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29/11/2025

Paul Nii Doudu Djoleto Writes ✍️

THE METHODISTS ARE A DIFFERENT BREED OF CHRISTIANS THEY ARE NOT LIBERAL AS THE CATHOLICS

John Wesley—the man himself—would have lost his mind at the very idea of allowing Islamic prayers on property that belongs to a Christian mission school. We’re talking about an 18th-century firebrand who once wrote that Islam was a religion “founded by a devil incarnate” (his exact words about Muhammad in his journals, look it up). Wesley didn’t play interfaith tea party.

He preached in the open air because the Church of England wouldn’t let him in the building—he was too extreme. The man got mobbed, stoned, and nearly killed dozens of times for preaching the Gospel without apology. He sent missionaries to places where they literally died of fever just to plant Christian schools and churches.

Tolerance for other religions on his turf? My brother, that wasn’t even in his vocabulary.
The early Methodists in Ghana—the ones who started Wesley Girls in 1836—were the same breed. They came from a movement that split from the Anglicans because the Anglicans were too soft.

They faced down colonial authorities, local chiefs, and traditional priests who wanted to keep their shrines and sacrifices. These missionaries buried their own children in African soil just to keep those schools Christian. They weren’t running a government community school; they were running a mission outpost. The whole point was to raise girls who would be educated, disciplined, and unapologetically Christian in a context where that was counter-cultural.

So when the Methodist Church Ghana says, “On our campus, we follow our rules, our timetable, our Christian ethos,” that’s not arrogance—that’s staying faithful to the DNA of the place. Cape Coast people still talk about how strict Wesley Girls was in the 1940s and 50s—even Methodist girls couldn’t wear jewelry or lipstick. You think those same headmistresses would have rolled out prayer mats for another religion?

Please.
Here’s the part that seems to escape people: nobody is stopping any Muslim student from praying. Go to your dorm, pray silently, pray in your heart—nobody’s raiding rooms. What the school is saying is, “We will not restructure our 150-year-old Christian school day—assembly, devotion, classes—to accommodate congregational salah with all the public trappings.” That’s not discrimination; that’s a private institution holding its line.

If you don’t like the rules, there are excellent Muslim-founded schools, public schools, and secular private schools. Nobody is forcing you to attend a Methodist mission school.
And don’t come with the “but Ghana is secular” line.

Secular means the government doesn’t impose a religion. It doesn’t mean private bodies lose their identity. The Constitution that guarantees your freedom of worship (Article 21) also guarantees freedom of association and the right of religious bodies to run their own institutions (Article 26).

Wesley Girls isn’t the state; it’s the Methodist Church. Different rules.
If John Wesley were teleported to Cape Coast tomorrow and saw Muslims demanding space to pray toward Mecca on grounds his spiritual children died to establish, he’d probably preach a sermon so hot the whole campus would catch fire.

And the old girls—those fearsome Wesley Girls alumnae—would be standing right behind him clapping.
So yeah, cry discrimination all you want. The Methodists didn’t survive being beaten in England, shipwrecks, malaria, and colonial politics by turning soft the moment someone shouts “rights.” They are a different breed. Always have been. Deal with it.

30/09/2025

“Of all the extraordinary women in Scripture, one stands out above all others as the most blessed, most highly favored by God, and most universally admired. Indeed, no woman is more truly remarkable than Mary. She was sovereignly chosen by God—from among all the women ever born—to be the singular instrument through which He would at last bring the Messiah into the world.

Mary herself testified that all generations would regard her as profoundly blessed by God (Luke 1:48). This was not because she believed herself to be any kind of saintly superhuman, but because she was given such remarkable grace and privilege.

Myths About Mary

While acknowledging that Mary was the most extraordinary of women, it is appropriate to inject a word of caution against the common tendency to elevate her too much. She was, after all, a woman—not a demigoddess or a quasi-deiform creature who somehow transcended the rest of her race. The point of her “blessedness” is certainly not that we should think of her as someone to whom we can appeal for blessing; but rather that she herself was supremely blessed by God. She is never portrayed in Scripture as a source or dispenser of grace, but is herself the recipient of God’s blessing. Her Son, not Mary herself, is the fountain of grace (Psalm 72:17). He is the long-awaited Seed of Abraham of whom the covenant promise spoke: “In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 22:18).

Various extrabiblical, religious traditions and many superstitious minds have beatified Mary beyond what is reasonable, making her an object of religious veneration, imputing to her various titles and attributes that belong to God alone. A long tradition of overzealous souls throughout history have wrongly exalted her to godlike status. Unfortunately, even in our era, Mary, not Christ, is the central focus of worship and religious affection for millions. They think of her as more approachable and more sympathetic than Christ. They revere her as the perfect Madonna, supposedly untouched by original sin, a perpetual virgin, and even co-redemptrix with Christ Himself.

Catholic dogma teaches that she was taken bodily to heaven, where she was crowned “Queen of Heaven.” Her role today, according to Catholic legend, is mediatory and intercessory. Therefore, multitudes direct their prayers to her instead of to God alone—as if Mary were omnipresent and omniscient.

As a matter of fact, many people superstitiously imagine that Mary regularly appears in various apparitions here and there, and some even claim that she delivers prophecies to the world through such means. This extreme gullibility about apparitions of Mary sometimes rises to almost comical proportions. In November 2004, a stale grilled-cheese sandwich sold for $28,000 in an eBay auction because the sandwich purportedly had an image of Mary supernaturally etched in the burn marks of the toast. A few months later, thousands of worshipers in Chicago built a makeshift shrine to Mary in the walkway of a freeway underpass because someone claimed to see an image of her in salt stains on the concrete wall of the abutment.

No less than Pope John Paul II declared his total devotion to Mary. He dedicated his whole pontificate to her and had an M for Mary embroidered in all his papal garments. He prayed to her, credited her with saving his life, and even left the care of the Roman Catholic Church to her in his will. Rome has long fostered the cult of Marian devotion, and superstition about Mary is more popular today than it has ever been. So much homage is paid to Mary in Catholic churches around the world that the centrality and supremacy of Christ is often utterly obscured by the adoration of His mother.

Who She Was

All such veneration of Mary is entirely without biblical warrant. In fact, it is completely contrary to what Scripture expressly teaches (Revelation 19:10). But the tendency to make Mary an object of worship is nothing new. Even during Jesus’ earthly ministry, for example, there were those who showed undue reverence to Mary because of her role as His mother. On one occasion, Scripture says, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Jesus, “Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.” His reply was a rebuke: “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it” (Luke 11:27–28).

Mary herself was a humble soul who maintained a consistently low profile in the gospel accounts of Jesus’ life. Scripture expressly debunks some of the main legends about her.

The idea that she remained a perpetual virgin, for example, is impossible to reconcile with the fact that Jesus had half-brothers who are named in Scripture alongside both Joseph and Mary as their parents: “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?” (Matthew 13:55). Matthew 1:25 furthermore says that Joseph abstained from sexual relations with Mary only “until she gave birth to a Son.” On any natural reading of the plain sense of Scripture, it is impossible to support the idea of Mary’s perpetual virginity.

Mary’s immaculate conception and her supposed sinlessness are likewise without any scriptural foundation whatsoever. The opening stanza of Mary’s Magnificat speaks of God as her “Savior,” thus giving implicit testimony from Mary’s own lips that she needed redemption. In such a biblical context, that could refer only to salvation from sin. Mary was in effect confessing her own sinfulness.

In fact, far from portraying Mary with a halo and a seraphic stare on her face, Scripture reveals her as an average young girl of common means from a peasants’ town in a poor region of Israel, betrothed to a working-class fiancé who earned his living as a carpenter. If you had met Mary before her firstborn Son was miraculously conceived, you might not have noticed her at all. She could hardly have been more plain and unassuming.

And yet she found herself unexpectedly thrust into a critical role in God’s redemptive plan.”

—John MacArthur

Mary: Who She Was
(And Wasn't)
Profiles of Godliness
MARY
https://www.gty.org/blogs/B141201/mary-who-she-was-and-wasnt

23/09/2025

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18/09/2025

Inventing this goddess who has nothing to do with the true Mary of actual history, the mother of Jesus, inventing this goddess and giving her powers of mediation of all graces, giving her powers of redemption, and giving her powers of imputed righteousness to the accounts of those who appeal to her is a fabrication. It is, as I said, the inventing of a goddess by the mingling of paganism and Gnosticism with Christianity. It really all is paganism, and all is Gnosticism; only the name Mary is borrowed from Christianity.

This is pretty consistent with a lot of other Gnostic
belief, even the “Da Vinci Code” pulls up one of the old Gnostic heresies regarding Mary Magdalene. The idea in the “Da Vinci Code,” borrowing that old Gnostic heresy, is that Mary Magdalene was supposed to be the queen of the church. She was supposed to be head of the church and the apostles were upset at that, and they got rid of her, and Peter usurped the place of Mary Magdalene in an act of overt male chauvinism, a kind of male coup, and took over the church. Of course, the roots of that kind of teaching and belief are found in ancient feminism, which has its roots in goddess worship which goes way back into Babylon. It was a satanic ploy from the very beginning as Satan endeavors to counterfeit and upset the divine order and male headship. So, what you have with Mary is just another form of paganism that swept into the church, mixed itself with Christianity. It is nothing but goddess worship.

Now, in conclusion, and we have just some time to conclude, I just want to talk about three things to kind of pull it together in three conclusions. One, I want to talk about the blaspheming. This entire concoction is blasphemous. That is to say, it is an assault on God. It is a full-blown assault on God. It is an assault on God the Father, it is an assault on God the Holy Spirit, and it is an assault on God the Son. And we’ve already indicated that in the introductory words, but let me just kind of unfold it for you.

First of all, the worship of Mary is an attack on God Himself. Mary becomes the mother of the Son of God. Mary becomes the mother of God, in their language. She is called the Queen of heaven, and therefore she is the rival of the King of heaven, the sovereign God Himself. As we have learned, she is granted sovereignty. She is worthy of worship, worthy of praise. She demands if you want salvation, that you adore her, that you love her, that you enthrone her because she is loving, gracious, merciful. She is all-knowing, all seeing, and all powerful. De Liguori in “The Glories of Mary,” page 566, quote: “At the command of Mary all obey, even God.” Blasphemy against God.

This goddess worship is also blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Mary is the comforter. Mary is the sympathizer. Mary is the helper. Mary is the empowerer. Mary is the advocate. Mary is the encourager. Mary is even the sanctifier who works to make her children pure.

This goddess worship is also an attack against the Son. She becomes a counterfeit savior: born sinless, without the stain of original sin, living a sinless life. She is called the all-holy child. She becomes redeemer, provider of salvation, dispenser of forgiveness, source of all blessing, from salvation to glorification. She is called the all-holy one, clearly a title belonging only to God. And if you’ve been with us for the last three weeks, you have felt the heat of the blasphemy. So, the blaspheming is the first thing to understand in conclusion. Secondly, let’s call it the comparing. We need to do a little comparing here. What does Scripture say about Mary? What is the real story of Mary?

All right, get your Bible. I’ve been waiting a long time for this...-JOHN MACARTHUR

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https://www.gty.org/sermons/90-317/exposing-the-idolatry-of-mary-worship-what-the-bible-says

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