GuessWho, Mary is dead and in the grave. She does not have Omnipresence and she does not have Omniscient and she does not have Omnipotent.
So how can Mary hear and answer our prayers?
In order for Mary to hear our prayers and Intercede for us she MUST HAVE Omnipotent,Omniscient, and Omnipresence!
Which then makes her a God!
This is what the Catholic Church has done is elevate Mary up to being equal to God. Praying to Mary and asking her to intercede for you is Idolatry. All those who practice Idolatry will NEVER enter into Heaven.
Galatians 5:19-21
[SUP]19 [/SUP] Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
[SUP]20 [/SUP]IDOLATRY, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
[SUP]21 [/SUP] envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Every time you ask Mary to intercede for you will keep you from entering into Heaven. Is it worth spending Eternity in Hell just because the Catholic Church says you can ask Mary to Intercede for you?
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NOW you got that all wrong, the Catholics are NOT ASKING MARY TO DO THE INTERCEDING, they are asking that Mary prays that Jesus will do the Interceding.
James 5:16 (HCSB)
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16 [/SUP] Therefore,
confess your sins to one another and
pray for one another, so that you may be healed.
The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
Is not the human spirits in Heaven the spirit of a RIGHTEOUS person? Intercessory Prayers are what JAMES 5:16 is describing. Ultimately YES it is JESUS who is the Mediator between man and GOD, but we are to ASK, and We are to ask on behalf of others.
John 17:20 (NRSV)
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"I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word,
James 4:2-3 (HCSB)
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2 [/SUP] You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war.
You do not have because you do not ask.
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3 [/SUP] You ask and don’t receive because
you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
Exodus 8:9 (NKJV)
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9 [/SUP] And
Moses said to Pharaoh, "Accept the honor of saying when
I shall intercede for you, for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses,
that they may remain in the river only."
Numbers 21:7 (HCSB)
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7 [/SUP] The people then came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you.
Intercede with the LORD so that He will take the snakes away from us.”
And Moses interceded for the people.
1 Samuel 7:5 (NIV)
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5 [/SUP] Then Samuel said, "Assemble all Israel at Mizpah and
I will intercede with the LORD for you."
1 Kings 13:6 (NIV)
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6 [/SUP] Then the king said to the man of God, "
Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored." So
the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and became as it was before.
As you can see, Intercessory Prayer, simply means to PRAY FOR ANOTHER PERSON; which is something we are commanded to do in several places in the Bible. It does not mean that the person offering the intercessory prayer becomes the Mediator between GOD and Man, that IS and always Has been CHRIST. (Rom.8:34, Rom. 8:26) HENCE the evil suspicions that the Catholics are making Mary the MEDIATOR or Equal to GOD,
is purely IN YOUR MIND, and not in the Catholic Doctrines.
THEREFORE, I challenge you, just like the Priest that I talked to back in the early 80's challenged me:
Show me the Book, Chapter, and Verse that states we are to STOP asking a Christian Brother or Sister to pray for us, once they have died.
Your theory that human spirits in Heaven cannot hear your prayers here on earth, has NO BIBLICAL SUPPORT AT ALL. In fact we find evidence of the Opposite. It may depend on when it is the Will of GOD, but actually there is no verse that says it can only happen when it is the will of GOD, though that would be logical. It says we will be like the Angels, so the human physical laws do not apply.
Do I believe in praying to Mary and the Catholic Saints? No, it is not my cup of tea, BUT I WILL NOT CONDEMN THOSE WHO DO, as long as they understand that it is just a form of asking another Christian to pray for you.
Do I ever converse mentally or verbally with a Christian who has gone on to be with the LORD. SURE, my Dad, and my Grandpa especially; and sometimes with Paul when I am getting frustrated with mistreatment coming from the unsaved that I am witnessing to. Do I hear audible responses, from them? NO, but somehow, I think they are allowed to hear me, occasionally. For Example: When my Grandpa was dying of congestive heart failure when I was a kid; he gave me two of his hand tools. To this day, every time I pick up one of those hand tools to use it, I say, "Thank you Grandpa."; and I think he hears me, and we both smile.
NOW MAY I SHOW YOU BIBLICAL EVIDENCE THAT HUMAN SPIRITS IN HEAVEN CAN HEAR US, WHEN IT IS THE WILL OF GOD?
Luke 16:23-31 (HCSB)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.
[SUP]24 [/SUP] ‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’
[SUP]25 [/SUP] “‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
[SUP]26 [/SUP] Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’
[SUP]27 [/SUP] “‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house—
[SUP]28 [/SUP] because I have five brothers—to warn them, so they won’t also come to this place of torment.’
[SUP]29 [/SUP] “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’
[SUP]30 [/SUP] “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
[SUP]31 [/SUP] “But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”
Revelation 5:11-12 (ASV)
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11 [/SUP] And I saw, and
I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures
and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
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12 [/SUP] saying with a great voice,
Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might and honor, and glory, and blessing.
Revelation 7:13-14 (HCSB)
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13 [/SUP] Then
one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people robed in white, and where did they come from?”
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I said to him, “Sir, you know.” Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
2 Corinthians 5:8 (ASV)
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8 [/SUP] we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be
absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
AND if you doubt if the human spirit departs the body at death, and goes either to HEAVEN or HADES, then you had better read these verses too:
Psalm 146:4 (NKJV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.
Revelation 6:9-11 (HCSB)
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9 [/SUP] When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.
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10 [/SUP] They cried out with a loud voice: “Lord, the One who is holy and true,
how long until You judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?”
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11 [/SUP] So
a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told to rest a little while longer until ⌊the number⌋ would be completed ⌊of⌋ their fellow slaves and their brothers, who were going to be killed just as they had been.
Revelation 7:13-15 (HCSB)
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13 [/SUP] Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people robed in white, and where did they come from?”
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14 [/SUP] I said to him, “Sir, you know.” Then he told me:
These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. The One seated on the throne will shelter them:
Revelation 20:4-5 (HCSB)
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4 [/SUP] Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge.
{<-- That is the Resurrected Saints who were Called Out to go to the Wedding of the Lamb.} I also saw the people who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands.
They came to life {then and only then will the Tribulation Saints have their bodies resurrected, YET in Rev. 7 they are in Heaven serving the LORD.} and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years.
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5 [/SUP] The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
SLEEPING IN THE GRAVE IS A TOTALLY FALSE DOCTRINE, the human spirit departs the body at Death, and it does not sleep in the grave. At the moment of Death, it becomes too late to receive Jesus Christ as LORD (meaning MASTER), and that person goes directly to Hades, a place of torment for the unbelievers human spirit.
John 3:5-7 (HCSB)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
[SUP]6 [/SUP] Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.
[SUP]7 [/SUP] Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again. 
