So why do catholics pray to Mary and a bunch of dead people for intercessory prayer? Do they think jesus isn't powerful enough to answer thier prayer?
2006-09-02 06:57:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is a big difference in whom you are praying to, I ask living persons to pray for me, not those who are dead in christ. There is only one intercessor between us and the Father, Christ. Also, give me chapter/verse on where it says that Mary didn't die but was raptured into heaven?
2006-09-02 08:18:10 · update #1
Intercessory prayer for Catholics is not much different from my asking someone else to pray for me. Having Mary or someone else close to Jesus pray for me is even better.
2006-09-02 07:05:54 · answer #1 · answered by Easy B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics do not follow the bible as much as they do their pope and other Catholic books and traditions, which have no biblical basis. The bible says there is but one intercessor between God and man, Jesus Christ.
Liv2Play, check out John 14:6...it's the way, the truth and the life.
2006-09-02 14:06:05 · answer #2 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No , we pray to Mary and to the other saints, because if you remenber what Christ said, "when two , or more gather in my name, I am in the midst". We need all the help we can by way of prayers from others, just as we are called to pray for others. In case you are not aware of it, Mary is queen of heaven and the spiritual mother of the human race.
2006-09-02 14:03:56 · answer #3 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT is the difference between Christians and Catholics. It's a shame what the "popes" did to a religion. But still all in all Jesus loves everyone!
2006-09-02 14:04:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, you could take that question to it's logical conclusion and ask why you even bother praying to Jesus? Are you saying that God isn't powerful enough to answer your prayers?
2006-09-02 14:04:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. its way, truth, and light, not life.
2, its like having more people pray for you, people who we know are with God in heaven. they are not dead, the gospel says those who belief will have everlasting life, and mary went to heaven before dying.
2006-09-02 14:01:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once baptized, we've already come to the Father through Jesus, and we're now part of God's immediate family.
God is our father by adoption, Jesus is our brother by adoption, and Mary is our mother by adoption. All the other saints in heaven are our brothers and sisters by adoption.
It's OK with God when we all work together to save souls, no matter where our family members happen to be living at the time.
Not only is Jesus powerful enough to answer our prayers, he's also secure enough and generous enough to share everything he has with us, including his divine power.
God can empower anyone to do anything, in his name, and he does.
Those who understand the hierarchical structure of heaven understand this.
Those who showed up more than 1500 years late, know only what they read in scripture, and follow false teachers, don't.
Those who are justified and who are in heaven with God, have truly overcome the world through God's grace, and are presently enjoying all of the following rewards, and probably much, much more:
Jesus will give them power and authority over men, over angels, and over Satan himself.
Rev 2:26 And he that shall overcome and keep my words unto the end, I will give him power over the nations.
Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and as the vessel of a potter they shall be broken:
Rev 2:28 As I also have received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star.
Jesus will proclaim their names on high, before his father, and before all the angels and saints.
Rev 3:5 He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Jesus will allow them to dwell intimately with him, and he'll give them special honors and privileges.
Rev 3:12 He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.
Jesus will share his divine power with them, and let them sit on his throne with him, or even give them a throne of their own.
Rev 3:21 To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit with me in my throne: as I also have overcome and am set down with my Father in his throne.
God himself has promised as much.
Rev 21:7 He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son.
Catholics rightly understand that Mary was the very first one to proclaim the Kingdom of God on the earth, the only one through whom the Messiah was born, and the one who became the first and most constant disciple of her son, Jesus, so Mary clearly merits and enjoys all the rights and privileges mentioned above.
The other saints also merit some or all of them.
You may too, someday.
So those dead people you speak of have become perfected and empowerd by Christ to assist him in the important work of saving souls.
What did you think they were doing up there in heaven, playing pinochle?
2006-09-02 15:43:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are changing, slowly but surely, There are charasmatic catholics who look like pentecostals swinging off the chandeliers.
2006-09-02 14:06:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They think Jesus will listen to the other saints before them
2006-09-02 14:00:17 · answer #9 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell me, why don't the fundamentalist see that there are many roads to God. Does it say "the ONLY way". No it does not.
2006-09-02 14:03:05 · answer #10 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋