Posted on 10/20/2015 12:34:51 AM PDT by OrthodoxIndianCatholic
You really have that big of a problem with Jesus being God? Or is it just that you don't believe in the Holy Trinity? We don't say "Holy Mary, mother of the Father" after all.
His answer was none of the above. evidently mindreading Jesus.
Mindreading? Really?
I don’t pretend to be able to read the mind of Jesus, for who has known the mind of God?
But after the priest made the statement that for Jesus, it was the Father, reading Scripture since then has made me realize how true it is.
Can you read Holy Scripture without realizing that the Father was foremost in the mind of Jesus?
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Wasting your time on that one.
Must be a catholic.
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These guys are selling ice cubes to Eskimos.
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But yall do say she’s we’d to the Holy Spirit.
Hard to get folks out of a cult.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
“As regards the oft-quoted Mt. 16:18, note the following bishops promise in the profession of faith of Vatican 1”
You think you’re making some sort of big point? You’re not: CCC 424. An anti-Catholic simply can’t understand because bigotry closes his mind.
The end result is always the same: Elsie is wrong. That won’t change.
Do not make comments on a personal level, discuss the issues.
Do not broad brush a group as bigots.
“It is she who has suckled Him, nourished Him, supported Him, brought Him up, and then sacrificed Him for us.”
Mary can only take any credit for nursing Him, which ANY mother would have done for her child.
She did not raise Him single-handedly, there is no record that she supported Him, and she most certainly did not sacrifice Him for us. She did not offer Jesus as a sacrifice for our sins to appease God.
Catholics seem have this problem in understanding just who did the laying down of Jesus' life. Nobody gave us Jesus so that we could in turn offer Him to God for the propitiation of our sins. He is not being used by anybody to appease God.
Jesus offered up Himself, taking the punishment for our sins upon Himself to satisfy the justice of God.
Mary did nothing for Him that any other mother would not have done for their child. Scripture gives every indication that she didn't really understand Jesus and His ministry while He was still alive on this planet.
She can't take any more credit for what God did through her than anyone else can take for what God does through them. Nor does she deserve it.
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