[William Terrell]

You built your children's' bodies. That is observable, medical fact and not subject to conjecture. Because you don't know how you did it makes no difference to the fact it was done. You had to impregnate an egg by conscious and guided choice to engage the mechanism of body building.

You don't know how your medulla oblongata keeps your heart beating, either, but it does. God created the whole mechanism; we just use it. But we do use it according to our choices, whether in a Godly or unGodly manner.

Remember, God created the Earthly mode of making the vehicle of the soul. You folks seem to choke on the notion that He would have used His own created mechanism to make a material vehicle for His Son.

Mary likewise built Jesus' body so He could walk among us. A man is a body and a soul. The body dies and the soul is freed to its destination. The two are separate existences.

What did Elizabeth call Mary? What did Jesus call Mary?

Elizabeth called blessed because God selected her to build the body of Jesus. Jesus called her mother because she built His body and raised Him. And so. . .?

I call most of what the Catholic church teaches absurd. If that makes me a jerk, I'll have a T-shirt made.

Christ Jesus is the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father except by Him. Mary simply built His Earthly vehicle, and for such she rates praise that God chose her as one of the lineage of David. But Jesus is the point, with nothing beyond it.

Allow me to be a jerk again. You Catholics need to get out more. Read the Bible and think about what it says and the implications instead of swallowing what the magisterium says whole.

[Scotswife]

You ARE STILL arguing fact that are not in dispute!!!

A mother is a mother is a mother...

when she bears a child in her womb, she is a mother to that child.

Elizabeth called her “mother of my Lord”. Jesus called her mother. And yet you have a heart attack when catholics call her mother.

“Mary likewise built Jesus’ body so He could walk among us. A man is a body and a soul. The body dies and the soul is freed to its destination. The two are separate existences.”

And yet, even after death when that soul leaves the body...the identity of the MOTHER of that soul has not changed.
I have a daughter in heaven. I was her mother on earth - I am still her mother now. Why?
Because I bore her in my womb and gave birth to her.

Besides...Jesus’s body and soul are still united and exist in his glorified body.
Mary is his mother.
Why?
Because she was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and the Word was made flesh in her womb. She carried Him in her womb and gave birth to Him.
Mary is His mother.

“I call most of what the Catholic church teaches absurd. If that makes me a jerk, I’ll have a T-shirt made.”

You are a jerk because you are rude and you assume that those who don’t interpret scripture the same as you must not read scripture at all. You assume too much, and in your arrogance you are insulting.

“Allow me to be a jerk again. You Catholics need to get out more. Read the Bible and think about what it says and the implications instead of swallowing what the magisterium says whole”

Happy? Yes...very jerky of you. Again..arrogant and insulting.
I find jerks to be a waste of time so I won’t be bothering with you anymore.
Adios.

[MarkBsnr]

:: I call most of what the Catholic church teaches absurd. If that makes me a jerk, I’ll have a T-shirt made.

Christ Jesus is the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father except by Him. Mary simply built His Earthly vehicle, and for such she rates praise that God chose her as one of the lineage of David. But Jesus is the point, with nothing beyond it.

Allow me to be a jerk again. You Catholics need to get out more. Read the Bible and think about what it says and the implications instead of swallowing what the magisterium says whole. ::

I’d consider a T-shirt with a picture of handbasket labelled Pseudo Pope.

Earthly vehicle, huh? Was it gasoline or diesel? How fast could it do 0-60?