How do you propose to access salvation except through the Incarnate Christ?
How do you propose to have an Incarnate Christ except through Mary?
How do you propose to access salvation except through the Incarnate Christ?
How do you propose to have an Incarnate Christ except through Mary?
The New Testament answers this.
How do you answer this statement by Christ?
1“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. 4“And you know the way where I am going.” 5Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?”
6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 14:1-6 NASB
The Greek behind v6 makes it emphatically clear there is no way to the Father but through Him. No allowance is ever made in the NT that we have to go through Mary, or appeal to Mary, or count on Mary, for our salvation.
If we had to go through Mary as Roman Catholic writers have wrongly asserted then John, and Jesus, and the New Testament writers, never reveal that. That's a pretty important lapse in what is required for salvation.
More from John....
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
6There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him. 8He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.
9There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. 10He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.
12But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
13who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:1-13 NASB
Still more.....
22At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; 23it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. 24The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him,
“How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.
26“But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. 27“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
28and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
29“My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
30“I and the Father are one.”
John 10:22-30 NASB
What is seen in the New Testament is the consistent requirement of believing in Christ for our salvation. There are no others we have to go through. Only HE is our mediator....no. one. else.
3This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. 1 Timothy 2:3-6 NASB
We can freely approach Him anytime, anyplace for any reason and He will hear us and He will answer us.