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Austin Suggs, an Anglican who runs the\u00a0Gospel Simplicity<\/em> YouTube channel (96,000 subscribers as of 12-6-25), did a video called, \u201cMy Honest Concerns About Mariology\u201d<\/a> (9-19-25). It has 32,110 views and 2,298 comments in 2 1\/2 months. Now, of course not all comments represent the thought of the channel where they are posted, and no one could possibly monitor \u2014 let alone reply<\/em> to \u2014 more than 2,000+ comments. But these falsehoods I will detail are influencing many thousands of people and ought to be responded to. So here we go. Words of the anonymous Protestant critics \/ commenters will be in blue<\/span>.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Her Son who is the only mediator between God and Man. Christ is all and all in this regard and shares it with no other. How can we not all agree on this???????<\/span><\/p>\n We do<\/em> all agree; so does St. Louis de Montfort, so this is what is called in logic a straw man or a non sequitur<\/em> (i.e., an irrelevancy). He talks about secondary, non-essential mediators by God\u2019s choice (including Mary), through whom God spreads His grace and salvation, which is a repeated theme in Paul\u2019s letters.<\/p>\n The idea of needing a mediator for Christ makes me deeply uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n It literally nullifies the Son of God\u2019s incarnation as a man, since there was already a mediator between God and man.<\/span><\/p>\n This distorts what we are saying. It\u2019s not necessary<\/em> or the only<\/em> way to approach our Lord. De Montfort wrote:<\/p>\n IF\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[conditional]\u00a0we are\u00a0afraid\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[i.e., not\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0are afraid]\u00a0of going directly to Jesus, who is God, because of his infinite greatness, or our\u00a0lowliness<\/em>, or our\u00a0sins<\/em>, let us implore\u00a0without fear<\/em>\u00a0the help and intercession of Mary, our Mother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Being afraid to approach God is a common biblical theme. When Isaiah the prophet saw him, he blurted out, \u201cWoe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips\u201d (Is 6:5). So God in His mercy allows us to approach Him through Mary, \u201cif we are afraid\u201d: as de Montfort puts it. He never states in the book that we \u201cmust <\/em>go through Mary.\u201d I searched it for the term, \u201cmust go\u201d and the only time it appears, he says, \u201cTo go to God the Father, we must<\/em><\/strong> go to Jesus, our Mediator of redemption.\u201d \u201cMust go through\u201d never appears, either.<\/p>\n But there is a theme in the Bible of the Queen Mother: discussed at length in Protestant Bible dictionaries. The Israelite Kings would make their mother the queen. Bathsheba was Solomon\u2019s Queen Mother and he said to her, \u201cMake your request, my mother; for I will not refuse you.\u201d (1 Kgs 2:20). The Queen Mother was treated with high honor alongside the king. This is historical fact. So when Catholics say Jesus won\u2019t refuse to honor a request of Mary, it\u2019s not just goofy stuff pulled out of a hat. It has a parallel in the Bible. Jesus\u2019 first miracle \u2014 changing water into wine \u2014 was a request of His mother, too.<\/p>\n She was a sinner in need of a savior just like the rest of us are.<\/span><\/p>\n All you have exposed is drivel about Mary apparently being the most humble and innocent creature created which isn\u2019t based on anything other than what people who put Mary on a pedestal [say].<\/span><\/p>\n The meaning of kecharitomene<\/em> in Luke 1:28 (\u201cfull of grace\u201d) highly suggests that she was sinless, since in Paul\u2019s writings, grace is the antithesis of sin; therefore, to be full <\/em>of grace is to be without sin. She referred to God as her savior because she would have fallen into the \u201cpit\u201d of sin like all of us, had He not given her a special grace at her conception to prevent her from falling in. And being given extraordinary grace before birth is a common biblical theme: it happened to Isaiah (Is 49:1, 5); Jeremiah (Jer 1:5), John the Baptist (Lk 1:15), and Paul (Gal 1:15).<\/p>\n The human heart is evil and deceitful so no wonder it is doing this, because obviously it wants you to worship ANYONE but Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n We don\u2019t worship Mary, and precisely because we don\u2019t, one never sees anyone who claims that we do<\/em>, ever document<\/em> it from our official doctrines.<\/p>\n My guide would be the Bible and the Apostles, as they never actually said or alluded to Jesus having a special or unique love for his mother. . . . he loved like anyone would love their mother. That isn\u2019t special or unique.<\/span><\/p>\n They didn\u2019t have <\/em>to say it directly. Jesus was without sin, and was a good observant Jew. One of the Ten Commandments was \u201cHonor your father and your mother.\u201d Since Jesus was perfect, then He would have done that in an exceptional and \u201cunique\u201d way, like no one else ever has, and honor is a form of love. And His mother is to be highly honored by all of us, since she is the most unique mother in history, having borne the second Person of the Holy Trinity, and also since Jesus said she was John\u2019s mother, and by dual application, the mother of all disciples of Jesus.<\/p>\n Mary herself stated that \u201chenceforth all generations will call me blessed\u201d (Lk 1:48). Who calls her that? And why don\u2019t Protestants who love her do what she predicted would be done all through time?<\/p>\n I have to ask you this honestly but do you see Mary as some type of lesser deity?<\/span><\/p>\n No Catholic who understands anything<\/em> believes that, but I have to ask this<\/em> person honestly, \u201cif you think we do<\/em> that, why don\u2019t you find some official statement of our Church where such blasphemous idolatry is taught? And if you can\u2019t find it, why bring it up<\/em>?\u201d One can always find stray individuals of any group who are ignorant of its stated doctrines. That proves nothing.<\/p>\n You can follow the commandment honoring your Mother without calling her blasphemous things like the Queen of Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n . . .\u00a0 nor is she in Revelation.<\/span><\/p>\n The Bible essentially described her as a queen of heaven, and in the book this person claimed she wasn\u2019t in:<\/p>\n Revelation 12:1, 5<\/strong> (RSV) And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; . . . [5] she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Love\/focus on Mary can definitely detract from our love\/focus on Jesus\/God\/the Holy Spirit. We have limited time, emotional energy, spiritual focus, etc. Spending it on Mary, rather than on God, could easily detract from our devotion to Him.<\/span><\/p>\n Not in the slightest, because admiration and love for a masterpiece from an artist is to praise the artist at the same time. Mary is God\u2019s greatest masterpiece of creation. It\u2019s not a dichotomy, nor is spirituality a zero sum game. We can honor Mary without detracting from God because He made her everything she is, starting from her conception, where she had no input at all and it was all God\u2019s grace. I have four children. If I spend a day with one, does this mean I love the others less, or love the child more than I do my wife? I love them all with all my heart.<\/p>\n There\u2019s nothing in scripture that says Mary brings us to Christ. Christ said his Holy Spirit would do that.<\/span><\/p>\n The Bible also says that human beings will help to save others. Paul does so (1 Cor 9:22), spouses can save their spouses (1 Cor 7:16; 1 Pet 3:1), Paul said Timothy could save himself and others (1 Tim 4:16), etc. Certainly Mary can help folks get saved, too. It\u2019s perfectly biblical to think so.<\/p>\n It\u2019s certainly possible to love Mary more than you love Jesus, or to worship her as if she was Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, and some Catholics do that, and it\u2019s blasphemous idolatry, and this is utterly condemned by the Catholic Church. It\u2019s also<\/em> certainly possible to take no notice of Mary at all or to despise her in some cases (unlike all of the founders and early leaders of Protestantism, who had a very high Mariology). Both things are equally wrong.<\/p>\n According to Jesus the greatest person born of a woman is John the Baptist. Are you calling Jesus a liar?<\/span><\/p>\n This person takes the first part of a verse and ignores the second. Here\u2019s the whole thing:<\/p>\n Matthew 11:11<\/strong> Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So there are greater people than John, and it stands to reason that there is a greatest [created] person who ever lived, too. We say it is the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the incarnate God the Son, Jesus. Someone<\/em> has to be the greatest. The Bible doesn\u2019t forbid someone believing that Mary is that person.<\/p>\n Also, how is Mary greater than David when the only reason she was chosen was because she came from his line? Wouldn\u2019t it logically follow that David is greater?<\/span><\/p>\n The Bible never says this is the \u201conly\u201d reason. Secondly, David had a man murdered so he could take his wife. Yes, he repented, but this is a very serious sin. It would keep David out of any seminary, and he would never be a pastor with that on his record (neither would Paul, who was even worse). But Mary was \u201cfull of grace\u201d: which means \u2013 once one carefully studies the purpose of grace in Paul\u2019s letters \u2013 that she was without sin. And that and being Jesus\u2019 mother, who was with Him for about 30 years before the world ever knew about Him, makes her a prime candidate for being the greatest person whom God created.<\/p>\n I understand that theology develops. I understand that understanding deepens. Nevertheless, such a big emphasis on Mary seems so foreign to the New Testament.<\/span><\/p>\n In a limited sense it is, because the New Testament necessarily had to focus upon Jesus Christ and the gospel. But after centuries of Bible-based spiritual reflection, Mariology became much more developed. We understand things better as time goes on. But there is a lot about Mary in kernel form in the Bible. The things that are deeply \u201cforeign\u201d to and utterly absent from the New Testament are sola Scriptura<\/em> and sola fide<\/em> (faith alone), whereas counter-verses are prevalent, because these are false doctrines invented by men almost 1500 years after Christ The canon of the New Testament is also \u201cforeign\u201d in its pages.<\/p>\n It does not follow that by praising Mary we are therefore praising God. It\u2019s the opposite. By praising Mary we are robbing God of adoration and worship.<\/span><\/p>\n Then why does Hebrews devote an entire chapter honoring and praising the heroes of faith? Does that \u201c<\/em>rob\u201d God too? It praises Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rahab the harlot (!), Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and \u201cthe prophets\u201d. The Bible teaches \u201cboth\/and.\u201d Hence Paul says, \u201cby the\u00a0<\/strong>grace of God\u00a0I am what I am, . . .\u00a0 I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the\u00a0grace of God\u00a0which is with me\u201d (1 Cor 15:10). Therefore, when we talk about how great Paul was, we\u2019re talking about God\u2019s necessary work of grace in Him at the same time. It\u2019s the same with Mary.<\/p>\n Related Video<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Biblical Answers to 3 Common Protestant \u201cMARY MISTAKES\u201d<\/a> [Catholic Bible Highlights<\/em>, with Kenny Burchard, 28 minutes, 12-1-25]<\/p>\n Related Articles <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Goddess Mary? Reply to\u00a0Gospel Simplicity<\/em>\u2019s Austin Suggs . . . and His Objection to St. Louis de Montfort\u2019s\u00a0True Devotion to Mary<\/em><\/a>\u00a0[9-25-25]<\/p>\n Response to an Inquiring Protestant (Austin Suggs)\u00a0(Strictly Biblical Arguments Regarding the Papacy & Mary\u2019s Immaculate Conception & Assumption)<\/a>\u00a0[5-3-22]<\/p>\n Related Web Page <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Mary: The Blessed Virgin\u00a0 <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Related Book<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Catholic Mary\u201d: Quite Contrary to the Bible?<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Sep. 2010, 189 pages)<\/p>\n \u00a0 Austin Suggs, an Anglican who runs the\u00a0Gospel Simplicity YouTube channel (96,000 subscribers as of 12-6-25), did a video called, \u201cMy Honest Concerns About Mariology\u201d (9-19-25). It has 32,110 views and 2,298 comments in 2 1\/2 months. 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