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To: Mad Dawg; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; count-your-change; ..
Saying that Mary was the mother of God can too easily be construed as saying that Mary was the mother of the Godhead.

Not for people who understand the question. This might be an example of how community is important.

Look. If Catholics have to continually explain to others who have not been taught Catholic doctrine in catechism what they mean by the words they use, and that what they say is not really what they mean, or what they mean is not what is actually said, there's a real communication problem there.

If someone has to explain to me that what they say isn't what they really meant, I lose interest. I feel that there is not much about them that I'd trust.

Just sayin'

1,307 posted on 09/06/2011 5:38:21 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
"Look. If Catholics have to continually explain to others who have not been taught Catholic doctrine in catechism what they mean by the words they use, and that what they say is not really what they mean, or what they mean is not what is actually said, there's a real communication problem there."

You put out a sentence like this and complain that the Church has a communication problem? Just wow! I'll bet if you diagram that sentence it will look like that Presbyterian schism chart that shows up here every so often.

1,310 posted on 09/06/2011 5:44:27 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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ROFL! But that’s they way they are taught by the “Church”. The inferences they use to come up with their doctrine is amazing. Thus they must us double speak and what they say is different then what they mean because you have to infer what was not said. Is that clear now?


1,327 posted on 09/06/2011 6:46:44 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: metmom

Oh, and it’s all Biblical even though it’s not in the Bible.


1,328 posted on 09/06/2011 6:48:00 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: metmom
..or that what they DIDN'T say is as important as what they DID say. Just because they didn't say it doesn't mean it wasn't there. And it may be even more proof that it actually WAS there, between the lines, waiting to be said.

But we cannot understand these deep, DEEP, beliefs. Only those who have the indwelling teachings of the infallible magisterium can begin to comprehend the things that are said. Or not said. Or may be said in the future. And on and on it goes. 2000years+ of double speak and reading between the lines for the hidden "truth".

OR...simply the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus.

1,332 posted on 09/06/2011 6:55:24 PM PDT by smvoice (The Cross was NOT God's Plan B.)
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