Posted on 12/05/2010 6:14:57 PM PST by RnMomof7
I don’t think the Catholic nastiness has died down.
How long you want to guess before this thread gets locked by it?
Can you provide the scripture that says that she was “the ark of the covenant?”
Blessed is not sinless it is blessed.. All the Jewish girls wanted to be the mother of Israels savior.. so she was blessed by the honor.. The blesser is sinless not the blessed ... Luk 11:27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed [is] the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. [Select for Copy; Double click to (de-)select all] Luk 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed [are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Hey, if you find happiness by trashing the Mother of Our Lord and Savior, I won’t stand in the way.
Thousands of years of theological study and discussion give way to your prejudice.
You win the thread, I suppose.
And theologically wrong.
The Temple with the Ark was still in Jerusalem and the temple sacrifices were still being performed. The Old Covenant had not passed until Christs death and the veil torn. Christ himself went to the temple and observed the law.
Mary herself offered a guilt offering to the priest.
All of mankind needed saving after sin was found in Adam.
In Luke 2:47 Mary says “And my Spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.”
but it is what may be called a pious and probable belief among Catholics.
A "probable" belief? The more the RCC opens her mouth to explain her beliefs, the worse it gets for anyone who tries to make sense of this 2000-year-old-2-BILLION-plus group of "representatives" of Christ. But keep going. You have 2000 years of tradition to back up your claims...and lots of implicit scripture to decode for the 'faithful'.
Actually the Catholic church itself teaches that only Jesus could keep the whole law perfectly..and THAT is a description of sinless:)
Amen, Well Put.
God Bless
Because she was human.
The Ark of the Covenant was built by sinful human hands.
There is nothing in Scripture which supports that view of Mary anyway. The types found in Scripture that are mentioned in the New Testament as types are types of Christ or types of baptism.
Any made up outside of that do not have the legitimacy attached to them that the Scriptural types of Christ have.
Mary was simply an obedient human.
When God called, she obeyed. Thats all.
The Bible speaks of only one sinless person and that Jesus Christ. If Mary was sinless, then God would have said so. Since God did not say Mary was without sin in the Bible then she was a good person, but a sinner JUST LIKE US.
I know thew Catholic church likes to make stuff up. I used to be Catholic. But the point is this: If its not in the Bible, then its just a fairy tale. The RCC doesn’t get to add arbitrary things to the Word of God.
So the doctrine of Purgatory is fake. Not in the Bible? Toss it out!
Mary was not an eternal virgin. Not in the Bible? Toss it out! The Bible says Jesus had brothers. He was not an only child.
Prayer to saints? Not in the Bible? Toss it out!
Nowhere is there an example of people praying to the dead in the Bible. Zip. Nada. Nowhere!
The RCC likes to call these added heresies tradition. But is tradition mentioned in the Bible? Mary was simply an obedient human.
When God called, she obeyed. Thats all.
The Bible speaks of only one sinless person and that Jesus Christ. If Mary was sinless, then God would have said so. Since God did not say Mary was without sin in the Bible then she was a good person, but a sinner JUST LIKE US.
I know thew Catholic church likes to make stuff up. I used to be Catholic. But the point is this: If its not in the Bible, then its just a fairy tale. The RCC doesn’t get to add arbitrary things to the Word of God.
So the doctrine of Purgatory is fake. Not in the Bible? Toss it out!
Mary was not an eternal virgin. Not in the Bible? Toss it out! The Bible says Jesus had brothers. He was not an only child.
Prayer to saints? Not in the Bible? Toss it out!
Nowhere is there an example of people praying to the dead in the Bible. Zip. Nada. Nowhere!
The RCC likes to call these added heresies tradition. But is tradition mentioned in the Bible? NO! Toss it out!
There is NO authority granted to the Catholic church to just make up crap and add it to the Holy Word of God, but thats just what they do.
Wiser people like me who believe in Jesus, are eventually forced to leave the RCC by their own inability to understand the very things of God.
No, she wasn’t. God said, “all have sinned” and that included Mary.
RnMomof7 suggested that she might have been and that such would mean nothing. Or words to that effect. All meant with the greatest respect, no doubt, right RnMomof7?
Hey RnMomof7 what does your splinter of the Presbyterian schism say about Mary? Is it the claims about her sex life you posted, or was that just you?
No, she was not. Christs line goes through Rahab, I mean come on folks, only a Catholic could believe such a thing, this is why the ascension of Mary came about (and very recently) since they think she was without sin they had to have her acend and never die, I feel sorry for those that believe such things.
Who ya gonna believe? God’s Word (which you are not qualified to read) or the RCC?
/sarc, by the way
Good theology friend.. What we call the Gospels were actually Old Testament , Jesus lived under the law and kept it perfectly for us !! The New Testament began at the Resurrection ...
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