Jesus Lives!! Mary is dead! Why pray to a dead person when you have a living GOD to pray to?

Question

Mary is dead. Jesus is alive. Dont you see the problem when Jesus is GOD and Mary is a mere woman?

Yer cute Caro!

I am not trying to hurt catholics. I am asking you a direct question for I am Christian not catholic.
Please understand.

Why pray to a dead person when you are to pray through the living GOD in Christs name.?

Answer 1

I don't know? Never have figured out why people pray to saints. Mary was blessed among women but she wasn't a saint or a god or anything to be worshiped. Jesus is Lord, God, no one comes to the Father except through him so why pray to hail mary?
Thanks for the question and letting me vent!!!! Peace to you and your house.

Answer 2

No. they do no longer seem to be 'residing with God'. at first, the belief-relating to the saints isn't a Biblical one and subsequently must be ignored. look at it this style: The Bible is the preparation manual for the way we ought to consistently stay our lives. If multiple church homes, incredibly the Catholic Church in simple terms makes up doctrines to in great condition their desires it fairly is like attempting to application your Sony VCR with a Toshiba instruction manual. Does that make sense? So, lower back to the saints and Mary. Nowhere in the Bible does it allude to the belief of Mary residing in heaven. She replaced right into a vessel in God's layout, in simple terms as Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Rahab and a bunch of others have been. She has the wish of the resurrection on the grounds that she died after Jesus and replaced into subsequently entitled to his ransom, yet had she ascended to heaven the Bible might have pronounced so. after all, it instructed us a lot approximately her...why depart out such an considerable element? So, she is fairly asleep suitable now, concious of no longer something in any respect, as Scripture descibes death. In time, she would be judged in simple terms such as you, me and each and all of the Saints. subsequently God is for the residing...the lifeless can do no longer something to help themselves now. And to make sparkling some thing PaulCyp pronounced...people who follow Jesus will under no circumstances die in the sense that they would be resurrected to an excellent new existence in the recent international to return after Armaggedon. Then they are going to stay forever. yet for suitable now, Armaggedon is yet to return and our actual bodies will fairly die. Paul's remark is meant for the destiny and ergo, the saints and Mary are lifeless and yet Jesus isn't a liar (and neither are we).

Answer 3

Have you ever even attended a Catholic Mass? Have you studied Catholicism? We don't pray to Mary...that is one of the biggest myths that the Protestants have ever come up with. We honor Mary. Do you think that it was easy in those days..to become pregnant and not be married? She was chosen by God to carry His Son...therefore she is honorable. Even the Hail Mary prayer isn't praying to Mary...it is honoring her.

Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee, Blessed art though amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of they womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death. Amen.

Answer 4

Catholics do not PRAY TO Mary, but asks for Mary to PRAY for them.

As to why contact a dead person... well.. if Jesus could do that why not anyone else that is on his path that came after him? Jesus I believe spoke to Moses and Elijah just before his crucifixion. They are dead too, no? Was Jesus praying TO them? NO... He WAS communing with them, the same way Catholics commune with their saints INCLUDING Mary.

Answer 5

So, in your opinion, God just uses people and tosses them away like trash, after they have served His purpose?

You don't think that Jesus, the Son of God, would perfectly obey the Fifth Commandment, honor thy father and honor thy mother?

You are crazy and deceived. Mary is more alive than you or I can ever dream of being. Finally, no one that I know prays to Mary. We ask for her intercession.

Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

Answer 6

Because Catholicism is not based completely on the Bible. The Bible says not to pray to mankind or worship mankind, but to God ONLY. Catholics can't understand or obey that command.

DID YOU KNOW? Mary gave only ONE command in the Bible: in John 2:5, she said, "...WHATSOEVER HE (Jesus) SAITH UNTO YOU, DO IT." What does Jesus say? "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6. Only Jesus can save you through His death alone, not by works.

Also, TO JACK C below me here, if that little saying at the bottom of your entry is the "Hail Mary," and that isn't a prayer, then I don't know what it is... She isn't alive on this earth today, but in Heaven with her Son the Lord Jesus. The Bible says that Christ is our intercessor, not Mary.

Answer 7

You know, some of the innocents on this forum may not realize what you are doing, but some of us are a little more in tune to the crap on here. This is not more than an Anti-Catholic hate statement (and no I am not a Catholic). You know that Mary is very sacred to them and all you want to do it hurt.
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Answer 8

yawn. did you forget about the part where jesus died on a cross?
no, you'll say, because jesus came back to life three days later and after forty days of additional ministry, ascended directly into heaven without dying again.
to which i will of course respond, well duh, and so did mary ascend into heaven. according to catholic lore, she never died, but took the cloud escalator directly up, just as jesus did. which is why catholics celebrate the assumption.
if i can answer this, and i am not even catholic (anymore), you need to ask better questions.

Answer 9

I'd rather pray to my God, Thor, he never died like Jesus did and he never left like yours did.

If Catholic's want to ask Mary or one of the saints to pray on behalf of them to their God, what harm is it going to do to you? Just leave them alone.

Answer 10

OK
I understand what you are saying. When you and Bubba sneaked into church, you were yelling Halalulah!! and Oh Jesus, I'm coming. Now I know, you were talking about heaven. God be praised; you have your answer.