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The Hail Mary of a Protestant
http://www.abouttherosary.com ^ | September 3, 2014 | Robbe Lyn Sebesta

Posted on 09/03/2014 6:36:07 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

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To: Elsie
No,I was taught that in religion class.

Think of it this way. Your soul is like a glass of water. Water being grace. Now the glass is filled to the brim. (Full of grace)If you take a small spoonful out like committing a small sin removes some your grace from your soul.

it's not full anymore.

381 posted on 09/05/2014 6:52:23 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Elsie

Please read and study Metmom’s post #327 and the other posts regarding the brothers and sisters of Jesus. Half-brothers and sisters. :)


382 posted on 09/05/2014 6:56:11 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: ecomcon
Nothing like a straw man argument.

Including "trying to despise her" a contrived story.

383 posted on 09/05/2014 7:15:01 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

That is simply the typical RC recourse to argument from silence, that as Scripture does not exclude something, then it can be justified as true.

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You misjudge. No Catholic should ever *use* an argument from silence to justify anything as being true. I was not attempting to anything of the sort. Perhaps I did not state it carefully enough.

And, I will remind us all again, that the evil of our times is increasing exponentially. Let us cease arguing over such things and commit ourselves to prayer for the conversion of the MANY peoples who have no clue of what is coming.


384 posted on 09/05/2014 7:20:25 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: metmom

You’re a non-practicing Catholic, but Catholic nevertheless.
A lot like Nancy Pelosi and the rest that don’t practice the faith.


385 posted on 09/05/2014 8:01:31 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Salvation; RetiredArmy

(KJV)2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. [14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. [15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Please also keep in mind Satan was able to appear to Jesus Himself, and show him visions. All of which Jesus rejected, of course. But to be unwary of such a great power in our chief adversary is to make ourselves vulnerable to his deceptions.

Peace,

SR


386 posted on 09/05/2014 8:04:53 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: daniel1212

Through divine inspiration Catholics wrote the Bible, then compiled the Bible, then canonized the Bible. Not sects who broke away from the Catholic Church 500 years ago, and for over 500 years have been spreading and teaching errors about the gospel of Jesus Christ, found in the Catholic document known as the Bible. Deal with it brother Daniel, because it’s fact and you know it’s fact and that’s why you try so hard to put down anything to do with Catholicism. Going strong now for 2,000 years. And if the world stands 2,000 more years it will still be around, safeguarding the truth and teaching the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ. Whatever faith you follow will be lost in the dust bins of history and the Catholic Church will be be standing.


387 posted on 09/05/2014 8:12:34 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: SumProVita
You misjudge. No Catholic should ever *use* an argument from silence to justify anything as being true. I was not attempting to anything of the sort. Perhaps I did not state it carefully enough.

But that is what your argument is based upon, even if conjecture. And apart from egregious extrapolation, so is the idea of praying to departed saints, distinctively titling NT pastors "priests," the assumption, etc. as doctrine.

And which has been shown in extensive debate here in the past.

And, I will remind us all again, that the evil of our times is increasing exponentially. Let us cease arguing over such things and commit ourselves to prayer for the conversion of the MANY peoples who have no clue of what is coming.

But which places you at odds with RCs which interpret Rome as teaching Prots need conversion, while the feeling is mutual among evangelicals here.

388 posted on 09/05/2014 8:12:41 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: painter; Elsie
. Water being grace. Now the glass is filled to the brim. (Full of grace)If you take a small spoonful out like committing a small sin removes some your grace from your soul.

You argument is based upon the refuted premise that Lk. 1:28 says Mary is full of grace (and uniquely so), but which it simply does not say. Kecharitomene (one form of the verb "charitoo") in Lk. 1:28, is never used for "full" elsewhere, but Lk. 1:28 simply says she was graced, favored, enriched with grace, as in Eph.1:6.

Much more technical here :

And evidently the translators of the official Catholic NAB Bible also render Lk. 1:28 as "Hail, favored one!"

Nor does kecharitomene being a perfect passive participle translate into meaning a "a perfection of grace," or distinctively a past action, in distinction to echaritosen (another form of the verb "charitoo") used in Eph. 1:6, as there also it refers to a present state based upon a past action, "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted [echaritosen] in the beloved." (Ephesians 1:6) More at source.

,In contrast, the only one (though Stephen in Acts 6:8, in some mss) said to be full of grace is the Lord Jesus, "full ("plērēs) of grace (charis) and truth." (Jn. 1:14) The reason "plērēs" is not used in Lk. 1:28 is because plērēs actually does denote "full" 17 other places in the NT., and thus it is used of the one who was/is unmistakably full of grace and Truth. If Mary was perfectly full of grace as bearing Christ then it would say she was full of grace, but it does not.

The attempt to make Mary like Christ is just one more example of Cath. thinking of mortals "above that which is written." (1Cor. 4:6)

For in the the Catholic quest to almost deify Mary, it is taught by Catholics*,

Mary was a holy, virtuous instrument of God, but of whom Scripture says relatively little, while holy fear ought to restrain ascribing positions, honor, glory and powers to a mortal that God has not revealed as given to them, and or are only revealed as being possessed by God Himself. But like as the Israelites made an instrument of God an object of worship, (Num. 21:8,9; 2Kg. 18:4) Catholics have magnified Mary far beyond what is written and warranted and even allowed, based on what is in Scripture.

And Swan stated ,

I was though pleased recently to hear Roman Catholic Magisterium interpreter Jimmy Akin say of Luke 1:28 on the word kecharitomene: "This is a Greek term that you could use in that exact grammatical formation for someone else who wasn't immaculately conceived and the sentence would still make sense." He then gives the example of using the term of Mary's grandmother. He also stated, "This is something where I said previously, we need the additional source of information from tradition and we need the guidance of the magisterium to be able to put these pieces together." This is a frank admission that the text does not plainly support the Roman Catholic interpretation and needs to be supplemented by another ultimate authority. In other words, the IC must be read into Luke 1:28.

More .

389 posted on 09/05/2014 8:14:41 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: caww
I attended a Nazarene church while traveling...their central teachings of Christianity are clearly their focus so I had no issues. Most churches deviate when it comes to other issues to some degree or another....but the centrality of Jesus Christ and the Gospel message is pretty much across the board in most Evangelical churches....though even they are under attack today by “popular” culture and the Emergent Church teachings.

This is true, and is due to a shared conversion by faith in the word of Truth, and relationship with the Lord Jesus, resulting in a basic essential unity of the Spirit - Christ in them and they in Christ - that is greater than their differences, and manifest in the multitudinous ministries consisting of believers from various evang. churches.

Yet this is still basically a remnant, as many are not actually converted, or many of us are yet not humbled and committed enough to accept one another as Christ accepted us, and to contend for the Truth and rescue the perishing.

390 posted on 09/05/2014 8:54:12 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Elsie

Too simplistic. That’s is the stuff you hear from uneducated corner street pastors. Or even the Joel Osteens and Billy Grahams. Just as 1+1=2 is dogma based on reason and inquiry. Catholic teachings are based on intellectual inquiry backed by history, tradition and scripture. It’s the teaching handed down from the Christ to his apostles and carried through an unbroken chain of authority for over 2000 years embraced by theologians and scholars of every stripe and nomination. Scripture itself records that not all things said and done by Christ is found in the Bible.

From nobel laureates, astronomers, artists, sculptors, mathematicians, poets, and famed writers and scientists to the ordinary folks who lived through the apparitions at Lourdes and Fatima believe in the One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic faith. This is why it has attracted the largest number of converts from all the other faiths of the world including the Chief Rabbi of Rome, the former General Secretary of the British Communist Party, and more recently America’s own leading Lutheran theologian, the late Richard Neuhaus. Go read, why America’s scholar-politician Bobby Jindal converted from Hinduism to Catholicism.


391 posted on 09/05/2014 9:23:47 AM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: huldah1776

I copied and pasted. I don’t type in anything but English.


392 posted on 09/05/2014 9:28:57 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: painter
Think of it this way. Your soul is like a glass of water. Water being grace. Now the glass is filled to the brim. (Full of grace)If you take a small spoonful out like committing a small sin removes some your grace from your soul.

it's not full anymore.

Well, religion class taught you wrong.

Romans 5:20-21 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

393 posted on 09/05/2014 9:32:38 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RegulatorCountry

The Catholics are able to grant Luther some leniency since he worshipped Christ’s mother. The logic seems to be you Protestants are anathema but if you pray to Mary the way Luther did, we can at least have a civil conversation!


394 posted on 09/05/2014 9:33:16 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: SumProVita
You misjudge. No Catholic should ever *use* an argument from silence to justify anything as being true. I was not attempting to anything of the sort. Perhaps I did not state it carefully enough.

Then perhaps Catholics can then toss the *The Bible doesn't say Mary was assumed, therefore we can teach that she did, after all Enoch and Elijah were so she must have been.* argument from silence.

395 posted on 09/05/2014 9:34:16 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Steelfish

Catholics sure love their credentials.

Being a respecter of persons is a sin, as per James, Catholic’s favorite book of the Bible.

The wisdom of man is foolishness in God’s sight. I wouldn’t go about bragging on intellectual abilities what with what God says about it in 1 Corinthians 1 & 2.


396 posted on 09/05/2014 9:37:02 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: painter; Elsie

Grace is shown to us in spite of our sins. Mary in her response to Elizabeth referred to the fruit of her womb as the “Lord of her Salvation”. She was a sinner as much as any of us but in her Obedience to God, she was shown grace and mercy and her sins were forgiven her.

You don’t lose grace if you have sinned but repent and ask forgiveness. Paul says the “inner man is renewed day by day”! The Glass is always kept full!


397 posted on 09/05/2014 9:40:12 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6; RegulatorCountry; Springfield Reformer; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; ...
The Catholics are able to grant Luther some leniency since he worshipped Christ’s mother. The logic seems to be you Protestants are anathema but if you pray to Mary the way Luther did, we can at least have a civil conversation!

That's a tacit admission that Catholics worship Mary if I ever saw one.

398 posted on 09/05/2014 9:41:22 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

This Bible you speak of did not drop from the skies. The book was selected by the early Church Fathers based on historical and intellectual inquiry, tradition and revelation. Throwing out little snippets form the Bible is precisely the kind of stuff the Osteens, Jim Jones’, and David Koresh’s did and oh! what a following of fools they have.


399 posted on 09/05/2014 9:41:55 AM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: metmom; mdmathis6
mdmathis6: The Catholics are able to grant Luther some leniency since he worshipped Christ’s mother. The logic seems to be you Protestants are anathema but if you pray to Mary the way Luther did, we can at least have a civil conversation!

metmom: That's a tacit admission that Catholics worship Mary if I ever saw one.

I can't argue with that!

400 posted on 09/05/2014 9:55:04 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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