Jewish actor converts to Catholicism: the Virgin Mary ‘is my most beautiful love’

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/252786/jewish-actor-converts-to-catholicism-the-virgin-mary-is-my-most-beautiful-love ^ | November 10, 2022

[lowbridge]

The famous Jewish actor and humorist Gad Elmaleh, beloved in France, announced his conversion to the Catholic faith, a process in which he says the Virgin Mary played a crucial role.

Elmaleh, 51, was the partner of Charlotte Casiraghi, the daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, with whom they have a son named Rafael.

His conversion to Catholicism is depicted in his new film, “Reste un peu,” (“Stay a while”).

The Jewish actor, who according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo will take the name of Jean-Marie when he is baptized, has studied theology in Paris, and in 2019 he participated in a musical in London about St. Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary who saw Our Lady of Lourdes.

Elmaleh told the French newspaper Le Figaro that “the Virgin Mary is my most beautiful love” and expressed his surprise that in France the “vast majority of Catholics don’t live their faith openly.”

As a child, he recounted in the interview, he entered a church and saw an image of the Mother of God.

“It wasn’t a vision, just a simple statue, but I was petrified. I began to cry and hid for fear of being discovered by my family, for fear of curses and superstition. I kept it a secret for my entire childhood,” he recalled.

[Elsie]

I’m pointing out the essential logical contradiction in the strictest form of Sola Scriptura, that’s all.

You are?

It seems like a group of strawmen trying to convince a scarecrow.

[Elsie]

I tried it various ways - none worked for me.

[Elsie]

...the prayer's right there in every Missal I've ever seen.

No doubt.

[Elsie]

Pride in “Gimme GOD!”?

[Elsie]

That would be book(S).

They actually get very little of their extra doctrine from the Book of Mormon, but in other stuff from Joseph Smith's 'revelations'.

[Elsie]

Where do you want it stuffed and buzzed?

[Elsie]

The Orthodox are feeling left out of your ramblings.

[Elsie]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+22:9&version=NLT

[SouthernClaire]

Wow, Daniel! There’s a whole lot of education in your post. Thanks.

[Elsie]

SOURCES link didn’t work.

Is this perhaps what you wanted??

https://peacebyjesus.net/marysc.html

[Elsie]

Then what could possibly be the point of the visit?

Uh, just maybe so that Mary wouldn't be in the dark about why she was gaining weight and appearing to be PREGNANT before marriage?

[Elsie]

Fron Dan's link: ...in response to another assertion of Mary's perpetual virginity (PV) on the same site.

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What the BIBLE states about an event like this:

 

 The chaste maiden; forever Virgin??

 

 

The Roman Catholic Church  has turned the beautiful, blessed lady of Scripture into an asexual, frigid Jewish wife; who withheld her favors from Joseph for no rational reason.

 

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV 

... each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.

Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

 

 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer;

but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

 

[daniel1212]

Yes, https://peacebyjesus.net/marysc.html#ascriptions vs. http://peacebyjesus.net/MarySC.html#ascriptions

It is due to Linux servers being case sensitive. The title I posted was from a previous hosting service. Sorry.

[Captain Walker]

Tell yourself what you want; you can’t answer the question as to why he waited for her reply, or why she replied.

[kinsman redeemer]

I don’t care if you “doubt” my story.

I guess it makes you more uncomfortable.

Too bad.

[grey_whiskers]

The remark about the doubt was humor as indicated by the joke immediately following.

[Captain Walker]

Take off the Sola Scriptura blinders for a moment. (Just for a moment.)

If Gabriel was there for no other reason than to deliver a message, then why not just communicate to Mary in a dream?

Joseph, of course, received his messages by dream. (There was no input required from him.)

If there was really no input required from Mary, why was Gabriel's physical presence necessary?

(And again...Why would Mary have spoken if it wasn't necessary? Why did Gabriel leave after Mary assented? Why does Scripture record Christ's presence in Mary after she assented?)

As I said before, the problem with Sola Scriptura is that you're handcuffed from seeing what is glaringly obvious, and only because it doesn't allow you to infer (which is a means we use all the time to gain knowledge of something).

[Elsie]

Tell yourself what you want; you can’t answer the question as to why he waited for her reply, or why she replied.

I don't need to answer any 'question' you come up with, since enough FACTS are recorded in the bible.

Speculation on motives is no way to build a solid doctrine.

[Elsie]

Psst #191 WAS answer.

[Elsie]

If Gabriel was there for no other reason than to deliver a message, then why not just communicate to Mary in a dream?

There you go again: specklatin'