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To: Kolokotronis; xzins; kosta50; wagglebee; bornacatholic; annalex; jo kus
I suspect that she would tell us to worship her Son, not merely venerate him.

I agree completely. I can't imagine anyone on the thread would want to do anything, but worship our Saviour Jesus Christ.

The non-acceptance of this dogma in no way diminishes our love and veneration of the All-holy Mother of God."

As a Baptist, and I suspect my Protestant brother and sisters would agree, I don't disagree with this except for the All-holy. The veneration in some sects sure looks like it has changed into cult worship though.

918 posted on 12/09/2006 8:38:42 AM PST by wmfights (Romans 8:37-39)
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"The veneration in some sects sure looks like it has changed into cult worship though."

I agree, though I must say I have never seen this in Orthodoxy. I am very concerned when I hear our Latin brethren, at least some of them, refer to Panagia (by the way, that means The All Holy One) as the "Co Redemptrix". While I think I know what is meant by that when used by recognized Latin theologians and its likely OK, its use by otherwise theologically uneducated persons, given the mindset created by the Latin Church with dogmas like the Immaculate Conception which appear, even to theologically educated non-Latin Christians, as an elevation of the Theotokos to an ontological level above and beyond humanity, lays the foundation for a grave danger of heresy, of the creation of a "Goddess".


920 posted on 12/09/2006 8:49:20 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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