Giant Virgin Mary Statue to be Erected Near Her Turkish Abode

Daily Sabah (Turkey) ^ | 2/21/16

[Ann Archy]

even so, it’s a Muslim country......I was shocked since they don’t allow pictures of people.

[Gamecock]

Will they continue to sell pagan trinkets on site?

(Photo by Gamecock, all rights reserved)

[metmom]

IIRC, there’s something in the Ten Commandments about not making graven images and bowing down to them......

[Gamecock]

If you look closely you can see the Nazar (evil eye) attached to “Mary.”

[daniel1212]

I think about how that one image was able to convert millions of savage Aztecs, a

Over 10 years they say because of this image, but there was more to the overall conversion of the Aztecs than that image of the unScriptural Mary of Catholicism, while the devil will again convert many with another image in the future:

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Revelation 13:15)

[ealgeone]

"Women, behold son, son, behold your mother".

Jesus, from the cross.

You understand what is happening here....right?

[Biggirl]

Yes.

[Biggirl]

Also Jesus commanded John before he died on the cross to take care of Mary as directed in the 10 commandments.

[ealgeone]

It is not in the Greek nor is the catholic claim that Jesus is giving all of us His mom. Nor is it in the Greek that this is making Mary the mother of the disciples.

It's not even close.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Also Jesus commanded John before he died on the cross to take care of Mary as directed in the 10 commandments.”

Yes. Which has absolutely nothing to do with building statues to Mary, nor bowing down or praying to them, which is idolatry.

That is my point. The verse you quoted has nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

It is not in the Greek nor is the catholic claim that Jesus is giving all of us His mom. Nor is it in the Greek that this is making Mary the mother of the disciples. It's not even close.

Yes, I realize all this.

[af_vet_1981]

nor is the catholic claim that Jesus is giving all of us His mom.

Were you baptized as a Catholic and then you became a Protestant, or were you born into a Protestant family ?

Paragraph 6. Mary - Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church

963 Since the Virgin Mary's role in the mystery of Christ and the Spirit has been treated, it is fitting now to consider her place in the mystery of the Church. "The Virgin Mary . . . is acknowledged and honored as being truly the Mother of God and of the redeemer. . . . She is 'clearly the mother of the members of Christ' . . . since she has by her charity joined in bringing about the birth of believers in the Church, who are members of its head."502 "Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church."503

[Campion]

It is not in the Greek nor is the catholic claim that Jesus is giving all of us His mom.

If it was just a personal arrangement between three people, why do you suppose it was recorded in the Gospel? (See John 20:31)

John was the "disciple whom Jesus loved," and the Greek says that he took Mary "eis ta idia" = "To his own" people, place, etc.

As I say, it's not just a personal arrangement, but symbolizes something much bigger. It's not for nothing that John's Gospel begins with the wedding feast of Cana (Mary: "Do whatever he tells you") and ends with John taking Mary "eis ta idia".

[Campion]

In the Hebrew, it says “idols,” not “graven images”. An idol is an image of a false god. Mary is not a goddess, whether false or any other kind, so the verse you’re thinking of simply doesn’t apply.

[Elsie]

The municipality of Selcuk, a town in western Turkey where Virgin Mary is believed to have spent her last days, plans to erect a giant statue dedicated to her in the fashion of the notable statue in Brazil depicting her son.

Believed?

Last Days??

[Elsie]

...since its discovery in the 19th century.

HMMMmmm...

[Elsie]

"We have to market our town better," he told a tourism event on Saturday.

Sounds like a press release from ROME!

[Elsie]

I think about how that one image was able to convert millions of savage Aztecs, and pray that a similar miracle may occur for the muslims.

Of course; Spanish savagery played NO part in the 'converting' at all.

(Spain learned SOMETHING from being subjected to Muslim rule for a while.)

[Elsie]

May she bring them all to her Son!!!

Amen!

And if they can't make it all the way to her son; they can cling to her alone...

 

 

 

Bernadine: …all gifts, all virtues, and all graces are dispensed by the hands of Mary to whomsoever, when, and as she pleases. O Lady, since thou art the dispenser of all graces, and since the grace of salvation can ONLY come through thy hands, OUR SALVATION DEPENDS ON THEE.

Bonaventure: …the gates of heaven will open to all who confide in the protection of Mary. Blessed are they who know thee, O Mother of God, for the knowledge of THEE is the high road to everlasting life, and the publication of thy virtues is the way of ETERNAL SALVATION . Give ear, O ye nations; and all you who desire heaven , serve, honor Mary, and certainly you will find ETERNAL LIFE.

Ephem: …devotion to the divine Mother…is the unlocking of the heavenly Jerusalem.

Blosius: To the, O Lady, are committed the KEYS and the treasures of the kingdom of Heaven.

Ambrose: …constantly pray ‘Open to us, O Mary, the gates of paradise, since thou hast its KEYS.

Fulgetius: …by Mary God descended from Heaven into the world, that by HER man might ascend from earth to Heaven.

Athanasius: …And, thou, O Lady, wast filled with grace, that thou mightiest be the way of our SALVATION and the means of ascent to the heavenly Kingdom.

Richard of Laurence: Mary, in fine, is the mistress of heaven; for there she commands as she wills, and ADMITS whom she wills.

Guerric: …he who serves Mary and for whom she intercedes, is as CERTAIN of heaven as if he were already there…and those who DO NOT serve Mary will NOT BE SAVED.

Anselm: It suffices, O Lady, that thou willest it, and our SALVATION is certain.

Antoninus: …souls protected by Mary, and on which she casts her eyes, are NECESSARILY JUSTIFIED AND SAVED.

[Elsie]

The SEA had one been at its shores but Ephesus is way inland now.

Where'd the WATER go???

--terycarl