Posted on 12/08/2009 11:41:52 AM PST by Gamecock
To be nice to you during the Christmas Season, I am just going to say “No comment”...
Whnever I see "Mary worship" I know that person is too ignorant of facts or has been brainwashed by some hillbillies.
No, Hobbs is the defense attorney
just ask a protestant who wrote and kept the bible for the first 1200 years or so......
I have never heard anyone in real life refer to themselves as a "Roman Catholic". Catholics refer to themselves and their faith as simply Catholic. You do not sound authentic to me.
I call them DENIERS.
However, I can tell you that I have not experienced anything like "Mary worship". Even today, the feast day of the Immaculate Conception does not indicate to me a displacement of Jesus. Rather, we celebrate the lives of Mary and all the saints who share in our worship of Jesus.
As I understand it, we ask Mary to pray for us, to intercede on our behalf. I find that no more unusual than offering to say a prayer for a suffering friend. That friend may ask me to say a prayer for them, just as I ask Mary to say a prayer for me.
Also, I say prayers for others who have gone. Whether they are saints or whether they are friends, family or co-workers. I don't expect them to answer a prayer as God would, but rather, it's simply a type of correspondence-a way of keeping them in my mind while I'm here on earth and they are with God.
I find nothing at all unusual or insulting to God that we constantly remember and revere the people who have gone. And never in my brief teachings in the Catholic church have I been led to believe that any of these people are God or Jesus' equal.
An Orthodox Presbyterian would never lie about the Catholic Church....no, never!
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There is no such thing as “Mary Worship.”
Catholics have told protestants this time and time again.
We ask Mary to intercede with her Son and pray for us. That’s it.
PS. Have you ever asked anyone to pray for you? Same thing.
To be fair, I believe a bunch of Jewish fishermen, carpenters, rebels and tax collectors were.
More than that: the author is republishing it without refuting it, serving only to spread it further.
That's not mere nonfeasance, but rather true malfeasance.
Someone forgot a line of the Nicene Creed. If they really need to ask what the headline of this thread is about look up the Creed, hint katholikos.
I had never prayed to someone to pray for me.
As a Catholic of many, many years, Your reply was very, very good. God Bless.
I think he does okay. One of the challenges of the sola fide view is where to put sincere error. One wants to avoid making right-belief a “work”. As I say, I think he does okay. Not bad IMHO.
I believe ‘Intercessory Prayer’ is a mainstay of Fundamentalist Protestantism. It is considered one of the gifts of the Spirit.
(I’m Anglican so all of y’all hate me :-> )
I’m a CATHOLIC!!! Of course we don’t do MARY WORSHIP> you really misread what I said.
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