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To: ScottM1968
1. Praying to or through Mary rather than to God through Christ is not supported in Scripture.

Yeah, not in your canon of Scripture, since the first Protestants cut out the deuterocanonical books.

Images of Mary or of Christ have no inherent holiness. Regardless of whether it is is a urine stain, grilled cheese sandwich, or of similar images that the Catholic church has actually put their official stamp of approval upon.

What do you mean by "inherent holiness?"

We are to have no graven images of God; however, the Catholic churches I've been in enjoy images of Jesus and Mary. At least doing so with Mary isn't doing so of God.

Protestantism is inherently iconoclastic. It isn't a "graven image" because we aren't worshipping the objects as if they were gods.

Mary brought no salvation to us.

No, but by her "fiat" (her saying "yes" to God), she brought salvation into the world, something that Adam or Abraham didn't do.

10 posted on 12/10/2004 5:56:49 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: Pyro7480
by her "fiat" (her saying "yes" to God), she brought salvation into the world

I strongly disagree with this.

12 posted on 12/10/2004 6:02:00 AM PST by PleaseNoMore
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