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To: daniel1212
Which is the psychology seen often seen behind Mary worship, in which she is portrayed as the compassionate mother, holding back the judgment of God, whom the Holy Spirit only makes the direct object of all the prayers in the Bible to Heaven, expect by pagans.

Which is ludicrous.

Would Mary answer a prayer that God would refuse to?

If God won't answer it, then Mary would be going against the will of God in doing so. Is that what Catholics really want? Is their idea of a heavenly Father who loves to give good gifts to His children, really one of a reluctant, hard hearted, miserly Father? It would appear so.

So if the Father Himself would answer it, why not go right to Him as Jesus taught us to? And if He wouldn't, why go to someone else to override Him?

338 posted on 10/10/2015 5:51:41 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Would Mary answer a prayer that God would refuse to?

The premise is not that God otherwise refuses to, but that,

“sometimes salvation is quicker if we remember Mary's name then if we invoked the name of the Lord Jesus...[who] does not at once, answer anyone who invokes him, but only does so after just judgment. But if the name of his mother Mary is invoked, her merits intercede so that he is answered even if the merits of him who invoked her do not deserve it.” Thus, "we have recourse, to thee alone, and we beseech thee to prevent thy beloved Son, who is irritated by our sins, from abandoning us to the power of the devil," "we have but one advocate, and that is thyself, and thou alone art truly loving and solicitous for our salvation ... My Queen and my Advocate with thy Son, whom I dare not approach." (From Judge Fairly, p. 5).. And indeed, Mary "had to suffer, as He did, all the consequences of sin," "Jesus and Mary suffered for our sins," thus "We were condemned through the fault of one woman; we are saved through the merits of another woman."

For adding to what the word of God says of the virtuous, surrendered, Spirit-filled graced among women, Mary of Scripture and contrary to it, RCs assert of this demonic (yes) demigoddess that "the power thus put into her (Mary’s) hands is all but unlimited," "surpassing in power all the angels and saints in Heaven," and is actually “like unto Him.” for "when she acts, it is also He who acts; and that if her intervention be not accepted, neither is His," and that " "all in heaven and on earth, even God himself, is subject to the Blessed Virgin," and that "the greatness of the power which she wields over one who is God cannot be conceived," for "she seems to have the same power as God. Her prayers and requests are so powerful with him that he accepts them as commands in the sense that he never resists his dear mother’s prayer because it is always humble and conformed to his will..."

Thus "he who is under the protection of Mary will be saved; he who is not will be lost. " For "the Holy Spirit acts only by the Most Blessed Virgin, his Spouse." "through Whom the Holy Trinity is sanctified." And "through her alone does He dispense His favours and His gifts," and "it follows that there is no grace which Mary cannot dispose of as her own, which is not given to her for this purpose."

Moreover, "Mary has authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven...God gave her the power and the mission of assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels who fell away through pride....all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her." o that "After God, it is impossible to think of anything greater than His Mother," to her, Jesus owes His Precious Blood...Next to God, she deserves the highest praise....no creature, can ever be compared to her:"

However, lest you imagine that in Bible times such adulation as kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, beseeching such for Heavenly help, and making offerings to them, and giving glory and titles and ascribing attributes to such which are never given in Scripture to created beings (except to false gods) would constitute worship in Scripture, it is asserted that "we must never adore her; that is for God alone. But otherwise we cannot honor her to excess." This imaginary distinction btwn "hyperdulia" and "latria is consistent with the manner of perverse Cath reasoning by which we are accused of hating the Mary of Scripture by reproving their unScriptural version of her.


385 posted on 10/11/2015 5:11:53 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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