00:00Let us take it from the top. The Catholic practice of venerating, praying to, or exalting Mary
00:05contradicts clear biblical teaching. Only God receives worship. Jesus told Satan,
00:11Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. Matthew 4.10.
00:17Worshiping or venerating Mary violates this command. Mary called God her Savior. In Luke 1.46.47,
00:23Mary says, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
00:30If she needed a Savior, she was not sinless or divine. Jesus corrected misplaced devotion to Mary.
00:38When a woman cried out, Blessed is the womb that bear thee, Jesus responded, Yea, rather,
00:44blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it. Luke 11.27-28.
00:50Christ shifted attention away from Mary to obedience to God.
00:54No New Testament teaching of Mary as mediator. Paul wrote, For there is one God, and one mediator
01:00between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 2.5. To assign Mary a role as intercessor
01:07undermines Christ's exclusive role. At Cana, Mary pointed to Jesus, not herself. She told the
01:15servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. John 2.5. Mary directed attention away from herself
01:22and toward obedience to Christ. My conclusion. Mary was a godly woman chosen to bear the Messiah.
01:30But the Bible nowhere teaches to worship, pray to, or exalt her. Catholic Mariology is a tradition of men,
01:36not the doctrine of God. By the way, the Catholic Church did not create the Bible. Another falsehood
01:44is the claim that you are reading a Catholic book. Scripture was inspired, not invented. All
01:51scripture is given by inspiration of God. 2 Timothy 3.16. The apostles and prophets, not later
01:58councils, penned the word of God. New Testament writings were recognized early. By the end of the
02:03first century, most of the New Testament letters and gospels were already circulating among churches.
02:09Peter refers to Paul's letters as Scripture, 2 Peter 3.16, showing early recognition. The Old
02:17Testament was intact before Christ. Jesus and the apostles quoted freely from the law, prophets,
02:22and writings. The Jews had already preserved the canon long before the Catholic Church existed,
02:28Romans 3.2. Councils did not create Scripture. Early church councils, like Carthage in A.D. 397,
02:36did not invent the Bible. They simply affirmed what was already widely received in the churches.
02:42God's Word existed long before Rome claimed authority over it. The Catholic Church altered,
02:48not preserved. By adding the Apocrypha, promoting tradition equal to Scripture, and controlling access
02:54through Latin-only Bibles, Rome tried to monopolize God's Word. The Reformation shattered this grip by
03:01returning to the original Hebrew and Greek texts. My conclusion, the Bible is not a Catholic book.
03:08It is God's Word, given by His Spirit through prophets and apostles, recognized by the early
03:13church, preserved by believers, and confirmed in history without needing the sanction of Rome.
03:18The danger of Catholic claims. By insisting that they gave the Bible to the world,
03:25the Catholic hierarchy places themselves above God's Word. By promoting Mary worship, they replace
03:31Christ with another figure. Both are direct violations of God's commands. Add thou not unto His words,
03:38lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Proverbs 36.
03:43Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men,
03:50whereby we must be saved. Acts 4.12.
03:54My final words, the Bible stands on its own as the inspired Word of God.
04:00Mary was a faithful servant of God, but she is not to be worshipped. The Catholic Church did not give us
04:06the Bible, God did. Rome only recognized and later tried to control what God had already spoken.
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