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Lv 4

If God exists everywhere and is all-powerful, why do we need intermediaries?

Why do you need clergy or even holy books when you can just talk to God directly already? As a 'recovering Catholic', the idea that the Church holds the Keys to the Kingdom and you can't get into Heaven without their intercession is a very distasteful doctrine to me.

Update:

troy--*yawn* Just another elusive non-answer. Thumbs down for being a twit.

eugene--You're a moron and, yes, I am an ex-Catholic who knows a hell of a lot more about Catholic theology than you, idiot. Thumbs down for you.

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  • 8 years ago
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    that's in NO catholic ideology that i've ever hesrd (60 years a Catholic)

    you didn't quit the church, you never belonged to it.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    nicely at first, you misquoted the verse. It states, "in exceptionally much all issues are purified with blood", meaning Jesus' blood cleansed ALL who sin and fall wanting the attention of God. The verses before and after communicate of Jesus having to be the final to have spilled blood to bathe away sin from Gods eyes. The Quran ability that God in basic terms loves the unsinned, and in fact we are all born in sin. My thought is the bible is the word of God, and in basic terms Gods word is what i ought to take heed to. the finished assessment is a sprint infantile do no longer you think of? it fairly is exceptionally much as in case you're saying, my God is greater suitable then your God according to risk?

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    We do not need human intermediaries.

    Jesus Christ intercedes for us and the Holy Spirit intercedes for us.

    But we do need Pastors to help explain the Bible for us and to help us in our walk with Jesus.

    The Catholic Church has no power to keep anyone out of Heaven. All those who follow Jesus are in the Hands of Jesus and nobody can remove us from His hands, not even the Catholic Church.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    A mediator is

    One who interposes between two parties at variance to reconcile them; an intercessor; an intermediary agent, or go-between. In the Scriptures the term is applied to Moses and Jesus, the mediators respectively of the Law covenant and the new covenant.—Ga 3:19; 1Ti 2:5.

    The original-language word translated “mediator” is a legal term. It refers to Jesus as a legal Mediator (or, in a sense, an attorney) of the new covenant that made possible the birth of a new nation, “the Israel of God.” (Gal. 6:16) This nation is composed of spirit-anointed Christians, who form a heavenly “royal priesthood.” (1 Pet. 2:9; Ex. 19:6) The Law covenant, with Moses as mediator, was not able to produce a nation like that.

    Christ became Mediator in order that the ones called “might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance” (Heb 9:15); he assists, not the angels, but “Abraham’s seed.” (Heb 2:16) He assists those who are to be brought into the new covenant to be ‘adopted’ into Jehovah’s household of spiritual sons; these eventually will be in heaven as Christ’s brothers, becoming a part with him of the seed of Abraham. (Ro 8:15-17, 23-25; Ga 3:29) He has transmitted to them the promised holy spirit, with which spirit they are sealed and are given a token of what is to come, their heavenly inheritance. (2Co 5:5; Eph 1:13, 14)

    After Jesus died and was resurrected, he entered into heaven to appear before the person of God to present his offering, the benefits of which go first to those taken into the new covenant. (Heb 9:24) Here he acted both as High Priest and Mediator. In harmony with the pattern followed at the inauguration of the Law covenant, Jesus Christ presented the value of his sacrifice before God in heaven (even as Moses sprinkled the blood on the book of the Law [for God was not personally present there]). Then, on Pentecost day, 33 C.E., Jesus poured out the holy spirit from God on the first ones brought into the new covenant, about 120 persons. Later that day about 3,000, Jews and proselytes, were added to the congregation. (Ac 1:15; 2:1-47; Heb 9:19) And just as Moses read the Law to the people, so Jesus Christ clearly enunciates the terms of the new covenant and its laws to those sharing in it.—Ex 24:3-8; Heb 1:1, 2; Joh 13:34; 15:14; 1Jo 5:1-3.

    Read 1 Timothy 2:5, 6. Jesus is the “one mediator between God and men.” He is “the mediator of a new covenant.” (Heb. 9:15; 12:24)

    What about those who are not in the new covenant, those who hope to live forever on earth, not in heaven? While not participants in the new covenant, these are beneficiaries of it. They receive forgiveness of their sins and are declared righteous as God’s friends. (Jas. 2:23; 1 John 2:1, 2) Whether we have a heavenly hope or an earthly hope, each one of us has good reason to appreciate Jesus’ role as the Mediator of the new covenant.

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  • 8 years ago

    Its distasteful cuz its unbiblical heresy. Jesus is our only inter, and He Himself is God. U can pray and be saved with the help of no man. One reason i dont like the catholic church, amongst the thousands of other reason to not like them. I didnt say individual caths i said their church and their heretical doctrines

  • 8 years ago

    It is called Oneness which is the nature of Heaven. Things are only fragmented because of time. Your mind is a fragmented mind therefore in need of education in Oneness. Logic takes all fragments and makes them again one in your one mind for they all originate in the One. Without the Single Educator the human mind remains fragmented severely.

  • 8 years ago

    'For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus...'

    Source(s): I Timothy 2:5
  • 8 years ago

    1. You are misstating Catholic doctrine. The Catholic Church teaches that Jesus saves whomever He wishes to save, whether they are Catholic or not.

    2. God CHOOSES to have us help each other to know Him and trust Him better. It's His set-up.

  • Susan
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    I can't say as I blame you. I think that is a Catholic doctrine. The bible doesn't teach that you have to go through a priest or any other human to pray to God. It actually teaches you to pray directly to Him and the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us. Jesus is our High Priest. If you are still interested, read the book of Hebrews and it will explain why we don't have nor need earthly priests.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The answers to your questions are there. Won't you get tired answering the same question over and over to different people?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    In the belief that “saints” can bestow special power on believers, millions venerate them by using relics or by invoking them as intercessors. Is this a Bible teaching? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught his followers how to approach God, saying: “You must pray, then, this way: ‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.’” (Matthew 6:9) Prayers are properly addressed to Jehovah God alone.

    In an effort to support the intercession of “saints,” some theologians cite Romans 15:30, where we read: “I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the spirit, that you exert yourselves with me in prayers to God for me.” Was Paul encouraging those believers to pray to him or invoke his name in approach to God? No. While prayers offered in behalf of the true saints, or holy ones, are encouraged in the Bible, nowhere does God command us to pray to or through such holy ones.—Philippians 1:1, 3, 4.

    However, God has appointed an Intercessor for our prayers. “I am the way and the truth and the life,” said Jesus Christ. “No one comes to the Father except through me.” Jesus also stated: “Whatever it is that you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in connection with the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.” (John 14:6, 13, 14) We can be confident of Jehovah’s willingness to hear prayers offered in Jesus’ name. Concerning Jesus, the Bible says: “He is able also to save completely those who are approaching God through him, because he is always alive to plead [“be interceding,” footnote] for them.”—Hebrews 7:25.

    If Jesus is willing to intercede in our behalf, why are “saints” often invoked in prayer by worshipers in Christendom? In his book The Age of Faith, historian Will Durant traces the origin of this practice. While noting that Almighty God was feared and Jesus seemed more accessible, Durant states: “One hardly ventured to speak to [Jesus] face to face after so thoroughly ignoring His Beatitudes. It seemed wiser to lay one’s prayer before a saint certified by canonization to be in heaven, and to beg his or her intercession with Christ.” Are these concerns justified?

    The Bible teaches us that through Jesus we can have “freeness of speech and an approach with confidence” in prayer to God. (Ephesians 3:11, 12) Almighty God is not too distant or removed from mankind to hear our prayers. The psalmist David confidently prayed: “O Hearer of prayer, even to you people of all flesh will come.” (Psalm 65:2) Rather than transmitting power through the relics of deceased “saints,” Jehovah pours out his holy spirit upon those asking for it in faith. Jesus reasoned: “If you, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more so will the Father in heaven give holy spirit to those asking him!”—Luke 11:13.

    The Role of the Holy Ones

    The holy ones to whom Paul’s letters were written died centuries ago and, in time, were to receive “the crown of life,” a resurrection to heaven. (Revelation 2:10) Worshipers of Jehovah God realize that veneration of these true saints is unscriptural and cannot bring protection from sickness, natural disasters, economic instability, old age, or death.

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