Like DD2008 will not call Mary a person but a creature. I know he picked this up from the Protestant reading but all it is is dehumanizing Mary in order to deny her.
Why do that? She was a human being who lived and breathed and as human beings who have hearts and souls, we love and honor the memory of ppl, we do not dehumaise them. We respect the dignity of the human person, alive or dead.
I call all of us creatures. We are. God created us. To speak the truth that humans are creatures is not dehumanizing it is true.
I call Mary blessed because she is the Mother of Christ but I deny that she should be prayed too and I deny all the unbiblical Marian dogmas.
1. Because they aren't supported in scripture and
2. Because they take the focus off of Christ and glorify her instead of God.
I love Mary as a fellow christian and the mother of Christ. However I am not going to offer her any devotions or pray to her or kneel in front of a statue of her because I think that is unbiblical.
She is Christ's mother he will honor her how he sees fit. She is John's adopted mother. He honored her by keeping her at his house.
We can honor our fathers and mothers by showing them respect and helping them with what they need. We only do what they tell us however when we are children. Many times adult children make far better decisions than their parents. There is no reason to believe that Christ obeys Mary in heaven. I firmly believe it is the other way around.
I reject the writings of Louis de Montfort as false and unfounded, written by a probable heretic. I think that the consecration he peddled is certainly idolatry. He asks people to consecrate their soul to Mary and give her their "treasury of merits" (another lie) so they can trust her to take them to Christ because he thinks people aren't worthy to pray directly to God and to do so he says is presumptuous and arrogant...
So, The Roman Catholic Church and a few Popes have embraced these unbiblical writings of de Montfort and have even recommended that that false consecration be performed.
However Christ said this:
Matthew 6:9-13
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9] Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
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10] Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
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11] Give us this day our daily bread;
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12] And forgive us our debts,
As we also have forgiven our debtors;
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13] And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
We are saved by grace through faith and not by works. Works are just a product of faith already received. The good news is that salvation is through Jesus Christ and it is free.
Romans 10:9-13
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9] because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will besaved.
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10] For man believes with his heart and so is justified, and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.
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13] For, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."
Epshesians 2:8-9
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8] For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God --
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9] not because of works, lest any man should boast.
There is no other gospel than this:
Acts 4:10-12
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10] be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well.
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11] This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner.
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12] And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."