Education

Quotes from Professor Richard Feynman

"Modern education:

Creating people who are smart enough to accurately repeat what they are told and follow the orders.

And dumb enough to think this makes them smarter than everyone else."

"The real problem with the education system is that it tests memorization skills, not learning or intelligence.

The two major aspects that lack in modern education systems are education and system."

"The problem is not people being uneducated.

The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught."

"Education isn't about the ability to remember and repeat, in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

It is the ability to learn from experience, to think, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations."

"You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting."

"The goal of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure.

The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question."

"Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a Ph.D. and still be an idiot."

"When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.

It's the same thing when you are stupid."

"Be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the M is silent."

Zombies and Trolls

Only zombies, trolls, and NPC losers reply TL;DR to factual information they refuse to read in order to be educated and informed as to the truth. They want to deny certain things, but when given information that will refute them once and for all, they are too lazy and ignorant to bother reading it. They do not want to be proven wrong, and they want even less to admit they are wrong.

"The zombies and the trolls aren't very bright, and they're unable to see the big picture; they're not bright enough to see things in perspective. They don't believe that anyone could tell such big lies. The zombies and the trolls have never been properly educated; they're content to believe what they're told or what they read on [a bathroom] wall. They're incapable of thinking for themselves. Actually, they're incapable of thinking at all. Bright folk can see through the lies and they can understand what's happening.

"The zombies and trolls have a sense of entitlement that closes their eyes to the world around them.

"Many zombies and trolls don't have friends or contacts, they have followers and fans. If a troll comes across someone with a point of view that differs from their own, their only response is to resort to abuse and a sense of outrage that someone should hold another point of view.

"Male zombies and trolls tend to be effeminate and stupid, while female zombies and trolls tend to be stupid, confused, irritable, and sulky.

"There are millions of zombies and trolls around because they're naive, gullible, poorly educated, unintelligent, immature and self-important, but ultimately terrified of authority."

—Dr. Vernon Coleman

The zombies, trolls, and NPCs never argue the main point; they never have a legitimate refutation; and they never have an intelligent counterargument. All the zombies and trolls ever do is respond with fallacious arguments that have no basis in reality, deflection, projection, ad hominem, and name calling.

Those Who Oppose the Word of God While Pretending To Be the Friends of God

Here’s a tip: When someone accuses a truth-teller of arrogance, it’s because they can find no fault in the truth itself.

Yet, what many of us have been saying over the weekend is that it has nothing to do with how MacArthur said it. It’s what he said. These gutless wonder coward-pastors are just afraid to say they’ve gone the way of the United Methodists and other estrogen-fueled quilting circles.

You see, it wasn’t really about how MacArthur said it. It’s that he said it. The reason why so many complain about how he said it (which was super polite) is that they are afraid to just come out of the egalitarian closet and say, “I’m for women preachers, oppose the Word of God, and deny Biblical inerrancy.”

Trying to get them to just come out and admit they deny the inerrancy of Scripture is like pulling teeth, but they will always first complain about tone. It’s easier than just straight-forwardly stating their position.

It is easier for emotionally lactating males to lament “tone” than to stand up like men and simply state their real positions. When it comes to defending their position, they are just far more comfortable squatting than standing.

I could not put my finger on it until I read these words from an article published by Pulpit & Pen. I have had a few people accuse me of being "abrasive" with my writing. I have addressed this idea before (here and here), but now I have a clearer understanding of why these individuals were doing what they did. Rather than address the content of what I wrote, because they cannot answer the truth of what I wrote, their first complaint was the perceived "tone" of my writing. These individuals did not like what I had to say, but because they could find no fault with the truth I was sharing they decided to attack the messenger instead.

The above words used by Pulpit & Pen are exactly true of these individuals: "gutless wonder cowards," "estrogen-fueled," "closet-egalitarians," "emotionally lactating men," and "more comfortable squatting than standing." Of course these individuals would be offended by such language because the truth hurts.

These individuals are more concerned with their image and/or the image of their "church," than they are with the truth of God's Word. They would sooner water down the truth and make it palatable than to do anything or allow anything that might tarnish their image or affect their reputation. These individuals and their "churches" are narcissistic. God forbid they should actually take a stand behind the Bible and elevate it to a position of sole authority instead of continuing to filter it through their belief system. These same individuals oppose the Word of God and deny biblical inerrancy, but they would never admit it.

Anything else is easier than admitting the truth. You will witness this quite often among professing Christians from various denominations. Whatever biblical truth they choose to reject, rather than admit they oppose the Word of God and deny biblical inerrancy, they will find some other means of attacking the truth they willfully choose to reject and rebel against. It is easier to play these childish games than to come out and admit they are in favour of some sin or other, or some error or other, or some heresy or other. For many of these people, despite the words that might come out of their mouths, the Bible is not their absolute, sole, and final authority. Something else is!

But they do not want to admit it to themselves or to others.

"Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.

An arrogant person does not make the truth he professes false.

A humble person does not make the error he professes true."

Steven Furtick: Most Dangerous False Teacher

Steven Furtick of Elevation Church handles the Scriptures like Edward Scissorhands handles a water balloon. He is the most dangerous kind of false teacher out there. In one sermon, Furtick acknowledges that John 5:4 is not in the oldest and best manuscripts, but then he goes ahead and preaches from this non-existent Bible verse anyway, allegorizing the entire passage (the way Charismatic false teachers are known to do) and claiming that we are likewise waiting for God to come down and make our lives better. (Perhaps Furtick should try reading the Scriptures and cluing in to the fact that our lives will only be better in the world to come — never in this world.) The man has no deep understanding of Scripture or theology, yet seeks to be in a position to influence many.

John MacArthur was absolutely 100% correct when he stated that Furtick is "UNQUALIFIED". God's Word not only identifies Furtick as being unqualified, but it also identifies him as being a false teacher. His church is a cult, and his followers will attack you if you say anything negative about their cult leader. If you call their gathering a "service," they are quick to correct you by calling it an "experience." (Yeah, like that doesn't make it sound more cultish.) After MacArthur made his statement, Furtick doubled down in his arrogant pride and wrote a poor-excuse-of-a-book in response. (If you look it up on Amazon, you will see an excellent example of how cult members rush to the aid of their cult leader in order to defend him. Practically every "review" is 5-stars. Other false teachers would no doubt rush to his aid, too, as birds of a feather flock together. Just look at the "praise" for the book — every single comment is from a known false teacher.)

As this article states (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chorusinthechaos/steven-furtick-false-teacher/): "If [Steven Furtick] is genuinely in Christ, the best he has to hope for on this trajectory is to be saved, but only as one being snatched from the fire; he will lose all he has built (1 Cor. 3:15)." As it is, Furtick is presently heading directly toward Hell on a greased pole. If he is truly a disciple of Christ, he needs to step down, start learning, and correct his errors. Furtick does not even understand what the Gospel actually is! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LJL1YWpxo)

Nine Reasons Why Discerning Women Are Leaving Your Church

 by Michelle Lesley

Earlier this week, Thom Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay, pubished a blog article entitled “Six Reasons Why Women May Be Leaving Your Church.” Although I am not particularly a fan of Dr. Rainer (due to his allowing heretical materials to be sold at LifeWay), I thought this article was a good one, and I agreed with several of the issues he raised, especially, that these issues need to be addressed by church leadership.

As a ministry wife and someone in the field of women’s ministry myself, I, too, have noticed women leaving the church. Not just women in general, but a certain subset of church-attending ladies: discerning women. While Scripture is pretty clear that we can expect women (and men) who are false converts to eventually fall away from the gathering of believers, why are godly, genuinely regenerated women who love Christ, His word, and His church, leaving their local churches?

1. Eisegetical or otherwise unbiblical preaching

Discerning women don’t want to hear pastors twist God’s word. The Bible is not about us, our problems, and making all our hopes and dreams come true. We don’t want to hear seeker-driven or Word of Faith false doctrine. We don’t need self-improvement motivational speeches or a list of life tips to follow. We want to hear a pastor rightly handle God’s word from a trustworthy translation and simply exegete the text.

2. The worship hour has become a variety show

Skits, guest stars, movie clips, dance routines, rock concerts, elaborate sets, light shows, and smoke machines. We didn’t sign on for Saturday Night Live on Sunday. This is supposed to be church. Get rid of all that junk, turn the lights on, give us solid preaching, prayer, and some theologically sound songs we can actually sing, and maybe we’ll stick around.

3. Women in improper places of church leadership

The Bible could not be more clear that women are not to be pastors, instruct men in the Scriptures, or hold authority over men in other capacities in the church. If your church has a female pastor, worship leader, or elders, or if women are teaching and leading men in Sunday school, small groups, or from the platform in the worship service, or if women are heading up certain committees, departments, or ministries which place them in improper authority over men, you’re disobeying Scripture, and we don’t want to help you do that by attending your church.

4. Children are being entertained, not trained

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of play time or crafts for younger children, but we want our children trained in the Scriptures, not entertained for a couple of hours. We want their teachers to open God’s word and read and explain it to them at a level they can understand. We want them memorizing verses, learning to pray, and demonstrating an age-appropriate comprehension of the gospel. We want them to understand that church is joyful, yet, serious, not a Jesus-laced party at Chuck E. Cheese. We need church to bolster the Scriptural training we’re giving our kids at home.

5. Women’s “Bible” Studies

The majority (and I don’t use that term flippantly) of churches holding women’s Bible studies are using materials written by Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, Joyce Meyer, Lysa TerKeurst, Sarah Young, and others who teach unbiblical ideas and false doctrine. Not minor denominational differences of opinion. Not secondary and tertiary unimportant issues that can be overlooked. False doctrine. While we long to study God’s word with other women, discerning women will not sacrifice sound doctrine nor the integrity of Scripture to do so.

6. Ecumenism

Is your church partnering with other “churches” whose orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy are at odds with Scripture? “Churches” which approve of homosexuality or female pastors, or which hold to an unbiblical soteriology (grace plus works, baptismal regeneration, Mary as co-redemptrix with Christ, etc.)? Are you partnering with those who deny the biblical Christ altogether such as Muslims, Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hindus, Mormons, or Buddhists? Discerning women know Scripture forbids yoking ourselves to unbelievers and we want no part of it.

7. Ageism

Look around at your pastor and staff, your lay leadership, your music team, the “face” of your church. How many of those people are over 40? Usually, discernment and spiritual maturity come through walking with the Lord over many years, yet, increasingly, churches are run by twenty-something pastors, staff, and other leadership, who are often spiritually immature and/or lack the wisdom and life experience that come with age. The counsel and wisdom mature, godly men and women have to offer is brushed off as old fashioned, and middle aged and older church members feel alienated and unwanted. Discerning women value the wisdom and teaching of their godly elders.

8. The “troublemaker” label

Discerning women who see unbiblical things happening in their churches and stand up for what God’s word says about biblical ecclesiology and teaching are often villified and labeled as troublemakers. We are called haters, threats to unity, complainers, gossips, negative, and a myriad of other scornful names. All this for wanting things done according to Scripture. Can you blame us for shaking the dust off our high heels and leaving?

9. Spineless or stiff-necked pastors

Discerning women have little respect for, and find themselves unable to submit to the authority of pastors who see people in their churches acting overtly sinful or propagating false teaching yet are so afraid of confrontation that they will not set things right. By the same token, we cannot continue to attend a church in which we bring scriptural evidence of false teaching or sin to the pastor and he outright denies the biblical truth we present to him. We cannot be members of churches in which pastors will not submit to Scripture or carry out biblical mandates.

Frequently, the discerning women you see tearfully leaving your church have been there for years. Sometimes they leave your church because it was never doctrinally sound to begin with, and God has opened their eyes to this as they grow and mature in Christ. Sometimes they leave because false doctrine and unbiblical practices have crept in and taken over a church that was once a refuge of trustworthy biblical teaching. Either way, these things should not be.

Maybe it’s not that discerning women are leaving the church, but that the church is leaving them.

You Cannot Convert A Single Soul!

Christians...

It is our job to proclaim the Gospel and all the words of God to any and all who will listen, but it is not our job to try and sway nations or to convert souls. That is God's realm! You are not God, so stop pretending to be Him, or, worse, trying to be Him.

The world will always choose sin over righteousness, and that should not surprise us. Sinners do what comes naturally to them: sin.

You want to win someone who believes in abortion? Speak to them personally and share with them the facts. Leave the result in God's hands. If they reject reason and pursue an abortion, love them just the same. Jesus would have. Stop trying to politicize morality.

We should be striving for Christ-likeness, walking after the Holy Spirit, and living it out before an unbelieving world. After all, actions speak louder than words.

Yes, we should be trying to reach the world with the truth, but we should not expect them to act like we do. Until God gives them a new heart and spiritually regenerates them, they will continue to do what is "right" in their own eyes. It is not our job to convert people. That is the work of the Holy Spirit; to convict the world of sin and judgment.

No matter how much knowledge we may possess, no matter how great of an orator we may be, you and I can never convert a single soul; nor should we pressure ourselves into thinking we can or that it is our responsibility to do so. God is the One Who converts the soul! You and I may plant and/or water, but it is God who gives the increase.

We need to put ourselves in our place and stop trying to be God!

Before we were saved, we spent our days worshipping ourselves. After salvation, some Christians are still intent on worshipping themselves, thinking that God needs them or that it is their responsibility to convert souls. Our only responsibility is to be the salt and light and to proclaim the Gospel and the whole counsel of the Word of God. What results is the responsibility of the Holy Spirit. Whether someone is converted or not by our efforts is at the sole discretion of Almighty God.

Pay attention to the lives of Jesus and the apostles. They did not demand that governments and individuals agree wholeheartedly with them and live by their standards. What did they do instead? They lived out what they believed and proclaimed the Gospel and the truth of God's Word to any and all who would listen. Some accepted their words, many rejected them. They did not, however, become activists and make God's Word political by protesting the heathen. For you to do so and expect a different result is just insanity.

Ask yourself What Did Jesus Do?, and then look in Scripture at the life of Jesus for the nearest equivalent to what His response would have been. The woman at the well was an adulteress (she had five previous husbands, and her current husband was not her husband).

Christians and Gay Marriage

Are most Christian denominations affirming of homosexual relations and embracing gay marriage? The homosexual and pro-homosexual community would have you believe that this is indeed the case, but it is not. Statistics from the "Christian" public are hardly reliable as most of these individuals are nominally Christian, meaning "Christian" by name only. You are not a Christian because you were raised in a church or because some fool Pope-ishly pronounced you to be a Christian when you prayed some prayer. Observe:

Christian Denominations and Gay Marriage
by Roger E. Olson

A few years ago I had the privilege of re-writing (editing and authoring) the 14th edition of the venerable reference book The Handbook of Denominations in the United States published by Abingdon Press. One of the changes I made was to mention each denomination's stated policy with regard to gay marriage and homosexual sexual relations. In some cases I could not find a stated, official policy, so I contacted the headquarters and spoke or corresponded with the highest leader possible.

Of the approximately 260 denominations listed and described in the volume, about 200 of them have official or unofficial policies against gay marriage and same-sex sexual relations. In some cases they asked me not to publish their policies, but they assured me they practice the policies even if they do not want it known outside their denominations.

They are worded very differently from each other; there is no "template," so to speak. However, the vast majority of Christian denominations in the United States do not condone gay marriage among their ranks and do not approve of same-sex sexual relations. Many of them state that it is sin.

A few denominations take a kind of middle position — saying (for example) that they do not condone it among their own "people" bud do not oppose it outside of their ranks. In other words, they are not going to fight or lobby to reverse the Supreme Court decision regarding equality of gay people with straight people in terms of government-recognized marriage. Most did not say anything about that. A few denominations take a middle position saying that they will include gay people — married and not married — within their membership ranks but will not perform gay marriages.

The overall impression, however, that I think is not well understood by most people, is that the vast majority of American Christian (and many non-Christian) church organizations, denominations, networks, independent congregations, do not approve of gay marriage or same-sex sexual relations.

It is not as if there are a "few hold outs"; the "hold outs" (in terms of denominations) are those relatively few who endorse and affirm gay marriage within their ranks.

A few so-called "mainline Protestant" denominations leave the issue up to regions (synods) or individual congregations. Some of those are now facing divisions over that. New denominations are forming all the time because of perceived permissiveness on this issue. The new denominations are almost all opposed to gay marriage.

An impression is circulating that only a few ultra-conservative, fundamentalist, hateful religious groups and institutions stand against gay marriage within their ranks, within their institutions, but that is a wrong impression.

Those Christian institutional leaders who feel under pressure to allow gay marriages within their ranks (student bodies, staff, etc.) need to know that they are not alone in holding the line against gay marriage within their ranks.

Now, if you are really interest in this, please buy your own copy of the book: The Handbook of Denominations in the United States (14th edition) (Abingdon Press).

People who affirm homosexual relations and gay marriage are ignorant, having been persuaded by fallacious arguments and blind emotions. If they claim to be "Christian," whether this claim is true or false, it is quite obvious that they are ignorant of the Word of God and have never bothered to read it. God is against homosexual relations of any kind (buggery, pederasty, bi-sexuality, ___-sexuality), being contrary to the created order and simple reproductive biology, and upholds heterosexual relations from Genesis to Revelation.

Those who claim that Jesus said nothing about homosexuality are being morally and intellectually dishonest. Jesus directed his listeners to the created order and quoted twice from Genesis: "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." It is quite evident that Jesus upheld heterosexual relations as the only acceptable expression of human sexuality.

Jesus is the Word of God. He spoke the universe into existence. When the Bible records, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination," those are the words of the pre-incarnate Jesus. Since God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, it stands to reason that homosexuality is just as detestable to Him today as it was in the days of Sodom.

Christians are not to hate homosexuals or any other people. We are not to try and reform nations. A sinful world will always do what is right in their own eyes and pursue sin rather than righteousness. We can try to influence the world around us by being the salt and light and living out what God's Word teaches us, but it is foolish to expect sinful individuals to live by any means other than what comes natural to them. If and when they become Christians, then it is right for you to expect them to repent and change. Pay attention to the lives of Jesus and the apostles. They did not demand that everyone agree with them and go by their standards. What did they do instead? They lived out what they believed and they spoke the Gospel and the truth to any and all who would listen. Some accepted their words, many rejected them. They did not, however, protest the heathen or become activists for or against anything the wicked did naturally. For you to do so and expect a different result is just insanity.

Do your part, live the life of a Christ-like follower of Jesus, and speak the truth to all who will listen, but do not make it political and do not try to do the work of the Holy Spirit. You are not God, so stop trying to be Him or act like Him!

Southern Baptist Convention Hypocrisy

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) claims that there are zero women serving as "pastors" in any of their churches. Guess what? Here are 46 SBC churches with women "pastors" in their employ:

FBC Alexandria

Journey Church » Our Leadership

Bon Air Baptist Church | Staff

Crossland Community Church

First Hot Springs

The Connection Church

Westside Baptist Church

Grace Midtown Church

The Woodlands First

Skyway Church

Mt. Pleasant Baptist

Our Team – Passion Community Church

Staff at Lakeside Baptist Church

Columbia Baptist Church: Our Staff

Our Team — Clovis Hills Community Church

About | Daybreak Church

Church in San Antonio, TX – Ministries, Sermons | Grace Point Church

Our Pastors – Antioch Long Beach

Staff — FIRST BAPTIST OF GAINESVILLE GA

Staff | First Denton

Staff | Jacob’s Well Church

» NLCC Staff

Staff — Fellowship of the Rockies

Church Staff | NorthWood Church

About

Staff | Bay Life Church

Discover – Casas Church

https://www.smzbt.org

LifePoint.tv

Staff — Woodcrest

Staff Members | NorthPointe Community Church

Our Staff | Abba’s House

Our Leadership | Word Tabernacle Church

Our Staff – Bethlehem Church

Our Pastors | New Faith

About – Lifepoint Church

Higher Dimension Church

Staff – The Heights Church

Our Staff & Elders | Beltway Park Church

Meet Our Team | BT.CHURCH

Our Staff | The Crossing Church

Pastoral Staff — Hillvue Heights Church

Pellissippi – Faith Promise Church

The Fountain of Praise: Home

Grace Point Church – Our Staff

Leadership / Staff

These 46 SBC churches are in violation of not only the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM 2000), but also the Bible, God's Holy Word.

Praying the Rosary: Rank Heresy

Will Catholics be in Heaven?

Some will, yes, but most will not. Those who end up in Heaven, it will be in spite of their many heretical practices and beliefs. Only because of Christ Jesus and their trust in His person and His saving work on the cross will anyone — Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed, etc. — find themselves in Heaven. (Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, and other cults will not find anyone from their ranks in Heaven because they believe in a different, non-biblical Jesus.)

The Rosary is nothing but rank heresy! Allow me to demonstrate why.

This is how Catholics are to pray the Rosary:

1. Make the sign of the cross and say the "Apostles' Creed."
2. Say the "Our Father."
3. Say three "Hail Marys."
4. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
5. Announce the First Mystery; then say the "Our Father."
6. Say ten "Hail Marys" while meditating on the Mystery.
7. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
8. After each decade, say the "Fatima Prayer" requested by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
9. Announce the Second Mystery: then say the "Our Father." Repeat 6, 7, and 8 and continue with the Third, Fourth and Fifth Mysteries in the same manner.
10. After completing the five decades, say the "Hail, Holy Queen" and make the sign of the cross.
11. As a general rule, the Joyful Mysteries are said on Monday and Saturday; the Sorrowful Mysteries on Tuesday and Friday; the Glorious Mysteries on Wednesday and Sunday; the Luminous Mysteries on Thursday.

Not only is such a practice vain repetition, which the Lord God hates, but it is also superstition (like much of the Catholic belief system).

The "Hail Mary" is utter heresy. First of all, Mary is not the "mother of God"; she is the mother of God in the flesh. God existed long before Mary was ever a glint in her father's eye. God created Mary. Catholics need to get their terminology correct, which would correct a great deal of their erroneous theology. Second of all, praying to Mary (or any other saint, for that matter) is blasphemous. She can no more do anything for you than I can. Praying to me is just as foolish as praying to Mary. Last of all, Mary is not praying for anyone. She does not even hear your foolish misdirected prayers.

The "Hail Holy Queen" is utter blasphemy. First of all, Mary is not the "Queen" of anything! Least of all the "Queen of Heaven." Second of all, she is not the "mother of mercy." She cannot even offer you mercy. Mercy comes from God alone! Third of all, Mary is not "our life" nor "our hope" — Jesus is! Fourth of all, our cries, sighs, mourning, and weeping are sent up to Jesus — not to Mary! Fifth of all, Mary is not our Advocate — Jesus is! Last of all, Mary cannot, and does not, pray for you.

As I am sure you have noticed by now, the Catholics have turned Mary into another god; into a goddess, which they subsequently worship. Not only do they ascribe to her attributes and characteristics that belong to Almighty God alone, but they also make her co-equal with Jesus in numerous ways (co-Advocate, co-Redeemer, co-Saviour, etc.). Mary is a sinner just like the rest of us.

Here are the "promises" that the Catholic church has falsely ascribed to Mary (with my commentary):

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces.
   We know from this first point that this "Mary" is none other than Satan himself. The real Mary, mother of Jesus, would never ask or demand that others serve her. We are to serve Christ Jesus alone. Furthermore, Mary cannot grant you a single thing. She has no "graces" to bestow upon you!
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.
   Sorry, but Mary cannot protect anyone from anything. The only person who can protect us from anything is Jesus!
3. The rosary shall be a powerful armour against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
   Really? The rosary now possesses attributes of Christ? Can anyone say, "Heresy"?
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal thing. Oh, that woulds would sanctify themselves by this means.
   Sorry, but what the Bible — God's Word — says is, "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them" and "for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." The rosary itself, and praying the rosary, will do nothing for you! Men are sanctified by the Holy Spirit, not by the rosary or the recitation thereof!
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the rosary, shall not perish.
   Funny, I am pretty sure that what the Bible — God's Word — says is that "whoever believes in [Jesus] shall not perish." There is nothing about reciting the rosary, and neither Mary nor the rosary can save you.
6. Whoever shall recite the rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
   See the next point. There is much wrong with this point.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
   True devotion is reserved for Christ Jesus and Christ Jesus alone, and for none other and for nothing else. To engage otherwise is to commit idolatry.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
   Where in God's holy Word is such a thing taught? Oh, that is right, nowhere!
9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary.
   There exists no "purgatory," and even if there did, Mary could not deliver anyone from it. She does not have the power to do so.
10. The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
    Wow! Where to start. This contradicts so much of what Jesus spoke directly to His disciples. And now, according to Catholics, Mary is contradicting Him? If any of this were true, then Mary fell a long way into sin after Jesus ascended into Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the rosary.
    Really? Mary is co-equal with Jesus? Sorry, but the Bible — God's Word — says, "Whatever you ask in My name [Jesus], that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son." Mary can grant you nothing!
12. All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
    Another promise Mary cannot deliver on.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
    Yeah. Sure they will. These are not the words of Mary, but of a narcissistic individual bent on perverting Christianity into goddess worship.
14. All those who recite the rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.
    More idolatry and blasphemy. Brothers and sisters of Christ Jesus are sons and daughters of God the Father. They are nothing to Mary because Mary is nothing. Mary is not the wife of God the Father. She is not "Queen of Heaven" and does not" have any co- qualities with either God the Father, Christ Jesus, or the Holy Spirit. Mary herself, as a believer, is a daughter of God the Father and a sister of Christ Jesus, a sister to the rest of us — not a mother! Furthermore, Jesus was not her only child.
15. Devotion to my rosary is a great sign of predestination.
    *LMAO* That is hilarious! Quite obviously the Catholics fail to understand what "predestination" actually is. It is no wonder their theology is completely bankrupt.

The real Mary, mother of Jesus, would never suggest something that drew attention away from Christ Jesus and centered attention on herself! In fact, she would never accept worship of herself, just as the angels, prophets, and apostles refused, because worship belongs to God alone.

If you speak with a Catholic apologist on these things, they will attempt to deny what these things clearly teach, and try to slither around them deceitfully. They will try to explain them away. For example, they deliberately ignore and twist passages that say she was a virgin until Jesus was born, and that Jesus has several younger brothers and sisters. They will attempt to cite a bunch of early Church fathers, like heretic Jerome, who spoke about Mary being a "perpetual virgin." I have already shown in previous posts how in the second century the early fathers had already begun perverting God's Congregation through the heresy of apostolic succession. You can witness it with regard to the Lord's Supper, baptism, and even congregational membership. The traditions of the Catholic church are built upon nothing but egregious error upon egregious error.

Let us get several things straight and clear: Mary is not our Saviour. Mary is not our Redeemer. Mary is not our Deliverer. Mary is not our Advocate. Mary is not our life. Mary is not our hope. Mary is not our mercy. Mary is not our grace. Mary is not our sanctification. Mary is not our mother. Mary is not our queen. Jesus alone is our Saviour, our Redeemer, our Deliverer, our Advocate, our life, our hope, our mercy, our grace, and our sanctification. Jesus is our All in all.

Human Responsibility vs. Inability

Human Responsibility to Come to Christ vs. Human Inability to Come to Christ

Inviting or Commanding a Sinner to Come	Stating That a Sinner Cannot Come
Josh. 24:15 Matt. 11:28 John 7:17 John 7:37 Acts 2:38 Acts 3:19 Acts 16:31 Acts 17:30 Rev. 22:17	Matt. 19:25-26 John 3:3 John 6:44 John 6:65 John 12:39-40 Rom. 8:8 1 Cor. 2:14

Sinners are responsible to repent, believe, and come to Christ. Yet, at the same time, they are unable to repent, believe, and come to Christ.

There are 0 verses in Scripture that say a sinner can come to Christ. All verses attempted to be quoted invite or command the sinner to repent, believe, or come to Christ, but 0 say they can!

Salvation comes from God. It is the result of grace. It has nothing to do with you! A dead man lying at the bottom of the ocean floor cannot reach up to grab a life preserver. Life must be breathed into him before he can do so, and he will do so because he can do nothing else.