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The Communion of Saints: Biblical Overview Protestants are inclined to think that scriptural evidences for the Communion of Saints are entirely lacking, but such is not the case. 1) The "Apocrypha" Perhaps the clearest proofs of this doctrine exist in the books known to Protestants as the...

You have fallen for too many lies for me to address in one post.

Dialogue: “Why pray to a saint rather than to God?” Protestant: Why would I want to pray to any saint rather than pray directly to the Father in Jesus Name? That for me is the biggest sticking point. The Gospels point to Jesus showing us the Father directly. Of course any of us can do that...

Saints hear prayers and take them to God. Only God can answer them if He chooses. That is how a saint "answers prayers". We don't take that in the hyper-literalist sense that you do. It's shorthand for a long explanation but your sola scriptura mindset forces you to see things in one way. This...

That's not a very good depiction of the Church. This is more telling: Matthew 25:40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ This is the Church in action that you despise.

Mary hears our prayers, she has no power to answer them, only God can answer them. Since she is in heaven with God she is in a good position to deliver our prayers to God on our behalf, so you are completely misguided on that point. James 5:15 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray...

History is your enemy.

If a person is saved, they no longer have the free will to reject God's grace, which is your opinion.

Satanism is not my field of expertise, and you said, theistic satanism is a horse of a different color. I won't stone you or burn you at the stake, but I would like to share with you an interview with a former satanist. I don't know if you have ever participated in desecrating a consecrated...

I think visions count. How does one "adopt" a consistent historical definition? You are included. Separation from the historic Church is one of degree. Wounds to unity 817 In fact, "in this one and only Church of God from its very beginnings there arose certain rifts, which the Apostle...

That is not what I said. 1 Cor. 1:23 and 1 Cor. 2:2 is what I said. Preaching Christ crucified as Paul says is not keeping Him on the cross. There are no short cuts to the Resurrection.

For the 100th time, Mark 7:13 says "YOUR traditions", the ones they made up, not the traditions Jesus kept all His life and not the traditions Paul tells us to keep.

Those are the works of catholicism necessary for salvation as per the Catholic Catechism, and not just by being a member of the Catholic Church. No, they are NOT "works of Catholicism". "works salvation" is called Pelagianism, condemned as a heresy 1000 years before the first Protestant was...

Because she knows how to honor Jesus better than anyone else, and she is a perfect model for doing that. Remember, she is His mother. Who knows YOU better than your own mother? Anyone who does the will of God is His mother, and Jesus said that because she did the will of God. 1 Cor. 1:23- Paul...

Yes, that is a Catholic doctrine you borrowed from us. It's called latria. There are two types of honor for people and has NOTHING to do with worship of God. I wonder how many times I have to repeat myself. More misrepresentations. According to your criteria, NOBODY can be included in Christian...

It's quite plain what the angel said, and you are denying kecharitomene, and you are in disagreement with Protestant scholars as I pointed our in the above post that you ignored. Not only that, you are in defiance to all the early reformers that taught the Immaculate Conception. I don't know...

Luke 1:28 uses the same description as John 1:14, the only 2 places in scripture that uses "kecharitomene". "Highly favored" is a highly inaccurate translation from the Greek. It doesn't mean equality, contrary to your dichotomous mind set, it means "Full of Grace". I don't know what the...

Luke 1:28 “And he came to her and said, ‘Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!'” Catholics believe that this verse is an indication of the sinlessness of Mary – itself the kernel of the more developed doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. But that is not apparent at first glance...

By 1579, there were about 130,000 converts, with Japanese Catholics in nearly every social class, and there were hundreds of Catholic churches throughout the country. In 1614, the Tokugawa government banned Catholicism in an effort to expunge foreign influences. All foreign missionaries were...

No, scriptures do no teach it. Calvin squeezed it from scriptures. Eph. 1:5 - Paul teaches that God “predestined” us in love to be His sons through Jesus Christ. "Predestination" means that God knows what we will do before we do it (it does not mean that God determines what we do; otherwise...