 --> 17:44.930 Who would receive any grace were it not for thee, O mother of God? 17:45.530 --> 17:46.030 Unquote. 17:46.810 --> 17:48.010 Mother of God? 17:48.470 --> 17:52.490 Yes, Jesus is God and Mary is his mother. 17:53.110 --> 18:00.250 But she is not the mother of him as God, which he was and is from all eternity 18:00.250 --> 18:02.290 before Mary was ever born. 18:02.290 --> 18:07.570 She is the mother of the physical body which the Son of God took when he became 18:07.570 --> 18:08.050 man. 18:08.790 --> 18:11.050 But she is not the mother of God. 18:12.210 --> 18:15.070 The scripture explains Mary's role. 18:15.290 --> 18:20.890 Quote, Wherefore when he, speaking of Jesus, when he cometh into the world, 18:21.250 --> 18:25.490 he saith, A body hast thou prepared for me. 18:26.050 --> 18:28.110 Hebrews chapter 10 verse 5. 18:28.110 --> 18:36.190 The incredibly unbiblical position to which Mary has been exalted by Roman 18:36.190 --> 18:41.450 Catholic tradition continues to be evident in the prayers offered to her. 18:42.170 --> 18:45.870 Those quoted at the beginning of this chapter are but a few of literally 18:45.870 --> 18:52.330 thousands which show that this false Mary is the very heart and life of Roman 18:52.330 --> 18:53.230 Catholicism. 18:53.230 --> 19:00.250 Yet Catholic apologists, sensitive to any criticism in this regard, deny that 19:00.250 --> 19:02.370 Catholics pray to Mary. 19:03.150 --> 19:08.810 Peter Kreef, for example, deceitfully writes, quote, Catholics don't pray to 19:08.810 --> 19:09.250 saints. 19:09.770 --> 19:15.650 They only ask saints to pray for them, just as we ask the living to pray for us. 19:15.890 --> 19:16.490 Unquote. 19:16.490 --> 19:23.650 On the contrary, the most numerous and popular prayers in Catholicism are to the 19:23.650 --> 19:29.130 saints, and especially to Mary, not to God or to Christ. 19:30.010 --> 19:35.870 Moreover, these prayers ask Mary to do for Catholics, and for the entire world, 19:36.250 --> 19:42.490 what she would literally have to be God, or for some things, Christ, to be able to 19:42.490 --> 19:43.110 accomplish. 19:43.870 --> 19:50.830 At the close of the Sunday Mass in Denver in August of 1993, Pope John Paul II 19:50.830 --> 19:57.150 consigned all youth and the entire world to Mary's protection and guidance. 19:57.270 --> 20:03.890 Here's what he said, Mary of the New Advent, we implore your protection on the 20:03.890 --> 20:07.950 preparations that will now begin for the next meeting of World Youth Day. 20:08.930 --> 20:13.790 Mary, full of grace, we entrust the next World Youth Day to you. 20:14.710 --> 20:21.310 Mary, assumed into heaven, we entrust the young people of the world, the whole 20:21.310 --> 20:22.710 world, to you. 20:23.170 --> 20:23.670 Unquote. 20:23.670 --> 20:27.710 Catholics only ask Mary to pray for them? 20:28.490 --> 20:34.250 If one asks prayer of a friend, one doesn't say, quote, I implore your 20:34.250 --> 20:37.450 protection and entrust the whole world to you. 20:37.950 --> 20:38.530 Unquote. 20:38.530 --> 20:45.150 Yet such requests that only God could fulfill are typical of Roman Catholic 20:45.150 --> 20:51.570 petitions to Mary, who is exalted to omnipotence and credited with caring for 20:51.570 --> 20:53.150 all who trust in her. 20:54.010 --> 20:58.550 Mary is called in the Roman Catholic Church, Queen of Heaven. 20:59.290 --> 21:05.930 The Bible makes only few mentions of the Queen of Heaven, and they are all occultic 21:05.930 --> 21:06.790 references. 21:06.790 --> 21:13.570 Listen, Time Magazine comments that, quote, according to modern Popes, 21:14.250 --> 21:20.990 Mary is the Queen of the Universe, Queen of Heaven, seat of wisdom. 21:21.390 --> 21:21.790 Unquote. 21:22.430 --> 21:28.790 In the Pope's September 1993 speech in Lithuania, he spoke of Mary as, 21:29.410 --> 21:35.270 quote, Mother of the Church, Queen of the Apostles, and dwelling place of the 21:35.270 --> 21:35.710 Trinity. 21:36.050 --> 21:36.490 Unquote. 21:36.490 --> 21:43.050 He told, quote, priests and aspirants to the priestly life, men and women 21:43.050 --> 21:48.790 religious, to look to Mary, who is venerated here in the shrines of Osro, 21:49.010 --> 21:59.750 Osro-Vartai, excuse me the pronunciation, Osro-Vartai and Saluva, to which I will go 21:59.750 --> 22:00.450 on pilgrimage. 22:01.270 --> 22:04.890 To Mary I entrust all of you, unquote. 22:05.610 --> 22:10.190 Such blasphemy is repeated in the most recited Roman Catholic prayers, 22:10.750 --> 22:11.550 the Rosary. 22:11.550 --> 22:20.270 It concludes with this final petition, quote, Hail, Holy Queen of Heaven, 22:20.430 --> 22:24.190 Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. 22:24.970 --> 22:28.590 To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. 22:29.350 --> 22:34.690 To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping, in this valley of 22:34.690 --> 22:35.070 tears. 22:36.050 --> 22:40.510 Turn then, most gracious Advocate, Thine eyes of mercy toward us, 22:40.910 --> 22:46.510 and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy Word, Jesus, 22:47.110 --> 22:51.630 O Clement, O Loving, O Sweet Virgin Mary. 22:52.250 --> 22:52.850 Unquote. 22:53.590 --> 22:55.730 Mary is our life and our hope? 22:56.230 --> 23:00.550 According to the Scripture, Christ is our life, Colossians 3, 4. 23:00.550 --> 23:05.710 Why Mary is the Catholic's hope was explained by Bishop Fulton Sheen, 23:06.110 --> 23:11.390 whom Billy Graham admirably called the greatest communicator of the 20th century. 23:12.310 --> 23:16.890 And we'll return with a quote from Bishop Fulton Sheen when we get back from the 23:16.890 --> 23:17.110 break. 23:17.210 --> 23:20.890 You're listening to Inquisition Update on firstamendmentradio.com. 23:20.990 --> 23:22.430 Stay tuned, we'll be right back. 23:43.320 --> 23:43.860 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27:24.250 --> 27:26.470 The Prophecy Reality News app. 27:26.630 --> 27:27.350 Get it now. 27:41.740 --> 27:43.400 Welcome back from the break. 27:43.460 --> 27:47.240 You're listening to the second half hour of Inquisition update on First Amendment 27:47.240 --> 27:47.720 Radio. 27:48.100 --> 27:53.020 If you'd like to support the program, please make a contribution to First 27:53.020 --> 27:55.120 Amendment Radio who sponsors the program. 27:55.400 --> 27:57.040 And we thank you for your contributions. 27:58.120 --> 28:02.720 And as long as my voice holds out, I'll be here on Inquisition Update. 28:03.000 --> 28:06.080 So I'm suffering a bit of laryngitis this morning. 28:06.180 --> 28:09.840 I hope everybody can still understand what I'm saying. 28:10.260 --> 28:14.480 Now, before the break, we were about to read a quote from Roman Catholic Bishop 28:14.480 --> 28:23.040 Fulton Sheen, one of the great ecumenical Roman Catholic bishops who was popular 28:23.040 --> 28:27.340 back in the 60s, a widely viewed television ministry. 28:27.760 --> 28:32.980 I remember as a child watching him thinking, is this Roman Catholic? 28:33.120 --> 28:35.100 I called him the Caped Crusader. 28:37.000 --> 28:42.060 It was ridiculous in my view, but many Roman Catholics and many Protestants took 28:42.060 --> 28:42.760 him seriously. 28:42.940 --> 28:44.020 They thought he was a Christian. 28:44.020 --> 28:45.980 But he worshipped Mary. 28:46.160 --> 28:46.960 Listen to what he says. 28:47.240 --> 28:52.600 Quote, When I was ordained, I took a resolution to offer the holy sacrifice of 28:52.600 --> 28:55.820 the Eucharist every Saturday to the Blessed Mother. 28:56.700 --> 29:01.740 All this makes me very certain that when I go before the judgment seat of Christ, 29:02.320 --> 29:07.960 he will say to me in his mercy, quote, I heard my mother speak of you, 29:08.300 --> 29:08.820 unquote. 29:09.660 --> 29:14.880 During my life, I've made about 30 pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady of 29:14.880 --> 29:19.580 Lourdes and about 10 to her shrine in Fatim, unquote. 29:20.340 --> 29:26.300 What a pitiful expression of hope of eternity that Mary will put in a good word 29:26.300 --> 29:28.720 for him because he was devoted to her. 29:29.660 --> 29:33.620 What happened to his faith in Christ, who died for his sins? 29:33.620 --> 29:39.380 In Roman Catholicism, Christ and his sacrifice for our sins upon the cross are 29:39.380 --> 29:40.000 not enough. 29:40.800 --> 29:46.380 To be saved, one must have Mary's favor, for she decides who will be in heaven, 29:46.960 --> 29:49.720 as the many quotes above demonstrate. 29:50.480 --> 29:57.260 Do Mary's, quote, unquote, eyes of mercy actually see everyone in the world? 29:58.020 --> 30:01.500 Is she really the, quote, unquote, mother of mercy? 30:01.500 --> 30:07.540 Didn't God's mercy exist long before Mary was ever born? 30:08.440 --> 30:16.680 We read of the God of mercy in Psalms 59, verse 17, and are encouraged to, 30:16.960 --> 30:19.180 quote, trust in the mercy of God. 30:20.000 --> 30:24.380 Psalms 52, 8, Luke 1, verse 78, etc. 30:24.580 --> 30:30.380 But never a word is said in the entire Bible about Mary's mercy toward mankind. 30:31.260 --> 30:35.900 Those who know God's mercy have no need for Mary's mercy. 30:36.800 --> 30:39.780 In fact, she would have been omnipotent. 30:39.920 --> 30:45.280 She would have to be, rather, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. 30:45.520 --> 30:50.260 Qualities of God alone in order to extend mercy to all mankind. 30:51.300 --> 30:57.540 Paul and John both refer to the grace, mercy, and peace coming from God to 30:57.540 --> 30:58.040 believers. 30:58.040 --> 31:08.000 1 Timothy 1, 2, 2 Timothy 1, 2, Titus 1, verse 4, and 2 John, chapter 1, 31:08.080 --> 31:08.740 verse 3. 31:09.440 --> 31:16.200 But nowhere is there a hint that mercy is bestowed by Mary on anyone. 31:17.140 --> 31:22.480 Yet the rosary makes it seem that we depend upon her mercy rather than upon 31:22.480 --> 31:23.160 God's. 31:23.160 --> 31:28.780 Is it really her doing that brings believers into the presence of Christ? 31:29.200 --> 31:31.780 According to the rosary, one would think so. 31:32.580 --> 31:35.360 Mary is the quote-unquote Queen of Heaven? 31:35.940 --> 31:39.180 We are told in the Scripture that Christ is the King. 31:39.900 --> 31:44.920 But never that there is a Queen of Heaven, much less that she is Mary. 31:45.740 --> 31:51.860 If there were a Queen who shares Christ's throne, it would be His Bride. 31:51.860 --> 31:54.820 The Church, composed of the redeemed. 31:55.640 --> 31:58.680 Yet the Church is never referred to as the Queen of Heaven. 31:59.420 --> 32:04.620 The only Queen of Heaven mentioned in the Scripture is an idol which was worshipped 32:04.620 --> 32:10.720 by the pagans, and to which the Jewish women gave offerings, bringing about the 32:10.720 --> 32:12.200 wrath of God upon them. 32:13.060 --> 32:19.640 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their 32:19.640 --> 32:24.080 dough to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings 32:24.080 --> 32:28.300 unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 32:29.060 --> 32:33.440 Because ye have burned incense to the Queen of Heaven, and because ye have 32:33.440 --> 32:37.980 sinned against the Lord, therefore this evil has happened unto you. 32:37.980 --> 32:42.780 Jeremiah chapter 7 verse 18, chapter 44 verse 15. 32:43.960 --> 32:49.720 Far from being embarrassed by such pagan connections, Rome flaunts them. 32:50.440 --> 32:56.140 Many Roman Catholics boast that Mary has taken the place of Maya, the nymph of 32:56.140 --> 33:01.300 Greek mythology, who was the mother of Hermes by Zeus, the sky god. 33:01.300 --> 33:11.260 The month of May was named after Maya, who was known as, quote, the Queen of May, 33:11.660 --> 33:19.200 and the Jesuit effort to turn the Queen of May into Mary was successful, unquote. 33:19.200 --> 33:26.680 This Mary that is worshipped in the Roman Catholic Church is just a baptized version 33:27.200 --> 33:31.180 of what has always been worshipped in mystery Babylon. 33:32.220 --> 33:39.920 Now, under the subtitle, The Multiple Marys, Dave writes, there are many Marys 33:39.920 --> 33:41.300 in Roman Catholicism. 33:42.140 --> 33:45.800 Our Mary of this, and our Mary of that. 33:45.800 --> 33:52.120 Wherever Mary appears in various forms, that particular Mary develops a following. 33:53.000 --> 33:55.720 Most Roman Catholics have their favorite Mary. 33:56.600 --> 34:07.540 Some prefer Our Lady of Medjugorje, others Our Lady of Guadalupe, or Our Lady 34:07.540 --> 34:08.400 of Lourdes. 34:09.100 --> 34:15.620 Pope John Paul II had two favorite Marys, the Black Virgin of Jasnogora, 34:16.460 --> 34:21.920 the patron saint and protectress of Poland, and Our Lady of Fatima. 34:22.460 --> 34:26.240 The latter allegedly appeared to him during his convalescence from the 34:26.240 --> 34:30.320 attempted murder which took place on the anniversary of her supposed first 34:30.320 --> 34:34.800 appearance in Fatima, Portugal, on May 13th, 1917. 34:35.500 --> 34:42.380 She had saved his life, she said, for a purpose, and would give the world a 34:42.380 --> 34:46.860 sign that would cause it to bow to His supreme spiritual authority. 34:47.400 --> 34:53.200 Time Magazine reported, quote, Devotion to Mary was ingrained in the Pope 34:53.200 --> 34:59.300 in his Polish homeland, where over the centuries the Black Madonna has been 34:59.300 --> 35:04.220 hailed for turning back troops of the Muslim Turks, Swedish Lutherans, 35:04.440 --> 35:07.460 and in 1920, Soviet Bolsheviks. 35:08.260 --> 35:13.720 Pope John Paul II has made Mary's unifying power a centerpiece of his papal arsenal. 35:14.540 --> 35:19.860 He has visited countless Marian shrines during his globetrotting, and invokes the 35:19.860 --> 35:24.900 Madonna's aid in nearly every discourse and prayer that he delivers, unquote. 35:24.900 --> 35:31.300 The, quote, Mary of the New Advent, unquote, as she is called, to whom the 35:31.300 --> 35:36.840 Pope referred in Denver, is particularly associated with World Youth Day, 35:37.280 --> 35:41.340 which John Paul II has been promoting for some years. 35:42.240 --> 35:46.520 She was displayed at an all-night prayer vigil of pilgrims who walked to Cherry 35:46.520 --> 35:51.400 Creek Park near Denver to meet the Pope, who came in by helicopter. 35:52.760 --> 35:58.680 A journalist who was present writes, quote, It is well past nine p.m. 35:58.680 --> 36:03.980 when the icon, the official one of World Youth Day, is presented. 36:04.860 --> 36:10.340 This part of the vigil is referred to as, quote, veneration, which is worship, 36:11.040 --> 36:15.540 veneration of the image of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the New Advent, 36:15.540 --> 36:21.600 which the pilgrims now view for the first time, a painting of Mary with the child 36:21.600 --> 36:23.280 Jesus still in her womb. 36:24.040 --> 36:28.120 The Lady of the New Advent is the most vulgar icon we have seen. 36:28.820 --> 36:34.020 As the Colorado Chorus and the Youth Chorale sing the Tase Magnificat, 36:34.540 --> 36:39.940 ten youngsters from Denver lift the icon of Our Lady of the New Advent and carry it 36:39.940 --> 36:47.940 around the aisles of the magnetometered area near the three-part stage. 36:48.800 --> 36:51.980 The crowds respond lavishly to it. 36:52.220 --> 36:53.620 Flashbulbs go off. 36:53.880 --> 36:56.460 Flower petals are strewn around the icon. 36:57.160 --> 36:57.600 Unquote. 36:58.180 --> 37:04.400 This is a verbal depiction, a verbal description of what happened at World 37:04.400 --> 37:05.020 Youth Day. 37:05.020 --> 37:09.580 The papacy literally led the whole crowd into idol worship. 37:10.400 --> 37:12.240 And that's what we can expect from Rome. 37:12.560 --> 37:16.200 That's what she has demonstrated for nearly 2,000 years. 37:17.200 --> 37:21.560 Violation of all of God's commandments is institutionalized in the Roman Catholic 37:21.560 --> 37:21.960 Church. 37:22.720 --> 37:25.580 Idolatry is one of her prime preoccupations. 37:26.200 --> 37:30.080 It says the next day, Sunday, the Pope returned in his helicopter. 37:30.840 --> 37:35.520 The pilgrims, shivering from the cold, who had been trying to sleep throughout 37:35.520 --> 37:40.200 the night on the ground, greeted him again with renewed excitement. 37:41.080 --> 37:46.940 There he celebrated Mass, and 3,000 priests took several hours to minister the 37:46.940 --> 37:51.440 wafer to the crowd of 375,000 people. 37:52.300 --> 37:56.800 Addressing Mary in Heaven personally at times during his talk, the Pope began, 37:56.940 --> 38:03.380 quote, With my heart full of praise for the Queen of Heaven, the sign of hope and 38:03.380 --> 38:07.660 source of comfort on our pilgrimage of faith to the heavenly Jerusalem, 38:08.340 --> 38:11.860 I greet all of you who are present at this solemn liturgy. 38:12.520 --> 38:17.680 This liturgy presents you, Mary, as the woman clothed with the sun. 38:18.440 --> 38:25.400 O woman clothed with the sun, the youth of the world greet you with so much love. 38:25.400 --> 38:30.640 In Mary, the final victory of life over death is already a reality. 38:31.600 --> 38:36.300 O Mary, as Mother of the Church, you guide us still from your place in 38:36.300 --> 38:41.120 Heaven, and help us to increase in holiness by conquering sin. 38:42.440 --> 38:43.080 Unquote. 38:43.280 --> 38:44.220 Have you had enough? 38:44.920 --> 38:45.840 Are you convinced? 38:46.760 --> 38:48.160 But day continues. 38:49.040 --> 38:52.340 The subtitle, The Cult and Worship of Mary. 38:53.060 --> 38:59.880 As early as 1854, Pope Pius IX had set up a papal infallibility trial balloon. 39:00.520 --> 39:05.000 It was well-received by the Church because it involved the ever-popular, 39:05.180 --> 39:07.300 quote-unquote, Virgin Mary. 39:07.700 --> 39:14.440 On his own initiative, by his own authority, and standing alone without any 39:14.440 --> 39:24.420 counsel or even the magisterium supporting him, Pope Pius IX pronounced a new dogma 39:24.420 --> 39:30.720 that all Roman Catholics must accept, the immaculate conception of Mary, 39:31.460 --> 39:39.500 that she was, quote, in the first instant of her conception preserved free of all 39:39.500 --> 39:41.980 stain of original sin, unquote. 39:41.980 --> 39:48.280 It was, in effect, a declaration of his own infallibility, that he did not need 39:48.280 --> 39:52.760 the support of the bishops or the councils, but could define such binding 39:52.760 --> 39:54.520 dogmas on his own. 39:55.000 --> 40:01.720 On November 1st, 1950, Pope Pius XII made an allegedly infallible ex-cathedra 40:01.720 --> 40:08.920 declaration in his apostolic constitution, Magnificentissimus Deus, that, 40:09.260 --> 40:15.680 quote, the immaculate Mother of God and ever-Virgin Mary was at the end of her 40:15.680 --> 40:19.700 life assumed into heaven body and soul, unquote. 40:20.300 --> 40:25.600 In the constitution, the Pope claimed that the dogma of the Assumption had been 40:25.600 --> 40:31.740 unanimously believed in, had been unanimously believed in the Church from 40:31.740 --> 40:35.860 the very beginning, and that it was fully supported by Scripture. 40:35.860 --> 40:43.180 But the fact is, the dogma was virtually unknown to the early Church and is indeed 40:43.180 --> 40:45.060 unsupported by Scripture. 40:45.940 --> 40:50.820 Such papal declarations simply responded to the popular sentiment of Roman 40:50.820 --> 40:55.540 Catholics and contributed to the growing cult of Mary. 40:56.300 --> 41:00.840 The cult of Mary developed gradually as the apostasy gathered momentum. 41:01.640 --> 41:07.180 Commenting upon the adoration of Mary that took place during the Pope's 1993 visit to 41:07.180 --> 41:13.840 Denver, a writer reminds us, quote, the Encyclopedia Britannica says that 41:13.840 --> 41:18.620 during the first centuries of the Church, there was no emphasis on Mary whatsoever. 41:19.480 --> 41:25.960 The Catholic Encyclopedia concurs, quote, there's no ground for surprise if 41:25.960 --> 41:32.340 we do not meet with any clear traces of the cultists of the Blessed Virgin in the 41:32.340 --> 41:34.000 first Christian centuries. 41:34.760 --> 41:35.180 Unquote. 41:35.880 --> 41:39.400 I remind you, that's from the Roman Catholic Encyclopedia. 41:40.340 --> 41:45.700 And historian Von Dolinger further explains, quote, neither the New Testament 41:45.700 --> 41:50.260 nor the patristic writings tell us anything about the destiny of the Holy 41:50.260 --> 41:52.180 Virgin after the death of Christ. 41:52.180 --> 41:57.820 Two apocryphal works of the 4th and 5th century, one ascribed to St. John, 41:58.160 --> 42:03.020 and the other to Melito, Bishop of Sardis, are the earliest suggestions about her 42:03.020 --> 42:04.000 bodily assumption. 42:04.500 --> 42:05.000 Unquote. 42:05.660 --> 42:08.700 The Roman Catholic Church denies that Mary is worshipped. 42:09.440 --> 42:13.660 She's supposedly only given hyperdulia, they call it. 42:13.660 --> 42:21.480 The other saints are given dulia, while Christ is given latria. 42:22.660 --> 42:26.640 But consider this prayer, which is popular among Roman Catholics. 42:27.280 --> 42:33.140 Quote, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and soul. 42:33.540 --> 42:34.080 Unquote. 42:34.800 --> 42:36.220 Why not only to Jesus? 42:36.500 --> 42:37.720 Why to anyone else? 42:38.500 --> 42:42.680 Only God demands, and surely only He deserves one's heart and soul. 42:42.680 --> 42:48.920 How can one give one's heart and soul to anyone without worshipping that person? 42:49.580 --> 42:58.560 Can anyone in the same breath give latria to Jesus, hyperdulia to Mary, and dulia to 42:58.560 --> 42:58.960 Joseph? 42:59.800 --> 43:04.680 Among devout Catholics, those who have dedicated themselves to serve Mary are 43:04.680 --> 43:05.380 legion. 43:05.380 --> 43:10.560 Typical is the Legion of Mary, which, quote, began in Ireland on 43:10.560 --> 43:15.960 September 7th, 1921, and is now in every country on the face of the earth. 43:16.840 --> 43:19.020 Mary's troops are everywhere. 43:19.580 --> 43:20.100 Unquote. 43:20.840 --> 43:26.420 The Legion has enjoyed the, quote, commendations of five popes, unquote, 43:26.760 --> 43:28.200 since its inception. 43:29.740 --> 43:36.060 Pope Paul VI said, quote, The Legion of Mary is an army of those devoted and 43:36.060 --> 43:41.800 stalwart clients of Mary who are combating the forces of evil in the world today. 43:42.080 --> 43:42.600 Unquote. 43:43.340 --> 43:48.280 It is an undeniable fact that devotion to Mary among Roman Catholics far exceeds 43:48.280 --> 43:50.760 devotion to God or Jesus. 43:51.740 --> 43:52.520 It's a cult. 43:53.140 --> 43:55.080 It has been from the very beginning. 43:55.790 --> 43:57.640 It's mystery babble on the great. 43:58.020 --> 44:01.660 It's the great apostasy spoken of in the scripture. 44:02.680 --> 44:06.960 Under the subtitle, The Omnipotent, Omniscious, and Omnipresent Mary, 44:07.120 --> 44:14.000 Dave says, Soul Magazine, quote, Official publication of the Blue Army of 44:14.000 --> 44:19.780 Our Lady of Fatima in the United States and Canada, 22 million strong, 44:19.900 --> 44:26.520 declares, quote, Mary is so perfectly united with the Holy Spirit that he acts 44:26.520 --> 44:29.360 only through her, his spouse. 44:30.160 --> 44:35.420 All our life, every thought, every word, and every deed is in her hands. 44:36.020 --> 44:44.140 At every moment, she herself, capital S and capital H, must instruct, guide, 44:44.260 --> 44:52.540 and transform each one of us into herself, so that not we, but she lives in us, 44:53.140 --> 44:58.740 as Jesus lives in her, and the Father in the Son, unquote. 44:59.420 --> 45:03.480 Every thought, word, and deed of all mankind is in Mary's hands? 45:04.080 --> 45:08.320 She instructs, guides, and transforms each of us into herself? 45:09.160 --> 45:12.060 Why then, Mary must be God. 45:12.700 --> 45:15.140 And that's what's taught in the Roman Catholic Church. 45:15.960 --> 45:17.840 Never mind what your Bible says. 45:18.540 --> 45:20.500 That's what's taught in the Roman Catholic Church. 45:21.160 --> 45:23.800 And they're going to force us all to bend the knee to Mary. 45:24.520 --> 45:29.940 When church and state are hermetically united in this country, the church will 45:29.940 --> 45:36.080 control the state, and the state will control the people, and we will all be 45:36.080 --> 45:41.760 forced to bow to this Queen of Heaven, and commit an abomination before the Lord. 45:42.280 --> 45:43.940 And those who won't will perish. 45:43.940 --> 45:47.100 And that's simply history repeating itself. 45:47.780 --> 45:51.000 This has happened so many times in history that can't be counted. 45:51.840 --> 45:54.340 But we count each time here at Inquisition Update. 45:54.500 --> 45:58.720 All the books we read here on Inquisition Update show the history of the Roman 45:58.720 --> 46:07.040 Catholic Church, and how by force, Romanism evangelizes non-Roman Catholics. 46:07.700 --> 46:10.200 It's going to happen in the United States of America. 46:10.200 --> 46:11.760 Do we think we're protected here? 46:12.580 --> 46:16.600 After Vatican Council II, when the Protestants have literally repudiated 46:16.600 --> 46:21.360 their Protestantism, there's nothing restraining the mother whore of Rome to do 46:21.360 --> 46:24.440 the same thing here that she's done all over the world. 46:24.780 --> 46:29.200 And I want my listeners to comprehend the consequences of this apostasy, 46:29.580 --> 46:36.880 and being silent and not to educate and inform the rest of our nation what Rome 46:36.880 --> 46:38.300 has in store for us. 46:38.300 --> 46:46.040 I talk myself hoarse trying to raise awareness of what is happening in our 46:46.040 --> 46:46.500 country. 46:47.340 --> 46:49.900 Mary must be God if she has all this power. 46:50.700 --> 46:51.720 What about the Scriptures? 46:52.720 --> 46:53.860 What about the Bible? 46:54.640 --> 46:57.380 God's Word has just been simply thrown out. 46:58.240 --> 47:02.420 Never does the Bible say that the Holy Spirit only acts through Mary. 47:03.080 --> 47:06.680 The Holy Spirit has been action for eternity past. 47:06.680 --> 47:09.960 An eternity before Mary was ever born. 47:10.860 --> 47:14.020 All our life is in God's hands, not Mary's. 47:14.760 --> 47:18.000 We are instructed and guided by God, not by Mary. 47:18.620 --> 47:24.500 And we are being transformed into the very image of Christ, not the image of Mary. 47:25.340 --> 47:30.440 Nor does the Bible ever hint that Mary lives in the believers, while it assures 47:30.440 --> 47:33.360 us that Christ lives in us by His Holy Spirit. 47:33.360 --> 47:39.020 To suggest that such promises are fulfilled in Mary is blasphemy of the 47:39.020 --> 47:43.280 vilest sort, which the real Mary would rebuke. 47:43.860 --> 47:45.340 But Mary can't rebuke. 47:45.960 --> 47:46.360 Why? 47:47.040 --> 47:51.380 Because she's dead, awaiting the resurrection of the saints. 47:52.000 --> 47:53.700 Her body has decayed. 47:54.320 --> 47:57.260 It has turned to the dust from which it was made. 47:57.820 --> 48:02.640 Just like yours and mine will, she's not commanding anybody. 48:02.640 --> 48:06.820 She's not applying graces to anybody. 48:07.360 --> 48:09.220 She's not aware of the world. 48:09.360 --> 48:11.960 She's not aware of her good deeds or her bad deeds. 48:12.580 --> 48:15.180 She's not even aware that she bore the Christ. 48:15.980 --> 48:19.540 It's just that easy to dismiss Roman Catholicism. 48:20.140 --> 48:25.960 But most Christians today believe that they have the right to be wrong and not to 48:25.960 --> 48:26.520 be criticized. 48:27.400 --> 48:31.940 And that those who believe in Roman Catholicism have just as much right to 48:31.940 --> 48:36.320 serve in our government, just as much right to make America Roman Catholic, 48:36.920 --> 48:41.140 just as much right to make us all Catholic or die. 48:41.920 --> 48:42.560 I'm sorry. 48:43.280 --> 48:49.560 I don't acknowledge the rights of those who would strip me of mine and force me to 48:49.560 --> 48:54.340 commit abominations against the one who saved me. 48:54.340 --> 48:57.460 Against the one who created me. 48:57.780 --> 49:01.640 Against the one who spoke and the world was. 49:02.420 --> 49:05.760 At some point, we have to put our foot down. 49:06.180 --> 49:09.800 The Bible says repeatedly that Christ lives in the Christian. 49:09.960 --> 49:14.620 John 14.20, Colossians 1.27, Galatians 4.19. 49:15.680 --> 49:24.840 And the Christian in Christ, Romans 8.1, 2 Corinthians 5.17, Ephesians 2.10, 49:25.040 --> 49:25.380 etc. 49:26.100 --> 49:32.650 But says never a word about anyone either being in Mary or Mary in anyone. 49:33.760 --> 49:40.800 For that to be true of Mary, as it is of God and Christ, she would have to be 49:40.800 --> 49:42.700 omnipresent like God. 49:43.600 --> 49:48.760 Amazingly, whatever the Bible promises God will do for us through Christ requires in 49:48.760 --> 49:54.180 Roman Catholicism the intercession and intervention of Mary as an additional 49:54.180 --> 49:55.300 intermediary. 49:56.180 --> 49:57.520 What an abomination. 49:58.600 --> 50:01.520 Consider, quote, the Holy Father. 50:02.000 --> 50:06.420 The Holy Father's prayer for the Marian year, unquote. 50:07.080 --> 50:10.900 The Pope asked Mary to comfort, guide, strengthen and protect, 50:11.480 --> 50:14.640 quote, the whole of humanity, unquote. 50:14.640 --> 50:19.960 To do so, she'd have to be all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere all at once. 50:20.800 --> 50:27.080 Even worse, this prayer ends, quote, sustain us, O Virgin Mary, on our journey 50:27.080 --> 50:32.060 of faith and obtain for us the grace of eternal salvation, unquote. 50:32.780 --> 50:34.680 This is rank blasphemy. 50:35.360 --> 50:41.120 But no less than we could expect from the synagogue of Satan, the Roman Catholic 50:41.120 --> 50:41.600 Church. 50:41.600 --> 50:47.100 Dave continues, he said, yet it is commonly declared that, quote, 50:47.300 --> 50:53.400 Mary is the refuge of sinners, the gate of heaven, our way to enter into 50:53.400 --> 50:54.920 paradise, unquote. 50:55.940 --> 51:01.380 But Christ paid the debt for our sins and with his own precious blood purchased our 51:01.380 --> 51:07.560 salvation which is offered freely as a gift by God's grace to all who will 51:07.560 --> 51:08.360 receive it. 51:08.360 --> 51:13.420 There's no mention whatsoever of Mary in the gospel which Paul in the early church 51:13.420 --> 51:19.280 preached to suggest that Mary must or even can in any way obtain for us grace for 51:19.280 --> 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