[terycarl]

The Mary of Catholics is not the Mother of Jesus

The Catholics knew, honored and loved Mary for about 1,600 years before there was even 1 protestant.

[CynicalBear]

>>The Catholics knew, honored and loved Mary for about 1,600 years before there was even 1 protestant.<<

Mary was so insignificant to the Christians alive at the time no one even cared enough to keep track of where she lived out her last days. Not the secular writers, not the religious writers, not that apostles, not anyone. The Catholic Church itself acknowledges the fact that no one knows. Catholics should take a hint.

[caww]

This isn’t about being a protestant or catholic...it’s about catholic teaching that is misleading people and endangering them by their practices and behavior before idols and various other images.

[RoosterRedux]

The Catholics knew, honored and loved Mary for about 1,600 years before there was even 1 protestant.

Actually, people from all cultures worshiped a virgin goddess (Queen of Heaven) since the beginning of human history.

Catholic Mary worship is merely a continuation of this.

And therein is your blindness.

[Elsie]

The Catholics knew, honored and loved Mary for about 1,600 years before there was even 1 protestant.

John 2:4 And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? my hour is not yet come.

[Syncro]

The Catholics knew, honored and loved Mary for about 1,600 years before there was even 1 protestant.

Actually you have the numbers wrong.

Catholicism didn't start until about 400 years after Jesus appeared on the scene in the Mideast.

And soon after that happened, the world went into what is referred to as the Dark Ages. (Look it up)

So the 1600 years is how long Catholics have been bowing down and to Mary and using her for salvation instead of Jesus. [Some do go directly to Jesus as they know that is the Biblical way to Salvation.]

There were only Christians back in Jesus' time, no denominations even though there were various different churches in many areas.

The actual church that Jesus is a part of is made up of EVERY person who recognize Him as the Creator and Savior of our souls, and give their lives to following Him. Born again Christians with a personal relationship with Jesus, Him in us and us in Him.

All it takes is repenting and following Jesus. Being in the world, but not of it.

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.--John 17, 14-16