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Will you welcome the discussions and respect other’s beliefs
Sure, I already have. This article is by a Protestant pastor. God says He hates “one who sows discord among brethren”
Then don't sow it.

I certainly don't ever purposely do so. Will you reveal your true intentions for posting this particular thread from a 2007 article from a Lutheran pastor when the one previously posted a few days ago about the same thing has provoked so much animosity and is still generating attention? You aren't new here so you already should know the reaction it would garner. The previous one is STILL ongoing with accusations flying! Sowing dissension seems to be a particular delight of a few Roman Catholics. That is sad and NOT honoring to the Lord OR Mary.

I wonder, do you also welcome and respect the pastor's statement, "Of course, we do not rest faith upon the tradition of St. Mary's dormition and assumption into heaven; faith clings to Jesus Christ alone and finds true peace and Sabbath rest forever in Him."?

[Al Hitan]

Will you reveal your true intentions for posting this particular thread from a 2007 article from a Lutheran pastor when the one previously posted a few days ago about the same thing has provoked so much animosity and is still generating attention?

It was an interesting article from a different perspective. Besides, I've been out and have not participated in the other thread you're so concerned about. And now that you've pointed it out to me, I see that you have been actively participating in it, which tends to make me thing you aren't that concerned.

Sowing dissension seems to be a particular delight of a few Roman Catholics. That is sad and NOT honoring to the Lord OR Mary.

Let me get this straight. A Catholic posting an article about their belief is sowing dissension. But non-Catholics who respond negatively, and often with only ridicule, is not sowing dissension. You are certainly a sanctimonious bunch.

Here's a case in point right on this thread Post #8. I haven't seen you publicly lecture this poster about Proverbs 6:19 and sowing discord for their impudent comment. Once you do, maybe we can take you seriously.

I wonder, do you also welcome and respect the pastor's statement...

Sure.

I wonder, do you also welcome and respect the pastor's statements:

St. Mary is uniquely honored among all the saints of God in Christ, not only by the Church, but first of all by the Lord God Himself.

What is more, in conceiving and giving birth to the Son of God, she is a type of the Church, the holy mother who surely gives birth to the sons of God in Christ

When the Church in pious tradition has considered St. Mary to be resurrected and ascended to heaven, already in both body and soul, it is a confession of faith in that which Christ Jesus our Lord has accomplished for us and for all by His victorious Cross, Resurrection and Ascension.

We believe, teach and confess with the absolute certainty of faith that St. Mary is the Mother of God