Posted on 10/28/2011 6:59:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Or anywhere else in scripture. I only find Jesus stating that we are as blessed as Mary is.
I think you had better check with the CC teachings on that one. The whole deal is that she was without sin her whole life. It’s made up of wishful thinking or fantasy but that’s what they believe.
Galatians 4:21-26 21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
“Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” John 6:28-29
Not just this. Christ gave us more than 50 commandments, which your brethren either ignore or make fun of.
It’s not. It’s the reasons and impetus for living a clean life. Catholics do them under obligation and non Catholics do them by the nature of the Spirit within them. It’s the difference of walking in the flesh and walking in the Spirit.
No, it is the difference between understanding the obligatory and ignoring the obvious. We do what we do because the Lord God Almighty told us to. Protestants do not do as such because they think that they have a pass on such matters ie. that Jesus was just for the Jews and that Paul told them that they do not have do anything at all other than stand still long enough to have salvation pour down upon them.
What a scurrilous accusation. They don’t make fun of them nor do they “ignore” them. If you can’t tell the difference between following those from an outward legal perspective and an inward desire your problem isn’t something I can help you with.
That ridiculous response doesn’t even deserve more thought then to let you know that I don’t believe that you have any idea of what the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is.
Prove it. Show us where any one made fun of Jesus' commandments or ignored them.
We do what we do in living a clean life because it's the natural outworking of the Spirit of God living in and through us.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Philippians 2:12-13 12Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
"To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;" Isaiah 61:1,2.
************************************************************ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath annoited me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised;"
"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
"And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." Luke 4:18-21.
************************************************************ Why did Christ NOT finish the words of Isaiah? Why did He close the book halfway through the verse? What about "and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;? That's why all eyes were fastened upon him. He did NOT finish the verse Isaiah had written. Did He just forget to read the rest of Is. 61:2? Or did He have a reason to stop mid-verse?
I believe that Catholics need to project a preconceived notion to make the deceit they have been under from the RCC palatable.
Where did that come from? A deflection perhaps? I never said wife. And denying that Catholics teach that she is the queen of heaven is laughable at best.
The laughable thing is the understanding of queen.
No. It is thought possible but not taught as truth. Strike two.<<
You’re denying that the CC teaches that Mary was bodily assumed into heaven?
I am denying that the Church teaches that Mary was assumed in living form into Heaven.
>>Define speaking, before I can answer that.<<
Do you not speak to Mary when you pray the rosary?
I pray to Mary and the saints, sure.
>>We only carry the symbols of Christianity.<<
LOL Better go look at the symbols used in Baal worship. All symbols used in the CC originated in paganism.
Such as the fish symbol? Pagan. The Cross originated in Chaldea. Pagan. Shall we continue?
You mean that Mary is not the wife of the Holy Spirit? I thought I read somewhere that He is her husband.
So when you pray your rosary how many more prayers go to Mary than to your Creator ?
What does one have to do with the other? You guys consider yourselves as pre saved no matter what. My prayers to Mary and the Saints enter into the discussion how?
Even more laughable is the understanding of the king who has been effectively reduced to being merely the prophet who preceded St. Paul. (another parallel with Islam).
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Correct. We thank you for your example.
Oh goody. I thought that I AM was God. Perhaps in your universe, you are God, which is my opinion of the legacy of the Reformation. Thank you for the confirmation.
Which claim is really ironic coming from Catholics who object to how they claim non-Catholics make Scripture equal to Christ because they are both called the word of God.
Evidently you have not read the first chapter of John in depth. I believe that I have recommended it to you numerous times. Perhaps you might leave snippets of Paul and actually read the Gospels.
Fantastic. I'm surprised that you need God at all, given your omniscience.
Catholicism is backward in it's teachings - the result of not believing God's Word is The Final Authority. 'Man' before God leads to destruction.
If you read your post, you rely totally on man.
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