Questions asked & its Biblical answers
The Protestants
always ask these questions: here are the questions and also the answers to the
questions.
- Why do Catholics elevate Mary to a goddess?
Catholics
don’t believe that Mary is a
goddess. She has no power of her own. She acknowledges in Luke
1:47 that God is her Savior. However, Catholics do believe Mary when she said in Luke 1:46 that her
“soul magnifies the Lord.” Mary’s
soul is still very much alive, and is still magnifying the Lord, which is a
very good and holy thing. Mary
was chosen by God the Father to be the living tabernacle, the Holy of Holies,
to contain the Word Made Flesh, Jesus.
Jesus himself was obedient to her (Luke 2:51). If it's good enough for Jesus to be obedient to Mary, then it's good enough for his
servants also. No servant is greater than his Master (John 13:16). Jesus
said that you shall know a tree by its fruit, (Luke 6:44) and Jesus
is the fruit of Mary's womb ( Luke 1:42), which means that Mary, while not divine, was certainly
created and remained pure and holy, because a rotten tree cannot bear
good fruit.
- Isn’t saying the Hail Mary prayer worshiping Mary?
The definition of the verb "to
pray" means "to ask," Not “to worship”. People who say the
Hail Mary do not worship Mary, any more than Gabriel did when he
told Mary – “Hail full of grace” (Luke 1:28), and Elizabeth did when she
said “Blessed
art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus”, Luke 1:42).
- Isn’t repetitious prayer considered to be sinful, according to the Bible?
No! Revelation 4:8 makes that very clear. Vain prayer to false
pagan gods, and not praying from the heart, is what is forbidden in Matthew 6:7. Telling Mary you love her and asking for her
help and intercession is what is commanded by Paul in 1Timothy 2:1 as being good and acceptable in the sight of
God. It is no different than professing love for your spouse over and
over again. And speaking of the fallacy of God hearing you through many
words, has anyone ever listened to protestant prayers before meals, for
healing, and for other things? Sometimes they go on and on and on and
on....
- Isn’t it forbidden by the bible to conjure up dead people?
Yes, it is forbidden in Deuteronomy 18:10, as are all Occultic practices.
Saul did this to Samuel in 1Samuel 28.
However, no one who says the Hail Mary
is trying to conjure her up to obtain secret information like Saul did. Jesus Himself talked to the very "dead" Moses
and Elijah at the Transfiguration of Christ (Matthew 17:2-3), so it is NOT
a sin to talk to those who have gone before us, because Jesus never committed a sin and talked to dead people. And,
according to Jesus in Matthew 22:32, God is not the God of
the dead, but of the living, so that means that people in heaven like Mary aren't dead, but alive in Christ.
People who pray to Mary are only
asking for her to pray to Jesus WITH them. Mary is not “between” us and God, but is rather “alongside”
of us in her prayers. Mary was
not only the first Christian; She was also the first Evangelist.
- Isn’t Mary dead? How can she possibly hear our prayers?
No, all souls ever created are alive
somewhere. Only atheists believe that dead people are no longer alive. Dead in
the body is not dead in the soul. Jesus
tells us in Matthew 22:32 that “God is not the God
of the dead, but of the LIVING.” In Luke 20:36, the Bible says that “saints in heaven are
EQUAL to the angels”, and we all know
angels can hear and intercede for us and are God's messengers as well. In Revelation 12, St. John says that he sees Mary in Heaven. In
Revelation 12:17, St. John says that
we are Mary’s children (spiritually, like
he was, in John 19:27), if we obey the Commandments and bear testimony
to Jesus. According to 2 Peter 1:4, people in heaven become
partakers in the divine nature, and that would include hearing prayers. 1 Corinthians 6:17 says that those who are united to Christ become one spirit with
Him, and NO ONE was more united to Christ than Mary, who was His Living Holy Tabernacle for 9 months here on
earth, and who Gabriel said IS
"FULL OF GRACE" and "THE LORD IS
WITH YOU!" This is why Mary
was chosen by Jesus to be his entry
point onto the earth; in other words, Mary
was not full of grace because she bore Jesus
for 9 months. Rather, She bore Jesus
for 9 months because She was already full of grace, and therefore there is no
room for sin in Her body or soul!
- Why should I pray to Mary when I can go straight to Jesus in my prayers?
You can go straight to Jesus in prayer, and you should.
God bless you for doing that. But James also says in James 5: 16 that the “prayer of a righteous man has great power in
its effects”. No one on earth can be as righteous as anyone in heaven,
and the Blessed Virgin Mary is
certainly in heaven. Also keep in
mind that our prayers are presented to God by the saints and angels in the form
of incense (Revelation 5:8 and 8:3). And saints can pray
for us day and night, even when we are asleep and can't pray for
ourselves. The devil never sleeps, and neither do the saints in heaven.
- Isn’t Jesus, not Mary, the one Mediator between God and man?
Yes, and that mediation of salvation
was accomplished on the cross, and is ongoing today. Jesus is our Mediator between God the Father and Man. Paul
says that Jesus is the one mediator
of the New Covenant, not prayer (Hebrews
9:14-15). Mary leads us to Jesus,
who will then lead us to God Our Father. Mary’s role in intercessory prayer is no different than when one
intercedes in prayer for their loved ones. In other words, saints in
heaven share in Christ's mediation, just like your kids share your life with
you.
- Didn’t the Bible Said ALL have sinned and Fall Short of God’s Glory? So Mary has Sin in Her.
Rom 3:23: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..."
The problem with this is that the word 'ALL' here is the Greek word, 'PAS', which can have different meanings to the absolute that we immediately think of - as shown in other verses of Holy Scripture.
John 12:19, "All the world has gone after him!" Did everyone in the entire world really go after Christ?
Mt 3:5-6, "Then went out to Him Jerusalem, and ALL Judea, and ALL the region about the Jordan; and they were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins."
Were all of the people of Judea, and the region about the Jordan baptized?
Luke 2:1 "And an order went out from caesar Augustus that ALL the world should be counted."
Was everyone in the whole world counted?
Rom 11:26, "ALL Israel shall be saved." Will everyone in Israel truly be saved?
Rom 15:14, "...you yourselves are full of love, filled with ALL knowledge..." The only person filled with 'ALL' knowledge is God Himself.
The Greek word 'PAS' in many verses in Scripture simply means a 'great number', 'most of', or 'a lot'. So its appearance in the quoted passage can in no way be used as an objection to the Sinlessness of the Virgin Mary.
Many people put the Mother of Jesus down as often as they can,
thinking that by degrading her they are somehow building up Jesus. They say things like "Mary is dead and can't help
you", "Mary was just an
incubator for Jesus", "Jesus put his mother down by
calling her "Woman, and
"If Mary had refused Gabriel,
then God would have just picked someone else". All of that kind of
talk is crazy, but they do it because they think that Catholics worship Mary as a goddess, and by putting her
down, they are showing Catholics that Jesus is number one. How many
people would like it if you said - "I love you, but I really can't
stand your mother". And how many people regularly put
down their own mother to reinforce the fact that their Dad is one and only?
No one!. Jesus called her "Woman" all of the time to
let us all know that she is the new Eve (Adam named his mate "Woman") who's yes to Gabriel
overcame Eve's yes to Lucifer.
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