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To: NKP_Vet
“It is necessary to have recourse to the Virgin because she can only bring you to God. That's her whole mission. She has nothing of self in it at all. She lives only for God and to bring you to God,”

Where in the Bible is this stated? Where in scripture does it say that only Mary, the mother of Jesus, brings us to God?

John 14:6 ... Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

4 posted on 10/11/2013 9:25:29 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Mean Maryjean
"Only" isn't being used a modifier of exclusivity. It's a correction of the "Reformed" error that Marian devotion can only lead someone away from Christ, or that it detracts from the honor due to Him. How absurd!
7 posted on 10/11/2013 9:28:54 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Mean Maryjean

Read the text you quoted. Note that it doesn’t say that “only Mary” can bring you to Jesus. It says that Mary “can only” bring you to Jesus.

Where in the Bible does it say that ONLY the Bible is a source of religious truth?


21 posted on 10/11/2013 9:39:02 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Mean Maryjean; NYer; Salvation

Mean Maryjean, it is not “only Mary brings you to God.” We all know that it is only through Jesus that we can come to the Father and receive the grace of the Holy Spirit. The statement is that Mary can only bring you to God. The only thing Mary can do is help bring us into a closer relationship to God.


36 posted on 10/11/2013 9:52:24 AM PDT by rwa265 (Compete well for the faith, lay hold of eternal life (1 Timothy 6))
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To: Mean Maryjean

This is very sophomoric. “Son Behold Thy Mother”! Having shed his last drop of blood for mankind, Christ gave us all what He loved most: His mother.

The Bible did not fall from the skies. For the first 60-100 years after the death of Christ, His apostles and disciples practiced the received traditions and teachings of the time. It was the Catholic Church and the early Fathers who sorted out the various writings and the early Councils that gave us what we today called the Bible. As we say “To Jesus through Mary” like the wedding guests at Cana learned.


38 posted on 10/11/2013 9:54:14 AM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Mean Maryjean
Where in scripture does it say that only Mary, the mother of Jesus, brings us to God?

He didn't say that. You moved the "only". He said "Mary only brings us to God", not "only Mary brings us to God". Big difference.

59 posted on 10/11/2013 10:31:08 AM PDT by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: Mean Maryjean

At first I thought that the writer was saying it was only through Mary but what he was saying is that the only thing you learn from Mary is how to meet her Son. I am not a Catholic, but a Calvinist leaning Baptist. If someone finds Christ through Mary, same as we do reading Paul and John and Isaiah, who are we to judge. Even Paul said that about the fake people preaching the Gospel. It is only the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit who should be glorified and worshiped. Period.


94 posted on 10/11/2013 1:14:49 PM PDT by huldah1776
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