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To: Patriotic1
We Catholics do not worship Mary.

You pray to her and that is worship reserved for God alone. There are catholics and some catholic churches who believe she can forgive sins. Catholics also believe she a mere mortal woman has never sinned. Of course in a religion where tradition overrules the very Word of God, these heresies are bound to happen.

I have seen threads like this here and elsewhere before. I have never seen a catholic acknowledge the facts/truth shown in one of these threads yet. I have seen catholics one on one come to realize the teachings of the RCC is not biblical though. It must be that most catholics just don't want to embrace the truth found in the Word of God, they love their religion over all else.

875 posted on 03/06/2007 11:11:50 AM PST by free_life
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To: free_life; Patriotic1
You pray to her and that is worship reserved for God alone.

Asking her to pray for us is VERY DIFFERENT than praying to her. Haven't you ever asked anyone to pray for you?

There are catholics and some catholic churches who believe she can forgive sins.

ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE!

Catholics also believe she a mere mortal woman has never sinned.

Yes she was mortal, just as we are. And yes she was conceived free from sin. Do YOU not believe it is possible for God to conceive someone free from sin?

Of course in a religion where tradition overrules the very Word of God, these heresies are bound to happen.

Name ONE tradition that overrules Scripture. And who are you to define heresy? The Lord gave Peter and through him the Church the authority to "bind and loose" sin and the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.

As for the rest of what you wrote, I will pray that you are one day lead to the Church that our Lord founded and not some denomination founded by a man sometime after the early 16th Century.

878 posted on 03/06/2007 11:23:31 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: free_life

**You pray to her and that is worship reserved for God alone. **

Wrong!

Have you ever asked someone to pray for you?

That is exactly what we do with the Blessed Virgin Mary. We ask her through prayer to pray FOR us.

Go back to the Wedding of Cana where Christ first manifested himself. Who made the petition to him? Who interceded for the bride and groom?

It was His Mother. Why wouldn't we want to hold her in likewise, high regard. If Christ worked a miracle for her, then upon her asking, He might work a miracle in our lives.


1,113 posted on 03/06/2007 7:55:35 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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