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Posted on 12/31/2007 8:21:48 PM PST by Salvation
HE INCREASES AND SHE DECREASES By MARK P. SHEA
Oh. I meant to say I pinged Kolo because he disagrees with the entire framework of the Immaculate Conception dogma, but thinks very highly of the Panagia (All Holy).
“...but thinks very highly of the Panagia (All Holy).”
“thinks highly”...you could say that. Interesting way to put it MD. BTW, my great grandmother couldn’t spell canon; I doubt she could have told you who the Patriarch of Constantinople was, let alone the Pope, but Panagia, her “Panagitsa” (Little Panagia) as she called her, was her best friend who visited her everyday. They talked. My great grandmother was not even remotely senile. She was, and very likely is, a saint. Hers was the Faith that moved mountains.
When we pass through the process of judgement, we go beyond time into eternity.
We may, through the purgatorial cleansing become “like Him”, but we will never be equivalent to Him. We are not LDS. We do not believe in godhood for us mortal men.
At least not discussion "in kind."
It would seem that once the acrimony is bilateral, "abiding by the letter" comes up for review, and we go to "zero tolerance."
What a farce...
***MB: God IS partial. He gives His gifts as He sees fit.
HD: Sorry, that doesn’t make Him partial.***
Yes it does. Partiality is the opposite of egalitarianism. It means that each individual is different and therefore worthy of different consideration.
God treats each of us differently.
***MB: One of the basic beliefs required of all Christians is that Jesus is fully human and fully God. At once and forever.
HD: That doesn’t explain time nor have you explained it. You haven’t explain how Christ could be “in time” and “out of time”. What you have implied is that there are two Christs. I’m sure if I research this a bit I would find some heretical group that believe this. ***
You see, this is one of the disadvantages of being a member of a short sighted and insular theological group.
Christ is fully human and fully divine according to Christian theology. At once and always.
If you do not believe this, you are in heresy and should move to the sidelines. Look it up, son. You need to understand Christianity with all it means and not just from the frivolous Protestant peanut gallery.
It's my hah class Episcopal background - you know the church that is entirely in favor of the worship of God, as long as it's in it's proper place, and doesn't frighten the horse or upset the hounds.
Yes, I have blessed foxhounds.
Our antagonists, in their admirable jealousy for God who owns all our hearts and our praise and worship, think that love is arithmetical.
But just as the heart expands to include more babies, so also one finds that one can Love God with awe and joy beyond imagining, and still get a little leaky around the eyes when the love of the All Holy comes up.
Those of us, especially, whose earthly mothers had problems, can take solace in thinking that there is another Mother who loves us.
She who bore for us the deliverance from all sorrow, who, by grace, gave herself unreservedly to God and housed and sheltered His Most Holy Son, and brought the Love and Salvation of God into the world, For her be endless praise and thanks to the God of our salvation, who through Holy Mary gave His love to us. She who housed the Creator of the worlds within her womb, who welcomed Him and sheltered and nourished Him, who touched Him more intimately than any other, she in whom the love of every mother for her child was made Holy, who presented the fulfillment of God's promise to the gentiles, and who, wondering, heard the message of the angel, she is our friend for ever, and by the grace of God, in her company we cherish before all things the Love of God made human and given to our world and our hearts. Gladly we join with her in adoring her holy Son.
Through Him may we glorify God forever.
And so we see that the foundation of sand of Reformed theology is exposed once more.
They do not believe in the Lord’s Prayer. They do not believe that the Two Commandments of Christ have any meaning, and they certainly do not believe that the Sermon on the Mount is even worthwhile to report on.
If you all would, please say a decade of the Rosary for these folks who are prideful, stiff necked and lost. There is salvation for them, if they would only stretch out their hands and take it from the Holy Spirit. Right now, they do not know; let us make them aware in the name of the Most High. Please folks, come back to God. He has promised salvation for all if only we will accept it.
Glory be to the Father
And to the Son
And to the Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning
Now and ever shall be
World without end, Amen.
Just pray the Lord’s Prayer and read Christ’s two commandments, and follow it up with the Sermon on the Mount.
You have just gotten the distilled Gospels. Maybe the Protestants, just maybe, might get it too.
And to the Son
And to the Holy Spirit
I do not know about you, but I think that "mommy" is getting rather tired of being ignored.
***I do not know about you, but I think that “mommy” is getting rather tired of being ignored.***
Anton, is that you? Well, as far as I’m concerned, you can go to the devil. If Scripture is accurate, witches will reap their own reward aplenty.
Where is the mother?
Evil is as evil does.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Please do not post to me ever again.
I am rather curious as to why this would frighten you.
Attributing motives and reading minds are both "making it personal."
I did not realize that I was saying anything personal, but once spoke, I had to review the words that I had used.
Never do I attack a single person, and if it sounds like I did, then it was never intended.
What I say, is only for the purpose of debate.
Can you help me out?
Ok, I made the error of using the word “you.”
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Lesson learned.
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