Posted on 05/10/2017 9:03:36 AM PDT by Salvation
18. God the Son came into her virginal womb as a new Adam into his earthly paradise, to take his delight there and produce hidden wonders of grace.
God-made-man found freedom in imprisoning himself in her womb. He displayed power in allowing himself to be borne by this young maiden. He found his glory and that of his Father in hiding his splendours from all creatures here below and revealing them only to Mary. He glorified his independence and his majesty in depending upon this lovable virgin in his conception, his birth, his presentation in the temple, and in the thirty years of his hidden life. Even at his death she had to be present so that he might be united with her in one sacrifice and be immolated with her consent to the eternal Father, just as formerly Isaac was offered in sacrifice by Abraham when he accepted the will of God. It was Mary who nursed him, fed him, cared for him, reared him, and sacrificed him for us.
The Holy Spirit could not leave such wonderful and inconceivable dependence of God unmentioned in the Gospel, though he concealed almost all the wonderful things that Wisdom Incarnate did during his hidden life in order to bring home to us its infinite value and glory. Jesus gave more glory to God his Father by submitting to his Mother for thirty years than he would have given him had he converted the whole world by working the greatest miracles. How highly then do we glorify God when to please him we submit ourselves to Mary, taking Jesus as our sole model.
That should end the discussion for that is the Gospel truth.
"Mene, mene, tekel . . ."
As a seminary graduate, I was curious as to what is taught at Catholic denomination seminaries - so I looked at three different RC seminaries.
What amazed me is the LACK of Scripture that is taught. It is negligible.
They are so busy teaching ritual and praxis that 15-20% of the curriculum is the actual SCRIPTURES.
There sure doesn’t seem to be an emphasis on the original languages.
In your arrogance you make snide remarks like a typical dead soul rejecting The Gospel of Grace; you fail. The Truth is not in you.
It takes a lot to make me speechless but the sheer blasphemy and heresy of your post has done it
There is so much just wrong in that post.....stunning misrepresentation of God and who he is.
Indeed.....how one can manufacture such can only be possible in the fantasy of ones own mind.....
How many baptisms are found in the OLD testament?
Except that one time when He was 12...
Uh, two?
What if Jesus DID NOT WANT to declare his divinity that early on? Indeed, the gospels provide many instances of Jesus’ telling people and demons to be silent about his identity.
All you have shown is that Scripture is important, which no Christian doubts.
Sola scriptura is something else entirely.
If sola scriptura were true, it would be taught explicitly in either the OT or the NT, or both. Since it is not, it is a self-contradictory, human-invented dogma.
You have been stuffed to the gills with anti-Catholic propaganda.
. . . and had been bar mitzvahed (declared a Son of the Covenant), counted as a man when making up a minyan, able to read Torah in the local synagogue, fully accountable for His own actions, able to stand out in quizzing and being quizzed by the doctors of the law, no longer a "Mama's boy."
The next recorded conversation with her started out this way:
Mary: "They are not having wine."
Jesus: "Woman, what have I to do with thee?"
Doesn't sound to me that he had her up on a pedestal right then, eh?
If Scripture is so important, then why are you choosing to ignore the Word of God for the sake of ‘sacred tradition’ then?
I would think that the Word of God would be more important than the traditions of men.
Ah, Arthur! It was you after all! And what a nice thing you have to say about me! You can thank Jan Hus, and J. N. Darby, and Ian Paisley for that, Art! And John MacArthur, too . . . all Johns. Even wrote a little meself as well, so thanks for the encouragement!
I've so much to say to you, but it's just shy of 1 AM, and I'm tired. Perhaps I'll catch you a bit later, when my other work for the day is done. So, arrivederci, til tomorrow.
There is more about the Scripture being the true test of Truth than:
Mariology
infant baptism
Popehood or any man more holy than another
a successorship for the Apostles
required celibacy for priests
oh the list goes on and on if you demand explicitly . let the rule go BOTH ways.
I would dispute infant baptism on your list. From my study, there is sufficient logical and Scriptural support for that, at least.
But other than that, spot on.
And as long as you’re not trying to argue Anabaptism I don’t think it’s worth the argument at this time in this place.
Baptism as a rite of public display of “burying” the old self and starting a new life as a Christian should only be performed on someone old enough to understand the significance of such an act. If one wants to christen an infant or have a blessing . . okay but it is completely different when an infant is unaware and probably an unwilling participant. They are two different rituals.
Well, Art, you have been stuffed to the gills with Catholic propaganda. Of the two I choose the Bible (Gods Word) as Truth.
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