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"Well, I don’t get lathered up praying for EVERYBODY ALL THE TIME. Sometimes, I think someone might have so much spirit they don’t need anything from me, so I just send a little blessing,"

That is wonderful. But that blessing should be asked for by the Father through Christ.

That is what I think most of this thread has become. The Catholics think they can ask Mary or Saints or angels for blessings, and the rest think blessing's can only come from God through Christ.

The Catholics think they can ask Mary or Saints or angels for blessings, and the rest think blessing's can only come from God through Christ.

The Catholics believe they can ask Mary or Saints or angels for blessings from God, and we all agree that those blessing's can only come from God through Christ.

3,467 posted on 01/15/2010 5:15:11 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)

That is wonderful. But that blessing should be asked for by the Father through Christ.

That is what I think most of this thread has become. The Catholics think they can ask Mary or Saints or angels for blessings, and the rest think blessing's can only come from God through Christ.

Subordinationalism was manifest in a group of heresies condemned beginning in the 300s AD. Have you resurrected them?

3,468 posted on 01/15/2010 5:18:29 PM PST by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)

That is wonderful. But that blessing should be asked for by the Father through Christ.

"should" according to YOPIOS. "Doesn't necessarily have to" according to "I believe in...the communion of saints...etc."

3,469 posted on 01/15/2010 5:19:46 PM PST by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)

The Catholics think they can ask Mary or Saints or angels for blessings, and the rest think blessing's can only come from God through Christ.

Amen!

"As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice" -- Psalm 55:16-17

3,551 posted on 01/15/2010 9:37:52 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)