No need to get defensive. The point is not that you were using a term with insufficient “authority of language expertise”, but that you were using a somewhat vague ordinary-language synonym of a recognized technical term instead of the technical term itself, so we weren’t entirely sure what you meant by it. The misunderstanding has now been straightened out.
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The “correct term” may indeed be different in Catholic doctrine, but what I wrote is quite correct in English.
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But in this instance the English word “intercede” has a specific theological meaning which is not equal to the English word “intervene”. As Diogenes and Kimstu point out, what you said was misleading.
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But in this instance the English word “intercede” has a specific theological meaning which is not equal to the English word “intervene”. As Diogenes and Kimstu point out, what you said was misleading.
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Yeah, an Intervention of the saints makes it sound like they come down from heaven and take you to an AA meeting. 