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Recent content by JoeT

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    WWJD Did Jesus Pray to Mary?

    Let me get this straight, the most holy Word of God, the Word made flesh, comes to us through a low life wench, hired hand, a surrogate mother who sold her body? How much do you think she got paid? I thought it was an excellent argument for the spouse of the Holy Spirit. Its funny then that...
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    The Body of Christ is the one true church

    Just wondering: I would suggest you have multiplicity bodies. Only the Catholic Church is of Christ. Is it true the Paraclete that tells varying "truths" to varying bodies, none of which is the same? If all the other churches have same truth then why are they not the same church? Did Christ...
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    The Body of Christ is the one true church

    The Church is instituted by Christ. The Scriptures teach that there is one truth, one Church, offering the one Eucharist. We can assume then that those who teach a perverted word they would not be the one true Church for Christ wouldn't teach anything untrue. How then can the true Church...
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    WWJD Did Jesus Pray to Mary?

    A young child or infant has a human need for his parents attention for proper de. It was Mary who met his physical needs and it was Mary who taught him his Jewish spiritual needs. Every human infant or child would have a need to solicit help from his parents. Indeed we should ask the Mother of...
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    I love the Mother of God!

    Then, now that He sits on the right side of God He revokes the honors given her by God? Was it then the honors bestowed on her were nullified or annulled when she conceived in her womb? Is the Son of the most High an ingrate? Was she dethroned from her rightful place queen to the head of the...
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    Making Sense of the Real Presence

    I think Dr. Engelland’s argument of pretense in Jesus Christ is reality in our existence is one that only works on Catholics. Thus, to argue that when Christ says of the bread, “this is my Body” it becomes reality out of the reality of God. Engelland says to make ““toútó estin tó sómá mou” into...
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    Who is the woman in Revelations 12?

    Chapter 11 describes the person appearing in Chapter 12. "And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake, and great hail [Apocalypse 11:19]. She, the Blessed Virgin, was with child, in...
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    Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us.

    "Still, you are getting them isolated from the surrounding text". Read the entire bible as a whole. That's your own advise. How is "this rock" a confession of faith? Jesus didn't need faith to build His Church, did He? It was indeed unique to S. Peter by the testimony that Peter received the...
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    Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us.

    No, not the meteorological seasons rather the Liturgical seasons, Advent, Christmas, Lent, Triduum, Easter, etc. I believe I said feast days. I'll tell the Pope you approve, but lets look at what was said; Sunday Masses use a three-year cycle of readings, whereas daily Masses use a two-year...
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    Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us.

    Except for public and individual petitions, most of what's said during the Mass is indeed biblical. We read certain passages in the bible daily to match the seasons of the year and the Feast days. If you've followed along daily you've read the entire New Testament and much of the Old Testament...
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    How do Catholics try to explain the Glories of Mary to a protestant?

    There is nothing to defend in St. Alphonsus Liguori's book. I think I would spend most of my time trying to defend Once Saved Always Saved, or "if it ain't in the bible it ain't so" or Salvation comes from a BOOK or the "I believe" theory. JoeT
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    Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us.

    Right you are this woman who was the New Eve, Mary. Otherwise, this thing you call god, isn't Jesus Christ who was God. Christ is one person who subsists in two natures, "being the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, making...
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    Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us.

    He is not a man, unless and except He is born of a New Eve. JoeT
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    Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us.

    Quite often we hear the refrain, "if its not in the bible it ain't so". Now, accordingly, the argument is completely irrelevant because it says "all have sinned". And since Christ was God and man, the "God part" wins out preventing him from sinning or contracting original sin. However, we are...
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    Mary was a good person and had a sinful nature like all of us.

    A state of justification implies sin is not present unless you can find a way where sin and holiness coincide. Superfluous verse; we know being in a state of sin and a state of holiness is cannot coexist. Yes, but David confesses his sins, amends his life with the grace of God. When stated...
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