Road Runner
Take Back America In 2024 Vote Trump!
- Thread starter
- #181
No need for a change of theology.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
When it comes to praying out loud, I am speechless.I do believe you might be a protestant
Luke 1:28. The angel did not greet Mary as "Hail Jesus." Therefore, the prayer is:Btw, if Catholics don't worship Mary then what's with all the hail Mary's? I say hail Jesus.
Agreed, except for "just dropping it". The more you ask/discuss, the more ya know/learn/understand.
If I am going to pray for someone else or for myself, I won't go to the store clerk and pray to him as a message to God. I'll go straight to the source. It makes no sense whatsoever to pray to Mary to get some Hail Marys. Hail for WHAT???
Yes yes, I know. I am on your iggie. Oh well. I'll say my piece regardless.
To me who is NOT catholic...it sure walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and therefore is a duck. Mary mary mary mary mary. While I do not doubt she was chosen due to being what God wanted to give birth to Jesus/Himself...a good and decent woman....that does not make her a god or goddess and that is exactly how Catholics treat her....in my opinion. You can insist until the cows come home and I STILL will see Mary this, Mary that, Mary Mary Mary...and not much of Jesus Himself. It's All About Mary.
What about 1st century history? Modern day Christians often ignore 1st century history in favor of futurism and the rapture ...
I spent years going to the Methodist Church with my husband. They don't teach that Catholics worship Mary or statues.
You got some false information. Was your pastor educated?
.What about 1st century history? Modern day Christians often ignore 1st century history in favor of futurism and the rapture ...
In other words...idoltry.I am getting the impression that non-Catholics only pray for themselves and their requests? Catholic prayer is much more expansive where prayer includes the entire Body of Christ and is to strengthen us all. It encompasses past, present, future--and most important--God's will for all.
Catholic prayer is reflective and meditative. Meditating on the gospel stories, the psalms, the Book of Wisdom, the entire Bible. The rosary is the background that keeps out our problems so that we may focus on greater things instead of me...me...me.... The world, the universe is greater. It is good to get outside oneself.
It's because you aren't Catholic that you choose to see it that way even after it has been explained to you.
I never said I "knew" catholics, much less 1 billion of them. Put up or shut up. Show where I said that.I believe it's nonsense that two non-Catholics think they know Catholicism better than 1 billion Catholics.
You worship her. If you want to call it respect, fine. I can respect her position as well, but I damn sure will not grovel at her feet and pray to her.Catholics respect Mary, and it is difficult to understand why some sects begrudge her this respect. She was an everyday person, living her life in the service of God. We are everyday people and she is our example of how we can live a life in service of God, just as Jesus taught.
God's will is idolatry? Hardly.In other words...idoltry.
God's will is idolatry? Hardly.
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”You worship her.
Tell me which part of the bible states God's Will IS idolatry. If I remember correctly, He said the opposite.God's will is idolatry? Hardly.
Ah. You didn't read my post on the history of idolatry either.You freaking pray in front of statues if not to them and find them sacred. That's idolatry.
I guess. Perhaps you should muse on what you just quoted.“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard
Re-read my posts. I am not the one claiming God's will is idolatry.Tell me which part of the bible states God's Will IS idolatry. If I remember correctly, He said the opposite
Re-read my posts. I am not the one claiming God's will is idolatry.
But, you just did. And no, I am not going to go hunt it all up. Mary="respect", etc. I can read quite well, thank you. Your posts are defending your worshipping of a woman that was a vessel...blessed or not. She is not a god or goddess, yet you treat her as such and have been doing so in this thread.Re-read my posts. I am not the one claiming God's will is idolatry.