Originally posted by robrecht
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I don't disagree with this. Protestant churches do this all the time as do Orthodox and Catholic as well. But you are suggesting something altogether different. It is not the same to say to me, "will you pray for me?" and the Mary, "Mother of God, pray for me." I am here to hear your request. I can deliver. You have no biblical support for praying to Mary or dead saints. The bible doesn't call us to pray with the angels and saints in the way you (and others) suggest. Yes we are one body but it doesn't follow from that that you can pray to those who have died and ask them to talk to God for you. Praying to the dead isn't something gotten from reading the Bible. If it was so powerful a thing, it would have been covered. Other than tradition, there is zero support for such a thing.
BTW, do you think Mary is omnipresent? How is it Mary can handle millions of prayers to her simultaneously? Millions at once? Every day. And we're to believe she passes those requests to Jesus? I cannot wrap my head around such and idea.
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