When The Holy Bible says clearly that the only mediator between GOD and man is Christ Jesus and noone else!
2006-10-16 10:54:25 · 14 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do not know. There is no scripture that says she is to mediate for anyone. The last time I checked, she was dead, and the bible teaches that the dead know not what the living do, so, she cannot even hear us. And the mediator is the MAN, Christ Jesus. This is the body that was raised from the dead. Jesus is God. Always has been, and always will be.
2006-10-16 11:27:59 · answer #1 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You obviously don't understand the meaning of "Mediator". Most Protestants don't. A mediator, by definition, is a third party who intervenes in a dispute or a broken relationship between two other parties. The sin of Adam and Eve broke the relationship between God and the human race. Therefore we needed a mediator to bring the relationship back into good terms. Jesus Christ provided that work of mediation on the Cross. Therefore He is, just as the Holy Catholic Book states, the only Mediator between God and man.
Mary is an intercessor, as are all Christians. An intercessor is someone who prays to God on behalf of another party. Do you pray for your children? For your family and friends? Do you ever ask others to pray for you? If not, you are a very strange Christian, and not very biblical. The Bible makes it clear that Christians are to intercede for one another. If you do pray for others, then you are an intercessor. I hear some say that "the dead" cannot intercede for us. I agree. But the Bible says that those who are followers of Christ will NEVER DIE. Therefore any reference to "the dead" is irrelevant. "The dead" which the Bible speaks of are the spiritually dead, those who have forfeited eternal life. But those who are saved, and who have "fallen asleep" as the Bible calls it, are more alive now than they ever were on Earth. Therefore there is no reason whatsoever why they would not pray on our behalf.
2006-10-16 18:26:01 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jesus mediates by dying on the cross for us. Mary mediates for us by praying to God for us. By the way, the term for Mary is 'Mediatrix'.
2006-10-16 18:00:10 · answer #3 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Catholic. We don't "need" Mary as a "Mediatrix" between us and God. we firmly believe that Jesus is the only Mediator between God and people.
We speak of Mary, his mother, as a Mediatrix in the sense that God's favors can come in answer to her prayers and all his grace did come and comes to us through her. Jesus himself came to us through Mary, not directly.
2006-10-16 18:27:35 · answer #4 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the only mediator between God and man.
Jesus never worshipped Mary.
Jesus made no big deal when He was told Mary and family was seeking Him.( who is is family?).
2006-10-16 18:18:02 · answer #5 · answered by robert p 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Abraham didnt need a mediator, if you find a mediator helpful choose who ever works best.
2006-10-17 19:14:39 · answer #6 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic Church knows many things which have never been explicitly defined in scripture, which is perfectly OK with Jesus, since he remains the head of the Catholic Church.
One of the nice things about God is that he shares with his faithful children.
He's not selfish. He's not petty. There's plenty of grace to go around, and he doesn't have to do all the distribution work himself.
Jesus spent 33 years in the flesh, and saved mankind by destroying Satan's power, so Jesus was appointed the new head of all mankind by his Father, and given all power over heaven and earth.
The Blessed Virgin devoted her entire life to helping Jesus successfully complete his mission, so Jesus shares a bit of his glory with his mom, and gives her some authority and some grace to spread around, too.
When we die and get to heaven, Jesus promises to share with us too.
We're members of his family, and co-heirs to the kingdom of God. What else would we expect?
Anyone who overcomes the world through God's grace is in for a number of great rewards.
Rev 2:26 And he that shall overcome and keep my words unto the end, I will give him power over the nations.
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.
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.
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.
Rev 21:7 He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son.
The Blessed Virgin lent her flesh to Jesus for his great work. She was his first and most constant disciple. She attended his birth, as well as his death. She was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit at Jesus' conception, and also at Pentecost.
This makes her absolutely unique in all God's creation, and certainly worthy of any honors Jesus, and/or his Church chooses to bestow on her, including all the honors listed above.
Anyone who reads the Bible and fails to realize this has been deceived, and had better do some serious soul searching, before it's too late.
2006-10-16 20:31:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the whole "Immaculate Conception" thing. She must be holy and favored of God as well since he chose her to bear Christ.
2006-10-16 18:20:29 · answer #8 · answered by Raymond 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God wasn't expecting this kind of population explosion--he hired mary as a secretary, and then started employing more saints and angels--last fo all he started speaking through us, so we're the low man on the totem pole in GOD inc.
2006-10-16 19:30:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hiya,
Mary is our mother. Like any good mother she cleans us up to present us to her son the King of Heaven.
Let's say our prayer is an apple. She would take the apple from us, put it on a silver platter and THEN present it to Our Lord.
Make sense?
2006-10-16 18:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋