Actually, if I "honor" Mary as Catholics do, I would be sinning by violating the First and Second Commandments:
'3 "You shall have no other gods before me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."'
How do you deal with Mary? Statues? Do Catholics genuflect or bow? How do you communicate? Prayer? If you pray to anyone but God, you're worshipping a false god.
She is no more my "mother" than you're the Man in the Moon. My mother passed many years ago and is worshipping God in Heaven (as is Mary)... but that's ALL Mary is doing.
How do you reconcile 1 Timothy 2:5 with CCC 969? Is God right or is the RCC right? The Bible says:
"5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"
Yet, the RCC teaches (falsely) that Mary is a "mediatrix" and a source of grace. Is God a liar? It's either Him or the Catholic Church!
And she was chosen; all she did was recognize it. She needed the same grace and faith for salvation that we do: and that comes from God.
Happy New Year!
Hoss
Catholics don’t “worship” Mary, she is honored as being the mother of Christ. You’re also told in the Bible to emmulate Christ in everything you do. He honored and obeyed his mother (Mary). But you don’t?