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To: NewLand
**Oh yes they are. Start with Mary.**

Are you saying that as a Protestant you do not believe in Mary being the mother of God? The mother of Christ? The first intercessor with her Son, the Lord, Jesus Christ? ]

Why should we not ask her to intercede for us with her Son, Jesus Christ? And yes, we also pray directly to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. So don't go off on that tangent.

Have you ever asked anyone to pray for you?? OK, then you have done exactly the same thing.
112 posted on 12/25/2003 2:10:05 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
Are you saying that as a Protestant you do not believe in Mary being the mother of God?

I am not Protestant but I don't understand how a human woman could be the mother of God, which is infinite, spiritual, and the Source of all Life. I do not wish to disrespect your belief but this does not make sense to me. I believe that Jesus brought the Christ to this world but I can not understand how a human woman is the mother (source) of God. I can understand how God was revealed by Jesus after he was born. But is Mary more significant than God?

I guess it comes down to the belief that Jesus was God which again does not make sense to me. How could God which is infinite and spiritual be confined to a human, material form? I can understand how Jesus was the Son of God. I can understand that Jesus was essential to lead us out of the illusion of life circumscribed by material form. It seems to me that believing that Jesus was God is like the idolatry of old. God is not material, God is spiritual. The material world is illusion and the spiritual world is reality. Jesus came to this material world to lead us to the spiritual world of God. Where is this wrong?

128 posted on 12/25/2003 3:15:32 PM PST by Semper
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