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  1. Diana of Ephesus presented Wildlife of Nature not Virgins. (Its another Diana ).This deity has no place among ”Ladies” parade of Catholic /Orthodox church.

  2. Thank you for this article. It has clarified some questions that I had. Brother, may our Lord bless you and guide you in everything that you do.

    And yes…come quickly Yeshua.

  3. Thank you, starting to make sense now. However I’m still very confused by the virgin Mary thing. My fiancé is Catholic and myself Christian. It really complicate things from time to time. For instance, he has a statue of whom he believe to be the virgin Mary on his table in his study, amongst other things. However I might believe that’s it’s actually just semiramis. Guess the point I’m trying to make is……or actually more a question, is it possible for a Christian and a Catholic to get married?

    • Hi, Mandy. It is, of course, possible for a Christian and a Catholic to get married, but, remember that the Bible teaches that Christians should not be “unequally yoked” with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 14:6). Besides, depending on how Christian the Christian is and how Catholic the Catholic is, there could be problems, especially where it concerns children.

      I know of instances, for example, where the Christian/Catholic couple was fine until they had a child; then, the Catholic parent insisted upon having the child baptized in the Catholic church. When a child is baptized in the Catholic church, the child is actually baptized into the Catholic church, and is considered a Catholic. The Christian parent, knowing this, refused, and that is when problems began.

      At one time, I had a Catholic boss, whose son had married a Christian woman. The boss didn’t like the daughter-in-law at all, and used to complain about her all the time on the job. Though the boss never came out and said it, it seemed that the daughter-in-law was against the practices of the Catholic faith where it concerned her child. Ultimately, the son and daughter-in-law went through divorce proceedings, and the Catholic boss got involved to the point they were trying to get custody of the child claiming the mother was unfit. I believe the boss was trying to get support from me and others on the job in their bid to get custody of the child.

      These sort of problems are very common with Christian/Catholic marriages. Understand that when you marry a Roman Catholic, you also marry his priest, as the priest is involved in even the most intimate aspects of the Catholic’s life.

      TSM

    • Mandy, unlike in the past, Catholics are allowed to use certain Bibles that are authorized by their priests. The problem is not which Bible they use, but the fact that Catholics are taught that laypersons do not have sufficient enlightenment to interpret the Bible for themselves, and therefore must trust their priests to interpret it for them. Because Roman Catholic doctrine and practices such as the worship of statues, the veneration of dead saints, priests, nuns, monks, and the adoration of the Eucharist do not come from the Bible, but instead from the traditions, decrees and writings of men, then the priests’ interpretation of the Bible is always designed to support these unbiblical practices.

      In my experience, those Catholics who have read the Bible have been taught certain passages that have been twisted out of context to support Roman Catholic doctrine. Catholics are taught that it is a mortal sin to doubt what their church teaches, so the average Catholic doesn’t dare go against what his priest says, even when it goes against what the Bible teaches.

  4. Brother, the Lord graciously and lovingly saved me out of rc. I was under its yolk, as was my family. A curse indeed. If catholics were exposed to the Truth, more could be saved, more would be open to salvation. I thought they were deceived, kind of by mistake, just a very faulty theology if you will. But it appears the people at the top, ie the pope, are willingly deceiving them down the wrong path. This would explain why scripture is so noticeably absent in their educational system. Am I right in this logic? There is only one mediator bewteen God and man, Jesus. in rc they even call mary the mediatrix, a defiant direct contradiction of scripture!

    • Praise the Lord that you were saved out of that system of spiritual darkness! Absolutely, James, Catholics are deceived, but the primary reason that Scripture is absent from the Roman educational system is that Roman Catholicism is not based on the Bible in the first place. Of the Seven Sacraments, for example, only baptism is found in the Bible, and it is not called a “channel of grace.” According to the Bible, grace is unmerited favor that cannot be earned.

      You are right: if Roman Catholics knew the truth as revealed in Scripture, the Catholic church would have no more hold on them, because the first thing the people would do would be to reject their priests and their Pope. The Catholic church would not survive such an awakening, of course, because the belief that the Pope is Christ’s Vicar and the priests stand in the place of God is the source of Rome’s power.

      TSM

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