Posted on 12/05/2010 6:14:57 PM PST by RnMomof7
I’ve persistently demonstrated not only a willingness to work together with mutually respectful RC’s . . . even those formerly or occasionally very hostile to me
WHEN they decide to behave in a mutually respectful way.
I have no compulsion to molly coddle outrageously fiercely hostile, mean-spirited, personally assaultive RC Rabid Clique jerks.
A reasonable question is Why, why would Mary’s image or vision be seen vs. all the other “saints” given the prayers offered to them.
Probably.
However, it was adequate for those with ears to hear and eyes to see.
It seems obvious most RCs have NEVER read Hebrews. If they had, they would understand that Christ is the only "sinless" person and the only priest and the only mediator and the only one to whom men should bend their knee or pray or venerate or adore or emulate.
Yeah, I originally typed in “abortion and persecution”, but figured those issues were understood, in addition to the God given Liberties threatened by the Left and its fanatical partners in crime.
Onward Christian Brothers and Sisters...
Some act like it’s a special commission from Gracious Mary to be nasty . . . probably sent engraved in brown on a white hanky sealed in black wax.
“Mary, the Mother of My Lord and My God, is Blessed!”
Council of Ephesus (431 A. D.)
‘We confess, then, our lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God perfect God and perfect man of a rational soul and a body, begotten before all ages from the Father in his godhead, the same in the last days, for us and for our salvation, born of Mary the virgin, according to his humanity, one and the same consubstantial with the Father in godhead and consubstantial with us in humanity, for a union of two natures took place. Therefore we confess one Christ, one Son, one Lord. According to this understanding of the unconfused union, we confess the holy virgin to be the Mother of God because God the Word took flesh and became man and from his very conception united to himself the temple he took from her’ (Formula of Union [431 A.D.]).
>>By your own admission, twice now at last count, you are not a Catholic.
What are you doing on this thread? It doesn’t appear that it’s any thing more than stirring the pot and provoking hard feelings against Protestants.<<
Just because I am not a Catholic it doesn’t mean I can;t defend their beliefs. I spent many years of study in a sort of Jesuit pursuit of knowledge and ecumenical scholarship.
And the hard feelings here are NOT “against” Protestants.
Unless you are on a parallel thread of which I am unaware.
Yes RnMomof7, what was your point of posting this article?
“Nowhere is there an example of people praying to the dead in the Bible. Zip. Nada. Nowhere!”
Arise, Lazarus.
Satan maquarades as an angel of light. Do these apparitions point towards Jesus, "the narrow gate," for salvation?
Even if the message seems "spiritual," anything that distracts from the true source of salvation is not of God.
At least on odd days.
Or is it even days?
Or is it when Nurse Rachett is in seclusion?
Proddys are accused of “. . . blaspheming the ‘Blessed Virgin . . .’”
Obviously they must have forgotten that
IN BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY,
one can only BLASPHEME
GOD!
They didn’t forget it, they don’t know it. God’s Word is just a tool they wrap their deception in. So according to their counterfeit religion with it’s doctrine and traditions - they probably instituted another rule - it’s a sin to blaspheme their idol Mary. Like the Muslims, they have their own set of requirements, like death to the Jews and Christians. Different religions have their own set of rules and do’s and don’t s.
It’s has nothing to do with Christians who follow The Truth - His Word that He gave us, His Church.
> “...be it the King James (considered by scholars to be the worst translation ever)”
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Accidental mistake, or deliberate falsehood?
Actually, by true scholars analysis, it is among the best, but not to be considered a complete treatise either.
The basic doctrines are the same in all the major translations. The important issues that are popping up now are due to the failure of the basic Greek to pass the meaning of the hebraic idioms through. This failure affects all of the commercially prodeced versions, including the KJV, Geneva, NASB, NIV, RSV, and the Douay.
She had an Angle appear to her and say you are going to have a child the son of God.
Yep, I think your right she expected some really interesting things were going to happen.
Just had to through that in /s
As I commented above the usuals suspects who declare Professional Virginity are the ones reading minds & assigning motives and engage in potty language.
Proverbs 16:27
A scoundrel plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
Matthew 12:36
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
Matthew 15:11
What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’”
James 3: 6
And the tongue is a flame of fire
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness......
INDEED.
I’m wondering . . . what is all this finger frothing from so many RC’s recently?
And newcomers?
Is it because of all the Nativity scenes
jerking all their Maryolatry buttons to the extreme?
Is it something in the gingerbread?
The missletoe?
Some subliminal messages in the Roman Catholic version of the carols?
Maybe it’s a specially polluted brand of sugar?
Too much eggnog?
Mystifying.
I’d thought we were actually beginning to . . . as most of two groups . . . act more like Christians on the FR forum toward one another.
Leave it to the Rabid Clique RC’s to blow that budding tree out of the water.
>>Even if the message seems “spiritual,” anything that distracts from the true source of salvation is not of God<<
The Mother of Jesus appearing to a simple country farmer — speaking of the Love of God and resulting in the conversion of an entire hemisphere of the world from paganism to Christianity — is hardly a “distraction.”
Ignorance is a menace to those who would respect God’s word.
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