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Idolatry (Gr. eidololatria) etymologically denotes Divine worship given to an image, but its signification has been extended to all Divine worship given to anyone or anything but the true God. People who oppose religious statuary forget about the many passages where the Lord commands the making...

Again, you have to know Scripture. And it's not always evident in an English translation. Translations are never completely accurate. Gabriel’s salutation, “Hail, full of grace,” (kaire, kecharitomene, Greek) is not an ordinary greeting. The angel doesn’t call Mary by her given name...

The Rosary is a prayer of the Gospel. Every bit of it comes from the Scriptures. It was and is an excellent tool to pray the Gospel in our daily lives. Keep in mind that it's only been in the last 100 years or so that we have had a majority of humanity able to read and write. But someone...

Again, you don't know your Scripture. Let me draw your attention to the Gospel of John, Chapter 20, verses 19-23: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them...

If you deny that Mary was the mother of God, then you effectively deny that Jesus is God. Mary is Jesus' mother. And Jesus is God. It's not rocket science. Small sidenote for those interested. There is a medical/scientific thing that takes place whenever a woman becomes pregnant. It's...

Jim, do you think it's a coincidence that about 1/3 of Christianity is Protestant, and about 1/3 of the angels God created rebelled against Him? Jim, your viewpoint is that Catholics don't follow your personal interpretation of Scripture, which is correct. The Catholic Church follows the...

Aunty, as St. John Henry Newman once said, "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." It is a general observation that Church history argues against Protestantism and that those Protestants who study history deeply many times realize that the Catholic Church is the true Church. St...

Aunty Jane, the NDE studies were done by trained, educated physicians. They threw out any cases that could possibly be otherwise explained, including machine malfunction. The studies included literally thousands of documented cases. There are also cases that rule out any chemically induced...

The folks who experienced NDE's came back to life. The medical studies done say that to qualify as a case for an NDE, one must clinically die (no EKG (heartbeat), no EEG (brainwave), no breathing, no gag reflex, pupils fixed and dilated). Most of them were told in heaven, that it was not their...

Ok. Now we're on the right path of thought, I think. IF He only gave that authority to Peter, why bother to give Peter the keys? The "keys" were a symbol of authority in the ancient middle east. It signified a dynastic (meaning, it will have successors) position, second to the king. Whenever...

"Referring to John 21:25 DOES NOT say we are under some obligation to know things about Christ not written, only that such things exist." Correct. You have to read Matt. 28:20 in light of John 21:25 to come to the conclusion that we are to know all that Jesus did and taught. He commanded the...

JunChosen, no. Not hardly. Death in this case means spiritual death, i.e., separation from God. Our souls live eternally. NDE cases indicate, from the testimony of thousands of people who experienced it, that their consciousness (soul) left their body. They floated out, saw the doctors...

So, you deny Scripture, that you claim is the only source of truth, right? Matt. 16:18-19, "And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever...

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." John 14:6 Everything that is true, is of Christ. All true education, if followed back all the way, leads to God. Note: Nowhere in the Bible does the Bible say that it is the entirety of what we are to know. In fact, it says the...

Jim, I don't claim the right to change the doctrines of Christ, and unlike you, I don't have to reinvent the theological wheel. I have the Church founded by Christ, which has His authority to preach, teach, and sanctify to tell me what the Bible that it assembled, means. And, again, the...

Well, Wrangler, if the Bible was so clear, please explain to me why we have so many different Protestant denominations, all claiming to read the same Bible, led by the same Holy Spirit, yet coming up to different and contrary conclusions? For example, the Baptists hold that infant Baptism is...

Not sure if I mentioned it to you (or someone else?), but yes, there is Scripture stating that Mary was sinless, although you won't catch that in an English translation. Translation into the vernacular language is more art than science. In modern languages certain words and phrases often do not...

I don't think anyone is claiming that Mary having relations with Joseph would have been wrong. The claim is that she didn't do it and remained a perpetual virgin. The notion that she wasn't is a fairly new notion in Christianity. Even the founding fathers of Protestantism believed Mary was a...

Actually, it is Biblical. Scripture’s statement that Joseph “knew Mary not until she brought forth her firstborn” would not necessarily mean they did “know” each other after she brought forth Jesus. Until is often used in Scripture as part of an idiomatic expression similar to our own usage in...

Well, there are two types of sin in this conversation. One is Original sin, which we are all born with, except Adam and Eve, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus. And the other is actual sin, i.e., sin we willingly commit. Keep in mind that Mary was not the first human to be born sinless. Adam and...