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 mans standard.
Context please.
Some folks think in Excel and others think in “fuzzy logic” and, of course, some just don’t think at all! ....they regurgitate what Rome tells them.
Be honest now, if Metmom had advanced degrees in Theology and ancient Greek and Hebrew languages, would it make any difference to you if she disputed something Roman Catholicism teaches?
You already showed your hand when you claimed:
Among other equally bigoted ad hominem attacks towards non-Catholic Freepers when they disagreed with RC doctrines. So, what is your motivation for asking anyone for their scholastic credentials when you have already revealed it won't make a bit of difference?
They really cannot see ......unfortunately....the deeper they are engulfed by catholicism rather than Christianity the blinder they become to their own foolish thinking.....it’s simply the progression of indoctrination often beginning in childhood. In many cases only God’s Spirit can break through the fog of deception.....thank God they cannot go so deep that HE is not deeper still!
Being a Christian is easier....all you need is the Word.
You are correct sir. I was a catholic myself, till I was 21. I was in the USAF at the time, when some guys with the Navigators got to me, and told me the truth. I was mostly influenced by the fact that I did not feel I could ever live up to the Catholic plan of salvation. I could not do it, and that is why I now have faith in the REAL Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of the cults, and I think there are many false Christs out there.
Praise God bro, and maranatha.
Amen, brother! His yoke is not heavy!
....” I show you how to pray to saints”.....
Jesus shows us how to pray through Him to the Father......much more trustworthy and certainly HE has the answers.....not man, not traditions of men, not praying to those who have departed and are in Heaven with Him...
So according to you...maybe Mary just hollers across the room, “it’s for you, Son...”?..... or Peter, or Moses holler across the heavenly portals as gatekeepers..”Hey Jesus another prayer coming in?”
Jesus said...NO ONE can come to the Father but by Him.....all would do well to obey HIS warning....which by the way wasn’t giving us options.
See my 3885. It happened to me, thank God. I could not believe how blind I was, but now I see. Seems to me someone should write a song about that. Oh wait, John Newton already did :-)
...”I did not feel I could ever live up to the Catholic plan of salvation. I could not do it, and that is why I now have faith in the REAL Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of the cults, and I think there are many false Christs out there”....
Two friends of mine said pretty much the same thing when they became Christians....and left catholicism. They never felt they could measure up...and of course they never would.
Great testimony....doesn’t get much better than that! Amen!
Yes, a little bit of truth to season the falsehoods. Quite a clever technique.
Very good thoughts, thanks for the post.
Prophecy is being fulfilled at an accelerated rate lately imo.
Lots of pieces of the puzzle coming together.
Your post 3845 on Mary possibly being 4th part of trinity.......wow. The blasphemy was amazing.
We must be cross posting....my heart sang when I read your testimony....beautiful to see and behold....
My frined Maria still to this day is astonished how blind she was....but even more what she now knows without question.
As his word says....”These things are written so that you may know you have eternal life!”...not hope or guess...but Know!!!!
What joy!!!!!!!! Blessed assurance Jesus is yours!!!!
They really are debating that possibility....stunning uh?
...”Prophecy is being fulfilled at an accelerated rate lately imo.....Lots of pieces of the puzzle coming together.”...
Yes, I have it move as so in the past as well....however the difference is the speed and the obvious projection is very clear in real time so to speak....quite amazing to be living to see this.
The cliché “We live in interesting times” never had such a powerful meaning.
Why don't you show me where I said John 14:26 said "the Holy Spirit speaks through Scripture"? The quality of your responses are lacking context and you don't appear to even read what has been said before you do answer back. Here is what I actually did say:
Jesus taught in John 14:23-26,
Are you now denying that the Holy Spirit speaks through sacred Scripture or that the New Testament writings were what Jesus meant by the Holy Spirit bringing back to their remembrance everything He taught them? Those disciples are long dead but we have the "more sure word of prophecy" (sacred Scripture) because that was the will of God. It's hard to decipher what your argument even is. Perhaps if you didn't give a "knee-jerk" response to everything non-Caths say here, you might be more coherent. If all you want to do is be an automaton who says, "NO!", to whatever someone you see as an opponent states, then you ought to devote your time to other things. You aren't making much of a contribution to this discussion.
No. 2 Tim. 3:14-17 did not say "including the Deuterocanon ". You made it up. That is the quality of all your proof-texts: traditions of men and wishful thinking of men and a few verses without context for a cover-up.
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