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To: OLD REGGIE

Do you have a question about the scripture?


3,201 posted on 08/27/2008 9:45:22 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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Do you have a question about the scripture?

What Scripture? Especially Scripture you "patiently" explained?

Please be aware a reference to a particular verse in Scripture followed by a very short, very dogmatic, "explanation" of the meaning is meaningful only to those already sold. It is meaningless in a scholarly sense, especially to the "unsold".

One reference it would be interesting to "patiently explain" is contained in your post #2858:

"The Church gave you the New Testament and explained the Old. You are free to examine the Catechism and compare it with the Scripture. Where is the deception?"

First, the "Church" you refer to may or may not be the "Church" recognized by millions of Christians.

Deception? Maybe. Maybe not.

Second, as an exercise I made an attempt to compare the Bodily Assumption of Mary as explained in the Catechism and in Scripture.

Catechism Of The Catholic Church 966: "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death."508 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians:

In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death.509

. . . she is our Mother in the order of grace

A "patient" explanation and comparison of the Catechism and Scripture would require following each footnote to it's source, explaining it, following the footnote(s) in subsequent references, explaining them until the end.

Have at it.

3,202 posted on 08/27/2008 10:34:54 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me b e perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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