Posted on 02/05/2012 2:58:27 PM PST by marshmallow
As for your question, it's a "poisoning the well" false dichotomy. Christ saves through his Church. It's how he, not we, set things up. Why do you insist on dividing him from his work, as though were somehow at odds with one another?
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Isn’t it interesting that He didn’t say the RCC was the way.
“The key point will be what sort of PENANCE Pope Benedict XVI assigns Castro for a Papal Absolution of all sins.
If the penitent fails to complete the penance assigned by the priest, then the absolution is of no merit and is null and void.”
Nope.
APPEARS. To you and some others, many things appear to be the case. Things about which you know nothing.
I tell you this: if you really knew and understood, you'd hunger and thirst for the Blessed Sacrament to such an extent that you couldn't become a Catholic fast enough.
The Way International that was founded by Victor Paul Wierwille, who “wrongly divided” the Word to such an extent that he taught Jesus is not God. THAT Way International.
Some deny that Christ was indeed God and some elevate a woman to the extent they insist God is subjected to her. Both cults that need to be exposed as the apostates they are.
Case in point,Let's repeat a basic Bible lesson:
| 13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. |
Don't know of any like that, at least in the way you mean it. ;-)
I’m guessing that even though my name is in the body of your post, your response is to Bellflower.
I’m a Catholic.
Jak sie masz? :-)
I know you aren’t Polish - I peeked at your home page!
When therefore we read in the writings of Saint Bernard, Saint Bernardine, Saint Bonaventure, and others that all in heaven and on earth, even God himself, is subject to the Blessed Virgin, they mean that the authority which God was pleased to give her is so great that she seems to have the same power as God. Her prayers and requests are so powerful with him that he accepts them as commands in the sense that he never resists his dear mother’s prayer because it is always humble and conformed to his will.... St. Louis de Montfort, in Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, #27, 246.
And the wailing and gnashing suddenly stop, to be replaced with a stunned group "uhhhhhhh..."
:)
I was expected the long explanation of how they didn’t mean what they said and we don’t understand what the RCC teaches because the hidden inflection and nuances made it mean something different. Oy!
I’m Faaaaaaaaaaaaaar from being stunned, sweetie! Just got back.... :-)
With your tendency to see polytheism everywhere, I’d recommend you stay away from de Montfort and stay close to the Nicene Creed, but it’s likely the Church of Holy CB doesn’t believe the creed of orthodox Christianity.
Believing oneself is the Church makes any interpretation of Mariology pale in comparison. Perhaps you can sell your neighbors on your holiness, but not here.
I suppose we should have some sympathy. If they couldn’t attack the Church, they’d have no religion at all.
St. Louis meant exactly what he said, and that's how the Catholic Church sees it, because that's the way it actually is. She is our sweet, powerful, and unfailing intercessor.
And if you're a brother of Christ, she's your Mother, too. You have no idea how seriously God sees relationships. "Child of God" really means child of God, and "brother/sister of Christ" really means what it says. We have the same Heavenly Father, and the same Blessed Mother.
God is so much bigger than you Protestants portray Him. In fact, it stuns me as to how small you've made Him.
Even Satan knows the Nicene Creed is true. Not once does it mention that it’s a personal acceptance of Jesus as our only propitiation for sins and total trust in Him alone is what saves.
BTW Maybe you could answer this.
The Nicene Creed includes this. “We confess (I confess) one baptism for the remission of sins.” Does that mean that baptism actually remits our sins or does that mean that baptism is because of the remission of sins through Christ’s blood has already happened?
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