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People praying the rosary, singing Mary songs, etc is a form a worship no matter how much catholics want to deny it. These things only belong to God. I have seen pictures of Mary sitting next to God in His throne as she was was co-equal with God when she was only a human like any of us. Of course she was blessed by God and deserves to be honored but it does not imply a godly position. God chose her by His grace, grace is God giving us something we dont deserve.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Why do we need Mary as mediator when Jesus Christ already paid the price for our sins so that we could approach God directly? Saying that we need Mary as mediator is like saying that what Christ did in the cross is worthless or meaningless. Read Luke 23:45 which says that the curtain in the temple was broken apart in two, this symbolizing that the use of mediators (like in the old testament where only the priests could enter the most holy of the holy places and approach God to intercede for people) was terminated.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n People call her our hope, our salvation, etc. Acts 4:12 says that salvation is found in Christ alone.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Yes people are taking focus away from Christ by giving her attributes that only belong to Christ, such as being sinless, holy, mediator, being taken to heaven alive, doing miracles and being the queen of heaven etc.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n If you notice most catholic churches today are named after Mary. Everything in the catholic church is about Mary. Most times when I see Catholics praying, it is all to Mary. When the Pope died, he entrusted his soul and the church to Mary. So where is Christ?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n I would suggest you doing more research about the origins of the roman catholic church which comes from pagan origins when it was founded in Rome by Constantine about 300AD. This is well known in history. Constantine was the first pope, and he mixed paganism with Christianity and that is how the Roman catholic church was born. You will find many parallels between the Roman catholic church and paganism. One of them is that the pagans used to worship a goddess called the \u201cMother of God\u201d, and \u201cqueen of heaven\u201d. Read Jeremiah 7:18 and Jeremiah 44:17-25 where the Jews were worshipping this false goddess named \u201cqueen of heaven\u201d provoking the Lord to anger. This is exactly what the Catholics are doing today.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Contact me at [email redacted] to further discuss this.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n It was a bit of shame that Monica’s comment didn’t actually address anything I wrote in the post itself<\/a>, but since many of the objections she raised are fairly common, I thought it’d be good to provide a substantial response to these objections over the course of a few days.\u00a0I was very encouraged by Monica’s openness to dialogue and I hope we’ll have a good exchange here as I present a basic Catholic response to her objections.<\/p>\n I’m going to divide my reply into several parts. In the early posts I’m going to respond to her comments about Mary and then I will then spend the remaining two posts addressing what she had to say in the final paragraph about Constantine and the creation of the Catholic Church. 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Last week a comment<\/a> appeared on my post Biblical Mary: The Ark of the New Covenant<\/a>\u00a0by a lady named Monica. Here’s what she had to say:<\/p>\n