Posted on 12/04/2006 7:52:47 PM PST by Pyro7480
In a perfect sola scriptura world that you occupy, this would be the only position to take. However, since Luther, Protestantism moved away to denial of things Catholic in general, at the exclusion of all reason, this is why.
I am sure you did.
Have a Douay (E Sword computer version), my wife bought me a New Jerusalem, and I have about a half dozen other translations laying by my bed. My wife gets annoyed when I am sitting in bed, with four or five Bibles spread out and a few commentaries.
People attack Marian pieties because they don't know how to worship God themselves, so anyone with a rich spiritual life is an irritant to them.
??? Not sure I got your point.
That post is alone enough for ANYONE to come to the conclusion you are a good man...
You know, it would be an interesting exercise to see evangelicals try to assemble at an Evangelical Ecumenical Council and hammer out just what are and are not the "fundamentals" of the Faith all evangelicals must agree upon to be considered orthodox Christians.
Has anythimg like that been considered?
I can not find the exact article that I read. It has been several years I know, but I believe it had something to do with Catholic Feminists. Article below is an example of the train of thought, but not specifically about Mary...
http://www.thedailystar.com/opinion/letters/2005/06/lt0627.html
I do have problems with it, and prefer to stick to what Scripture explicitly says about Mary. I believe it is explicit that she had other children. Some people disagree. I'm fine with that. I consider her as mother of other children a matter of interpretation. I consider her sinlessness anti-Scriptural. Her perpetual virginity, I consider a violation of the EWS, Until, but others disagree.
Mary with any titles of Christ, I object to. She is depicted in Scripture as Mother of Jesus and blessed among women. That's where I stand with Mary.
I will bring the beer and sausage!
I s'pose you might speculate that it was because my life doesn't revolve around your posts.
*That is simply a lie. Two consecutive Bishops of Mostar have declared the Medjugorge "apparitions" are not visions of Mary. Both Bishops have declared the seers liars.
Please, Sir. Take some time to learn the facts. When you make such posts, you do not prove the Catholic Church is heretical, you illustrate you do not know what you are talking about
I'll serve as an observer - if I am guaranteed safe passage :)
I could, but, because I am solipsistic, that would be an impossibility for me
In any event, I will note you continue to ignorte that post - as does every other sola scripturist
As a Catholic, I worship God at the sacrifice of the Mass. This is the primary and necessary element of the Christian worship. But I also worship God through the family and friends of Christ. That is Mary and the Communion of Saints, with whom I pray daily, whether or not I make it to Mass daily.
This rich spiritual life of a Catholic appears to irritiate, primarily, the new Protestant communities of faith, who worry that I will somehow take away from Christ by doing so. This is anyway my hypothesis, -- I can conceive of no other reason people would alot so much energy to the devotions they don't understand no matter how patiently we explain them.
What you show me has to do with the hatred some feminist feel toward the Papacy. I was wondering where is the substantiation that some Catholic groups pleaded with the Pope to deify Mary.
Others familiar with the language in question disagree.
I quite like your reductio ad absurdum of 'sola scriptura'. I must remember it for use in other contexts.
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