Posted on 08/02/2017 2:07:44 PM PDT by detective
Wow. A pair of feet. Can’t answer the question can you?
I don’t answer, “Have you stopped beating your wife?” questions from heretics, let alone from you.
When you become a Catholic, I’ll answer any reasonable questions you may have.
I ask a simple question. You can’t answer. By not answering you’ve answered.
Here’s a simple quesiton, “Have you stopped beating your homosexual lovers?”
dulia, latria, hyperdulia
Semantic hairsplitting to excuse away the obvious.
That which we call a rose by any other name.
The big problem that Catholics face is that without even attributing intent since they constantly deny they *worship* Mary, is that the actions can be clearly seen and it is then clearly seen that Catholics break the 2nd Commandment.
Yes, some translations say not to worship images, but they all say to not bow down before them and that Catholics bow down before images is obvious and clearly and objectively seen.
They cannot deny the physical actions that occur.
They can call it what they want, but actions are actions.
Exodus 20:4-6 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Yeah, well when people invent terms and then claim others are ignorant for not knowing them, that is disingenuous.
Do not bow down before them.
Do not bow down before them.
Do not bow down before them.
LOL! I hear better arguments from fifth graders.
I’m sure your conversant with your peers.
You must really be lonely. No one to play with?
I produce the entire verse from John 12:26 for context.
. 26“If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. John 12:26 NASB
I don’t stalk non-Catholic threads.
You just stalk in general.
I’ll come to the Blessed Mother’s defense, especially on Catholic threads, when She’s attacked by the likes of you.
Roman Catholics are actually dishonoring Christ when they worship Mary by erecting idols of her, kneeling before them, consecrating their hearts to Mary, calling her Mediatrix, Redemptrix, etc.
The vast majority of Roman Catholic positions on Mary are in contradiction of the New Testament.
You won't even say if you'd throw away your "statues" of Mary or cease kneeling before them.
And when asked again your resort to your fifth grade antics to avoid dealing with your worship of Mary.
I have never known a being hate the Blessed Mother as much as you and Lucifer.
Haha that’s a very good analogous example of what goes on on these threads every day! It’s too bad it is met with the same kind of resistance.
I honestly don’t know how much better an example could be devised. I really don’t. I think is close to “dust off the sandals” time if not there already.
You err again. But you've had a lot of practice in doing so.
To be clear....I count Mary blessed as recorded by Luke. She was the mother of Christ, wife of Joseph and mother of his children. She was a sinner in need of a Savior who is Jesus.
However, Mary is not our mother, she is not our Mediatrix, she is not our Redemptrix. She did not die on the Cross for our sins. We are not to consecrate our heart to her or completely devote ourselves to her as Roman Catholic writers have written.
You refuse to throw away your idols of Mary and cease kneeling before them. Who is playing into Lucifer's hands?
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