Oh please. It is far better to be asking Jesus to take away your sins then to be asking Mary to ask Jesus to take away your sins. According to what you wrote all one has to do is OBEY. If you don't OBEY then that's it.
Luther never could reconcile the book of James with the book of Romans, so he cast it out.
Last time I looked in my PROTESTANT Bible, the book of James was still there.
>> It is far better to be asking Jesus to take away your sins then to be asking Mary to ask Jesus to take away your sins <<
Yes, but it is still better to be joined in prayer with another, in Jesus' name. Rare and strange would be the Catholic who asks Mary to pray for him, but does not pray himself.
>> Last time I looked in my PROTESTANT Bible, the book of James was still there. <<
Yes, it was restored, along with Revelations, 1-2 John, and 1-2-3 Peter. But it is a historical fact that Luther insisted that they were not authentic scripture, and had them removed.
The comments about faith in Jesus being a bit insufficient and wobbly, compared to faith in the church, is frankly a bit disconcerting. My faith is in Christ, and His finished work on the cross on my behalf. There is only one mediator now between man and God, and that is Jesus Christ, not a priesthood, not the hoops of sacraments, not the saints, not the church. If anyone puts their faith in anything other than Christ for salvation, they're running a severe risk of missing it.