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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
God spoke directly to Moses; yet when God sent a message to Mary, He sent an Angel. Who is greater, Moses or Mary?

And God brought forth His pure word thru Moses, and did mighty miracles thru him, and baptized the Israelites unto Moses, who was willing to be damned for the Israelites, as he was a type of Christ, with a noble mother like Mary.

However, unlike even the often-idolatrous Jews who did not elevate Jochebed above that which is written, which we are admonished not to do, Caths make Mary into a type of demigoddess.

For which they employ specious Roman Reasoning, that since God can do something they Rome can say he did, as seen in the OP: "And, since it was within His power to grant her this great honour, to preserve her from the corruption of the tomb, we must believe that He really acted in this way".

Thus if Rome wanted, they could say Mary parted the Red Sea, made an axe head float, raised the dead.

Or that she suffered all the consequences of sin and saved us through her merits, and is "Mother of her Creator...through Whom the Holy Trinity is sanctified." and that “The power thus put into her (Mary’s) hands is all but unlimited," having “immeasurable greatness,” and "all in heaven and on earth, even God himself, is subject to the Blessed Virgin,..." "her prayers and requests are so powerful with him that he accepts them as commands...because it is always humble and conformed to his will, the dispenser of all he possesses...” having “authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven,”...even that ”God gave her the power and the mission of assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels who fell away through pride....all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her...They greet her countless times each day with the angelic greeting, "Hail, Mary", while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests...The whole world is filled with her glory,.." " there is no grace which Mary cannot dispose of as her own, which is not given to her for this purpose." “sometimes salvation is quicker if we remember Mary's name then if we invoked the name of the Lord Jesus.." "O immaculate Virgin, we are under thy protection, and therefore we have recourse, to thee alone, and we beseech thee to prevent thy beloved Son, who is irritated by our sins, from abandoning us to the power of the devil. - . . Thou (Mary) art my only hope. . . . Lady in heaven, we have but one advocate, and that is thyself, and thou alone art truly loving and solicitous for our salvation..." "the Holy Spirit acts only by the Most Blessed Virgin, his Spouse." so "we cannot honor her to excess" http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/MarySC.html#ascriptions

But which (in the above paragraph) they actually do! And more.

1,309 posted on 09/30/2014 7:45:08 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

Surely those are not all things said about Mary by the Catholic Church are they?


1,310 posted on 09/30/2014 8:15:59 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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