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To: BillyBoy
...to come up with the doctrine that Mary gave birth to God.

Having been a Bible student for more than 50 years, I wonder where some people get their understanding and why they can't read things properly. The doctrine in question is the title given to the Roman Catholic mary, nothing like the theme from God's Word.

I did not deny that Mary (the one is scripture) gave birth to Jesus Christ! But, I am reading your post and it again repeats lies and innuendos unsupported by Scripture.

Repeating a lie does not ever make it become truth. Jesus is God. Mary is a woman from Scripture chosen to be the vessel by which Jesus came into this world. BUT, Roman Catholics want to substitute some bastardization of the concept and claim powers and titles for that woman never found within God's Word. Their claims come straight from the mouth of Lucifer, the fallen angel. He wants to bring as many down as he can. So, he makes a plan to deceive the very elect. But, his version is to take the person of a simple Jewish woman, instill all sorts of schemes and false visions to help the superstitious to believe those lies. They sound real good.

But, they fall apart when taken away from the light of Scripture, and into the realm of "tradition". Mary is dead. She was never shown to be anything other than a Jewish girl given a special status, and who after bearing the person of Jesus, went on to bear other children, which Roman Catholics deny.

Myths and superstition is what religion is all about. Jesus came to restore us to our place in God's house. He came that we sinners may have eternal life there. How? With simple faith in the completed work at the cross. We have a relationship, not a religion. God is a Spirit and we must worship Him, not some plastic statue of a dead woman.

But again, Catholics want to ignore that victory over sin and add all sorts of extraScriptural and unScriptural requirements. It is a works-based cult. It gives false hopes that "if we are not good enough on Earth", we can always have those with enough money and candles lit to help get them out of some middle place. But again, Scripture does not give that opportunity.

Good luck with your religion. Jesus came to restore us into His family as joint heirs in God's Kingdom.You may opt for simple faith in Christ's finished work, or you may repeat a million Hail Mary's. I prefer the first choice. The cross is empty!

YMMV!

Hebrews 9: ... 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.


123 posted on 08/18/2015 12:53:37 AM PDT by WVKayaker (On Scale of 1 to 5 Palins, How Likely Is Media Assault on Each GOP Candidate?)
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To: WVKayaker
Interesting. Nine paragraphs and you didn't comment on a single point I raised or tried to refute it. You just rehashed your own false premise that the Catholic Church "made up" the concept that Mary gave birth to God, when the truth is that ALL Christians accepted this dogma in the 4th century.

>> Repeating a lie does not ever make it become truth. <<

Indeed. Which is why repeating your points over and over again is not proving them to be fact.

>> I did not deny that Mary (the one is scripture) gave birth to Jesus Christ! <<

Almost no one denies this. Many Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, even some atheists will acknowledge that Jesus Christ was a real person and that Mary gave birth to him.

Only Christians, however, acknowledge that Mary gave birth to God incarnate.

If you cannot bring yourself to acknowledge this basic fact that all Christians have accepted for centuries, your beliefs are outside the mainstream Christian faith. End of story. Continuing to falsely allege that "Roman Catholics made up" the idea that Mary gave birth to God incarnate won't make it true, and plenty of Christians from all denominations will be happy to refute your beliefs that she "only" gave birth to the human Jesus.

124 posted on 08/18/2015 1:03:11 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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