1. “Holy Mother” (Virgin Mary)
The term “Holy Mother” means “the mother of Christ.” Therefore, calling Mary the “Holy Mother” in the sense of “the mother of Christ” ultimately turns into the claim that she is the wife of God, who is Christ’s Father. For that reason, the logic of calling her “Holy Mother” stands in complete opposition to the content of Scripture and is false. It dishonors God, who alone exists and is the Lord of all things, and it amounts to denying His Word. Therefore, the idea that Mary is the “Holy Mother” is not biblical and is contrary to Scripture.
What must be stated clearly is this: Was Christ born by “borrowing” a woman’s womb, or is He merely the child of a human mother born from her belly? The meaning and logic of this must be made unmistakably clear before moving on. The term “Holy Mother” was created in order to emphasize the idea of “mother.”
Today, the Roman Church’s central image—the statue of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus—contains a great conspiracy, carefully and intimately crafted and constructed by the powers of Rome, which has deceived all humanity and countless believers so convincingly that it would shock them. First, the statue of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus was made in order to elevate a mother’s human affection above the love of the cross—the love that gave even life itself—and thereby to eliminate the true love of the cross, which was intended to feed, give to, and care for the poor and pitiable sheep through tithes and offerings, by putting human affection first.
In order to rationalize a pretext for stealing tithes and offerings that should feed, give to, and care for the poor and pitiable sheep, the Roman Church emphasized a “human affection” that it presented as higher than the love of the cross, and in doing so it abolished the love of the cross that feeds, gives, and cares. By not distributing tithes and offerings to the sheep, but instead turning them into wealth to satisfy their power and private greed, they set forward the statue of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, putting “motherly human affection” in place of the love of the cross that is fitting to lead to salvation. Thus, the sign of the Roman Church is not the love of the cross that becomes like God and is fitting to lead to salvation, but the human affection of the “Holy Mother” holding the infant Jesus.
Second, the greatest reason the Roman Church put forward the title “Holy Mother”—a title not found in Scripture—was to rationalize the goddess worship that Rome had served. Under the name “Virgin Mary,” the “Holy Mother,” it created the statue as a justification and pretext for the Romans of that time to continue serving their goddess.
At that time, in order to provide vicarious satisfaction and fulfillment to the people of Rome who served various spirits and goddesses, Rome erected the cross as a sign of a false god masquerading as Christ. Then, by proclaiming Sunday—the day observed for worshiping idols—as the Sabbath, it abolished the true Sabbath and, under the pretext of the “Holy Mother,” established their goddess and produced their “perfect religion.” This is the conspiracy of the councils of Constantine—the so-called Constantine Noble Council—and the Councils of Nicaea and Laodicea, which have deceived the world, all humanity, and all history.
It is by no means, as all humanity thinks today, a Roman Church that was converted by the true apostles of Christ. The infant Jesus statue held by the goddess disguised as the “Holy Mother” testifies to this, and it stands as a counter-evidence: it symbolizes Jesus Christ as nothing more than the son of a human mother. To this day, the “Holy Mother” whom the Roman Church serves by putting human affection first is in fact an idol—Rome’s goddess disguised under the pretext of the “Holy Mother.” Even now, all testimonies and evidences of the Roman Church do not bear witness through Christ; rather, they bear witness by putting forward a “Holy Mother” higher than Christ. The Roman Church’s “god,” its “apostles,” and its “christ” are nothing but Mary, the “Holy Mother,” who is in truth a goddess in disguise.
Because this is an abominable worship that cannot give and share—since it steals tithes and offerings that were established so that the love of the cross, sent to form in us the divine character that becomes like God and is fitting for salvation, might be practiced across the earth—Rome abandoned the love of the cross and instead inflated and exalted “motherly human affection.” In this way it removed the love of the cross, which is the sign of salvation and resurrection, and created the pretext of the “Holy Mother,” rationalizing human affection by putting motherhood first. This is clear evidence proving that the Roman Church is a heresy that was not handed down by the apostles of Christ.
In the end, the infant Jesus statue held by the goddess under the pretense of the “Holy Mother” was produced as a justification for stealing tithes and offerings that should have been used to practice the love of the cross—to feed, give to, and care for the poor and pitiable sheep. Therefore, even to this day, under the appearance of holiness and by putting forward rites such as the Eucharist, they rationalize a worship of theft that deceives believers, teaching only the “Holy Mother’s” maternal love and human affection.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.(Revelation 2 : 19~21)
The words above speak of the Roman Church in the end times—a church that tolerates a goddess disguised as the “Holy Mother,” and, rather, commits the sin of following idols without repenting. The Roman Church proudly boasts of traditions and practices that were created in order to steal tithes and offerings meant to feed the poor and pitiable sheep. The “Sabbath” of today put forward by the Roman Church and Christianity, the cross, the brick-built church, the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus, “human affection,” the Trinity, and the Apostles’ Creed—every one of these has been made, developed, and handed down by those who crave worldly power and material gain. Therefore, lawlessness has been piled upon lawlessness, corruption upon corruption, falsehood upon falsehood, distortion upon distortion—until they have instead profaned God’s holy will and the precious sacrifice and love of the cross, and have made God and Christ into objects of disgrace and even finger-pointing. Such is the Roman Church.
Because today’s Roman Church and Christianity have been formed and manipulated under the guidance of powers seized by their own private greed, the churches that have come to this point—fit only to end in judgment—are themselves testifying to their lawlessness, falsehood, corruption, and apostasy. The love of the cross does not mean “human affection” or “love” testified to by those who pursue hopes and ideals born from their own wishes, satisfaction, and desires. It speaks only of a devoted love that makes suffering and sacrifice—arising from following the love of the cross that feeds, gives, and cares—its every ideal and hope, and that offers up even life itself.
It is the love of devotion that denies oneself and all one has, and that turns every ideal, dream, hope, and desire into sacrificial service for the sake of poor and pitiable brothers and neighbors—feeding them, giving to them, supporting them, cherishing them, serving them, and watching over them without sparing hardship or toil. This is the keeping of the highest principle and the highest law: serving one’s brother as one’s own body.
Because even worldly people boast as though the love and relief that anyone can do were the love of the cross that offers up life itself, the love and sacrifice of the cross—the sign of resurrection and salvation—has become a laughingstock to the world, and it has even become a pretext for heretical groups that put “love” and “mercy” forward. So by what can we compare, and by what can we rebuke, the love and relief that are nothing more than their show and hypocrisy?
How can we bear witness by putting forward love and relief that are nothing but display and hypocrisy, no different from those who serve idols? Shall we argue by putting forward ideologies and theories that even heretical groups loudly proclaim—“love” and “mercy”? Or how can we oppose them by holding up a cross that has nothing whatsoever to do with salvation—a mere shape of wood or iron, made for theft, destined to rot and perish—like the idols of false gods made of wood or metal?
With what can we rebuke, and with what can we contend against, theories and ideologies that put forward thieving worship and traditions that have sold, for greed, the love of the cross—the cross of salvation and resurrection in eternal glory, for which life itself was offered? Even heretical groups boast of love and relief. Then what difference is there, truly, between the Roman Church (Catholicism) and Christianity—which have abandoned the love of the cross and put forward only the perishable form of a cross made of wood or stone—and heretical groups that bow before idols made of wood or iron?
So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.(1 Thessalonians 2 : 8)
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.(1 John 3 : 16)
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.(Romans 14 : 7)(Romans 16 : 4)
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.(Luke 14 : 26~27)
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.(John 15 : 12~14)(Luke 10 : 27)(Philippians 2 : 30)(Mark 8 : 35)
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.(Luke 6 : 32~33)
As stated above, instead of the love of the cross—a love that sacrifices everything—today’s Roman Church and Christianity put forward the kind of kindness and “love” that even worldly people and corporations naturally practice. And by doing so, they have actually brought disgrace upon the love and sacrifice of the cross and made it something to be pointed at and mocked. For the love of the cross was meant to be proclaimed throughout the earth: feeding, giving to, and caring for the poor and pitiable sheep, so that through the love of Christ—by which believers support one another and serve one another—God would form within them the temple of the heart (the divine nature), a heart made like God and fitting to lead to salvation. Yet they have put forward relief work and service that are nothing more than display and hypocrisy—things that even worldly corporations do as a matter of course—in order to steal tithes and offerings.
Because they elevate charity and service that anyone in the world can do—charity and service that are virtually no different from hypocrisy and self-advertising meant to boast of oneself or one’s organization—or because they elevate “love” and “kindness” that are no more than moral and ethical values, they treat it as though they are practicing the love of the cross. And so their conscience feels satisfied when they give away old clothes that they themselves would never wear, and their conscience also feels satisfied when they offer a few hours or a few days of service, or a few pennies’ worth of relief and material help. This, they claim, is the love of the cross; this is what they set as the standard for Christ-like service and charity.
For this reason, the Roman Church cannot teach—and does not teach—the love of the cross, the sign of salvation and resurrection, a love that truly sacrifices one’s entire life, every ideal, and even life itself, because that love has been stolen away by a worship of theft. Instead, it only inflates and teaches the “natural” love and kindness that even worldly people practice, along with human affection and maternal affection. By means of abominable doctrines and commandments that put forward only outward appearances and superficial values, it leads people to pursue only a shell that seems holy and seems benevolent. Thus it becomes an enemy and adversary of God and Christ—an antichrist.
In the Roman Church, even within charity and service that anyone in the world can do, envy, jealousy, hatred, quarrels, factionalism, and division are unavoidable and always present. How could the traditions, practices, commandments, worship, doctrines, and ideologies of those who steal the food meant to feed poor, pitiable, excluded, and grieving sheep—like infants—ever be true?
Some scholars claim, “Because Rome killed Jesus according to Roman law, the Roman Church elevated Mary, the mother of Jesus, to the status of the ‘Holy Mother’ in order to establish a justification—and that is how it has come to this day.” This claim has a certain measure of plausibility. However, the rationale of putting the Virgin Mary forward is, for them, an unquestionable justification and a superficial value that cannot be opposed.
But if we think more deeply and more broadly: if the “Holy Mother” had merely been brought in to rationalize and legitimize the claim that they were truly the religion of Jesus, then they would have only set forward the name of God and the name of Jesus Christ, and they would not have become, in reality, a shrine that serves the “Holy Mother.” And they would not have set maternal affection and human affection above the love of the cross. They would not have betrayed the love of the cross—which was meant to build an beautiful character made like God and fitting to lead to salvation, by supporting one another, cherishing one another, and serving one another through true relief and service that feeds, gives to, and cares for the poor and pitiable sheep. Nor would they have taught human affection and maternal affection—pretexts that have nothing to do with salvation—in order to steal tithes and offerings.
