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To: marshmallow; bkaycee; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
That God might send his Mother to warn us of the consequences of our actions and invite us to repent and turn back to Him, is unthinkable. For that is what all Church approved apparitions essentially say; "repent and come back to my Son". What's the problem with that?

It's already in the Bible. All anyone has to do is read it.

Why do Catholics need apparitions to tell them what has been in the Bible for 2,000 years? Isn't the Bible good enough? Don't they believe it? Does it really take an apparition to convince them of what God and Jesus have plainly said many times in Scripture?

241 posted on 04/12/2011 7:21:54 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
It's already in the Bible. All anyone has to do is read it.

Of course it is. But people are not reading it. That's the point. Look out the window. See that mayhem and chaos? It's the world going to hell.

That's what the Blessed Mother is saying; turn back to God.

Why do Catholics need apparitions to tell them what has been in the Bible for 2,000 years? Isn't the Bible good enough? Don't they believe it? Does it really take an apparition to convince them of what God and Jesus have plainly said many times in Scripture?

And the Jews of old had the law but did that stop them wandering all over creation and getting into strife and rebeling? Of course not.

So what happened?

God sent prophets to warn the Jews and call them to back to repentance.

That's still happening.

God is still sending messengers, to call us back to repentance. One of them is the Mother of Jesus.

Furthermore, if you read the words of the Blessed Mother you'll see that they are not addressed only to Catholics. She is the Mother of all men (given to us under the cross....."son behold your mother...") and they are addressed to all mankind.

270 posted on 04/12/2011 8:26:46 PM PDT by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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To: metmom

1 Corinthians 1:20-24 (King James Version)

20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.


271 posted on 04/12/2011 8:30:33 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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