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To: DungeonMaster

I think one can go too far either way:

Separate God from His human-ness in the Incarnation or make the human God.

In the Incarnation, God had a mother. God incarnate is what Christ is and what Christianity is about. He suffered as we do. We are united to, in communion with God, His body, in the body of Christ. This is the Church with Christ as the head.

This is all key to the dogma of Christianity. God choose to do this through Mary, with Mary. IF you get Mary wrong, you get Christ wrong, you get the Most Holy Trinity Wrong; you embrace some form of heresy; we see this today often.

Also, we have different definitions of “worship.” This is a constant area of argument. Latria is our word for the honor due to God alone. Mary is not God. One can honor humans, dulia, but it is fundamentally different in kind.

The Mass is our highest form of worship; in my opinion a lot of the problems occurred with those who left the Church and the mass. This “worship” was lost and in its place pretty much everything else became confused for worship.


445 posted on 06/15/2014 11:17:09 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

D-fendr, did you read what DeMontfort wrote? Do you consider that a little too far or way way over the top? If you consider it a too far please show me what you think is too far?


446 posted on 06/15/2014 11:21:53 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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