Word: christe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian faith changes; dogma develops and what was once dogma is now rank heresy. Do Christians know what is known, what believed of Mary, mother of the Christ...
...daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that she was born like all mortals with the taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third to her twelfth year (according to the same source) Mary dwelt in the temple; when she became of nubile age, Joseph was chosen from the widowers of Israel by divine token, to be her guardian. Later, the annunciation took place; when Mary's pregnancy was discovered...
...Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary." James, Cardinal Gibbons, in modern times wrote: "After our Lord Jesus Christ, no one has ever exercised so salutary and dominant an influence as the Virgin Mary on society, on the family, on the individual. . . . Queen of angels and saints [she] stands 'face to face' before God." He speaks of her as the "mirror of God," urges devout Catholics to pray...
...therefore to lay Christ in the bottome; as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning; and seeing the Lord only giveth wisedome, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him Prov...
...every student be plainly and earnestly pressed to consider well, that the maine end of his life and studies, it to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternall life, Joh. XVII...