Does Christian know the verse?

Question

Any christian know the verse where it says there is only one mediator to heaven and it is Christ? Y do catholics still involve praying to other beings when it is ONLY Christ who will do it for you. And to be honest you can ask Christ up front you don't have to go to the saints the bishops the Virgin Mary the priest the deacons and then Jesus. Jesus alone saved you Jesus alone will help you.

Answer 1

1 Timothy 2:5 (New International Version)

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,....


As for the second part of you question, Catholics do this because of tradition. They have been doing this for over a thousand years and will always continue to I believe. What's more important to understand is WHY. This is a direct result of paganism, patron saints, Mary, etc... all came about as a result of the church trying to proselytize pagans who believed in many gods. Just like Christmas lands on The 25th of December to replace a pagan holiday and so does Easter and many other holidays.

Answer 2

That is a typical misunderstanding of the scriptures. Every translation since the original greek text has leaned into that translation of Jesus (the person) as the mediator.

The original text conveyed that "Jesus' message" is the mediation. And, what was Jesus main message?

Harmony is harmony.

Disharmony is the only sin against God.

And, then to the Jews and by adoption to the non-jews he was sent to let us know that Heaven was possible for all of us.

That message was needed because of the Saduccees running around telling everyone that Heaven was not possible.

"Heaven being possible for all of us" was called the "Gospel" which is the greek word for "Good News".

Think about it a few minutes. Jesus was not sent to have people worship him. He was sent to bring a message from God. (Several times in the Bible, Jesus said not to worship him.)

Jesus was sent to save the world, not as a leader, but as a messenger. To bring the good news to us the "Gospel"

Religious empires learned quickly that if they could get you to worship Jesus, then well, you would land up worshipping their leaders, like the Pope and other super rich religious leaders.

God is great; Jesus' message is great. Most religions are a sham.

Answer 3

sorry, i do not know where that verse is. But I do know that the very first commandment God gave was "do not have any other gods before Me." Meaning, do not commit idolatry. Yet, catholics are doing just that when they pray to those other than Christ. All of the people they pray to were human--they weren't perfect, and they definately can't grant you salvation and get you into Heaven. Like you said, Christ alone died for us, and Christ alone will help us.

Answer 4

I think Catholics and Orthodox Christians go by traditions. That is a core part of their faith. Yes, that scripture is correct but you have to bypass all the rituals and etc that are intertwined with the Catholic faith. It gets really complicated when dealing with religion instead of a relationship

Answer 5

1 timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus.

your right.


they pray the rosary....Because the priests told them to. the bible didnt said so.

Jesus said: Iam the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except trhough me.

He didnt said, If you cant reach me, try calling my mom...Im sure Jesus isnt happy about this. Even Mary isnt.

But it wasnt Jesus alone who helped and saved you...His Father did too.

Answer 6

1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

For Catholics, there are different types of Marian prayer that reflect different intentions. Reciting the "Magnificat," for example, is a way to praise God as Mary did. By reciting the "Angelus," you commemorate an event in salvation history, one in which Mary had a major role. Such commemorations are also made by the entire Church in the liturgical cycle. At Christmas, for example, the faithful recall Mary's role in the birth of Christ.


Prayers invoking Mary's intercession for your own personal intentions are in a separate class, arousing controversy since the time of the Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries.


The practice of invoking saintly people for their intercession before God in union with Jesus has roots in sacred Scripture. In this regard, Matthew 18:19-20 refers to saints on earth, and Revelation 18:20 refers to saints in heaven. In the early centuries of the Church, veneration and invocation was offered to those martyred for Christ. The practice derives from the doctrine that the saints are united with Jesus in one mystical body (Rm 12:5).


The practice of calling on Mary for aid also appears to be very old in the Catholic Church. An ancient testimony of confidence in Mary is the prayer Sub Tuum, which historians place in the third century:



We fly to your patronage,
O holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin.

(Dictionary of Mary, p. 143)



This practice became an area of significant disagreement between Catholics and Protestants. After the crisis of the Reformation, the Catholic Council of Trent repeated traditional Christian teaching on the intercession of the saints, which applies preeminently to Mary:



The saints who reign together with Christ, offer up their prayers to God for men; ... it is good and useful to invoke them suppliantly and, in order to obtain favors from God through his Son Jesus Christ our Lord who alone is our Redeemer and Saviour, to have recourse to their prayers, assistance and support.

Answer 7

Why? Because it's a verse. It's just a verse from a book. You choose to believe what those guys wrote in the 3rd century? Fine. Go for it. There's no law against believing what you read in a book, magazine, newspaper or fortune cookie.

Answer 8

Christians know this. Why do you ask? We are not Catholics!

Answer 9

Catholics go only by the Old Testament and have different beliefs, it doesn't mean that they are wrong. You should respect other beliefs.

Answer 10

yes, this is true. You can go directly to Jesus. He is sitting at the right hand of God interceding for us all the time.