Mother Earth & Mary Worship

For many "New Agers", "Mother Earth" is an earth goddess. The earth goddess is usually associated with the subterranean world. As a mother, this goddess of course is female. In a sense, the earth was the mother of Adam and Eve as we can see in the following passages:

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Here we can see that God is the Father of mankind, and certainly the "virgin" dust was the mother of Adam. In a sense, the earth is the mother of humankind.  After the first sin, God spoke these words:

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 

At least two points are made regarding "Mother Earth": (1) The womb in which mankind was born was the dust, and (2) all mankind will return to their "mother".

The problem with mankind is that we tend to worship other gods besides God. The First Commandment tells us that is forbidden! Most Judeo-Christian people have some type of belief in God. However, mankind's problem is that we bow down to ourselves. What becomes important are what we want, and who we are. Most of us profess God. Isn't that reverent of us? However, because we are so important, we must also add to that "our mother". Hence, people honor "Mother Earth", and some to the extent she becomes an earth goddess.

I don't often but will use the NIV Version for it says it best:

Romans 1:25 (NIV) They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised.

Most of the other versions say "worshiped the creature". The creature was created, as was the dust. Hence, "creature worship" is worshiping the things made by God. On the first day, God made the heavens and the earth. Mankind has foremost worshiped the stars with astrology, and the earth with mother worship.

"The created things" are the material. They are the things which can be detected with our five physical senses. The pleasure received from the created things is called "the flesh" in scripture:

Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Our flesh was created.  It's material is the elements of the dust. We feel an instinctual kinship to the earth because that is from whence we came. What does "Mother Earth" provide?

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like..."

All these maladies, sins if you prefer, are products of physical things. Mother Earth provides pleasure in those things of the flesh. Father God despises those pleasures. Hence, by sinning, people obey their instincts - original sin, and appease the flesh rather than the Spirit. The flesh is mankind's idol, and it belongs to Mother Earth. Of course, mankind's god is really each of the many "selves", but what they have in common is "the flesh" - "Mother Earth".

The "earth religion" is Neopaganism. It is any religion which worships the earth, fertility,  or nature. This pagan worship, since it is anti-Christian, in this "Age of Aquarius" is "The New Age".  Witchcraft and Wicca is closely associated with fertility and earth worship. In fact, all pagan religions are humankind doing what they want to do rather than follow the rigid structure of God's will. The Satanist Bible by Anton LaVey ascribes the main doctrine as "Do what thou wilt."  That was Adam's and Eve's first sin, and by no coincidence it was the "mother of all" who sinned first! (Genesis 3:20). In addition to worshiping the earth, mother worship is also heresy!

Luke 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

It is no accident that Adam was born of "virgin dust" since the dust had never produced a man before, and Jesus was born of "virgin flesh" by the name of Mary!  In a sense, Adam and Jesus were full brothers - both Sons of God and Sons of Man.

We know from Scripture that Jesus was Creator in that he is God in the flesh. Just as people worship Mother Earth in the form of the soil, others worship her in the form of Mary. In "Mary Worship" - Marianism, essentially it is Mother Earth which is being worshiped - the created rather than the Creator.  Rituals in Marianism are  prayer, pious acts, visual arts, poetry, and music devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary; the same type of worship as Mother Earth!

It's easy for Roman Catholics to worship Mother Earth because in Marianism that's what they already do! It's not that they fail to worship God but worship "other gods" as well whether Mother Earth or Mary for there is no difference. At the gut level, if one fails to worship God, they are effectually worshiping themselves.

Do not be misled: those extreme environmentalists are worshiping Mother Earth, and it is an offense to God! It is what God created, rather than the Creator, and the penalty for that is death!

Mother Earth and Mary Worship kills!