Posted on 01/24/2015 3:23:43 PM PST by NYer
Not all Catholics head for that road. This Catholic is very disappointed when seeing such a post from another Catholic.
He died and his terrestrial body was turned into a celestial body...He went to heaven...I don't think I would say he disappeared...
And this has been dealt with in the past. Please consider that herein lies the necessity of understanding what exactly was (and still is) at stake with the Seven Ecumenical Councils.
Those councils that accuse non Catholics of being anathema...Those councils where they couldn't get unanimous consent (or any thing close to it) on anything...
As a born again Christian, I have no interest in Catholic councils...
Yes, he was. The Bible says, “all have sinned.”. It does not add, “except Mary.”
I have noticed that and commend you.
I wonder if the author puts a warning in there to avoid checking references in the bible at all cost...It is detrimental to your Catholicology...
I wasn’t showing “Latin bent” or “Rome bent”. I showed what the words in the original Greek were. Whatever Roman Catholicism added to that you can argue with but the name of Jesus is given in scripture. I do NOT have my faith in a counterfeit. If you want to play that Catholic projection game go find someone else to play with. I can go with you on much of what you say but when you counter what scripture teaches you’re on your own.
I can tell which church is spirit filled after one service. Some are dead as a hammer. Others make me feel like I am going to receive God’s blessing. From the masses I have seen parts of, they are dead. One other thing, choirs and people should learn to enunciate. Just a pet peeve of mine.
good point
Is Mary all that different than old Testament prophets? They fulfilled their assigned roles and went right back to being ordinary and often sinful humans. Plenty of them displeased God later on. At least Mary didn’t do that. But many have basically turned her into a Goddess and that is wrong.
Nestorius emphasizes the disunion between the human and divine natures of Jesus. There is no “disunion” and it’s connotation. However, Jesus was fully man and fully God. We cannot understand that nor should we attempt to. Jesus at time spoke as a mere man at other times He spoke as God/man. There is no way for the mind of man to understand how that works. If Jesus spoke at times as a mere man we can accept that He understood the difference. For Catholics to go beyond the words the Holy Spirit used when calling Mary the “mother of Jesus” is to inject inferred meaning and is going beyond what the Holy Spirit had written.
The Bible tells us how to be saved and it is our instruction manual for a Christian life. Thankfully, we do not need traditions and lies.
What have I been posting all along?
You have been posting that Mary is the mother of Jesus.
Do you agree that it is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
I accept ALL of Christ's teaching. Even when He said the words He was using were spiritual and the flesh would profit nothing. I also accept the fact that when Jeremiah was told to "eat the scroll" it didn't mean to literally eat the papyrus.
It must be hard to read the truth. Read the Bible. Jesus is the answer, the only answer.
A good question. The answer is "no". Mary’s preservation from original sin was accomplished in anticipation of her Son’s redemptive work. Therefore, Jesus is also Mary’s Savior. Because of what he would do on the cross, this grace was given to her early. The gracious character of this blessing is also the reason that Anne and Joachim did not need to have it: It was a grace God could give to anyone at any time. He chose to give it to Mary to make her a fitting mother for his Son.
This grace was not given to Anne and Joachim because it was not fitting for them to have the same precise graces as Christ’s own mother, who bore him in her womb. No doubt they were very blessed in many ways, but not as blessed as their daughter.
Amen.
Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds.
We are NEVER free of sin experientially in this body.
Positionally, in Christ, we are.
However, what Catholics call being in a state of grace, IOW, being free of sin, is not found in Scripture.
What percentage of people would you say are selfish and dishonest? Given the depravity of man I believe it works. ;-)
Not true.
God has no mother.
By claiming that Mary is the mother of God, it says NOTHING about His humanity. It completely ignores it, thus denigrating the Incarnation.
I'm surprised that there is so little understanding about the resurrection and how God the Father transformed God the Son.
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