@ScoutingAlong@FeelsGuy2003 Correct - prayers are for your own connection to god to strengthen. There’s good in it for you. Praying for others allows you to look outward from your own needs and be a better person and to help others… it doesn’t make Jesus decide to do something he wasn’t already going to do
@ScoutingAlong@FeelsGuy2003 Yes - even assuming all your points are true that Mary can hear you and cares…. It’s a pointless practice because it changes nothing about how Jesus loves or protects you. Jesus isn’t going to change anything based on his mom’s request.
@ScoutingAlong@FeelsGuy2003 Okay great - so than you admit that the practice is a waste of time. It serves no purpose and it wasn’t directed for you to do so.
@ScoutingAlong@FeelsGuy2003 The practice of praying to dead humans is clear manifestation of lack of love or faith in Jesus. No where in the Bible directs you to do it… there is no need to do it… if you think you need Jesus to have his mother tell him to forgive or protect you, you don’t believe in Jesus.
@humanaxiomatix@MM1858503 You are capable of going through the mental gymnastics of believing there is no god…. That takes way more effort that acknowledging god. You are fully capable when you decide to.
@CraigHarrisNews@Princeton@gcsknights No shit. Kinda like teachers unions collective wealth has deflated due to less corrupt political money laundering flowing into them.
@ScoutingAlong@FeelsGuy2003 1) it’s no different than Matt 15:21 where Jesus healed the Canaanite woman’s daughter based on her request… your logic is that we should be praying to that Canute woman now because Jesus abides by her request.
2)praying FOR one another is not the same as praying TO dead humans
@ScoutingAlong@FeelsGuy2003 Mary is a dead human sinner. No where in the Bible does it even remotely say to pray to humans, specifically the Bible says to not try to communicate with dead humans…. We are told to pray to god, the Holy Spirit is god. There is no equivalence here.