2007-11-11 10:50:55 · 58 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And the list could go on. Is there a mediator between Jesus' mediator and men? Is there a mediator between Jesus' mediator's mediator and men? Etc.
You have to understand something. Jesus is the only mediator between God and men because he gave his life for us. Why would we need a mediator between us and Jesus? After all we have just one God, our and Jesus' Father to who we pray. He is the only one who has to receive our prayers, not an icon, saint, not even Jesus. Jesus said that his Father is greater than he is.
2007-11-11 10:59:42 · answer #1 · answered by ShineAsIlluminatorsInTheWorld 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The easiest answer is no.
Some people may believe that the pope or a priest is the mediator between Jesus and man, but this is totally against what the Bible says.
Jesus IS the only mediator.
He is the mediator between God and man, so why wouldn't man be able to contact their mediator, or contact God THROUGH their mediator...?
2007-11-11 11:04:00 · answer #2 · answered by alliph16 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, because Jesus was fully God and fully man. That means communicates fully with both man and God. He walked the earth as a man, suffered as a man, and knows all of our afflictions. There is no need for another to mediate, for Jesus knows first hand how we are tempted, how we are afflicted.
If one want to say a saint is the mediator between man and Jesus one could also ask who is the mediator between man and the saint? We can create a whole chain of mediators if we wanted to, but the honest truth is that that God sent his son, once and for all .
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Be careful, don't change the scripture by adding other mediators here.
2007-11-11 11:03:02 · answer #3 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not "saints" or Mary.
There were NO such prayers in the bible after Jesus gave us access to the Holy of Holies, through Him, when the veil was rented apart on Good Friday!
The only possible mediator between man & Jesus is the Holy Spirit, but both are part of the trinity, so protestants ONLY pray to God!.
2007-11-12 15:20:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the Christ, the spirit of God that is in Jesus, that is the "mediator" between God and man. The divine love of God in man as the Christ. When that spirit is revealed in you... that is the mediation.
UNVEIL IT!
The ego is what needs to become transparent for the Christ to shine through. Then God is realized.
Do not Judge
Turn the other cheek
Do good to those that spitefully use you.
Preach forgiveness
Preace love
Preach peace
Love God with all your heart and soul
(Said another way) Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
These are the fruits of the indwelling lights of the sefirot, the spirit of God, the God conscious attained to faith, the Son of God or the Christ.
Seek the divine love of God within, there you will find the mediator.
Blessings and peace to all,
All in all,
B
2007-11-12 13:19:02 · answer #5 · answered by An Nony Mous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the bible specifically says there is no mediator between God and man.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
2007-11-11 10:58:12 · answer #6 · answered by steve 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the mediator between God (divinity) and man (humanity) because he is both divine and human, fully God and fully man. This point of view leaves no need for there to be a mediator between man and Jesus since there is no gap to bridge.
2007-11-13 19:12:26 · answer #7 · answered by Kuulio 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There isn't a mediator needed between man and Jesus.
Thats why when Jesus breathed His last on the cross, the scripture says that there was an earthquake.... and the veil was rent in two.
It was the veil that covered the entrance to the temple. I learned from someones study that the veil was a cloth woven together of many layers and as you probably know, the temple entrance was 45 some feet high. Now, the veil was also ripped open FROM THE TOP DOWN.
Bottomline, it was God who made the way for mankind to have direct relationship with Himself through Jesus Christ.
2007-11-11 11:06:47 · answer #8 · answered by bill b 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is God and the mediator for man. This means for me that Jesus is the conveyor of my salvation, and the communicator of forgiveness of sins, mercy, and compassion from heaven.
Jesus connected the fallen (sinful) humanity with everlasting life in heaven by intervening in our fallen state and opening once again the door to heaven.
Jesus is the head of the Church He founded, the Savior of the Body which He established. We, though many with differing gifts for the Body, are the One Body in Christ Jesus.
Acts 20:28, Tit 1:5, 2 Tim 1:6, Rom 15:30, Eph 6:18-19 Eph 4:11, Heb 12:1, Rom 8:35-39, Rev 5:8
Praise be Jesus Christ, now and forever.
2007-11-11 11:04:46 · answer #9 · answered by Lives7 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Only way to God is through Jesus Christ and no man or woman or anything else can be a mediator.
2007-11-11 10:56:40 · answer #10 · answered by Wally 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋