GuyfawkesAB:
Just another religious "merchandise" to sell to gullible Catholics to ask for prayers of intercession for them.

I pity you Catholics and I keep praying for you that your eyes are opened and you come to the light.
Christ has already opened the way for you to pray directly to God.

Hebrews 4
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Have ever heard of intercession?

Seun:

This is true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mother_Teresa#Criticism

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa (this is an objective source)

My friend you have to understand that anybody can edit Wikipedia. Try it out yourself. Which means anyone can enter any trash in Wikipedia

Sorry about the incident.

This is what you need to.
1. Get a syringe (without the needle)
2. Fill it water
3. Forcefully flush water into the affected ear

This would flush the insect out.

Am tired of all this ethnic bashing. Did anyone choose the tribe or country he was born in? My brothers and sisters we are bigger than this!

Ichiato:

What kind of childish thinking is this? So we must always specify that she is to ask her son to give us the protection we ask her? Lets reason a bit. I am the second son of my mother who is married to my very rich father. I also have an elder brother who is in charge of all my father's businesses and indeed has my father's authority to do whatever he so pleases with his business. Now I need to something from my father's business and I ask my mother. According to you I must also specify that she must ask my eldest brother for it before my request is considered legitimate? You my friend are certainly funny.

My friend I would like you to read a beautiful story in Act27. but for brevity "St. Paul was sailing to Rome and there was going to be a ship wreck. There were 246 persons on board the ship. All prayed for safety but in Act 27:14 an angel of the Lord revealed to St. Paul that it was for his sake that God had granted safety to the 246 on board. In the Catholic Church we know and do not hesitate to ask the angels and Saints to pray with us and for us.
They are our allies. Make use of them

chubbyswit:
answer this question before i answer yours, what did God do when he discovered that the israelites made for themselves a golden calf which in their mind they thought represented God? God is a spirit and we must worship him in spirit and in truth not look for him in graven idols. He cant speak to u tru an idol its only satan and his demons can.

Thanks you have made my work easier.

You definitely would not equate the golden calf with Ark of the Covenant (but kindly let me know if you do) neither would the Isrealites equate the Ark with God (but that did not mean they did not venerate it). If you understand these differences then you understand the veneration given to sacred images inthe Catholic Church

chubbyswit:
catholics argue without using the bible as their standard instead they use what their so called popes and bishops ve brainwashed them over the years. Now my question is, who should you believe? The word of God which is the bible or man who is filled with sin?

You should only believe the correct interpretation of the Word of God. And Catholic Church has the correct interpretation 1Tim 3:15.
Through its visible head who is the pope ( Jn21:17 Christ told Peter, the first Pope to "feed my sheep"union with all its bishops (he who hears you hear me)

nurusystem:
..even Jesus neva claims divinity .,so where did Mary com from..it may be d priest who conquer things together .n they will just tell u have faith..y will u honour Mary is she anointed by god.,people shud wake up.,.we dnt suppose to have man or woman god.,he dat is spirit is spirit n he dat is born of flesh is flesh. This is not true 3god=1 god .,n 4=1 fathert how com who said Jesus claims to be man god .,u have to be serious friends.,.so com to Islam with your question your answer is there anykind of it.,.,.,to prov to you infidels dat 1=1.,., Allah is great.,

Mr man have some respect this not an Islamic thread

chubbyswit:
most of these laws like the worship of mary, the saints, purgatory, etc where satanic laws imposed into the catholic church by the so called past popes and bishops which have eaten into your minds to the extent that you see it as the truth, let the bible be your standard and not the doctrine of man. Even they the catholics have removed the 2nd commandment which condemns the worship of idols to justify worship and bowing down before graven images. The conclusion here is that catholic church is the doctrine of satan go and start indepth research if u doubt me and stop defending what u knw nothing about. My people perish for the lack of knowlege.

Would you call the reverence shown to the Ark of the Covenant as idolatry by the Isrealites ?

David danced before the Ark, God even struck someone dead for touching it while it was about falling during a procession.
Even the shadow of Peter healed the sick. Would you accuse those who laid their sick so that the shadow of Peter would fall on it of idolatry?

How many times did God say for the sake of David my servant even though David was not on earth
During the transfiguration Jesus spoke to Moses and Elijah.
Perhaps you would also blame Jesus for speaking to them since they had left the world. God is the God of the living and not the dead

ILIDEFI:


Praise is totally different from intercession. You guys ask Mary and the saints to intercede for you, and not to praise God for you. Praising God is their duty in heaven, but intercession isn't.

Who told we do not ask the Angels and Saints to join us as we pray in adoration, praise, thanksgiving etc to God? We do that. And it gives your prayers more power. Try it

onyeka205:
John 14 verse 6 says "Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me". This is the final word, he who has ear, let him hear.

So does the above quote stop you from asking someone to pray for you.
Does your pastor pray for you?

Abraham is called our father in faith because he believed that even in his old age God could ad would still give him a child and even when he was demanded to sacrifice that child he still believed in God.
You can draw a parallel with Mary faith.... who believed that even without knowing a man she could conceive and at the foot of the cross unlike Isaac who was rescued, that her child Jesus was crucified.

God gave a command in the ten commandments "honor your father and your mother "

Solomon the wisest of men honored his mother in 1Kings2:19 by paying her homage and asking a throne to be provided for the king's mother who sat on his right

How do you think Jesus who is Wisdom Himself, who gave us the commandment to honor our parents has honored His mother.

My friend if you had the power to create your own mother how would you create her?

In the old testament God gave the exact specificactions of how the Ark of the Covenant should built with purest gold, the New Covenant is Jesus, the builder the Ark of the New covenant is God himself. Mary who bore Jesus in her womb is the New Ark of the Covenant. Imagine how God built where He was going to stay for nine months nay forever. I write this with so much joy because these blessings and privileges apply to us as well if we cooperate with God as Mary and all the holy people do

Did the Isrealites worship the ark of the convenant?

This thread could as well be on how JESUS reacted to being called LORD. Jesus said in Mt7:21 not everyone who says to me Lord Lord would enter the kingdom of heaven but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.

You could as well interpret this to mean that Jesus is not Lord or doesn't want to be called LORD but that is not the message hère. The message here is that if Jesus is truly your Lord you would do the will of His Father or that it is not by mere words alone you call Jesus Lord but by your actions

So you'll correctly understand what Jesus said to the woman in Lk11:27 by looking at Lk1:35 Elizabeth filled with the Holy Spirit told Mary that she was blessed because she believed what the Lord told her would be fulfilled.

The true message in Lk 11:27 qouted by the op is that it is not just to call Mary blessed as in Lk1:48 but to carry the actions like Mary and be blessed ourselves. This is what our Lord Jesus wants