KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

KJV

NIV

2 Kings 19:21, Isa. 23:12, 37:22, 47:1, Jer. 18:13, 31:4, 31:21, 46:11, Lam. 1:15, 2:13, Amos 5:2

virgin

Virgin

by himself

OMIT

Heb. 1:3

Alan Schreck's Catholic and Christian uses these verses to support 'Mary's Role in God's Plan of Salvation.'34 He urges all to heed the message given in recent visions.

God is speaking a prophetic word to the church today through Mary, Christians at least ought to be willing to listen to her message in order to test it. If God does continue to speak to the world through Mary, this could be another sign to Christians of her continuing role in his plan of salvation.35

Schreck's comment about Mary's 'role' in God's plan of salvation is a reference to the Catholic church's use of the titles Co- Redeemtrix and Co-Mediatrix. New Ager, Geoffrey Hodson, also speaks of not one but two saviors.

The divine Messengers sent to save mankind, the Christ, as the son of God and the Celestial Virgin [Lucifer], [were] sent down from heaven to earth to save perishing humanity.36

'New' Greek co-editor F.J.A. Hort shares Westcott's belief that 'the Virgin' is the female personification of the divine principle. I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-worship and Jesus-worship have very much in common in their cause and in their results.37 Michael Carroll explains the root of their reasoning in his

thoroughly researched The Cult of the Virgin Mary.