Mary Needed Salvation Too

  MARY NEEDED SALVATION

Mary’s immaculate conception is completely unsupported by the Bible. The only two verses I am aware of from which all of Mary-ology is taught comes from Gen. 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” and Luke 1:28 “And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.”

This teaching of Mary being without original sin and living a sinless life comes solely from what I refer to as extreme extrapolation. Extreme extrapolation (my version at least) is the idea of taking one word or phrase and giving it an idea or concept that is not intended and then extrapolating on that idea which you generated and making it something unrelated to its original meaning. And then compounding those errors over and over until you create the idea that (for our example) Mary is enthroned in heaven as its queen all because Luke said she was ‘highly favored’ (or full of grace).

Look again at these two verses. Genesis 3:15 simply tells us that God would put “enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed.” He would put a barrier of hatred or contention between Satan and Eve's seed that would continue until Eve’s seed (Jesus) would finally defeat Satan and his minions. Mary is never in view here at all no matter how one might strain to make it so. And in Luke 1:28 all that is said is that she was blessed by God more than any other woman. Without doubt God was extremely gracious to her by allowing her to carry His only Son. No woman has ever been so blessed. But to use this single verse to create a demigod of Mary is in itself ungodly.

The Catholic Church teaches that Adam and Eve were both created without original sin. Adam and Eve fell from grace, and through them mankind continues to sin. Then they go on to say that Christ and Mary were also conceived without original sin (Immaculate Conception). But they remained faithful, and through them mankind was redeemed from sin. Christ is thus the New Adam, and Mary the New Eve (emphasis mine). This is the result of the ‘extreme extrapolation’ of Luke 1:28 as noted above. Mary is never said to be without sin at any time in any Biblical reference, although Jesus is. Continuing this extrapolation forces them to eventually make Mary the cause of salvation.

The Catechism notes: (catechism 494) . . . “As St. Irenaeus says, ‘Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.’ Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert: ‘The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith.’ Comparing her with Eve, they call Mary ‘the Mother of the living’ and frequently claim: ‘Death through Eve, life through Mary.’”

But this flies in the face of New Testament theology. So many statements like these sound wonderful and filled with deep wisdom. Unfortunately, they are Biblically incorrect and nowhere remotely alluded to anywhere in Scripture. The teaching of original sin lies at Adam’s door not Eve’s. They teach that Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary’s faith. But that is nowhere to be found in the Bible.

Look at this simple passage penned by the Apostle Paul in I Timothy 2:14, “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” Eve was in transgression because she was tricked (deceived) but Adam chose to sin, he was not deceived. Whereas Eve’s transgression was falling to deception. Adam’s sin was an active choice of his free will. The result of which is expressed by the same Apostle in his letter to the Church at Rome in Romans 5:12,14, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world (not by Eve’s deception but Adam’s choice to sin) and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned…. (v.14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, (not from Eve to Moses) even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression (not Eve’s), who is the figure of him that was to come.”

No such passages from God’s Word can be found to support this shameful doctrine of Mary having no original sin and living her life free of any sin. How Mary must grieve with every recitation of the Rosary as she hears “holy Mary, Mother of God.” She indeed carried the physical body of his flesh (protected from original sin by the Holy Spirit) until the day he was born. But she is not God’s Mother. She sinned as we do and she was born with original sin just as we are. And she has nothing to do with our salvation except that she too stood in need of salvation. If we have no sin then we have no need of a Savior but Mary expressed her own need of salvation “And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior” Luke 1:47.

Mary needed to be saved, do you? If you have never been born again (John 3:3-6) you need to be. This Christmas may you receive the greatest gift of all.

You must admit that you too are a sinner, Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Understand there is a real payment because of that sin, Romans 6:23a "For the wages of sin is death…." Believe God loves you so much that He allowed Jesus to pay the price for your sin, Romans 5:8 "But God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." And then simply receive His gift of salvation, Romans 6:23b "…but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." When we are truly sorry for sin (repent 2 Cor. 7:10) and receive the gift of God’s love he promises to save us, Rom 10:9-10, 13 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (v.13) "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Right now from your heart pray this prayer or at least something like this: God I know I am a sinner and I am sorry for my sin. And, right now, I ask Jesus to come into my heart to take control of my life and forgive me of my sin. I believe Jesus’ sacrifice was enough and that God accepted it and raised him from the dead. Thank you for saving my soul, amen.

EVOLUTION OR CREATION

                                                   EVOLUTION OR CREATION

Psalm 14a: The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.”

Romans 1:19-20  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. (v.20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse….

Evolutionists and Creationists begin with a similar premise; “if.” On the side of the evolutionist the argument begins, “if there is no God….” And, it is then followed by myriad suppositions, questions and unprovable conclusions of how absolutely everything came from absolutely nothing.

The creationist has one “if;” also. God. Everything is reasonable, logical and orderly…. If God.

Psalm 14a above shows why evolution has such difficulty. In their hatred of God they have tried to remove Him from His own creation. For the creationist, if God exists then His creation makes sense and it is understandable because it was created by an infinitely powerful eternal being. And, in his creation of each one of us, He has placed an understanding of Himself and all that is around us. We can see God in God’s creation.

Begin anywhere and the conclusion will be the same. That which should be simple, is not simple. Atoms, for example, should be simple enough. You see, evolutionists want to start with… something. But you can’t. You simply must begin with atoms. A simple explanation I was reading recently began with:

Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements and the fundamental building blocks of matter. An atom consists of a nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, surrounded by an electromagnetically bound swarm of electrons. The chemical elements are distinguished from each other by the number of protons that are in their atoms. For example, any atom that contains 11 protons is sodium, and any atom that contains 29 protons is copper. Atoms with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons are called isotopes of the same element….

In order to understand how anything came into existence one must begin here. Where did the protons and neutrons in the nucleus come from? 

Before anything existed, in the great void that would one day become this great cosmos, why did a proton or neutron ever exist at all? And which existed first, the proton or the neutron? And why did the other come into existence? But even there, if we explained that issue, we would still need to discover why an electron, of any type, came into existence, and then why it decided to circle that first nucleus?

And of course, this conundrum goes on ad infinitum. That single first atom had to “decide” to “become” all of the variations in the universe we have today. And that, (how one atom ever decided to multiply and become everything in the universe) is only the issue with the atom. Other issues abound.

Here, evolution ignores the basic principle of cause-and-effect. If nothing caused it to come into existence, it would not. If nothing caused it to change from its original form, it would not. And yet for evolution to be true, the first atom must come into existence all by itself and then change trillions upon trillions of times without cause. 

Need something more complex? Below is a photo of who you are. And by the way, this is not the only part of the human which is complicated beyond comprehension, it is simply a prime example. As stated earlier, this is who you are. Your body operates in the way that it does in order to carry this to the various places it wishes to go and to communicate with others as it wills. The brain did not evolve. 

Spiritually speaking we have a soul which is not dependent on the body or the brain. Rather, the soul operates on the spiritual level and communicates with God and other spirits. However, on the earthly level we communicate with each other by means of this blob we call a brain. Our arms do not communicate, nor do any other parts or members of our body. Instead, our brain uses our body to function and to communicate as it needs. Evolution did not “create” such an amazing being. That mass protected within your skull is so intricate and technical it confounds the wisest among us. 

Did evolution decide people would be massive blobs? And then, “evolution” realized those blobs would need to be protected and so evolution placed them within skulls? And then, maybe, do you think evolution, seeing these blobs rolling around on the earth realized they needed to be able to move and so evolution then created our bodies?

Yes, I do know evolution tries to say it was micro-mutations over eons of time. That would still involve the foolish ideas presented above. First, there is no brain. Why would one ever even begin to develop? Or, first there is no body, just a simple, tiny blob lying on the ground. Neither of those could have occurred anyway because the atom is still lying helpless and alone. And if either those ever did occur, they would have remained the same forever because of the principle of cause-and-effect.

 

Need more? How do living organisms live within the 60,000 miles of blood vessels we have within these bodies? Living within our blood, as it passes through our bodies all day long every day are other living organisms; both good and bad. Just one example of this is the macrophage. It is a living entity in our blood that finds, engulfs and then digests bacteria and viruses, as well as clearing out dead cells and debris to help keep us healthy. Was our blood having trouble one day when evolution “decided” we needed help and “decided” tiny organisms could be placed within our blood stream?

And why 60,000 miles of blood vessels? If evolution were just hit and miss, wouldn’t it only have created about 37 feet of blood vessels and called it good? 60,000 miles had to be the creation of a true God.

The examples of evolutionary foolishness and Divine creation are endless. Nobody can scientifically hold to evolution. People hold to it because they reject God, it is a choice, “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” It is a last-ditch effort to remove God; not a scientific journey.