The bible says there is only one mediatior between God and man and that is Jesus. Why do the Roman Catholics?

Question

say that Mary is a mediator as well?

Answer 1

Pastor Billy says: Zotti you entirely misunderstand Catholic doctrine no wonder you ask the question (I'll assume you're not one of those evangelicals who like to misrepresent scripture and Catholics in a single breath)

There is no Catholic doctrine that states Mary is the mediator as it is written in the bible verse you elude to in one of John's letters or his gospel.

Catholics do teach that Mary can co-operate in Jesus' mediation.
You see all Christians accept Jesus is the One mediator especially Catholics. The reason Protestants still accept this Catholic teaching is because the majority of them have yet to attack the Christology taught by the early Church, but too many try to limit Jesus in how he chooses to mediate but not the Catholics. Roman Catholics have been taught that because Jesus as been given the authority of the Father and because during his ministry on earth he in turn gave this to others like his disciples and mother they do not view Mary is now today outside this authority to co-operate in Jesus' plan of salvation.


Corrections- Baker wrote:

I refer you to the "Catechism of the Catholic Church": (you can find it on-line). Look at Paragraph 6, Mary - Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church.

question what does that prove Baker? It proves to me you chose to take things out-of-context by the way which paragraph 6? The point I'm making is that this person has no understanding of what they are talking about. Nowhere in the Catholic Catechism does it say Mary takes away the Mediatorship from Jesus. What it does say is Mary co-operates in Christ's mediatorship as we all should try to. All Protestant believers in Christ who pray for one another are cooperating in Christ's mediatorship through intercessory prayer just like Mother Mary.

Now what does the title Mother of Church prove? Well it supports our Lord Jesus Christ's last words from the cross to John the beloved. "Son this is your mother" Mary is mother of the Church simply because Jesus shares her with all of us, she is our mother too. It is so shameful at how so-called Christians who've been raised in the Protestant revolt communities mistreat our Lord's mother. The great irony here is all the first Protestant fore-fathers who caused all this divison all taught and believed Mary was the mother of God so why does Protestantism continue to deny and counter it's original roots nevermind the early Christian church found in Catholicism.

Answer 2

Catholics DO NOT claim Mary as mediator. She, and the saints in general, are INTERCESSORS.

Intercessors are not mediators.

Catholics believe Jesus is the one and only mediator - but this Truth does not mean there cannot be intercessors.

Answer 3

Mary is not a mediator, she is an intercessor. She intercedes for us. Jesus, the mediator, leads us to His father with a guiding hand. If you are a roman catholic, you should be ashamed. That is 7th grade religion.

Answer 4

As a side note, anyone doing a really serious study of Catholicism should be aware of the possible definition of the Virgin Mary being declared as CoRedemptrix.

Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix are largely (but not totally) synonymous descriptions. I usually refrain from the former term (as have recent popes), in order to avoid the common and unfortunate misunderstandings (according to ecumenical directives of Vatican II and Pope Paul VI). The analogy I use to explain it, however, is the following:

When you have a "co-pay" on your health insurance policy, does that mean that you pay an amount identical to the insurer? "Co" simply means "alongside." It does not necessarily mean "equal," and certainly not "equal in essence," as anti-Catholics would have it. So in a nutshell, the Catholic doctrine (which is already well-established in Tradition and is nothing new) is that God chose to involve Mary in a very profound way in the redemption, especially in terms of intercession and as the Theotokos ("Mother of God"). This does not in any way, shape, or form, make her equal to God, or the author and source of either grace or redemption. All grace, all salvation comes from God. The same holds true for the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, or any other Marian doctrine. Mary is nothing that God did not ultimately make her - just as with all of us.

Answer 5

Thing is, why aren't we as God's kids, worthy enough to pray directly to Him instead of using a mediator! Having a mediator sounds more like a game of 'broken telephone' to me!

Answer 6

Catholics pray to Mary and worship her as the "Mother of God", assuming that Jesus is Lord. I never really understood that.

Answer 7

...I looked up Catholic beliefs and what I found was their belief in veneration (special honor to) Mary and canonized saints.
...Most Protestants would consider this idolatry or at least bordering on idolatry - we are to worship God only.
...I have a Catholic in-law who has been after us for years; she has been trying to get us to believe about Mary as she does. She has told us in from time to time that we need to embrace Mary as she does. She would have us join the Catholic church to be saved. We have answered that Jesus is the only mediator necessary between God and men, and that we have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ alone for salvation.
...RE saints - to a Catholic, saints are special people who are canonized by the church and "voted" in as saints, people whose lives were exemplary and admired, like Mother Theresa.
...To a Protestant such as myself, a saint is a plain old believer - read several of Paul's New Testament letters and you'll see this (like Romans 1 for instance).
...In our faith (Protestant - Independent Bible and Baptist) we believe the Scriptures are the final authority for faith and practice, and do our best to avoid mixing Bible doctrine, human reason, and tradition to arrive at truth - we look to the Bible alone, in its entirety.

Answer 8

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 living here on earth to pray for you. Or, you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother living in heaven to pray for you.

Prayer to saints in heaven is simple communication, not worship.

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Because they don't know. Some do know but reject the truth. Jesus and only Jesus can save, not Mary, nor any man even if he dresses in black or white. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me John 14:6 (New International Version) Only in Jesus Christ the Son of GOD.

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Answer 10

Like many traditions and beliefs borrowed from paganism, Mary worship is no different.

In his book Babylonian and Assyrian Religion, Professor S. H. Hooke gives us a clear view of the parallel worship of Catholicism and Babylon the Great.

Consider the following description taken from the encyclopedia: “Her faithful believers call her by the sweetest names: She is not only goddess and lady but also merciful mother, she who listens to prayers, she who intercedes . . . she who has given life to the universe and to humanity.” Compare that to the following prayer from El Santo Rosario (The Holy Rosary): “We give you thanks, Sovereign Princess, for the favors we receive every day from your beneficent hand; be so kind, Lady, as to have us now and forever under your protection and shelter.”

Who is the subject of this description and the prayer? Many will immediately conclude, “The Virgin Mary.” That answer is only half right. The prayer is offered to Mary. However, as Las Grandes Religiones Ilustradas informs us, the first quotation is a description of Ishtar, the “Lady of Love,” the Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, and war. Sometimes she is presented in images “as a mother suckling her baby boy."