— How can Catholics that Mary Mediatrix of God when the Bible says that Jesus is the only God?
The Catholic Church says that Mary is the Mediatrix. The Bible says there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5). What explains this? Where do you fall into this Mary? God does not say that only two mediators said a mediator.
And another question. Why call their priests "Father"? The Bible says that we should not call anyone your father for you have only one Father in heaven.
Matthew 23:9 "Call no one on earth your father, but you have one Father in heaven."
Why not talk about God every time the rosary in the Bible?
Why not talk about God of the Holy Mass in the Bible?
What about purgatory? Why do not we see the word purgatory in the Bible?
Do not you think God would have made Catholic Protestant VS debate much easier to just talk about these traditions in the Bible as well?
P.S. I am a devout and practicing Catholic with a basic knowledge of the Faith, but only to clarify some things. Thank you.
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>> The Catholic Church says that Mary is the Mediatrix. The Bible says there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5). What explains this? Where do you fall into this Mary? God does not say that only two mediators said a mediator.
Properly understood, does not mean that Mary Mediatrix competes supplants or undermines Jesus' role as mediator. The Catholic Church has always taught that Jesus is the only mediator between God and man. Mary is not, never was and never can be a mediator in the same sense as Jesus. Those who jump to these conclusions have been fed lies anti-Catholic fanatics.
"Co" co-redeemer, co-mediators, etc. Colaborador Mary "assisted in our redemption, and to help our mediation with Christ.
This context does not give equal status of Mary and Christ, or to usurp Christ in all ways. She, rather, simply cooperated and collaborated with Christ.
In a sense, co-mediators are also each time we pray for someone. Offering mediation and intercession of our friend when we pray for them. This does not make us equal with God or with God, simply means that we are cooperating with the economy of God when he asked us a family and pray for one another.
In terms of Mary as co-redeemer, in fact, cooperating in the redemption. When did the mandate to accept the will of God for Your Child Jesus who is cooperating in the redemption of mankind, so that through her that the Redeemer came into the world.
The solution to problems like this is not repression, but education. "co" simply does NOT mean "equal."
>> Matthew 23:9 "Call no one on earth your father, but you have one Father in heaven."
And another question. Why call their priests "Father"? The Bible says that we should not call anyone your father for you have only one Father in heaven.
This is a view of a literal expression HYPERBOLE. Jesus is saying no to any human being, raising the level of God, giving them a title of "Father." He also said that he would not call a "professor." Matt. 23:8
1 Cor. 4:15 - Paul writes, "I became your father in Christ Jesus." Therefore, according to the strict literal interpretation used to bash Catholics, St. Paul is wrong and that the Bible is wrong, because people just do not understand what a spiritual father.
View http://www.scripturecatholic.com/the_pri … for a list of the writings of other cases in which "father" means spiritual father, not God.
>> Why not talk about God every time the rosary in the Bible?
Well, meditating on the rosary includes things like the Resurrection, Ascension, Pentacost, The Birth of Our Lord, The Kingdom of God, the Crucifixion and so I do not know why anyone would think these things are not in the Bible. There are a few traditions, but the Rosary is essentially a study of the Bible no one can pray anywhere without books, and you do not even need to know how to read. And the "Hail Mary" right to prayer comes from Luke 1. http://www.mariology.com/
>> Why not talk about God of the Holy Mass in the Bible?
The Mass is one and the same sacrifice offered to God which Jesus offered once and for all, and He intercedes for us continually to the Father. Jesus' sacrifice was once spread over time. It is a bread, not very different breads, and God has a way of bringing this unique bread, with no time for us to get on the road. The Bible speaks of this one bread, one body on several occasions. The Mass follows the pattern of the whole or slaughter the Lord's Supper. There are more "Bible" in the Mass in one of the many Protestant services to be in
>> What about purgatory? Why do not we see the word purgatory in the Bible?
For the same reason we do not see "Trinity" or "Ascension" in the Bible. We do not see the word "Bible" in the Bible, either by the simple fact that there was no "bible" as we know that for the first 300 years of Christianity. The doctrine of purgatory with the Jews there, but in primitive form, and the word means purgation or purification. Which was extended by Jesus and as outlined by Paul. Luther rejects the Old Testament books that support the defendants invented purgatory and justice, making the doctrine of purgatory BIBLICAL fired by their own theories.
>> Do not you think God would have made Catholic Protestant VS debate much easier to just talk about these traditions in the Bible as well?
First, the Bible itself was formed in tradition. No one can prove the charge, inerrancy, inspiration, and apart from tradition. No inspiration TOC.
Before the canon of the Bible, the Rule of the Christian faith (tradition), included the belief in apostolic succession through the Bishops, the authority of tradition itself, the authority of Scripture, three times the ministry (bishop, priest deaconess), the Eucharist as Sacrifice, a belief in baptismal regeneration, prayers for the dead, veneration of saints, the seven sacraments, the evangelical counsels, and others. The historical evidence is there for anyone who wants to see it.
The oral tradition that is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thess 3:14-15, 2 Thess 2:15, etc. does not refer to oral transmitting the message of the Bible. It refers to the oral tradition, apart from the written tradition (the Bible).
The oral tradition has not been damaged and we know it for three reasons:
1) Oral tradition and written tradition complement each other and do not contradict each other. But not everything is written in the Bible, according to the Bible itself (ie, John 21:25, Acts 20:35). Therefore, since not everything is written in the record if the oral tradition that says something is not explicitly written in the tradition that has no oral tradition wrong. It only means that the item was not mentioned in the report.
The oral tradition is a long time in the religious life of the Jews. Recognized the existence of Divine Oral Tradition. There are some passages in the New Testament, for example, referring to the divine revelation of the Old Testament, but not deal with items written in the Old Testament. Clearly the apostles knew and believed in an oral tradition Divine.
2) The importance of oral tradition is great. This is seen by the fact that St. Paul tells us to listen and obey the tradition (which is the divine tradition, customs of non-human), as Scripture. He even tells us that people do not follow this tradition reject Divine Oral (2 Thess 3:14).
All possible teachings of Jesus can not be possible in a book and the Bible itself says. In addition, there was no New Testament Scriptures in the first decades of the Church. All that existed was the oral tradition of the Apostles. Even after the letters of the New Testament began to be written and passed around it was not until the 4th century Church launched exactly what cards are considered and that the Scriptures were not. How did the bishops that the decision was, in part, on whether the letter in question is consistent with the oral tradition handed down from the Apostles.
The oral tradition long precedes the written tradition. The written tradition (the Bible) is a small subset of the larger oral tradition. This has always been the case - in the Old Testament and New Testament.
3) My concern is correct or not this divine tradition is transmitted orally from generation to generation with accuracy. Well, God is not so cruel that it does not have any way to preserve his word. His Word, after all is life. We must have a way to preserve God's Word. God made through a teacher protected by the Holy Spirit. God always has a Magisterium. In the Old Testament times we had the chair of Moses that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 23:2. The New Partnership for a new chairman of the authority was set up — as it did with the previous four pacts in Old Testament times. The new president has been and is the Chair of Peter (Matthew 16, Isaiah 22:21-23).
But how do you make sure that if we do not have the faith to trust God for the Magisterium? Well, the same way that we can know with certainty that the Bible we read today is reality, what is written in the twenty-first century - by comparing what we have today with the written record of history.
In the Bible, what we have today compared with the manuscripts existing in close proximity to the first century as possible.
In the case of oral tradition, it is true. We hope that the existing manuscripts of sermons, essays, documents of the Church Fathers of the Church so that we assert that what is now the same as the things he believed then.
There is no doctrine of the Catholic Church that can not be attributed to the early church. Over the centuries our understanding of the doctrine has matured from a child of the Church, but the doctrine remains the same. We know this because it can be shown with documentary evidence.
When Protestant theological postulate a belief that is contrary to what Catholics believe, ask that person to show that any of the Church Fathers believed that he cree. If the early Christians believed that the Protestants do today would have some evidence of that - trials, sermons, writings of some kind. But there are none. The Catholic Church, however, can produce trucks existing manuscripts of the First, Second and Third centuries show that the foundation of all that the Catholic Church cree.
This evidence is overwhelming and safe. No other works of antiquity that we are about as safe as we are about the teachings of the Catholic Church.
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2. Jesus criticized Jewish leaders who love "the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the squares, and is called 'rabbi' by men" (Matthew 23:6-7). His warning is a response to the Pharisees' proud hearts and their grasping after the status and prestige brands.
He was using hyperbole (exaggeration to make a point) to show the scribes and Pharisees how sinful and that prides itself on not looking humbly to God as the source of all authority and fatherhood and teaching, and instead of themselves as the final authority figures, parents, and teachers.
Christ often used hyperbole, for example, when he declared, "If your right eye makes you sin, is to boot and thrown away, it is better to lose one of its members that thy whole body be thrown into hell" (Matt . 5:29, cf. 18:9, Mark 9:47). Christ certainly did not intend that this be applied literally, otherwise for all Christians would be blind amputees! (cf. 1 John 1:8, 1 Tim. 1:15). We are also subject to "the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life" (1 John 2:16).
Since Jesus is demonstrated through the hyperbole when he says that no one else to call his father could not make reference to our earthly parents, as such, we must read his words carefully and with sensitivity to the presence of hyperbole, if we understand what you are saying.
Jesus is not banning people call "parents" are such that in reality, either literally or spiritually. (See below the example of the apostolic spiritual paternity.) To refer to these people as parents is just to admit the truth, and Jesus is not against that. He cautions against mistaken paternity or attribution of a certain type or degree of parenthood to those who do not have it.
As shown in the apostolic example, some people really have a spiritual paternity, which means it can be seen as spiritual fathers. What should not be done is to confuse form with the spiritual paternity of God. Ultimately, God is our supreme protector, provider, and instructor. By the same token, it is a mistake to see anyone other than God to have those papers.
Throughout the world, some people have been tempted to look to religious leaders who are just as deadly if it were an individual's supreme source of spiritual instruction, food and protection. The tendency to turn men into mere "gurus" is all over the world.
This was also a temptation in the Jewish world of Jesus, when leaders famous rabbis, especially those who founded important schools, such as Hillel and Shammai, were very excited by his disciples. This is the elevation of a man forming a "personality cult" around him that Jesus is talking about when he warns against attributing to someone an undue role as a teacher, parent or teacher.
3. The Rosary is the Gospel in mini, is based on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the essence of being in the company of which she knew the Lord was there and better in every moment of your life.
4.The purification is necessary because, as Scripture teaches, nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven (Rev. 21:27) and at the same time they can die with our mortal sins forgiven, can not be still many impurities in us, specifically venial sins and the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven. You must remember that purgatory is only for the saved. NO is a second chance and not a third.
When we die, we undergo what is called the private or individual decision. Scripture says that "it is appointed for men to die once, and after the verdict that is" (Hebrews 9:27). We tried immediately and receive our reward, for good or evil. We know at once what our final destination will be.
Augustine says in The City of God, that "temporary punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by others after death, by others both now and then, but all of them before that last and strictest sentence" (21:13). It is between the particular and general judgments, then, that the soul is purified from the other consequences of sin: "I tell you, you never quit until you have paid the last copper" (Luke 12:59) .
Why would anyone go to purgatory? To be cleansed, for "nothing unclean shall enter [heaven]" (Rev. 21:27). Anyone who has not been completely freed from sin and its effects is to some extent, "unclean". Through repentance may have acquired the grace to be worthy of heaven, he has been forgiven and his soul is spiritually alive. But that's not enough to gain entry to heaven. He needs to be cleaned thoroughly.
The Catholic Church defines purgatory as a "purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven", which is experienced by those "who die in God's grace and friendship imperfectly purified, but" The It notes that "this purification of the elect … is totally different from the punishment of the damned "
5. The Bible does not contain everything that Jesus said or did, therefore, is not itself an authority, the apostles were the custodians of both oral and written and the writing of these two must be considered together as one, especially among the so-called charismatic evangelical and you will find that the word "tradition" is a pejorative term, and label something as a "tradition" is roughly equivalent to saying that it is "carnal," "spiritually dead" " ; destructive, "and / or" legalistic. "Protestants read the New Testament, it seems clear that the Bible condemns a tradition that is opposed to Scripture. The image of the first Christians who usually have is essentially that the early Christians were very 20th century, the evangelical or charismatic! The first century Christians who have had liturgical worship, or have adhered to any tradition is inconceivable.
It comes as a great shock to some Protestant study when in fact the early Church and the writings of the early Fathers and begin to see a different picture than was ever to see. One finds, for example, the early Christians with their Bibles bag to church every Sunday for a Bible study - in fact it was so difficult to acquire a copy of even portions of Scripture, because of the time and resources involved make a copy that very few people owned their own copies. However, copies of the Scriptures were kept by designated persons in the Church, or remain in the place where the Church gathered for worship. Furthermore, most churches do not have a complete copy of all books of the Old Testament, much less the New Testament (which was not completed until nearly the end of the first century, and not in its final canonical form until the fourth century ).
He is not prohibiting the use of honorifics or superficial ban for we recognize that the person has a role as a spiritual father and teacher. The example shows us that his own apostles.
Please do not comment on other faiths. All religions were created by man. You should not think he knows more about the Bible and begin to criticize others. I can say a lot of controversies in the Bible. Please go through the website http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com and get to know the truth. Be logical and be good for people. Please do not criticize others.
Question 1: Mary is the mediator, because the Catholic belief in which she is the Mother of God, Jesus, have some of Bering in our prayers and in the example at the wedding of Cana showed that Christ did not hear it. Biblical in nature.
Question 2: The word or the father in his first sentence Pater used in respect as in the case of blood with his father and I am sure that not stop saying it either parent. This is a tradition carried on Judaism Christ also refers to the pre-script that you mentioned, he was referring to those who call themselves, but the father still have no love, humility and charity towards the needy. That is not and should not be the case with the priest, as they are called to his vocation of these things accurately.
Question 3: The rosary is not mentioned because it is good practice after the Bible was written, simple as that, but the prayers are biblical and I am sure that anyone here or has already mentioned. To include all of the Hail Mary and Our Father.
Question 4: The Mass is said, is called Eucharist celebration or communal celebration in most of the letters and basa Pauls is to include all of the Eucharistic Prayer done before and after the consecration in the Bible.
Question 5: Purgatory is the Bible, is a question of interpretation of the book of the Bible and Protestant Maccabbees do not carry these books.
Question 6: God is not a debate, for humans.
I think if you are truly committed to their faith, they propose to these questions to your pastor or priest or deacon to a local best fill the gaps.
These are all major issues and should be treated with more time and I sincerely believe that you are looking for the correct answer, and sometimes beyond the faith and believe that faith and the things of God can not be defined.
God I love you always.
More specifically, the only mediator between God and man is Jesus. Jesus is the son, and asking Mary to pull for is basically to have you pray with Mary, Jesus listens to and shares with the father (who is he, but as God is triunal, it is difficult for us to understand how this works exactly).
Why call his father from his father? It can mean a father who created you, or serving as a guide in life.
The Rosary is a traditional thing. Back in the day, used to pray the psalms, and could count on them for casting a pile of stones. We have developed a method to avoid the string of primitive rock. Mass is a re-enactment of Jesus' sacrifice for humanity. Was caused by the church to remind us all of the great things that Jesus did for us.
Purgatory is not in the Bible because it is also a tradition, even if there is no purgatory, is just what Catholics believe happens after death. Purgatory is mentioned, but not by name. It is basically a process of cleansing before entering the gates of heaven. (Allows a muddy dog in your house?)
The difference is in the Bible that Catholics use ALL the books, and use only the Protestants who use them. Cut the Apocrypha.
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I just want to add this
God through Jesus
To Jesus through Mary
(only half a year ago I was thinking like 33-days questions.The Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has changed all that.)
Peace and God bless
I am a Christian and I believe that the only way to God is even listening to us through Jesus Christ!
For him it has to be sin for us, who knew no sin: that may be made the righteousness of God in him.
Eph 2:1
For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.
Amos 5:4
And to bring a son and thou shall call his name JESUS: HE to save his people from their sins.
Matthew 1:21
I am not trying to sound rude, but the Catholic Church is a business not a religion.
And there is no purgatory.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life!
Regarding your first question: The Bible says: And I tell you, Peter, you're a rock and on this rock foundation I will build my church, and not even death can never be overcome. I will give you your keys to the kingdom of heaven: that which is prohibited in the earth will be forbidden in heaven, and what on earth will be permitted in heaven (Matthew 16: 18 and 19) The Catholic religion believes that Peter was appointed the first Pope, the Vicar of Christ on earth (representative) Anyone who followed Peter appointed as his successor, Pope was the 2nd and so on. Try to reply more for you later ….
Peter C has responded very well.
My only question is - how can you be a "devout" Catholic and not know at least some of this? Why are the questions addressed to "you" instead of "we"? Matthew 23:9 is Cherrypicking evangelicals do, and most of their questions have a ring to them as gospel that the "laundry list" presentation.
Please do you a favor, if you are Catholic, and go buy a Catechism. They are available in paperback at any bookstore. Then read a section at a time, with his Bible near the Catechism because it will give scripture references. It is unfortunate that is not taught properly about their own faith — his questions indicate that even the "basics" are covered very well - but this is something that can be remedied easily. However, not asking these questions in a place like this where they struggle against Catholicism and simply wrong information abounds.