stpio:
>>Catholics follow the Church, her teaching on Scripture not private judgment as Protestants do. If you follow the Church, not one verse in Scripture (OT and NT) contradicts the other.<<
Oh really?
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Sorry, I can’t do italics, so I’ll use caps.
“John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
Pope Pius XII solemnly defined in Munificentissimus Deus on Nov. 1, 1950, that the “Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.”
That looks like a direct contradiction to me.”
YOU ACCEPT DIVINE EXCEPTIONS, YOU ACCEPT GOD TOOK ELIJAH
TO HEAVEN, BODY AND SOUL. WHY NOT MARY? MARY DIDN’T ‘ASCEND’, SHE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN BY GOD, ‘ASSUMED’ INTO HEAVEN.
“Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
And Catholics think that God commanded the brazen serpent which was a “graven image” but let’s see what happened to that.
2Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Would Catholics crush the statues of Mary or any of the Saints into dust or have they become idols?”
GOD OBJECTS TO IMAGES OF false GODS, MARY IS NOT A GOD,
SHE IS THE MOTHER OF GOD. GOD LOVES WHEN YOU ARE REMINDED
OF HIM. AND OF THE SAINTS TOO, SEEING THEM HELPS YOU IN PRAYER. A STATUE LIKE A PHOTO IS AN IMAGE OF A LOVED ONE.
I LOVE THE SACRED HEART IMAGE, THE STATUE OF OUR LORD. IT
REMINDS ME OF HIS LOVE AND OF HIS VERY HEART BEING PIERCED.
please, you gotta let go of these two objections. The first, God can make exceptions and He does.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man
So you are saying that verse is talking about an “uncorruptible” false God? Do you really want to stay with your statement?
>> SHE IS THE MOTHER OF GOD<<
Could you please show from scripture that she is the “mother of God”? She carried God but she was the mother of His earthly form. Mary is no more “mother of God” than God is a descendant of David. Please show chapter and verse to show that Mary was the mother of God.
>> THE STATUE OF OUR LORD<<
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man
Mary is the mother of Jesus, as she is called by the Holy Spirit when He inspired Luke, John, and Matthew to write it down.
Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
John 2:1-3 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
Acts 1:14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
stpio: “Sorry, I can’t do italics, so I’ll use caps.”
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To do italics, bold, underline, strikeout, you use these
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Put that at the beginning of what you want to post. At the end of what you are doing, you have to *close* it with this</ >. The backslash goes before the letter, the same letter you used at the beginning.
So to put “she is the mother of God” you would do < i > she is the mother of God </ i >.