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The Worship of Mary? (An Observation)

Posted on 05/30/2008 10:21:34 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007

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To: MarkBsnr
But a man whose fallen nature has not been regenerated by the Holy Spirit can never choose righteousness.

False traditions of mistaken men.

5,761 posted on 06/14/2008 2:39:35 PM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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To: Petronski

***False traditions of mistaken men.***

The brightest angel has his greatest disciples amongst the followers of Calvin.


5,762 posted on 06/14/2008 2:41:59 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
I asked you to provide a list of verse that prove predestiation to hell and stated that you did not do so. You have not to this point in time...

Again, I challenge you to provide verse that proves predestination to hell. I will bet that you cannot.

ROTFLOL! Your method of debate is pretty clear to anyone reading these posts, Mark.

I posted the Scripture verses you requested in post 5,447. That you do not understand those Scripture verses is not within my ability to remedy. Illumination is the work of the Holy Spirit.

Pray for it.

5,763 posted on 06/14/2008 2:42:01 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; MarkBsnr
Mark often seems to repeat what he wants to hear, rather than what he's heard, as evidenced in this post.

I'm very familiar with that. There is a syndrome called "SOWAI-LEXIA". (Submission Of Will And Intellect).

When I note the symptoms I will just ignore his posts for a few days.
5,764 posted on 06/14/2008 2:42:08 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know no thing.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

All the verse that you posted did not even mention hell or its equivalent.

You have proven nothing. None of the verse that you posted means anything regarding predestination to hell.

Don’t blame the Holy Spirit - unless you want to condemn the Reformed Holy Spirit who has led you astray.


5,765 posted on 06/14/2008 2:46:49 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: OLD REGGIE

You’re keeping strange company these days. If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.


5,766 posted on 06/14/2008 2:50:46 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: mgist
29a. 304-308 Mystery man.
146-151 We don't want to talk about it.
147 Antipope? Nobody knows.
5,767 posted on 06/14/2008 2:54:00 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know no thing.)
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To: MarkBsnr; Religion Moderator
During my absence here, I think that you have demonstrated some very rotten fruit.

That's making it personal, Mark. Please refrain from breaking the rules.

Yes, men are known by their fruit. Do you understand what Christ is saying here? He's saying that a good tree will produce good fruit and a corrupt tree will produce evil fruit.

Did you plant yourself as a good tree, Mark? Or did God create you and plant you and give you everything you have, including your desire to love Christ?

No man can love God unless first that man has been born again by the Holy Spirit. And that is a supernatural work of God, a free, unmerited, merciful gift to His family whom He has loved before they loved Him.

5,768 posted on 06/14/2008 2:54:55 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: OLD REGGIE

lol. Good for the blood pressure.


5,769 posted on 06/14/2008 2:57:08 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

***Yes, men are known by their fruit. Do you understand what Christ is saying here? He’s saying that a good tree will produce good fruit and a corrupt tree will produce evil fruit.***

If one lies about another person, that is evil fruit.

***Did you plant yourself as a good tree, Mark? Or did God create you and plant you and give you everything you have, including your desire to love Christ?***

Without the Grace of God, we are nothing.

***And that is a supernatural work of God, a free, unmerited, merciful gift to His family whom He has loved before they loved Him.***

Gen 1:
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4 Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.”
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God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.
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God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.”
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God also said: “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food;
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and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food.” And so it happened.
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God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.

God created all Creation and he found it very good.


5,770 posted on 06/14/2008 2:58:28 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Doggone near 6,000 posts ~ not a record but ordinarily you wouldn't think of St. Mary being such a favorite topic.

Sorry I was on vacation at the time and couldn't spend time reading this one.

5,771 posted on 06/14/2008 2:59:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: 1000 silverlings
Psalm 58:3

The wicked are born wicked

Psalm 9:17

they are sent to Hell

AMEN!

Salvation is of the Lord.

"To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect." -- John Owen

5,772 posted on 06/14/2008 3:04:29 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Furthermore, 1 Samuel 24:13

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked:

God is not the author of their wickedness.

5,773 posted on 06/14/2008 3:12:10 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: 1000 silverlings
God is not the author of their wickedness.

No, God is not. But the malevolent god created by Cauvin certainly is.

5,774 posted on 06/14/2008 3:28:33 PM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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To: 1000 silverlings

Psalms 9[17] The Lord is revealed in this divine rule: God has so made the universe that the wicked are punished by the very actions they perform.

No predestination to hell; only Judgement for one’s deeds.


5,775 posted on 06/14/2008 3:32:00 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: Petronski

***No, God is not. But the malevolent god created by Cauvin certainly is.***

The creation of God in one’s own image, kept on the hall stand and you rub His head for luck when you walk by.

Either you have the Church or else you don’t. You accept what Jesus said or else you don’t.

Interesting theologies of what has developed from the Reformation today; what will these develop to?


5,776 posted on 06/14/2008 3:34:59 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr; Dr. Eckleburg
lol, lol, lol

That's Oprah's gospel

the Tanach has it in Hebrew, Hashem became known through the judgment that He executed,

not some mindless karmic universe, lol, lol, lol

5,777 posted on 06/14/2008 3:37:24 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: MarkBsnr; 1000 silverlings
"vessels of wrath fitted to destruction"

Nothing about hell.

Really? Where do you think a vessel fitted to destruction will end up, especially in light of the fact it's being contrasted to a "vessel of mercy?"

"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ"

Nothing about hell.

Really? Where is it that some men are not appointed to? Do men who are not appointed to God's mercy but appointed to God's wrath end up in heaven?

"being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed."

Even this bad translation of the KJV says nothing about hell, only that those who are not obediant to God will stumble against Jesus.

Read the verse again, Mark. It doesn't say men will stumble; it says some men were "appointed" to stumble.

"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." — Proverbs 16:4

Let us go to the NAB for commentary: The favorable or unfavorable result of chance depends on God. Deciding strifes and doubts by lot was practiced by the ancient Hebrews

LOL. I haven't the foggiest notion of what that means. Unlike the actual words of the Proverb which seem entirely clear.

God's in control of His creation, Mark. That's not something to rebuke or fear. That's very good news.

"And [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring." -- Acts 17:26-28


"But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us" -- 2 Corinthians 1:9-10

Have you been delivered "from so great a death?" Did God ordain that deliverance from before the foundation of the world, or was it a spur-of-the-moment, yet still prudent idea on your part?

5,778 posted on 06/14/2008 3:42:06 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

“Shoehorned in to Scripture” is not the same as “in Scripture.” One is fake, the other is not.


5,779 posted on 06/14/2008 3:43:40 PM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

C’mon Eckleburg, you know he thinks “ the Universe” will send them to Purgatory, and they all get a second chance, lol, lol


5,780 posted on 06/14/2008 3:45:18 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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