Posted on 10/15/2013 3:21:28 PM PDT by NYer
Here is Martin Luther in his own words:
"It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary’s soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God’s gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin"
- Martin Luther's Sermon "On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God," 1527.
Why is this news?
I’m not required to honor Mary. It’s not a requisite of my faith.
We do on Mothers Day...does that count ?
Yes, we know . . . the question is, “Why not?”
Luther made many mistakes. But, does this mean he is seen as an authority to you? If so, then I have a bunch of info you need to recognize...
>>. It’s not a requisite of my faith.<<
Faith on the cafeteria plan?
Not unheard of, mind you...
So, then, you disagree with Jesus and with the Archangel Gabriel on this basic point.
My question is why do these religion threads always turn into a snark-fest? Riddle me that. Then look internally.
We do not consider her as Deity. And, we don't pray to the Saints, either.
Protestants do call her blessed. Of course she was blessed as was Abraham, David, Gideon, etc.
Psalm 1 says "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly". Thus, if you are godly you are blessed. Mary doesn't have a corner on the blessedness dept.
There is nothing in Scripture to indicate Mary is to be venerated. She is respected as the mother of Christ, but she has no place herself in the plan of salvation.
We honor her, but we don’t build statues of her or pray to her. We also don’t have statues of Abraham or King David, and we don’t pray to them, either.
We do honor her. She is blessed among women. We just don’t make a big show of it.
((We do on Mothers Day...does that count ? ))
We don’t. We worship Jesus. Matters not what the secular world is doing.
Because there is no “Three tiers of devotion” and the asking dead believers to pray for you is witchcraft as practiced by Saul and condemned by Samuel. (Notice I didn’t say that Catholics pray to the dead as they are often accused of doing)
Mary was a simple human woman, she was favored by God but she was not sinless,divine or in any spiritual way special. She also was not assumed into Heaven. Indeed you can see her tomb near the ancient city of Ephesus I believe. The Eastern Orthodox church knows where she was buried.
That said she was the human mother Christ. She has a special place in history and in the hears of Christians where she is honored but true Christians do not believe in the immaculate conception of Mary.
This article has been posted in the Religion, not News, Forum. Perhaps you did not realize it before clicking on the link.
I value Msgr. Pope’s blog.
90% of what he has to say is valuable Christian teaching.
The other 10% (like this one) I skip over and wait eagerly for the next scripture-based one.
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