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To: Faith Presses On
I have illustrated it like this.

I would start with three sets of poker chips stacked up in small, medium, and large stacks.

Then I would explain that some people might think that the honor accorded to good people (like your mother and father), compared to Mary, compared to God, corresponds to the small, medium, and large stacks.

I would then say "But that's wrong!"

Then I would combine all the stacks into one, and say that represents the honor accorded to all God's creatures (including your mom and dad); and the honor accorded to God is (here I would raise my hand up, up, up) is so high it would go through the ceiling and the roof, and up above the clouds, and then up to the moon (depending on how much the child knows about the dimensions of the Universe) and then so high nobody could reach it, because the honor of God is infinite.

An important vocabulary word: infinite.

So the honor we properly give to human persons ("honor to whom honor is due") cannot even be compared to God; because even the top person GOD told us to honor (as in "Honor thy Father and thy Mother") is way, way way below the honor we give to God Himself.

I might put one poker chip on top of the "human honor" stack and explain that for most little children, their mother is the top-honor person, but since Jesus' Mother is someone He greatly honored, let's put her on top.

Because God blessed her above all women. Even above Wonder Woman and Melania Trump.

857 posted on 06/21/2019 1:23:37 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Let us commend ourselves, and one another, and our whole life, unto Christ Our God.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

In your ‘other religion’ the titles given to the Mary of your religion nullify your specious claim. It is not surprising that you are unable to ‘see’ that for spiritual things are discerned by the spirit, THE ALIVE spirit.


860 posted on 06/21/2019 4:02:32 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Because God blessed her above all women. Even above Wonder Woman and Melania Trump.


Seems your rememberer is broken...
 
Luke 1:41-43
 
…41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42 In a loud voice she exclaimed, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
43 And why am I so honored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?…
 
 
 
or just confused...
 
"Blessed above all women is Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she ... 
https://biblehub.com/judges/5-24.htm
 

 

869 posted on 06/22/2019 5:18:48 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“Then I would combine all the stacks into one, and say that represents the honor accorded to all God’s creatures (including your mom and dad); and the honor accorded to God is (here I would raise my hand up, up, up) is so high it would go through the ceiling and the roof, and up above the clouds, and then up to the moon (depending on how much the child knows about the dimensions of the Universe) and then so high nobody could reach it, because the honor of God is infinite.”

To me in practice though it seems like Catholics give Mary close to if not the same honor they give to God. From the link I posted:

“Mary is so good. She’s all-loving; she’s all-tender. When you spend time with her and talk to her, pray to her, she has a way of bringing joy and goodness and taking away the sadness.”


887 posted on 06/22/2019 11:04:04 AM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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