Posted on 10/30/2014 9:46:31 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
You seem to have me confused with one of your priests...
Albatrosses around the neck:
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
Now you'll be accused of being a FAKE Catholic; or a poorly catechized one.
Don't feel too bad about bible knowledge; for we Protestants have not done a very good job in that department either.
Or reiterations of it.
My brother belongs to the Diocese of Charleston. He used to be a fire-breathing evangelical and put down every Catholic that he ran across. Then like the old Hank Williams song, he “saw the light”, and became Catholic about 15 years ago. His wife is still an evangelical and he loves to put her in her place when she starts spouting off about about his religion. They’ve been married 40 years. Five kids, about 10 grandchildren, and all his wife’s extended family! All but him and two of his sons are evangelical. Makes for a lively family reunion!
I'm not the one who claimed Mary told Jesus "exactly what to do". We don't know exactly what Jesus' mother said to Him other than what John said in his retelling. Like I said, it's no skin off my nose whether she said what you claimed she did or not, just that it's conjecture to say she told him what to do - exactly or otherwise. Sometimes, reading something into Scripture can be a mistake. It's better to base doctrine on what the Holy Spirit chose to have written down rather than what we might like. Don't you agree?
Your latest editon to War and Peace has once again put me to sleep.
“We don’t know exactly what Jesus’ mother said to Him other than what John said in his retelling”
In otherwords you pick and choose what you want to believe in the Bible and invent things that didn’t happen. The term
mid-rash comes to mind.
Hey! No fair...all we got in Charlotte was rain.
And that's where God gets the glory because ordinary, humble people can do nothing of their own and know it.
Anything extraordinary is shown to be truly of God, and HE gets the credit.
Think Gideon, David, Moses, etc.
No. That's the domain of Catholics who add more to the account of the wedding at Cana than is recorded.
Like that she told Him to make wine.
All we read is that she commented to Him that they had run out of wine.
In other words, you pick and choose what you want to believe in the Bible and invent things that didn’t happen and then condemn others for what you are guilty of? The term "hypocrite" comes to mind.
Remember the first rule of holes.
Not only did Mary know what her son could do, which was the reason she told him there was no more win, she was the very first human the Holy Trinity was revealed too.
And her changing her Son’s mind to work this miracle does or should teach us all of her importance in intercession. This incident and miracle was performed and recorded for a reason.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Spirit. Amen
My, what the Catholics love to do.
He would fit right in with many of the pompous judgmental arrogant catholics on this forum.
Whatever happened to "correcting" using love, especially towards his wife?
Oops, that's a Biblical Christian's way of doing things, don't want to be seen as that!
Oh my!
Have you ever read the Old Testament?
Thanks. I was thinking the same thing. There is a time and place for doing that. Stuff like that really, really bug me.
Mary is powerful than Jesus?
She can rub his tummy and make him wag his tail for us.
Unfortunately, Jesus is God and Mary is a mortal human
Thanks. I was thinking the same thing. There is a time and place for doing that. Stuff like that really, really bug me.
Remember the first rule of holes.
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