Is it Wrong to Pray to Mother Mary?

[@divineregala4543]

As a catholic we never bring or read bible in our church. We just keep repeating prayers. Vowing and kneeling to different statues and rosary for hours. I started reading bible and taking notes. I am now a new person. Thank you Jesus for coming into my life.

[@alicemattsen2208]

@@divineregala4543 amen!

[@miltonmuisyo539]

@@divineregala4543 Holy scripture is true word of God Remain true to it's teaching

[@troyguthrie9235]

Jesus said; I am the way, the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father but through me.. 🙏🙏

[@prairiemark4084]

That is a very Catholic verse. I hear it at Catholic Mass a lot.

[@Fernscape]

That is a fact and Love one and another as I have loved you

[@margueriterussell7310]

Tiff,,I prayed the sinners prayer with you.And I know,I am saved. Bless you.

[@arulraj3076]

Amen !, Brother Tiff Shuttleworth I am an ex-Roman Catholic coming from the Far East. Your right, 100 percent. PRAISE YESHUA OUR COMING LORD SOON !

[@joanjarrette8691]

Jesus did not tell you to change his name, evil man did, who is deceived by Satan, who fears the powerful name of Jesus which is a Hebrew name not English...Bible clearing tells you that you are not to add or take away even one little dot...The demons tremble at the name Jesus, Jesus is the name above all names, you cannot go to heaven with this man made name yeshua..stop following what some man td you and listen to what God has told you..Repent for your evil sin...

[@ngahere26456]

​@@joanjarrette8691Yeshua is the Hebrew Name for the Son of God" given by Himself.. the name Jesus is not of any spoken language, but has been adopted by the Greeks and thier own interpretation of the name... then Christ was added on..Man-Made Name.. Hope God forgives you for unclaiming what he has given

[@JamilMatalim]

Just yesterday I heard from one of your Bible studies, you was saying like this "when God sees a sincere and hungry heart who desires to know God and His word, He will send somebody to instruct you". and I am astonished by the fact that I'm just starting to pray the Hail Mary rosary's prayer today and then I saw that you've just upload this about Mother Mary the same day.. I don't know what to says.. I'm speechless, thank you lord Jesus for sending someone like you to an unworthy person like me.

[@cherylross393]

Mary is a blessed virgin but like angel's we praise and honor Jesus first. She played the part of the saviors earthly mother.She is to be honored as a precious lady and mother of God.I don't pray to Mary because she didn't save my sins at calvary.

[@JamilMatalim]

@@cherylross393 there's nothing I can do about it because I was baptised in a Catholic church and I"m reading and only have a Catholic prayer book since I don't do well at spontaneous prayer just yet.

[@bridgethinds5157]

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[@michelleh4719]

He is saying to you, put me first. Mary was a beautiful favored woman and probably holds a high place in heaven. I don’t know, but we are not to pray to her ever. It is a sin. our God is a jealous God and we are not ever to go to a human for forgiveness. We can go confess to our brothers and sisters to help us get in alignment with God’s word, but we are never too confess to them or honor them above God.

[@kennethcote8198]

We Catholics are NOT praying to Mary when resiting the Hail Mary. We are just asking her to pray for us. Same as having people in your Bible Study group to pray for one another.

[@alicemattsen2208]

I hope you see this comment. I was in a convent for 2 years. I had started reading my Bible on my own. My parents said the church forbade me to do so because I can misinterpret it. Then I went to a special church service with my parents right after I left the convent because I couldn’t sign that I believed Popes were infallible when it came to spiritual matters. At the event I received the Holy Spirit and then the priest went up into the pulpit and began to teach on wearing a special necklace with the image of Mary on it and saying the rosary daily. Immediately the Holy Spirit told me to not pray to anyone but to God my Heavenly Father in Jesus’s name! I asked in my mind how this priest could possibly be used of God to bless me and I receive the Holy Spirit then teach such a lie. He said He could use anyone at anytime to perform His plan. Wow!

[@jamesbarrett3889]

Prayer is a form of worship. Worship God only.

[@111First]

@jamesbarrett3889....your comment speaks everthing. Will continue to worship in Jesus name only. Thank You.

[@prairiemark4084]

@@111First One definition of prayer is making a request, especially in old English. It is almost like you are eager to support a half truth. It is a stretch to try to make a logical syllogism out of that. " Prayer is worship. Worship only God. Therefor Catholics are committing idolatry when they request Mary to pray for us." It is not logical at all and has a false premise. Not all prayer is worship as in worship of God. We can make a request to humans. That is one form of prayer. I sympathize with you greatly because that is what I was taught to do as a Fundamentalist Christian. But it caused me to commit the sin of bearing false witness against some brethren. Beware of that sin.

[@111First]

@@prairiemark4084 Mary is not with us anymore. She can't pray for us. Jesus Christ alone is our mediator/intercessor.

[@prairiemark4084]

@@111First Yet St Paul urges us to be intercessors (a kind of mediator) by praying for others. I Tim 2:1-2. Actually when I was a Fundamentalist and being taught to deal with Catholics I was told to just quote part of I Tim 2:5&6. The Apostles Paul says that there is only one Mediator Between God and man WHO GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR ALL. There is only one GREAT MEDIATOR who gave himself as a ransom for all. But each of us are urged to be a mediator between God and Man by praying for each other. I was taught to stop quoting the passage half way through. There is only one Mediator between God and Man.....is not the same as......There is only ONE MEDIATOR between God and Man WHO GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR MANY. It is dishonest to leave out the end of the phrase to make that passage say something the Apostle Paul did not write. But I do understand that that fits better with the theology of the Baptists and other Fundamentalists than the whole passage was it was written in scripture do. But that is what I was taught to do. And apparently you have been taught that. And the pastor making this video too. It is sad, but true.

[@prairiemark4084]

@@111First Nowhere does the Sacred Word say that Saints in Heaven cannot pray for us. The Church has believed they can from the earliest days of Christendom. We know that there was a belief that Saints on earth could make request to saints in heaven as early as the 1st Century. St John mentions it in Revelations 18. vs 20. The saints on earth, the captains in the ships and the sailors cried out to the Saints, and Apostles and Prophets in Heaven and actually made a request to them. They were asked to rejoice over the Fall of Babylon. There is another interesting verse in Revellation 8:5. Where the the saints in heaven were recieving the prayers of the Saints on earth and were passing them on to God. But evangelicals don't usually deal with scriptures that deal with prayers being directed from Saints on Earth through Saints in heaven. If they do deal with verses like this, it is only to deny them and try to explain them away. When I was a Fundamentalist, my religious tradition seemed to trump the meaning of the Words of the Sacred Word. Yet I was taught to belittle other Christians who did take them seriously and form their doctrinal system around what the Scripture said and what the earliest Christians believed. Recently invented doctrines are not usually what the Good Lord prefers.

[@phuticirca6159]

Thank you so much Evangelist Tiff. I am a catholic and I understood everything. Your teachings were loud and clear. God bless you. Only Jesus is our mediator to God not his mother.🙏🙏🙏❤

[@floydmayes4924]

I'm curious why you still say that you're a Catholic?

[@sulongenjop7436]

So you've never prayed for others???? But God the Father used Mary as mediator to conceive a son!😂

[@Lightning77305]

100% right.

[@kevinj2412]

@@sulongenjop7436 prayed for others yes, but not to others. So praying to Mary is a waste of time and so is your comment.

[@prairiemark4084]

@@kevinj2412 Have you ever had anyone request you to pray for someone? That is a better parallel to what happens when we request Mary to pray for us now and at the hour of our death. A prayer can be just a request. It is not always directed to the Deity. Catholics believe Mary is a human, a created being, not a God. And not to be worshiped as a God. That is a grave sin to worship a human as a god or God. Most evangelicals are not taught what Catholics believe. I was taught a lot of lies in Church when I was a Protestant, especially about what Catholics believe. God does not like lies, even if they are used to propagate what we believe to be true.

[@mikeabbot4616]

I was thinking about praying to Mary for intercession until I saw this video. Thanks, Tiff. Christ is Lord and King.

[@prairiemark4084]

I was and evangelical for the first 50 years of my life. And one of the things that compelled me to leave that tradition was the dishonest way they dealt with intercession. They like to quote from I Tim 2:4......"There is but one Mediator between God and man..." I was taught to use that verse to prove Catholics were wrong on intercession, but let us look at the end of the verse. Compare the shortened phrase quoted by the Evangelicals "There is but one Mediator between God and man" with the important way the Scripture presents it. "There is but one Mediator between God and man......who gave his life as a ransom for all.." St Paul says there is but one great Mediator who gave his life as a ransom for all. But not in vs 2....just a few verses above that vs 4, Paul not only allows humans to make intercessions to God for others. He actually "urges" us to do that. Beware of smooth sounding speakers who do not present the Word of God honestly. They will fool you sometimes. The Bible does contain examples of Saints on Earth making requests to Saints in heaven, but you are unlikely to hear them mentioned in a so called "Bible Church." Revelation 18:20 records that some Saints on Earth....the captain and the sailors actually made requests to Saints in Heaven (these were Apostles, Prophets and Saints). The Saints on earth had a request for Saints in heaven.....that they rejoice over the Fall of Babylon. O.T. Jews also prayed to the departed Saints. And in Revelation 8:5, it is recorded that Saints in Heaved (the Elders) received the prayers of the Saints on Earth and apparently passed them on to God. The Traditions of the Catholic Church are the oldest traditions and they are Biblical Traditions. Beware of those who select scriptures and leave out important parts of verse, or who just cherry pick the verses that seem to support their doctrinal traditions and ignore Scriptures that teach against their favorite beliefs. God bless you on your journey to discover the true Historic Christianity. Don't settle for a recently invented revised version of Christianity.

[@williamca7067]

You can pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary … Our Lady of Fatima

[@mikeabbot4616]

@@williamca7067 You could, but understand the answered prayer comes from GOD not Mary.

[@williamca7067]

@@mikeabbot4616 you can pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary … the Blessed mother brings you to Jesus … I am a Roman Catholic. I went 12 years to Roman Catholic school … I said from the start Our Lady Of Fatima … all true and documented She appeared to three children in Fatima, Portugal … she made predictions. World War I would come to an end. World War II was going to happen … what was significant about that apparition in 1917 was the Miracle of The Sun google it there was eyewitnesses documentary all true there was even a movie based upon this apparition

[@tydelahoussaye]

Tiff you may not see this but thank your sir for your honest preaching. I wish every pastor would teach straight out the Bible like this. I enjoy feel good messages but I also want to be humbled I want to know right from wrong everyday. You sir you preach that. I may never meet you but I trust you and your preachings, thank you sir seriosuly thank you for what you do for the lord. May the lord bless you and your family. Thank you and I love you Mr. Tiff

[@WillieMonden]

I Prayed with you today, thank you so much for all your teachings and BIBLE lessons. You are a great teacher and MAN OF GOD.. GOD BLESS YOU❤️🙏

[@miltonmuisyo539]

All prayers to our Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ the only Mediator between Man and God To our only one True God be Glory and honor and praises

[@GloriaArreola-mu5hc]

Thank You Jesus for giving us the privilege to come to the Father in Prayer 🙏❤

[@elsavandermerwe1191]

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE STANDARD FOR MY LIFE.

[@tessyfranklin3428]

Thank you pastor for this precious message. I can now share this with my catholic siblings and friends.

[@annahmotsa7182]

I wish the Holy Spirit woukd show the Catholics who we should pray to..Thanku Evangelist.. I always enjoy your teachings.. especially that u always start with prayer ..end in prayer..and that youbteach us with love..God bless you.❤❤❤.. Im listening fro Swaziland

[@suzanne9345]

Excellent teaching straight from the bible, the words of God. We used to recite the Hail Mary when I was in a convent school. We have to bring this knowledge to our loved ones and friends. My sister still pray the rosary as well. Thank you, brother Tiff. God bless you.❤🙏🙏✝️

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

so have you shown your sister the Bible verses that instruct us NOT to pray or honor anyone except Christ? ie 1 Tim 2:5?? ONE mediator??? which is NOT mary?

[@suzanne9345]

@@Lauren-vd4qe I have told her not to pray to Mary, rosary etc. Have sent her many bible verses but can’t remember 1 Timothy 2:5. Thanks for bringing this bible verse to me. I have told her about being born again and 1 Timothy 1:7 because she has a lot of fear. Thank you and God bless you.❤️🙏🙏

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@@suzanne9345 and what was her response? usually when u tell them dont pray to mary or do the bead thing, they say oh we dont pray to her we just honor her, etc and they DONT SEE that its a deception deviance from the devil to turn pples focus OFF Christ and put the emphasis focus on someone/something else....

[@judygarnet425]

I Prayed with you and Lord Jesus Christ is my Savior ! I enjoy listening to you! Im Lutheran and in our denomination we dont pray to saints or Mother Mary ! My Dad always said that you only pray to our Father in Heaven in the Name of Lord Jesus Christ , and this is how Ive been praying all my life! I'm always watching your pod cast!!! Its always interesting!

[@rosemaryramires]

Tiff I prayed w/u today. Thank you paster. I love the Lord and am thankfull He loves me . Jesus is my way , my truth , my life and my Savior . Amen

[@yuetmengkhoo1766]

Amen and thank you for your wonderful teaching with all the relevant verses🙏

[@pennythebus3972]

Amen Paster Tiff. You make it so easy to get to know our bible and to pray. Thankyou Jesus for people like our brother Tiff bless him abundantly to reach more people. Amen ❤

[@lindataylor4055]

I love Friday because I know I will be able to listen to a new teaching.. he always teaches the Bible all the way through his teaching and such a great communicator.. love his archive videos to… ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@elizabethdevicente3363]

Praise The Lord 🙌🏻 Bro. Tiff you have preached it! In Truth and in the love of Christ! She was chosen by Christ alone amen 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@ericrn8328]

Tiff, I prayed with you today, my heart and soul is sincere. I struggle with my sins and I want to do the thing and live the way the Lord wants me to live. I love your seminars and the way you present the word is absolutely marvelous and very inspiring. Thank you for all you do.

[@melissagutierrez4556]

I prayed with you today, Tiff. It was so nice to hear your explanation of every verse you read…I thank God for you and I thank Jesus for all His love. God bless you🙏

[@SarahCarey-x3f]

Thankyou pastor jesus is our only way to God through prayer 🙏

[@r.s.lemusu8309]

Perfect and on point teaching Evangelist Tiff about this subject and all Bible based answers my heart is for the Catholic people especially i have a lot of friends at work, my brithers wife and family are all come away from Catholics and got saved and born again into the family of God .. so grateful for this teaching Pastor Tiff S God must be glorified Amen Bless you and family and the Work of God ❤🥰from NZ🇳🇿

[@elsavandermerwe1191]

WORSHIP THE LORD GOD AND Serve only The Lord God.

[@jbrownTrex]

Very clear, concise, to the point. With compassion to those needing this message. Thank you

[@marymorris6329]

Thank you for being honest. Hearing the truth, repent, and respond

[@rockabillymama]

I prayed with you today tiff with all my heart ❤️

[@lordgdz]

I like this Bible study; only that, when there are questions like these, I suggest less skirting and precisely providing the answer. Thank you for the great work the Lord is using you to do.

[@BanardNandwa]

I prayed the prayer of salvation

[@prairiemark4084]

Which part of Scripture did you find the words of the "prayer of salvation?"

[@teresalawrence4175]

Thank you for sharing this WORD OF TRUTH I was brought up catholic but in my old age saved over 40 years I had the same questions in my heart it’s not by chance I came across this I believe it came by divine appointment God bless you from Scotland United Kingdom 🙏🙏🙏

[@rajkumarisen3867]

Amen! True teaching from the word of God! Praise lord amen

[@zumbalenaify]

Pastor Tiff thank you for this clear explanation about this topic. I always like to follow your bible teachings because it's simple and all based in the bible.

[@elsiemcneill9654]

Thanku Tiff,God bless & keep u so u will continue to open the Word of God to us & teach us the truth that is in His word alone

[@tomguertin7713]

Very well spoken Tiff. Thank you for your words and the sacred words from the Good Book of God.

[@aleksabroad]

I wonder why Pastor Tiff gave that disclaimer about divisiveness, etc. Yes there are some things that might be a bit hard to understand in the Bible, but nowhere does it say we should pray to Marry, as in that just makes absolutely no sense, we have Jesus, and Jesus is a direct line to God, why would folks even come up with an idea to pray to Marry? We dont pray to Mosses, we dont pray to Noah, Isaiah, etc

[@RandomStuff-i4i]

Catholics pray the rosary to ask mary to intervene for them to get permission from Jesus to forgive their sins. They use mary as the middle person to get to Jesus. Thats not what Jesus said.

[@altasaunders8605]

Yes. She was just a normal human being blessed by God and chosen to be the vehicle to perform her destiny to bring God in human form into this world

[@bryguy8203]

Well said. The God-man Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God and son of man(Mary's ministry fulfilled) and He is the only Way Holy God and sinful mankind can get back together after The Fall, for all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. Forgiveness is a Person, He alone is the Resurrection and the Life. God Bless.

[@oceanlbi]

thank you for saying it. I was raised catholic - thank God I am now aware of the false doctrines they teach. Not only should we not pray to Mary or saints but they teach that she was assumed into heaven - there is no biblical record of this, it is totally "made up". She is the vessel God used to bring Jesus into the world in human form. That's all. She is not sinless, she was not assumed into heaven and we definitely shouldn't pray to her or any other saint. The bible is clear - all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Yet the catholic hierarchy teaches she was sinless - this is blasphemous to make a human on equal footing with God. Outrageous. It's a shame so many catholics just blindly follow without checking the bible to see if these things are true.

[@siew-engtan1997]

God bless you for your clear teaching from God’s Word!🙏👍

[@tenderheart-01]

I feel as if God does not accept me! My biggest problem is I DO NOT know how to pray at all!! This keeps me from praying because I'm ashamed! Today, you said it does no good at all, nor does God want us to repeat a prayer! If I am saved, why can't I pray!?? Please help me with this problem that weighs so very heavy on my heart! I am 76 years old, and I am quickly running out of time Thank you, kind Sir!! Sincerely, Marylou 🙏❤️

[@donnamealor1155]

@tenderheart I know I'm not the pastor and I'm not the 1 you asked. But that's the enemy trying to tell you lies about praying, God definitely wants his children to pray and talk to him. He wants a relationship with us. I feel the same as you sometimes but I know that is the enemy talking. Please don't be ashamed to pray to our Father talk to him as you would your best friend cause that's what he is. You absolutely can pray God knows your heart. Listen again to some of Pastor Tiff preaching on this subject. God so wants to hear from us. Praise him for who he is and what he's done. And give him your trouble he doesn't want us to carry that. Im 62 and pray to God all the time. Sometimes I just sing praises to him. And even though he knows I tell him how much I love him and praise his name. Praying for you. Just sending this to you from another Christian that the devil tries to use. Keep PTL he hears you.

[@tenderheart-01]

@donnamealor1155 Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my question!! You have such a good heart to care and try to help. I feel like somehow, some way, something must not be right for me to struggle so much! Then, every once in a while, I start to pray, and my heart just opens up and i t just pours out, and it feels so good and I am so happy! Then, the next time, it's right back to the same prayer! I know you are right about the devil, but I apparently can't shake him! I have even told them to leave me in the name of Jesus, to get out! But next then there they are again! I just want to feel right with God any know he is proud of me! But really, thank you so very much because you have helped me, and May God Bless you sweet lady!! Sincerely Marylou🙏❤️

[@heisenberg8346]

I wish you would teach on Catholic's going into a box and confessing their sins to man

[@maxineloftis9387]

So glad to be listening today, missed it yesterday.

[@susanaquino3732]

I am always so blessed hearing the word of God from this Pastor

[@gloewart9520]

A great explanation Pastor Tiff Love your teachings ❤

[@victoriapablito5780]

Thank you very much Pastor Tiff. I learned so much today...your explanation is very biblical..very clear that Mary, the mother of Jesus is not given any authority as a mediatrix bet. God and man. I was raised a catholic. This is really my problem. Always praying to Mary. Now i know the Truth and the Truth sets me free. Thank you Pastor Tiff. God bless your ministry.

[@rubenpequeno6369]

Amen, thank you Jesus Christ for this message, and bless your servant,

[@mariedawson2207]

Amen, God’s Word is all TRUTH 🙌🙏❤️

[@MaryAnnGutierrez-k8w]

Tiff now i know Jesus is the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through him…

[@darlenejohnson3879]

Thou shall have no other gods! We are to worship only our Creator, our Father God

[@julietamorales8601]

Through Jesus CHRIST, GOD's only begotten SON.

[@stevewilliams2565]

It was rather interesting. My elderly catholic friends had asked me to take them to Mass as their taxi mobile guy had the flu. I have been many times to their mass when they needed a driver. I pulled up this morning at the car park to the retirement home. Turned my phone on and the title of this message was highlighted : Is it right to pray to Mother Mary . Interesting timing .. I do though admire their devotion over a lifetime to attending Mass .

[@bethdavis6863]

Their devotion guarantees them nothing if they aren’t obeying God’s Word.

[@stevewilliams2565]

Only God judges. Who are we to judge .. Many pentecostals dont practice what they believe either . For we shall all appear before the judgment seat and give an account of ourselves whether Good or Evil. 2 Cor 5:10

[@Nana_Mack]

Thank you God for you preaching the word of God in our country and around the world

[@DollyOliphant]

Today I prayed the sinner's prayer.

[@elizabethtalley2931]

Thank you,Bro Tiff,for this wonderful message!

[@scottellisneal]

We prayed with you today

[@ginettecourtois7129]

Absolutely Mary is mere human Prayers are to God only in Jesus name.

[@user-ms9hg9jw7r]

I have been raised Catholic and really appreciate hearing this. I do want to say as there our many statues of Holy Saints in our churches I have never felt like I was praying to or honoring statues. I always considered them as examples of people who have struggled and yet followed God. No more than a picture.

[@royjoseph5638]

Tiff I thank for teachings....

[@berniefynn6623]

Mary is in the grave with the rest of us, asleep as Jesus says, waiting for Jesus to return to resurrect his saints to live forever in his Kingdom on earth.

[@vijayramaniah4670]

I heard the video for more than 12 minutes and found that you were no where around what the thumb said. I almost subscribed to your channel

[@tonynwajogu4557]

Yes there is wrong to pray through mother mary

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

1 Tim 2:5

[@RuthSamuels-q8x]

It really hurts me to see how dilligent my Catholic friends are attending mass and following this dogma. I pray, through Jesus, that God will intervene and change their mindset❤

[@joniswinton7350]

Only Jesus

[@charlessassoon2989]

My Dear Brother Tiff my name is Charles Sassoon. I am a messianic Jew, Christian and Catholic, living in Kolkata, India. I enjoy your beautiful teachings and always look forward to your prophetic messages. However, with due respect to your sharing on Mother Mary, may I kindly remind you that'we believe as per the Dogmas that because of her purity and great faith and suffering, seeing her Son, our Blessed Lord Jesus due on the Cross, she was assumed into heaven and Jesus came with his angels to take her. He never allowed her to be buried. Another digma is that she is crowned Queen of heaven and earth and Queen of the angels and saints. You can see from all her appearances to children and so many others that she is the greatest Ambassador from heaven and in all her messages she has pleaded for all to turn to get Son, our Lord Jesus. The Rosary is one of the most powerful ways to pray. In fact all the mysteries prayed are the Word of God. She bears her Immaculate Heart for all humanity and many have been saved. There is so much to talk about her. I urge you with all my heart to rethink, and you may look into all her apparations which are absolutely true, to know that she IS the Mother of the Church and our Mother too. God bless you and all that I have put across is with all humility and love. Thank you Charles Sassoon, Kolkata, India.

[@kennethgregory1076]

The disciples asked Jesus teach us to pray Jesus said our father who art in heaven hallowed be your name give us this day our daily bread and forgive us of our trespass as we forgive them lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one for thin is the kingdom the power and glory for ever and ever AMEN

[@vassoccaloviras6630]

I have seen two people who gave a testimony that one having an accident on helicapter, Mary held this person although four of the people were killed. The other one gave a testimony that she hilled him from cancer.

[@danielrice5676]

The answer is yes

[@tracer7898]

It is crazy (indoctrination) for anyone to think otherwise

[@prairiemark4084]

When I was an evangelical I was taught about twenty "gotcha" phrases to make it sound like Catholics are wrong. Some examples of these "gotcha" phrases are: Catholics took out one of the ten commandments out of the Bible. Catholics worship Mary. Catholics believe you get a "second chance" to become God's child in purgatory. Catholics don't believe that we are saved by God's grace through Christ's work, but by our good works to earn God's favor. And so on for a dozen or so more. All of these things I was taught are deceptive. I realized this more than a decade before I became a Catholic. One of the best examples this kind of misuse of scripture was demonstrated by the speaker when he used part of a passage and stopped using the complete passage and thus changed the meaning completely. I was actually coached as a young evangelical Christian to use this passage deceptively to "prove Catholics wrong." I was taught to tell the Catholics the I Tim 2:5-6 teaches that.... "There is but one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus....." It is simple, I was told, there is only one mediator between God and Man and that is Jesus. BUT.....what was I taught to do? I was taught to stop in the middle of the phrase and leave out "who gave himself as a ransom for all." Compare these two phrases: " There is but one mediator between God and man...." compare with......"There is but one mediator between God and man who gave himself as a ransom for all. " Paul is saying there is only one Great Mediator between God and man who gave himself as a ransom for all. We can find examples of humans being mediators between God and man in scripture, Lot was mediating between God and the citizens of Sodom when he requested that some people in Sodom be spared for example. A "mediator" is a go-between." by definition. Another synonym is "intercessor." Read scripture we need to read the whole passage and not just pick part of a phrase out so it sounds like it supports our particular doctrinal tradition as the speaker did on this video. Don't leave out the ending of a passage to make it agree with your man-made doctrines. But don't leave out what comes before it either. Just before the I Tim 2:5 passage is the I Timothy 2:1&2. There Paul not only allows but urges Christians to be intercessors for others through prayers. It is not immoral, but it is urgently asked for by the Apostle. One of the the things that first started me wanting to leave the evangelicals was the "proof text mentality" where they start with their religious traditions and then go to scripture and fish for phrases to support it, even if they have to omit what came right before it and right after it. That is just intellectually dishonest. And God wants nothing to do with dishonesty in interpreting God's word. Catholics are the most Biblical of Christians. The Church preserved and organized the ancient scriptural texts. They translated them and distributed them and in God's time, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, the Church selected which writings would become the Bible. Catholics like to understand the scripture as a whole rather than in fragmented pieced. For example if we take Exodus 18 alone it can sound like all use of images in worship is wrong. But if that is true, what do we do with Exodus 25 where God commands the Isrealites to make Angels of hammered Gold and place them on the Ark of the Covenant where the priests were commanded to meet with God between them? Or what are we to make of the 3 dimensional images used in the temple. I would say be careful not to follow recently invented traditions that do not agree with the Apostles and the O.T. writers of scripture. There is only one tradition that goes back to the Apostles in one unbroken chronological line.

[@TD402dd]

I'm glad people are discussing this issue without arguing. There are bibles with some differences, but God/Jesus are always the same. Mary was a very special woman, and there has never been another like her in Biblical history. However, God, Jesus, and many other important Godly and Christian people are in the bible. Jesus never meant for his mother being the focal person of a religion. I have other issues with the rules that separate Christian religions. Those are issues the Lord himself must address, and not common Christians. Those are not our concern, just the same as the Jewish population is directly under God.

[@MerleneFrederick]

Yes it isworng

[@REDCRANE1944]

Thank You!

[@Martin-p9c3q]

All prayers go to our Lord and Savior. He is the living word, that became flesh. Read John 14:6 🎚️🙏🎚️🙏🎚️🙏🎚️🙏

[@gjp3863]

You should be able to pray to whomever or whoever you want. What is prayer but wishful thinking?

[@brendawilkie1330]

The mother Mary is not deity. Just as a catholic oriest cannot absolve you for sin, this is done by the grace of God, not man.

[@StephenStandridge]

That is why the curtain in the temple riped into when Christ died. You no longer go to a prest, but to Christ .

[@shifrahhhhh]

Pastor Tiff, just a question. How about the novena prayers and the rosary? Many of the Catholics I know pray those prayers and get their prayers answered. Like, if they ask to be healed, they get healed. Who is answering their prayers? Is it GOD? Or is Satan?

[@AnnaElizabethAllen]

Thank you for sharing

[@ironray123]

I've never heard of Tiff Spaceshuttle. Tiff is an odd first name. Is it Dutch?

[@dianabryant702]

We pray to God only

[@reinhardfuchs5181]

THANKS ! Which spirits are speaking in the name of mary worldwide ??

[@jeannettestefancik9805]

God revealed to me that the Body of Christ is One with Christ whether dead or alive remaining the only one and true Church! Yes! We worship only God!! Mary is also a member of the Body of Christ! Do we worship saints on earth when we ask them to pray for us?

[@marvsasser6351]

It appears from your teaching that we should not ask you or anyone to pray for us. Is that correct?

[@angelesdiaz8615]

YES...

[@miguelbarias-kt6gf]

Yes

[@gregorylatta8159]

All this should be obvious to true believers!

[@peggygawinski6423]

Amen

[@MonaPop36]

Amen!

[@daphnekivinen9482]

Yes!

[@StephenStandridge]

That's why going to a prest for conversation is wrong. That would make him a meater

[@jewely9757]

In a word, yes, it is wrong. We are not to talk to the dead, period. It’s also idolatry. We pray to God, in Jesus name only.

[@jimmieburwell6103]

My Catholic friends say they are not praying to Mary they are asking her to pray for them just like they ask you or I to pray for them

[@vassoccaloviras6630]

But Mary, cannot ask her son to heal or save?

[@powerhouseofprayer5]

Catholic Dont pray to Mary they ask Mary to ask her son Jesus Christ to help and have mercy on us. We ask Blessed Mary to intercede just as she did at the wedding at Cana

[@catherineblair8702]

Dear friend. Please ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding of what this Pastor just explained. It is pure scripture.

[@HoneyMorgan-w9j]

I don't pray to her mary,but i ask her to ask her sonthat she has flavor with my prayer as a mother

[@doryrebollido3948]

Amen 🙏

[@lindahart3594]

If we get new bodies to go to heaven . Will we get new bodies again when we come back to earth to live

[@robertainks1373]

Who are the saints

[@doyoubelong2Him]

It would break Mary's heart. Never did she take glory from her Son. She was a righteous virtuous woman. And Im sure God has rewarded her. But Jer. 44 should tell people how God feels abt this. Jesus said there is no other Name by which a man might be saved. Besides Jesus created all things and people so how much more is He able to help you. I hope you all just how much Jesus loves you!❤