Posted on 12/15/2010 5:09:09 PM PST by RnMomof7
In the sermon descriptively entitled, “That Hearing and Keeping the Word of God Renders a Person More Blessed Than Any Other Privilege That Ever God Bestowed on Any of the Children of Men,” Jonathan Edwards writes: The hearing and keeping the word of God brings the happiness of a spiritual union and communion with God. ‘Tis a greater blessedness to have spiritual communion with God and to have a saving intercourse with him by the instances of his Spirit and by the exercise of true devotion than it is to converse with God externally, to see the visible representation and manifestations of his presence and glory, and to hear his voice with the bodily ears as Moses did. For in this spiritual intercourse the soul is nigh unto and hath more a particular portion than in any external intercourse. ‘Tis more blessed to be spiritually related to Jesus Christ—to be his disciples, his brethren and the members—than to stand in the nearest temporal relation, than to be his brother or his mother. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus, ed. Nancy Guthrie, 57.
Animals, dirt and feces have nothing to do with sin. Jesus was covered with sweat, dust and spittle during His sorrowful passion. He willingly subjected to it in His humility.
Mercy, where? I'm a Catholic, and attend daily mass several days a week, and I don't see it. Where do you (plural) see it everyday? On the internet? Do you (plural) look for it everyday, or do you (plural) have a favorite site to go check each day? Why?
...a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful that the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, was, by a unique grace and privilege of Almighty God in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, preserved exempt from all stain of original sin. –Ineffabilis Deus
Yep. My Lord God Almight can do anything. ;-D
This shows Christ Full of Grace.
Now, What about Mary!
LUKE 1:28 And he came to her and said, "Hail full of grace, the Lord is with you!"
Yet this is before she has Christ in her womb. Before the Holy Spirit overshadowed her for conception of Christ which comes after in this verse.
LUKE 1 34 34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” 35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will Overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[b] the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
If there are misinformed Catholics, it's the church's responsibility. It hasn't done an adequate job of catechizing its adherents.
Not to mention that what the local Catholic church teaches is not what FRoman Catholics claim the RCC *really* teaches.
What the Catholic church really teaches doesn't always line up with what FRoman Catholics say its official doctrine is.
THAT’S SHORE TRUE LAYERS DEEP!
Thx.
THOROUGHLY WRONG.
BTW . . . Am still pondering an answer to your FREEPMAIL.
**What the Catholic church really teaches doesn’t always line up with what FRoman Catholics say its official doctrine is.**
metmom,
What is the basis for this experience. Have you experienced this personally? Where? When? How? Why? Exactly what did you experience?
It never lines up. No matter which way you try to make it match up, it just doesn’t. And yet it is rabidly defended. Like there is a source to go to to refresh oneself with the facts and come back stronger. There is no fact checker, no complete reference, nothing written in permanent ink. It’s been here for 2000 years, gave us all the information we would ever need to know about the Bible, holds the keys to the kingdom, has the power to retain or remit sins, can turn wafers and wine into flesh and blood. Yet no one knows exactly what the RCC believes for sure. No one knows exactly what they’ve sold their soul for.
Explain this, please?
My experience, and the experience as stated by other former Catholics on this forum.
I know what the Catholics I grew up with and lived with and worked with believed. I've related it several times over the last several months and all I keep hearing is the knee jerk response of "That's not what the Catholic church *really* teaches", by which the person means is not technically correct Vatican approved doctrine. But it is, in reality, what the Catholic church does indeed teach else there wouldn't be so many Catholics with the exact same (alleged) errors about church doctrine.
If the errors were a matter of faulty individual interpretation, then they would be different errors, not all the same kind.
Baloney.
It is pretty mind boggling, isn't it?
Not just Jesus, but Mary also?
Why? Why should someone devote themselves to a dead person living in heaven who has no power to answer prayers? What's she capable of doing for them or you?
In service and love of that Truth, we commit our lives, our hearts, our minds, ourselves to you, oh calm, gentle, and sweet, oh Blessed mother.
Sounds like worship and idolatry to me-putting Mary on the same level as Jesus and committing your life to her.
God did say something about idols. And idols are not always most out of wood or stone.
" Don't believe them, believe US! We are smarter and wiser than they." Seriously, how would they know that?
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