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To: metmom
"Nobody needs to go to Jesus through ANYONE."

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True.

And Jesus did not need to come to us through ANYONE either.

But Jesus DID choose (in His magnificent, Holy Will) to come to us through someone -- one person -- Mary.

Why do you think God chose to come to us through one solitary person, Mary, when He obviously could have come here to us without coming through anyone at all?

And God could easily have informed Mary directly of His Holy Plans, but He chose instead to give her His message through another created being (the angel Gabriel).    And Mary gave her message of "be it done to me..." back to God (who, of course, knew it already) through that same created being, Gabriel.    Why did God choose to use an intermediary / go-between for those tasks when He could easily have just done all of them Himself?

And God could have written every single word in the Bible directly Himself (or imparted them to us in some other way of His choosing), but instead, He chose to use human intermediaries to write every single word in every single "book" of the Bible.    Why did God choose to use intermediaries to write every single word in the Bible, even though He could easily have done all of that writing or imparting Himself without using a single intermediary?

Do you see a pattern?    God LOVES to use His created beings to act as His intermediaries, and has done so over, and over, and over again, throughout human history, as copiously attested to and recorded in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.    In that way, He can give His Holy Blessings to both the "end user" and the "middle man" at the same time, thereby multiplying His Blessings simultaneously, which God obviously loves to do.

This "go-between action" does not (and cannot) detract a single photon from God's Glory.    (It is not possible for human beings to detract anything from the Glory of God.)    And by God using a go-between, it does not reduce the efficacy of the Blessings of God one tiny bit.    Do you think God cannot do just as much powerful good while at the very same time making use of the modest efforts of a cooperative go-between created being?    (Is anything too hard for God?)

God loves to use small, weak specimens of His creation to do wonderful, powerful things with His help and enabling power.    If God offers us two tools to use to make petitions and requests to Him (one being to approach God directly, and the other being to approach God indirectly, through a sympathetic intecessor, is it smarter to use just one or the other of those two tools God gives us, or to make full, prudent use of both of those tools?

1,060 posted on 09/18/2014 9:51:37 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Heart-Rest
Why do you think God chose to come to us through one solitary person, Mary, when He obviously could have come here to us without coming through anyone at all?

Because by coming and living a fully human, being tempted in every way just as we are and yet remaining without sin, He was able to conquer sin and thereby death.

1,062 posted on 09/19/2014 1:25:56 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Heart-Rest
God LOVES to use His created beings to act as His intermediaries, and has done so over, and over, and over again, throughout human history, as copiously attested to and recorded in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.

There's a difference between being an ambassador for Christ and being a mediator or intermediary.

There is only ONE mediator between God and man.

1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. I need a mediator between me and God and that is Jesus.

I DON'T need a mediator between me and Jesus as HE is my great high priest. He is in heaven at the right hand of God making intercession for me.

Romans 8:34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Hebrews 7:22-28 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

1,063 posted on 09/19/2014 1:36:02 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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