Posted on 04/30/2010 8:03:48 AM PDT by Quix
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7 “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! 9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, --New Living Translation 7And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29.] 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9Pray, therefore, like this: 15But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their [j]reckless and willful sins, [k]leaving them, letting them go, and [l]giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. --Amplified Pray with Simplicity 5"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat? 6"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace. 7-13"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: 16-18"When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won't make you a saint. If you 'go into training' inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. God doesn't require attention-getting devices. He won't overlook what you are doing; he'll reward you well. |
Mark Kirby: O Mother of Good Counsel, I am all thine, Most Holy Mary, There is no part of my life that is not open to thee, I want to be completely transparent with thee, Praying in this way, I can be at rest, |
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Thanks for your kind reply.
INDEED:
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That means, if it supports RC doctrine, then Paul’s OK. If it doesn’t, bring out the straight jacket.
He has an infinite variety of ways to achieve His goals.
God chose Mary. She did her task.
Task over. Fini.
AMEN!
Thank you for using the name "Roman Catholic".
Sounds like you are insisting that Paul violated Christ’s orders.
I don’t believe he did, regardless of your slippery rationalizations.
I hope everything is OK???
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Then he’s clearly ahead of a lot of haven’t gotten a clue, yet.
1. Paragraphs are our friends.
2. That rationalization is such a pile of chaff as to be embarrassing that anyone would try and build a doghouse on it, much less the caricatured SUPER-MARY INDUSTRY.
INDEED.
SIGH.
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.
I’m humbled and gratified that God uses my humble efforts hereon to bring many my way via FREEPMAIL and otherwise.
PRAISE GOD.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh so . . .
now we see more slippery nonsense.
In addition to building the caricature pseudo-SUPER-MARY INDUSTRIAL EDIFICE on the splinter of a toothpick as a foundation
we see that some of the bricks in the foundation may also be hyperbole.
That’s sooooooooooooooooooooooo IMPRESSIVE!
/S
We are going to stand before the God who proclaimed at the first, that He is a jealous God, one who gave us a manual to live by so that we are without excuse.
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ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
It HAS acted it out in 10’s of millions of incidents many times over for centuries.
And the words are plenty damning as Ferraro’s book brazenly demonstrates.
Well put.
SCRIPTURE IS EMPHATICALLY CLEAR ABOUT
THE EXCLUSIVE POSITION OF . . .
SCRIPTURE.
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.”
There is the relationship Jesus said was of importance to him.
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INDEED.
Wow. Look how far down in that process one would have to go to get to Christ. It is even arguable if He is in that process at all.
Sounds like a lot of prideful raising up of sin-filled fallen people to me.
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WELL PUT:
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Jesus Himself invented sola scriptura when He proclaimed, “It is written”. It was His appeal to written scripture which flummoxed the authorities of the day, just as it does now.
Our early Christian ancestors took this so seriously that forged books such as “the Protoevangelium of James” were quickly exposed as fakes. Christians did this even if what those Books had written in them was really popular at the time. The supremacy of Scripture was paramount.
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Look what Jesus had to say to a woman who tried to honor Mary like you suggest. Luke 11: 27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
That woman's comment about Mary very closely reflects what the Catholic Church teaches about her and Jesus did NOT agree to or condone the veneration of Mary by this Israelite woman. He corrected her for it.
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