Posted on 06/16/2019 4:55:18 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
In Captains Courageous, with Spencer Tracey, Freddy Batholomew is a blowhard millionaire's son who is socially, poorly adjusted. He uses his father's incredible wealth, to bully his classmates and even his teacher, but he's roundly disliked, and ostracized. While on an ocean liner, he unsuccessfully tries to impress some other boys by eating 5 ice cream sodas. When he has to throw up, to escape the mocking boys, he runs into a lifeboat area to evade their ridicule while purging his overindulgence, and manages to fall overboard into the ocean.
Instances of people falling overboard into the open ocean are rather commonly reported in the news. Usually they are lost, but if by chance their accidents are observed and a life-preserver is thrown to them, is that the end of the story, do we just say, "oh, well, you have a floatation device, you're okay now"?
No, we have to pull them in. The life-preserver, the lifesaver, is only part of the formula for saving their lives. There is also a rope, which must be attached to the life-preserver, and must be used to finally accomplish their salvation.
Jesus Christ is the one mediator between God and man. But on the man side of the equation, unlike the radical individuality most typified by J.J. Rousseau, we who life the life of Christians do so in communities. But even then, we do not abide as atomistic individualists. We live our Jesus-oriented life in relation to our fellows. "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." – Hebrews 10:25.
Jesus' first disciple was his mother, who gave us the total account of his early life and who "treasured these things up in her heart". "A sword will pierce your own soul too, so that the secret thoughts of many hearts might be revealed". On the cross, he gave his mother to John to take in his home, but when you take your master's mother, she takes care of you.
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days. …
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had borne the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood. But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth. Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. - Rev 11:19 -- 12:17
She forms the body of Christ. She schools her son's disciples. Those who won't attend her school, remain ignorant.
We are in a time when any merely human institution would be washed away. Our churches are going under the shadow of a new Heresy of Ba'al of Peor, as when the Hebrew people were successfully attacked and overwhelmed through human sexuality. Our churches are now pro-gay and as soon as the civil authority authorizes child sex, they will be indistinguishable from the denizens of the town of Sodom: "Bring them out that we may know them".
Jesus' mother forms the few of the elect who will resist being fooled by the great apostasy. Those who will not avail themselves of the lifeline of Mary, will be lost.
Vatican II here again repeated the titles of Mary as Advocate, Helper, Benefactress and Mediatrix” (No. 62).
1. Mary’s triune role as co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocatrix is a reflection of the Three Persons of the Holy Trinit
In Roman Catholic Mariology, the title Mediatrix refers to the intercessory role of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a mediator in the salvific redemption by her son Jesus Christ, and that he bestows graces through her
Prove it or retract your calumny.
The Bride is the body of Christ, His CHURCH, not Mary.
It's the job of the CHURCH, the body of Christ, to go and make disciples and do the work of evangelism.
Mary is not and never was the "bride of the Holy Spirit". The only bride she was was to Joseph, to whom she was MARRIED.
Sure. After living here on this earth for 33 some years and doing His best to convince a sinful, rebellious mankind to come to Him, Jesus is the reluctant Savior who has to be convinced by Mary to save the very people He willingly died for to save.
Catholicism presents just about the most unscriptural view of Jesus that I have ever encountered.
So now you're putting a feminist touch on Jesus Christ?
Why am I not surprised?
Nonsense.
The only thing alluded to is the prophecy in Isaiah about the virgin birth and Mary is EVER mentioned by name.
Any thing Catholicism claims is about Mary in the OT is only a product of their wishful thinking and misapplication of Scripture. They find it because they are looking for it and sill stretch any verse they can to make it fit.
That is TERRIBLE hermeneutics.
Sure, because God is an easily offended, touchy, petty, vindictive person, just like the rest of mankind.
Better toe the line of He's gonna zap you for sure.
Prove that we are *all different* in our interpretation.
Prove that all Catholics agree 100% on every last point of doctrine.
Here's an easy one. Is Frank a legitimate pope?
Along with about 108 other people.
Your point proves what?
When did you write your own "bible"?
A hen pecked husband in submission to his wife, eh?
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The “Upper Room” was “Solomon’s Porch” on the Temple Mount, and there were likely more than 100,000 people present there for Shavuot!
(one of the “Appointed Feasts.”)
You’re talking about Nimrod...
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LOL!
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Who is the ‘Queen of Heaven’...
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Hard to make this stuff up! :o)
The immaculate conception doesn't depend on ANY Scripture, period.
It's fabricated out of a demonic vision someone claims to have had along with a lot of wishful thinking.
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