[Mary's Queenship Points to Jesus? Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries] "The Catholic pope has directed Catholics away from the objective Word of God as a sure guide to Jesus. Instead he proclaims the "queenship of Mary" is where we need to turn. During his Aug. 22 general audience to pilgrims, Pope Benedict XVI recommended that Christians look to the queenship of Mary, who is "queen in the service of God to humanity," as a sure guide towards her son. "Dear friends, devotion to Our Lady is an important part of spiritual life. In our prayer we should not fail to turn to her, confident that Mary will intercede for us with her Son...Looking upon her, let us imitate her faith, her complete openness to the loving plan of God, her generous welcoming of Jesus. We learn to live from Mary...Mary is continually watching over us, her children, the children who come to her in prayer, to thank her or to ask for her maternal protection and heavenly help, perhaps after having lost their way, burdened with grief or anguish amid the sad and troubled vicissitudes of life." Read more.

The pope's deception is in harmony with what Cardinal Angelo Amato told attendees at the 13th International Mariological Symposium last October. He said, "For conversion to Christ you must go to the Virgin Mary so that she leads us back to Him." Read more of this deception here."

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Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Some "queen:" Acts 1 KJV 13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.  14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.  15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty[.]) The RCO just makes things up."

She was a sinner in need of a savior (Lk 1:47).

And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed [Luke 1:46–48].

"Now Mary sings a song. This is known as the Magnificat. This song teaches us several interesting things. Mary tells us in her song that she needed a Savior and that she rejoiced in Him. Protestant friend, let us call her blessed. We don’t make her a goddess and kneel before her, but we do need to call her blessed. It was her glorious privilege to be the mother of the Son of God, to bring Him into the world. We should not play it down, but we should not play it up either. She was a wonderful person, and it was no accident that she was chosen by God. It was. His definite decision, and God makes no mistakes." McGee, J. Vernon: Thru the Bible Commentary. electronic ed. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1997, c1981, S. 4:249

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Yes, this Roman depicture of Mary, "obviously" agrees with the scriptures..."

Love the snake. Looks like they've got Mary defeating Satan, too.

"Ge 3:15 After cursing the physical serpent, God turned to the spiritual serpent, the lying seducer, Satan, and cursed him. bruise your head … bruise His heel. This “first gospel” is prophetic of the struggle and its outcome between “your seed” (Satan and unbelievers, who are called the Devil’s children in John 8:44) and her seed (Christ, a descendant of Eve, and those in Him), which began in the garden. In the midst of the curse passage, a message of hope shone forth—the woman’s offspring called “He” is Christ, who will one day defeat the Serpent. Satan could only “bruise” Christ’s heel (cause Him to suffer), while Christ will bruise Satan’s head (destroy him with a fatal blow). Paul, in a passage strongly reminiscent of Gen. 3, encouraged the believers in Rome, “And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly” (Rom. 16:20). Believers should recognize that they participate in the crushing of Satan because, along with their Savior and because of His finished work on the cross, they also are of the woman’s seed. For more on the destruction of Satan, see Heb. 2:14,15; Rev. 20:10." MacArthur, John Jr: The MacArthur Study Bible. electronic ed. Nashville : Word Pub., 1997, c1997, S. Ge 3:15

Angels aren't little dandies either. 2Sa 24:16; 2Ki 19:35; Ps 35:5,6; Ac 12:23; Re 16:1

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Obviously, these Scriptures prove no doctrine that is uniquely Catholic."

He makes the point that Mary was just a woman--a lovely woman--but a woman nonetheless who was in need of a savior like everyone else. God my Saviour Lk 1:47. Catholics make her an idol (Judg. 10:14; Isa. 44:17; 45:20; 46:7). Only they would do this to Jesus' earthly mother.

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "...[T]he scriptures on the queen of heaven, aren't a good thing..."

Queen of Heaven, a high goddess worshiped by some Jews living in Jerusalem and Egypt in the time of Jeremiah (late seventh-early sixth centuries b.c.; Jer. 7:18; 44:17-19, 25). Jeremiah rejected this worship as idolatry and interpreted the fall of Jerusalem as punishment for such worship. In the first century a.d., the mother goddess of Ephesus, called Artemis by the Greeks, the Syrian goddess Atargatis, and the Egyptian Isis were all worshiped as Queen of Heaven. In the book of Revelation, this high goddess worshiped under many names is Christianized, so to speak, and presented as the Heavenly Israel (Rev. 12).

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