Zakanj-Studios In reply to gordonphilbin [2019-03-21 13:38:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!!!

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gordonphilbin In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2019-03-21 20:23:11 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to gordonphilbin [2019-03-22 01:40:21 +0000 UTC]

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to JayLeeArtwork [2019-01-10 09:03:14 +0000 UTC]

Ah!! Thank you so much! Many thanks indeed! So glad to have you here!

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to mamabali [2018-12-16 12:44:21 +0000 UTC]

You're most welcome, a very Merry Christmas to you! 

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mamabali In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2018-12-17 05:53:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much  

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to mamabali [2018-12-17 12:19:56 +0000 UTC]

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to AnOddRose [2018-12-16 06:39:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your concern, but you can look up any religion and find Something negative about it on YouTube. 

If you are referring to the current situation in the Catholic Church please listen:
We follow the churches teachings given to us by Heaven and do not worship the earthly leaders, they are still human and will make mistakes. There are bad people in the Vatican, and we are more than willing to admit to that. 
The Catholic Church is not physical, it is a part of God himself.

You may want to look up some of the other side of the story, you may find it intriguing.

God Bless. 

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AnOddRose In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2018-12-19 04:47:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I'm sorry I assumed a video had it all right. I just care for you and your salvation, that's why I shared it.

I still wonder, as you've recommended that I look up some of the other side, is it true that Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary?

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to AnOddRose [2018-12-19 06:07:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. We care for you too, and I think really from looking at your posts we have very similar views. 
We Christians need to stick together during these difficult times.  

Yes we do pray to Our Lady and love Her very dearly. 
We Pray to Her to intercede for us to Her Son Jesus, it's complicated but we more or less Pray to Her to Pray for us. Jesus loves His Mother so much he will never deny her anything. 
We pray to Jesus through Mary. 

You may enjoy listening to this professor, it may look like a typical boring lecture at first glance but it's actually an intriguing story. He explains things very well. 
youtu.be/1vnoKr3htss
There's part 2 as well. 

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AnOddRose In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2018-12-20 06:11:28 +0000 UTC]

The lecture sounds intriguing, as is the idea of Mary interceding for us.

According to what I've learned from the Bible, Jesus is the intercessor for us to reach God, the Father.

"Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake."
John 14:5‭-‬11 King James Version.

I feel the Word speaks for itself, implying that Jesus is already our intercessor, and that we come to the Father only through Him, not Mary. There is nothing wrong with loving Mary, Jesus did, but we pray to the Father through Jesus, and Jesus prays for us, not through Mary, to Jesus, to the Father. Praying to or through Jesus is not idolatry either, because Jesus and the Father are the same, as implied here. We see Jesus, we see the Father. Yet praying to Mary, (and a statue of her, I assume, which is a graven image) who's mortal and under sin like the rest of us, is in a sense idolatry. J

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to AnOddRose [2018-12-20 11:25:41 +0000 UTC]

Actually Our Lady was without any sin, including original. 
We pray to Our Mother in Heaven, we do not worship her. 
We also do not pray to statues. Statues are merely stone or plaster. 
We have statues to merely represent the real saint behind them and so we have something to look at to remind us that they are listening to us. 

This article is VERY good at explaining it. 
Please read at least a little of it, it is not very long and you can skip through it to the important parts: www.catholic.com/magazine/prin…

God bless.

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AnOddRose In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2018-12-21 04:12:11 +0000 UTC]

That was a very informative article, thank you for sharing.

Just a question, where do you get the idea that Mary is sinless? Didn't Jesus come to save her too?

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to AnOddRose [2018-12-21 08:49:08 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome, my pleasure. 

I hope these two articles answer your question: 

www.catholiceducation.org/en/r…

www.askacatholic.com/_WebPosti…

We believe Saint Bernadette Soubirous was told by the Blessed Virgin Mary that Our Lady was "The Immaculate Conception". 
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourde…

We went to Lourdes for a pilgramidge/Holiday and it truly is one of the most beautiful peaceful places we've ever been to. 
It's not that I expect you to honestly travel across the world to a small town in the French Pyrenees, but that if you are ever in a time of spiritual or personal trouble and need a place of refuge, it is so lovely there. 
You could watch some movies on Catholic Saints like Joan of Arc 1948 or Bernadette 1988. 

Sorry if we are in anyway pushing our views upon you, you have every right to choose for yourself and conduct your own life. Just thought you may—or may not—find it interesting. <3 

If I may ask, what religious group do you belong to?  

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AnOddRose In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2019-01-06 18:29:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I see where you're coming from with the immaculate conception yet there is something that disturbs me; why is it that only in Catholic Bibles it seems that Mary is labeled as 'full of grace'? It almost seems like, and this is just an assumption, the Scripture was tampered with. Jesus was just as human as us, just sinless. Regarding, the Ark of the Covenant, remember when the Holy Spirit rested upon Jesus, like It did upon the Ark? And Jesus was already sinless. What do you think?

I was raised as a secular Jew, and around two years ago I came to faith in Jesus. I am what you would call a Messianic Jew.

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to AnOddRose [2019-01-17 10:11:48 +0000 UTC]

Catholic bibles are the original bibles, it is the Protestant etc. bibles that have been tampered with. The original word translated closest to Speical Grace that has been gifted by God or something like that. 
Please consider reading at least some of this article. It really digs deep into the original translation and I found it most facinating myself:
www.themichigancatholic.org/20…
(Sorry about all the links, they must be tiring you, I apologise if they are.  ).


Yes he was human, but he was also GOD.  

If I haven't answered any of your questions please remind me as I'm a bit slow at the moment. 😅 Sorry. 

Oh that's so nice to hear. Congratulations on finding Christ!

We are Sephardi Jew by blood, but Catholic in religion. Our family history is so messed up, the Jewish is from my Jamaican Great-Grandmother's side, they were Jews that immigrated to Jamaica and married Scotts and we think most likely Africans too. We are mogrels lol, the rest of our racial background is soooo mixed up. African, English, Croatian, Jamaican, et cetera. 🤣

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to RainyEvangeline [2018-09-19 02:44:42 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thanks, sis! God bless 👍✌

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RainyEvangeline In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2018-09-21 15:27:35 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! Blessings!

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to RainyEvangeline [2018-09-22 02:15:46 +0000 UTC]

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to Nootboi-XIV [2018-09-15 04:41:04 +0000 UTC]

Ah! Thank you so much!

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to Rodrigo-Albuquerque [2018-08-15 07:24:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to LaChicaRara [2018-08-14 00:33:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks awfully! Nice of you to drop by.   

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to Indra1408 [2018-08-13 02:59:31 +0000 UTC]

Hi, Indra! It's Mythy! 

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Indra1408 In reply to Zakanj-Studios [2018-08-13 07:57:40 +0000 UTC]

 So glad to have you and your stunning art!

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Zakanj-Studios In reply to Indra1408 [2018-08-13 10:14:35 +0000 UTC]

Thankee! 

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