Posted on 12/31/2015 4:29:48 PM PST by NYer
With the emphasis clearly on Christ.
>>>>Catholics have made Mary the focus When the only need for Mary was to give Jesus a human body...Jesus wasn’t born to a mother for our salvation...Jesus died for our salvation...<<<<<
First, God who has a mother does not treat his family poorly, nor should Christians not honor those are God’s handiwork and cooperate in it. Mary did more for mankind than any general or king save Jesus himself. We honor great figures, so with Mary.
Second,
>>>For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness;
behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed.—Luke 1:48<<<
Why do you therefore not call her blessed?
No,that is a Eastern Christian icon.
God does not have a mother.
Then why is it in a catholic article I wonder?
Happy 2016. Let us love one another and put away the divisions.
Jesus is God. Jesus is one person both God and Man. Jesus has a mother. God has a mother.
Jesus who is Man could die for our sins. God who died for our sins.
If Jesus was only a man and not both God and Man your faith is in vain.
If God can die on the cross, God must be born of a mother.
Also. Motherhood does not diminish Godhood, since no where in the definition of the term does motherhood imply sole pro-generation. That does not even exist in natural reality.
Does this mean Mary is the mother of the Holy Spirit as well??
>>Does this mean Mary is the mother of the Holy Spirit as well??<<<
No. She is the Mother of Jesus. Is Jesus not God?
To clarify, Jesus the Son died for our sins.
>>Is the Holy Spirit not part of the Trinity?<<<
Ok. God question. Yes. The Holy Spirit is one of the persons of the trinity.
Is a person of the trinity God? (Yes)
Is a person of the trinity only a part of God?
The Trinity is also professed By Catholics to be One God in three distinct persons which are of the same essence. Each person is God. But neither is it the case that one person in the trinity is not without distinct relations which are incommunicable to the other persons.
The Son is not the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is not the Father, but they are one God.
Catholic logic never ceases to amaze me.
>>To clarify, Jesus the Son died for our sins.<<
In that statement can we also say that God did die for our sins?
Jesus is fully God and fully Man in one person.
Catholic logic never ceases to amaze me.
We’ll you’re bumping up into the Nicene Creed right now.
God’s name was not “changed” to Jesus. The name Jesus comes from the words that mean “Yahweh saves”. God’s personal name, the one He gave to Moses is still I AM - the self-existent one. The tetragrammaton is YHWH or JHWH. Jesus is Yahweh with us - Immanuel.
Mary, Mother of God. If she’s not important then why did satanist dump blood over her likeness on her son’s b-day?
These people picked the wrong person to be doing a “Yo Mama” on.
Now THAT'S funny.
30,000 leaders? Are you insinuating that there are 30,000 Protestant denominations? If so, name them! Or, if not, name the 30,000 leaders. Since you're making the assertion (debunked myriad times, by the way), then YOU furnish the proof.
As for the RCC being the protector of the Christian faith, that is laughable. The RCC teaches that Catholics and Muslims worship the same 'God' --- if that's so, I don't see the RCC protecting a faith it apparently denies in CCC 841.
By the way: can you reconcile the teaching in CCC 969 with 1 Timothy 2:5? Or do you agree the RCC is in error? God CAN'T be wrong, so that leaves the RCC. Agree or no?
Happy New Year
Hoss
Or, better yet, read God's Word instead of the pablum spewed out by the "Church"---
Happy New Year
Hoss
Hoss
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