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"Haven't you ever asked anyone to pray for you? That's what we ask Mary to do for us. We ask her to pray for us."

Mary is just another sinner. Mary is not God. Mary has NO authority. Just as I wouldn't ask my dead Grandmother in heaven to pray for me - it's pointless. Living people can pray for you - there's nothing wrong with that.

The Bible instructs you to pray to Christ, the living God, and the Holy Spirit intercedes for you. No where does it state Mary is a "co redeemer". Dead fallible sinners have NO authority to intercede for anyone. I NEVER pray to anyone but Christ and let the Holy Spirit intercede FOR me just as the Bible states. PRaying to dead, fallible mortals is off limits for me.

I and other believers call high and direct, as we should. Praying FOR others is fine, however WHO you pray TO makes a BIG difference - ONLY to Christ as stated in the Bible; not Mary, Peter, Paul or someone else the Catholic church has elevated.

It works like this for Christians:

Christ is the MEDIATOR and the Holy Spirit is the INTERCESSOR. Christ ALONE, died for our sins; not Peter, Paul or Mary. ONLY Christ. The punishment for sin is DEATH and Christ paid that price by laying His INNOCENT life down for all. The Holy Spirit did NOT die for us. Again, ONLY Christ paid the price.

1 Timothy 2:5

[5] For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Romans 8:26

[26] Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Again, pointing out that the Bible DIFFERS from YOU, is NOT "bashing". One can only hope what the Bible states should supercede what fallible mortals who are at odds with the Bible have told you to believe.