The Catholic Church teaches that Mary is the mediator between God and man?

Question

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" -1 Timothy 2:5

Answer 1

It is written no where in the bible that Mary is our mediator. Thou, she is Highly Honored and in heaven.

I am sure that she is praying and interceding in behalf of others, just like all other Saints in heaven who are redeemed by the Lamb.

Saints are all who are redeemed by the blood, including born again Christians still alive on earth.

I agree with you that Jesus Christ is our High Priest and mediator between God & mankind. Any body any where, even if alone on an Island, can call out to Jesus. As children of God, we don't have to go through another person, just Jesus.

But the truth about Jesus needs to be preached to others, and to be witnesses when one confesses Jesus Christ Lord.

Answer 2

Just turn into Superman since you are Clark Kent, fly to god, then mediate for the humans! Hopefully you have some experience in free agency, or else the humans can end up with a bad deal thanks to your poor mediating skills.

Answer 3

The Catholic church is a non-Christian cult that distorts God's Word for its own evil intent.

The Catholic church teaches that Mary was sinless, but God's Word says ALL have sinned, including Mary. That means the Catholic church is calling God a liar.

Answer 4

The catholic church teaches that the church itself is a mediator. It accepts confessions from its members and gives them "pentance or tasks to accomplish to make everything right...

It is teachings like these that cause so much confusion in Christianity...

Thank God for Martin Luther and the reformation!

Answer 5

Mary was hardly mentioned in the NT of your Bible. When the Catholic Church wanted the Greeks and Romans of Ephesus to convert to Christianity, they could not get them to do it. They would not give up their goddesses (The Greek goddess Diana and the Roman goddess Artemis) So the church decided to make Mary more important-------to the importance of a goddess-----so they could ''ease'' her in and Diana and Artemis ''out''. With time, it worked, and the people converted. The people did not have to give up their goddess concept, and yet the church could claim them. The church kept Mary at this level, as the goddess concept was well accepted in the area of the world.

Answer 6

Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal, and Methodist Churches.

The Communion of Saints is the belief where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.

Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints. You, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.

As part of this family, you may ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother in heaven to pray for you.

Prayer to saints is communication, not worship.

The Hail Mary prayer simply recites Bible passages (the Word of God) and asks Mary to pray for us:

Hail Mary Full of grace, the Lord is with you. (These are the words the angel Gabriel said to Mary, a Bible quote.)

Blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. (This is Mary's cousin Elizabeth's greeting, another bible quote.)

Holy Mary, (The angel Gabriel said she was full of grace and Elizabeth said she was blessed.)

Mother of God, (the Bible says Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, God the Son)

Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. (A simple request to pray for us.)

Amen.

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

They put the mother of Jesus Christ ( God ) on the same level as God. Big No, No.

Answer 8

the catholic church is also the one who changed the day we worship Jesus to sunday-

Answer 9

The Catholic Church does not, nor has ever taught that Mary is the mediator between God and Man...

The Catholic Church does not nor has ever worshipped Mary...

I think you need to do a little more research about exactly what the Catholic Church teaches before you go and make statements that are truely false. For a start you can visit the following for some common misconceptions about the Catholic Church.

Exactly what does the rosary ask for, let's take a look...

First a greeting...

"Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with you. Blessed are you amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus."

(Luk 1:28 And the angel came in to her and said, Hail, one receiving grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women.)

and

(Luk 1:41-42 And it happened as Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and cried out with a loud voice and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.)

"Holy Mary, Mother of God,"

(Joh 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.

Joh 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

Luk 1:31-35 "And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. "He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end." Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.

Joh 10:30 "I and the Father are one."

Joh 10:33-38 The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God." Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'? "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."

Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit are One. If Mary being the mother of Jesus (even Muslims believe this), then yes Mary is the Mother of God.)

"pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death."

(A petition for praying for us, much like asking a fellow believer to pray for us, except that Mary, being in heaven with Jesus, is in direct contact with Jesus. In support of the prayer which Christ and the Spirit cause to rise in our hearts, Mary intervenes with her maternal intercession. “The prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary”. If Jesus, the one Mediator, is the Way of our prayer, then Mary, his purest and most transparent reflection, shows us the Way. “Beginning with Mary's unique cooperation with the working of the Holy Spirit, the Churches developed their prayer to the Holy Mother of God, centering it on the person of Christ manifested in his mysteries”. At the wedding of Cana the Gospel clearly shows the power of Mary's intercession as she makes known to Jesus the needs of others: “They have no wine” (Jn 2:3).

The Rosary is both meditation and supplication. Insistent prayer to the Mother of God is based on confidence that her maternal intercession can obtain all things from the heart of her Son. She is “all-powerful by grace”, to use the bold expression, which needs to be properly understood, of Blessed Bartolo Longo in his Supplication to Our Lady. This is a conviction which, beginning with the Gospel, has grown ever more firm in the experience of the Christian people. The supreme poet Dante expresses it marvellously in the lines sung by Saint Bernard: “Lady, thou art so great and so powerful, that whoever desires grace yet does not turn to thee, would have his desire fly without wings”. When in the Rosary we plead with Mary, the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit (cf. Lk 1:35), she intercedes for us before the Father who filled her with grace and before the Son born of her womb, praying with us and for us.

Answer 10

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