There are churches that claim that people can pray to Mary. But the Bible has very clear statements about the state of the dead i.e. that they cannot praise God or do anything. Their breath (pneuma) goes.
2007-10-30 05:03:15 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No disrespect intended, but Jesus said the dead sleep until the Resurrection.
2007-10-30 05:07:19 · answer #1 · answered by Initial contact 6 · 3⤊ 13⤋
The scriptures do NOT indicate that Mary the mother of Jesus went to heaven when she left this plave of existence! However it does say that if we all "love God (The Father (CREATOR)
and his only son Jesus Christ that Jesus was the only way to get to heaven Jesus said that there will be those people that will try to enter by some other way but he calls them deceived by the devil and if they had the understanding like that of a little child they will not enter into heaven....(Look at what happened to the people at the great flood... did they listen to Noah no they all thought that this man was insane building a ship in the middle of a desert land until it began to rain and they could not enter into the ark at all well quess what it is happening right now and one day we will all stand before Jesus to kneel and confess to everyone that Jesus Christ is Lord! Pray to GOD not to Mary, Mary did never die for anyones sins! Lazarus was a dear friend of Jesus and Jesus went to raise Lazarus from the dead after Lazarus had been dead for 4 days and corrosion was setting into his (Lazarus)
flesh now I don't know how you can pray without knowing that Jesus Christ is not GOD when Jesus said to his disciples that HE(Jesus) and the Father were in fact one! WOW! Now who has more power Mary or Jesus????
2007-10-30 10:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The end of Mary's life is not recorded in Scripture. The end of most early Christians is not recorded in Scripture, either.
The Bible has very clear statements about the gift of ETERNAL LIFE. Surely you know that. If not, please sit down and read the Gospel of John. It'll only take a half hour, and you'll learn lots about eternal life and how Jesus promised it to those who followed Him.
Mary, Jesus' mother, followed Jesus. She believed in Him before He was even born and laid down her very life to help bring Him into the world (childbirth was the number 1 killer of women before modern maternity care was developed in the 19th century and modern antibiotics were developed in the 20th century).
According to the Bible, Mary is eligible to receive the gift of eternal life from Jesus. So, she is not a dead person at this time. People who have the gift of eternal life most certainly CAN praise God -- why wouldn't they? Don't you plan on praising God when you have received the gift of eternal life?
2007-10-30 05:44:26 · answer #3 · answered by sparki777 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I remember wisely, Mary is concept by technique of a few to were "assumed" actual into heaven upon her lack of life. seem into the Catholic "Assumption". i do not remember any certain biblical prices that would want to help Mary's assumption into heaven nor do I remember prices with reference to the immaculate theory. i have self assurance there turned right into a lot of dialogue about Mary contained in the Roman Catholic Church round 1858 or so. The visions or apparitions considered by technique of Bernadette at Lourdes and the letters she gained from "the female", forced the pope and church to ascertain the idea contained in the immaculate theory (the concept Mary changed into born with out the stain of unique Sin). between the first arguments for this idea changed into that the device in which salvation changed into extra should be organic. I desire i might want to inform you more advantageous.
2016-10-23 03:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by galustian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible probably does not say that in those exact terms. But the church speaks out about this as Tim. 3:15 the pillar and bulwark of truth that she was assumed into heaven. Why would anyone not beleive Mary the mother of Jesus would not be in heaven? Also that reference to "the dead" are referring to those in hell not in heaven. Those saints in heaven pray before the throne of God as it states in Revelations, who are they praying for? Us. Theyve already made it. They reighn in glory with Christ.
2007-10-30 07:10:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Tradition tells us Mary was taken up to heaven, though it doesn't spell out the details. A lot of what happened to folks mentioned in scripture isn't written down in the bible. Common sense would suggest the mother of Jesus would be a prime candidate for immediate sainthood.
2007-10-30 05:30:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not to argue with you regarding Mary, but one must be careful when using Ecclesiastes as a source of doctrine.
Everything there is written in relation to those things "under the sun."
So in this context, one's life goes forth, and they cannot praise God in relation to being in the flesh "under the sun."
For instance:
Mark 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
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2007-10-30 05:16:00 · answer #7 · answered by Hogie 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The bible does not teach that Mary ascended into heaven. I believe she is waiting in paradise for the resurrection, if she has not already gone to heaven.
2014-12-04 04:02:16 · answer #8 · answered by Mark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if she did go to heaven the bible makes it clear that the only one you should pray to is God... no one else
2007-10-30 13:16:28 · answer #9 · answered by Ask_Elvis 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is taught in the New Testament (Paul's letters?) that the spirits of saved people go to heaven to be with Jesus after death. We aren't just meat and bone.
She was definitely a christian - she was with the disciples who prayed and then were baptised with the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. She also according to tradition went on a missionary journey to Ephesus with St John, and lived there. As someone who was trusting in Christ, obviously she is in heaven.
2007-10-30 05:18:57 · answer #10 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The Bible doesn't mention Mary after the crucifixion. The Western and Eastern churches have very different traditions about what happened to her subsequently.
The Eastern churches (both Orthodox and Catholic) believe that Mary died a natural death and her soul was received into heaven by Jesus. The Western Catholic church believes that she did not die, but was transported bodily into heaven.
2007-10-30 05:10:38 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋