Since the comment thread is too deep, I'm posting my reply here to continue the discussion. It sounds like you agree the Jesuits are currently bad news and you attribute that to Freemasons infiltrating the order. I believe it's the other way around but in the end, I hope we can agree both of these orders currently serve Lucifer.
So you DO follow tradition? So which is it? You follow tradition or you don't?
"hold fast to the traditions we taught you, either written or by WORD OF MOUTH.
Uh no, he was not talking about food laws.
Yes, he was talking about the Old Testament in its entirety. Paul preached the Old Testament in its entirety, including the food laws, as well as its prophecies which were ultimately fulfilled in the Messiah, Yashua.
I follow the Word of God. I don't follow Catholic traditions that are in no way mentioned in the Bible.
For example, here's why I don't put up a pagan "Christmas" tree-
Jeremiah 10:1-4
1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Who is the queen of heaven mentioned in the following verse?
Jeremiah 7:18
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Now let's see how the Unitarians have created workshops dedicated to the above verse and use it as the basis of a series teaching feminist doctrines. (Like Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, there is indeed no new thing under the sun.)
Where in the Bible does it say Mary, the mother of Yashua, is the Queen of Heaven? The Catholics teach that according to their tradition, but where does it say that in the Bible?
Not only do Catholics teach Mary is the Queen of Heaven, they've also named some of their churches exactly that.
Mary was indeed blessed among women, but it does not mean she is any less human than the rest of us. She is not divinity.
Pope Pius XII would disagree with my statement. Here's what he had to say in his encyclical Ad Caeli reginam (To Queen), which was his proclamation Mary is now officially Queen of Heaven. It apparently only took the Catholics until 1954 to destroy the Protestant Reformation that ultimately created the greatest country on the face of the Earth, the United States of America, when our country was still operating on Biblical principles. Further proof of that was getting Kennedy, a Roman Catholic president, into office through rigging big cities such as Chicago (sound familiar?), and then kill the man when he refused to kiss the Pope's hand and do his own thing. One wonders what might have happened had Joe Kennedy not passed away and was still able to give guidance to JFK.
30. Furthermore, the Latin Church sings that sweet and ancient prayer called the “Hail, Holy Queen” and the lovely antiphons “Hail, Queen of the Heavens,” “O Queen of Heaven, Rejoice,” and those others which we are accustomed to recite on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary: “The Queen stood at Thy right hand in golden vesture surrounded with beauty”[37]; “Heaven and earth praise thee as a powerful Queen”[38]; “Today the Virgin Mary ascends into heaven: rejoice because she reigns with Christ forever.”[39]
31. To these and others should be added the Litany of Loreto which daily invites Christian folk to call upon Mary as Queen. Likewise, for many centuries past Christians have been accustomed to meditate upon the ruling power of Mary which embraces heaven and earth, when they consider the fifth glorious mystery of the rosary which can be called the mystical crown of the heavenly Queen.
32. Finally, art which is based upon Christian principles and is animated by their spirit as something faithfully interpreting the sincere and freely expressed devotion of the faithful, has since the Council of Ephesus portrayed Mary as Queen and Empress seated upon a royal throne adorned with royal insignia, crowned with the royal diadem and surrounded by the host of angels and saints in heaven, and ruling not only over nature and its powers but also over the machinations of Satan. Iconography, in representing the royal dignity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, has ever been enriched with works of highest artistic value and greatest beauty; it has even taken the form of representing colorfully the divine Redeemer crowning His mother with a resplendent diadem.
33. The Roman Pontiffs, favoring such types of popular devotion, have often crowned, either in their own persons, or through representatives, images of the Virgin Mother of God which were already outstanding by reason of public veneration.
34. As We have already mentioned, Venerable Brothers, according to ancient tradition and the sacred liturgy the main principle on which the royal dignity of Mary rests is without doubt her Divine Motherhood. In Holy Writ, concerning the Son whom Mary will conceive, We read this sentence: “He shall be called the Son of the most High, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father, and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end,”[40] and in addition Mary is called “Mother of the Lord”;[41] from this it is easily concluded that she is a Queen, since she bore a son who, at the very moment of His conception, because of the hypostatic union of the human nature with the Word, was also as man King and Lord of all things. So with complete justice St. John Damascene could write: “When she became Mother of the Creator, she truly became Queen of every creature.”[42] Likewise, it can be said that the heavenly voice of the Archangel Gabriel was the first to proclaim Mary’s royal office.
35. But the Blessed Virgin Mary should be called Queen, not only because of her Divine Motherhood, but also because God has willed her to have an exceptional role in the work of our eternal salvation. “What more joyful, what sweeter thought can we have” — as Our Predecessor of happy memory, Pius XI wrote — “than that Christ is our King not only by natural right, but also by an acquired right: that which He won by the redemption? Would that all men, now forgetful of how much we cost Our Savior, might recall to mind the words, ‘You were redeemed, not with gold or silver which perishes, . . . but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb spotless and undefiled.[43] We belong not to ourselves now, since Christ has bought us ‘at a great price’.”[44]/[45]
36. Now, in the accomplishing of this work of redemption, the Blessed Virgin Mary was most closely associated with Christ; and so it is fitting to sing in the sacred liturgy: “Near the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ there stood, sorrowful, the Blessed Mary, Queen of Heaven and Queen of the World.”[46] Hence, as the devout disciple of St. Anselm (Eadmer, ed.) wrote in the Middle Ages: “just as . . . God, by making all through His power, is Father and Lord of all, so the blessed Mary, by repairing all through her merits, is Mother and Queen of all; for God is the Lord of all things, because by His command He establishes each of them in its own nature, and Mary is the Queen of all things, because she restores each to its original dignity through the grace which she merited.[47]
37. For “just as Christ, because He redeemed us, is our Lord and king by a special title, so the Blessed Virgin also (is our queen), on account of the unique manner in which she assisted in our redemption, by giving of her own substance, by freely offering Him for us, by her singular desire and petition for, and active interest in, our salvation.”[48]
38. From these considerations, the proof develops on these lines: if Mary, in taking an active part in the work of salvation, was, by God’s design, associated with Jesus Christ, the source of salvation itself, in a manner comparable to that in which Eve was associated with Adam, the source of death, so that it may be stated that the work of our salvation was accomplished by a kind of “recapitulation,”[49] in which a virgin was instrumental in the salvation of the human race, just as a virgin had been closely associated with its death; if, moreover, it can likewise be stated that this glorious Lady had been chosen Mother of Christ “in order that she might become a partner in the redemption of the human race”;[50] and if, in truth, “it was she who, free of the stain of actual and original sin, and ever most closely bound to her Son, on Golgotha offered that Son to the Eternal Father together with the complete sacrifice of her maternal rights and maternal love, like a new Eve, for all the sons of Adam, stained as they were by his lamentable fall,”[51] then it may be legitimately concluded that as Christ, the new Adam, must be called a King not merely because He is Son of God, but also because He is our Redeemer, so, analogously, the Most Blessed Virgin is queen not only because she is Mother of God, but also because, as the new Eve, she was associated with the new Adam.
39. Certainly, in the full and strict meaning of the term, only Jesus Christ, the God-Man, is King; but Mary, too, as Mother of the divine Christ, as His associate in the redemption, in his struggle with His enemies and His final victory over them, has a share, though in a limited and analogous way, in His royal dignity. For from her union with Christ she attains a radiant eminence transcending that of any other creature; from her union with Christ she receives the royal right to dispose of the treasures of the Divine Redeemer’s Kingdom; from her union with Christ finally is derived the inexhaustible efficacy of her maternal intercession before the Son and His Father.
Interestingly considering what we know about Wikipedia as a leftist controlled outfit, in their article on Catholic Mariology (Queen of Heaven subsection), it's very telling they only quote line 39 from the encyclical declaring Mary is the Queen of Heaven, which is the very line a Catholic apologist would point to in order to say, "See, it's only Jesus Christ, the God-Man, who is King. Us Catholics don't WORSHIP her. We merely VENERATE her as Queen of Heaven. Putting a crown of roses on a statue of Mary is not IDOLATRY. It's merely VENERATION."
One also wonders why Wikipedia article doesn't mention Ad Caeli reginam was first published in 1954.
In contrast, Paul states it's Yahshua alone who intercedes for us.
Hebrews 7:24-28
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
**28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the o
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Please show me in the Bible where Mary intercedes for us. You will find very quickly you will only be able to show it's part of Catholic Tradition.
I do think it's worth sharing what Yahshua had to say about this topic-
Mark 3:31-35
31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
P.S. I know one day, Mary will receive a crown in heaven, as will all faithful believers who do the will of Yahweh.
Since the comment thread is too deep, I'm posting my reply here to continue the discussion. It sounds like you agree the Jesuits are currently bad news and you attribute that to Freemasons infiltrating the order. I believe it's the other way around but in the end, I hope we can agree both of these orders currently serve Lucifer.
Yes, he was talking about the Old Testament in its entirety. Paul preached the Old Testament in its entirety, including the food laws, as well as its prophecies which were ultimately fulfilled in the Messiah, Yashua.
I follow the Word of God. I don't follow Catholic traditions that are in no way mentioned in the Bible.
For example, here's why I don't put up a pagan "Christmas" tree-
Jeremiah 10:1-4
1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Who is the queen of heaven mentioned in the following verse?
Jeremiah 7:18
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Now let's see how the Unitarians have created workshops dedicated to the above verse and use it as the basis of a series teaching feminist doctrines. (Like Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, there is indeed no new thing under the sun.)
https://cakesforthequeenofheaven.org/17-information/faqs/1-what-is-cakes
Archived link- https://archive.is/lOlWB
Where in the Bible does it say Mary, the mother of Yashua, is the Queen of Heaven? The Catholics teach that according to their tradition, but where does it say that in the Bible?
Not only do Catholics teach Mary is the Queen of Heaven, they've also named some of their churches exactly that.
https://maryqueenofheaven.org/
They also compose prayers to be said to the Queen of Heaven.
https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=314
So, yes, I indeed reject those traditions.
Mary was indeed blessed among women, but it does not mean she is any less human than the rest of us. She is not divinity.
Pope Pius XII would disagree with my statement. Here's what he had to say in his encyclical Ad Caeli reginam (To Queen), which was his proclamation Mary is now officially Queen of Heaven. It apparently only took the Catholics until 1954 to destroy the Protestant Reformation that ultimately created the greatest country on the face of the Earth, the United States of America, when our country was still operating on Biblical principles. Further proof of that was getting Kennedy, a Roman Catholic president, into office through rigging big cities such as Chicago (sound familiar?), and then kill the man when he refused to kiss the Pope's hand and do his own thing. One wonders what might have happened had Joe Kennedy not passed away and was still able to give guidance to JFK.
30. Furthermore, the Latin Church sings that sweet and ancient prayer called the “Hail, Holy Queen” and the lovely antiphons “Hail, Queen of the Heavens,” “O Queen of Heaven, Rejoice,” and those others which we are accustomed to recite on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary: “The Queen stood at Thy right hand in golden vesture surrounded with beauty”[37]; “Heaven and earth praise thee as a powerful Queen”[38]; “Today the Virgin Mary ascends into heaven: rejoice because she reigns with Christ forever.”[39]
31. To these and others should be added the Litany of Loreto which daily invites Christian folk to call upon Mary as Queen. Likewise, for many centuries past Christians have been accustomed to meditate upon the ruling power of Mary which embraces heaven and earth, when they consider the fifth glorious mystery of the rosary which can be called the mystical crown of the heavenly Queen.
32. Finally, art which is based upon Christian principles and is animated by their spirit as something faithfully interpreting the sincere and freely expressed devotion of the faithful, has since the Council of Ephesus portrayed Mary as Queen and Empress seated upon a royal throne adorned with royal insignia, crowned with the royal diadem and surrounded by the host of angels and saints in heaven, and ruling not only over nature and its powers but also over the machinations of Satan. Iconography, in representing the royal dignity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, has ever been enriched with works of highest artistic value and greatest beauty; it has even taken the form of representing colorfully the divine Redeemer crowning His mother with a resplendent diadem.
33. The Roman Pontiffs, favoring such types of popular devotion, have often crowned, either in their own persons, or through representatives, images of the Virgin Mother of God which were already outstanding by reason of public veneration.
34. As We have already mentioned, Venerable Brothers, according to ancient tradition and the sacred liturgy the main principle on which the royal dignity of Mary rests is without doubt her Divine Motherhood. In Holy Writ, concerning the Son whom Mary will conceive, We read this sentence: “He shall be called the Son of the most High, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father, and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end,”[40] and in addition Mary is called “Mother of the Lord”;[41] from this it is easily concluded that she is a Queen, since she bore a son who, at the very moment of His conception, because of the hypostatic union of the human nature with the Word, was also as man King and Lord of all things. So with complete justice St. John Damascene could write: “When she became Mother of the Creator, she truly became Queen of every creature.”[42] Likewise, it can be said that the heavenly voice of the Archangel Gabriel was the first to proclaim Mary’s royal office.
35. But the Blessed Virgin Mary should be called Queen, not only because of her Divine Motherhood, but also because God has willed her to have an exceptional role in the work of our eternal salvation. “What more joyful, what sweeter thought can we have” — as Our Predecessor of happy memory, Pius XI wrote — “than that Christ is our King not only by natural right, but also by an acquired right: that which He won by the redemption? Would that all men, now forgetful of how much we cost Our Savior, might recall to mind the words, ‘You were redeemed, not with gold or silver which perishes, . . . but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb spotless and undefiled.[43] We belong not to ourselves now, since Christ has bought us ‘at a great price’.”[44]/[45]
36. Now, in the accomplishing of this work of redemption, the Blessed Virgin Mary was most closely associated with Christ; and so it is fitting to sing in the sacred liturgy: “Near the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ there stood, sorrowful, the Blessed Mary, Queen of Heaven and Queen of the World.”[46] Hence, as the devout disciple of St. Anselm (Eadmer, ed.) wrote in the Middle Ages: “just as . . . God, by making all through His power, is Father and Lord of all, so the blessed Mary, by repairing all through her merits, is Mother and Queen of all; for God is the Lord of all things, because by His command He establishes each of them in its own nature, and Mary is the Queen of all things, because she restores each to its original dignity through the grace which she merited.[47]
37. For “just as Christ, because He redeemed us, is our Lord and king by a special title, so the Blessed Virgin also (is our queen), on account of the unique manner in which she assisted in our redemption, by giving of her own substance, by freely offering Him for us, by her singular desire and petition for, and active interest in, our salvation.”[48]
38. From these considerations, the proof develops on these lines: if Mary, in taking an active part in the work of salvation, was, by God’s design, associated with Jesus Christ, the source of salvation itself, in a manner comparable to that in which Eve was associated with Adam, the source of death, so that it may be stated that the work of our salvation was accomplished by a kind of “recapitulation,”[49] in which a virgin was instrumental in the salvation of the human race, just as a virgin had been closely associated with its death; if, moreover, it can likewise be stated that this glorious Lady had been chosen Mother of Christ “in order that she might become a partner in the redemption of the human race”;[50] and if, in truth, “it was she who, free of the stain of actual and original sin, and ever most closely bound to her Son, on Golgotha offered that Son to the Eternal Father together with the complete sacrifice of her maternal rights and maternal love, like a new Eve, for all the sons of Adam, stained as they were by his lamentable fall,”[51] then it may be legitimately concluded that as Christ, the new Adam, must be called a King not merely because He is Son of God, but also because He is our Redeemer, so, analogously, the Most Blessed Virgin is queen not only because she is Mother of God, but also because, as the new Eve, she was associated with the new Adam.
39. Certainly, in the full and strict meaning of the term, only Jesus Christ, the God-Man, is King; but Mary, too, as Mother of the divine Christ, as His associate in the redemption, in his struggle with His enemies and His final victory over them, has a share, though in a limited and analogous way, in His royal dignity. For from her union with Christ she attains a radiant eminence transcending that of any other creature; from her union with Christ she receives the royal right to dispose of the treasures of the Divine Redeemer’s Kingdom; from her union with Christ finally is derived the inexhaustible efficacy of her maternal intercession before the Son and His Father.
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius12/p12caeli.htm
Archived link- https://archive.is/dCJ34
Interestingly considering what we know about Wikipedia as a leftist controlled outfit, in their article on Catholic Mariology (Queen of Heaven subsection), it's very telling they only quote line 39 from the encyclical declaring Mary is the Queen of Heaven, which is the very line a Catholic apologist would point to in order to say, "See, it's only Jesus Christ, the God-Man, who is King. Us Catholics don't WORSHIP her. We merely VENERATE her as Queen of Heaven. Putting a crown of roses on a statue of Mary is not IDOLATRY. It's merely VENERATION."
One also wonders why Wikipedia article doesn't mention Ad Caeli reginam was first published in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Mariology#Queen_of_Heaven
Archived link- https://archive.is/b7kd9
In contrast, Paul states it's Yahshua alone who intercedes for us.
Hebrews 7:24-28
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
**28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the o
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Please show me in the Bible where Mary intercedes for us. You will find very quickly you will only be able to show it's part of Catholic Tradition.
I do think it's worth sharing what Yahshua had to say about this topic-
Mark 3:31-35
31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
P.S. I know one day, Mary will receive a crown in heaven, as will all faithful believers who do the will of Yahweh.