Virgin Mary, Ark of the Covenant

[Phatt Matt s]

I prayed to ISIS:

How was it? Did it do what you wanted it do for you?

Okay, it definitely sounds like I am asking you about a sexual experience.

I'm a little more excited about Athena. She's more modest, gentle, and delicate.

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I hate to say it but, the comfort you got from the rosary and Mary stuff
is from playing in the devil's playpen.
It is a set-up. More is always taken than is given, eventually.

You see, these occult things you play with release those same powers to inhabit you.

We call them demons.

India, with all their idols has tons of them. Ever hear of dervishes?
Africa, with their witch doctors.
Jamaca, with their voodoo.
Rock bands, that glorify satan.
The list goes on and on.
When you play in their playground- they have squatters' rights on you.

A dose of your confusion will leave if you renounce your involvement and attachment to Maryology.

You are very wrong and your rigidness in submitting to your private interpretation of Scripture resembles a jugemental pharisee. If I could obey the precepts of the Catholic Faith on Cardinal, theological, corporal, and spiritual values, virtues, works of mercy, and external and internal mortification of the senses and unruly passions, I would be honored to call myself Catholic.

However, since Amish have no Magisterium to obey, no pope, no Catechism, and no liturgical rubrics, we can hold as many teachings of the Catholic faith within our bosom as we feel the spirit moves us to do.

I have heard the Protestant attack on marian devotion which is a strawman. THere is much that I despise about Catholicism but allied with Holy Mother Church's teaching on Mary Immaculate.

Catholics are not permitted to worship anyone other than the Father Son and the Holy Spirit. Mary is the most pure and Holy of all God's creatures, but she is a creature, and the Church does not say it is okay to adore (worship) her or any other Angel or Saint.

God honored her above all creatures by making her the mother of his son. In honoring Mary the Church is following the example of God himself. Elizabeth filled with the Holy Spirit calls Mary blessed twice in just four short verses. Mary is no ordinary creature and is indeed the Mother of God as we see from Elizabeths words in the first chapter of Luke "and how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"

In verse 48, Our Lady prophesies that all ages will call her blessed, ask the Mary haters why they don't call her Blessed Virgin Mary as Catholics do. It is Catholics who are being Biblical here. Are you?

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Her title as Mother of God can be defended doctrinally, Biblically, and Historically. The three great pillars of the Reformation--Luther, Calvin and Zwingli--all accepted this doctrine wholeheartedly. Most protestants are shocked to learn that althought the founders of Protestantism rejected many Catholic doctrines, they insisted on honoring Mary as Mother of God and Ever Virgin.

If a person denies that Mary is the Mother of God he is denying the Incarnation and the Trinity. He is saying either Jesus is not God, or that Jesus is two persons--one human and one Divine.

Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman.

A correct belief about Mary leads to a correct belief about Jesus. In 429 AD the Nestorian Heresy promoted that Jesus was two distinct persons; and Mary was only the mother of the Human person. The Council of Ephesus 431 AD condemened this Heresy and it was defeated. It did not surface again in Christianity until the Reformation.


Luther, Calvin and Zwingli, the three fathers of the Reformation, each affirmed that Catholic doctrines that Mary is the Mother of God and a Perpetual Virgin. We should ask Fundamentalists to honor Mary as much as the founders of their own Protestant tradition did.

Catholics do not adore Mary, adoration belongs to God alone. Catholics as well as orthodox CHurch's, Some Anglicans, Lutherans, and Amish venerate and honor her. Why? The angel calls her "full of grace," and one who has "found favor with God". Elizabeth filled with the Holy Spirit calls her blessed among women, and Mary herself declares that, "all generations shall call me blessed". Catholics and EO's, following Scripture, always call her blessed. Do you?

She is the Woman of Genesis 3:15 whose enmity with Satan and sin is absolute. She is the Ark of the Covenant (Ex 25:11-21)(Rev 12) made to hold the living word of God: a holy tabernacle made not of the purest gold, but of the purest flesh.

Mary was preserved from originad sin at conception but Jesus is the Savior in both cases. All glory goes to God because he was entirely responsible for the miracle that preserved her from falling into sin. He saved us after falling, and he saved her from ever falling in the first place, because before the world began God knew her and set her aside to be holy and blameless as the Holy Spirit's perfect spouse, the Father's perfect daughter, and the Son's perfect Mother.