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Just decided I'd use the blunt approach to the topic to see what kind of responses I gotWhy are you interested in talking about god?
Just decided I'd use the blunt approach to the topic to see what kind of responses I gotWhy are you interested in talking about god?
Yes, Mary is the Mother of God. Mary intercedes with her Son for us.
So Mary, the Mother of God, is described as our Mother too.
And in Mary's relationship with her Son, Mary is described as Co-Redemptrix.
And being the Mother of God, Mary is the Immaculate Conception. Yes, it is Mary, not Jesus, who is the Immaculate Conception.
So God is the creator of the universe and Mary is His Mother.
Mary intercedes with her Son for us.
And in Mary's relationship with her Son, Mary is described as Co-Redemptrix.
I don't remember reading about that in the Bible. What scripture are you referring to?
Were you speaking about scriptures in the Bible in your post about Mary?Don't tell me! Don't tell me! - You are a Bible Believing Christian.
So how does our Mother Fixation manifest?
Were you speaking about scriptures in the Bible in your post about Mary?
Please! There is no need to be so disingenuous. We know you accept the Bible as your authority and do not recognise the authority of tradition.
Do you think I am silly or ignorant? What do you take me for?
That used to be the case, but increasingly Protestants are showing more attention and devotion to Mary:To follow up Victor's assertion, I think that the importance of Mary is more prominent in the Catholic tradition, and less so in the Protestant denominations that believe in the Bible as literal truth.
The Bible is my sword of truth.
To follow up Victor's assertion, I think that the importance of Mary is more prominent in the Catholic tradition, and less so in the Protestant denominations that believe in the Bible as literal truth.
Victor, I believe in the Bible. (I stated that on the first page.)The Reformation is over so put away your sword of truth and recognise your fellow Christians believe in the Bible and Tradition.
That makes sense. Thanks for responding.To follow up Victor's assertion, I think that the importance of Mary is more prominent in the Catholic tradition, and less so in the Protestant denominations that believe in the Bible as literal truth.
The two rules of atheism:
1. There is no God.
2. You hate him.
"Only fools say in their hearts, 'There is no God.'"
-Psalm 14:1
How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock. -Psalm 137:9
Well shit. Non-believers are dummies. All the cool dudes are out killing babies.
Wikipedia said:Psalm 137 (Greek numbering: Psalm 136) is one of the best known of the Biblical psalms. Its opening lines, "By the rivers of Babylon..." (Septuagint: "By the waters of Babylon...") have been set to music on several occasions.
The psalm is a hymn expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people in exile following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC. The rivers of Babylon are the Euphrates river, its tributaries, and the Tigris river (possibly the river Habor, the Chaboras, or modern Khabur, which joins the Euphrates at Circesium).[1] In its whole form, the psalm reflects the yearning for Jerusalem as well as hatred for the Holy City's enemies with sometimes violent imagery. Rabbinical sources attributed the poem to the prophet Jeremiah,[2] and the Septuagint version of the psalm bears the superscription: "For David. By Jeremias, in the Captivity."[3]
The early lines of the poem are very well known, as they describe the sadness of the Israelites, asked to "sing the Lord's song in a foreign land". This they refuse to do, leaving their harps hanging on trees. The poem then turns into self-exhortation to remember Jerusalem. It ends with violent fantasies of revenge, telling a "Daughter of Babylon" of the delight of "he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." (New International Version).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_137
Read the Bible. You might be surprised to find that God is a whole lot more awesome than what you were looking for. Religions lie and make people feel condemned. The Bible doesn't and that's if you truly seek to understand it as it was intended.If there is something resembling a God, the most likely (but not certain) option to me is that it is essentially morally neutral and inactive. Since that's not in any way really distinct from a lack of a God, I don't really have feelings on that.
Exactly what the thousands of religions you just disparaged said. I have read a lot of the Bible. I was raised Catholic, went to church and Sunday school for about a decade.Read the Bible. You might be surprised to find that God is a whole lot more awesome than what you were looking for. Religions lie and make people feel condemned. The Bible doesn't and that's if you truly seek to understand it as it was intended.