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To: CynicalBear

Your responses only highlight your ignorance of both scripture and what the Church teaches.

Jesus is the descendant and heir of King David. Mary is the mother of the King. The office of Queen Mother is all over the place in the Old Testament.

Everything the Church teaches about Mary isn’t about Mary but rather about Jesus and God’s plan for our salvation and sanctification.

A good analogy the Church uses is Jesus is like the sun and Mary is like the moon. Mary doesn’t generate any light on her own but only reflects (magnifies) the light of Christ.

Keep studying the Bible and the Holy Spirit will eventually open your eyes to the truth that Jesus established an authoritative Church on His apostles.

God bless you. I will pray for you tonight.


40 posted on 06/13/2012 9:35:23 PM PDT by CatholicTim
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To: CatholicTim

Jimmy Swaggart - Catholics are not Christians. They belong to a cult and nothing they do is biblical.

Caller - Does that mean that for the first 1,500 years after Christ, until the days of the Reformation, that all those people that you say were not Christian, went to hell?

Jimmy Swaggart - Francis, I think we’ve lost the telephone connection, can you go to the next caller.


42 posted on 06/13/2012 9:51:55 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (creep.)
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To: CatholicTim
>>Jesus is the descendant and heir of King David. Mary is the mother of the King. The office of Queen Mother is all over the place in the Old Testament.<<

Show one time that the mother of the king was the queen if she hadn’t been queen prior to his birth. The mother of the king is queen only by virtue of having been the wife of the king who was the father of the current king. The RCC teachings about Mary are the result of injecting meaning into scripture.

>>Everything the Church teaches about Mary isn’t about Mary but rather about Jesus and God’s plan for our salvation and sanctification.<<

Let’s take the prayer of Prayer of Pope Pius XII to see what Catholics teach and what scripture says.
[http://catholicism.about.com/od/tothevirginmary/qt/Honor_Immacula.htm]

I’ll use just the bolded excerpts from the prayer.

we cast ourselves into your arms

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. (When did we need to replace God with Mary?)

confident of finding in your most loving heart appeasement of our ardent desires, and a safe harbor from the tempests which beset us on every side.

Hebrews 4:15-16 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (once again Catholics replacing Christ with Mary)

O crystal fountain of faith

Romans 12:3 according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. or "a measure of faith." (but Mary is the “fountain of faith” for Catholics)

Lily of all holiness

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. (for Catholics however, “all holiness” is given to Mary)

Conqueress of evil and death

Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (but Catholics claim it was Mary who conquered death)

Convert the wicked

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; (Catholics have even replaced the Holy Spirit with Mary)

57 posted on 06/14/2012 5:30:03 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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