Christians go through Christ, everyone else is just a dead human
So not only will you not ask Maria to pray for you, but you also think she's just a dead human?
Is this the type of nonsense your pastors teach you?
“Christians go through Christ, everyone else is just a dead human”
In his #1 Evangelical book, The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren, says:
Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on the earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death...our spiritual family-our relationship to other believers-will continue throughout eternity. It is a much stronger union, a more permanent bond than blood relationships. (The Purpose Driven Life, pg 118)
I posted the writings of Luther, Crammer, Wesley, Zwingli, et al and I’m told you’ve all grown up since then. Yet when I post the interpretation of todays pastors I’m told you don’t follow them either. So who do you all follow? If you say Jesus Christ and as such don’t need a pastor then whose interpreting the Holy Bible with you? Are you all an authority unto yourselves?
The above paragraph by Rick Warren is almost the same as Catholic teaching and he’s an Evangelical. Do you agree with his interpretation? If not why not and under whose authority are you following?
St. Paul told the early Church to pray to those who had died and were in heaven for help. Mary is surely one of the most saintly souls in Heaven. We pray to her to ask her for help. We ask her to petition her Son on our behalf.