Posted on 11/27/2017 8:37:19 AM PST by Salvation
To aim at the rosary means you hate Mary according to some Catholics who basically worship the Mary of Catholicism .
**To aim at the rosary means you hate Mary according to some Catholics who basically worship the Mary of Catholicism .**
Catholics do NOT worship Mary. We ask her to pray for us.
Could your information possibly be mistaken?
Everyone from Masons to Mormons draw from Scripture, but you simply do not determine how the NT church understood the OT or even the gospels but simply looking at them, but by examination of the only wholly inspired substantive record of it - Acts thru Revelation.
In which we told that the New Covenant was not according to the Old, and how it basically differs, and see neither a separate sacerdotal priesthood called by the distinctive word for such, or other Catholic distinctives .
“Catholics do NOT worship Mary.
They certainly idolize her, and make her into a demigoddess.
How dare the noble Bereans subject the veracity of very apostles to testing by Scripture? Acts 17:11.
“How dare the noble Bereans subject the veracity of very apostles to testing by Scripture? Acts 17:11.
+1
Nor do we idolize her.
“Why do you, a non-Catholic, judge the author as untrue?
How dare FRomans judge Blessed Father Luther, a Catholic Priest, as untrue!
“Attacking where there is no reason to attack.”
Miscaracterizing a post as an attack is an attack you are making.
Just stop it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw
Plus posting in a hystrionic manner is unbecoming of a FReeper...
And there’s plenty more if those aren’t enough to illustrate the point.
“Nor do we idolize her.
Might want to check a dictionary...
Simple prayers. No idolatry here.
Definite idolizing - and unbiblical.
Consecration Prayer to Mary compared to The Greatest Commandment. The idolatry of Roman Catholicism cannot be denied when comparing this "simple prayer" as you call it to the Greatest Commandment given to us by Christ.
| Consecration to Mary | Greatest Commandment from the Bible |
| My Queen and my Mother, I give myself entirely to you; and to show my devotion to you, I consecrate to you this day my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my whole being without reserve. Wherefore, good Mother, as I am your own, keep me, guard me, as your property and possession. Amen. |
37And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ 38“This is the great and foremost commandment. Matthew 22:37-28 NASB |
We can keep playing but everything thus far you've offered has been refuted by Scripture.
Um....No.
“To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”
Cardinal John Henry Newman
Catholic Convert
Former Protestant and England’s
Foremost Theologian of the 19th Century
Its not coming together for worship and fellowship at the Lord's supper that is the issue, but Catholic distinctives. In the light of the central paramount prominence of the priestly sacrificial Eucharist, "the food that makes us live for ever," here is your first assignment.
Go thru every chapter of the Holy Spirit-inspired books of Acts thru Revelation (which is the only inspired record of how the NT church understood the gospels) and tell me where you see the Lord's supper described as,
1. conducted by a Catholic priest (+ see #4);
2. with this being a unique function of such;
3. and him offering it as a sacrifice for sins;
4. and thus with the distinctive word used for a separate sacerdotal class of believers being used for them;
5. and dispensing the Eucharist as spiritual food.
6. with this priestly performance and partaking being the preeminent prominent practice of the NT church;
7. with this being the partaking of a wafer of bread and sip of wine, and the focus being on receiving this as essential food;
in contrast to,
8. believers described as breaking bread, with no Catholic priests, nor even NT clergy necessarily conducting it.
10. with the focus being on the church as the body of Christ, showing the Lord's death and union with Him and those He bought with His sinless shed blood, by sharing food in a communal meal.
When you fail to find 1 -7 please do not read into Scripture what is not there as such has been and can be exposed, by God's grace.
The more I read history the more I see the errors of Roman Catholicism.
“To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”
To be deep in the Scriptures is to cease to be Roman Catholic.
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