reliance on mary

[Budge]

Im sure Jesus loves the real Mary too, same as he loves his other children.

Mary is NOT God, she cant hear you. She cannot grant you protection, comfort or spiritual food, only God can.
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Protestant's Objection:
Catholics pay too much attention to Mary/shouldn't be devoted to her. She's not really our Mother.

Scriptural "Proof":
"And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee smell of elderberries. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it." - Luke, 11:27, 28[/quote]

Yeah blessed are they who hear the Word of God, and keep it, Ie: DO NOT worship any other and Jesus is the ONLY mediator.
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Catholic's Answer:
We can never pay too much attention to the Mother of our Lord, nor not be devoted to her. Marian devotion is scriptural:

Scriptural Proof:
"And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord."
- Luke, 1:45
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She is blessed. the real Mary of the Bible was a humble lady who did Gods Will, she was not a high-minded figure showing up in a Roman Toga, demanding that shrines and churches be built to her.[quote]


"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women"
- Luke, 1:28[/quote]

Do you all pray to Jael?

[size=5]Jdg 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.[/size]

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Budge' post='1056015' date='Sep 3 2006, 01:03 PM']
Im sure Jesus loves the real Mary too, same as he loves his other children.

Mary is NOT God, she cant hear you. She cannot grant you protection, comfort or spiritual food, only God can.
Yeah blessed are they who hear the Word of God, and keep it, Ie: DO NOT worship any other and Jesus is the ONLY mediator.
She is blessed. the real Mary of the Bible was a humble lady who did Gods Will, she was not a high-minded figure showing up in a Roman Toga, demanding that shrines and churches be built to her.

Do you all pray to Jael?

[size=5]Jdg 5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.[/size]
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You have no clue who in heaven can hear us or who cannot, or what blessings God allows them to bestow. We worship God, we venerate His Children as examples.
Do you worship a book?

[Budge]

[quote]You have no clue who in heaven can hear us or who cannot, or what blessings God allows them to bestow. [/quote]

Yes I do, Gods Word tell us that they cannot hear us.

[quote]For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; [size=5]neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.[/size]
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 (KJV)[/quote]

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Do you worship a book?[/quote]

Nope, my Bibles are pretty ratty, and never are held aloft with incense given to them.

[img]http://www.byzantines.net/liturgy/pictures/blessedTheKingdom.jpg[/img]

[CoffeeCatholic]

[quote name='Budge' post='1054544' date='Aug 31 2006, 03:22 PM']
Woman...

Ever noticed in the Bible that Jesus NEVER calls Mary...

MOTHER?

{and that verse is about him turning Mary over to the care of John}
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The english translation does Jesus' use of the word "Woman" no good. To us, it's almost an insult. But the original word in the original language was the most honorable title that Jesus could have given His mother. By calling her woman He was honoring her above all others. If Jesus did it, shouldn't we?