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Is Prayer/Veneration/Worship to Mary Biblical?
self | 12-14-14 | ealgeone

Posted on 12/14/2014 11:57:21 AM PST by ealgeone

The reason for this article is to determine if the worship/veneration given to Mary by the catholic church is justified from a Biblical perspective. This will be evaluated using the Biblical standard and not man’s standard.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Charismatic Christian; Evangelical Christian; Theology
KEYWORDS: bible; blessedvirginmary; catholic; mary; mystery; mysterybabylon; prayer; rcinventions; vanities; vanity; worship
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To: CynicalBear
The bread and wine are spiritually symbolic of the flesh and blood of Christ.

see what trouble personal interpretation can cause???

Christ said "THIS IS MY BODY" when referring to the bread.

2,301 posted on 12/19/2014 9:26:54 PM PST by terycarl ( common sense prevails over all)
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To: terycarl; metmom
>>and it should end with amen....not; for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.....I can't find that in any Bible I've ever read....even the KJV<<

O really?

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. KJV

Found in these versions.

The original Greek as found at biblehub
New American Standard Bible
King James Bible
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
King James 2000 Bible
American King James Version
Webster's Bible Translation
World English Bible
Young's Literal Translation

2,302 posted on 12/19/2014 9:27:24 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: vladimir998; ealgeone; annalex

If Scripture is not the sole source for what the apostles taught would you please show where the apostles taught the assumption of Mary. Paul did say that if anyone taught a different gospel than they did we were to consider them accursed.


2,303 posted on 12/19/2014 9:31:28 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear
The original Greek as found at biblehub New American Standard Bible King James Bible Holman Christian Standard Bible Aramaic Bible in Plain English King James 2000 Bible American King James Version Webster's Bible Translation World English Bible Young's Literal Translation

man oh man....the protestants added that doxology to all those Bibles....no wonder they all say what you want them to say....edit here, add there, pretty soon you have a book that meets all your needs.

2,304 posted on 12/19/2014 9:34:27 PM PST by terycarl ( common sense prevails over all)
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To: terycarl
>>Christ said "THIS IS MY BODY" when referring to the bread.<<

So He was eating His own body and drinking His own blood?

2,305 posted on 12/19/2014 9:36:27 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: terycarl

Added to the original Greek? Seriously?


2,306 posted on 12/19/2014 9:37:53 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: terycarl; metmom
You said this.

>>and it should end with amen....not; for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.....I can't find that in any Bible I've ever read....even the KJV<<

So are you saying they added it after you read it? Is that what you are saying? After all, you did say you didn't find it "even in the KJV". I would hate to think ..............nah. Double speak perhaps?

2,307 posted on 12/19/2014 9:43:32 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: terycarl

I was reading about The Lord’s Prayer recently. One of the statements that really surprised me was that one of the most popular versions for Catholics was one that ended with The Doxolgy. I had never even heard that said. So, yes, they do say that and for it to be one of the top versions, it has to be said by a lot of Catholics. You may not say it but others do.


2,308 posted on 12/19/2014 10:52:33 PM PST by MamaB
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To: CynicalBear

“If Scripture is not the sole source for what the apostles taught would you please show where the apostles taught the assumption of Mary.”

Your premise is wrong. Look at your mistake: “If Scripture is not the sole source for what the apostles taught...” First, what “If”? Logically it is impossible that all that the Apostles taught is in the NT. It’s simply not possible. Second, just because something was handed down (tradition) doesn’t mean an easy to see source dating all the way back to the Apostles now exists - after all that would be a written source of some kind would it not? So, what we do have, are sources that show the idea of the Assumption was passed down from the generation to generation and could only have been done so if it was believed widely in the Church.

“Paul did say that if anyone taught a different gospel than they did we were to consider them accursed.”

Amazing. So, one day after a couple of Protestant anti-Catholics tell me it’s a-okay for Protestants to not agree on “disputable” items (using sola scriptura) you’re now claiming the Assumption represents a “different gospel” and people who believe it are accursed? But whenever else Protestant anti-Catholics discuss the Assumption they usually go out of their way to point out that Catholics must believe in it to be in union with the Church (or else their salvation is threatened?). Once again we see Protestant anti-Catholics just make it up as they go along. As long as they’re on the opposite side of the Catholic Church apparently they’re happy. The Protestant anti-Catholic hypocrisy just never ends.


2,309 posted on 12/19/2014 11:05:15 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: MamaB

“I was reading about The Lord’s Prayer recently. One of the statements that really surprised me was that one of the most popular versions for Catholics was one that ended with The Doxolgy.”

Do you have a link to that? Since Catholics don’t say the final doxology with the Lord’s Prayer it seems unlikely it would be “one of the most popular versions for Catholics”.

“I had never even heard that said. So, yes, they do say that and for it to be one of the top versions, it has to be said by a lot of Catholics. You may not say it but others do.”

No, it’s not said by a “lot of Catholics”. Having traveled extensively, and having been with Catholics from around the world, speaking numerous languages, I doubt that it could be. I have never once seen it appear that way in a Catholic prayer book or heard it said that way by a Catholic.


2,310 posted on 12/19/2014 11:24:28 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: terycarl
....but the Catholic church has been assigned, by Christ to Interpret it.

Once again; your statement doesn't align with Scripture:


NIV Romans 15:3-4
3. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
4. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
 
 
NIV 1 Corinthians 4:6
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.
 
 
NIV 2 Corinthians 1:13-14
13. For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
14. as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.
 
 

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2,311 posted on 12/20/2014 4:08:59 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: terycarl
The wording of a prayer is irrelevant, if you ask me to pray for your sick daughter, you have done to me exactly what we ask Mary to do.

Except that MARY IS DEAD, son!

2,312 posted on 12/20/2014 4:10:06 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: JPX2011; terycarl
I've been Catholic for 76 years and I have NEVER heard of that....

You've been a FREEPER since '98 and just now learned how to ping more than one person; so there IS still hope for you!

2,313 posted on 12/20/2014 4:12:25 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: terycarl
Personal opinions, feelings, opinions garnered through whatever means are not "Information"...

Still ignoring the words of your church fathers; eh?

Shall I make it SIX??

2,314 posted on 12/20/2014 4:13:22 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom

Elsie, where are you?


2,315 posted on 12/20/2014 4:18:46 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
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2,316 posted on 12/20/2014 4:32:18 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
Mother of God NOT BEING FOUND IN THE BIBLE is a biblical fact.
2,317 posted on 12/20/2014 4:33:14 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
However, I like "mother of God" above all

Yeah; I've kinda figgered dat out!

2,318 posted on 12/20/2014 4:34:05 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CynicalBear

There is no place in the English bible where the word is used, so why do you care what it used to mean in Latin? It doesn’t mean that in English. It means “highly respected”. That is what we hold people to. The meaning of a word for us if that is the word they are using.


2,319 posted on 12/20/2014 5:05:29 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: terycarl

Jesus also said He was bread.


2,320 posted on 12/20/2014 5:12:10 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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