If you are not Catholic, why are you concerned? What business is it of yours?
If you are not Catholic, why are you concerned? What business is it of yours?
Just part of preaching the Saving Gospel of Faith alone in Christ Alone. Paul didn't have a problem with calling idol worship what it was.
2 Cor 3:5 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Oh, you know the answer: they lie and abuse because they only want to help us.
It's our business because if the Catholic church is passing off falsehood as truth then people's eternal destiny is at stake. We are not going to sit by and watch people head for the abyss thinking they are safe snuggled in Mary's embrace. She CANNOT save.
Aside from the role she played in prophecy being fulfilled, she has no significance in God's plan of salvation for mankind. It's about Jesus and what He did. Always has been and always will be.
Adding Mary into the mix the way Catholics and popes add her will only keep people from Jesus as they're going to think they can go through her. That's a lie from the pit. Praying to her is idolatry. Expecting her to obtain favors, answers to prayer, or salvation, is a fool's errand will only result in someone's damnation.
Mary does not belong in the picture once she bore Jesus. Her work was done when she finished raising Him and He began His ministry on earth.
God does not permit other gods before Him.