Posted on 06/16/2019 4:55:18 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
In Captains Courageous, with Spencer Tracey, Freddy Batholomew is a blowhard millionaire's son who is socially, poorly adjusted. He uses his father's incredible wealth, to bully his classmates and even his teacher, but he's roundly disliked, and ostracized. While on an ocean liner, he unsuccessfully tries to impress some other boys by eating 5 ice cream sodas. When he has to throw up, to escape the mocking boys, he runs into a lifeboat area to evade their ridicule while purging his overindulgence, and manages to fall overboard into the ocean.
Instances of people falling overboard into the open ocean are rather commonly reported in the news. Usually they are lost, but if by chance their accidents are observed and a life-preserver is thrown to them, is that the end of the story, do we just say, "oh, well, you have a floatation device, you're okay now"?
No, we have to pull them in. The life-preserver, the lifesaver, is only part of the formula for saving their lives. There is also a rope, which must be attached to the life-preserver, and must be used to finally accomplish their salvation.
Jesus Christ is the one mediator between God and man. But on the man side of the equation, unlike the radical individuality most typified by J.J. Rousseau, we who life the life of Christians do so in communities. But even then, we do not abide as atomistic individualists. We live our Jesus-oriented life in relation to our fellows. "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Hebrews 10:25.
Jesus' first disciple was his mother, who gave us the total account of his early life and who "treasured these things up in her heart". "A sword will pierce your own soul too, so that the secret thoughts of many hearts might be revealed". On the cross, he gave his mother to John to take in his home, but when you take your master's mother, she takes care of you.
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had borne the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood. But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth. Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. - Rev 11:19 -- 12:17
She forms the body of Christ. She schools her son's disciples. Those who won't attend her school, remain ignorant.
We are in a time when any merely human institution would be washed away. Our churches are going under the shadow of a new Heresy of Ba'al of Peor, as when the Hebrew people were successfully attacked and overwhelmed through human sexuality. Our churches are now pro-gay and as soon as the civil authority authorizes child sex, they will be indistinguishable from the denizens of the town of Sodom: "Bring them out that we may know them".
Jesus' mother forms the few of the elect who will resist being fooled by the great apostasy. Those who will not avail themselves of the lifeline of Mary, will be lost.
You must have a different version of. Luke 1 because their is no early account of Jesus life in there except for a passing reference...
That’s the image of God I was raised with as a Catholic.
Ephesus? That are also had a tradition:
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. (Acts 19:27-28)
Marys unparalleled stature as a figure to whom the faithful sought recourse grew through the slow accumulation of a complex matrix..An ever-growing stock of inventive literary images and elaborate phraseology embellished the liturgy.
Pelikan observes there is no altogether incontestable evidence that it was used before the fourth century, despite Newmans categorical claim that the title Theotocos, or Mother of God, was familiar to Christians from primitive times.
Carroll contends there is little evidence or no evidence that anything like the Mary cult existed during the first four centuries of the Christian Church.
Par for the Catholic course, but tradition is and means what they say, based on tradition.
Thanks. Is your whole paper online?
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Speaking of jihad, my catholic dad told me, that if a man dies, fighting for his country, he would go to Heaven. Have you ever heard of anything so ridiculous in your life? It just goes to show you some of the weird beliefs that some Catholics have.
Roman Catholicism's version of jihad.
I was wondering where it came from. I couldnt believe my dad made it up out of thin air.
placemark
“You have no idea.”
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Mind reading is making it personal.
Salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, not in anyway by works placemaker.
??? I’m very aware of that. Not sure who your post was for.
It’s just a self-set reminder to come back to the thread later and see what’s happening on it.
Some official theology is influenced by it, while RC apologists argue for such desired beliefs as Mary being a type of vestal virgin (yet extrapolating from othwer sources for it).
For the Roman Catholic, who seemingly elevates "tradition" to a position equal to, and in many cases, superior to Scripture, to continue to rely upon this discredited and rejected writing is telling.
Rome presumes to be as God.
It was the charge of the Reformers that the Catholic doctrines were not primitive, and their pretension was to revert to antiquity. But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. "I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. Its past is present with it, for both are one to a mind which is immutable. Primitive and modern are predicates, not of truth, but of ourselves.... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour." Dr. Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Lord Archbishop of Westminster, The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost: Or Reason and Revelation, (New York: J.P. Kenedy & Sons, originally written 1865, reprinted with no date), pp. 227-228.
Its just a self-set reminder to come back to the thread later and see whats happening on it.
The conflation of the Catholic Org with the actual One True Church of Jesus The Christ made up of ALL believers across time and not an institution has deep roots. Deception at it’s most refined! We confront it almost daily right here in Freerepublic ... and I am certain the posters know they are conflating for empowerment of their Org (rhymes with Borg).
The forthcoming "why not" should prove interesting.
You Catholics appear prepped for looking for SIGNS in the sky.
Good luck with the next one.
Matthew 24:24-25
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time.
Are we having a contest to find the most crazy non sequitar ever published??
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