Hello I read some of it and looked through it lots to rebuke there it would take a week to expose every error there.
But as far as Mary offering a sacrifice for her sin and for her purifuication. that is clear and it was for HER purification. Showing that she needed it. We have to take care not to twist scripture and try to make it fit. To say words like "Mary..might be doing the same things". we cannot base our view on "might be" to fit it into a possible answer to escape the very clear rebuke of the catholic position.. And we can't just make up things to say that Mary was this and that.
Jesus is the one mediator between God and man. The text says this ONE mediator is the man Christ Jesus. So there is no other mediator is the clear meaning of the text. To call someone a mediator and to try and change that around to praying to someone is not the same thing as that article you linked to tries to do..
Heres one quote from that article you posted
"I think that Christians in heaven pray through Christ much better than you and me"
well, the question them would be. if you believe this then all believers can be prayed to as mary is not just Mary. It would be wrong to hear a believer praying to his cousin who died and asking to do things etc.
But I havent been discussing praying to Mary or others here. Right now i am talking about mary having sin and needing a saviour. and dying.
also in that link you posted the person says.
"We think Christians in heaven are a heck of a lot more aware of who Christ is than we are...but they know a heck of a lot more about this spiritual game than me"
The word "heck" is a slang for hell, and this is strange talk. There is nothing of hell that the believers are sure of. This i a contradiction. Believers who are in Christ are n glory not heck they are sure of truth and life and light and all good things, they are never "the heck of alot" anything.
Hi,
I am a scientist, and God made me that way, so neither do I apologize for that, and I hope I am not criticised for that.
One day, as I was searching for God still, like you seem to be probing the statements of The Roman Catholic Church on Mary, a man who calls himself a Jew for Christ is talking to me.
My problem with this man is at work he says things that are not true, and it costs me hours to check his statements, find the right answer and then go on about my day.
This day, or later, I confronted him with the facts, and asked him, who do you do that? He told me it is because that is what I believe is true.
In those days, I had no idea if God was Real or not. So, I was stunned at him saying he is a Christian, and has had supernatural experiences with God.
I listened to both of his experiences. I knew how both of those experiences, from my point in life of being an incredibly well respected scientist,,, (remember this is God making me that way. Do not not think me, or ego in that statement of incredibly well respected. I even stunned myself, before knowing God was involved always. We are talking about then. So I will go back.),,, as no one messed with my answers no matter how ridiculous they sounded, because they were actually right, and they would find out in time that was so.
A large part of my life back then, was listening to belated apologies. Some of those apologies would come years later. I always let them, but after awhile it was just tiring and I wished it would all go away, only the you in a conversation is always important to me.
The man I am speaking to, although very capable is not at all accurate. That really hurt when he and all the other guys are trying to tell me about God, as they all seemed to be using Faith only, and to me, academically, objectively Blind Faith. That just didn't cut it for me. I am not allowed to do that.
In the end of my God conversation with that man who I do not have permissions to say his name here, but who has the intials of M A, and he is Jewish, told me:"I hope something happens to you some day, that makes you certain."
Well, something did happen with God, and I am certain.
Yes, the above was in response to your Marian ideas.
It is not that you don't have well reasoned thoughts, it is that, I think you are missing something still, but I do not know what it is yet.
LOVE,
...Mary., .... .
