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Also - I believe our differences about Mary and the saints are based LARGELY on bad information and pre-conceived bias against the Catholic Church. There's a LOT of bad blood - for reasons that can be blamed on BOTH sides . . .

The Catholic Church doesn't teach that Protestants are damned to Hell. That is a misrepresentation. ALL who have been genuinely Baptized in the Trinitarian formula that Jesus prescribed (Matt. 28:19) are incorporated into the Body of Christ. Some are self-separated, but we're ALL brothers in...

I fully agree with you.

From what I read on "The One who is Coming" thread - I FULLY agree with your OP. I was reading through "The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus" - and I agree with that as well - as long as you are saying that the Body He had after the Resurrection was His glorified Body. Haven't had time to go...

On WHAT subject? If you are a Christian, then we don't disagree on everything. In fact - there are probably MANY things we agree on. The tings I have proven you wrong on in this thread are where we differ.

This TOTALLY reminds me of the following passage: John 9:40-41 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains. And just like the...

It's not "my" definition. This is scholarly linguistic evidence by by Greek linguists who are FAR more qualified than either one of us to define Kecharitomene.

Once again - NOBODY else in ALL of Scripture is called, "Kecharitomene", except for Mary. For the rest of us - salvation is a lifelong process. The Bible assures us that we as Christians are ALREADY SAVED (Rom. 5:1, 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8) This is Initial Salvation – God give us the initial grace to...

Then YOU should know better than to reject the truth in the Greek text, shouldn't you?

Hey, YOUR voluntary blindness is YOUR problem - not mine. When YOU stand before God, and He asks you why you rejected His Word - it's not me who will have to give Him an answer YOU will. I DID my homework - YOU refused . . .

Uh huh - and if YOU did your homework the way I do, you'd see that I was right . . .

I don't have to speak it - I go to a scholarly source like Strong's. YOU sound like you watched too many "Leave It To Beaver" episodes in mommy's basement . . .

Boy - this gets more pathetic by the minute. What grade are you in? Doesn't you're mommy's basement have a dictionary? Here is the entry from Strong's . . . κατα Pronunciation: kat-ah' Definition: 1) down from, through out 2) according to, toward, along ηολοσ Pronunciation...

Here is the verse in Greek and in English. I gave you the translations from Strong's Greek Lexicon and Concordance - a respected scholarly source. Read it and weep . . . Acts 9:31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the...

Then open a Greek Bible, turn to Acts 9:31 and show me where I'm "wrong".

Are you sure you're NOT the same person?? The responses I get from BOTH of you are equally frightening . . . Why don't you just go to a Greek Bible and fact check me?? You DO know that the NT was written in Koine Greek - don't you?

Let's read that verse in context . . . The Catholic Church has always taught that because nothing impure or imperfect can enter Heaven (Rev. 21:27) - a "Final Purification of the Elect" is necessary for some before entering. The name given is Purgatory - and a LOT of Protestants gripe about...

Acts 9:31 talks about how the Early Church grew throughout the region. The language used here describes the Catholic Church: “Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy...

Read post #204 and see if you can understand it. Then get back to me. I'm not holding my breath . . .

Now THAT'S a great response - unlike some of the moronic ones ones I've been dealing with from ol' kc . . . That argument WOULD work in your Donald Trump scenario - but NOT in Mary's case - and here's why . . . We are agreed that the perfect tense indicates a past event that continues up to the...