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NASB | Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders from Tekoa, which he envisioned in visions concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa, which he saw [in a divine revelation] concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. [Zech 14:5] |
Subject: Why do catholic call Mary mother of God. |
Bible Note: Joe Yesterday after reading all this discussion on Mary the Mother of Jesus I asked my wife, who was raised a Catholic and left the church when we married to become Protestant, how she viewed Mary. Quite Frankly her Catholic teaching of Mary was very similar to ours. She never once read anything into the words Mother of God other than Mary was the Mother of Jesus who is God among man. She never recalls praying to Mary other asking Mary to pray for her, much like when we ask others to pray for us. She never gave any thought to Mary being omnipresent or even being able to hear her. She just felt that Mary was someone that could relate to her problems as a woman. I believe the current trend of Maryology (sp?)that is now in the catholic church and the teaching Mary didn't die and ascended into heaven and such is fairly recent and I'm not sure it is accepted by the church. My wife was never exposed to any of this teaching. I wonder if much of what we hear about the teachings of the RC are not just aberrant teaching like is prevalent within the Prostestant churches and we see exhibited here on the forum? I know the Hispanic community has a completely different perspective of Mary than the rest of the RC. I'm not sure of the reason but I suspect much of it stems form the RC Priest's zeal to convert them that they told them anything to accept Jesus and much of the incorrect teaching never did corrected. EdB |