Posted on 03/14/2010 12:14:46 PM PDT by NYer
Well, like I said, it took me almost fifty years and a brush with mortality to “get” it.
I knew something was wrong with what I had been taught - but I didn’t realize that there was something so much better out there. The truth.
I am so deeply grateful that I was called out of that! It's all so clear to me now. To think I actually beleived that the Holy Spirit was given to me by a ritual performed upon me when I was a teen.
To compare that to feeling God's Holy Spirit fill me up when I was saved, well, it's just beyond understanding! And I know He will never leave me. I will never have to do this alone! I praise Him, Who brought me out of darkness.
Let me emphasize again . . .
Precious Sister in Christ . . .
I’m writing about the
CARICATURE OF MARY
that satan has successfully foisted on the Roman Catholic et al/Vatican edifice and unwitting parishioners.
I think we have all seen SciFi movies or TV shows such as Star Trek . . . in which mortals have been overshadowed or taken over or subsumed by another creature.
At times, the image on the screen will depict the two creatures—mortal man and the Other as parting or joining. At times, it’s unclear which is operating and whether the human operating is alone or subsumed.
I believe that the caricture of Mary that the enemy of our souls has sold the Vatican flocks on is extremely seductive and deadly but in the most beautiful clothes and images that SEEM to millions of unwitting souls sooooo kosher.
The enemy is an artist at such charades and false images and false personages. He’s an artist at angel-of-light manipulations and at seemingly kosher miracles.
I’m not sure how to articulate, what I’m trying to discuss, better.
The “Mary” personage the enemy is staging and pulling the strings of and playing the flock with like a piano is NOT THE AUTHENTIC MARY OF SCRIPTURE.
To whatever degree she’s aware of such, she must be horrified at what has been staged in her name and image.
(((((Hugs)))))
As do millions of believers who earnestly do their utmost to put Christ first & foremost in all aspects of their lives.
INDEED.
Upthread . . . I forget which post . . .
that Jesus passed out of Mary’s body as light passes through glass—not normally out the birth canal.
That is a somewhat tedious exercise.
Basically, ALL the events of Fatima
are in keeping with, consistent, with, of the type of fairly common UFO phenomena of the last 100 years or more.
Researchers have sought out the most uninfluenced reports from first hand observers of the time and documented this at some length.
The behavior of the craft, the light—construed to be the sun dancing about—was quite typical UFO stuff.
Even the drying of the ground rapidly—quite typical UFO stuff.
The personage taken by the officials and probably purporting to be Mary was also fairly typical UFO stuff.
The critters purport to be lots of things fairly routinely.
The healings were also quite typical UFO, critter related stuff.
The light shows and displays were extremely typical UFO stuff.
The shape and behavior of the craft was extremely typical UFO stuff.
The choosing of the 3 sisters as special messengers was very typical UFO stuff.
If I had the books handy, I could add to the above, but I don’t.
Of course she protected her own child as his physical mother as much as humanly possible, but we all know it’s not possible to protect them every moment of their lives. She is not omniscient or omnipresent. I stand by my words.
...although why God would go to all this trouble just to keep Mary a virgin...why not just have a stork deliver Jesus into her never-pregnant arms?
It's more ridiculous the more you examine it.
True.
Helps me know the enemy of our souls is tweaked by my poor efforts.
Amen to that :-) My brothers and sisters indeed.
As I’ve noted before . . .
Most of my life, I more or less accepted the Vatican perspective on Fatima without much thought or examination beyond a cursory amount out of mild curiosity.
When the books came out on the deep investigation into the Fatima thing . . . and I read summaries of them . . .
I was FORCED to reconsider.
The evidence was well researched; well documented, logical, scholarly, plentiful, stark, clear-cut, unambiguous, consistent etc. with what I already knew from reading so many 100’s of reports of other UFO cases and phenomena.
I reluctantly had to revise my perspective and understanding of the event.
That involves an OUTRAGEOUS
PRESUMPTION
THAT GOD ALMIGHTY
ASSIGNED Mary such a role.
When there’s not a faint hint in all of Scripture that such has been the case.
INDEED.
And, imho, extremely well put.
Thx.
Those ‘brushes with mortality’ can be quite good at focusing our attention on higher priorities.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Thank you :-) But it’s not of me! (But you know that)
Yep. By this account, it really is pretty ridiculous. That I grant you, dear brother.
But what is the foundation of your account?
Why do you think Mary needed God to "keep herself a virgin?" That was the customary expectation of unmarried Jewish women of her time — especially of those of direct descent from the House of David.
Your allusion to storks just tells me you are "not ready for prime time" WRT this question. No offense intended.
BTW, Mary was VERY MUCH pregnant, not never-pregnant. (If she had been "never pregnant," then Christ would not have been incarnated.) Her virginity remained intact, that is, it preceded the Incarnation by the Holy Spirit. THAT is the only thing that counts.
What I find utterly astounding is that you guys talk about the power given to satan to do “this and that”, but reject that God gives any power to Mary and the Saints.
Strange. Very Strange !
Off to the gym to workout
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