2007-10-30 07:33:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pass me the bottle!
2007-10-30 07:36:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 7⤋
John 2, the Wedding at Cana
If you are not familiar with it, I will recap. Jesus and His followers went to a wedding. His mother was helping serve. She went to Jesus and let Him know that the wine was gone. Jesus answered that it wasn't time for Him to start His public ministry and run around doing miracles just yet. She told the servants to do whatever Jesus told them to do. He relented and turned water into wine, just because His mother asked Him to, even though it was "not yet His time."
From this, we learn that Jesus will act upon His mother's request when she is interceding for others. He always "honors His mother" as the Bible says to.
As previously noted, we Christians are all called to pray for one another. Furthermore, the Bible says we are all part of one Body, the Body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:12ff), and nobody who is once part of the body can be cut off (12:21). Among the members of the Body of Christ, some are given to "help others" (12:28) and that is what Mary does as an intercessory prayer warrior for the rest of us.
Mary, of course, is NOT dead, having received the gift of eternal life that Jesus promises us repeatedly (John 5:24 is one example). Being alive, and being a "good and faithful servant" (see Matthew 25:21) for her role in bringing Christ to earth, she would be properly justified by Christ and has received the full measure of His Grace.
2007-10-30 09:33:39 · answer #2 · answered by sparki777 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many places in the New testament in which Paul asks his followers to pray for him. This is what catholics do when we pray to Mary - we are asking her to pray for us.
Yes, Paul asked people in this life to pray for him. mary and the saints in Heaven are in the next life, but they have everlasting life in Jesus Christ. Jesus' resurrection conquered death, so death does not separate us from the ones we love.
Mary's intercession at the wedding feast of Canna gives us confidence that she will take note of our problemns and bring them to her Son.
2007-10-30 07:47:25 · answer #3 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
None.
Virgin Births were pretty common back in those days. Caesar Augustus, Zoraster, Alexander The Great, Archimedes, and half dozen Egyptian phaorohs were all ascribed Virgin Births, long before Christ came along.
2007-10-30 07:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Just another form of goddess worship. They're just letting their Pagan roots shine through.
2007-10-30 08:15:14 · answer #5 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Goddess worship plain and simple.
2007-10-30 07:41:14 · answer #6 · answered by Rebecca 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Can I have red wine mixed with water or is that sacrilegious?
2007-10-30 07:44:13 · answer #7 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Wahoo!
*drink*
2007-10-30 07:36:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 5⤋
thank you drink fairy - i believe in you!
**drink**
2007-10-30 07:38:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Margarita please.
2007-10-30 07:39:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋