Prayer to Saints and Protestant Interpretation

Robert: What other scriptures are needed than the one where Jesus tells us how to pray? Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their [...]

Prayers to Mary…

Q. I understand that ‘praying’ to Mary and the saints has to do with asking them to ask God things for you, what I do not understand is how this is better than directly asking God? A. I don’t know. It just is. Our Lord likes for us to pray for one another. If we [...]

Are Catholics Lost?

Comment: It is amazing to me how lost Catholics are. Nothing but repetition and useless prayers. Doing things with no soul, just for the sake of doing them. BFHU: Wow! How are you able to judge the hearts of Catholics? “ I Cor: 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, [...]

The Saints, not Transcendent, Can’t Hear Your Prayers

JD: Being in Heaven does not cause people to become transcendent. They do not cease to pass through time one moment at a time and begin to exist in all time simultaneously as God does. BFHU: I find it interesting that you do not want to believe me when I say that the Saints are [...]

Mary and the Saints are not Omnipresent

Karine,  Mary and the saints are not omniscient or omnipresent-they are not God! So they cannot hear every catholic that are praying…oups, sorry, asking intercessory prayer for them! BFHU:  You are right. They, in their humanity alone, could never hear all the prayer requests that they get. But with God all things are possible. Karine,   [...]

Why Do You Always Ask Protestants for Scripture Support?

Mark: In many of the reply’s I have read on your site, I have seen “scripture support please” many times in your response to someone’s post. BFHU: I often ask Protestants to support their assertions with scripture b/c they are blind to the fact that, just like Catholics, many of the things they believe and [...]

Why Not Just Pray to Jesus?

Mark: Why would God provide the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus Christ and then convolute the process for which mankind should understand this sacrifice by allowing prayers to Mary? BFHU: “Praying to Mary” which is really asking her for her intercession does not in any way convolute the sacrifice of Jesus. Just as we ask friends [...]

Where do Catholics get this stuff?

Q.Where did Christ: Teach us to erect statues of His mom and make beaded necklaces to hold and pray to His mom with? Teach us to erect statues of dead people, great servants of God or not, and put them in our churches? BFHU: But where in Scripture is it forbidden? Statues and pictures were [...]

Prayers to the Dead Are Forbidden in Scripture? WHERE?

ADAM: praying to the dead (saint or not) is forbidden in scripture. BFHU: Where does scripture actually say that “praying to the dead is forbidden“? Asking a dead person for direction is DIVINATION! This is what is condemned in the Deut. 18 passage. Divination is NOT in any way comparable to the request for intercessory [...]

I Was Taught to Pray to Mary as a Catholic Child

WG: I used to be a catholic until I started to read the Bible . BFHU: Do you know how you came to have a Bible? The Catholic Church. Even Martin Luther admitted this. As a catholic child I was taught to PRAY to Mary and the other saints . This practise still goes on [...]