Evidence for God from Science

This one's a double whammy! Praying to Mary AND asking her to pray for us! Probably the best known prayer to Our Lady, which is easy to memorize, is the Hail Mary: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, M...

James, please read this and then tell me where in the Bible we're told it is ok to pray to or ask dead saints to pray for us. http://www.gotquestions.org/prayer-saints-Mary.html That site made a case how we are not to ask any saint for intercession, yet it turns right around and says we can ask oth...

RickD, how do you know the people that are being contacted in a seance aren't dead saints? If I use a ouiji board to call upon the spirit of my dead relative who died in Christ, how is that different than Priest Joe Schmo calling upon a dead person? Did Jesus defeat death? But, they did die. John 6:...

Certainly, but even with the Holy Spirit's help its not easy. It is still a struggle for us to live in humility and purity, and to choose His will above our own. Very true, life is hard sometimes.... well often, and we get tempted away from the will of God by our own short comings! By the way, I di...

Gabrielman, :amen: Faith without works is dead! Yes. Yes, indeed! When one is saved and filled with the Holy Spirit they will be moved within to serve the Lord in the way He calls them to do. Certainly, but even with the Holy Spirit's help its not easy. It is still a struggle for us to live in humil...

jlay,

We are not talking about walking away. If you want to talk about apostasy, start a thread and we can discuss.

Yes, in that moment, we were. I mentioned it because that is one of the reasons I do not believe we are presently saved.

RickD, You believe talking to dead saints and Mary is o.k. because they're not really dead. Why is it any different when you speak to dead people then when someone conducts a seance and attempts to speak with the dead? I think you just answered you're own question. It's not the same as speaking with...

jlay, I have already said I don't believe we can work our way to heaven. Based on what you said I'm saying, I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Let me give you this analogy a heard a while ago: Someone says you must eat one peanut-butter and jelly sandwich to be saved. Can you only have pe...

From Dictionary.com: prayer 1    /prÉ›ər/ Show Spelled[prair] Show IPA –noun 1. a devout petition to god or an object of worship. 2. a spiritual communion with God or an object of worship, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession. 3. the act or practice of praying to God or an obj...

RickD, call me old-fashioned, but I believe prayer should be reserved for God alone. Prayer is the way I speak to God, not anyone else. That's actually not old fashioned. And looking back to my Baptist days, I remember I used to believe prayer was worship. I'm pretty sure most, if not all, Evangelic...

RickD, :oops: Oh, sorry. LoL, its ok. Yes, that is one example. Well, I don't really view prayer as any different than speaking with anyone. I'm speaking to you, but I'm not worshipping you or anything like that. Its just that because of the Resurrection of Christ, we believe that death is no longer...

Where should God be, though? Do you mean He's the only One we should pray to? James, I can't tell if this is a serious question. Are you asking if there is someone else we should be praying to? No, I'm asking if that is the reason you think Mary is being placed at a level that only God should be pl...

I agree that it is God Who saves us. I agree that without God's grace and the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we would have no hope of Salvation. However, notice where it says we should walk in good works. This is not an option. It takes work to be a Christian. Keeping in daily prayer, wrestling against...

However, would you please tell me what you mean when you said "Roman Catholics place Mary in a place that only God should be"? James here is just one example of what I mean. From Novena to St. Peregrine in another thread called "Prayer to Saints" Ask of God and Our Lady, the cur...

B.W. Who does the saving? God does. But we have our part to do, too. While it is by the grace of God through faith that we are saved, we still have works to do. We cannot work our way to heaven, for only Jesus can open the kingdom of heaven to us, but we cannot be saved without works. We are the ser...