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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re asking saints to intercede - Why not just go right to the top?[/quote]

Saints led holy lives and are examples for the church.  They are human. They are more approachable.[/quote]
This is a staggering statement. Christ is God made man. He came to Earth to identify with us and us with Him. Hebrews 4:15 says he is our great high priest who is able "to sympathize with our weaknesses." Christ is imminently approachable, and dead people are not approachable at all.

[b]This Catholic insistence on praying to dead people, or however you want to term it, is extremely confounding[/b]. It seems that you have no real faith in Christ is you need dead saints -- who all had their own sins to deal with -- to "help you out."[/quote]

Confounding to you.  Not to practicing Catholics.

So don't convert to Catholicism.  Easy-peasy![/quote]

Exactly.  Catholics -- especially those taught Catholism from birth and coming from a long line of Catholics, have no trouble with these concepts.  It's completely cultural and seems quite normal if you've heard it all your life and everyone around you believes it too.  It's only outsiders who have trouble understanding[/quote]

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