WWJD Did Jesus Pray to Mary?

[jamiec]

If we are to model ourselves after Jesus Christ and imitate His life by doing what He did while He was alive, would praying to Mary be something we would do?

It doesn't matter:

1. Jesus did not read any of the NT books
2. Jesus did not preach salvation by faith alone
3. Jesus did not pray to Jesus
4. Jesus did not wear trousers
5. Jesus did not speak English
6. Jesus did not use an iPhone
7. Jesus did not vote in elections
8. Jesus did not do, or say, or believe, a great deal of stuff Christians of all sorts have done, said, or believed;

yet Christians did not and do not infer that they couldn't and cannot

1. have central heating
2. write commentaries on Galatians
3. edit the Greek and Latin Classics
4. keep dogs as pets
5. have birthday cakes
6. use mixed fabrics in their clothes
7. live in Australia
8. speak in tongues
9. write hymns
10. join political parties
11. marry and have children
12. work as bankers, architects, lawyers, surgeons, gardeners, bakers

That "Jesus did not do X" would be an argument only if following Christ meant that His followers had to limit themselves to copying all the externals of His earthly Life.

Most of what Christians do or say, was not done or said by Jesus. Because hardly any Christians were 1st-century AD Palestinian Jews from Galilee.

Pauline Christianity, even, is significantly different from the preaching of Jesus. By the end of the NT period, Christianity has become very different from the religion preached by Jesus - and recognisably like post-Apostolic Christianity.

 

[The Liturgist]

You're assuing that those in Heaven are bound by time as we are. I don't think so.

Indeed, if God were subject to time it would mean he was a mere demiurge with Time being the real God. It would also violate General Relativity, which we know is correct on macroscopic scales based on experimental evidence.

Furthermore, Scripture, specifically John 1:1-3, and also Genesis 1:1, teaches us that God created all things, which logically includes spacetime.