That is as one that has been graced, as one of your Marian defenders states (unless he also is to be charged with being mariophobic in resorting to homosexual tactics) in my last post, "one who has been graced" or "woman who has been graced" (since the gender is female). It doesn't literally mean "full of grace," though that is defensible as a free translation.
Note i did not reject that she was full of grace (as one filled with the Spirit) but that the text is simply saying she is graced.
LOL.
Your argument weak here: use sarcasm.
The word to look for is "χαρις", "grace" -- not first person present "I grace". There is nothing faithful here. "χαρις" means grace; "favor" is a kitchen term those mariophobic bastards would not use in any other theological context
Rather, χάρις as "favor" is the very word even the DRB uses in
Acts 2:47 "Praising God and having favour with all the people."
Act 7:10 And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the
Act 25:3 Requesting favour against him
Among other words such as thankworthy. To have grace is to find favor.
Your own opinions are unconvincing, and as you evidence you are bound to defend Rome regardless of what Catholic or other scholarship states if contrary to the way you see her, then i see little sense trying to convince you otherwise, and as Catholic translations use "favored" then see your own own elitist house. Maybe you can bring back the Inquisition with all its means o deal with all the mariophobia that hinders the mariolatry.
does not answer the question of why these are canonical as regards any difference btwn Divine inspiration of Scripture and Holy Spirit inspired, "dictated" statements by doctors and prelates of the church.
In the inspiration part there is no difference.
I see. So according to annalex some of what doctors and prelates teach on faith and morals is just as inspired as Scripture and just as fully. For as you said , "when a doctor of the Church speaks on matters of faith and morals, his words are inspired by God."
Are you saying statements by doctors and prelates of the church also are the wholly inspired revelation of God
No, there is no such claim. When a theological work reflects the mind of the Church it is inspired by the holy Ghost in that part. There is not claim that the entire theological output of a doctor of a church (for example) is equally inspired.
I was not referring to the entire theological output, but teaching on faith and morals. As when a doctor of the Church speaks on matters of faith and morals, then his words are inspired by God, and there is "no difference" a re inspiration, then infallible statements by doctors and prelates of the church are the wholly inspired revelation of God, who is the principal author of it.
Are all infallible teachings inspired of God, if not wholly?
If a teaching is wholly infallible obviously it is wholly inspired by God.
Or so you say. The reason all this clarification was asked after you initially express that when a doctor or prelate of the Church speaks on matters of faith and morals, then his words are inspired by God just like and as much as Scripture, and which is what i see you affirming, is because while you provide your opinion, more weightier and substantiated sources say otherwise.
The venerable Catholic Encyclopedia states,
Inspiration signifies a special positive Divine influence and assistance by reason of which the human agent is not merely preserved from liability to error but is so guided and controlled that what he says or writes is truly the word of God, that God Himself is the principal author of the inspired utterance; but infallibility merely implies exemption from liability to error. God is not the author of a merely infallible, as He is of an inspired, utterance; the former remains a merely human document. - Infallibility (emp. mine) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm
This issue is addressed over at the scholarly Called to Communion site by RC Andrew Preslar, who states (with no dissent from his brethren) :
The question at hand is whether or not the Catholic Churchs claim to infallibility is significantly distinct from a claim to inspiration. If not, then it seems that the Church effectively equates the authority of infallibly taught (though putatively non-inspired) ecclesial dogmas with the authority of Sacred Scripture (which is inspired as well as infallible)...Here is my very fallible attempt to explain what those differences are:
1. All inspired teaching is infallible, but not all infallible teaching is inspired.
2. Divine inspiration is an act of God whereby a human being is so moved by the Holy Spirit that the words which he utters or writes are (in a mystery) the very words of God. The work of God, in this case, pertains directly to the words spoken or written by inspiration.
3. Ecclesial infallibility is a gift of God, such that, when the whole Church expresses her mind, in an ordinary or extraordinary way, on matters of faith and morals, she is protected from error by the Holy Spirit. The Churchs infallible teachings are not the very words of God.
4. In the case of inspiration, the Spirit is directing someone to speak or write something, i.e., Gods word. In the case of ecclesial infallibility, the Spirit is preventing someone from saying or writing something, i.e., error. http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2009/07/infallibility-and-inspiration/[ more at page].
RC Dr Taylor Marshall likewise affirms,
Infallibility is not on par with divinely inspired Scripture...The gift of infallibility does not entail that the message spoken is divine revelation (the Word of God). God could technically give a mathematician the gift of infallibility with regard to his doctoral dissertation about a geometric proof. There would be no error in the dissertation, yet the dissertation would not be the Word of God simply because the brilliant treatise was infallible and contained no error. - http://taylormarshall.com/2009/06/does-infallibility-entail-divine.html
Thus according to the CE and fellow brethren, infallible statements by doctors and prelates of the church are not the wholly inspired revelation of God, and is not the author of it in the sense of His is of Scripture.
In addition to infallibility not being the same as Divine inspiration (though the latter means the former), your statement that when a doctor of the Church speaks on matters of faith and morals, his words are inspired by God," which would include individual writings by many non-bishops, goes beyond the restriction of infallibility i have seen, which, outside the pope speaking ex cathedra, restricts it to when
"bishops in communion among themselves and with the successor of Peter, and authentically teaching matters of faith and morals, they are in agreement on one position as definitively to be held." - LUMEN GENTIUM 25; http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html
And
Practically speaking, at the present day, and for many centuries in the past, only the decisions of ecumenical councils and the ex cathedra teaching of the pope have been treated as strictly definitive in the canonical sense, and the function of the magisterium ordinarium has been concerned with the effective promulgation and maintenance of what has been formally defined by the magisterium solemne or may be legitimately deduced from its definitions. - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm
I gave you two examples, of Aquinas and Origen, -- did you read them or do you just enjoy repeating the same question four times hoping for a different answer?
You did no such thing. I asked for examples of statements, and all you gave was Origen is extremely important as one who was so instrumental in sorting out the issues of canonicity of the New Testament books; but at the same time he was never glorified as saint and taught something that was possibly touched with universalist heresy. Aquinas, albeit from scholastic period, is held in very high regard due to the encyclopedic nature of his insights, even though some of his opinions are not shared by the Church Catholic."
You thus fail to provide even one example of an infallible writing by a doctor or prelate, (and popes speaking from the chair on F+M, or conciliar bishops doing so in union with the former are a given).
And as there is no infallible list of all infallible statements, even as to whether all encyclicals are infallible, then your examples of docs and clerics writing infallibly would need to be somehow official substantiated as being infallible. How many infallible statements would you even approx. say there are?
You are certainly not to engage in objective examination of evidences [in order to ascertain the veracity of RC official teaching, while implicit assent is what we see encouraged.]
Who said that? It is commendable to examine the Catholic Faith; it is in fact an obligation to at least make an effort.
Then you must not have examined the statements given, while you truncated my statement and simply responded to it as if it was simply saying you are not to examine the Catholic faith, which again avoids what was said. -
"κεχαριτωμενη", however is different than "πληρης χαριτως" or something, that would call for the simpler translation. It is used just one other time in the Holy Scripture:
Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a justified [κεχαριτωμενω] man (Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 18:17).
The context here is the state of final justification, "the reward of God [that] continueth for ever" (Ibid. 18:22), -- that is exactly the state of final, complete blessedness that Mary received with the Incarnation.
I agree that simply "graced" is technically possible but it removes the poetic alliteration present in the Lucan text.
χάρις as "favor" is the very word even the DRB uses in [several places in Acts]
But all your examples are when the context is not divine grace, but indeed human favor: "favour with all the people", "favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao", "favour against him" even. Search in St. Paul, -- every time he teaches about grace as a theological concept he uses "χάρις", of course, with proper inflections.
some of what doctors and prelates teach on faith and morals is just as inspired as Scripture and just as fully [...] infallible statements by doctors and prelates of the church are the wholly inspired revelation of God
Of course: we don't have two Holy Spirits, one for the doctors and prelates who wrote the New Testament and another for the rest.
Infallibility is not on par with divinely inspired Scripture.
Did I say it was? I said that the nature of inspiration is the same today as in 1 c. Infallibility is a smaller notion indeed: it is merely absence of error.
How many infallible statements would you even approx. say there are?
The entire teaching of the Holy Church, as expressed for example in the Catechism of the Church is infallible. Inspired, -- we don't really know as it is a stronger claim. Here is a good example: Leo XIII's Prayer to St. Michael. The Rosary prayers, for sure. Most of the insights in the Summa. On Incarnation of St. Athanasius. Often reading the fathers of the Church you see the presence of the Holy Spirit in them, certain super human quality.