I am a catholic and i do not worship mary, why don't one of you protestant people actually ask a catholic if they do instead of spreading those nasty rumors, it only makes u people look like idiots!
2007-04-10 13:14:39 · 20 answers · asked by Nali 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe Protestants misunderstand because they see a Catholic kneeling before a statue and think that is worship, when for the Catholic it is merely a posture of prayer.
You must be patient with those of different denominations because many have been taught these misconceptions from the pulpit at church. I know - I have lots of Protestant friends, and even dated a few.
And I have heard MANY pastors teach errors about Catholicism to their congregations. But these pastors are well-meaning and have the people's interests at heart.
Just simply explain to a Protestant that we do not worship saints. We ask them to pray for us and put our requests in their hands since they are in Heaven and are so close to God. Scripture calls them "a great cloud of witnesses" that are watching us run our spiritual race.
We can ask the saints (our friends in Heaven) to pray for us just as we ask our friends on Earth to pray for us.
I am a Roman Catholic, too, by the way.
2007-04-10 13:17:41 · answer #1 · answered by Veritas 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
As a "protestant" I can't say I have ever told anyone that Catholics worship Mary, however I have heard many Catholics say that they pray to Mary (and other "saints") and that they also go to their priest for absolution of sins. With no disrespect to those of the Catholic faith, this is not biblical. There is ONE mediator between God and man and that is Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5). While we should be confessing our sins to each other and praying for each other, there is only ONE person who died on the cross for our sins, and that is Jesus Christ. He is the only one who hears our prayers and can forgive us for them. Mary was an ordinary woman who was a sinner just like everyone else (in fact, she gave a sin offering in the Bible). God chose her to have Jesus because both she and Joseph were born in the lineage of King David, which makes Jesus the rightful king of the Jews.
2007-04-10 13:28:38 · answer #2 · answered by attacksheep74 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You do worship Mary.
What is worship? Singing praises, praying to, calling someone holy (bible says God alone is holy, mary is NOT)
God said calling someone Queen of heaven was idol worship!
Jeremiah 7:17-19
17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger. 19 But am I the one they are provoking? declares the LORD. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?
Look at this web site, what is the Pope doing as he bows down to the "gaven image" of Mary?
This is worship
2007-04-10 13:55:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it is because Catholics do pray to Mary and other Saints and ask for their intercession for them with the Lord.
Saying Hail Marys to me is a form of worshiping and kneeling before a statue of Mary or another Saint is also. The 10 commandments strickly forbids this.To me it is worshiping a graven image just like when in the bible they bowed before the golden calf. I respect Mary as Jesus's mother and also the Saints for the lives they lead but I don't pray to them or kneel before statues of them.
2007-04-10 13:29:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they don't under stand the whole process no catholics worship Mary the just ask her for help with certain things. like all the other saints. we have patron saints for every thing. to find lost things, to help our academics, the safety of firefighters and police men we don't worship any of those. God just gave them a special gift and it makes a pray a little more personal and praying to those patron saints really helps to. i once lost a very valuable earring i found it in a place that i would of never expected and i had been praying for a week. i love being catholic. it's that only religion that makes sense to me. you should try going to a Catholic conference. i go to "The Catholic Family Conference" every summer google it going to this makes me stronger in my faith each year. i hope this helped
2007-04-10 13:23:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many Catholics acknowledge that they pray to Mary. That's how some of the "rumors" get started. I know a Catholic girl who tells me she has never prayed to God or to Jesus, but always to Mary.
2007-04-10 13:18:14 · answer #6 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All truth, all attractiveness, all Goodness aspect to Him, and the attractive and robust problems with this international are a shadow of the international to come back. Our statues and different icons help us to verify this as in addition they encourage us to meditate on the certain divine realities they mean to positioned across. at the same time as Christ incarnated on the Annunciation and became born of the Virgin 9 months later, He confirmed between the first Biblical Truths: what God made is nice, and flesh, at the same time as humbling for God to address, at the same time as weak, and at the same time as weak to corruption and sin after the fall, isn't inherently evil. Christian understanding of the consequences of this truth is obvious from the initiating, as a ways decrease back because the Catacombs, and 2-dimensional painted icons, statues, and mosaics have continually been used as aids to Christian worship. God himself commanded that pictures and statues be carved and painted yet no longer as gods or idols yet somewhat to positioned the committed in an surroundings of devotion. In exodus 25: 10- 20 God says to Moses " Make 2 Cherubim (angles) out of hammered gold ".
2016-10-18 00:32:25 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does the first AND second commandment say?
Ex.20:1-5
Why does praying to Mary nullify it? Matt. 5: 17, 18, 19.
John 10: 35.
2007-04-10 13:28:21 · answer #8 · answered by avaddohn-Apollyon 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah ive heard that too. i think its just something that people make up to like...point a finger. catholics and protestants have been fighting for a VERY long time...so its just one of those things, but i know catholics dont really worship Mary. altho....getting all mad about it kinda furthers the tension between the two groups....fyi
2007-04-10 13:20:01 · answer #9 · answered by foreveryoung 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps because they do not see from many Catholics the difference between worship and respect.
To God's glory may you receive there today a large pleasant reward!!!
2007-04-10 13:29:55 · answer #10 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋