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To: Christian Engineer Mass
I practiced Mary worship for many years without realizing it

That is just stupid, I'm sorry. Are we really to believe she didn't know the difference between Mary and God?

All I really need to say in response to this is found in Luke 1:48: All generations to come shall call me blessed.

As the Challoner Douay-Rheims commentary tartly put it 200 years ago, Let the Protestants consider whether they are in any way envisioned in this prophecy.

4 posted on 02/10/2011 8:02:44 AM PST by Campion
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To: Campion

Read the next post below yours to see what Jesus, the Son of God, had to say about this matter.


6 posted on 02/10/2011 8:04:41 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Campion

Very much blessed. But not to be worshipped. Read the article.


7 posted on 02/10/2011 8:04:46 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: Campion

Mr “tartly” asks an odd question; does he think Mary was a Prophet? Is what she says “prophesy”?

On the other hand, don’t we all believe that Mary was blessed to be the mother of Jesus? I don’t “bless” her, or thing she is “bles-sed”, as in “the “bless-ed virgin Mary”, but it certainly was a blessing for her to be privileged to be the mother of Jesus.

I’m reminded of the saying “it will be a blessing and a curse” — the word “blessing” not meaning that some beatification or elevation takes place, just that something is of benefit or encouragement to you.

So, it is easy for a Protestant to say that Mary was right in her statement of how blessed she was to have been given this privilege, without thinking we should in any way include Mary in our worship of God.

There is but one Mediator. There is One Name.


113 posted on 02/10/2011 10:10:30 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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