Exposing the Idolatry of Mary Worship: Catholic Dogma, Part 2 (Selected Scriptures)

• I want to begin tonight by having you open  your Bible to the first chapter of the book   of Galatians, Paul’s letter to the region of  Galatia. Just a focal point, a starting point, Galatians chapter 1. Paul begins in that first  verse, “Paul, an apostle not sent from men, nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus  Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead, and all the brethren who are with me,  to the churches of Galatia.
• ” And then this, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and  the Lord Jesus Christ who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out from this evil  age according to the will of our God and Father to whom be the glory forever more. Amen. I am amazed  that you are so quickly deserting Him,” that is God, “who called you by the grace of Christ for a  different gospel which is really not another, only there are some who are disturbing you and want to  distort the gospel of Christ.
• Even though we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel  contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so  I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let  him be accursed. Or, am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men?  If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
• ” Rendering service to  God and rendering service to Christ demands that we forsake all efforts to please men to gain  the favor of men and that we speak the truth. Any other gospel is a false gospel. Any preacher  of any other gospel is a false teacher. Any other system that advocates a false gospel is a  false system, and all of it is accursed by God. It has to be a false gospel if it calls  for worshiping a false god.
• This chapter opens reiterating the due glory forevermore given to  Jesus Christ and God the Father. Anyone else stepping in to usurp that glory which belongs  to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is accursed. In the case of the Roman Catholic  Church, they have created a false goddess who has blasphemously been given the name of “the Mother  of Jesus, Mary,” but who has absolutely nothing to do with her.
• The Roman Catholic Church leads  the world in pagan goddess worship, blasphemous idolatry pretending to be Christianity. In  Catholicism, it is the false goddess named Mary through whom all graces, all blessings,  all divine works pass to people. No one can be saved; no one can be blessed unless Mary  intercedes. She is presented as all-knowing, all-wise, all-merciful, everywhere present, and  all-powerful, attributes which belong only to God.
• For two weeks now, we have considered  what the Catholic Church says about Mary, this goddess that they worship. We have looked in  particular at the historical record of the worship of Mary accumulated by St. Alphonsus de Liguori  who wrote “The Glories of Mary” in the year 1745, which has been since translated into English and  printed again and again and again with the full   affirmation and imprimatur of the official Roman  Catholic Church.