What if Mary appeared to you? [MOVED TO MARIOLOGY]

[Sarcalogos Deus]

The Bible teaches against ghosts.

There is a difference between a "ghost" and a vision (or apparition if you will) that was sent from God.

 

[Searching_for_Christ]

But the fact remains that not everything is in scripture. Add unto that the fact that Mary was alive while most, if not all, the NT was being written and the "there are no Marian apparitions in scripture" argument becomes a weak one.

Wonderful..Mary was alive during most of the time..along with all the Apostles. I would much prefer a visit from Paul than Mary (clearly she is blessed...but the obsession with her feeds into all these "marian" apperations..we don't even know what she looks like lol, but clearly some glowing figure that kinda looks like a woman must be Mary, the blessed mother of God.

 

[Searching_for_Christ]

There is a difference between a "ghost" and a vision (or apparition if you will) that was sent from God.

What would the purpose of Mary being sent to us serve? do you believe that what we have laid out in scripture is the finished revelation to us? or is it possible that God still sends Mary (apparently he stopped using angels when Mary entered the picture) to actually continue to "reveal" new teachings to us?

 

[Sarcalogos Deus]

What would the purpose of Mary being sent to us serve? do you believe that what we have laid out in scripture is the finished revelation to us? or is it possible that God still sends Mary (apparently he stopped using angels when Mary entered the picture) to actually continue to "reveal" new teachings to us?

Public revelation is closed, private revelation is not. God still sends angels and Mary as well as apparitions of Jesus and other Saints to guide us or in some cases to establish particular devotions.

 

[Searching_for_Christ]

private revelation is not

Proof?

in some cases to establish particular devotions.

Proof?


(I hope I'm not coming off as harsh btw, its not my intention)

 

[martymonster]

Wonderful..Mary was alive during most of the time..along with all the Apostles. I would much prefer a visit from Paul than Mary (clearly she is blessed...but the obsession with her feeds into all these "marian" apperations..we don't even know what she looks like lol, but clearly some glowing figure that kinda looks like a woman must be Mary, the blessed mother of God.

Dude, you won't get an appearance from Paul, He's dead!

 

[Searching_for_Christ]

Dude, you won't get an appearance from Paul, He's dead!

I wasn't being serious man.

 

[Jakihe]

There is a difference between a "ghost" and a vision (or apparition if you will) that was sent from God.

I don't know that there's a difference when I don't know it was sent from God. If there is no record in The Bible of God ever sending a human with a message, why would He do so now, and never to large crowds?

 

[Frogster]

But the fact remains that not everything is in scripture. Add unto that the fact that Mary was alive while most, if not all, the NT was being written and the "there are no Marian apparitions in scripture" argument becomes a weak one.

Why didn't any other saint appear in the NT to people?

What was the date of Mary's death?

Why didn't Paul teach us how to receive apparitions? He talks about head coverings, and spiritual issues in Corinthians, why not "visitations"?

 

[Frogster]

Public revelation is closed, private revelation is not. God still sends angels and Mary as well as apparitions of Jesus and other Saints to guide us or in some cases to establish particular devotions.

Scripture says angels as per Heb 1, and other recordings. Show me where it says he sends depated ones..show me....

 

[martymonster]

I wasn't being serious man.

LOL!

Sorry.

 

[Frogster]

I don't know that there's a difference when I don't know it was sent from God. If there is no record in The Bible of God ever sending a human with a message, why would He do so now, and never to large crowds?

It is idolatry, and a collective delusion born of "aderation".

 

[Frogster]

Do any protestans know when mary died? I won't ask Catholics because thay have an unscriptural belief that she did not die!

 

[Searching_for_Christ]

Do any protestans know when mary died? I won't ask Catholics because thay have an unscriptural belief that she did not die!

Honestly I have a feeling that its not a very documented thing.

 

[Frogster]

Honestly I have a feeling that its not a very documented thing.

Most likely. But at least we know she actually did die because she was in Adam too.

 

[Jakihe]

It is idolatry, and a collective delusion born of "aderation".

Yes it is and Jesus didn't even worship his own mother. Where in the Bible did anyone ever worship Mary? If you pray to someone, you worship them and Jesus told us who to pray to.It wasn't his mother.

 

[Frogster]

Yes it is and Jesus didn't even worship his own mother. Where in the Bible did anyone ever worship Mary? If you pray to someone, you worship them and Jesus told us who to pray to.It wasn't his mother.

exactly.

 

[Searching_for_Christ]

Yes it is and Jesus didn't even worship his own mother. Where in the Bible did anyone ever worship Mary? If you pray to someone, you worship them and Jesus told us who to pray to.It wasn't his mother.

this right here is going to send all the Catholics, Orthodox, ect into a tizzy. Tho interesting point, I hope this wont derail the thread lol.

 

[tadoflamb]

Behold your mother.

 

[tadoflamb]

Yes it is and Jesus didn't even worship his own mother. Where in the Bible did anyone ever worship Mary? If you pray to someone, you worship them and Jesus told us who to pray to.It wasn't his mother.

I imagine He showed her more respect than some Christians.