Posted on 01/01/2006 4:48:03 PM PST by HarleyD
An honest catholic. :-)
Charactristically for the wobbly edifice of Cavinism, the quote says nothing about the question of praying for the dead beside mentioning the question. Let alone the fact that the Old Testament cannot be used to elucidate this fundamentally post-Incarnation issue.
No you did not. Apostolic succession has nothing to do with preaching, other than if you preach heresies like Luther, the validity of the ordination is not going to save you.
Luke 11:27
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
I don't know, I'm not so outraged as I am perplexed by it. Visiting Jewish websites though, you see this is one of the major issues that they have with some sects of Christianity, the worship of people, dead or living.
With "Yea" He confirmed the veneration of His mother and then He proceeded to urge us to become like her through obedience to the Word of God.
This passage is the scriptural basis of Marian devotion.
Old Testament patriarchs have websites? What's the URL?
Comfy, isn't it? I would say that it is the ultimate in a religion made for, and by men.
Indeed. The woman venerated Mary but got her accents wrong, on the merely physiological aspects of motherhood. But Mary is venerated for her obedience to God expressed in her "let it be onto me as God wills", and because of her motherhood being a type of the Christian Church where the Word is kept and protected.
DNS error.
Sounds more like a glaring example of the "sin of presumption."
Besides, no one is arguing that Mary wasn't blessed, after all she attained the desire of women. But to elevate her to co-redemptor and Queen of Heaven is a notion that perhaps well-meaning, but certainly misguided, humans have come up with.
So only saints are in Heaven?
Oh, was the cave found empty? LOL
The Church is guarded from the sin of presumption because she has the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, and the promise of Christ to defer to her judgement (Matthew 16). Ordinary Christians do not have that.
Mary is described as Queen of Heaven in the Apocalypse, the chapter and verse escape me at the moment. Yes, Mariology overall is something built up on the scriptural foundation but not fully dictated by it.
You're thinking of the woman with the 12 stars about her head.
We can be sure that canonized saints are in heaven, but we hope that many others are even though noit formally recognized as saints. A saint is one whose life record and miracles prove to be in heaven and whose life is an example for others to emulate. Someone who has led a mundane but righteous, faith-inspired life would be in heaven but as he is not likely to be an example for others, hje is not likely to be condsidered for canonization. Again, canonization is not a celestial phone book, -- it does not pretend to enumerate the denizens of heaven.
The early church would only canonize martyrs.
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