Why not just go straight to God who actually controls everything.....senseless to seek out a manufactured entity because a religion says it has special powers or access to God that He hasn’t already given to us through his son.
It would seem if one bypasses the son to any other, then in a real sense he’s upsurped the authority God has given.
No one can come to the father but ‘by me’..Jesus said.
Now now, if you take away the Catholic mythos of Mary as a mediatrix, where will the institution/religion of Catholiciism draw its power?
Why not just go straight to God who actually controls everything
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Yes, why not.
And for that matter, why not jump right to what Jesus said about himself instead of talking about ‘2000 years’ and ‘Luther sucks.’
But it seems that in general, that’s not how these conversations turn out.