IF CATHOLICS SAY they don't worship mary they just pray with her,?
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They cant...\n\nNo one is able to commune with the dead.\n\nMaybe they can commune with demons or angels however, The bible is clear that they are sleeping or uncontentious...\n\nHow can someone talk with an uncontentious spirit? yet the body is separate and apart from the spirit, it decays yet the spirit is in an uncontentious state...\n\nNo, no one can commune with the dead--what they are communing with are demons...\n\nCatholics give Mary more than human characteristics, they put her on the same level with Deity.\n\nthank you,
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Catholicism is a religion of idol worship.  The Bible does not support worshipping or praying to Mary.  She was a human being like all of us.
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I was raised Catholic and left the religion when I got older. \nHere are the reasons why:\n1) They pray to Mary. This is not what the Holy Bible tells us to do. Mary was the mother of our Saviour, Jesus, and we should know this and honor it, but she is not to be prayed to. Right now she is just another person like we are, only dead. Catholics also are told to pray to St. Peter and and some of the others in the Bible. The only one we are to pray to is God, as it says in the Ten Commandments.\n2) They use beads and such to pray. We don't need those beads or any other graven immage. \n3) They expect us to go through a priest to tell our sins and expect that priest to pray for us. God wants us to repent or sins to Him on our own, not through a third party. We need to ask for the forgiveness all on our own, as this is a very emotional experience.\n4) Catholics baptize infants and children when they don't even know what it is they are getting baptised for. Baptism is for when we are ready to be saved and born again and have excepted Jesus as our saviour, and old enough to understand.\n5) The prayers the Catholics say are the same ones all the time. Anyone can rattle off a couple of memorized prayers in a few minutes. God wants prayers to come from us and to say whatever is is we need to tell Him or ask, not something that is written in books that He has heard a milloin times over and over.\n6) In history, Catholics are known to have killed many for their baptism beliefs. They killed the Hutterites for this reason. You can find this information on    www.hutterites.com \n\nThese are the reasons I left the religion. I became a Christian. I don't put down Catholics, as they are on the right track as far as when it comes to God and teaching, just that they have some beliefs that I did not agree with. I hope this helps.
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You need to understand that we do not pray to Mary and/or the Saints as a final act.  We pray to them to ask them to pray to God for us.\n\nLook at it this way. . . Have you ever been sick or ill and asked a friend to pray for you (or a loved one)?\n\nThat is basically what we, as Catholics, are doing when we pray to Mary or a Saint.  We are asking them, who are in Heaven and can see God directly, to join us in prayer for our intentions.\n\nIt has always been known that we are free to go directly to God with our prayers, but would prayers not be better served to have more people join in?\n\nI hope that I have answered your question.  If not, please post more and I will answer your questions to the best of my abilities.
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Catholics are simply asking Mary, who is with God, to take care of us.  FYI, you can ask anyone who has passed on to go to God for you. It doesn't mean you are worshipping Grandma Jenny or Uncle Abe.  After all, you can ask your mom to ask your dad for a favor, but you know that your dad is the one doing the favor -- allowance, borrow the car, whatever.
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Christians do not need proof that prayer works.  We have faith.
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Yeah, we do.  They just don't want to associate with us, because they think we're wierd or whacked out.  But actually, we're not...I think that they should realize that we are the original Christians- they are the ones that broke off only about 500 years ago.  Before, the only Christians were Catholics.  Yeah, we're definitely Christian...wait, what do you mean, we aren't baptised?  Yeah we are!  "I baptise you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit..."  Dude, check your sources before saying stupid stuff like that.  Catholics don't get baptised...gosh...
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If a person really had faith, he wouldn't bother praying. Praying indicates a person believes his God is really stupid.
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I don't think people of any reason pray to Mary. At least I hope not. That would be like praying to your great great great grandma....she won't answer you either. Mary is dead. She died a looooooong time ago. I wish people would let her rest in peace. She lived, God used her to bring for the Christ child, she grew old, she died. Just like us, we do his work then we outta here.
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Because they don't have a clew mary can't intercede on anyone's behalf either only jesus can do that Catholics fix the bible to suit there own needs hale mary full of grace? whats that Jesus said pray like this our father who art in heaven you know the rest
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Good question!\nThat's one reason I'm not catholic.\nThey will dance around the question with terms like 'prayer aids'.\nThey'll call it anything except idolatry.
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If you want to ask for forgiveness direct from GOD through Jesus Christ, then be a Christian not a Catholic because a catholic's sins are forgiven through the pope or father of the Catholic Church. Catholics worship saints and idols like Virgin Mary and so on, whereas Christian worship only God in Jesus Christ. Those are just some of the many differences between Christians and Catholics.Pick your choice wisely.... If I'm wrong, do correct me.May God Bless you.
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in virgin mary rather than jesus
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One thing that a Catholic is not is a bible worshipper.  Catholics believe in tradition and theology practiced within the church as well.  Catholics do not get hung up in literal interpretation and therefore can often find greater meaning and application of the bible’s writings.  Also Catholics tend to observe for who, what, when, where the scripture was written and try not to mix apples and oranges to make a point (or get a donation).  \n\nMany would say... well there ya go!  Catholics DON'T believe the bible.  I would say to them... do you believe God (infinite and eternal) can be contained in a book?  Open your eyes.  The word is alive but your ears have died to the truth.  You are the temple of the Lord.  That doesn’t mean to get fit… it means the Lord is in you.  God has given you everything you need.  He has sent Jesus to awaken you but still you cannot see past the marked and worn pages of your demigod.  Catholics read and adhere to their understanding of the bible based on theology and tradition, as well as, historical fact.  But Catholics worship God and every chance they get they let Jesus into there souls through communion.  \n\nI am sorry if my rant is so negative... we just here these things over and over.  It is ignorance and fear that they preach against us.  The world has enough of that...  God bless each of you.\n\nAside:\nThe Mary stuff is the same as the saints… we ask them to pray for us.  Like you would ask a friend to pray for your Mom in the hospital.  Mary is a very special Saint and one we can all find strength in character in; she is a role model.  ‘Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death.’
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No, they really don't,  and sadly, i doubt they ever will.  It's a fundamental part of their religion now, not to understand what they do.  Nowhere in the Bible does it say to worship saints, or to confess to another sinner about your sins--whether he's wearing a fancy robe or not.\n\nThat's why I'm non-denominational, I go to a Bible Church and I read exactly what the English translation says.  Nobody has a right to teach their own opinions on God and what he says and does.\n\nAnd Catholics worship Mary becausethey think that Jesus is God, and Mary was the mother of Jesus, so Mary is the mother of God.  Hate to break my tone of intelligent commentary, but that's just silly.  Mary was a sinner like everyone else, she was probably thinking when they kicked her out of the inn, "buncha l3@$T@ l^D$, i'm about to pregnant with your savior and you can't find room!?  Well then kick somebody out, I'm Mary dammit!"\nShe was just the mortal chosen to bring him into the world, that's all.\nIt was a holy game of chess, and Mary was a pawn used to put the king of the red team in check and send him running in fear behind his last pieces, but that doesn't mean the pawn deserves any worship--she's just a pawn.  She followed God's will, (she's so lucky).  No crying he makes!? WTF!, that's not fair at ALL!  she got to be the mother of the perfect child, not the well behaved one, not the nice one, not the smart one; she got to be the mother of the perfect child, that should be payment enough for her.
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Really? We do? Yes, at Mass and anything where there is a Mass involved. There's some instituted prayers (most notably the Lord's Prayer, instituted by, well, the Lord) but I don't think these are rituals.\n\nYou've posted more than 90 questions. More than half of them show your misunderstanding of Catholicism. I'd dare to say you're an uneducated bigot.\n\nShame on you. \n\nRevelations 21:8 - Revilers go to Hell.
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Look up the miracles at Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, Chestohowicz, and Our Lady of the Snows in Rome.  Read the accounts of the day and then tell me Mary didn't have any special powers.  All the powers she had though were given to her by God to bring people closer to Him.  No where does the Church say to worship Mary but to pray through Her to bring people closer to Her Son, Jesus.  Again, read about miracles worked through Mary especially Fatima which took place in 1916-1917 in Portugal.