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To: ADSUM
If this is the best insult you can muster, so be it. It is a false characterization and I think you know it is: So your religious theology is telling you that Jesus Christ id dead. So, all the material I've posted in worship of my LIVING SAVIOR has slipped past you? LOL

Nice try but better nasties than you have tried that already and failed. As one born from above by His Grace, I can attest The Deity of Jesus is not in doubt. My Savior Lives. He is in Heaven, about to return for His True Church, the body of believers faithing in Him as their Deliverer. When you miss that event, remember your little smarmy effort to mischaracterize me this evening.

What is at issue is praying to dead people for intercession, people whose bodies are long since decayed and turned back to the dust from whence God made them. Jesus is in His Glorified body, not being drawn down from Heaven for catholic pagan priests to sacrifice Him continually on the pagan catholic altar. The soul and spirit of each dead person is existing somewhere, but not their body, not yet. That Catholics pray to these departed souls, not knowing if these are in Heaven or awaiting Hell's fires, is necromancy.

Now, again, is it more wrong to practice necromancy or to try and persuade others to also practice this devilment? I would ask you if you believe that the priest brings the very real body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus The Christ down from Heaven for the pagan Mass rites, but I'm afraid your answer would be such blasphemy I don't want to be a party to that on your behalf.

200 posted on 08/22/2015 6:01:09 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: MHGinTN
I would ask you if you believe that the priest brings the very real body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus The Christ down from Heaven for the Mass rites.

yes

203 posted on 08/22/2015 6:26:39 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: MHGinTN

You seem to be consumed with dead bodies and assorted rituals.

The saints are living and in Heaven with God, but you state that they have no role as the Body of Christ. But then you practice your own religion. Perhaps a more through understanding of the Bible would help.

In asking saints in heaven to pray for us we follow Paul’s instructions: “I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,” for “this is good and pleasing to God our Savior” (1 Tim. 2:1–4).

One of the most important activities for a Catholic is prayer. Without it there can be no true spiritual life. Through personal prayer and the communal prayer of the Church, especially the Mass, we worship and praise God, we express sorrow for our sins, and we intercede on behalf of others (1 Tim. 2:1–4). Through prayer we grow in our relationship with Christ and with members of God’s family (CCC 2663–2696).

This family includes all members of the Church, whether on earth, in heaven, or in purgatory. Since Jesus has only one body, and since death has no power to separate us from Christ (Rom. 8:3–8), Christians who are in heaven or who, before entering heaven, are being purified in purgatory by God’s love (1 Cor. 3:12–15) are still part of the Body of Christ (CCC 962).

Jesus said the second greatest commandment is to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matt. 22:39). Those in heaven love us more intensely than they ever could have loved us while on earth. They pray for us constantly (Rev. 5:8), and their prayers are powerful (Jas. 5:16, CCC 956, 2683, 2692).

Our prayers to the saints in heaven, asking for their prayers for us, and their intercession with the Father do not undermine Christ’s role as sole Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5). In asking saints in heaven to pray for us we follow Paul’s instructions: “I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,” for “this is good and pleasing to God our Savior” (1 Tim. 2:1–4).

All members of the Body of Christ are called to help one another through prayer (CCC 2647). Mary’s prayers are especially effective on our behalf because of her relationship with her Son (John 2:1–11).

God gave Mary a special role (CCC 490–511, 963– 975). He saved her from all sin (Luke 1:28, 47), made her uniquely blessed among all women (Luke 1:42), and made her a model for all Christians (Luke 1:48). At the end of her life he took her, body and soul, into heaven—an image of our own resurrection at the end of the world (Rev. 12:1–2)


210 posted on 08/23/2015 7:22:21 AM PDT by ADSUM
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