Posted on 01/11/2012 7:34:56 PM PST by RnMomof7
This is not a false doctrine. Have you read the book of Luke?
“Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.”
Now why would the Archangel address Mary in that way?
I read mine every day.
I respect, not worship Mary, because God himself chose her.
And, I don’t argue with God.
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Newman about Mary, Mother of God [Catholic Caucus]
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Mary silliness?
I don’t think so. She is the Mother of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity.
Better take those words back.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.
“Bother Lev” needs to find a Bible and read the Magnificat in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke.
Christians believe Jesus is God.
Christians believe Mary gave birth to Jesus.
Christians believe there is only one Jesus.
Christians believe Mary is the mother of Jesus.
Christians believe Jesus is God.
Christians believe Jesus is God.
Christians believe Mary is the Mother of God.
Christians believe Jesus is God.
Christians believe there is only one Jesus.
Christians believe Mary is the mother of Jesus.
Muslims don’t believe Jesus is God.
Muslims don’t believe Jesus is God.
Muslims don’t believe Mary is the Mother of God.
>> “The title Theotokos or “Mother of God” acknowledges that Mary gave birth to a PERSON, not a nature.” <<
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There’s a big problem for that particular blasphemy:
That “Person” was already in existence millenia before Mary was born, by his own testimony:
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
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did you read the article before you posted it?
Like was stated in the article. The Mary of the Bible is not the Mary worshiped by Catholics.
so you agree with Joseph Smith that the Church was apostate in 431ad?
You can substitute the word ‘pagans’ for ‘christians’ in the statement “Christians believe Mary is the Mother of God” to make it more factual.
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The Roman Catholic Blasphemy is not “the church.”
so Jesus was not human? its amazing, that attacks on the Church and the historical, biblical, orthodox Faith always leads to attacks on Jesus Christ Himself.
if Jesus wasnt human, we are all still dead in our sins and He didnt really suffer and shed His blood on the Cross.
unbelievable someone that claims to be a Christian could post such heresy.
Not unbelievable that someone who claims to be a Christian would misrepresent what someone else said though, sadly.
Cherry picking passages out an an article to misrepresent what was said is intellectually dishonest and disingenuous.
Here's the entire sentence.
The only thing Jesus got from Mary was a body. Every Human Being has received a sinful nature from their parents with one exception: Jesus was not human. He was divine God in a flesh body. This is what Mary gave birth to.
you keep pushing this “ Mary worshipped by Catholics “ untruth.
when challenged in the past for proof, none was forthcoming.
so again i will ask you, please name one Catholic that worships Mary.
just one will do.
Unlike modern Protestants, Luther did not shy away from using the term, Mother of God, and he was fully cognizant of its correct usage. He succinctly analyzes the Nestorian heresy, and concludes that Nestorius:
Insisted on the literal meaning of the words, God born of Mary, and interpreted born according to grammar or philosophy, as though it meant to obtain divine nature from the one who bore him, We too know very well that God did not derive his divinity from Mary; but it does not follow that it is therefore wrong to say that God was born of Mary, that God is Marys Son, and that Mary is Gods mother. [18]
Throughout his career, one finds Luther expressing not only the rich Christ- centered usage of Theotokos when discussing the incarnation or Christs Deity, but he also uses the term simply as a synonym for Mary, which was common in sixteenth century Western Christendom.[19] In a Table Talk entry from 1542, one finds Luther using the title as a mode of exclamation, O Mary, mother of God![20] This is not to suggest that Luther did not think of Mary as particularly special. To the contrary, Luther was to call her Mother of God, exalted above all mortals[21] when he considered she was given the great gift of being mother to the Messiah.
Luther though shifts the emphasis back to God: She does not desire herself to be esteemed; she magnifies God alone and gives all glory to Him. She leaves herself out and ascribes everything to God alone, from whom she received it.[22] For Mary to be exalted, was actually for her to magnify God alone, to count only Him great and lay claim to nothing.[23] As Heiko Oberman points out, when Luther uses the term Theotokos, There is indeed little chance that Mary can become the thing signified rather than the sign.[24] Mary, serving as the sign pointing to Christ, was to say: I am but the workshop in which He performs His work; I had nothing to do with the work itself. No one should praise me or give me the glory for becoming the Mother of God, but God alone and His work are to be honored and praised in me.[25]
He also compounds the term with blessed: most blessed Mother of God,[26] or Blessed Virgin, Mother of God.[27] Even in the usage of blessed though, Luther shifts the emphasis away from Mary and back to God. He explains that Mary thought herself blessed because God regarded her; that is, God turned His face toward her and gave grace and salvation, as he likewise did when He chose to give grace to Abel, rather than Cain. He explains, But for this one thing alone, that God regarded her, men will call her blessed. That is to give all the glory to God as completely as it can be done Not she is praised thereby, but Gods grace toward her.[28] Luther sees this regarding as Gods bestowal of grace in choosing His children unto salvation and sanctification: For where it comes to pass that God turns His face toward one to regard him, there is nothing but grace and salvation, and all gifts and works must follow. [29]
(http://tquid.sharpens.org/luther_mary1.htm#III
Take note of this: no one should put his trust or confidence in the Mother of God or in her merits, for such trust is worthy of God alone and is the lofty service due only to him. Rather praise and thank God through Mary and the grace given her. Laud and love her simply as the one who, without merit, obtained such blessings from God, sheerly out of his mercy, as she herself testifies in the Magnificat. (Martin Luther, Luthers Works, 43:10.)
“Nowhere in the Bible is Mary said to be the mother of God”
I quit reading there.
Call me a ‘Mary-Idol Worshiping Papist’ I don’t care.
But never have I found a love as pure as Mary has given those who call her blessed.
Please read the Bible. The first thing you may notice about Jesus Christ is the fact: HE did NOT walk around the Holy Lands handing out Bibles & saying, ‘Here read this Bible & argue about it.’
Jesus Christ established a Church. You can read many passages in the Bible about the Church that Jesus Christ built. There is a promise that the ‘Gates of Hell’ will never prevail against the Church established by Jesus Christ. I recommend you look for that Church. Out of that Church came the Bible.
Luke 1: 41-43 ‘When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me that the MOTHER of my Lord should come to me?’ In the Christian Church,> JESUS IS LORD.
Was that your reaction to the thread posted by the Catholics on the same topic?
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