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To: PetroniusMaximus
If Mary points people to Christ, they why do so many people stay focused on Mary and not go on to be entirely focused on Jesus Christ?
Humans are weak. We go astray. Temptations of the world are continually pulling our gaze away from Christ. We fall. Whom better than His mother to be the one that is always there to help us on the way back to her Son.
11 posted on 05/19/2008 7:30:09 AM PDT by redtetrahedron ("Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee" - Jer 1:5 | RIP Fred'08)
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To: redtetrahedron

“Humans are weak. We go astray. Temptations of the world are continually pulling our gaze away from Christ. We fall. Whom better than His mother to be the one that is always there to help us on the way back to her Son.”

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But wouldn’t the same thing also apply to Mary?

Wouldn’t you also face the same temptations to fall away from Mary? Then you would need someone else to help you back to her?

Paul said we should be “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,”.

Jesus is the Christian’s helper. He is the one who helps the believer in temptations and helps the believer focus on God.

Why do you believe it is easier to look to Mary then to look straight to Jesus?

Who loves you more - Jesus or Mary?


12 posted on 05/19/2008 7:42:30 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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