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Virgin Mary And The Saints

By

The Man Who Saw God Face To Face

Raphael Okechukwu Nweze

About Virgin Mary
Each time you tell the Catholics that they are worshipping Mary, they defend their actions by saying, “We are not worshipping Mary, but honouring her.”
Now, let them hear from the man who saw God face to face. In spirit, all that the Catholics say and do about Virgin Mary is both honouring her and worshipping her. All the practices are idolatry. Also, they are irrelevant. Each of the practices is a mark of foolishness, and it is nothing but madness. Even Jesus made this clear on several occasions:

1. Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.'"

Therefore, to worship Virgin Mary is the same as idolatry.

2. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:8-12

3. Jesus said, I am the door. John 10:9
   Everybody has a direct relationship with God, and God indwells all living things. He is All-in-All and One-in-All. Intermediaries are only necessary for beginners and the ignorant ones, and because of division of labour, just as the teacher is necessary because of ignorance and inability.

Where there is perfect knowledge, there is no need for a teacher. When you want to see the sun, you see it for yourself, and nobody sees it for you. Likewise, when you breathe, you breathe for yourself, and nobody breathes for you. So it is that the relationship between you and God is a direct relationship. Even Jesus, whom you call Son, Prophet, Saviour and Intercessor, is God Almighty Himself ministering to the needs of His beloved children.
Those who practise whatever that is not true, are only deceiving themselves and delaying their spiritual progress, just as the students who write off points fail themselves and have nobody but themselves to blame.

To Mary, all the noise and clamour about her and the Saints are unnecessary disturbances, incessant irritations, misleading pieties, which are marks of spiritual blindness, the evidences of spiritual ignorance and the signs of pagan stupidity.

The rosary and litany are Satan’s ways of misleading people’s hearts and mind from the meaningful, useful and powerful psalms. The psalms are the detailed examples, on how to pray and worship God, as revealed by the Holy Spirit through King David and other holy men of God in the past. Return to the ancient path of true worship. You have strayed enough. Consider all prayers answered by rosary as grace, unmerited favour given to those who are ignorant and incompetent.

Besides, people should know that the Devil and his demons can answer prayers. Often, the prayers to Mary and the saints are answered by the evil spirits and demons without people knowing it. And it is quite unfortunate that reverend fathers and the Catholic Church are everyday deceiving multitudes with the rosary.

What Role Do They Play In The Course Of Salvation?
Have you observed that when you point to a thing, in order to guide people, the eye of the foolish person look at the pointing finger, rather than at the object which is being pointed at?

The wise ones look at the object pointed at.

Truly, I say to you, you do not need all these clamour and rattle about the Virgin Mary and Saints for you to enter the kingdom of heaven. Those practices were borrowed, learnt from pagan practices of other nations. Today, they appear to the new converts as if the church originated them. The reverend ministers, who believe, practise and teach such things are only deceiving themselves and misleading others. For God has warned ‘Do not learn the ways of the Gentiles.’ The statement means that the children of God shall not emulate or copy whatever they see other nations do.

Even I, who has seen God face to face on so many occasions, tells you that such beliefs and practices amount to idolatry. That is why I say that many are practicing the figments of imaginations, the fabrications of falsehood and the deceptions of the enemy. The false imaginations of ignorant religious leaders, all because man neglected the most important science, which is Spiritual Science. Henceforth, do not ordain any person a reverend minister of God, if the person has not studied Spiritual Science.

In fact, as often as you call on Virgin Mary and the Saints, you disturb them, for you have a Being, who is greater than them, and who is ready and willing to answer your prayers. If the public had known that these Marian practices were falsely man-made, they would have protested by babbles of conversation, protests, waving hands, and scuffling feet. It is surprising and most disappointing that many priests do not even know the meaning of priesthood. Again, I repeat and warn, that all the clamour and rattle about Virgin Mary and Saints are unnecessary and they are man-made.

And Jesus said there is no other name given by which people shall be saved. The baby seater (maid) is necessary only as long as the child cannot take care of himself. As soon as the child is grown up and mature, the baby seater is no longer necessary. The destined work of Mary was to give birth to Jesus and to take care of Him as a child. That work of Mary ended the moment Jesus became an adult.

The real problem in the world is that majority refuse to grow to spiritual maturity. The problem continues because many of the religious leaders are spiritually blind, ignorant and lazy. Even so are the teeming world populations of humanity. The blind few are still leading the blind majority