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To: nickcarraway;drstevej;RnMomof7
Interesting tactic. Simply SAY your opponents agree with you, regardless of the truth.
LUKE 11: 27-28. "As Jesus said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, 'Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!' But Jesus said, 'Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

In Calvin's "New Testament Commentaries, Volume 2, he explained the praise of Mary by this woman as "By this homage the woman intended to praise Christ's excellence. It was not Mary she was thinking of -- maybe she had never seen her -- but she magnified Christ's glory by lauding and blessing the womb in which he was carried...Yet Christ does not accord with this woman's saying. Rather, it contains a hint of reproof. 'No,' he says, 'Blessed are they who hear God's word.' We see that Christ thought next to nothing of what the woman praised."

Your feeble assertions can't change the Reformation.

77 posted on 05/07/2002 1:46:51 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Interesting tactic. Simply SAY your opponents agree with you, regardless of the truth. Your feeble assertions can't change the Reformation.

I am not trying to change the reformation or say my opponents agree with me. Nor can you change the fact that Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli were not in complete agreement with you. I'm getting you a some citations, but in the meantime, why don't you explain to me why Luther had the Assumption of Mary put on his tomb?

80 posted on 05/07/2002 2:04:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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