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Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by adjensen
Infants cannot believe or profess belief.
Originally posted by Logarock
reply to post by adjensen
Well they call her the "queen of heaven" so they put her far above the saints and really.....on par with Jesus himself.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by adjensen
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Your theology is yet another one that comes down to salvation by works, and works alone.
"Got baptized wrong? You're not a Christian and you aren't saved."
That belief was invalid when the Anabaptists preached it in the 16th Century and it's no less so today.
I take exception to that. What was wrong with the Anabaptists and their belief that baptism was only for believers? That's the Biblical prerequisite.. belief.
Originally posted by JuniorBeauchamp
Originally posted by Logarock
reply to post by adjensen
Well they call her the "queen of heaven" so they put her far above the saints and really.....on par with Jesus himself.
Roman Catholicism assigns attributes and titles to their mary that are reserved solely for God.
For instance, the call their mary the "dispenser of all graces", which is subverting God as the sole dispenser of Grace.
Not only is the most Blessed Virgin Queen of heaven and of all saints, but she is also Queen of hell and of all evil spirits; for she overcame them valiantly by her virtues. From the very beginning God foretold the victory and empire that our Queen would one day obtain over the serpent, when he announced that a woman should come into the world to conquer him: I will put enmities between thee and the woman—she shall crush thy head
Originally posted by BlueMule
Originally posted by JuniorBeauchamp
Originally posted by Logarock
reply to post by adjensen
Well they call her the "queen of heaven" so they put her far above the saints and really.....on par with Jesus himself.
Roman Catholicism assigns attributes and titles to their mary that are reserved solely for God.
For instance, the call their mary the "dispenser of all graces", which is subverting God as the sole dispenser of Grace.
Maybe you mean subverting the sacred masculine? Poor guy, having to share with the sacred feminine!
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by Shema
The bride of Christ is the church, the body of believers.
Originally posted by imawlinn
Ya, Imaginary.
Originally posted by JuniorBeauchamp
Do you know why God is referred to with masculine nouns?
Originally posted by Shema
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by Shema
The bride of Christ is the church, the body of believers.
I honestly don't know either way but if that is so why make a mystery of it?
Originally posted by monkcaw
Mary is the Theotokos, the God Bearer. Not the Holy Spirit. She is blessed among all women and she herself prophesied:
"...henceforth all generations shall call me blessed."
There are some Latins that step outside of the consensus of the early church Fathers and think she was born without sin, Immaculate Conception
and that she is a Redemtrix, a co-redemptor with Christ.
Originally posted by GLontra
The way the Catholics worship the Virgin Mary
Is the Virgin Mary the same as the Holy Ghost?
What you think?
Originally posted by GLontra
The way most Catholics refer to the Virgin Mary clearly indicate that they worship her.
Many Catholics give more importance to the Virgin Mary than they give to Jesus.
Originally posted by BlueMule
Yeah, only a Goddess can be the mother of a God.
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Praying to Mary and the saints certainly is idolatry.
Mary could not be called a mother of God even if she was Jesus's mother.
Catholics have to make believe Jesus is God .
Originally posted by GLontra
I'm specially interested in the way the Catholic Church INDUCES people to worship "Our Lady",
Obviously, the idea of "Our Lady" as being part of the "Holy Trinity", being the same as the Holy Ghost, is not part of the OFFICIAL doctrine of the Catholic Church. But IN PRACTICE, that's what happens.