WHAT YOU AND 'MARY' SHOULD STOP DOING BY PASTOR GREG ELKAN.

One distinctive objection of Protestants to Catholicism is their elevation of “the Virgin Mary” to the role of “Co-Redemptrix”. This is the doctrine that Mary, as a result of her (ascribed) sufferings at the crucifixion of Christ, also plays a role in the believers’ salvation.  

Most Protestants will likely scoff at this thought because, (they claim), ONLY Jesus paid the price for our sins. Nevertheless, when we fall into sin, we effectively subscribe, also to the concept of a co-redemptrix.

How you react when you fall is a clue to your real belief. There’s a thin line between remorse for sin and a feeling you need to undergo penance. If after you fall, you feel all your previous prayers are now inconsequential, or you feel God would no longer bless you, or you feel the Devil is now legally free to attack you, etc. Then, you’ve now become a co-redemptrix with Christ. You _and_ Christ are now both being punished for your sin.

Of the world’s religions, only _Biblical_ Christianity shows the severity of SIN. Sin is a most objectionable transgression against The Perfectly Holy God. The just consequence of sin is not a bad day, or an incurable disease or a lost job. Attributing negative circumstances in your temporal life as punishment by God for a sin you committed is an insult to God’s wrath against that sin.

The punishment for sin was taken by Jesus ALONE, on the Cross. He alone knows what it means to suffer for Sin, He alone knows what it means to face God’s wrath, and He alone is the One we’re to look to when we fall.

2Co 7:10 says _“Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation”;_ but if the ‘sorrow’ for your sin is an expectation of bad things, you’ve dangerously elevated yourself to be a co-sufferer with Christ.

If it’s not true for the Virgin Mary, then it’s not true for you. The payment for sin is Christ’s death on the CROSS. Look to Him alone.

_Then He says, “I will forget their sins and never again remember the evil they have done.” And after everything is forgiven, "There is no more need for a sacrifice to pay for sins." – Heb 10:17-18 (ERV).

AMEN.

GREG ELKAN.

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