Posted on 06/16/2015 2:20:11 PM PDT by NYer
Alas, Mr. Clemens, I’m sadly disappointed in you!
It might cause ridicule, and cut into profits.
Each person harboring one needs to want to be free of it.
Juan Diego said that the young girl looked as if she was of Aztec descent. Mary was Jewish, from the line of David.
Many accounts claim that the girl said, I am the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God. Catholics believe Mary to have an exalted place in heaven, with the most direct access to Jesus and God the Father. They also believe Mary was a perpetual virgin. Such a concept is nowhere taught in Scripture. Also, the Bible never calls Mary the mother of God.
The young girl that Diego saw asked for a shrine to be built in her honor. The biblical Mary would never ask for anything to be done in her honor. Rather, she would instruct people to honor and worship God (see Luke 1:46).
In some accounts of the story, the lady says she would answer prayer. This is also unbiblical. God alone answers prayer.
Did something supernatural occur on Tepeyac Hill and witnessed by Juan Diego? Yes, probably. Did Mary actually appear to him? No. Was the message from God? Based on its disagreements with the Word of God, no.
Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/Lady-of-Guadalupe.html#ixzz3dLFRW8e8
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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I would clarify that Sweden was never occupied, but merely allowed Germany to use Sweden’s railway system to support the war in the East.
44 = mem dalet (מד)
(masc. n.) measure, gauge, -meter
Last night the president got the ball rolling, but he didn't roll it far enough or always in the right direction. So now it's our turn to get a lot more players involved, roll the ball further and roll in the direction of economic security, equality, democracy and peace.
IOW, right into the Abyss.
For the right sum deposited in the Vatican bank, I’m sure they will get right on this.
But the children and residents of Fatima had a good UFO sighting.
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