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To: StormPrepper
No messenger sent from God will ever be sent as an apparition.

Oh, you mean like when Moses and Elijah appeared in person during the transfiguration?

Oh, for extra bonus points the Transfiguration, is the fourth decade of the Rosary on Thursdays (The Luminous Mysteries). You mull over each of the points in turn below during each successive "Hail Mary."

The Fourth Luminous Mystery

THE TRANSFIGURATION

1. Jesus took Peter, James and John up a high mountain to pray.

2. Jesus was transfigured before them.

3. "His face became as dazzling as the sun, his clothes as radiant as light."

4. This was to fortify their faith to withstand the coming tragedy of the Passion.

5. Jesus foresaw the 'scandal of the cross,' and prepared them for it by this manifestation of His glory.

6. Moses and Elias (representing the Law and the prophets of the Old Testament) were conversing with Jesus about His Passion.

7. "Do not think I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets... but to fulfill them."

8. From a cloud came a voice: "This is my beloved Son, listen to Him."

9. Jesus admonishes them not to tell the vision to anyone until the Son of Man rises from the dead.

10. We too will behold the transfigured Jesus on the Last Day.

187 posted on 08/01/2017 5:47:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
>>No messenger sent from God will ever be sent as an apparition.<<

Oh, you mean like when Moses and Elijah appeared in person during the transfiguration?

This was not an apparition. This was clearly understood by those who saw it.

The same cannot be said of the apparitions Roman Catholics claim to be Mary.

196 posted on 08/01/2017 7:10:57 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: grey_whiskers
Oh, you mean like when Moses and Elijah appeared in person during the transfiguration?

Moses and Elijah appearing and talking to Jesus are not the same category of event that is being claimed of Fatima.

They did not appear to multitudes nor give instructions to believers for them to follow.

210 posted on 08/01/2017 9:41:00 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: grey_whiskers
6. Moses and Elias (representing the Law and the prophets of the Old Testament) were conversing with Jesus about His Passion.

Oh?

Who mindread what was going on here?

You or the guys back at headquarters??


Matthew 17:1-8
Douay-Rheims Bible

1 AND after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: 2 And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow. 3 And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with him. 4 And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5 And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him. 6 And the disciples hearing, fell upon their face, and were very much afraid. 7 And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them, Arise, and fear not. 8 And they lifting up their eyes saw no one but only Jesus.

220 posted on 08/02/2017 4:15:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: grey_whiskers
Oh, you mean like when Moses and Elijah appeared in person during the transfiguration?

An apparition is a ghost. God doesn't turn people in to ghosts.

I'm really not sure what a "Hail Mary" is supposed to accomplish... God doesn't give deference to chanting. It's not a real prayer because you're not actually communicating with deity. But, you're not addressing God, you're chanting at Mary.

Amos 3
7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

This is an eternal law that God will not break. Everything that God reveals to man has to come through a prophet. Can you name the prophet that revealed the doctrine of the "rosary"?
243 posted on 08/02/2017 6:30:18 AM PDT by StormPrepper
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