Apparitions Exposed!

Proclaiming the Gospel ^ | former Director for a "Mary, Queen of Peace Center."

[D-fendr]

Are you also 5-Point Calvinist, Westminster Confession of Faith?

[Mad Dawg]

What could it be a clue of?

As far as I can see you arr advising me to give all my love to God, BUT NOT all because I have to give some to my neighbor.

What kind of thing is it that when I give ALL here, I still have some left to give there?

[Quix]

INDEED.

[Mad Dawg]

I'm sorry. I have no clue what you are saying.

I said in essence, "Some humans seem to have an incapacity to discuss God's word."

You say, more or less, that Jesus never said, "Have a discussion and see if I'm right."

but even though it has nothing to do with what I said, you say you said it in response to what I said.

Here's my response: I think the Red Sox may have a decent season.

[Notwithstanding]

And if you give one iota of love to
Mary, the mother of Jesus,
who for nine months
was a living ark for
the Living Covenant,
the Logos,
the Incarnation,
God With Us,
Emmanuel,
the Lamb of God,

then his sect’s perversions
call you a heretic

(at which point Luther would advise you
to begin your never-ending quest
for sects, or else to practice self-sects).

[Notwithstanding]

I wish you could hear me howling.

[Quix]

Well put.

Evidently some fairly intense inner insecurities are tweaking up a lot of outrage and hostility on the part of a good percentage of the RC’s on FR.

[Quix]

[Mad Dawg]

So close and yet so far! All the hints are right there, but those who know everything can't learn much, I guess.

The outrage is to the Logos and to themselves. We need to pray more. I got kind of lost praying grace recently. It should happen more often.

[metmom]

There’s no such thing as cheap grace. It cost God all He had to give.

[Quix]

I have no outrage to The Logos.

HE ALONE IS WORTHY.
HE ALONE IS ABLE.
HE ALONE IS SALVATION.
HE ALONE IS THE WAY.
HE ALONE IS MY DELIVERER.
HE ALONE IS MY KINSMAN REDEEMER.
HE ALONE IS MY HOPE.
HE ALONE IS MY LIGHT.
HE ALONE IS MY COVERING.
HE ALONE IS MY CLEANSING.
HE ALONE IS MY SECURITY.
HE ALONE IS MY ALL IN ALL.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE WORD OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE WAYS OF THE LORD.

BLESSED BE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.

[metmom]

Ya know I feel sorry for people that have nothing to contribute to a debate but silly childish double meaning posts.. out of the abundance of the heart the poster writes.. Interesting how the natural man exposes the corruptness of his heart thinking he is clever

Jesus said that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

If the heart is filled with vileness and corruption, you can't expect anything less that potty humor.

Such is the fruit of Catholicism. I've seen it often enough to know that it is not the exception.

[Mad Dawg]

Fr needs a ‘like’ button.

[D-fendr]

give all my love to God, BUT NOT all because I have to give some to my neighbor.

Don't forget your enemies.

Just not Mary.

[wheathead]

So, if I say to you “nanny nanny poo-poo”, does that make me catholic?

[Notwithstanding]

You have to add:

“Mary is a model of Christian witness and of absolute devotion to our Lord, Jesus Christ.”

[presently no screen name]

I'm sorry. I have no clue what you are saying.

Oh, tell me how many times do you need to read it before you get a clue.

Christianity is ALL about JESUS, The Christ,..,.MD..So is Mary; so is devotion to Mary.

Wrong. It's not biblical - "'Love the Lord your God with ALL your heart and with ALL your soul and with ALL your strength and with ALL your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

"... Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be TO OUR GOD FOREVER and EVER. Amen."

No man, no Mary, no Moses, no Abraham, no 'if I perish, I perish', Esther, and no 'the greatest of these is' John the Baptist - no idolatry at all. It's ALL about JESUS!

So then there might be love appropriate to Mary since she is a neighbor.

Knock on your neighbors' door and see if she opens it. You can't squeeze devotion to Mary into God's Word. Have devotion to her - that's your business but it opposes God's Word as it's idolatry. Doesn't matter if you believe that or not - it's still idolatry. The Great 'I AM' doesn't change. We change to obey His Word, His Word doesn't change to fit our wants.

I said in essence, "Some humans seem to have an incapacity to discuss God's word."

Jesus said...'Just believe'. He didn't say have a discussion about His Word and see if He's right. HEAR and OBEY. Simple.

but even though it has nothing to do with what I said, you say you said it in response to what I said.

Sure it did. It's just not the reply you wanted.

Here's my response: I think the Red Sox may have a decent season.

Not to go off topic - here's mine: God's Word is the Final Authority.

"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned".

[D-fendr]

As long as it isn’t in one inch high colored font with a picture and caption that says “O’ rly”.

[presently no screen name]

Good point!!

[Mad Dawg]

Well, I wasn't thinking of you.

In our weltanschauung it is like my truth paper. The Logos is, so to speak the seat of reason in God, and the mind is the seat of the same reason in man.

So when the Scriptures say give all your love to God and love your neighbor, a wonderful thing is being said.

Anyone who thinks that some simple and self-evident point can be concluded from the coincidence of those two verses, offered, as it is, by the Logos himself ... well it's like going to a fireworks show and attending only to the sounds.

From where and by what means comes the Love wherewith we are to love God and our neighbor? Can any love live in us unless we live in Love?

And if love lives in us, can we not claim some kinship to her in whom love was conceived,and by whom it was sheltered, housed, nursed, tended, and cherished?

We also are commanded and long to be bearers of love. We seek love anxiously, we long to tend its hurts, to see it grow and live and be true. When love seems dead, we mourn, even as we trust love to be victorious and ever new.

How does Love come to us? We find some stirring in us, but know it came from somewhere else. We sleep, though our heart is awake. We hear knocking, but when we rise the only love we are sure of is in our own hearts, though we know love knocked. It is in us, but not from us. We are from it and we long to return.

Finally we yearn for the love that is in us and that goes out from us. Weeping, we seek it, finding love we fall to our knees. In loves wind and fire we once again are made tabernacles and arks for love.

Yes indeed, give all love to God; give what love remains when all is given to one another.

Love is in us, that we may love our neighbor. We are in love, so all love is not ours but his. Of his own do we give.