Why do Catholics pray to Mary she was human ?
Exodus 20:3-5
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3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Ecclesiastes 9:5
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5 For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing;
they have no further reward,
and even their name is forgotten.
According to Ecclesiastes 9:5 the dead know nothing that means Mary Knows nothing until Jesus comes back and raises dead in Christ
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
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16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
John 14:6
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6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
That means Jesus is the only way Mary is not the way to heaven Jesus is