Religion & Spirituality - 23 January 2007

...instead of our similarities. We all worship the same God but under teachings of different prophets. Abraham was the first, and we all follow on from there. Why must the differences be highlighted, instead of us all bonding together and moving forward under the SAME GOD!

2007-01-23 06:16:19 · 16 answers · asked by Omar Z 2

Catholics Believe Mary is the Immaculate Conception, having been conceived without the stain of original sin upon her soul.

Mary is the Second Eve, whose "soul did magnify the Lord," whereas the First Eve demagnified God through disobedience of His command.

Mary is the "virgin" Isaiah said would conceive the "Emmanuel, God with us" (7:14): That this prophesy included the virginal birth, as well as the virginal conception of Jesus the Messiah.

Mary, being the mother of Jesus, "the Son of the Most High" (St. Luke 1:32), is the mother of God: "How have I (Elizabeth) deserved that (Mary) the mother of my Lord should come to me?" (St. Luke 1:44).

Catholics Believe

Mary is the spiritual mother of mankind: "Behold thy mother" (St. John 19:27).

Mary is the mother who is ever ready to carry their petitions to her Divine Son.

Mary is the mother who knows the yearnings in the hearts of mankind, having been the ideal maiden, wife, mother and widow.

Mary is the Saint of Saints, our Mediatrix, whose intercessory influence with her Divine Son is first and foremost in heaven.


Catholics are proud to be of those "generations" that Mary said would "call" her "blessed" (St. Luke 1:48). Mary most pure; Mary inviolate: Virgin of Virgins; Queen of the Holy Rosary; "Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb" Jesus (St. Luke 1:42-43): Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death.

Non-Catholics who make Mary the Mother of Jesus do so, because they do not accept the true doctrine of the Incarnation, viz., that Jesus Christ possesses a Divine and a Human nature in one Divine Personality. Jesus was never a human person; He was a divine Person who assumed our human nature in the womb of the Virgin Mary. She was the Mother of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, and therefore the Mother of God.

Catholics cannot help but question the consistency of Protestants giving praise of the highest to Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Deborah, Ruth, and others, while virtually ignoring Mary. Surely she towers far above them. Is it because Catholics are profuse in their love and praise of Mary?



You can go "to Jesus directly," as you say, but why not go to Mary as well? One does not exclude the other. Is not Mary the Mother of Jesus? Is not such a pure and devoted Mother more influential than we are with her sublime and devoted Son? Does not your Protestant Bible say that David asked the saints to give thanks to God for him? Then why not ask Mary, the Saint of Saints, to take your paeans of praise and petitions to her Son?

"Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints oi his, and give thanks at the remembrance oi his holiness" (Ps. 29:5).

Catholics go to Jesus directly through prayer, and also by prayerfully participating in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the wor­ship that is above all worship in the Catholic Church. It is a con­tinuation, in an unbloody manner, of the bloody sacrifice Christ made on Mount Calvary. Still more intimate and loving is the rela­tionship of Catholics with Jesus through partaking of His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in Communion. Thus the bodies of prac­tical Catholics are tabernacles of Jesus Christ, as well as temples ol the Holy Ghost.

By prayer, Catholics go to Jesus, in humility, through His Blessed Mother Mary. They believe that the prayers of the saints in heaven are more influential than their own. Revelation 8:3 tells us that saints do pray: "the prayers of all the saints (offered) upon the golden altar which was before the throne" of God. Saints are the heavenly friends of God, the foremost of them being the Mother of our Lord, the Saint of Saints. Devout Protestants pray for the con­version of sinners, why exclude intercessory prayers of the saints, to Mary in particular, to keep us true and pure?

Catholics consider Mary to be their spiritual Mother, the second Eve, who gave the world the Second Adam, to whom they are in­debted for their redemption and regeneration. In her they see all, and more, of the good, beautiful and pure that was prefigured in Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Judith, Esther, and Deborah. They love her for herself, because she was the virgin vessel from which Jesus came. Hence Catholics lovingly ask her intercession.


Strange, indeed, is it for Protestants to refuse to go to the Lord through the prayers of others as well as their own, when their Bible shows that Jeremiah asked the prophets to do so:

"It they be prophets, and if the word of the Lord he with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord oi hosts, that the. vessels of the Temple he brought back" (27:18).

St. Paul said: "I exhort that, first of all, supplications, prayers, inter­cessions,—be made for all men" (1 Tim. 2:1).

If the prayers of man for his fellowman are of value, why not the prayers of souls in heaven that once lived among men?

Longfellow, in the "Golden Legend," Kipling in the "Hymn Be­fore Action," and other famous poets not of the Catholic faith, en­compassed the beauty and soundness of the intercessory aid of Mary. Kipling's prayer is—



"Oh Mary, pierced with sorrow,
Remember, reach and save The soul that comes tomorrow
Before the God that gave! Since each was born of woman,
For each at utter need True comrade and
true foreman Madonna, intercede!"

Source(s):

http://www.catholicapologetics.net...

2007-01-23 06:15:34 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would it stop being "just a theory"?

2007-01-23 06:13:03 · 15 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3

things like "when hell freezes over" etc I am atheist but find myself using them.

2007-01-23 06:12:55 · 14 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5

How can we have an army and bombs and kill people with them? Would we ever have gone to war if Jesus was president?

2007-01-23 06:09:55 · 26 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3

Through-out history we find that those thathave reached beyond the scope of religious AUTHORITY-have been persecuted, exiled, scorned and excommunicated. Science has never bothered religion-Scientists and Real Thinkers have persued ways to better improve this world and our surroundings! I feel that the world is in the state it is because science has maintained a policy of progress and on a positive level. Religion on the other hand has a policy of comply, conform or be DAMNED. To not submit to the rules that a religion manifests is to be A SINNER. So then whyis it that YOU Saved ones-live longer happier lives-NOTE: We today live better than ALL THE KINGS OF RELIGIOUS TIMES! This has not come from any DEVINE application-it has come from hard work and perserverance! Yet-it is so EASY to say "I AM SAVED" because one has accepted a belief that is nothing more than stating "I CAN NOT DO THIS ALONE"! Science is not GODS Creation-but mans SPIRIT & WILL 2 continue POSITIVLY-SCIENCESAVES

2007-01-23 06:07:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the video for Weekend! by Scooter there are several religions referred to... which ones are they and what part of the video?

2007-01-23 06:06:16 · 2 answers · asked by mary_jo91 2

I am not saying either way, just wanted you thoughts on this matter.

The church is " built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost describes God's relationship to humanity .

Do you agree?

Does the Name of Jesus Christ, fulfill the full Godhead of the Kingdom of God?

2007-01-23 06:06:01 · 52 answers · asked by Sandy S 1

To me, it's finally taking a good poop after holding it all day. Ahhhhh....

2007-01-23 06:05:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-23 06:05:04 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I vote that political party my family has always voted that way?
Isn't that kind of stupid? Shouldn't you know what you believe and why you believe that way and be able to prove it from the bible.
Or in politics study the issues and what they actually do about those issues. It is one thing to say you are against abortion but does that party actually stop abortion? or do they just talk a good talk? What do you think should we be just sheep that follow the head sheep?

2007-01-23 06:04:58 · 4 answers · asked by Ruth 6

And by athiests i mean gays too.

Bad and all as christians are at least they dont sit crosslegged in the naked humming for higher awareness.

Why do ye do this?

2007-01-23 06:04:40 · 26 answers · asked by ? 3

Thanks for the quote by "someone who cares"

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

Question: Are these held as inalienable rights by the U.S. government today?

2007-01-23 06:02:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-23 06:02:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have some friends who have called on me as an ordained minister to perform a pagan handfasting, prior to a marraige. They have chosen the ceremony, and I need a "wand" to carry out the task.

Can any Wiccans or Neo-Pagans tell me where I can find/purchase a wand suitable for this ceremony?

2007-01-23 06:02:39 · 5 answers · asked by ~The Medieval Islander~ 5

Sprinking or Emerge?

Jesus was Emergged so where did Sprinking come in at?

2007-01-23 06:02:06 · 9 answers · asked by Sandy S 1

You always say "it happen for a reason" what about churches going down in flames?

2007-01-23 06:01:35 · 10 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1

or Jewish people inherit their religion from their parents?

2007-01-23 06:01:07 · 12 answers · asked by Ear 3

anyone know of a site where I can find old gospel songs and listen to them without paying or downloading them?

2007-01-23 05:58:26 · 6 answers · asked by blesshisname2005 3

My husband and I have been married for 9 1/2 years.
Last year I discovered he had been having adulterous relationships with 2 women over the course of 3 1/2 years.
I filed for divorce.
10 days before the finalization of the divorce proceedings, the Lord put me in a church I had never attended, having been invited there by a new aquaintance that I met through a mutual friend.
The pastor delivered a sermon about broken families. The story of David and Bathsheba and told us he had never talked about adultery during service before.
When I was introduced to the large congregation, it just so happened the two men sitting beside me in the pew were friends with my husbands deceased father in high school.
The choir sang several songs, including "Shout to The Lord" one of my very very favorites.
All the time I kept wishing my husband were there with me. The next night we were eating dinner together and making plans to reconcile and rebuild our lives. We had not spoken in several months.

2007-01-23 05:57:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've been posting in this section for a while, it's almost an addiction. Still, I must wonder. The arguments fly back and forth, back and forth. And then a new guy asks the same questions and the whole game starts anew. Not that I don't enjoy myself, but,

has any argument from 'the other side' ever made you stop and wonder? Or do you reject all arguments from 'the other side' out of hand?

have you ever thought 'hey, this guy/girl has a point?' or 'hmmm, I never saw it in this light'?

2007-01-23 05:56:11 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

For instance, should these people get property tax breaks?

2007-01-23 05:55:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have had a choir in a catholic church here in Mexico for 10 years and I wish to learn some songs in English for the mass, because sometimes we sing in weddings for english speaking people. Thanks in advance for your help

2007-01-23 05:54:37 · 2 answers · asked by Ernesto T 1

and made you give it up, but turn around and give you the exact same thing later?

2007-01-23 05:53:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is true that water iself does not contain any saving virtue, but God has chosen to include it in HIS plan of salvation.

Peter explained, " Baptism doth also now save us ( not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
1 Peter 3:21

Does you Church teach the importance of Water Baptism?

I see so many churches doing away with this very very important Step to Salvation.

Even Jesus who was without SIN was Baptized.

2007-01-23 05:53:17 · 22 answers · asked by Sandy S 1

Does that mean I shall live for-evah?! hehehe...

2007-01-23 05:49:15 · 45 answers · asked by That's A Lot of Nonsense 3

Come on baby "LIGHT" my Fire!

2007-01-23 05:49:09 · 4 answers · asked by YippyYahQQ 1

Take the wheel from my hands

i can't do this on my own

It talks about a girl coming from Cincinnati on Friday and her car loses control and she asks God for help what's the name of it?

2007-01-23 05:49:06 · 7 answers · asked by bboyballer112 2

If people are able to be "possessed" by the devil, then why is it soooooo hard to believe that these same people can be filled with the Holy Ghost ( or possessed)? Jesus said that you would be filled when you believed, not that you just have to believe. Isn't a person possessed by the devil filled with one of his spirits. God is only ONE SPIRIT, AND IS MORE MIGHTY AND POWERFUL THAT SATAN, hence throwing him out of Heaven.

2007-01-23 05:49:00 · 13 answers · asked by stacy a 1

I'm looking to set up a new open mic night. Mainly for worship writers around my valley and I'm struggling to give it a name. Any ideas? If you could base it on scripture and give me the scripture reference, that would be great! Thanks.

2007-01-23 05:47:33 · 15 answers · asked by otherwisefallen 2