Posted on 08/26/2020 1:41:57 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
Then you were wrong, while claiming to be a "Protestant" can mean everything from being a Scientologist to a Baptist. Meanwhile although Mary was not a Catholic but had an essential role as a holy, pious, virtuous Spirit-filled praying mothering instrument of God, and was created thru Christ, yet the Holy Spirit provides little about her, and speaks far far more about the labor and sacrifice of others, esp. Paul, whom Catholics comparatively minimize.
Catholics made too big a deal of Mary. Boy, was I wrong.
You were and are wrong. We are not to think of morals above that which is written, (1 Co. 4:6) but which Caths exceedingly do in the case of their contrived Mary.
Have you ever heard of a meeting where people invoke dead people to intervene on someone’s behalf?
It’s called a seance.
But that doesn’t answer the question. Why Mary instead of praying with other physically present people? And why not directly to God?
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
John 19:25-27
What unmitigated balderdash.
Catholicism puts Mary above God and yet Catholics deny it.
And while Catholics imagine by playing word games (we only give latreia to God) they avoid crossing the invisible line between mere "veneration" and worship. For worship is not described by just one word, but by others as well, and as said, ascribing to Mary adulation, attributes, glory and titles never given in Scripture to created beings (except to false gods), and kneeling/bowing down before a statue representing her and beseeching her for Heavenly help and making offerings to her would be considered blasphemy and idolatry in Scripture.
Mary says *yes* to the Garden?
What kind of nonsense is that all about.
And here I thought I had heard everything.
You going to answer my question in post 37?
And the provision was for Mary not for John. He was to care for Mary. it the other way around
Still waiting for a reply.
Why aren’t you answering any of my questions?
Oh baloney. Christ’s. dare was pulled out prior to His crucifixion. Do you think those hairs lying on the ground mean all of Christ is not in Heaven? please
Who's dismissing that Mary was visited by an angel sent by God? Could you please provide the post number?
.but have such a hard time understanding that Joseph- WHO WAS MUCH OLDER and would absolutety could have had children from a previous marriage. Show me in the Bible where it says Joseph couldn’t have children from a first marriage......
Show me Scripture to support your claims that A) Joseph was much older, B) that he had been previously married, and C)he had children from a previous marriage.
You are making the claim. It's therefore your responsibility to convince someone with proofs that your claim is valid.
Reality is stranger than fiction because if someone made up claims about Catholics like that, they'd rightly be laughed at.
And yet here we are, seeing Catholics claim that Mary had to be assumed so that all of Jesus' cells would get to heaven.
Reality is stranger than fiction because if someone made up claims about Catholics like that, they'd rightly be laughed at.
And yet here we are, seeing Catholics claim that Mary had to be assumed so that all of Jesus' cells would get to heaven.
I feel like we have entered the Twilight Zone.
So you're now saying that Mary was crucified on the cross with Jesus?
And are you now saying that since Catholics say she was sinless, like Jesus, and that she was crucified on the cross with Christ, that she can save just like Jesus does?
That would indeed make her the deity that Catholics claim they don't make her.
I guess then that when Jesus said this....
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
since Jesus doesn't lie, He must have forgotten to mention Mary. An oversight on His part perhaps?
ok this is weird and just one person’s opinion but I have never heard as many rationalizations as I searched for a good Protestant or Christian based church. Scriptures taken out of context,some claimed literally, those they don’t like skipped or denied, I mean holy cow there are only thousands of Christian or Protestant churches, none of who agree with each other , many started in the last 100 years and all putting their own spin on Scripture.
And weird theories-no end of them,heard reincarnation, new messiah, pastors claiming they are the new John the Baptist, that they are entitled to our tithes, drugs ok if you believe, and of course lots endorse pro-abortion candidates because it is not up to them to say abortion might be wrong, so Catholics don’t have weird cornered
The Body Who Ascended was not the same body put in the rock hewn tomb. Have you not read 1 Cor 15:51-54 or 1 Thess 4:13-17? Have you not read that flesh and blood cannot inherit Heaven? Your reasoning is a bit off tonight.
“Worshiping ANYONE else is a grave SIN!’
I keep asking this and not one of you rc’s will answer.
So tell me the difference.
rcc’s pray to Mary and their god
rcc’s bow to Mary and their god
rcc’s kneel to Mary and their god
rcc’s offer sacrifice to Mary and their god
rcc’s serve Mary and their god
rcc’s get grace from Mary and from their god
I’ll be waiting...
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