Posted on 09/03/2014 6:36:07 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
On the local Catholic radio program (Relevant Radio) a fill in for the “Go ask your Father” show said that muslims will be saved easier than Protestants because they love Mary and believe in doing good works.
When you put Mary above faith in Jesus, you have a huge problem.
Sounds more like someone inventing their own theology than anything else. He certainly wasn’t passing on Catholic teaching if you understood him properly.
I am a believer in the Bible and the Bible tells us that Jesus said to pray directly to God. So given the choice of following the teachings of Jesus or following the teachings of anyone else, I choose to follow the teachings of Jesus.
Mary was, is and will always be a daughter of Adam. She, like the rest of us, is tainted by sin. And it is by the intercession of Jesus that she is made holy (blessed). That same intercession is afforded to all that believe in Jesus and accept him as their savior. As such, Mary is man (generic sense) like the rest of us. Praying to her is no different than praying to your priest or neighbor or some distant relative. God is all powerful, so go to the source.
“The Catholic Church has declared that Muslims and Catholics serve the same god.”
Are you sure?
The Catholic Church says: “841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
Acknowledge, profess and adore. I don’t see “serve” anywhere in there.
No, but Catholic dogma apparently is.
God, at the very beginning of the world picked Mary as the Mother of Christ.
True.
Through Him [Mary] was spared from original sin
False. And nobody can cite any scripture which logically and reasonably supports the drawing of such an outlandish conclusion.
All have sinned, and fallen short of the Glory of God. All.
Christ was God. Mary was not. As Blessed as she was, she was still a sinner, just like you, me, and every Saint that ever lived.
There is absolutely no scriptural basis for claiming otherwise. Such claims represent the height of whimsical, man-made supposition. Wishing them to be true does not make them so.
youtube.com/watch?v=QqiqO5BzH74
He was condemned to hell by Christ for not being the Priest he should have been when he said he heard a women's asking Jesus to give the priest a second chance. Jesus said "Mother he didn't live his life for Me but for himself". Mary then says "Give him special Graces to help do what he needs to do and if he (priest) fails again Your "Will" will be done (damnation)."
Watching this had a Profound effect on me! Every time I pray the Hail Mary or a Rosary it has ALOT more meaning for me.
Nimrod & wife Semiramis (Nimrod built Tower of Babel and started the spread of false religions of ancient world. The god & goddess of these false religions were called various names as they spread from ome empire to the next)
Egypt: Osiris & Isis
Assyria: Assur & Ishtar
Babylon: Bel & Belit
Persia: Mithra & Anahita
Greece: Helios & Artemis
Rome: Apollo & Diana (See: Acts 19:35)
Bible: Moloch & Ashteroth, queen of heaven; in Acts 7:43 are called Moloch and Rephan
That is why I was honestly stunned.
The caller asked him to clarify, and he doubled down in say that muslim will be saved because of their good works and love of Mary.
Relevant radio used to be pretty good. I listen to in on occasion on my drive to lunch (the priest, Father Rocky I think, who normally does “Go ask your Father” is a hoot).
But things have changed. Once Francis did the prayer with the imam in the Vatican, it became very pro islam.
You just posted, and I pointed out to you, that in addition Catholics ask her to directly do things for them that scripture teaches is a function of God. Catholics can delude themselves all they want but need to realize they aren't deluding Spirit filled Christians.
The bleetings be upon him prophet of Islam most likely stole some of the beliefs of area Christians and put them in the Koran. Nestorianism was very influential in that area in his time and that explains the Koran’s writing that Jesus was only a prophet and not God himself. This borrowing from Christianity also explains the esteem in which the Virgin Mary is held.
My goodness, such stilted language from a purported six year old boy.
The “saints” are dead. The Apostles are dead. Mary is dead.
The Bible teaches that praying to the dead is sin and morally wrong. It further teaches that the dead know nothing (Ecclesiastes 9: 5-6). Jesus teaches that we should pray directly to God.
Oh my, poor ol' Martin's back in favor with the FR Catholic contingent. Love, hate, love, hate, it's enough to make this childhood Lutheran's head spin.
Is there some secret code that triggers the Luther pivot?
Powerful.......tears in my eyes.
Nice try Vlad. Weak at best but nice try.
Nothing like a straw man argument.
The angel said Hail Mary nothing more than a greeting.
Full of grace.
God found her to be fit to raise his son.
Blessed among women, she was not blessed because she bare the son of God but baring the son of God is how she was blessed.
She was blessed more than any other woman and Jesus was her blessing.
No one can achieve salvation through works. Nor sentiment. Only by acceptance of the gift of grace, in gratitude for which we atone for our sins, recognize and accept the one means of Salvation: Jesus Christ, the very God Who sent an aspect of Himself to earth in the form of a man so that we could understand His will -- through Christ's teachings.
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