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To: MHGinTN
You're on the right track, Bro. And remember, we have access today to medical techniques and biogenetic practices unimagined by the intelligentsia of the Byzantine times. Not even a microscope or Petri dish, or autoclave, let alone a computer to sequence DNA. So, instead of simply being humble like Daniel, wiser than they, but instead of faking knowledge, he just said, "I don't know," wrote what he did know, and let it rest at that.

"And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord,
what shall be the end of these things?
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed
up and sealed till the time of the end" (Dan. 12:8-9)

With the tools we have today, whose workings our scientists and engineers have laboriously ferreted out of the secrets God has in the laws of nature, we are coming closer to actually understanding what God did in using a godly young woman to be the host of the body of the Savior.

The error-laden suppositions of the theofakirs of Rome have gone galley west. They are just too toweringly proud to admit they have been wrong all along, especially when theorizing about matters God determinedly hid from them as not necessary for their time in history.

No, instead of simply saying "We don't know" about things not open to them, and preaching what they did know, they have tried to force God's revelations, instead of just saying, "I believe. I can't prove, but I believe every word that has been given to us without mending it, bending it, white-washing it, cooking the books, synthesizing a new text, but just resting in Him Who sets limits.

They have just withheld from their gullible sycophants the truth of their ignorance. They have just not admitted they have overstepped their boundaries in spite of God's warnings.

God is going to hammer the pretentious religionists the same way He did the Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes, and rulers who set themselves against Him and against His Christ.

So be it. God may use you, Bro.

"For all your days be prepared,
and meet them ever alike.
When you are the anvil, bear -
when you are the hammer, strike."

- Edwin Markham

385 posted on 03/13/2016 5:10:14 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1; MHGinTN; metmom

The truth is that the dogma of the perpetual virginity and immaculate conception (sinlessness of Mary) as well as her bodily assumption were declared as “divinely revealed” dogmas nearly two thousand years later because of the petitions and insistence of Catholics appealing to the Pope to make it official. Supposed apparitions of Mary as well as testimonies of certain “saints” were cited as the proof. For a Catholic to deny these dogmas would be a denial of “infallibility” and we know they can’t go there. They also cannot allow that such dogmas are optional for non-catholics because that would also be a denial of the necessity of Catholicism being the door by which people are granted salvation. Too much is riding on it.


417 posted on 03/13/2016 7:37:58 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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