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Benedicta00 said:But why are you assuming the sinlessness of Mary takes away from Christ and makes her the center? I dont understand?
I tell you why, because if she was sinless then Jesus didn't die for her. Scripture tells us that he died for all mankind. Do you propose to make of Mary something more than ordinary human?
........ God saved Mary at her conception the same way he saves us when we are born again, by applying Christ merits to her.
Surely you do not propse a second salvation?
He just did it for he in advance, her at conception before she was born into this world and he does it for us after we have been born into this world.
aboutface said:Oh I see you do how silly of God to have not told all the rest of us that He was going to have a second type of salvation for sin.
He did tell the rest of us he speaks to us through His Church, not through the bible exclusively. The bible is just one of the ways he speaks to us and again, the bible came to us through the Church.aboutface said:
Oh I see you do how silly of God to have not told all the rest of us that He was going to have a second type of salvation for sin.
BigChrisfilm said:Colossians 2:8
8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Benedicta00 said:If this is so, then how can you believe in sola scripture? It was introduced by a man in the 16th century and is not supported by scripture, which makes the whole thing nothing but a contradiction unto itself.
BigChrisfilm said:Isaiah 42:8
8I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Easy to say, hard to prove. Prove it.BigChrisfilm said:Like I said before, your Roman Catholic church was not the first church.
Benedicta00 said:Easy to say, hard to prove. Prove it.
Then document them. Pony up this other church.BigChrisfilm said:First of all. The Roman Catholic church WAS NOT the first church. It wasn't created until hundreds of years AFTER Christ died. The true bible believers were around, before, during, and after the Roman Catholics.
Benedicta00 said:Then document them. Pony up this other church.
Find, trace and prove to me the existence of the se other non Catholic Christians before the Catholic Church came about.
Then why are they 2 billion Catholics worldwide? Why is the Catholic Church the oldest longest surviving institution we have ever seen in the history of the world if it is so "easy to see"?BigChrisfilm said:I don't really need to prove it. It is easy to see.
How, when there wasnt a bible until the 3rd century?BigChrisfilm said:They are the ones that believed the bible.
Benedicta00 said:How, when there wasnt a bible until the 3rd century?
But please, if this is true then you should have no problem with documenting them. Pony them up, please
If you disagree with catholic teaching, fine but please reframe from calling catholics silly and foolish. It’s rude and unnecessary.aboutface said:I say again if one person says something foolish then it is a foolish thing.
If 2 million people say something foolish then it is still a fooloish thing.
Whom did Jesus, whom I guess all of us acknowledge as God, pray to?
How did HE direct His disciples and therefore implicitly and explicitly us to pray?
As to the virgin birth... That was Jesus not Mary, who very soon after giving birth to Jesus stopped being a virgin.
I would hesitate to say that anyone other than Jesus was sinless. The bible only says Jesus was without sin.
Yes Abraham was credited with righteousness, and so were a few others. Mary was not sinless at her birth. No human baby, begotten by the normal means of conjoining of sperm and egg neither can nor ever has been born sinless. Every new born baby (apart from Jesus) is a sinner. There are no innocents.
You, me, Mary, Joseph, Paul, Stephen Hawking, Pope John, we all need Christ as our saviour. Church dogma is not scripture. Scritpure is scripture. Read that carefully.
Read carefully. It is Christ who has the power and authority of God, no-one else.
BigChrisfilm said:Do you think Jesus is the Word?
Oh, so then the bible isn't God's word?Metanoia02 said:Jesus is not the Bible.
Made flesh who dwelt among us. Of course. Do you understand that the teachings of the Church come from Him who is the word and the word was preserved and kept and handed down to us from the apostles, not from the bible?BigChrisfilm said:Do you think Jesus is the Word?
What did Jesus do in the bible Chris, write a book or build a Church?BigChrisfilm said:Oh, so then the bible isn't God's word?
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