Mary

No, actually, they're dead. In fact, your own Catholic Church records many of them as having been martyred.

[Nasty personal attack edited.]

Maybe you should read that verse again. V 22 says, "The poor man (Lazarus) died".

It also says that there is a gulf between life and death that cannot be crossed.

But we're not talking about saints praying. We're talking about your pagan practice of praying to the saints.

 

The Rosary is not only used in Catholic and near catholic sects, but also in Islam and Buddhist religions and probably in many other pagan religions.

 

Trump0101 - I am a former Catholic and have never heard of a Baptist praying to Mary, Probably never will.

Wasting your time.

HankD

 

Well according to Individual Soul Liberty you probably are a Baptist but not in my book.

Not that it really matters - who am I?

HankD

 

Roman Catholic saints are not saints in the biblical sense as every true christian is a saint. Roman saints often didn't exist and if they did were no way Christians, Roman saints occupy the same place in their religion as the demigods in the Pantheon. The pantheon had a god for everything and as we read in the scripture gods were territorial, over cities and states. Just as Roman saints are territorial, Every town on village in France, for instance, has its own Patron saint. When their saint has his day they have a Fête Patronale

 

So, let me get this straight: You don't affirm any of the Baptist distinctives, you don't hold to orthodoxy on a number of Christian doctrines, you believe Catholic doctrines, you make Catholic arguments, tell the same Catholic lies, and registered here with your religion as "seeking Christ", but now you're telling us you're a Baptist?

Did you know that the Bible says that the Lord hates a lying tongue?

 

Yes. Every Christian believes in the competence of Christ to keep that which has been given to Him.

 

Nor by any definition of "Baptist" I've ever heard.

 

IMO OSAS is a poor representation of what ETERNAL salvation is all about.

But I know what you are asking, so yes OSAS - unending eternal life and that more abundantly.

HankD

 

The rosary not only comes from pagan sources, but it's in direct violation against Jesus' command to not chant repetitious prayers repeatedly, without not even thinking about its words as one chants them. Prayer beads are also from pagan practices.

 

B). No you don't you believe that Mary and the saints and other demigods can help you.

The Jews in the old testament tried mixing worship of God with pagan practices and were condemned for that,

In the new testament when people became Christians they burnt their pagan books and idols. If you are a christian you will do so as well. Christ is the only mediator between God and man. He will not share his glory.,

• 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

The Romans love their other gods and images, so that is why miss the following commandment out:

• Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• 3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
• 4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
• 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;