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To: annalex; Elsie
Do you really think that because in one place it says Mother of Jesus and in another Mother of my Lord, we are prohibited to connect the dots and call Mary mother of God, Who Jesus is and Who the Lord is? What are we, five-year-olds?

It's just Jesus Christ and His apostles never connected those dots; nor did the Holy Spirit inspiring the written scriptures.

1,848 posted on 12/18/2014 10:40:45 AM PST by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: redleghunter; Elsie
Jesus Christ and His apostles never connected those dots

That can be said of many theological facts. The Holy Scripture is the written testimony of things that Christ and the apostles said and did, as remembered 10-30 years later by the disciples. It is also a collection of letters written when the apostle writing them could not travel and teach in person; the letters give encouragement and correct errors that occurred in the Church at the time. The Holy Scripture is not, was not intended as, and cannot be a complete theological manual.

It is a gross error of the Protestant to treat the Scripture as a complete rule of faith, the role that Christ intended for the Catholic Church:

I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to [Peter] the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. (Matthew 16:18-19)

2,107 posted on 12/19/2014 8:04:21 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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