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man, but the Lord God Almighty. In the used by Satan to contaminate the gospel.
book of acts Jesus’ brothers and sisters Contaminated gospel is no gospel at all.
along with Mary were together with the
apostles. They continually prayed in the Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and
upper room. James, His half-brother was the the life no one can come to the Father
prominent leader in the church in Jerusalem but through Me.” (Jesus is the only way
later on, (not Peter). Jude, another half- not Mary!)
brother was the one who wrote the letter
that bore his name in the New Testament. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there
is no other name under Heaven given
So where was Mary’s special place? to men, by whom we must be saved.”
She was just an ordinary Christian We will be saved only in the name of
like you and I that cannot boast in our Jesus Christ. (Not in the name of Mary!)
prominence or of our being specially blest.
We are all equal in terms of salvation. At There is only one mediator between God
the time of the apostles, nobody thought and man, the man Jesus. The word only,
that Mary would be exalted above other means ALONE.
saints or be worshiped as god. Nobody
prayed to her. Nobody worshiped her. Mary cannot be a co-mediator.

Only at the time when the church became Jesus said, “Watch out, beware of the
a harlot or a prostitute and when the leaven of the Pharisees and the
church adopted the Babylonian religion Sadducees.” Beware of the contaminated
doctrine that people began to worship teaching. As I have said, sincerity does
Mary. Long before Christ was born pagans not count. Even how sincere you may
worshiped the queen of heaven as a mother be in your belief if the doctrine is wrong you
god (JER.7:18). At the time of Constan- are sincerely wrong! Pure doctrine is
tine’s reign in A.D. 313, Constantine was very important.

The Sin Of Idolatry

(EXODUS 20: 2-6) “I am the Lord your God, who brought
you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall
have no other gods before me. You shall not make for
yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above
or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall
not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord
your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for
the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generations
of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand
generations of those who love me and keep my com-
mandments.”

Idolatry is a grievous sin before God. Not to make an idol in
the form of anything is the first commandment of the Lord.

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