Who is the mediator between God and man?
Scripture, God-breathed and inspired, says there is one mediator...Christ in 1 Timothy 2:5. Yet, your church's catechism teaches that Mary is named 'Mediatrix' who intercedes for salvation in CCC 969.
So, riddle me this: which is correct? God's inspired word, or the catechism? Both cannot be, because they stand diametrically opposed.
More importantly, does the catechism trump Christ himself when HE said, in John 14:6: "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.""
Catch that? Jesus said no one comes to the father except through Him.
So, since you profess that God has saved you, which is right...the Roman Catholic Cult's Catechism, or Christ himself?
Hoss
They're even trying to get a fifth marian dogma declaring just this.
Up to the present time in the history of the church, four Marian doctrines have been defined as central Catholic truths by the Church: the Motherhood of God, the Immaculate Conception, the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, and her Glorious Assumption into heaven. It is now time for the church, at the summit of this Marian era, to proclaim and define the fifth and final Marian doctrine, that is, Mary's universal mediation as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix of all grace, and advocate for the people of God. http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/MEDIATRI.HTM
Last time I checked we already had someone doing that....the Holy Spirit. If He's not good enough then not sure who would be.
Give it a little more time and the roman catholic cult won't need Jesus or the Holy Spirit.
Just so we’re all on the same page:
969 “This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation. . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”
The next paragraph is important...
970 “Mary’s function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin’s salutary influence on men . . . flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it.” “No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source.”
Ellipses in original text.
Therefore there is no opposition between the CCC and the Holy Scriptures, diametric or otherwise.
In this way it is said that we mediate salvation to one another as we share the Gospel. Catch that? The RCC teaches that “No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer”. Our salvation comes from Christ fullstop. Nevertheless, SOMEONE has to print those Bibles that take such an unholy thumping from some people, God doesn’t print them Himself, so those printers are mediating salvation because it is coming through them.