edwinG:
Hi TTM
Thank you for the link. I followed it and read half the posts. Yes they were good but I was saddened to see that Mary is still very alive in there. This makes it difficult for God to work in your life.
Christ be with you
walk in love
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Edwin, does God want us to honor those who serve him?
Lets us see what the bible says:
Psalm 15:1, 15:4
“1 ¶ A Psalm of David. O LORD, who
shall sojourn in thy tent? Who shall
dwell on thy holy hill?
4…who honors those who
fear the LORD;…”
Thus the Holy Spirit, who inspired this scripture is telling us that to dwell with God we must honor those who fear the Lord.
Is the Holy Spirit wrong when He tells us that we must honor those who fear the Lord?
Of course not. For when we honor those who fear the Lord, such as Mary and the saints, we are honoring the Lord Himself.
For the Holy Spirit inspired these words to be written,
Matthew 25:40
" And the King will answer them,
‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it
to one of the least of these my
brethren, you did it to me.’"
Thus whatever we do to a member of the body of Christ, we do to Jesus himself. Thus, when we honor Mary in prayer, we honor Jesus himself.
Your idea says that when we honor Mary, we take away honor to Jesus is extremely contrary to the word of God which the Holy Spirit inspired.
Our first duty to the Holy Spirit is to believe the words He inspired to be written in scripture. If we no longer believe what He wrote, then we have lost our salvation.
And again St. Paul writes about the members of the body of Christ:
------- 1 Corinthians 12:21 --------
21 The eye cannot say to the hand,
“I have no need of you,” nor again
the head to the feet, “I have no
need of you.”
Thus, your idea that we don’t need the members of the body of Christ to interceed for us is completely contrary the the Holy Spirit inspired word of God. In other words, the Holy Spirit inspired St. Paul to write that we CANNOT say to Mary, “I do not need you”.
We MUST ask Mary’s intercession in prayer.
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I repeat, it is the Holy Spirit that (name removed by moderator)ired these words of Scripture. If the Holy Spirit is telling us that we CANNOT say to a member of the body of Christ, especially Mary, who feared the Lord, and who we must honor, "I do not need you", then the Holy Spirit must be believed.
I think your idea that when we honor a member of the body of Christ then we take away honor due to Christ is a "tradition of men" since it contradicts the very words the Holy Spirit inspired.
Jesus founded a Church so that we would not be misled by man-made traditions. It saddens me when people claim to be led by the Holy Spirit, but do not even believe the very words the Holy Spirit wrote in scripture.
If you pray the Rosary, and and thus honor Mary, the spouse of Mary, the Holy Spirit, will be so pleased that He will shower you with graces to understand these things. You cannot reject Mary, without rejecting her Spouse, the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has given me so much understanding when I believed His Church and started praying the Rosary, that I wish everyone would just try it.
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After all, it was the Holy Spirit who inspired the words in which the bible calls the Church "the pillar and bulwark of the truth." 1 Timothy 3:15
Do you believe these words of the Holy Spirit?