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You understand this is an Islamic teaching, not a Christian teaching, right? Christianity is fundamentally opposed to everything mentioned here.

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Is the Hail Mary Biblical?

One of the aspects of the Catholic faith that Protestants struggle with the most is the honor that Catholics give Our Lady. In particular, the “Hail Mary” seems to be a particular point of contention. Some Protestants point to that prayer and say, “That is proof of Catholics’ idolatry of Mary. It uses language that should be only for God. AND it’s not in the Bible either!”

As it turns out, however, the Hail Mary comes from the New Testament almost word-for-word; and most of its words come straight from the mouths of angels, apostles, and righteous Jews, no less!

To begin, here is the text of the Hail Mary prayer:

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

The Hail Mary has two sections: a greeting and a petition. Both are rooted in New Testament passages. Within each section, we can break down the text into two parts, which gives us four total sections of the prayer to reflect on.

Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee.

Scriptural reference: “And coming to her, he said, ‘Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.’” (Luke 1:28)

Explanation: The angel Gabriel greets Mary with “Hail!”, a title usually reserved for royalty. This treasured title serves as a foreshadowing of Mary’s role as the Mother of the King of Heaven. Then Gabriel calls her “favored one” (also translated as “full of grace”) and one with whom the Lord is present. This confirms God’s special presence, His life of Grace and Love, within Mary.

When we pray the Hail Mary, our greeting echoes the greeting of God’s own angel and the reality of her role in salvation history.

Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus.

Scriptural reference: “Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said 'Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.’” (Luke 1:42)

Explanation: Elizabeth’s words are inspired by God Himself, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity: the Holy Spirit. Therefore we can say that this greeting of admiration and blessing is pleasing to God and an appropriate way to address Mary. The fruit of Mary’s womb is her child, Jesus, which Elizabeth alludes to by calling her “mother” in the next verse.

Holy Mary, Mother of God

Scriptural reference: “How does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:43)

Explanation: This next Spirit-filled acclamation from Elizabeth shows us that Mary is mother not just of the human nature of Jesus but of Jesus Himself, the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity. She is the Mother of God because she is the mother of Jesus, and Jesus is God. God chose to confer this honor upon her; He did not have to. Elizabeth, and we ourselves, can therefore rightly call Mary “holy” and the “Mother of God.”

Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Scriptural reference: “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.” (James 5:16)

Explanation: There’s no denying that we are all sinners (Romans 5:8) in need of constant prayer and healing, especially as we approach death and the Final Judgment. James tells his fellow Christians to pray for one another, as they are all members of the mystical Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12). James goes on to say that the prayers of a righteous person have great power. And who is the most righteous person who walked the earth besides Jesus the God-man? The woman whom angels and men address as “favored” and “blessed.” The woman who carried the Son of God in her womb. If we believe that those in Heaven truly have eternal life, who better to pray before the throne of God on our behalf than His own holy, blessed Mother?

Source: https://www.catholiccompany.com/magazine/hail-mary-is-in-the-bible-6487

Further reading:

Communion of Saints: The doctrine expressed in the Apostles’ Creed

Praying to the Saints?

Saint Worship?

Defending the Prayers of the Saints

How to Defend the Intercession of the Saints

"As it turns out, however, the Hail Mary comes from the New Testament almost word-for-word; and most of its words come straight from the mouths of angels, apostles, and righteous Jews, no less!" Notice a pattern:

Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Spoken by an angel to her face. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God Spoken by Elizabeth to her face.

Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death (James 5:16). A command given to all believers, but in no way enables those who have passed on to hear our prayer requests.

But when you do the Hail Mary, it is to a woman who cannot hear you. And Catholics admit, this is a prayer. You are praying to the creation rather than to the Creator. Shall I pray to thee, O' saint? Hail, saint, full of impurity and untruth! Thy body has been dishonored, the temple made one of idolatry! The foolish man, claiming to be wise, won't you intercede for me? Pray for me, O' saint, to the images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things, which surely contain the spirits of the servants of the most high! We lift your name for you exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. Scripture reference: Romans 1

“The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.”

– Bertrand Russell

Simply not true. There are many many many Christian scientists. Robert Boyle, Antoine Lavoisier, and Isaac Newton to name a couple. Some of the greatest advancements were done by men and women of faith.

You have faith in a lot of things. Faith that gravity won't suddenly stop working. Faith that the pilot of your plane won't let you plummet. Faith that the bus driver of your children will not run off the side of the road. Faith that your surgeon will fix you up and wake you up. Faith that your parents were going to raise you and feed you and keep you clothed. The only difference between us is our faith is placed in someone who can't fail.

You now understand everything you need to know about Xianity.

Hell is separation from God. And God is the source of life, peace, joy, and wellness. He's not a crazy man forcing you to love Him. If you say no, very well. You'll have your wish, and have no one to blame but yourself. God's not forcing you into hell, you're jumping in of your own free will.

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Christians of tumblr:

Do you view God as an energy or mystical force/ being rather than a literal guy out there in the clouds?

And when it comes to Jesus, do any of you think his ressurection was spiritual rather than physical?

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God is Spirit and Jesus was physically raised.

It is from white racist Christians that the threat of fascism in this country arises because this religion is militant and not the religion “of” Jesus but the religion “about” Jesus.

— Alan Watts

Funny because Christianity started with Jews from the Middle East. Islam is very much the white-man's religion, and they actually teach aggression. Why not speak against them instead of people who have no business calling themselves Christian?

“Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

– Lawrence M. Krauss.

“We are made of star stuff.”

– Carl Sagan

Well tell me, Who put the stars in their place? If indeed the Big Bang is true, where did the matter come from? Or do you believe in a pre-existent ball of mass that had the energy and ability to expand the universe and create the galaxies as we know it? Sounds an awful lot like you're trying to make a god without using the word "god."

Therein lies the issue: we don't pay the church so our sins can be forgiven. We give freewill offerings because we want to and we're called to be generous. Our sins are forgiven whether or not we give tithes and offerings.

I'll give you the first one, and I did wear it for a while until it started affecting my health. But the rest? No. As Christians we hate that children are taken from parents, but we also hate that the parents are the ones putting the kids in that situation to begin with. As Christians we have sympathy for genuine refugees fleeing from violence, but we also are required to have discernment of whether they're here for help, or to bring harm. As Christians we abhor police brutality, but we also demand justice, so if you just went and killed someone then you refuse to listen to police orders and start to violently resist arrest... you're gonna get shot. That's not police brutality, that's someone playing stupid games and getting a stupid reward. And we do declare black lives matter, but we don't do so at the expense of every other life. "Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world!"

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Do you enjoy reading books about biblical ladies that actually consider the female experience (and the female reader's experience) rather than merely noting women as objects within male narratives? Do you want to be angry but also laugh and maybe tear up a little while considering the implications of biblical stories you previously found dull (or uh, horrifying) in Sunday School? Do you want a book that makes you not feel like, embarrassed, to identify as Christian? If so, @ursamajorstudio ‘s new book is the book for you. It’s A+++. Tumblr will only let me post 10 screenshots at a time so stay tuned for the second half of my favorite bits. You can find it HERE and wherever books are sold.

Or read the Bible and not a book that makes a mockery of God's Word.

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

– Bertrand Russell

The "church" does not represent Christianity. Christ represents Christianity and we strive to do as He did. Many who claim the title of Christian are deceiving themselves and others, because they are the farthest thing from Christ.

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“It is irresistible to ask, though almost impossible to tell, whether goddesses were used by writers of either sex in resistance to the androcentric idiom of official theology. Bluntly expressed, the question sounds and surely is anachronistic. No medieval writer explicitly made the argument (now current among feminist theologians) that a God who transcends sex and gender must be represented in both male and female guise. Yet some theologians reflected quite thoughtfully on the gender of their God-language. Anselm of Canterbury, for instance, asks in the Monologium, “whether it is more fitting to call [the Divine Persons] Father and Son, or Mother and Daughter, considering that there is no distinction of sex in them.” Indeed, both divine Persons are spiritus (a masculine noun), but both are also veritas and sapientia (feminine nouns). Although rejecting biological notions of God in principle, Anselm finally resolves the question solely on the basis of Aristotle’s claim thats the father is always the first principle of generation - and the offspring, in order to resemble the parent more closely, must be of the same gender. Thierry of Chartres […] remarks like Anselm that the divine Persons could just as well have been designated by the names of Mother, Daughter, and Gift (f. donatio), since the attributes they represent (power, wisdom, and goodness) are feminine nouns. […] The question of God’s gender also arose in the context of Jewish-Christian debate. Spanish Jews arguing with Martin of Léon (d. 1221) asked him why Christ is called “son” and not “daughter,” given that scripture represents the wisdom of God is female. The name of “son,” Martin replied lamely, is “more honorable.” Yet some schoolmen conceded that Christ could indeed have been born a woman, if God had so pleased. Such comments, which could be multiplied, indicate that at least some medieval theologians thought expressly about the gender of their God-language and were able to entertain alternatives, even if they did not endorse them.”

— Barbara Newman (God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages, pages 48, 48, 48-49)

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We use masculine pronouns for one good reason: that's how He identified Himself as in the Bible. As for why He chose masculine pronouns, that's an entire hour worth of studying right there, but to keep it simple, we just repeat what He said. Don't twist history and Scripture to fit your disillusions.

in christian mythology the "Holy Spirit" is referred to as singular rather than plural, implying that all other existing spirits fall into the category of Unholy Spirit