Satan

 "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them" Genesis 1:27.

"Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good..." Genesis 1:31.

Satan is trying to change God's creation by using illusions of the mind and crafty, cunning schemes to deceive people just as he always has since he used the serpent to deceive Eve. God created man and woman and said His creation was good. Sin is an issue of the heart and God did not create sin. What happens inside of us affects what happens to us and outside of us. Decisions we make have both temporal and eternal consequences. The only solution to deal with bad decisions and our sins is to believe in God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of our sins. Jesus does not say we can continue practicing sin or living in sin. He calls us to turn from it and repent of it. Satan is busy at work trying to deceive people, manipulate Scripture, and turn people from the truth just as he has from the beginning. The world is becoming more and more accepting of sin and open with it. Satan's time is running out and we are closer to the return of Christ and judgment day, than we have ever been.

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Immaculate Conception

Catholics believe Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35), and that Mary was a pure and holy "ark" fit to carry the Son of God. Just as the ark of the Lord back in Moses' day carried elements of the Old Covenant within, so Mary carried the Author of the New Covenant in her. The Immaculate Conception isn't a virgin birth. It is neither Biblical nor necessary. Catholics believe Mary was conceived in the normal way, but God made her immune from imputed or inherited sin. For as long as she has existed she has been free from sin. This allowed her to be the" second Eve" to give birth to the " second Adam" see  (1 Corinthians 15:45). Overshadowed by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35), Mary was a pure and holy "ark" fit to carry the Son of God. Just as the ark of the Lord in Moses' day carried elements of the Old covenant within, so Mary carried the Author of the New Covenant in her.

Mary needed a savior like everyone else (Luke 1:47).

I got the information from the websites listed below for you to read. Hopefully, they will make you more aware of the false teachings of the Catholic church.

Sources: https://www.gotquestions.org/immaculate-conception.html

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Money and weight in Biblical times

 Measurements can be divided into weight (often also used for money), distance, dry capacity, and liquid capacity. Here is a list of some biblical measurements and their approximate US and Metric equivalents.

Weight:

Talent (60 minas) is 75 pounds or 34 kilograms.

Mina (50 shekels) is 1.25 pounds or .6 kilograms (600 grams).

Shekel (2 bekas) is 2/5 of an ounce or 11.5 grams.

Pim (2/3 shekel) is 1/4 of an ounce or 7.6 grams.

Beka (10 gerahs) is 1/5 of an ounce or 5.7 grams.

Gerah is 1/50 of an ounce or .6 grams (600 milligrams).

Money:

Shekel is a silver Hebrew coin that is 11.5 grams of silver.

Gerah is a silver Hebrew coin that is .6 grams of silver and is sometimes referred to as ma'ah meaning "money."

Prutah is a copper Hebrew coin that is .22 grams of copper.

A talent of gold is 3000 silver shekels.

Silver dinar is a silver Roman coin that is 4.26 grams of silver and is called a Zuz in Hebrew. The silver dinar was equal to one day's wages.

Mina is a silver Roman coin that is 425 grams of silver (or 100 Zuz/Dinarii).

Gold dinar is a gold Roman coin that is 8 grams of gold.

Issar is a copper Roman coin that is .177 grams of copper.

Pundion is a copper Roman coin that is .349 grams of copper.

Distance:

Cubit is 18 inches or .5 meters.

Span is 9 inches or 23 centimeters.

Handbreadth is 3 inches or 8 centimeters.

Finger is 3/4 of an inch or 1.8 centimeters.

Yoke is the amount of land a pair of yoked oxen could plow in a single day or about 1/3 of an acre.

Dry Capacity:

Homer (or Cor) (10 ephahs) comes from the Hebrew word for donkey or ass, so this measurement was approximately one donkey-load or a little over 5 bushels (200 quarts) or 220 liters.

Lethek (5 ephahs) is 2.7 bushels or 110 liters.

Ephah (10 omers) is 3/5 of a bushel or 22 liters.

Seah (1/3 ephah) is 7 quarts or 7.3 liters.

Omer (1/10 ephah) is 2 quarts or 2 liters.

Cab (1/18 ephah) is 1 quart or 1 liter.

Liquid Capacity:

Bath is the liquid equivalent of 1 Ephah or 5.5 gallons or 22 liters.

Hin (1/6 bath) is 1 gallon (4 quarts) or 4 liters.

Log (1/72 bath) is 1/3 of a quart (11 ounces) or .3 liter.