Posted on 06/02/2014 3:21:30 PM PDT by NYer
Catholics have a thousand gods, beads, icons, statues, buildings, dead humans, etc.
Your ideas are wrong.
Catholics have one Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Second time I’ve posted this.
As Jesus would say, "Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?". Jesus is not a metaphor, Jesus sometimes USED metaphors. Here's a simple explanation to your false "grammar" comparison. Jesus IS the Son of God. The bread used in the Lord's Supper ordinance IS NOT the literal flesh and blood of Jesus, the Son of God. Two DIFFERENT things. Jesus IS the bread of Life, the Water of Life, the Chief Shepherd, the Branch, the Cornerstone, the Door, the Great High Priest, the Horn of Salvation, the Lamb of God, the Light of the World, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Morning Star, Our Passover, the Rock, the Root of David, the Rose of Sharon, the Son of David, the Sun of Righteousness, the True Vine, as well as many others.
I seriously doubt my answer will be acceptable, but it is my answer to your "exact" question.
Empty cross = resurrected Savior
Except there are PLENTY of "Prots" that DID, COULD, WOULD and HAVE answered that question - you just refused to accept them. HUGE difference!
As there is no Scriptural evidence to back up your claim, as there would be if God had made any exceptions to Romans 3:23, where it says “...for ALL have sinned and come short of the Glory of God...” (emphasis added), I will aacept His Word over yours. Mary, as nice as she was, and deserving of our great respect for being the mother of my Lord, WAS HUMAN, thus a sinner. God did save her by HIS Grace, probably at the moment she said “Yes” to the angel, but Scripture admits of NO EXCEPTIONS (save the Christ, ALONE) to Romans 3:23 and to ALL the Scriptual references to sinful mankind. None. So how is Mary different and no mention is made of it?
***Catholics have one Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.***
With Mary right in the center.
Then why doesn't God do that for all believers? Why not protect us all from sin and it's consequences. If He could do it for Mary, He could do it for all of us. It would save the world a lot of grief.
She was protected by God from the stain of Original Sin as a special grace of Christ.
Baloney. SHE recognized that she needed a savoir, an admission on her part of her sin. If she was sinless then she did not need a savior and therefore would have been lying when she called God her savoir. Ooops.
Christ observes the 4th commandment to honor His mother. He does this perfectly as Jesus was perfect. Which is why Mary was full of grace.
Is that what passes for logic in Catholic circles?
Jesus' ability to perfectly obey His mother was due to His inherent nature, not hers and his actions in perfect obedience are not why she was full of grace.
Mary and Grace
The word grace used in this passage in Luke is used in one other place in the Bible and that is Ephesians 1 where Paul is us that with this same grace, God has blessed us (believers) in the Beloved. IOW, we all have access to that grace and it has been bestowed on us all.
http://biblehub.com/greek/5487.htm
Luke 1:28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”
Ephesians 1:4-6 In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Greek word “grace”
charitoó: to make graceful, endow with grace
Original Word: χαριτόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: charitoó
Phonetic Spelling: (khar-ee-to'-o)
Short Definition: I favor, bestow freely on
Definition: I favor, bestow freely on.
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 5487 xaritóō (from 5486 /xárisma, "grace," see there) – properly, highly-favored because receptive to God's grace. 5487 (xaritóō) is used twice in the NT (Lk 1:28 and Eph 1:6), both times of God extending Himself to freely bestow grace (favor).
Word Origin: from charis
Definition: to make graceful, endow with grace
NASB Translation: favored (1), freely bestowed (1).
God did not ask her permission.
The angel told her how it was going to be.
Do you do it with all Catholics or just when you have been proven wrong?
Documentation for the bold underlined part please.
And according to your limited criteria, Judas was a Saint.
I am eternally grateful that I was dragged out of the intellectual darkness of Protestantism.
You need to go and actually study Greek.
Where did you earn your degree from?
Really so according to protestant belief, God raped Mary, was it rape, rape, or just rape.
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