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You are misunderstanding what is meant by Catholics when they say "grant us, Oh, [Saint]" in a prayer. You are interpreting those words through a hermeneutic of suspicion, instead of through Catholic theology. The Catholic mind intends and perceives such phrases as meaning only that the saint accomplish the request by means of intercession; it does not by such a statement intend to equate the saint with Christ.

-A8

14,143 posted on 05/07/2007 3:08:08 PM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)

You are misunderstanding what is meant by Catholics when
they say “grant us, Oh, [Saint]” in a prayer. You are interpreting those words through a hermeneutic of suspicion, instead of through Catholic theology. The Catholic mind intends and perceives such phrases as meaning only that the saint accomplish the request by means of intercession; it does not by such a statement intend to equate the saint with Christ.

So, now we have doctrines of man concocted from things God did NOT say in Scripture

using words and phrases they don’t mean but

which the normal definitions of which are

anathama to God

and we are supposed to think

this makes perfect Biblical sense?

LOL
ROTFLOL
GTTM

14,153 posted on 05/07/2007 5:04:59 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)

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