Wishing all a Blessed New Year! Ping!
He is the One who rose again and forgives those who believe in Him. Any focus on Mary is a distraction.
**Salvation is now found in the Name of Jesus, because salvation means to enter into a relationship of childhood with God the Father. **
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Elevating Mary to a position higher than God is giving an attribute to Mary AND God that doesn’t exist, and therefore creates an idol. God is self-existent. He had no beginning.
Read the first couple paragraphs Worship Mary Jesus is optional no thanks
Luke 1:47
Mary acknowledged Jesus as her Savior, for she was a sinner, just like all of us.
And Jesus is the one to be exalted, and none other.
Christianity recognizes that when we speak of God, we are generally referring to God the Father...Although Jesus is part of the Godhead, Jesus is never referred to as God...
Why is it your religion never says God hung on the Cross and died for our sins???
All this is is the Catholic religion's attempt to elevate a female to a position she never held nor ever will...To have a female deity that can be prayed to and worshiped...
Mat_11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Act_4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Mary can't get you saved...She cannot provide safety nor protection...She does not dispense Grace...Only God can do that...Mary can not heal anyone...Only God can do these things...
Jesus says to come unto HIM, not Mary...
Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us all.
That's hardly emphasizing Mary's role. It mentions he had a human mother without even naming her.
God’s name was not “changed” to Jesus. The name Jesus comes from the words that mean “Yahweh saves”. God’s personal name, the one He gave to Moses is still I AM - the self-existent one. The tetragrammaton is YHWH or JHWH. Jesus is Yahweh with us - Immanuel.
Mary, Mother of God. If she’s not important then why did satanist dump blood over her likeness on her son’s b-day?
These people picked the wrong person to be doing a “Yo Mama” on.
Gnosticism Was a prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.
Modalism/Monarchianism Modalism states that God is a single person who, throughout Biblical history, has revealed Himself in three modes or forms. Thus, God is a single person who first manifested Himself in the mode of the Father in Old Testament times. At the incarnation, the mode was the Son, and after Jesus' ascension, the mode is the Holy Spirit. These modes are consecutive and never simultaneous. In other words, this view states that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit never all exist at the same time--only one after another. Modalism denies the distinctiveness of the three persons in the Trinity even though it retains the divinity of Christ.
Adoptionism, sometimes called dynamic monarchianism, is a nontrinitarian theological teaching that Jesus was adopted as God's Son at either his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.
Arianism Arius was a pastor of a Church in Alexandria in 318. He presented the belief that Jesus was a created being and that there was a time when He did not exist. after a meeting with the Bishop and other priests he was ordered not to present these ideas again. He refused and was excommunicated.
Apollinarianism Apollinaris held that Christ did not have a complete human nature, and that he could not have a human mind and free will. He held that Christ had one one nature, a divine spirit, but a partially human (body and soul)
Manichaeism Mani taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process which takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light whence it came. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian gnostic and religious movements. They accepted Christ but not as the second person of the trinity. Augustine of Hippo was originally a follower of Mani But did not see any intellectual rigor in the belief system.
Donatism. Prior to 312, Donatus. Held that the validity of the sacraments depended on the holiness of the individual minister of the sacraments. Traditor were the ones that handed over the books or said they handed over the books. Created a schismatic group among the middle and upper class. after the death of Donatus Augustine of Hippo, was able to reunite many of the Donatists with the Catholic Church.
Pelagianism Pelagius (354–420 or 440),British monk. The belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid. Later he denied, at least at some point in his life, many of the doctrines associated with his name. Pelagius taught that the human will, as created with its abilities by God, was sufficient to live a sinless life, although he believed that God's grace assisted every good work. Pelagianism has come to be identified with the view, (whether Pelagius agreed or not), that human beings can earn salvation by their own efforts.
Semi Pelagianism in its original form was developed as a compromise between Pelagianism and the teaching of Church Fathers such as Saint Augustine, thought, therefore, a distinction is made between the beginning of faith and the increase of faith. Semi pelagian thought teaches that the latter half - growing in faith - is the work of God, while the beginning of faith is an act of free will, with grace supervening only later. It too was labeled heresy by the Western Church in the Second Council of Orange in 529
Nestorianism Nestorius (386–450), Patriarch of Constantinople from 428–431 He developed his Christological views as an attempt to rationally explain and understand the incarnation of the divine Logos, He challenged the long-used title Theotokos (Bringer forth of God) for the Virgin Mary. He suggested that the title denied Christ's full humanity, arguing instead that Jesus had two persons, the divine Logos and the human Jesus. As such he proposed Christotokos (Bringer forth of Christ) as a more suitable title for Mary
Monophysitism is the Christological position that, after the union of the divine and the human in the historical Incarnation, Jesus Christ, as the incarnation of the eternal Son or Word (Logos) of God, had only a single "nature" which was either divine or a synthesis of divine and human. Monophysitism is contrasted to dyophysitism (or dia-, dio-, or duophysitism) which maintains that Christ maintained two natures, one divine and one human, after the Incarnation.
So far after reading the first 20 post I saw Nestorianism and Monophysitism.
2Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.