Larry Wessels, director of
Christian Answers of
Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (
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Live!" hosted by Lee Meckley. Published author
Timothy F. Kauffman is the special guest on this "
Apparitions of Mary" analysis. Mr. Kauffman was reared from birth as a
Roman Catholic, and he became a Christian in
1991 when he was 24 years old. He was trained by his mother from his youth to follow the Apparitions of Mary, pray the rosary, and wear his scapular and the
Miraculous Medal. He has written several books since his conversion, including "Quite
Contrary: A
Biblical Reconsideration of the Apparitions of Mary," "Graven
Bread:
The Papacy, the Apparitions of Mary, and the
Worship of the Bread of the
Altar," & "
Geese in Their
Hoods:
Selected Writings on
Roman Catholicism by
Charles Haddon Spurgeon." His books can be found at Rob Zins' (Th.M
Dallas Theological Seminary) website: http://www.CWRC-RZ.ORG & at AMAZON.COM.
February 2008 was the 150th anniversary of the appearance of a
Marian Apparition at
Lourdes, France,
to an illiterate peasant girl named
Bernadette Soubirous.
Since that time,
Lourdes has been a destination for millions of
Roman Catholics who seek both healing and salvation. In
2007 Benedict XVI established regular airline flights from
Rome to Lourdes and offered plenary indulgences to the Roman Catholic faithful in order to encourage pilgrimages to the site of the Apparition.
Apparitions typically arrive with extensive messages for
popes and pilgrims alike. The Marian Apparition at
Paris in
1830 gave Roman Catholics the devotion and design of
the popular "Miraculous Medal." The Marian Apparition at
La Salette in 1846 gave explicit, and sometimes secret,
messages to the children, some of which were addressed
to and sent directly to the pope. The Marian Apparition at
Fátima in
1917 had months of meetings with visionary
Lucia Abóbora, coupled with public and private messages
for the pope, culminating in a dramatic display of light. The
(officially unapproved)
Marian Apparitions at
Medjugorje
since the
1980s have provided more than 30,
000
messages, so many that they have since been compiled
concordance-style into a tome called
Words from
Heaven,
along with more secrets for the visionaries and for
John
Paul II. In these and many, many more occurrences of
Apparitions, the visionaries have been encouraged to write
down the messages (or images) and pass them on to others.
On March 25,
1984,
John Paul II performed the consecration as the Apparition had instructed, making no
secret of the fact that he was "responding to what Our
Lady
had requested at
Fatima."
Likewise, the Marian Apparition at La Salette sent secret messages to
Pius IX in 1846. Twenty-four years later, just five months before the first
Vatican Council would proclaim the doctrine of
Papal Infallibility, Pius IX received visionary
Don Bosco in a private audience.
Bosco had received certain "revelations" from an Apparition about the advancement of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility & needed desperately to relate the vision to the pope.
The Apparition had provided directions for Pius IX to proceed with the doctrine even if he had only two bishops supporting him. On July 18,
1870, the Vatican Council proceeded with the vote and Pius IX accomplished his desired infallibility, showing that the Apparitions were intimately involved in the formalization of the infallibility doctrine, as well.
The Marian Apparition at Medjugorje taught, "
Dear children, this evening I pray that you especially venerate the
Heart of my Son,
Jesus. Make reparation for the wound inflicted on the Heart of my Son. That Heart is offended by all kinds of
sin."18 This statement portrays Christ's sufferings as the
cause of our separation from God, when in fact Christ's
sufferings are the cause of our reconciliation to God.
These evil teachings are so un-Biblical that any schoolboy could refute them with the
Scriptures: "And their sins and iniquities will
I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin" (
Hebrews 10:17-18). "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus" (
1
Timothy 2:5). "He shall see the travail of his soul and shall
be satisfied" (
Isaiah 53:11). "When we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God by the death of His Son" (
Romans
5:10).
That the Apparitions could be so plainly wrong on the
Gospel indicates their true origins. In
Galatians 1:8 the
Apostle Paul wrote: "But even if we, or an angel from
Heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we
have preached to you, let him be accursed."
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- published: 15 Sep 2011
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