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.
Wow 2365 and counting. This thread is the FR version of the movie “The Notebook.” :)
Off topic again.......
Now that's just funny considering the amount of unsupported doctrine the Catholic church teaches.
Nobody will answer it.
They can’t.
Truth is truth and if it changes, it either wasn’t truth before or it isn’t now.
If it wasn’t truth before, then they followed almost 2,000 years of false teachings.
If it isn’t truth now, they are following false teachings now.
Then they have to decide which it is. And on what basis do they do that? Casting lots like picking Matthias? Majority vote?
Nailed to the wall?? :-0
And Satan says “just use a different word and even if the actions are the same they will never know”.
It's the Catholic way.
“But you do see the issue of ‘appearance’ even in your jest.”
No, I don’t. That was the point. It is not about “appearance”. It is about Protestant ignorance. As I have said before, when a Protestant is open to learning the truth he or she usually gets over their ignorance even though the “appearance” doesn’t. Protestant ignorance can be fixed. A misunderstanding over appearance doesn’t mean the appearance needs to be fixed. It means the ignorance needs to be.
“So, we non-Catholics (don’t the Orthodox claim to be ‘Catholic’?”
Are they? First, you say it is about appearance. Now you say it is about what someone claims. Truth then - the actual truth - seems to have no role to play in your post. It’s all just “appearances” and “claims”.
“....in any case, we’re not all out of protestant churches...some of us came about after the reformation.”
If you believe in Protestant doctrines, you’re a Protestant. It doesn’t matter whether your sect was founded in 1520 or 1920 or last week. It’s Protestant if it is based on Protestant doctrines.
“My own, some 200 years later, and then again 200 years after that.)”
Johnny-come-lately Protestants are still Protestants. Truth is still truth.
“Did he die with a hammer in his hands?”
No, he just died in sanctity. You should be so fortunate.
“Otherwise, so what?”
Otherwise, he is still right even if it might bother you.
“So, we non-Catholics are from a different ‘culture’, and should be granted the kindness of proper translation into our language.”
No. This is Christianity. Learn Christian culture. The problem is not our language. The problem is that your sectarian ghetto has kept kept you ignorant of it.
Nope. Right on topic.
“Now that’s just funny considering the amount of unsupported doctrine the Catholic church teaches.”
You say it is unsupported. Protestant anti-Catholic lies are worse than unsupported.
“Is that official RCC doctrine? Or your opinion only.”
Is it any less true either way?
“Did you just subtly place a curse on me?”
Do you think being fortunate enough to die in sanctity is a curse? If you’re fortunate enough to meet Christ one day, ask Him about that.
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