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To: papertyger; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
Catholics do not claim Mary's unique position BECAUSE Scripture doesn't explicitly deny it.

Sure they do. Don't you read your compatriots comments on these threads in regard to this?

Jesus said all He needed to say on the matter here.....

Luke 11:27 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!" 28But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

Jesus threw himself on exalting Mary like a bucket of cold water. He put that woman and her attempt to exalt Mary in her place. And what does the Catholic church do? The exact same thing as that woman. They didn't learn. How much plainer can Jesus make it than that, that Mary is not to be exalted?

Mary was an ordinary Jewish girl who had an extra-ordinary privilege and we're happy for her, but that does NOT in any way justify all the speculation about her being conceived without sin, perpetually virgin, bodily assumed not even being sure if she died first or not, *venerating* (worshiping) her, etc.

There's plenty of assumptions made about her that have no Scriptural basis that Catholics are required by their own church to believe under threat of eternal condemnation.

The Trinity, however, is clearly portrayed in Scripture, even if the writer's didn't use the RCC approved terminology.

76 posted on 10/28/2011 1:00:17 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom; papertyger
Catholics do not claim Mary's unique position BECAUSE Scripture doesn't explicitly deny it.

... This poster needs to read the posts from other RC's... There is no foundation for their belief about Mary... not one.. so they have had to appeal to silence

77 posted on 10/28/2011 1:31:31 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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