Posted on 12/29/2013 12:56:58 PM PST by steelhead_trout
Let’s not split hairs over the semi-divinity or mortal status of the Virgin Mary. In my opinion, she was not divine nor is someone to pray to, but just another mortal who had a miracle worked in her life, in fact the greatest miracle of all.
Regardless, this man seems like a devout priest and I rejoice with him in the death of that demonic union. Unfortunate Ukraine seems hell-bent on plunging itself into the next worst thing, the EUSSR!
Well, can put that bible in the same place as all the other false ones then.
Wow, didn’t know they thought that.
I went to a parochial catholic school for 10 years. The name of the church and school was “Our Lady of the Assumption”.
When you say “they” you mean the church that all Protestant churches sprung from. You may disagree with that belief but your church for good or Ill rejected that tenant of the Catholic Church when they split from it.
I’m no student, but you’re statement begs the question: How can God become incarnate as a human, without a mother? An egg? Materialize from nothing?
Hate to say this... but God has no mother.. Jesus, on the other hand did.
The philosophy of religious tenants often require pure faith. If an all powerful God exists he can make himself mortal any way he likes. The laws of mammalian biology should not be an impediment. Nor should the laws of physics. If he wants to be born of a mother, then that should not present a problem either
Reagan and the United States and NATO is the force that brought down the USSR, we spent billions and many lives doing it.
Reagan was fortunate to have some very helpful allies and one important one was having a Polish Pope in place.
Ps
I’m not saying you are wrong or right in your particular belief set. I would love to have the real skinny on all of existance (or creation if you will).
No amount of reading gilt edge pages with whomevers imprimatur has convinced me that there is definitive truth. I would pay good money for the whole unexpurgated truth. Alas no one offers that only the faith based answer. I need more.
and perhaps the Soviet Union was destroyed so that “Russia,” which is to say the east could come to the rescue of the west, to save it from the lies of the Enlightenment.
“On a serious side, it’s alarming how many people defer to gods rather than God.”
Here’s a serious question: What gods?
“Hate to say this... but God has no mother.. Jesus, on the other hand did.”
Love to say this... Jesus is God.. and He has a mother.
Hate to say it, (no,I don’t), but we just dunno!
I checked my Catholic bible ... you’re wrong.
According to the "gilt edge pages" there is nothing more than the faith based answer. And, if you read the Book of Job, it illustrates that a person's "need" is irrelevant.
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
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I am not Job. I don’t see the endgame and I don’t have his patients.
I spent decades learning the ‘truth’, but it never really showed itself.
Elijah was carried to heaven in a whirlwind.
Enoch “walked with God”
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