This says zero about making the dead in Christ omniscient, so they can hear all of the Catholics on earth praying to them for help, salvation, refuge.
Yes, this is true! Without the branch, the vine can also do nothing. A vine without branches can bear no fruit. No less indispensable than the vine to the branch is branch to the vine. Such is the wonderful condescension of the grace of Jesus; just as His people are dependent on Him, He has made himself dependent on them. Without His discipes He cannot dispense His blessing to the world. It seems incredible, but it's true!
You don't "understand" because of the indoctrinations that you have been methodically taught. The RCC doesn't want you to understand that this is God's own doing, giving such high honor to those on earth whom He has called His redeemed ones. God has designed it so that as indispensable as He is to them in acquiring fruit and winning heaven, in fact they are so indispensable to Him on earth, that through them His fruit may be found. Romish, try if you will, to meditate on this until your soul bows to worship in the presence of the mystery of the perfect union between Jesus Christ and the believer alone.
Do you ever feel that If you as a Roman Catholic can begin to see the deep meaning of the truth that Jesus Christ was made to us righteousness, that it is hardly necessary then to say that you need also to have personal devotion to the "saints in Mary." You don't even need to "suggest" that "we should abide in the saints and Mary," it just oozes out of you.
John 15:4
Scripture verse please. That we will be largely UNCHANGED in heaven is a dismal thought that makes me glad I'm not Protestant. I guess glorified bodies have been overhyped, huh?
No it is outside Jesus there is no salvation. Inside your evil tree there is no salvation.
Show us where the Bible says that there is no salvation outside of the Roman Catholic Church....
Because Jesus said to abide in HIM, NOT in Mary or Peter or Paul or St. Catherine of Siena, or St. Ignatius, or any other RC saint. Catholic devotions to saints in the RCC--as JPII was to Mary--means that Catholics are "abiding" in them, and taking their eyes off Jesus Christ. I mean, look at the garbage diLiguori spews in his wretched book The Glories of Mary!
Somehow I don't perceive your love and devotion to me or to others redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb. Maybe you're using a coded vernacular I'm not familiar with.
Congratulations are due to you, for you have successfully identified the Roman Catholic church as a pseudo-Christian cult. The claim of exclusivity is common with your peers in the JW, Mormon, and SDA sects.
They have a worse problem with ex RCs, we make them see red, because we have had our eyes and ears opened and know the truth. Jesus pulled us out of the RCC and revealed His truth and their lies. We now know He is our saviour and our mediator. The dislike non RCs believers for knowing Jesus.