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To: RetiredArmy

She was not, and you will never be able to provide Scripture to prove otherwise, that she was no longer heard of in Scripture after Acts.

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You are welcome for my sharing the verse from Acts to correct what you first stated:

*** The Scriptures tell nothing of her doing anything after the crucifixion.***

You say: She is not preaching, writing Scripture, providing insite (sic), providing the Gospel.

There is nothing written about any such actions on her part in the scriptures. However, we do not know ALL that happened in the lives of the Apostles, disciples and with Mary. I would think it natural for her to share insight from all those things she kept in her heart about Jesus. I would think it natural and probable that she was asked to share about some of that by John and the others. As for sharing the Gospel, It is quite likely that she shared this precisely because of her devotion to her Son. All of us, who are called followers of Christ are called to do just that.

You say: You can believe whatever it is you believe and I will follow the Gospel of 1 Corth (sic) 15: 1-4. No where there is Mary mentioned.

Thank you. I will continue to believe in God’s plan of salvation as revealed in the beauty and majesty of the entire Bible. I will also continue to show great respect for the Mother of my Savior.


331 posted on 09/04/2014 12:58:49 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: SumProVita

If you continue to believe that Salvation comes through Mary, you are in for a shock. You continue to believe a false gospel if you will, that is your choice and your fault. We are finished here friend. I don’t follow false gospels and am not going to argue the point with you or any other that believes it comes through Mary. Any others that want to jump on that ship, I am not going to argue with you either. End of conversation. Good bye.


334 posted on 09/04/2014 1:36:49 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: SumProVita; RetiredArmy
There is nothing written about any such actions on her part in the scriptures. However, we do not know ALL that happened in the lives of the Apostles, disciples and with Mary. I would think it natural for her to share insight from all those things she kept in her heart about Jesus.

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. But while such maybe allowed for speculation, yet it is simply untenable for doctrine.

Rastafarianism believes that Solomon had a child with the Queen of Sheba, who had visited Solomon in Israel. Since there is nothing that excludes this - except that the Holy Spirit characteristically records even less notable aspects of Biblical subjects - then a consistent RC must contend this could become an official belief.

Likewise, having zero examples of any prayers to anyone in Heaven but the Lord among the close to 200 in Scripture, or any testimony of anyone but the Lord being able to hear and respond to virtually innumerable incessant prayers addressed to them - or even a distinction btwn believers of saints and non-saints - yet Catholicism teaches the heretical doctrine of prayers to departed saints .

Moreover, while Mary is highly blessed among women, and is to be honored according to what is written, this does not translate in the type of supererogation of praise seen in Catholicism, in which humble Mary is made into an almost almighty demigoddess to whom "Jesus owes His Precious Blood" to,

whose [Mary] merits we are saved by,

who "had to suffer, as He did, all the consequences of sin,"

and "was elevated to a certain equality with the Heavenly Father,"

even so that “sometimes salvation is quicker if we remember Mary's name then if we invoked the name of the Lord Jesus,"

for indeed saints have "but one advocate," and that is Mary, who "alone art truly loving and solicitous for our salvation,"

and whose power now "is all but unlimited,"

for indeed she "seems to have the same power as God,"

"surpassing in power all the angels and saints in Heaven,"

so that "the Holy Spirit acts only by the Most Blessed Virgin, his Spouse."

Moreover, "there is no grace which Mary cannot dispose of as her own, which is not given to her for this purpose,"

and who has "authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven,"

including "assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels,"

whom the good angels "unceasingly call out to," greeting her "countless times each day with 'Hail, Mary,' while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests,"

and who (obviously) cannot "be honored to excess,"

and who is (obviously) the glory of Catholic people, whose "honor and dignity surpass the whole of creation." Sources .

Yet as i have said before, one would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, and as having Divine powers and glory, and making offerings and beseeching such for Heavenly help, directly accessed by mental prayer.

Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?

More .

373 posted on 09/05/2014 5:56:25 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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