Protestants often accuse us of worshipping Mary. They think we put her on an equal footing with Jesus and essentially exalt her to the level of a goddess. On the surface, some of our beliefs about Mary do seem difficult to reconcile with her status as a created being, so it is understandable why our separated brethren would have trouble with them. In this article, I want to look at one of these troubling Marian beliefs, one that at first glance may seem inescapably idolatrous. I want to examine the Catholic tradition of portraying Mary crushing the head of a snake and the belief it expresses. Nevertheless, this motif actually has a very solid basis in Scripture. To understand what I mean, we have to go to the source of the image, the opening chapters of Genesis. At first glance, it looks like this struggle will last forever, but if we look closely, God was actually implying that humanity would eventually emerge victorious. For one, the fact that this is a curse on the snake rather than on Adam and Eve suggests that the devil will get the worst of it.


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We recall from the book of Genesis that when God created the various things that He brought into being e. This being so, how do we explain the existence of so much evil in the world, so much suffering … so much moral evil especially. Did something go wrong that God did not count on? God made man to his own image, i. And what is more, in bringing Adam and Eve to fall in this special trial, the devil gained a certain dominion over them and their descendants. With that fall the kingdom of Satan was established on earth. The reason why Christ became man was precisely to deliver us from this domination of Satan, to conquer him and his kingdom, and to establish on earth the Kingdom of God. Even though Christ, by His passion and death has conquered Satan, and the ultimate destruction of his kingdom is certain, the Evil One is still allowed to roam about the world with a certain freedom to tempt souls. And if he lost the battle in his encounter with Christ, he has not lost any of his superhuman powers — his intelligence far superior to that of man. As St.
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