[Fedora]

This sounds like ROME's 'Mary'; not the Mother of Jesus as seen in the book that ROME assembled.

She is DEAD; and awaiting the last trump; as are millions of other Christians who sleep in their tombs.

". . .have you not read what God said to you, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but the living." (Matthew 22:31-32)

And yes, Rome assembled the Bible that Protestants use. Even translated it for them. Attacking Rome is cutting off the limb you're standing on.

[Zuriel]

**And yes, Rome assembled the Bible that Protestants use. Even translated it for them. Attacking Rome is cutting off the limb you’re standing on.**

Yes, God has even used the pagans to preserve his word.
God used the ‘unclean’ to preserved his ‘testimony’ many times, and still does no doubt.

He used Egypt to preserve Abraham from famine,
the Philistines to preserved Isaac from famine,
Egypt preserved Israel from famine,
the Philistines preserved David from king Saul,
first ravens, then a woman of Sidon, preserved Elijah from famine,
and Egypt preserved the child Jesus from king Herod.

[daniel1212]

Rome assembled the Bible that Protestants use. Even translated it for them. Attacking Rome is cutting off the limb you're standing on.

You mean being the magisterial discerners and stewards and translators of Divine revelation means such are the assuredly correct interpreters and teachers of it? Yes or no?

[Elsie]

". . .have you not read what God said to you, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but the living." (Matthew 22:31-32)

Using this out of context tells me that you've been taught by ROME that every believer who has died is now in heaven.

The bible says you are wrong.

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Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

 

Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

 

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
 
 
John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

 

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

 

Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

 

1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.