Posted on 06/05/2007 10:53:58 AM PDT by Frank Sheed
I asked a serious question based on your comment about a non Catholic praying the rosary in labor. Does Mary open and close the womb? Do Catholics pray to her to be pregnant? To have a quick and safe delivery?
It was a DISGUSTING remark and you KNOW it. NEVER write me again.
How do you know this? What is the source of your knowledge?
Are they omnipresent?
That's what I was looking for, we also pray for others & ourselves. What do you think praying for others does *to* us?
I already understand & knew the info in the rest of your post.
He is not the Father of all men. He is only the father of the saved, that are the adopted sons of God.
The fatherhood of God to all men is a false teaching that comes from the pit of hell
God Blesses the saved and the unsaved according to His will.
David asked why the heathen prospers, a question we might ask today :)
I prefer scripture to a Pope.
Do you have a scripture that shows the pattern of praying to another to help one mediate on God ?
Supernatural does not always mean it is from God, there is another supernatural force.
I checked wiki & it said the term berliner for donut is regional, outside of Berlin, so his gaffe went unnoticed by his audience in Berlin.
I know that.
Do you have a scripture that shows the pattern of praying to another to help one mediate on God ?
Can't help ya. I've pointed in the direction you need to go.
It was only “disgusting “ because you know who opens the womb .. and you took the glory from HIM with your comment
Some people are seriously deranged by anger and hatred and some people and their views become an abomination to those who live in love. May God change their heart, and TRULY let them see Him.
You are SICK and you need help.
So you have a spiritual practice you can not prove by the word of God? Doesn't that give you any pause?
Are you?
For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife" (Gen. 20:17-18).
"When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb...And Leah conceived, and bare a son" (Gen. 29:31-32).
"Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?" (Gen. 30:1-2).
"God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived" (Gen. 30:17).
"God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb" (Gen. 30:22). ,
Of the parents of John the Baptist
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years...But the angel said unto him...Zacharias...thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear the a son, and thou shalt call his name John" (Lk. 1:7, 13).
Glory to God that opens the womb and causes life to grow !
All praise to God that in His wisdom closes a womb for His purpose.
All life is subject to God, not Mary
Tiki it is ok if that is a question you can not honestly answer and still hold your belief
Yes, I am a Fourth Degree Knight but “YOPIOS” has nothing to do with the Catholic Church or with the Knights of Columbus! It is not a secret code word or anything (unless I am in the dark myself!).
I first saw it on a knock-off of a “Cheerios” box with Martin Luther on the front with the initials YOPIOS spelled out. In small font, the letters stand for “Your Own Personal Interpretation of Scripture.” It is a gif image and Petronski is fond of using it.
Needless to say, it raises the hackles of some parties when it is posted. The term “YOPIOS” is imagined by some to concede total ignorance of Scripture by Catholics (although we hear and read more Scripture daily than many Protestants will concede). The term YOPIOS refers to the independent authority of biblical interpretation be it personal, what your Pastor says, or whatever. The Church has guidelines in the Catechism which lay out the way Scripture is and always has been interpreted by the Church. Fr. John Corapi is fond of going over them in his retreats and so on.
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“Ich bin ein Berliner” mit ein umlaude!
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