Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel: CANSWERSTV) and Steve Morrison, Ph.D, director of Research for Christian Answers (Steve is the creator of all 3 of our websites: BIBLEQUERY ORG, HISTORYCART COM & MUSLIMHOPE COM) take viewers on a journey through the portals of time, back to the first few centuries of the early Christian church. What did the early Christian Church teach & practice? Early pre-Nicene (before 325 A.D.) writers included: Ignatius, Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Melito, Iranaeus, Origen of Alexandria, Tatian, Athenagoras, Polycrates, Montanus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Lactantius, Arnobius, Eusebius, Dionysius of Rome, Dionysius of Alexandria, "To Diognetus," Papias, Theophilus of Antioch, Methodius, Adamantius, Gregory Thaumaturgus & others. Let's ask the following question, "What could you prove about early Christianity if you had no Bible, but only the pre-Nicene church writers?"
OLD TESTAMENT INDIVIDUALS
NEW TESTAMENT INDIVIDUALS:
O1. Cain murdered Abel Gen 4:1-16; Mt 23:35; Lk 11:51
N1. Herod's slaughter in Bethlehem Mt 2:16
O2. Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice Gn 22
N2. John the Baptist was a godly forerunner Mt3;Mk1;Jn1
O3. Joseph and/or his brothers Gen 37-47
N3. Judas betrayed Jesus Mt 26; Mk 14;Lk 22; Jn 18; Ac1:16
O4. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt Ex 12-14
N4. Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus Lk 23:4-25; Jn 18-19
O6. David was godly (except adultery) 2 Sam 7
N6. Peter was a godly apostle or martyr Ac10:6-16;Jn21:7
O8. Elijah was a godly prophet 1 Ki 18-20; Lk 9:33
N8. Mary Magdalene Mt 27:56,61;28:1;Mk15:40,47;16:1;Jn20:1
O9. Hezekiah and the Assyrian army 2 Ki 19
N9. Barnabas was a godly brother Acts 13:2; 14:1-3;15:22
O10. Jonah in the fish or warned Ninevites Jon; Mt12
N10. Paul was a godly apostle of Christ 2 Pet 3:15-16
THE BIBLICAL MARY & ROMAN CATHOLIC TRADITION:
"By asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the 'Mother of Mercy,' the All Holy One." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications, 1994, # 2677). Such is the superlative praise and veneration that Catholic teaching gives to their Mary. The whole cycle of feasts of the Catholic Church is permeated with her festivals throughout each year.
Pope John Paul II dedicated himself and his Pontificate to Mary. His personal motto was, "Totus Tuus", for "Totus Tuus sum Maria," meaning in English "I am all yours Mary." On October 8th, 2000,
before the image of the Virgin of Fátima, he consecrated the world and the new millennium to "Mary Most Holy". She is prominent in all the Pope's teachings and centerpiece to the lives of millions of Catholics. With the constant charm and fascination of the apparitions, the world itself has become mystified and indeed seems to be becoming mesmerized by the same Mary. It is quite commonplace to find this Mary on the cover of Life, Time, and Newsweek magazines. She is becoming more and more a focal point of unity between Church of Rome and the Muslims. The famous Archbishop Fulton Sheen stated, "It is our firm belief that the fears some entertain concerning the Moslems are not to be realized,
but that Moslemism, instead, will eventually be converted to Christianity—and in a way that even some of our missionaries never suspect. It is our belief that this will happen not through the direct teachings of Christianity, but through a summoning of the Moslems to a veneration of the Mother of God." The ecumenism of the Papacy with Islam should be of grave concern to the true body of Christ, as
recent events have shown. That the apparitions would play a role in this movement toward unity is not to be doubted.
In spite of the Biblical truth, "My glory will I not give to another," (Isaiah 42:8) the Church of Rome parallels Mary to Jesus & the Holy Spirit (Galatians 1:6-9).
Biblical Truth:
1. Jesus Christ's unique sinlessness
2. Grace and salvation are in Christ alone
3. Christ has ascended into heaven and is King of Kings
4. Jesus Christ is the one Mediator
5. The Holy Spirit is the believer's Helper and Advocate
6. Christ Himself with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is God, the all Holy One
Roman Catholic teaching:
1. Mary's declared Immaculate Conception
2. Mary's place in grace and salvation
3. Mary's declared assumption into heaven and is declared Queen of
Heaven.
4. Mary is declared Mediatrix
5. Mary is declared helper and advocate
6. Mary is also the All Holy One
Romanism thus violates Revelation 22:18-21.
This is part 11 in series. The documentation found in this series can be found on our website HISTORYCART.COM.
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