Posted on 01/24/2015 3:23:43 PM PST by NYer
Tim Staples is Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers, but he was not always Catholic. Tim was raised a Southern Baptist. Although he fell away from the faith of his childhood, Tim came back to faith in Christ during his late teen years through the witness of Christian televangelists. Soon after, Tim joined the Marine Corps. During his four-year tour, he became involved in ministry with various Assemblies of God communities. Immediately after his tour of duty, Tim enrolled in Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and became a youth minister in an Assembly of God community. During his final year in the Marines, however, Tim met a Marine who really knew his faith and challenged Tim to study Catholicism from Catholic and historical sources. That encounter sparked a two-year search for the truth. Tim was determined to prove Catholicism wrong, but he ended up studying his way to the last place he thought he would ever end up: the Catholic Church! He converted to Catholicism in 1988 and spent the following six years in formation for the priesthood, earning a degree in philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania. He then studied theology on a graduate level at Mount St. Mary s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, for two years. Realizing that his calling was not to the priesthood, Tim left the seminary in 1994 and has been working in Catholic apologetics and evangelization ever since.
H/t to freeper Heart Rest for posting the EWTN interview between Fr. Mitch Pacwa and Tim Staples here. Throughout the discussion, Tim expounded on how Dr. Martin's dismissal of Mary as Mother of God resulted in the dismissal of Jesus as Eternal Son.
Thanks to Heart Rest for the discussion! Catholic ping!
Thanks for posting this.
Whaaaat?
Could this explain maybe why Martin Luther was circumspect in his comments about the Blessed Virgin Mary?
http://www.catholicbridge.com/catholic/martin_luther_on_mary.php
Is Mary omniscient?
“her immaculate conception, perpetual virginity, assumption into heaven, her Queenship, and her role in God’s plan of salvation as Co-redemptrix”
I appreciate these posts because I didn’t know Catholics actually believed these extreme things.
Christ, for example, is the only redeemer and the theology reflected in the author’s sentence I quoted is not Consonant with Christian Biblical theology.
It really is a Mary worship and making Jesus’s mother her a type of god herself.
In the interview with Fr. Mitch Pacwa, Tim explained that with the denominational protestant churches (Lutheran, Methodist, etc) there is no issue with recognizing Mary as the Mother of God. As the protestant churches evolved into evangelical and non-denominational churches, however, the distinction was lost. He cited Dr. Walter Martin's view as the most extreme, going so far as to dismiss God as the Eternal Father. His point was to demonstrate how once Mary is removed from the equation, it is all downhill.
How is Mrs. Don-o doing? Miss her so much!
Luther was about Christ, not worshipping Christ’s mother.
She is still quite ill. There are great challenges that we have to overcome to get her back to health. Keep praying.
The writer had better be glad Dr. Walter Martin is deceased and can’t defend himself.
I would love to see them in a one on one debate, just not anytime soon . . . .
Yes, of course this is correct.
Only God could be a redeemer.
Mary is not God, though catholics by saying she is sinless strive to make her that.
The letters to the churches in Revelation are in fact a revelation.
It looks as though all you did was scan for a sentence you could disagree with. You didn’t actually read or reflect on the ARGUMENT, did you?
And aren’t you getting a little bored with the old “Catholics make Mary into God” crapola?
Walter Martin said That?
If you ever studied what this Mary promises for praying the rosary with scripture, you may question your faith when this lying mary points to the sameJesus that the Protestants have their faith in..
That is, unless protestants have a different Jesus not born on December 25, killed on good Friday and raised on easter like the roman catholic Jesus..
bkmk
I’m not sure I follow your post. What are you trying to say?
And that is when the trouble began. When groups of non-infallible men attempted to agree, the result ended up being the thousands of Protestant Catholic sects we see today.
still applies
God does have a sense of humor.
Heresy .... the goddess Mary ...
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