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To: ifinnegan; CondoleezzaProtege; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; ...
Why cut it off? Post it all.

Well, what RC would want this statement included?

The Protestant suspicion that to honour Mary is not to honour her as a creaturely object of God’s benevolence, but as a quasi-transcendent subject somehow alongside God, is certainly not unfounded, having a basis not merely in bastardised Catholic practice but also in Catholic dogmatics.

One would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, beseeching such for Heavenly help, and making offerings to them, and giving glory and titles and ascribing supernatural attributes to such which are never given in Scripture to created beings (except to false gods), including having the uniquely Divine power glory to hear and respond to virtually infinite numbers of prayers individually addressed to them.

Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?

Which manner of "adulation" could constitute worship in Scripture , yet Catholics imagine that by playing word games then they can avoid crossing the invisible line between mere "veneration" and worship.

92 posted on 09/09/2020 4:57:50 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

One would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world,


And there lies the problem. Standards of reference for truth being scripture or tradition/church.

Until RC uses the scripture for testing truth, it is like talking to a fencepost......................

They even rewrote the 10 commandments. Compare them sometime.


94 posted on 09/09/2020 5:05:13 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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