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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Judith Anne
Mary had NOTHING to do with Christ’s divinity.

Obviously you either do not bother to read or don't understand what you read or you wouldn't even be able to think that anyone is claiming that Mary was the source of Jesus's divine nature. The Catholic Church doesn't teach this. I'll say it again, and this is exactly what the Catholic Church teaches (though I'm not Catholic): from the moment of conception, that "holy thing" in Mary's womb was God incarnate (this is not the same thing as a "vessel" containing the substance of divinity, as though Jesus Christ was a mason jar (Jesus) containing a mess of divine golden peaches (the Christ), Mary being "merely" the bottle manufacturing and canning plant), and the same throughout gestation, birth, nursing, and throughout childhood. Mary was the mother of the Lord God of Israel in as fully a way as anyone could be anyone's mother.
1,422 posted on 12/21/2010 5:32:49 AM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan
Excellent!

Although not a Catholic, you explain Catholic truth clearly and beautifully.
1,445 posted on 12/21/2010 9:28:12 AM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: aruanan; metmom; Quix; presently no screen name; 1000 silverlings; blue-duncan; ...
Obviously you either do not bother to read or don't understand what you read or you wouldn't even be able to think that anyone is claiming that Mary was the source of Jesus's divine nature.

By using the term" "Mother of God" for Mary, a created being, the RCC gives the false impression that Mary preceded Christ which is insanity because the Triune God has no beginning and no ending.

"Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?" -- 1 Corinthians 1:13

The RCC would make it appear that Mary suffered and died for us by calling her a "mediator" which is a singular office held by Christ alone.

That Rome has now taken this blasphemy and made it even more intolerable by calling Mary a "co-redeemer" simply reveals the depth of depravity to which this church has sunk.

this is exactly what the Catholic Church teaches (though I'm not Catholic):

Well, now, you could have fooled me.

Were you ever Roman Catholic? What church do you belong to?

1,457 posted on 12/21/2010 10:38:40 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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