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| 12/3/14
| Mark Andrews
Posted on 12/10/2014 6:32:20 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: vladimir998
In any case, Kenrick still believed in papal infallibility. His view was that it was exercised in union with the worlds bishops. That still means his view rejects every contrary Protestant view. Its always funny when Protestant anti-Catholics - not really knowing what theyre talking about - cite a Catholic as an ally to their heretical views when that same Catholic still doesnt believe what Protestants believe and in fact believes something much closer to what the Protestants are condemning. The Protestant anti-Catholics are usually too stupid to realize that is the case. Archbishop Kenrick submitted obediently to the decision of the Council. He died. The Church didnt. The papacy didnt. Papal Infallibility didnt either.
Then Kenrick was just as lost, walking in darkness, as many men are even today.
To: Arthur McGowan
The title was never intended to imply that Mary gave birth to the Second Person of the Trinity in eternity. But the title, the mother of God DOES imply that she is not only the mother of the Second Person of the Trinity in eternity but also that she is the mother of the GODHEAD.
642
posted on
12/11/2014 3:21:51 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: vladimir998
Perhaps, but clearly not as fruitful.
Clearly.
But let another judge instead of you.
To: Arthur McGowan
But since he is one Person, not two persons, and because she is his mother, she is called Mother of God. Which denies His humanity and the Incarnation.
Calling her the mother of Jesus recognizes both natures.
644
posted on
12/11/2014 3:22:48 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: ReaganGeneration2
She is a help.
For what purpose?
Jesus isn't enough for you?
To: Resettozero
So, what is YOUR explanation for the UNUSUAL behavior of the early Christians when it comes to any possible relics of Mary? Perhaps the early Christians NEVER gave Mary the mother of God label. Perhaps they never made statues of her or prayed to her or in her name. Maybe the RCC did that at some later time?
When people suddenly change the subject, they call their intellectual honesty into question
You have just changed the subject. We weren't discussing any of Mary's "titles." We were discussing the total absence from history of any claim, by anyone, to have the body of Mary or any part of it.
Since the early Christians normally treasured the bodies of holy persons--such as the apostles--the ABSENCE of any such phenomenon in connection with Mary is a positive fact that demands an explanation.
What is your explanation for this totally uncharacteristic behavior by the entire early Church?
To: af_vet_1981; metmom
The Catholic Church says that Jesus has two natures, a human nature and a divine nature. Jesus did not get His divine nature from Mary. Or perhaps you claim that Jesus got His divine nature from Mary?
647
posted on
12/11/2014 3:23:46 PM PST
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Which is NOT a command of Jesus to believers.
Posting it as if it were will lead someone to the wrong interpretation of that passage.
What Jesus said when He spoke those words, is Matthew 18:15-18 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
For all the criticism non=Catholics receive about cherry picking verses and taking them out of context, there is simply no way anyone is going to one up this abuse of Scripture.
Taking a fragment of a sentence and posting it as a command of Jesus' is the ultimate in cherry picking verses to support a doctrine.
It will lead to deception.
648
posted on
12/11/2014 3:27:49 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Resettozero
Won't grieve you any further, af_vet-1981. But careful slinging around phrases from Scripture you plainly do not understand. Do you deny Mary is the mother of Emmanuel ? Do you deny Emmanuel is "God with Us?"
Being reflexively an antiCatholic protester does not make one a Christian who listens to and walks in the Holy Spirit.
649
posted on
12/11/2014 3:30:29 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Why would God, choosing and ordering all things from eternity, and willing to give us His precious and perfect Son, choose a damaged mother with a blasted, twisted human nature who wasn't even as good as Eve was, fresh from th hand of God in Eden.He was tempted in every way, just as we are and yet was without sin.
Being raised by a perfect mother would not enable Him to share fully in our humanity and identify fully with it.
And why would this defective specimen (Mary) then be called "Blessed among women," and "Kecharitomene" when she wasn't even as good as Original Eve?
Because where sin abounds, grace much more abounds.
Eve didn't need grace. Only sinners need grace.
650
posted on
12/11/2014 3:30:56 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: vladimir998
What is consistent is that Protestant anti-Catholics have little or no idea...
You misintrepret Christian FReepers' responses which are intended to expose the myriad fallacies and soul-entrapping unBiblical heavy-handed teachings of the RCC, a well-known and pervasive cult still enslaving millions to an ancient form of religion without their comprehension or even awareness of it.
Not a "Protestant anti-Catholic". I protest that label.
To: metmom
A—Helen is the mother of William.
B—William is a fireman.
Ergo: Helen is the mother of a fireman.
1) Is there a logical error in the above syllogism?
2) Does the above syllogism logically imply that William is not a pianist?
Please answer question number one, which is a Yes-or-No question.
After you have done that, please answer question number two, which is also a Yes-or-No question.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Otherwise we are all nothing but ventriloquists' dummies, sock-puppets, androids, and this world is the Matrix and whole shebang is a farce. Scripture tells us that we are slaves to sin.
We don't have free will.
653
posted on
12/11/2014 3:32:46 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Arthur McGowan
>>I am implying that the early Christian community all BELIEVED something that would result in NO ONE believing ANY claim by ANYONE--true or false--to have a corpse or any relics of Mary.<<
Universally known yet not one mention by either secular or religious writers. Wow! The likelihood of that is nil.
654
posted on
12/11/2014 3:33:18 PM PST
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: Mrs. Don-o
655
posted on
12/11/2014 3:33:41 PM PST
by
Syncro
(Benghazi-LIES/CoverupIRS-LIES/CoverupDOJ-NO Justice--Etc Marxist Treason IMPEACH!)
To: Mrs. Don-o; Dutchboy88
Bowing down in a country dance is not bowing down before a carved image, which is what the pope was clearly doing in the image posted.
I’ve seen these kinds of mental gymnastics before in trying to justify calling priests *Father* for example.
656
posted on
12/11/2014 3:35:59 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Arthur McGowan
What is your explanation for this totally uncharacteristic behavior by the entire early Church?
I've given possible answers on several posts to you. That you ignore what I answered and that you continue this barrage as if you have backed me into some non-existent corner, is starting to amount to harassment. Would you like to continue ask me again the same unprovable (by either one of us) questions again?
Asked and answered. Drop the nonsense, Art.
To: ReaganGeneration2; Resettozero
>>have not shown how any truly Catholic Marian teaching is in conflict with the Bible.<<
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Please show where the apostles taught the assumption of Mary.
658
posted on
12/11/2014 3:37:14 PM PST
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: CynicalBear
The Catholic Church says that Jesus has two natures, a human nature and a divine nature. Is this teaching of God or man ? What sayest thou ?
659
posted on
12/11/2014 3:37:24 PM PST
by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: Arthur McGowan; CynicalBear
Mary IS the mother of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the incarnate Word, the Second Person of the Trinity. Mary is the mother of the Incarnate word, not the second person of the trinity.
Therefore she is the mother of Jesus, not the mother of God.
660
posted on
12/11/2014 3:38:43 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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