Posted on 08/17/2015 6:07:35 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Please quote Galatians 1:8 for me. Quote it in full.
"The title “Mother of God” has NEVER meant that Mary is the mother of the eternal, Triune God."
Where do you find “God’s view of Scripture”? In Scripture or someplace else?
Of course it’s circular reasoning.
You’re so lucky the muslims didn’t get to you first. Your conviction that a text can validate itself without reference to anything external is totally their cup of tea.
Something else that a child can understand but something Catholic-haters have a hard time understanding.
One of the 10 Commandments is honoring your mother and father.
Jesus’ mother was Mary.
He honored her.
We all have an earthly, physical mother. We are told to honor her. Christians also have a spiritual mother and her name is Mary.
We are told to emulate Christ in our lives. If Christ honored his mother and we are told to live like Christ, how can you not honor his/your mother?
God exhorts us to honor father and mother. He values honoring parents enough to include it in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:12) and again in the New Testament: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise, so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth” (Ephesians 6:1-3). Honoring parents is the only command in Scripture that promises long life as a reward. Those who honor their parents are blessed (Jeremiah 35:18-19). In contrast, those with a “depraved mind” and those who exhibit ungodliness in the last days are characterized by disobedience to parents (Romans 1:30; 2 Timothy 3:2).
Do you affirm or deny that Mary is the mother of "God with us" according to the scriptures ? And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Isaiah, Catholic chapter seven, Protestant verses thirteen to fourteen, Matthew, Catholic chapter seven, Protestant verses eighteen to twenty three, as authorized, but not authored, by King James
Bold emphasis mine
Ah, but I’m sure your magicsteeringthem can teach me to believe and call upon their mediatrix/co-redemtrix, right?
Have you not read, ‘Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God?’ Is the Bible The Word of God? Before the New Testament was written down, exclaiming Jesus as Messiah and Savior and Lord, all the faithers had was the Old Testament, the Septuagint probably for most, except maybe guys like Saul who studied under Gamaliel. When the New Testament witness Gospels and letters were then available, the saved ‘cometh by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God.’
If you are a catholic, it is indeed ironic that you would try to use idol worship as a weapon against a Christian, seeing as how your religion has pagan principles of eating the godman and praying to idol statuary for intercession.
Why do you contradict Scripture?
Do you affirm or deny that Miriam/Mary is the mother of Immanuel/God with us ?
Have nice day.
“We all have an earthly, physical mother. We are told to honor her. Christians also have a spiritual mother and her name is Mary.”
No where in Scripture are we told we have a “spiritual mother”.
Not there. It is an addition to God’s truth.
“Do you affirm or deny that Miriam/Mary is the mother of Immanuel/God with us ? “
Yes, I certainly do affirm or deny!
I think your posts on this have already plumbed the depths of what you got. You’re headed down a road we already covered and rejected as poor use of logic and a category mistake.
And yet you persist in trying to call poor dear Mary something God Himself never did. Why do you do so? Do you know better than He???
Best.
Answer the question I asked. If we are to emulate Christ and Christ loved and honored his mother, who was Mary, what part of that can’t you grasp? Was he lying? You don’t believe him?
The second premise is ambiguous in the sense that the word, “God” implies the totality of Jehovah, who is one in essence, and three in Person, not just, "the Second Person of the Trinity", and it also implies His eternal power and divine nature.
That ambiguity is also implicit in the third premise so that the conclusion “mother of God” gives the misleading impression that Mary preceded the Eternal God, which is impossible.
Jesus is God, who became man. Mary is the mother of Jesus according to the flesh (Romans 9:5) However, according to His divine nature He did not have a physical mother.
If Mary is the "Mother of God", how then is Jesus a descendant of David as it says in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 and Romans 9:5?
The conclusion of the syllogism is superficial in that it states only a partial truth and consequently it is misleading. If the syllogism added the word, "incarnate" after the word, "God" in both instances I wouldn't have a problem with it because it would eliminate some of the ambiguity.
Scripture itself is much clearer on the subject than the syllogism.
Cordially,
“The Clintons are paging vladimir998.....please pick up on the conspiracy line.”
You’re not disputing anything I said. It’s obvious as to why.
I made no claims. Everything I said was absolutely true. Whether or not you believe it is irrelevant. I made no mistakes - not even one. Nothing you say will change that fact.
The precision of subtlety of what we believe is presented in a prayer recited most Sundays of the year:
"It is truly meet and just, right for our salvation, that we should at all times and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; Who, together with Thine only-begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord: not in the oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For what we believe by Thy revelation of Thy glory, the same do we believe of Thy Son, the same of the Holy Ghost, without difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, distinction in persons, unity in essence, and equality in majesty may be adored."
That is what Catholics believe. Now you know.
Another way to present it. HTH:
Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled; without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons; nor dividing the Essence. For there is one Person of the Father; another of the Son; and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is; such is the Son; and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreated; the Son uncreated; and the Holy Ghost uncreated. The Father unlimited; the Son unlimited; and the Holy Ghost unlimited. The Father eternal; the Son eternal; and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals; but one eternal. As also there are not three uncreated; nor three infinites, but one uncreated; and one infinite. So likewise the Father is Almighty; the Son Almighty; and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties; but one Almighty. So the Father is God; the Son is God; and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods; but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord; the Son Lord; and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords; but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity; to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the catholic religion; to say, There are three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none; neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created; but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten; but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is before, or after another; none is greater, or less than another. But the whole three Persons are coeternal, and coequal. So that in all things, as aforesaid; the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, let him thus think of the Trinity.
Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation; that he also believe faithfully the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess; that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the Essence of the Father; begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the Essence of his Mother, born in the world. Perfect God; and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father as touching his Manhood. Who although he is God and Man; yet he is not two, but one Christ. One; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh; but by assumption of the Manhood by God. One altogether; not by confusion of Essence; but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man; so God and Man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation; descended into hell; rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the God the Father Almighty, from whence he will come to judge the living[17] and the dead. At whose coming all men will rise again with their bodies; And shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire. This is the catholic faith; which except a man believe truly and firmly, he cannot be saved.
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