Let's just say that in my personal opinion the Dark Ages were much longer and had a much more profound meaning than that which you find in an encyclopedia. Darkness is the absense (in whole or in part) of light after all.
What happened to these saints? Did God just put them back in the tomb to wait for the second coming? Or are they in Heaven but other saints are waiting in the tomb for the second coming?
Romans 8: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8: 38-39 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor poweres, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now, I know that these verses mean something different to you than they do to me but I believe that all the Saints who have died before us are already in Heaven and so when I ask Mary to pray for me she is very present in the spirit world. She is near her Father, her Son, her God and she is near me. This also tells me that I will not be separated from God whether I am alive or dead and my soul will not be separated from God no matter the circumstances. And if I, a lowly, sinning, mere human will not be separated from God through Jesus then how can I doubt that someone as holy and blessed as Mary could possibly be separated from God, then, now or ever.
Now, because I'm not in a very good mood tonight I'm going to say more than I should and then I'm going to run again.
Never mind.
As far as Mary being physically in the room, no she’s not but I’d sure like to know your reasoning for that assinine remark. If I am not separated from God and she’s not separated from God and no believers in Christ are separated from God then I am with God at all times and also with Mary and the Saints.
Someone has to be in a room with me? Some of your arguments are soooooo ridiculous! <