For we are one in Christ
Been around long enough thank God, to maintain this till He takes me home. Welcome to the site!
This is true. But praying to the Holy Virgin Mary and asking her to intercede in our favor to the Lord in the person of Jesus Christ her beloved Son is not exactly equal to considering her a redeemer in the same way that Jesus is.
It's asking a mother who is touched by our struggles as sinners to come to her only son and support a personal case of sin, repentance, and ask for His forgiveness on our behalf, as brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, children of God the Father and children of Mary, given as an immaculate mother to humanity by Christ when He was suffering His Passion.
This intercession for prayer can be asked to every and all Saints in heaven, as it is asked directly during the Litany of the Saints.
The very textbook wedge in multiples that wishes to divide that unity. Sir, brother, you appear a brilliant thinker, how is it, one by one (as there are several here) the sacred text both dismantles this tense, comments that removes itself from our glorious Lord's full understanding of all that impacts us on a daily basis? Magenta's is worth reconsidering.
For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities;
but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
Hebrews 4:15, 7:25
When we embark upon God's will, it is with the understanding that we maintain to the best of our ability, the Apostles' "traditions". Stepping away from my 40-yrs of study just long enough to say within the scope of that tradition, never, does the hint of discrediting Jesus' being fully aware, fully involved, fully capable to provide for us,
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2 Peter 1:3
I find it rather unfortunate, to see that glorious capacity of Paul's "
manifold revelations", that it should remark on our current use and condition of that unity that the RCC recognizes myself as "
separated brethren" (circa 1960)! Yet the spirit of the sacred text maintains no such enmity. The RCC council insights have whisked the traditions from view, an undistinguishable anomaly from exalting their contributions.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:5
