Posted on 05/02/2008 2:09:51 PM PDT by Augustinian monk
sorry spinter = splinter
And everyone of them, including Mary, was and is a sinner in need of a Savior.
When the multitude informed Christ His mother had arrived, Jesus corrected them...
And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." -- Mark 3:31-35"There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
And this story is so important three of the four Gospels mention it exactly as written here...for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Yes, the RCC has been "doing it" wrong for a long, long time.
Cute cartoon, and your a Rummy fan. I love you.
Not to mention the barrenness of using theater as a cheap imitation for the action of the Holy Spirit in the lives of congregants.
Only one was saluted by an archangel with that title.
From that simple fact the RCC extrapolates so much foolishness. The RCC didn't even declare Mary's supposed "assumption" until a century ago.
The idolatrous adornment of Mary continues to snowball beyond redemption to where she is now tagged as the "co-redeemer" and "dispensatrix of all grace."
There must be Catholics on this planet who recoil from those titles just as much as Protestants do. They need to speak up. Better yet, they can just leave the errors behind.
"And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them." -- Mark 6:11
The monk you are referring to is Martin Luther. I thank God for courageous and godly Christian men like him. If it weren’t for people like Martin Luther, I would not have copies of the Bible in English. I would not be able to read and study the Bible for myself. i would have to depend on the clergy to interpret it for me. I would not like that.
I find validation for my beliefs in the Bible.
How do you personally obey Christ’s unambiguous command to “Eat my flesh and Drink My Blood”??
and how can you have “life within you” when you don’t??
It is a definite, direct command of Christ, if your take the bible literally how can you duck that directive??
You guys have missed the boat.
Lurking’
How do you personally obey Christ’s unambiguous command to “Eat my flesh and Drink My Blood”??
and how can you have “life within you” when you don’t??
It is a definite, direct command of Christ, if your take the bible literally how can you duck that directive??
You guys have missed the boat.
Lurking’
All of God’s family is “full of grace.”
What a pile of post-reformation revisionism.
Please quote even one other line where any biblical figure Mary were called “Full of Grace”, let alone by an angel.
Lurking’
Must really frost your cookies that Jews preserved 2/3rd's of your writings 1500 years before your tradition existed. --You, post 97.
You really believe that. Amazing.
Well isn’t the author fundamentally suggesting that sola scriptura is part of the magesterium of protestantism?
The article is rather ridiculous.
Thanks for the ping to this article. For a short while this morning, I looked for an excellent post made by Alamo Girl on another thread--now 5,000+ posts long. I could not find it, but I remember that the post was about how Catholics emphasize the physical/tangible and how non-Catholic Christians emphasize the spiritual.
In a society that needs constant sensual stimulation, is it any wonder that people would desire physical/tangible in worship? God knows the difficulty of loving an unseen spiritual being. In fact, we cannot love him unless he first loves us. And after that first love, we need the Holy Spirit to work in us through his word that we may continue to love what only can be seen by faith.
I figured when a lot of protestant denoms started accepting homosexuality and birth control that Scripture was being left behind and a more worldly philosophy was being embraced.
Is this post 1345 the one you were seeking?
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