Mary is not Holy

Like All Flesh, the Flesh of Mary the Virgin belonged to the prince of this world. It is like Jesus said to Mary Magdeline in the gospel of Thomas; saying 21

21 Mary said to Jesus, "What are your disciples like?"

2 He said, They are like little children living in a field that is not theirs. 3 When the owners of the field come, they will say, *"Give us back our field." 4 They take off their clothes in front of them in order to give it back to them, and they return their field to them.* 5 For this reason I say, if the owners of a house know that a thief is coming, they will be on guard before the thief arrives, and will not let the thief break *into their house (their domain)* and steal their possessions. 6 As for you, then, be on guard against the world. 7 Prepare yourselves with great strength, so the robbers can't find a way to get to you, for the trouble you expect will come. 8 Let there be among you a person who understands. 9 When the crop ripened, he came quickly carrying a sickle and harvested it. 10Anyone here with two good ears had better listen!

They had to take off their clothes to give them back to the owners of the field in order to make their payment for using the owner's domain; whichnin context is the flesh. The flesh is corrupted. We are born into death. The only thing that is Holy, is the breath of life within us. And the Breath of God that placed Jesus Through the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary was not from man, but was placed in the womb of the flesh, which is absolutely what brings corruption into this world.

I love Catholics because they love the Father. But I deeply am disturbed by the use of the Virgin Mary as an icon. They are blind to the destructive nature of worshipping icons, praying to dead men and honoring a man made church that itself places priests between believers and the blood of the Lamb which is utter forgiveness for sin. We are not Jews in the temple we are not old wine. There's a difference.

Catholics are not the only religion that is deeply false. it is an inspired understanding. I was reading the Gospel of Judas.

Here:

They [said, “We have seen] a great [house with a large] altar [in it, and] twelve men—they are the priests, we would say—and a name; and a crowd of people is waiting at that altar, [until] the priests [… and receive] the offerings. [But] we kept waiting.”

[Jesus said], “What are [the priests] like?”

They [said, “Some …] two weeks; [some] sacrifice their own children, others their wives, in praise [and] humility with each other; some sleep with men; some are involved
in [slaughter]; some commit a multitude of sins and deeds of lawlessness. And the men who stand [before] the altar invoke your [name], [39] and in all the deeds of their deficiency, the sacrifices are brought to completion […].”

After they said this, they were quiet, for they were troubled.

JESUS OFFERS AN ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE VISION OF THE TEMPLE

Jesus said to them, “Why are you troubled? Truly I say to you, all the priests who stand before that altar invoke my name. Again I say to you, my name has been written on this
[…] of the generations of the stars through the human generations. [And they] have planted trees without fruit, in my name, in a shameful manner.”

Jesus said to them, “Those you have seen receiving the offerings at the altar—that is who you are. That is the god you serve, and you are those twelve men you have seen. The cattle you have seen brought for sacrifice are the many people you lead astray [40] before that altar. […] will stand and make use of my name in this way, and generations of the pious will remain loyal to him. After him another man will stand there from [the fornicators], and another [will] stand there from the slayers of children, and another from those who sleep with men, and those who abstain, and the rest of the people of pollution and lawlessness and error, and those who say, ‘We are like angels’; they are the stars that bring everything to its conclusion. For to the human generations it has been said, ‘Look, God has received your sacrifice from the hands of a priest’—that is, a minister of error.

But it is the Lord, the Lord of the universe, who commands, ‘On the last day they will be
put to shame.’”

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Basically I feel that the disciples created a religion that did not honor God, it honored God through them and not to put to fine a point on it, but the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthadox are very likely the end result of this. Although ANY who place themselves between believers and the forgiveness of sin - is false.

That is the key here. The Father gave up his Son so that who soever believes in him shall not perish but will know eternal life. The blood of the Lamb of God was the final sacrifice upon the alter that was accepted. So no priest is true that stands before an alter; placing himself between believers and the Father.

So that is why they 'use my name in a shameful manor', and these religions are, 'have planted trees without fruit'.

It is insightful, and it is also disturbing.