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Note the following passages from inspired scripture:
Colossians 1:12 (KJV) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Heb 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Heb 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
Heb 1:6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten (firstborn) into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.The above passages of inspired scripture speak of the Son of the Father, Jesus Christ, as the firstborn of every creature, the creator of all things, who is to be worshipped even by the angels. The firstborn held a place of special preeminence, and Jesus Christ, as the firstborn incarnate Son of God the Father, holds this title above all of humanity, without any exception.
Now compare the following quote from an Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Augustissimae Virginis Mariae:
1. Whoever considers the height of dignity and glory to which God has raised the Most August Virgin Mary, will easily perceive how important it is, both for public and for private benefit, that devotion to her should be assiduously practised, and daily promoted more and more.
Mary's Place in the Incarnation and Redemption
2. God predestined her from all eternity to be the Mother of the Incarnate Word, and for that reason so highly distinguished her among all His most beautiful works in the triple order of nature, grace and glory, that the Church justly applies to her these words: "I came out of the mouth of the Most High, the first-born before all creatures" (Ecclus. xxiv., 5). And when, in the first ages, the parents of mankind fell into sin, involving their posterity in the same ruin, she was set up as a pledge of the restoration of peace and salvation.
Source: Encyclical AUGUSTISSIMAE VIRGINIS MARIAE (On the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary) of Pope Leo XIII, dated September 12, 1897.
The book that Pope Leo XIII quotes from is not in most Protestant bibles, as it is from the apocryphal book of Ecclesiasitcus, otherwise known as Sirach. Can you see what has happened? The inspired word of God calls Jesus Christ the firstborn of every creature, but according to Pope Leo XIII, the Catholic church says no, not Jesus, but Mary is the firstborn of all creatures! Who cannot see that this is blasphemy and antichrist, pure and simple?
Dan 7:11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake:
Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, ...Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; ...
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, ...