Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The bright blue colors and multiple font sizes make your posts virtually unreadable. You’ll have a better chance of someone actually reading your posts if you just stick to standard format.
Or could it be that you’re doing all this on purpose just to obfuscate, confuse, and distract the lurkers who might have come here looking for actual discussion of the issues?
Do you, who have openly doubted, ridiculed and criticized everything every Catholic has posted about the Church and its Catechism for the last 10 years, make a claim that you have no reason to doubt "these Roman Catholics" it simply defies belief.
My advice is when you are in a credibility hole this deep stop digging. You are just making it worse.
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My guess is its the Peacock Syndrome (loosely described as a male attention whore).
You're concerned that lurkers might be confused by colors and font sizes?
That's the LEAST of the problem.
You haven't had an actual discussion of the issues for some time.
And what was that being said about Animal House? "Fat dumb and lazy is no way to go through life, son."
What a valiant Lady you are to persistently try and
reason with the UNREASONABLE.
Or else you are a slow learner.
I think I’ll go with valiant Lady.
LOL.
Amen, dear Deo volente!
Moreover you wrote:
The expression Theotókos, which literally means, “she who has begotten God”, can at first sight seem surprising; in fact it raises the question as to how it is possible for a human creature to give birth to God. The answer of the Church’s faith is clear: Mary’s divine motherhood refers only to the human begetting of the Son of God but not, however, to his divine birth. The Son of God was eternally begotten of God the Father, and is consubstantial with him. Mary, of course, has no part in this eternal birth. However, the Son of God assumed our human nature 2,000 years ago and was conceived by and born of Mary.So amazingly well said! Thank you oh so very much!
In proclaiming Mary “Mother of God”, the Church thus intends to affirm that she is the “Mother of the Incarnate Word, who is God”. Her motherhood does not, therefore, extend to all the Trinity, but only to the Second Person, the Son, who, in becoming incarnate, took his human nature from her.Thank you ever so much for these illuminating observations, dear brother in Christ!
"But its a great way to go through school".
You haven’t had an actual discussion of the issues for some time.
I’m increasingly of the perspective that such is
AGAINST THE RC’S RELIGION.
at least against the Rabid Clique’s RELIGION.
Their DEMONSTRATED inclinations and capacities to sabotage discussion wholesale are extensive and very long standing, hereon.
It’s difficult to recall many even rare exceptions.
Maryknoll??? Actually over the past several decades, the Maryknolls have been rather controversial in the Church.... This order seems to have a history of panting approbation of the deeply dubious doctrine of liberation theology....
Do you know what I think has happened? They are out of Scriptures. They are out of traditions. and doctrines. And they have nothing left. The cart is empty. They’ve thrown it all at us, and no one has been hit, and now they have no more ammunition. So it’s Eat Drink and Be Merry, for tomorrow we all shall...
My antenna went up when he discussed her living down the hall. Quix lives in a convent?
Sorry.
However, the qualifications don’t wash.
FOLKS PERSISTENTLY HEAR
ONLY
THE PHRASE
MOTHER OF GOD.
THAT IS THE PHRASE. THAT IS THE MESSAGE.
THAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT IS EMBELISHED UP ONE SIDE AND DOWN THE OTHER.
There is not immediately following qualification about it NOT AT ALL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM INCLUDING THE FATHER.
It is just starkly that
MOTHER OF GOD.
NOPE. Doesn’t wash with this psychologist.
WORDS ARE IMPORTANT.
THE IMPRESSIONS AND MEMES AND HYPNOTIC EFFECTS OF WORDS
ARE IMPORTANT—ALL THE MORE SO RELIGIOUS WORDS AND PHRASES WITH ALL MANNER OF INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUTRAMENTS ATTACHED.
NOPE. DOESN’T WASH BY A TRILLION MILES.
And those words are a deception, falsehood that the Vatican uses to squeak by on an extremely thin technicality.
AT the risk of offending my dear Friend and Sister . . . let me try an analogy that I think MAY highlight the problem.
Let’s take the family unit of Alamo-Girl.
Alamo-Girl has a dog.
That dog has a mother.
By some stretch, one might refer to the mother of that dog as Alamo-Girl’s Mother. After all, that dog’s mother is the mother of Alamo-Girl’s currently only in-home ‘child.’
Of course, in this case, it’s brazenly and plainly absurd.
And to many Proddys the other VERY DECEPTIVE phrase is just as brazenly absurd and inappropriate.
I think, Dear Heart, on this issue, you are somewhat
victimized/saved
by the purity of your heart and thought.
You fail to see satan’s seductiveness in the phrase because you are more focused on Christ and His Light.
However, the problem is a very real one with damnable consequences.
Mark, as I said, your opinion is worth less than zero to me, but it is against the rules to call FReepers a liar, as you have done, so I would appreciate your finally getting around to obeying the rules.
I don't expect you to, however. Anyone who has shown himself so petty as to make a dozen posts ridiculing something as simple as attendance at a wedding has more problems than anyone can solve on an internet forum.
I choose not to tell you anything more about myself or these weddings because I find those who hound FReepers from thread to thread to be creepy, devious and unChristian. Their motives are suspect. They don't have anyone's welfare in mind other than the RC agenda which is exactly the same template as the loathsome socialists in this country (made up by a majority of Roman Catholics.)
You are not someone I want anything to do with. Get it? So keep asking for my blood type and vacation plans. You won't get them.
Likewise, keep up with your idiotic remarks about Animal House and continue to bemoan a Protestant taking part in a RC high mass wedding ceremony. It's almost funny at this point.
However, these failings pale and evaporate into nothingness when compared to the grave and unGodly sins espoused by the RCC concerning "co-redeemers" and "another Christ" and "global authorities."
Your church is falling apart. It is hemorrhaging membership. Dozens of Protestants on this forum were baptized RC and have fled the lies Rome tries to stuff down the open gullets of those who have not yet learned to trust God and His holy word.
God willing, RCs will continue to be led away from the darkness of idolatry and blasphemy and into the light of His perfect word.
We breathe, therefore we hope.
In your case, just not too much.
Welllllllllllll I considered her a dear Sister in The Lord.
She knew Chinese well—having been a missionary there also in her early life before the doors were closed. She helped translate a lot with the kitchen staff and others staff as needed when my translator was not around.
She would partake of The Lord’s Supper with us AS A COMMEMORATION as she said her priest said that was OK.
She did have one fairly unorthodox belief. She felt that good honorable buddhists would go to Heaven. I mentioned the part about no one comes to the Father except through Christ but somehow that was waved aside by her. I found that a little disturbing and odd but it didn’t hinder our fellowship in The Lord.
She has since gone one to her Heavenly reward, I don’t doubt. Christ was, to my observations her Lord and Savior in her heart, spirit and mind.
She was no Marxist. She was loving but knew her Bible pretty well and seemed to earnestly try and live by it.
She and a British music major and I often had great fellowship together. We were all amongst the last 8 of 66 foreigners to leave that region 10 days after Tienanmen.
Treasured memories.
I see the mean-spirited jerks are already assaulting my mention of her. Interesting.
I wonder if you've even read half of the Scriptures and doctrine we've “thrown at” you. I've seen very few posts from any of you that reasonably comment on the points presented, except the constant deluge of rabid attacks and name-calling (”idolaters”, “blasphemers”, “magicsterical”, “yesterday's pork roast”, “demonic”, etc.) delivered by a tag team of four or five posters, egged on by the guy with all the giant letters and color fonts, whose posts are almost unreadable.
The cart remains full and loaded with Truth. Deo Gratias!
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