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To: daniel1212

The fact that you quote that her body was found incorrupt after 60 years doesn’t amaze you?

The Tilma in Mexico City has the same sort of inexplicable image as the Shroud of Turin. And it is on a vegetable based piece of cloth that should have decayed centuries ago. But of course you can probably find someone who says it’s fake.


118 posted on 02/05/2020 2:51:55 PM PST by RichardMoore (Without the protection of life all other right are void, dump TV and follow a plant based diet)
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To: RichardMoore
Why does Catholicism feel a NEED to 'preserve' the body of a 'saint'?

Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead."

122 posted on 02/05/2020 5:32:12 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: RichardMoore; Elsie
The fact that you quote that her body was found incorrupt after 60 years doesn’t amaze you?

No, because the term can mean no no apparent corruption, while as what I quoted states,

According to Church doctrine, incorruptibility alone can’t be counted as a miracle anymore. More sophisticated scientific explanations as well as mistakes found in hundreds of years of preservation records have forced the Church to reconsider which saints deserved the title in the first place....

small differences in temperature, moisture, and construction techniques lead to some tombs producing naturally preserved bodies while others in the same church didn’t....

Once the incorrupt bodies were removed from these climates or if the climates changed, they deteriorated. This may have been what happened to St. Francesca Romana who was deemed incorrupt four months after her death in 1440 only to be found fully skeletonized in 1698 (though you still hear people refer to her as incorrupt)... https://psmag.com/environment/incorruptible-bodies-saints-religion-catholicism-pope-john-paul-94892

Plus such accounts have their counterpart in false religions, as cited: [Buddhist] Monk's Body Miraculously Intact 80 Years After Death

And the devil can do some miracles, and will do so, (2 Thessalonians 2:9) and believers are to "believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.' (1 John 4:1)

Which testing is done in the light of Scripture, which even the veracity of the apostles was tested by. (Acts 17:11) Which manifests that the Mary of Catholicism is not that the holy, pious virtuous Spirit-filled Mary of Scripture, but a diversion of devotion and faith, dressed in Christian clothing.

However, in addition to the above, the big problem for your faith is that while the only appearance of the incarnated Christ on earth was in human form, and the only physical body He had suffered no corruption, yet not only does your Eucharistic christ appear in an inanimate form that (as in Gnosticism) does not correspond to what He materially was, but it suffers corruption.

123 posted on 02/05/2020 5:32:22 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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