Fellow Christians, do you see how Blessed Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant and superior to the old Ark?
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Don't pay attention to Mr. Shaw's assertion that your message is "Catholic crap."  \n\nInteresting how he has absolutely no rational answer to you whatsoever -- he just slings the word "crap" at you.\n\nExcellent points.   God bless you.
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To each follower, his God is always better. It is better to imbibe Godly qualities to the extent possible, than disputing about the better one.. One may spend / waste a lifetime trying to choose a better God !
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The flood did not damage all of aqautic life. Being that the flood was pretty violent, I am sure that there was some death of some aquatic creatures. But, since they were aqautic, they did not require the means of an ark to house them or preserve them. \n\nIn fact, if you will study in any encyclopedia, you will find that these creatures do quite well in water, and would perish if they lived on an ark, especially one which had no aquariums built in. So, the flooded earth would be the best place for these creatures.\n\nJesus is God. There is God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and God the Son. They are one God, but separate beings. Just as your family is one, with separate people to make up the family. \n\nI know of NO Christians who worship Mary. There is nothing biblical that says that we are to worship or praise Mary in any way. For myself, I am glad that God found favor in her and allowed her the task of birthing Jesus. But she is not God, nor any part of the Holy Trinity. However, I do know of many in the Catholic religion who worship and pray to Mary, and Yes, this is wrong. \n\nAlthough Christmas is not supposed to be celebrated by giving and receiving presents, I see nothing wrong with marking the day and celebrating the birth of Jesus. Even if it is done on the wrong day. If it is about Jesus, it is good. Unfortunately, Christmas has lost its meaning to many, and has become very commercialized, as has Easter.\n\n(I will now attempt to tackle your last comment, which is not written very well, so I may misunderstand your meaning.)\n\nSome religions do practice controlling others. Christians should not be doing this, although I am sure that some do. But, I look at it this way: \n**If you do not believe in God, why should you fear Him?\n**If you believe in Him and fear Him, then you totally misunderstand God's love and kindness, or perhaps, you are not saved, but you still believe that God exists. \n\nMany people do not want to accept Salvation because they think they have to give up all of their fun. It's not a question of HAVING to give it up, it's that you WANT to give it up. You want to do right by God, even though we fail many times. \n\nAlso, even nonbelievers try to control. Consider this:\nIf you are married to a nonbeliever and he says, "Don't go to church, stay with me." That is a very controlling statement.
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It is the absolute Truth. Everything discussed in the book is Undeniable Fact. The Church has stolen the Truth from the people for too long! Jesus is the male part of a duality that involves Mary Magdelene.
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who said better?\nyou mis-interpret scripture....\nnot "better" .....just different.
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Well apart from being Jesus' love, Mary was a disciple and she was one of the inner circle. She was extremely intelligent, and many considered this unusual and didn't like her for it. I think much injustice has been done to her. The Catholic church has admitted that calling her a prostitute was an error (bible doesn't say this either), and now she's a saint. But she must be more than a saint and time will set things straight.
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in virgin mary rather than jesus
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You are perverting the Scriptures... Mary died and she is in Paradise.  She can't come back and appear to anyone.  The one who is giving these messages, etc is a deceiving spirit.  your "blessed mother" as you call her/him is Ashtoreth... Ashtoreth was called "mother" or "queen of heaven."  You are deceived... haven't you been told this before???\n\nIn the Name of Jesus of Nazareth... stop deceiving the peoples!  Stop this foolishness and repent of this sin.\n\nFor I tell you... if anyone preaches a different Gospel other than the one preached by the true Apostles... they are eternally condemned.  \n\nTherefore... I appeal to you... stop this!\n\n--- Edited:\n\nPeople don't need Mary... they need Jesus.  I don't need Mary to speak to me.  I need the Spirit of Jesus... the Spirit of God is the Wonderful Counselor... not Mary.  And indeed the Spirit of Jesus is my Counselor.\n\nAgain... you are mixing what is holy... with the profane.  \n\nGod will judge you for this.\n\n--- For Catholic 16:\n\nI am not a protestant... I am of 'the Way'...\nCatholicism is full of errors.\n\n--- Edit:\n\nI have tested you... your fruit is bad.\n\nCatholicism mixes what is profane... with what is holy.\nCatholicism is spiritual adultery... of course Catholicism hides behind Jesus... nevertheless, it causes people to commit adultery with the devil and his minions!\n\nCatholicism is hallow and deceptive.  Outwardly it looks Christian... inwardly its not.  Catholicism is like a white washed tombstone... on the inside?? dead men's bones.\n\nChristians should come out from Catholicism and be true to God!  Catholicism is a Harlot.\n\n--- Edit:\n\nI am a Prophetess... the Spirit of Jesus agrees that Catholicism is a Harlot.  I call Catholicism a Harlot because God says that it is.  You mix what is holy... with what is profane.  Mary has appeared to no one, but instead... a fallen angel.  \n\nTurn from your wayward ways and repent!  I speak the truth... Catholicism and fallen angels are deceiving you.\n\nWhy do you think that mixing what is holy with the profane is okay?  Did the rebellious Jews get away with it?  no, they did not.  Repent of your sins!
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After much thought and research, I have come to realize that the God of the OT was/is the same as the God of the new.  And He is love.  He showed great love before the flood, when the earth proved bad and He was heartbroken (Biblically, He was hurt in His heart.)  Although He had regrets that He had created mankind because of the evil disposition of man, He sent Noah to warn everyone that all they had to do was enter the Ark to be saved.  That's it.  No blood atonement, nothing.  Just get on the boat.  Of course, we know the end of the story.  And He showed great love to Abraham, who beseeched God to turn His great wrath aside from Sodom and Gomorrah if he, Abraham, could find 50 righteous amongst them.  God obliged Abraham, even down to 10.  There were none found, and God destroyed them all.  But, He always, ALWAYS gives us a way out.  It's just that we are either too wicked, selfish, stupid, stubborn or blind to take it.
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Here it goes Mr. Paradox, you inquiring mind, you. \nJesus was saying in this verse that John was part of the age of the old covenant. You know the LAW that God made with the Israelites at Mount Sinai? (Exodus 20:1-17)\nAs great as John was in the age of the old covenant, even the least person in the age of the new covenant is greater than John by being "in Christ". (Saved by grace, washed in the blood).\nThe New Testament church is the "bride of Christ". John the Baptist was only a "friend of the bridegroom". John 3:29\nWe as New Testament believers are participants of what John was only able to prophecy about. Praise the Lamb!
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I think it went much further than Gay.  Much of the old writing were of a vengeful God. One whose name you could not mention.  Jesus freed us from the old testament.  Beside Jesus told us to love your brother, sounds pretty perverted to me.  But also pretty open minded.  His first invite to heaven was a theif wasn't it. If God is good and the Devil is evil both without the other concept in them aren't they equals in some sense. Hell was in the times of the Bible only a burning pit for the evilest of criminals outside the gates of Jerusalem not someplace of eternal damnation
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Regardless of how you might feel, none of the old feasts have any religious significance in these times of the new covenant.\n\nJesus eternally fulfilled the Passover at the Last Supper, and he fulfilled all that was written about him in the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms, when he died and rose again.\n\nIt is Jesus himself who is our new covenant sacrifice and celebration, and our Redeemer, High Priest, Prophet, and King.\n\nNow, we Christians celebrate Christ all day and every day, by living as faithful members of his new covenant church.\n\nAll the old things have passed away in him, as Jesus and the grace he obtained for us, infinitely exceeds and transcends everything which came before.
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The Bible is a mythological tale. Do you actually believe that the red seas parted or that stone became bread? Perhaps there was a saint and he had many followers, Also perhaps some of the incidents described did happen, but the truth has been exxagerated to become a description of a super-human. And therefore, take the Bible, or for that matter most of the Holy Books with a pinch of salt. It is meant to evoke faith and thankfulness that there is a superpower above us who can do things that we can't(simply translated to hope!) Again, many versions of The Bible exist. Popular ones do not refer to Mary or his descendents.
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Actually there is no credible evidence from the original Gospel texts that would indicate that Mary was a whore, prostitue, or women of ill repute.  Many of these references where translated in the middle ages, not conicidentally at the time that the Church was consolidating its power after the vacuum created by the fall of the Roman Empire.  Many theological scholars believe that Mary was in fact a close (maybe even closer than Peter) disciple.  As too your question about Mary being Jesus' houswife. There is no credible evidence, either scriptual, archeological, or historical that would indicate that Mary was involved in with Jesus in any other copacity than a close friend, disciple, and follower
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Uh, no. \n\nThe concept of a trinity is nothing new. While the word itself isn't in the Bible, the concept was around for a long time before; that's why and how the apostles understood it even without it being specifically named. But it doesn't work at all the same as any mythology.\n\nThere's a blog on my 360 that explains it in detail, but there's too much to include here and still hope to be literate. Anyway, the idea has nothing to do with Adam, Abraham, or Moses. The message of Jesus is hardly to worship 3 gods, nor is it to worship the trinity. He did say to worship the God who sent him, but made very clear comments about his own deity.
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Why, because at the time, Jesus was just a twinkle is Mary's eyes, and Mary was a twinkle in her mothers eyes, and her mother in her mothers, and...\n\n(6 hours later)\n\n... she was a twinkle in Noah's wife's eyes. Now do you understand?\n\n- 16 yo Pagan
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<*> The law was good, it led us to the cross, without it we would not have understood our need fo a savior.\nThe good news is that we do not have to depend on the law for salvation \nWe have a Savior who loves us and died for us.\n\nThe old covenant has been done away with we have a new and better one.