Posted on 03/29/2020 8:34:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
Ping
Sounds like living in NYC, well before the virus:
The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead.
That is chilling.
But why must the innocent pay for the sins of the guilty?
Funny question.
Who alone can chastise an entire country?
It ain’t Pachamama for sure.
Guess again.
You could ask the same question about the thousands of babies being aborted every day.
That’s a question that both Christian and Non-Christian have asked throughout history.
A fallen world.
Sin.
It’s a question which in itself explains why the Christian must always strive to follow Christ, admit when sinning, and seek always to defend those who cannot defend themselves.
Christ elected to carry the sins of all mankind when He was Innocent, through what was considered the most humiliating form of corporal punishment in the days in which He walked.
It’s one of those questions that when the Lord’s Children see the answer, it will be so obvious that we would probably just shake our heads if we were still walking upon the earth.
When it becomes to much for my mortal mind to grasp, I have to retreat to the Truth I know: In God’s time all will become clear.
Without the Blood of Jesus there is no way I could cling to that Truth. It helped me off the edge, if it could be said to be like that.... and I am so grateful for those who admitted to me when I would ask them that very question, that they could only look forward to the answer.
I would laugh and rage at the same time. And then, one day, I understood and accepted the Truth of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I’m a guilty as the next person when I put my foot in my mouth. And ashamed when my mouth runs instead of my brain or my faith. Who knows, what harm my actions/inaction has caused? On that day that I find out, I will be grateful for the demanding love of the Father and the sacrifice of the Son.
Sorry to blabber. Being inside my house with my beloved, I believe is starting to take it’s toll.
:)
Because sin never just effects you.
+1
Nope...being "consecrated" to a created being and reciting a non-biblical prayer are not remotely close to being a remedy to this, or any other problem.
Google "Chinese workers or immigrants in Italy."
reciting a non-biblical prayer
I’m confused as to what constitutes a non-Biblical prayer in your mind.
Does the prayer need to appear in the Bible, or does it suffice to ask for the sorts of things that the Bible says are good?
Praying to a created being is a good example of a non-Biblical prayer in that the Bible never enjoins us to pray to the created.
The vast majority of the verbage from the Hail Mary comes directly from Scripture. There is a part that refers to her title “Mother of God” which refers back to Jesus as God. The last part is asking her to pray for us, the same as any other Christian asks another to pray for them and as our Lord commands us to pray for one another.
It is scriptural.
A great and reassuring answer!
Praying the rosary is promoted within the Catholic Church as a means of strengthening ones faith, resisting evil, growing spiritually, and generally benefiting society. While some of the prayer of the rosary is scriptural, the whole second half of the Hail Mary and portions of the Hail, Holy Queen are blatantly unbiblical. While the first part of the Hail Mary is almost a direct quotation from Luke 1:28, there is no scriptural basis for (1) praying to Mary, (2) addressing her as holy, or (3) calling her our life and our hope.
Praying the rosary involves giving attributes to Mary that the Bible never gives her. To call Mary holythe Catholic Church teaches that Mary never sinned or had any taint of original sinis not biblical. The Bible calls all believers saints, which can be interpreted as holy ones, but Scripture says that the righteousness believers have is the imputed righteousness from Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). In this life, no one is yet sanctified from sin in practice (1 John 1:92:1). Jesus is called our Savior repeatedly in Scripture because He saved us from our sin. In Luke 1:47, Mary calls God her Savior. Savior from what? A sinless person does not need a Savior. Sinners need a Savior. Mary acknowledged that God was her Savior. Therefore, Mary acknowledged that she was a sinner.
But praying the rosary has an even more basic problem, namely, that much of the prayer is directed to Mary, not to God. We are never told in the Bible whether anyone else in heaven can even hear us. God alone is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-present. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He taught them to address their prayers to God the Father. Every example of prayer in the Bible is addressed to God alone. There is never a single example of someone praying to any saint or angel or anyone else (besides prayers to false gods). Further, any time that a pious person prostrates himself (in a religious setting) to honor someone else besides God (chiefly to the apostles or angels), he is told to get up, to stop it (Acts 10:2526; 14:1316; Matthew 4:10; Revelation 19:10; 22:89). The Roman Catholic Church states that it worships God alone but venerates Mary and the saints. What is the difference? A person praying the rosary spends more time calling out to Mary than to God. For every one praise of God in the rosary, there are ten praises of Mary!
Praying the rosary also assigns a task to Mary that the Bible never assigns her. Jesus is our Redeemer (Galatians 3:13; 4:45; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 1:1819; Revelation 5:9), our heavenly Advocate (1 John 2:1), and our one and only Mediator (1 Timothy 2:5). The Hail, Holy Queen portion of the rosary prayer calls Mary our most gracious advocate. This is a direct contradiction of the clear biblical teaching that only Jesus is our go-between.
Praying the rosary requires Catholics to call upon Mary as the holy Queen. The only time in Scripture that the title Queen of Heaven is found, the term is used in a negative way (Jeremiah 7:1719; 44:1627). The Bible never pictures Mary as a queen; rather, she calls herself the Lords servant (Luke 1:38). She is never given a crown or authority over heaven and earth. Likewise, is it appropriate, while praying the rosary, to call Mary our life and hope? Again, these are terms that are used of God alone in Scripture (John 1:114; Colossians 3:4; 1 Timothy 1:1; Ephesians 2:12; Titus 2:13).
The practice of saying the rosary runs contrary to Scripture in a number of ways. Only God can hear our prayers. Only God can answer our prayers. We have one intermediary (Jesus), and it is in His name we pray, not Marys.
https://www.gotquestions.org/praying-rosary.html
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What may not be realized about the Rosary are the total number of prayers dedicated TO Mary compared to the Father or the Son. If said correctly, there are 57 Hail Marys, which is a prayer TO Mary, plus one Hail Holy Queen, compared to six Our Fathers. The Hail Mary is a false prayer with a little bit of Scripture mixed in to make it appealing to the reciter. Scripture warns against vain repetition in prayer in Matthew 6:7.
Catholicanswers??.....cute....but not accurate.
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