Messages from God to the World

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Preface
• Contents
• 0 Introduction
• 0.1 Underlying Logic and Terminology
• 0.2 Definitions
• 0.3 Principles of Deduction
• 1 Mary Speaks and Appears
• 1.1 Religious Experience
• 1.2 Private Religious Visions
• 1.2.1 Examples of Persons Who Had Private Religious Visions
• 1.3 Prophetic Religious Manifestations
• 1.3.1 Examples of Persons Who Experienced Prophetic Religious Manifestations
• 1.3.2 Other Prophetic Religious Manifestations
• 2 The Great Six Prophetic Religious Manifestations
• 2.1 Guadalupe
• 2.1.1 Mary appears to the Nahua-Indio
• 2.1.2 Message to Juan Diego to be directed to the bishop Fray Juan Zumarraga OFM
• 2.1.3 Miracles
• 2.1.4 Pilgrimage
• 2.1.5 Ecclesiastical Approbation
• 2.1.6 Prophetic Religious Manifestation in Guadalupe
• 2.2 La Salette
• 2.2.1 Appearance in La Salette
• 2.2.2 Message to Both Children
• 2.2.3 Secret Messages
• 2.2.4 Miracles
• 2.2.5 Pilgrimage
• 2.2.6 Ecclesiastical Approbation
• 2.2.7 Prophetic Religious Manifestation in La Salette
• 2.3 Lourdes
• 2.3.1 Appearances in Lourdes
• 2.3.2 Messages
• 2.3.3 Miracles
• 2.3.4 Pilgrimage
• 2.3.5 Ecclesiastical Approbation
• 2.3.6 Prophetic Religious Manifestation in Lourdes
• 2.4 Fatima
• 2.4.1 Appearances in Fatima
• 2.4.2 Messages
• 2.4.3 Secret Messages and Predictions
• 2.4.4 Special Request
• 2.4.5 Further Apparitions
• 2.4.6 Miracles
• 2.4.7 Ecclesiastical Approbation
• 2.4.8 Prophetic Religious Manifestation in Fatima
• 2.5 Medjugorje
• 2.5.1 Appearances in Medjugorje
• 2.5.2 Messages Ordered Chronologically
• 2.5.3 Secret Messages
• 2.5.4 Miracles
• 2.5.5 Ecclesiastical Positions
• 2.5.6 Pilgrimage
• 2.5.7 Trip to Russia
• 2.5.8 Prophetic Religious Manifestation in Medjugorje
• 2.6 Kibeho
• 2.6.1 Appearances to Eight Juveniles
• 2.6.2 Messages
• 2.6.3 Prediction of Genocide
• 2.6.4 Miracles
• 2.6.5 Pilgrimage
• 2.6.6 Ecclesiastical Approbation
• 2.6.7 Prophetic Religious Manifestation in Kibeho
• 3 Mary Speaks to the World in PRMf
• 3.1 Important Features of Prophetic Religious Manifestations
• 3.2 Each PRMf is a Miracle of Religion
• 3.2.1 Single and Unique
• 3.2.2 Very Improbable
• 3.2.3 Admirable and Amazing
• 3.2.4 The Possibility of the Miraculous Event is Not Understood
• 3.2.5 Compatibility with Laws of Nature
• 3.2.6 Beyond the Capacities of Creatures
• 3.2.7 Done by the Triune God or by one of the three Divine Persons
• 3.2.8 The Purpose is Salvation
• 3.3 Mary’s Appearances
• 3.4 The Question of Credibility of PRMf
• 3.4.1 Upper Bound for Credibility
• 3.4.2 Axiom for the Upper Bound for Credibility
• 3.4.3 Lower Bound for Credibility
• 4 Religious Belief and PRMf
• 4.1 Christian Revelation
• 4.1.1 Demarcation of Christian Revelation
• 4.1.2 Relevant to Salvation
• 4.1.3 Relevant to the Individual Believer
• 4.1.4 The Truths of Christian Revelation are Believed by Some and Known by Others
• 4.1.5 The System of Christian Revelation
• 4.1.6 Christian Revelation in the Interpretation of the Catholic Church
• 4.1.7 Church Approbation of Apparitions and Miracles
• 4.1.8 Christian Revelation and Members of the Christian Religion
• 4.2 PRMf of Mary and the Christian Revelation
• 4.2.1 Christian Revelation Compared with the Prophetic Religious Manifestation of Mary
• 4.2.2 The Thesis of the Essential Difference
• 4.2.3 The Credibility of the Seers: Not Liers
• 4.2.4 The Credibility of the Seers: Real Sense Perception
• 4.2.5 Criterion UBC (A5) Applied to the Apparitions
• 4.2.6 Mary Appears with a Glorified Body
• 4.3 The Voluntary Component in Religious Belief
• 4.3.1 Consideration and Investigation
• 4.3.2 Searching for Reasons
• 4.3.3 Higher Epistemic and Deontic Authority
• 4.3.4 Eternal Happiness
• 4.3.5 Direct Voluntary Component
• 4.3.6 The Voluntary Component in Those Who Do Not See
• 4.3.7 The Voluntary Component in Church Approbations
• 4.3.8 The Miracles of Healing in Lourdes belong to God’s Plan and Will
• 5 Jesus Christ Sends Us Messages Through Mary
• 5.1 The Ultimate Origin of the Messages is Jesus Christ
• 5.1.1 Reasons for Christ Being the Origin
• 5.1.2 Christ and Mary Work Together
• 5.2 Mary Reveals Herself
• 5.2.1 Guadalupe: The Ever Virgin Mary
• 5.2.2 La Salette: The Crying Mother
• 5.2.3 Lourdes: The Immaculate Conception
• 5.2.4 Fatima: The Lady of the Rosary
• 5.2.5 Medjugorje: The Mother of God and the Queen of Peace
• 5.2.6 Kibeho: The Mother of the Word
• 5.3 Mary Loves, Suffers and Intercedes
• 5.3.1 Mary – Merciful Mother
• 5.3.2 Mary – Loving Mother
• 5.3.3 Mary – Praying Mother
• 5.3.4 Mary – Helping Mother
• 5.3.5 Mary – Suffering Mother
• 5.3.6 Mary – Interceding Mother
• 5.4 Predictions Contained in the Messages
• 5.4.1 Criterion of Authenticity
• 5.4.2 Predictions Concerning Singular Facts
• 5.4.3 Predictions Concerning Global Facts
• 5.5 Reasons for the Commands of Christ
• 5.5.1 Are the Messages Nothing But Commands?
• 5.5.2 Capable of Knowing God and of Understanding God’s Commands
• 5.5.3 Sin as Moral Evil
• 5.5.4 Unbelief
• 5.5.5 Being Unconcerned about God
• 5.6 Commands of Christ Sent through Mary to Seers
• 5.6.1 Commands to the Seers and Hearers
• 5.6.2 Commands Concerning Epistemic and Deontic Authority and Obeying God’s Commands
• 5.6.3 Commands Concerning Submission, Penance and Suffering
• 5.6.4 Commands Concerning Praying, Sacrifying and Conversion
• 5.7 Commands of Christ Sent to the World through Mary
• 5.7.1 Commands to the People of the Whole World
• 5.7.2 Commands to Believe and to Accept God as an Epistemic and Deontic Authority
• 5.7.3 Obligation to Obey God’s Commands
• 5.7.4 Commands to Subordinate one’s Will, to do Penance and to Freely Accept Suffering
• 5.7.5 Commands to Pray, to Fast and to Sacrifice
• 5.7.6 Command to Convert
• 5.7.7 Mary: Mediatrix for Conversion
• List of Axioms and Definitions
• Subject Index
• Index of Names
• Bibliography