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The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception claims that Mary was conceived without original sin. However, Scripture presents a different picture.
1. Mary Was Born Under Adam’s Fallen Condition
The Bible teaches that all humans inherit the consequences of Adam’s sin.
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Romans 5:12 (KJV)”
Since Mary was a descendant of Adam like all other humans, she would naturally share in this SAME fallen condition.
2. Mary Offered the Required Sin Offering After Childbirth
According to the Law of Moses, a woman who gave birth was required to offer a sin offering.
Leviticus 12:6–8 (KJV) is a command for postpartum sin offering.
Luke 2:22–24 (KJV) records that Mary and Joseph fulfilled this law.
Mary brought “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons”, the offering prescribed for purification.
If Mary were completely sinless, there would be no reason for her to participate in a ritual involving a sin offering.
3. Mary Called God Her Saviour
Mary herself acknowledges her need for salvation.
“My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Luke 1:46–47 (KJV).”
A person who has never been under sin does not need a Saviour. Mary’s own words indicate she AFFIRMED her need for redemption as a sinner.
4. Mary Experienced Death
Scripture teaches that death is the consequence of sin.
“For the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23a (KJV)”
Mary died like every other human being. This further shows she shared the same fallen condition that affects all humanity.
5. “Blessed” Does Not Mean Sinless
Catholic arguments often appeal to Mary being called “blessed among women.”
But in Scripture, “blessed” commonly refers to a person whose sins have been forgiven.
“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity. Psalm 32:1–2 (KJV)”
Thus being blessed does not mean being sinless; rather, it often refers to someone who has received God’s grace and forgiveness.
6. Christ’s Baptism Is Not Comparable‘
Jesus was baptized not because He had sin, but because He was fulfilling the righteousness required under the Law.
“Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Matthew 3:15 (KJV)”
Christ’s baptism was an act of obedience, not repentance. Therefore it cannot be used to argue that Mary’s participation in a sin offering implies sinlessness.
7. Christ commanded us to listen to God’s word, not to Mary:
“Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. Luke 11:27–28 (KJV)”
The Lord Jesus forbade the adoration / veneration of the woman (Mary) who breast-fed Him, but rather to hear the word of God and keep it – that’s a statement that supports the doctrine of Sola Scriptura.
8. God’s family members are those who do God’s will:
“Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. Mark 3:31–35 (KJV)”
The Lord Jesus openly and blatantly addressed Mary as a sinner at the same level like all other sinners in the crowd! No special attention upon Mary as immaculately conceived or received special favors!
As a Catholic, you are taught that Catholics do not worship Mary. You must always say that you are only venerating or honoring her. And you can also claim that the kind of worship you are giving Mary is not sinful because the Catholic Church calls it hyperdulia and that makes it not a sin, by calling it something other than worship of God. So Catholics can relabel SIN with new words, and in that way, they are able to turn SINS into something praiseworthy. Very deceptive, isn’t it?
No apostle was ever known to have:
said a single “Hail Mary”,
bowed to a Mary statue,
bowed in front of Mary,
prayed to Mary,
built a shrine to Mary,
or wrote a prayer of adoration to Mary.
And they hardly even mentioned her in any of the Gospels. In fact, Mary is not mentioned in any epistles either. Now isn’t that strange if they were “good Catholics”? Those apostles must have been heretics or apostate, right?
The Bible presents Mary as:
● A descendant of Adam
● A participant in the purification offering
● Someone who acknowledged God as her Savior
● A human who experienced death
These points are consistent with the biblical teaching that all have sinned and need salvation, and they do not support the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Mary was greatly favored and blessed, but like every other human being, she was saved by the grace of God through the redemption brought by Jesus Christ. The Bible never teaches that Mary was sinless. Scripture says all have sinned (Romans 3:23) and that none is good but God (Luke 18:19). Mary herself rejoiced in “God my Savior” (Luke 1:47) and offered the sin offering required by the Law (Luke 2:22–24). The Bible repeatedly teaches that Jesus alone is without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Mary was therefore not sinless or “immaculate” as the Catholic Church likes to describe her.
Therefore, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was a late teaching, defined in 1854 by Pope Pius IX, and is not found in Scripture. The Catholic Church has a different Mary. The Catholic Mary is a virgin forever. The Mary of the Bible produced several children with Joseph. The Mary of the Bible has one title… “the Mother of Jesus”.
The Catholic version of Mary has been assigned a bunch of man-made titles including but not limited to:
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of virgins,
Mother of Christ,
Mother of the Church,
Mother of mercy,
Mother of divine grace,
Mother of hope,
Mother most pure,
Mother most chaste,
Mother inviolate,
Mother undefiled,
Mother most amiable,
Mother most admirable,
Mother of good counsel,
Mother of our Creator,
Mother of our Savior,
Virgin most prudent,
Virgin most venerable,
Virgin most renowned,
Virgin most powerful,
Virgin most merciful,
Virgin most faithful.
Perpetual Virgin forever.
Mirror of justice,
Seat of wisdom,
Cause of our joy,
Spiritual vessel,
Vessel of honor,
Singular vessel of devotion,
Mystical rose,
Tower of David,
Tower of ivory,
House of gold,
Ark of the covenant,
Gate of heaven,
Morning star,
Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners,
Comfort of Migrants,
Comforter of the afflicted,
Help of Christians,
Queen of Angels,
Queen of Patriarchs,
Queen of Prophets,
Queen of Apostles,
Queen of Martyrs,
Queen of Confessors,
Queen of Virgins,
Queen of all Saints,
Queen conceived without original sin,
Queen of Heaven.
Queen assumed into heaven.
Queen of the Universe.
Queen of the most holy Rosary,
Queen of Families,
Queen of Peace
The All Holy One
Source of all Graces
Healer.
The above list is undeniable evidence of Catholic Mary worship. Not one of these titles of Catholicism’s “golden calf” version of Mary can be found in the Bible, the Word of God. Making up excuses like “We don’t worship Mary, we only venerate or honor her”, is a very lame attempt to redefine acts of worship as something else, which is a deceptive denial of the truth.
ANSWER: Because Catholics show us that Mary is a goddess to them, by:
how they describe her,
how they pray to her,
how they make statues of her,
how they bow down to statues of her,
how they build shrines in honor of her,
how they name churches after her,
how they name cemeteries after her,
how they make sacred medals honoring her,
how they have songs of praise to her,
how they have prayers to glorify her,
how they give her goddess titles like queen of heaven and queen of the universe.
In the Catholic Church there is the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Virgin of the Cave, the black Virgin, the Virgin of Mercy, etc. Are we to believe that one deceased Jewish woman has mutated into a thousand different Marys? NO. What we see is a repackaging of ancient pagan goddesses of different cultures to fit into what is best described as “The Cult Of Mary”.
Maybe Jesus doesn’t want people to elevate His mother! Afterall he said THIS:
“For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Matthew 12:50
What about YOU? Do you CARE about what Jesus said regarding WHO His MOTHER is? OR are you shaking your fist at Jesus and doing what the church of Rome tells you to do instead?
Contrary to Catholic Church claims, Mary is NOT the second eve. Jesus is the 2nd (or last) Adam as stated in 1 Corinthians 15:45 and the Church is the BRIDE of Christ which is also stated in the Bible. Therefore as the BRIDE of Christ the TRUE. Church is the new (or 2nd) Eve. The first EVE was Adam’s BRIDE, not Adam’s MOTHER. Mary is simply a MEMBER of the BRIDE of Christ. And the RCC is NOT the TRUE Church since they have a false works salvation plan.
• THE PERSON WHO LEFT HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN TO COME TO EARTH TO DIE WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON WHO PERFORMED ALL SORTS OF MIRACLES WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON WHO LIVED A SINLESS LIFE WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON WHO WAS SCOURGED WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON WITH THE CROWN OF THORNS WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON NAILED TO THE CROSS WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON IN THE TOMB WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON WHO ROSE FROM THE DEAD WAS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON WHO SITS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD INTERCEDING FOR SINNERS IS NOT MARY.
• THE PERSON WHO IS COMING TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD WILL NOT BE MARY.
SO WHY ARE CATHOLICS SO PREOCCUPIED WITH MARY?
— RM Kane
Dear Catholics, shooting God’s messengers is not a very good use of your time. You are simply defending the religion that is leading you and your loved ones to hell. A much better use of what time you have left on earth, would be to read the Bible for yourself asking God to show you the truth about salvation and about how – even on our best days – we are ALL hell-deserving sinners. No amount of Catholic sacraments is going to remove a single sin…
THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS: Jesus didn’t die a brutal death on the cross of Calvary so you could get to heaven by all those Catholic inventions listed above. He willingly sacrificed his life because YOU OWE GOD a debt that you cannot possibly repay no matter what you do! Sin can only be removed by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ! — RM Kane
“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” Hebrews 9:22
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” Titus 3:5
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9
Notice there is no mention in the above Bible verses of any need to practice ANY catholic sacraments for salvation.
Dear ____________,
I know you have told me that you don’t believe like I believe, but hell is full of people who used to say that, and who now believe exactly what I believe about God, heaven and hell. Only for them it is eternally too late to repent and ask Jesus to save them. I HIGHLY recommend that you read the enclosed leaflet (Does God Love You?) if you care about where you will spend eternity. God does not compare us to others or count our good deeds when we get to heaven, but rather His standard of righteousness for entering heaven is sinless PERFECTION which only His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ was able to achieve and THAT is EXACTLY why Jesus was the ONLY ACCEPTABLE sacrifice (or scapegoat) for our sins. Seriously, do you really think that God sent His only begotten Son to die such a horrible death of crucifixion because you were good enough to get to heaven on your own merits? We all owe God a debt we can never repay. The truth is, according to God’ standard of sinless perfection, we all fall far short of God’s standard for entering heaven. In fact, God is so holy, that even just one sin is enough to qualify any of us for eternal separation from God in Hell, myself included. And I am no better than anyone else. I am as much of a hell-deserving sinner as anyone else, and maybe more so than some folks.
Without true salvation from the Lord Jesus Christ we are all just one heartbeat away from death and from eternity in hell, so please don’t wait until it is too late to do anything about your salvation. I highly recommend reading the enclosed leaflet and also do what I did back in 1985 when God saved my soul… I got a Bible and started reading it. I started at the end (the book of Revelation) “to see how things end up” – and what I read there really got my attention and opened my eyes to where I was headed as a lost sinner, a lost Catholic sinner. I learned that Catholicism wasn’t going to save my soul, nor was going to church or being religious or “trying to be good” according to my own opinion of “good”. I truth, I needed to turn my life over to Jesus. When I asked Jesus to save my soul, He surely did and I then experienced what it means to be “born again”. It is a supernatural spiritual birth, that no one truly understands until and unless they experience it. And when it happens, their eyes open to these spiritual things and they then have a God-given desire to warn others about hell and about the only remedy… salvation in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. That is HOW I know I have experienced the “new birth” Jesus spoke of in John chapter 3:
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3. I can now SEE the kingdom of God… that is, I can now see which other people on earth are true Christians, by what they think about Jesus, salvation and the Bible, namely people I used to think were just “Jesus freaks” – a derogatory label used by many lost sinners of the world.
Lastly, heaven is not some great playground or partying place in the sky. It is a place of absolute moral purity where true followers of Christ will be worshipping the Lord Jesus who saved them in this lifetime, as a show of thanks for what He did for them on the cross at Calvary.
“And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.” Revelation 19:9
Do YOU want to be at the wedding banquet for Jesus in heaven? Do you even think about that? God’s people on earth think about that and… we also think about people like you who are not yet ready for heaven, and we therefore warn you with messages like this… because heaven is by invitation only. This is one of perhaps many invitations and warnings you have received in your lifetime. Please heed these warnings so that you will become truly saved by God and will have the same burden for the souls of others, that I have for you and others. I am so thankful that I got saved by God so long ago so that I have had many years to serve the Lord and warn friends and family and many others to seek the Lord while they still have time… So in closing I will quote from the Bible:
“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near” Isaiah 55:6
Here is a brief description of Christian evangelism from the New Testament, pointing out how heaven is by invitation from God’s children (his messengers) sharing a message like this that you are receiving today:
“And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth [furious]: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.” Matthew 22:1-10
So please don’t wait until you’re in a coma on your death bed to accept YOUR invitation to heaven. And instead of getting upset with my concern for your soul, ask yourself why you would get upset about someone inviting you to heaven so you don’t have to spend eternity regretting the day that you were born.
Love,
What we are presenting here are false claims that the Catholic church teaches their members to repeat when confronted with unpleasant – UNBIBLICAL – Catholic Church teachings. It is a childish, cowardly defense mechanism used to try to shut down conversations and shift the focus back on the person trying to warn Catholics about how their Church is deceiving them, and actually leading them and their Catholic loved ones to Hell. Sadly, Catholics don’t realize how they are being manipulated and deceived.
1. We’re the one true Church.
2. We gave you the Bible.
3. Martin Luther removed books from the Bible.
4. Jesus founded the Catholic Church.
5. Which of the 40,000, Protestant denominations is correct?
6. Martin Luther started your religion.
7. I am saved, I am being saved, and I hope to be saved.
8. Luther invented “faith alone”.
9. Non-Catholics hate Mary.
10. Mary is our spiritual mother.
11. Mary is the ark of the New Covenant.
12. Mary is our co-redeemer and co-mediator.
13. We don’t pray to Mary, we ask her to pray (intercede) for us.
14. Mary brings our requests to Jesus.
15. We don’t worship Mary. We venerate and honor her.
16. Our statues are sacred objects, not idols.
17. Why are you judging me?
18. Are you sinless?
19. Take the beam out of your eye before you try to take the speck out of my eye.
20. Tell me who held your faith in the first century?
21. Are you infallible? If not, why are you interpreting Scripture?
22. Sola Scriptura is not in the Bible.
23. We get many of our teachings from oral traditions. They don’t have to be in the Bible.
24. Many of our sacred traditions come from the Church fathers, not from the Bible.
25. We only listen to Church fathers who we have not labeled as heretics.
26. Jesus started a Church, not a Bible.
27. Peter was the first pope.
28. The pope is Peter’s successor.
29. We have the bones of the apostles in our cathedrals.
30. More protestant pastors abuse children than Catholic priests abuse.
31. The Catholic Church is 2,000 years old and started in 33 AD.
32. Your religion is only 500 years old at most.
33. You’re just a heretic.
34. You’re an anti-catholic bigot.
35. You worship your pastor.
36. The Bible is your idol.
37. You were poorly catechized.
38. You were not a properly evangelized Catholic.
39. Protestants are ignorant of church history.
40. The apostles were Catholics.
41. You have no evidence – just falsehoods about the Catholic Church.
42. That was just the Popes personal opinion, it’s not binding on us.
43. Worship doesn’t always mean worship.
44. There are different kinds of worship.
Dear Catholics: Instead of repeating the excuses of the Catholic Church for their many unbiblical teachings and practices, can’t you look for the truth yourself? Bibles are easy to acquire these days. Just read the new Testament and compare Catholic teachings to what the New Testament says about the practices of the early Church, in the book of Acts and elsewhere.
