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Fatima, I don’t believe I shared anything publically that you had not already shared publically.

I merely said that you had the materials. You had already shared that on another thread and we’d touched on it back and forth in that other thread publically, as I recall.

I did not say you’d read them nor that you thought XYZ about them.

I think you have falsely accused me, here.

I will try and abide by your wishes.

What thread did I share that on Quix?I ordered the books because of a thread you started that was pulled and you sent it to me in freepmail.I said I was willing to read the books because some people consider me to have knowledge of Fatima.This was between you and me in freepmail.Since I had other people bring this up I said I would do a rebuttal on air of the books.I never posted that.I said all of this in freepmail.

Good stuff Quix, I too like most biblically literate protestants have no clue as to why RC’s push Mary so much, in ways so totally unrecognizable to the New Testament. The account in Acts (the Churches’ 1st 30 years or so) give no evidence at all to praying or giving veneration to dead saints, and, as a matter of fact, I believe Acts never once mentions Mary. Odd, since her veneration/worship is supposed to be so essential to the faith.

St. Paul too, in all his letters of central doctrine and advice to the 1st, foundational generation of Christians, never once mentions venerating dead saints, and yes, he like Dr. Luke author of Acts never once mentions Mary—only, and always Christ, our one Lord and Savior, the one Mediator between God and Man.

St. Peter too, in his 2 little books, never finds the paper to mention the vital importance of imploring dead saints (and there were many by then) to go before Christ for them....only, always Christ alone.

St. John, the caretaker of St. Mary from the cross on, in his 5 very profound books, never mentions praying to, or venerating statues of God’s loved ones in Glory. And, after his gospel account, he never mentions Mary again in his books—3 letters and the Apocalypse—either. Christ is all in all, God’s Word made flesh.

Surely Mary, as she herself said, is the most blessed of all women—having God the Son Himself as her son. That doesn’t make her sinless though—as the gospel accounts indicate—and I am sure she is angry, VERY angry, when focus on her obscures her all in all, Christ alone.