Posted on 03/14/2010 12:14:46 PM PDT by NYer
Your father was right.
Your proper theological education lies between the words "In the beginning" and "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen" Coupled with a good bible-believing, gospel preaching church, denomination unimportant.
Religion is the tool of the enemy.
Hope you are feeling better friend, I prayed to God for his grace for you !
Please don’t call names.
You said God had a Mother. I said God does not. You agree. I’m not the idiot here.
I salute the authentic Mary.
The caricature concocted in hell is quite something else.
I don’t know of any Protty ‘going after’ the authentic Mary, at all.
I’ve not considered you to be spiritually dead. We all may have some blind spots here and there but I’d never characterize you as spiritually dead.
How would my hostility to satan’s corrupting the image and personage of the authentic Mary with a counterfeit caricature
cause anyone in their right mind to consider me spiritually dead in any respect?
You don't have to struggle, my friend! That's really what I want to say here.
Just out of curiosity, have you really read papal encyclicals?
I was gonna let it go, but I can't. What proof is in the prophecies of Fatima?
I was gonna let it go, but I can't. What proof is in the prophecies of Fatima?
I know. Me too. Bated breath, etc.
Perhaps a break from this thread would be wise.
I am not convinced that
JESUS THE CHRIST
HAS
A MOTHER per se currently.
He HAD a mother as an earthly human being.
That period is past.
Jesus The Christ existed before Mary was more than an awareness in some conceptualized something in God’s mind or knowing before the foundation of the world like all the rest of us.
Jesus was God long before Adam, much less Mary existed in human form.
In that sense, Mary was NOT his ‘originating’ mother in any way shape or form.
She ‘merely’ birthed His human form for His human form’s 33 years on this earth.
Job done.
Fini.
One can fantasize until the cows come home about some super miraculous super God-like relationship with SUPER MARY for all eternity.
However, such is NOT Biblical.
In FACT, Scripture records Christ’s indicating quite starkly that the typical affection and relationship between Him
AND ALL HIS BLOOD RELATIVES—was SUPERCEDED BY, encompassed by, subsumed in THOSE WHO DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER.
Roman Catholics et al love to slippery step by that passage. However, it is there FOR A PURPOSE. And that purpose is clearly NOT to assign to Mary nor His blood brothers and sisters
THE LEAST BIT OF A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
That’s plain Scripture.
The Vatican edifice spends a LOT of time, money ink and wood pulp disagreeing with the wording, the context and the import of that passage.
To the dreadful misdirection of millions of folks in the pews.
Bette, none on this side go after Mary...What I go after is those religionists that falsely claim Mary is the Mother of God...
Jesus was very careful to make it very clear that no one, including his mother could not and would not be elevated above a sinner needing grace to be saved...
INDEED.
Well said.
“In the beginning was the Word...”
INDEED.
Betty, do you fear for my salvation because I do NOT believe that the apparition if Fatima was Mary?
Gotta go for now
THANKS for your kind words and reply.
Baited breath... Been ice fishin' then?
; )
I don’t mind if you call me Bette, just don’t call me Shirley...
LOL! Or late to dinner?
I wish :-)
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