Nuts and Bolts - By Tim Staples: Mary Worshippers Need Not Apply

Envoy ^ | Tim Staples

[GonzoII]

The Scenario:

Ever have one of those days when you’re feeling full of energy and vigor? I mean, you’re feeling just obnoxiously happy? Well, this is one of those days.

Driving home from work, you switch on the radio to see what’s happening, and you tune in to a local Protestant radio station just in time to hear a preacher speaking against various Catholic doctrines concerning Mary. The show is called Pastor Bob’s Bible Hour. Pastor Bob proclaims: “Jesus knew Catholics would come along and begin to worship His mother and call her perpetual virgin and absurd things like that. But the Bible says: ‘Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And are not His brethren James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all of His sisters with us?’ (Matt. 13:55-56a). And isn’t it sad, my brothers and sisters?”

Pastor Bob goes on to say: “Jesus dealt with these Mary worshippers in His day. In Luke 11:27-28, the Bible says, ‘A woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts that You sucked!” But He said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”’”

On a normal day you would probably just listen, take a few mental notes and drive on. But not this time. You’re feeling a little bit too saucy. You take the first exit you see and head for a phone. This is just one more reason why you need to buy that cell phone you’ve been talking about getting.

Step One:

[Petronski]

Whose chin was more angular, Philip or Thaddeus?

[Petronski]

Peter was not “rock,” but hard stone or pebble.

That is the common protestant maltranslation used to deprecate the office of the Vicar of Christ.

Needless to say, your Greek needs work.

[the_conscience]

“No wonder this country is hogtied with insane regulations and ruthless tyrants.”

That’s because Romanism and Liberalism both deny that what we receive from God is direct but must come through an human intermediary.

Romanism denies that God speaks to us directly through his Word and that it must be reinterpreted through the Roman authority and Liberalism denies we receive our rights directly from God and those rights must be allocated by the governing elite.

[Petronski]

My church was founded on the day that Jesus Christ conquered death, almost 400 years before the Roman Catholic church came along.

By that math, Jesus Christ rose from the dead in the 4th century BC.

Christ founded the Catholic Church circa AD 33.

[Petronski]

Thank God Almighty you’re not describing the Catholic Church.

[Petronski]

Whose tunic was longer, James or James?

[the_conscience]

Amen to that. Christ will have nothing to do with those who claim his glory.

[mgist]

"My church was founded on the day that Jesus Christ conquered death, almost 400 years before the Roman Catholic church came along."

Wow, what is name of that amazing church? I think historians have been negligent in sharing what would be such an amazing part of human history.

[Petronski]

This does not describe the Catholic Church:

Romanism denies that God speaks to us directly through his Word and that it must be reinterpreted through the Roman authority

And I'm glad to have your Amen of agreement that you were not describing the Catholic Church.

[Petronski]

In his Church, Christ rose from the dead four hundred years before He came to earth.

That's just astounding.

[the_conscience]

I agree it does not describe the Catholic Church. Unfortunately for the papists it does describe them.

[Petronski]

Christ will have nothing to do with those who claim his glory.

Jean Cauvin is in for a world of hurt.

[editor-surveyor]

"Wow, what is name of that amazing church?"

The Body of Christ!

[Petronski]

Unfortunately for the papists it does describe them.

As long as the Catholic Church is not implicated, I frankly don't care what claim you make.

[Petronski]

So the Body of Christ was founded in 400 BC?

[the_conscience]

As long as the Catholic Church is not implicated, I frankly don't care what claim you make.

For those in the Invisible Universal Church, those united to Christ through the benefits he allocates according to his good pleasure, how could they be implicated? Could Christ deny himself?

[1000 silverlings]

Spiritual Israel goes way back to the patriarchs

Acts 7

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

[Marysecretary]

I agree. The RC’s depend on the magasterium to interpret for them.

[1000 silverlings]

Magi Sterium

[Petronski]

The book’s contents were deemed to be in agreement with Catholic doctrine by the Magisterium of the Church in the person of a cardinal bishop.

You too are ill-informed about the meaning of the imprimatur.

They were deemed to not be in contradiction.

Ergo, what is in the book is in complete agreement with Catholic theology.

Uh, no.

Sorry.