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What does "my soul magnifies the Lord" mean to you? Or is it just filler?

Nobody said, or ever taught, that Mary can forgive sins. Mary takes our prayers to God, not to herself. God decides whether or not He will answer it, not Mary. If prayers are answered, or miracles occur, or healings happen, it's because of God, not Mary. She can do nothing without God. Blind...

They don't have to. This quote defines χαριτόω, or charitoo, and lists it in context with a passive participle. I changed the font to red so you can find it easy. A Greek passive participle refers to the past, pesent and future. To the extent that κεχαριτωμένη means FULL OF GRACE, as you have...

So you are saying that Mary is not full of grace but individual believers are. Your anti-Mary animus is anti-Biblical. Highly favoured (κεχαριτωμενη). Perfect passive participle of χαριτοω and means endowed with grace (χαρις), enriched with grace as in Eph 1:6, non ut mater gratiae, sed ut filia...

2 Timothy 1:13-14 Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; [14] guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. 2 Timothy 2:2 and what you have heard from me before many witnesses...

Docetism was unequivocally rejected at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and is regarded as heretical by the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Coptic Church and many other Christian denominations that accept and hold to the statements of these early church councils. (Wikipedia) All the...

In order to understand why Catholics believe the Eucharist becomes the actual body and blood of Christ after it is consecrated at Mass, we must understand two philosophical ideas: substance and accident. A substance is what something is: an accident is what a substance possesses. So, for...

@David Taylor Arianism, Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Catharism and Albigensianism all went by "Scripture Alone". The reason why you are so ignorant of church history is because it is embarrassing. I think it is time to put you on ignore, it is the most...

Another meaningless assertion with no visible rebuttals, no evidence, no documentation, and no references to official church teaching. You demand scripture, scripture, scripture, and when you are given scripture, scripture, scripture, you hide behind a wall of "actual exegesis", but never give...

No, your learning is based on Scripture Alone, which is not found anywhere in Scripture. And you change the meaning of "dogma" to force fit it to agree with your man made system. We don't ignore Paul passing his authority to Timothy and Titus. Thus we don't deny apostolic succession, which is...

Yes, we worship a physical object, but not blind to It's substance, which your whole Tabletalk religion is based on, blindness to substance, "but the things which are not seen (substance) are eternal." Your own quote refutes your Docetic (Gnostic) argument.

No, your authority comes from a false teaching invented by a mad man because he was angry with the Pope. This is an invented doctrine, an ideology that is nowhere to be found in Scripture. A heresy is a post-baptismal denial of a revealed truth. They are primarily listed in the Creeds. A...

Good job. Psalm 14:1-3 says that only among the wicked there is none righteous. The near sighted Calvinist thinks that means everybody, which is clearly a man made tradition.

"preaches that Christ alone is not enough to save and we must do works" is NOT Catholic teaching, it's standard Calvinoid polemics. And you accuse us of being brainwashed? Even your 'reputable' Calvinist authors (McCarthy) LIE on purpose, even though they are educated enough to know better...

I challenge you to prove, by scripture alone, that Tradition, (properly understood) and the Magisterium (properly understood) are not needed for the rule of faith. You failed to address this challenge because it is impossible for any sola scripturist to meet it. So you are all over the map with...

Like that old gospel hymn says "There's Power in the Blood". If you're happy with an intellectualized, emotion driven, sugar coated "power", good for you. We don't worship a mere physical object. That insult stems from a materialistic viewpoint, a materialism that is bent on destroying...

Then cite the thread title with the post number. Back up your claim, instead of making more empty assertions. Sola scriptura is unhistorical, illogical, unbiblical, contradicting, indefensible, unworkable, divisive and self-refuting. Yet you demand that I defend Catholic distinctives based on...

Yea, lets talk about anything but the false man made, unhistorical, illogical, unbiblical, contradicting, indefensible, unworkable self-refuting stupidity of sola scriptura. You derail because you've lost before you even start. Posting slogans like that is not explaining anything, nor is it...

See that's the thing, your doctrine comes from scripture alone, which is nowhere to be found in scripture. Tradition (never properly understood), the Magisterium (never properly understood) all in harmony with Scripture is the Biblical rule of faith, not scripture alone. I challenge you to...

Pope Francis will die in our lifetime. He is already 82. I favor the next pope to have African or Oriental ancestry. Those are my opinions thus subject to error. Race has nothing to do with being a candidate. …+ It may turn out that the most powerful voice for the Catholic Church today is an...