Explain in the Bible where it teaches us that we need to pray to the mother of Jesus or the saints?
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Titus 2:5-6 says... \n\n 1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;\n\n 1Ti 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.\n\nwhat this is saying in God's word is for us to talk to God we need not go through a priest or any of the saints, we can simply talk to Jesus\n \nalso in the bible in the 10 commandments it says that we are not to worship graven images.... Idol worship is clearly wrong.... Praying to Mary or any of the other saints is clearly a type of worship\n\n*very well put doowapper!
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Well according the bible we pray in the name of Jesus through the Holy Spirit To the Father. However I dont belive God is up there saying Opps you didnt address the right one of us your prayer doesnt count. LOL
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Nope, He does't appreciate it! Jesus honored His mother, why shouldn't we? He said to imitate Him! Dishonoring His holy mother is not imitating Him! I don't get why they think we worship Mary when we tell them over and over again that we don't! \nWe pray to her because she is much closer to God than we are. If you can ask you friend to pray for you, why wouldn't you ask her to pray for you? She is the holiest person that ever lived!
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Read the Bible and Pray.
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Jesus, while voluntarily limited to a human body, needed to pray to the Father for the same reasons you and I do.\nJesus subjected Himself to all the frailties and limitations of humanity during His time on earth, and needed to pray in order to stay 'fresh' spiritually, to gain the wisdom and direction for His daily life and ministry, etc.\nJesus was indeed equal with the Father, but at the same time, laid aside the privileges of Godhood during His earthly sojourn.\nJesus perfectly modeled the lifestyle of total and complete dependence on God for us to follow, because He limited His Divine nature to that portion of Divinity which is accessible to a man living in total dependence on God.
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Fundamentalists challenge the Catholic practice of asking saints and angels to pray for us. But the Bible directs us to invoke those in heaven and ask them to pray with us. \n\nThus in Psalm 103, we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20-21). And in Psalm 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!" (Ps. 148:1-2) \n\nNot only do those in heaven pray with us, they also pray for us. In Revelation, John sees that "the twenty-four elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (Rev. 5:8). Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth. \n\nAngels do the same thing: "[An] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God" (Rev. 8:3-4). \n\nJesus himself warned us not to mess with small children because their guardian angels have guaranteed intercessory access to the Father: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven." (Matt. 18:10). \n\nBecause he is the only God-man, Jesus is the only Mediator between man and God (1 Tim. 2:5), but this in no way means we cannot or should not ask our fellow Christians to pray with us and for us (1 Tim. 2:1-4), including those Christians in heaven, who have already had their sanctification completed, for "[t]he prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects" (Jas. 5:16).
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I know someone gave you the scripture for John ,10:30 but that is not enough you need to read the 17th chapter of St John where Jesus is praying to the Father to be able to get the context because many people use this verse to say Jesus is God and that is not true.he was the only begotten Son of God, he was the word of God in the beginning but he is not God.
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no marry is jesus's mother and is not in the trinity god sent jesus into her to bear as a child the christ. The trinity is god the father the son and the holy ghost. SO yeah there's your answer.
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I've come across this many times.  A lot of people think that we worship Marry, and it's hard to convince them otherwise.  People can be stubborn, and unwilling to look deeper into things (like Catholicism), before they make claims about it.\n\nI noticed one of the "answers" to your question is in the form of another question, so I decided to answer this one as well.\n\n>>"Her likeness is used as adornment in church, she is prayed to, and asked forgiveness from. How is that not a form of worship?"\n>>Yes Mary's sacred image is used inside the church, to remind us of our Lord's Mother.  He places a lot of importance on families, so why wouldn't we find Jesus' very own MOTHER important enough to have images of her in the place where we worship her son?  Mary is prayed to only to ask her to pray FOR US.  We ask her to help us pray to Jesus.  Do non-Catholic Christians ask people to pray for them? Yes, all the time.  So why shouldn't we ask our Lord's mother to pray for us? Just because she's no longer living here on Earth? \n\nPersonally, I can only hope that the world (Catholics and non-Catholics alike) can come to realize that Mary is not worshiped.  I realize there are probably some Catholics out there that actually believe we do worship her, but they have been seriously misguided, and need to know the truth just as well.\n\nThanks for your question, it was a good one!\n\nGod bless =0)
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Yes. That is correct. For those who say they only pray for Mary's intersession, Jesus Christ is the only one true intercessor. Mary can do nothing for you. I would like someone to show me in the Bible where they get this from. This is a product of man not God. Someone told someone to start praying to Mary so they did. That is just like worshiping another God. Why don't catholics read the Bible and not just take the word of a human, a priest.
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Saints and Mary but not "to" but pray "through" the saints and Mary to intercede to the Father. Think of it this way if you need help praying about something why not ask other people to help? Saints and Mary are those other people who have direct intercessions to Jesus. To the people who are like "Oh yeah Catholics do this and that and I hate it": learn about what you are talking about before you comment. God Bless
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There is only one God and that WHOM they pray to.\nThe Father; The Son; The Holy Ghost; The Father is the Holy Ghost; The Deity of Jesus Christ is the Father; The Deity of Jesus Christ is the Holy Ghost; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; Matthew 28:19; I John 5:7;
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meditate in the word of God and pray to Jesus.
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Of course I accept the Blessed Virgin as Mother of God.\n\nAside from what you have mentioned in Luke, in Psalm 103, we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20-21). And in Psalm 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!" (Ps. 148:1-2) \n\nNot only do those in heaven pray with us, they also pray for us. In Revelation, John sees that "the twenty-four elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (Rev. 5:8). Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth. \n\nAngels do the same thing: "[An] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God" (Rev. 8:3-4). \n\nJesus himself warned us not to mess with small children because their guardian angels have guaranteed intercessory access to the Father: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven." (Matt. 18:10). \n\nBecause he is the only God-man, Jesus is the only Mediator between man and God (1 Tim. 2:5), but this in no way means we cannot or should not ask our fellow Christians to pray with us and for us (1 Tim. 2:1-4), including those Christians in heaven, who have already had their sanctification completed, for "[t]he prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects" (Jas. 5:16).\n\nJesus obeyed the fourth commandment to honor Father and Mother, for He went down to Nazareth and was even subject to them. If He honored her, we can and should imitate Him. God Himself has honored her so greatly. For anyone to say: I reject her, will not honor her, would be an affront to His judgment.\n\nSimilarly, we should honor and imitate those men and women who were outstanding in serving God during their earthly lives, just as God now honors them in heaven.\n\n----\n\nDo Catholics worship Mary and the Saints? Protestants often claim that. But let us examine the command of Our Lord: "Judge Not". We must distinguish two things:\n\na) the objective rating of an action, e.g., murder is gravely sinful. We can say this independently of the interior dispositions of anyone who does it. If I see someone put a gun to another's head and pull the trigger, it is not "judging" to say I saw murder.\n\nb) The interior dispositions of the sinner--here we must not judge, for at least in general, we cannot know much if anything of the interior. It is to this that the Gospel command applies.\n\nTherefore, as to Marian devotion:\n\na) the forms it takes, such asking her to intercede with her Son, lighting candles, etc.--these are not in themselves worship. What of the eternal flame at the grave of President Kennedy?\n\nb) The interior attitudes of Catholics: to insist they mean it to be worship, i.e, the kind of honor due to God alone--this is simply rash judgment, and is forbidden by "Judge not." So those who make the charge are violating the Gospel precept. The same holds true, of course for devotion to all the saints.
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That a very good question. God did indeed pick her to have his only son Jesus, but the bible also states that we are to love Jesus with all our heart, souls and mind. Yes she was a important person but so was his diciples and Apostals, but we are suppose to only pray to Jesus Christ which is God and the Holy Ghost.
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What do you mean by believe? I believe she lived, and I believe she was the mother of Jesus, and I believe that she was a virgin until Jesus was born. I think you might mean Catholic practice of praying to Mary and so on. That I do not believe - not at all, as the Bible says nothing about praying to Mary. I don't pray to anyone but God the Father, but I do so in the name of Jesus - as the Bible says.\n\n\nThe Bible further states that Jesus had siblings, and says that Mary did not know her husband UNTIL Jesus was born (this last is found in Matthew, and the siblings part is in Mark 3:31). These half siblings would have been direct descendents of Mary, not of Jesus. There is nothing wrong with there being descendents related to Jesus... I think people think that if others were related to him, it would mean they were born with part of the Holy Spirit, since Jesus was conceived of the Spirit - but that's not true. The siblings were born of two humans and were all human. The Holy Spirit had nothing to do with their conceptions.
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I keep saying it's jealousy. We have the Mother the Father loves best. The Blessed Virgin Mary. Just like Josephs brothers were jealous of him our brothers and sisters in Christ are jealous of us and the wonderful things the Lord has given to us. If they only understood though that those that have been given much, much is expected, they would not say the things they do because many a Catholic offers up their pain and suffering and death not only for their own sins but, as a member of the Body of Christ -- the sins of these people who deny they are Christian. Didn't St. Paul say "I make up in my body's suffering for what is lacking in the suffering of Christ?". And also Romans 8:17\n\nFor other denominations Holy Communion is just a symbol but, not for Catholics because our Magisterium has the ordination to consecrate the bread and wine into his ACTUAL Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. Didn't Joseph tell his brothers that he wanted Benjamin left with him and didn't Jesus say he wanted John to remain forever? This is the same thing. John the youngest brother of Jesus who stood beneath the cross with Mary Jesus Mother-- just like the Catholics do at every Mass. The other denominations looked on from a distance it says but, the Catholics are there!!