What do you mean by that post? That Christ Incarnate and His Mother are another pagan pair?
What I meant was exactly what the post said.
****What do you mean by that post? That Christ Incarnate and His Mother are another pagan pair?****
It sounds to me that the post is saying that Catholics worship a false Jesus because we venerate His mother and believe that He has taken her to heaven where she is celebrated by the angels and saints.
It fits with all the other references to “paganism” in Catholic Christianity and the charges that Catholicism is a cult ala Mormanism and Islam.
I truly hope that is not what is being said, for it reveals a huge gulf between us.
I have always thought that Protestants understand that Catholics believe in the very same Jesus as they do. That He is the second Person of the Trinity, God made man, born of a Virgin, incarnated through the overshadowing of Mary by the Holy Spirit, who suffered and died on the cross and was raised again, to ascend back to God to sit at His right hand.
The same Jesus, the Word of God, through whom all things were made and through whom all men, by believing in Him, are redeemed from sin and have their hope for eternal life in heaven.
I have always believed our differences stemmed from what protestants believe are heretical doctrines regarding the pope and Mary. I guess I was wrong. If what I am thinking is true, it is much worse than that.