the Mother of the Son of God, tells me she was unique among woman and all of humanity.
'Tis a good thing you clarified the MoG thing; else I'd have to post...
Posted on 07/31/2017 1:18:27 PM PDT by ealgeone
While...
...I am sorry that Rome has shown NO evidence of what you so firmly believe that GOD has done in this pre-forgiving scenario.
I have a scripture that states:
Judges 5:24
King James Bible Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
'Tis a good thing you clarified the MoG thing; else I'd have to post...
That she was chosen to be the GRANDmother of Jesus, the GrandMother of God, or perhaps more specifically,
the GRANDMother of the Son of God, tells me she; too; was unique among woman and all of humanity.
Let’s not leave out Joachim; Jesus’ Grandpa.
HE must have been a fairly unique fella himself.
And just what might JESUS be wanting her to do?
If we are gonna play these geussing games; let's get specific.
You Catholics can RESPECT3 'your lady'!
I'll 'respect' the one found in the bible.
I often wonder whether Mary gets a coffee break.
Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
1 Corinthians 2:9 kjv
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Didja ever wonder just WHO the dead in Christ are?
Rome sends everyone to either Heaven or Puragatory.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 niv
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
No. She simply obeyed and did what was required of her in obedience to God as ALL believers should do.
There are no special rewards for one job over another. God honors obedience. Period.
Doesn't matter what He asked of us because when He calls, He enables so it's not even us doing it in our own strength.
Besides, JESUS said that there was no one born among men greater than John the Baptist. HIS words.
Matthew 11:11Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Luke 7:28 I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
Explain how forgiving someone ahead of time for the sin they commit makes them not commit it.
Forgiveness means that sin has been committed. If there is no sin committed, there is no need for forgiveness.
It’s a statue.
You can prove it was a tear and not just condensation?
And you know WHY it was *crying*?
And what Jesus thinks?
You have a special *in* with Mary and Jesus to know how He’s going to judge?
Honestly, the fantasies Catholics invent around Mary are, well, pretty incredible.
People in hell are alive, too. Your *argument* means nothing.
Yes, the Biblical use of the word *dead* is the common use meaning their physical bodies have died.
Revel in the knowledge that more explanations will surely clear up any misconceptions now being extrapolated herein.
You know, God could have saved the world a lot of grief if He just pre-forgave everyone who was going to become a believer so that they would not sin anymore.
If He could do it for her then why doesn't He do it for everyone?
Well...
Let's try some easy math:
There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;
If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day;
that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.
Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)
...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!
Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!
It is known as Magic Thinking.
Yeah cause Paul was preaching to or speaking about Mary. Yokay.
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