Why the christian put sign of the cross when they see something OMG!
First, not all Christians actually do make the sign of the cross. Those that do use it simply as a mnemonic device to remind themselves to pray in the name of "the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." I believe nearly all people, including Muslims that I have prayed alongside in Friday prayers, have such mnemonic devices.
why Do christian pray to Mother Mary and Jesus.? Cause The both human are perfect human and born sinless.So the christian believe that why Mary and Jesus come to the world just like an angel...so that's why christian pray to the sculptureso of Mary and Jesus
Actually that isn't true. If this is your understanding of Christian prayer you have been misinformed.
The reason that Christians pray
to Jesus, and
through Mary are different questions and have completely different answers.
We pray to Jesus because we do believe that Jesus is simply the incarnation of the one Holy and Almighty God, the creator of the universe. Since Jesus is God, it makes perfect since to pray to Jesus, for it is just simple prayer to God.
As regards Mary, Christians don't really pray
to Mary, but rather pray
through Mary. (Yes, you will hear people use other language, but that is because they are being lazy and imprecise rather than speaking as correctly on this issue as they should.) I've noticed that many Muslims ask other Muslims to offer prayer (supplications) on their behalf. These prayers are not offerings of worship, but are asking for God's help. Christians too offer these types of prayers. Whereas Muslims have two different names for them, Christians often (not always) just use the term "prayer" to cover all sorts of prayers be they petitions, supplications, adoration, praise, or worship. And most certainly Christians, not less than Muslims, we make prayers of supplication seeking help.
In addition to praying for myself, sometimes I might ask a neighbor, a friend, a brother, another Christian, to pray for me when dealing with a particular crisis or problem in my life. I think you understand that taking these things to others and asking them to join me in these prayers of supplication is not worship. But we ask others to join us because the believe that the prayers of a righteous man can aid much. And somehow people sense that a corrollary to this is that the more people you ask to pray for you the better chance of being heard one's prayer has. (I'm not sure that is true, but as others say, it couldn't hurt.)
Anyway, it is also helpful to understand that many Christains believe that those who belong to God, enter into eternity with him not at some distant day of future judgment, but enter into eternity with God at the moment of their passing. And still other Christians believe that some people may have to spend some time in purgatory being purified of their sins before being able to enter into paradise with God, but over time this would be accomplished for the more righteous rather quickly and for the less righteouss more slowly but eventually. Certianly, Mary is viewed as one of the more righteous people who ever lived, but she is just viewed as a person. (When Catholics speak of her as the Mother of God, they don't mean that she is divine, they are only speaking of her role as having given birth to Jesus who was the incarnation of God come among us.) But I get ahead of myself.
As I might ask a friend to pray for me now, so too I might ask a friend who is in heaven to pray for me. This makes perfect sense when one remembers that people's lives don't end at death, but continue in the spiritual realm (a realm that is just as real as the physical world and one in which God abides). Therefore, why not continue to ask those persons to pray for us once they have entered into the spiritual realm? Those who see Mary as being especially close to Jesus think that Jesus might be more inclined to listen to a request made on our behalf from his mother than from us directly. It is for this reason that some (certainly not all) Christians pray
through Mary, asking her to inteceede on their behalf, adding her own supplications along with those that they themselves are offering. Of course, there are many Christians who don't bother to pray
through Mary or any other pesons, but take all of their petitions and prayers of supplication directly to God themselves.
So the christian making Mother mary is mother of god and jesus is son of God?
I just addressed this above. Mary is the mother of God not as a divine being, but only as the consequence of having been the mother of Jesus who we do understand to be Immanuel (i.e. God with us).
To say that Jesus is the Son of God is something completely different. It doesn't have anything to do with biology at all. It is a title that already existed for God's Messiah even before Jesus was born. Since Jesus is the Messiah (even Muslims admit this), then it is appropriate to call him "the Son of God". It is also appropriate to call him "the Son of Man" as this too was another title for the Messiah. And the terms "the Son of Man" and "the Son of God" are not contradictory, rather they speak to two different, but simultaneously true aspects of Jesus nature. Not that he was the biological progeny of either God or all of mankind at once, but that he has the hypostatic union of both the divine nature and human nature complete in one person. Something that would not work in nature, but then we are dealing with the supernatural when we are dealing with God, so that is no longer a problem except for those who minds cannot think of heavenly things but only in earthly terms.
Here the quotes of the bible to be considered:
a) Begotten son of god
- Jesus said to be the only begotten son of God(John 3:18)
While some well-known English versions of the Bible use the term "begotten" to translate the Greek in which this was originally written, there are other (I believe better) translations. One of those is NIV which renders the verse as follows: "Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son." The actual word being translated is μονογενους the connotation of which again has nothing to do with biology (which is why I don't prefer the term "only begotten" as I think people misunderstand it too easily) but speaks of uniqueness. And indeed Jesus was truly unique in his person.
μονογενους happens to also be the word used in other passages such as "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14), and "No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known" (John 1:18) which again speak of the uniqueness (not the paternity) of Jesus.
But one of the more amazing places in which the term μονογενους is used is in Hebrews 11:17 to speak of Isaac as the μονογενους of Abraham. Well as any good Muslim would know, Isaac is NOT the only begotten son of Abraham. Isaac has an older brother, Ishmael. So "only begotten" is NOT the best translation for μονογενους. That is why I suggest the concept of "uniqueness" is a better understanding of what is trying to be communicated by that term, for indeed Isaac was unique the son of the promise that God made to Abraham when God told Abraham that Sarah would give him a son.
- About David the bible says" The lord has said unto me. Thou art my son, this day have i begotten thee(psalm2:3)
Again, you see the concept of "uniqueness" is more appropriate here than is biological progeny.
b) Son of God
- Thus says the lord that, israel is my son even my first born(exodus 4:22)
Another case in which an English phrase needs to be understood in terms of the connotations involved in the original language. Here God is speaking in figurative language to Moses.
c) God as husband
-For thy Maker is thy husband; the Lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy one of Israel.(isaiah 54:5)
- The Church is known as the Bride of Christ
Again it is figurative language, the nature of the relationship between Christ and his church is a model for the type of relationship a husband and wife should have. That is Christ gave his life for the church (or its people anyway) and the church should be submissive to Christ in the way brides of that era were expected to be submissive to their husbands.
God Bless
