Posted on 05/31/2011 11:53:33 AM PDT by marshmallow
Thanks for the clarity, JA, and bless ya!
Agreed! Thank you metmom for the appropriate scriptures. My Dad likes to tell my Mom that Eve sinned first. We all know the truth and Dad has dementia so we let him be and do not try to explain it to him. We just love him for who he is.
Mat 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.’ “
One is not made unclean by what they put into their mouth (although washing your hands IS a good way to avoid catching a cold - and other less savory things) - but by what comes out of it.
No Catholic says Mary is a goddess. Stop implying otherwise. Mary is holy because Christ is Holy. I don’t understand why so many Protestants on here believe it was no big deal for Mary to carry the Great I Am in her womb. It was special. It marked her with a singular honor and grace. It shows the great work of God in the most humble of human beings. That is what sets her apart. His grace and favor. Not her own doings.
Pork-chops enter the mouth - goes into the stomach and them comes out of the body. it does not come from or go to the heart.
This is a principle that Jesus repeated twice, with the admonition that the first time should have been enough! It wasn't just about washing hands - it was a philosophical and theological break from Jewish tradition.
These Fathers learned their faith from those who personally knew the Apostles. Yet you believe you have the superior knowledge. Truly Protestantism of a certain type is full of arrogant pups.
Jesus repeated the principle of ‘what goes into the mouth doesn't defile, but what comes out does’ twice - apparently twice wasn't enough for some - “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked- so maybe he should have repeated it a third time?
Jesus was Jewish.
VERY WELL PUT.
I think most Christians of any flavor wrestle with various levels of idolatry that Holy Spirit works to weed out of our lives.
However, the INSTITUTIONALIZED and horrific degrees and levels of such sanctioned idolatry pretending to be righteous in the Vatican Cult is extraordinarily destructive to millions of unwitting victims.
Worse, some act as if Jesus, Himself, was dismissive of her and treated her with disdain.
Do not lay pearls before swine.
NOPE.
I don’t think that’s an accurate explanation at all.
I think it’s far more likely that such attractions to the Rosary are a common fixation on a farmiliar object that has a very human aura of MOTHER DEAREST about it—something comforting, rosey, idyllic, manipulatable.
In the end . . . idolatrous—an object that has taken on an aura of magic—even in the minds of non-RC’s.
Do you think a Christian makes them-self unclean by eating a pork chop?
The vast majority of the Christian world seems to disagree with your interpretation.
So why do you think Jesus needed to repeat it twice?
“Are you still so dull?”
You are quite right.
But, if one feels one must mount a defense, posts should be kept simple.
We need to keep from falling into the traps laid for us.
It all starts with
“Did God REALLY (actually) say....?”
It goes to show the hazard of not correctly knowing the Word of God.
Psalm 119:11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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