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To: ADSUM
Can't refute the truth on the catholic worship of Mary so you resort to the ad-hominen.

Got it.

39 posted on 09/22/2016 4:31:23 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

You haven’t proved that Catholic doctrine promotes the Catholic worship of Mary.

Many have stated truthfully that the Blessed Mother of God is not worshiped in the Catholic Church the same as God, but you keep making the same false statement.

In Scripture, the term “worship” was similarly broad in meaning, but in the early Christian centuries, theologians began to differentiate between different types of honor in order to make more clear which is due to God and which is not.

As the terminology of Christian theology developed, the Greek term latria came to be used to refer to the honor that is due to God alone, and the term dulia came to refer to the honor that is due to human beings, especially those who lived and died in God’s friendship—in other words, the saints. Scripture indicates that honor is due to these individuals (Matt. 10:41b). A special term was coined to refer to the special honor given to the Virgin Mary, who bore Jesus—God in the flesh—in her womb. This term, hyperdulia (huper [more than]+ dulia = “beyond dulia”), indicates that the honor due to her as Christ’s own Mother is more than the dulia given to other saints. It is greater in degree, but still of the same kind. However, since Mary is a finite creature, the honor she is due is fundamentally different in kind from the latria owed to the infinite Creator.

I did not attack your character, I indicated your lack of knowledge of Catholic doctrine. Hopefully you will make a concerted effort to understand Catholic dogma before you make a false statement about Catholic doctrine that came from Jesus.


40 posted on 09/22/2016 6:04:31 PM PDT by ADSUM
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