Posted on 09/07/2013 5:48:38 AM PDT by markomalley
The CCC states this about Mary.....
From the Catechism of the Catholic church....
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p6.htm
969 This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.510
Which is blasphemy, giving her titles and thereby assigning her characteristics of God Himself.
Names of God from the Bible. Compare them to the names given to Mary.
Jesus
Advocate - 1 John 2:1
Mediator - 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 12:24
Holy Spirit
Helper - John 14:16
This is worship of Mary if ever there was.....Attributing to her the attributes of God is idolatry.
John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
John 2:3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.
Acts 1:14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Scripture is clear in calling her *mother of Jesus* not *mother of God*.
You said: “The Pope is addressing those who claim the title of Christian but live without Christ. Anyone who is not filled with anti-Catholic prejudice would understand that he is condemning this.”
And in these weekly addresses the Pope is speaking not just to Catholics, but to all Christians, and/or profess to follow Christ, whether or not that person meets our individual and personal definition of being a Christian. Only Jesus knows the answer to that, not us.
oooh! A picture of a graven image. God ain’t gonna like that.
When we see error, it is our duty to point it out. Whoa!! Is that a beam in your eye? That must hurt.
And then there are some who say that if you read Paul’s letters (& the Book of Acts) and follow them, you are not a Christian. This is because “Saul (aka Paul) persecuted Christ and early Christians and wrote those letters only to corrupt the teachings of Jesus. I don’t now if this group has a name, or if I just found a couple of isolated individuals in a religious chat room more than a decade ago. I guess they could be called “Four Gospels Only Christians + Revelation.”
Your post “He is the cornerstone the builders (that’s past and present day church leaders) rejected.” The gospel is stating that it was the Jewish leadership of the day that rejected Jesus as the cornerstone.
I apologize for not noting the “tag” you have selected to use after your name earlier.
true dat. But He and His teachings are still being rejected today.
Just because the Jews rejected Him as the cornerstone, doesn’t mean He isn’t.
HE is still the rock on which the church, His body, is built.
Jesus Christ is both human and Divine. As the first fruits, He still has a body, but now it is a resurrected body.
Recall after the resurrection, he asked for a bit of fish/meat to consume.
You can't see the one, true church...
Yeah, and it's coming from all the anti-Prots, the Prot haters.....
See, two can play that game.....
HE is still the rock on which the church, His body, is built.,p>
Amen.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Rom 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
I'll stick with God's theology instead of yours...
I think we all realize that. Its that he felt there was that great a problem that had to be addressed. In a truly Spirit filled assembly of believers I cant imagine that thought ever crossing the mind of either the leadership or the lay. Jesus is not just the center point of our salvation. He is our only salvation and our only hope.
Absolutely...They demand that Mary be given the attributes of a Deity...
Its stunning that one even need to make that statement. That fact that the leader of the worlds largest religion makes a statement like Christians without Jesus is telling.
Amen!
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