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Mary Worship? A Study of Catholic Practice and Doctrine
Park View ^ | July 2001 | Mary Ann Collins (A Former Catholic Nun)

Posted on 02/10/2011 7:57:12 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass

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To: BenKenobi

The translators of the Bible didn’t write the content.


201 posted on 02/10/2011 12:17:05 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Excellent! Are you aware of the scripture references to him regarding Jesus?


202 posted on 02/10/2011 12:17:40 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy
The flaw in your statement is that you presume the Holy Spirit is present there

No, I don't. But the person I was responding to does.

203 posted on 02/10/2011 12:18:14 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: A.A. Cunningham

>>I believe that either you or your wife are being dishonest.<<

OK. But I have more information than you do.


204 posted on 02/10/2011 12:18:28 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

>>“Because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” Luke 1:48<<

Makes sense. She was the mother of our Savior, after all. We call her blessed in the same way the world would call lotto winner blessed.


205 posted on 02/10/2011 12:19:43 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Siena Dreaming

You are correct that the books were not written by the translators.

But the bible, the authorship of the bible, where all the books were put together, was written by Jerome.

He was the first to put together the canon as we know it now. Prior to Jerome, the books were separate from one another, and when placed together, did not have a consistant canon.

This is why we have books, and letters, gospels and the apocalypse, all different books, but just one bible.

And the 70 did the prequel. Some suggest that the prequel wasn’t quite as good.


206 posted on 02/10/2011 12:21:01 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: BenKenobi

>>Thank you. So veneration of Mary as the Mother of God is appropriate. Well said.<<

Well, I think you are inferring things that are not in my post. I said you would here more about Mary. I did not use the word venerate. Don’t get me wrong though. The simple fact is that I respect the works of some men more than others.


207 posted on 02/10/2011 12:22:50 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Actually, this is not much different from the “rules” and “agreements” made between two Catholics, getting married.
Yes, I need “permission” from a Priest, to perform the service, to a point.
Actually, marriage is between husband and wife, and the Priest only OBSERVES!
In fact, you can have a valid CATHOLIC wedding if a Priest simply attends, and does not perform the service.
I do not disagree with what you have posted.
As a practical matter, however, it is not much of a barrier at all.
208 posted on 02/10/2011 12:23:39 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: RobRoy

Except in her case, the Lotto ticket was bought before she was born.


209 posted on 02/10/2011 12:24:11 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: RobRoy

Veneration simple means to do honour to someone. That’s all.


210 posted on 02/10/2011 12:27:36 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: BenKenobi
But the bible, the authorship of the bible, where all the books were put together, was written by Jerome.

No the author of the Bible wasn't Jerome; he was a compiler.

The men who wrote the content were the authors.

211 posted on 02/10/2011 12:27:46 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: RobRoy
But I think too many people don’t fully grasp the meaning of the word “blessed”. It is not a divine word. It means “bringing great happiness or good fortune”.

There is another word that is not often fully grasped. It is a Greek word. It is kecharitomene, often translated in English "full of grace".

It means, literally, "she who has been graced", and it's in the perfect passive tense which in Greek is used for a completed action.

Let that concept of completed action sink in for a moment.

How is it possible that when the Angel Gabriel addressed Our Lady, her endowing of grace had been completed? Is my endowing of grace completed? Is yours? Not while we're alive it ain't.

It is no accident that the Greek Orthodox Church--whose native language the New Testament is in--still to this day calls her "Panagia" = the All-Holy One.

212 posted on 02/10/2011 12:32:04 PM PST by Claud
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To: BenKenobi

>>Jesus communicated with the dead in the transfiguration. Does that mean he was a necromancer?<<

That was a very unique event in several way. First, Jesus did not pray with them. He talked with them. Second, it is clearly described as something almost like a physical portal to another dimension (to use 21’st century sensibilities. It is suggested with these statements:

“And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.”
“And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. “

This was a singularly spectacular an unique event. It does not discuss prayer or our instructions to pray. Rather, it is a description of a transfiguration of Christ. It is as though God was giving the disciples a glimpse of His abilities. The MOST important part of the transfiguration event is this:

“While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”

And the events that preceded that would certainly give it credibility. ;)


213 posted on 02/10/2011 12:33:56 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: BenKenobi

>>Jesus also never said, “don’t abort your children”, or those words thereof in scripture. He never says, “don’t beat your wife”. He never says, “homosexuality is sinful,” Arguments from silence are rather unpersuasive.<<

Yes, but when one is advocating praying to dead people INSTEAD OF Christ (who we ARE instructed to pray to), I need some scripture instructing me to do so. Actually, I take back the “yes” part. The Bible clearly teaches that the dead sleep until the resurrection, where the dead in Christ rise first. So according to the Bible, one that prays to the dead is praying to one who is sleeping.


214 posted on 02/10/2011 12:37:03 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Salvation
Glad you are open to new ideas.

When you give me a GOOD new idea, I'll be open to it, thank you very much.

In the meantime, why would I or should I give up my salvation that God himself gave me, and testified to (Read Romans 8:1) to worship a human being?

God or our Lord Jesus Christ does not countenance Idolatry.

Read the Ten Commandments.

Mary was just another person as far as Jesus was concerned, a person who obeyed God, but nothing in the Bible provides the necessary foundation or proof that we should pray to Mary for anything, much less expect that she has some sort of power with our Lord Jesus Christ to get those prayers answered.

Furthermore, we have one advocate, Jesus Christ, who is our mediator between us and God, no other.
215 posted on 02/10/2011 12:37:36 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: BenKenobi

>>How does an appeal to the authority of the holy spirit qualify as deification in one instance, and not the other?<<

Simple. I am the final authority regarding what I choose to believe and what I reject as false. God gave me that right and responsibility. It is not self worship.


216 posted on 02/10/2011 12:40:13 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy

I already quoted, the word ‘sleep’ doesn’t appear.

The word, in greek is ‘repose’, that they rest.

The only example we have of someone who had died talking to someone who is alive is at the transfiguration, and Moses wasn’t sleeping.


217 posted on 02/10/2011 12:40:20 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: RobRoy

“I am the final authority regarding what I choose to believe and what I reject as false.”

Finally, a honest answer. If you are the final authority, not God, then you are God and God is something else.


218 posted on 02/10/2011 12:41:55 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: Claud
Not while we're alive it ain't

Col 1:10 says believers have been given fullness in Christ.

219 posted on 02/10/2011 12:42:47 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: Siena Dreaming

The author of the bible, the compilation of all the books, was Jerome.

The authors of the individual books, did not write the bible. They didn’t write as if they were writing for a compilation. Each is distinct from one another.


220 posted on 02/10/2011 12:44:35 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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