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'''[[Mediation]]''' is frequently confused with '''[[Intercession of the saints|intercession]]''', and the two terms are often erroneously regarded as [[synonym]]s in standard [[thesaurus]]es<ref>See [https://www.powerthesaurus.org/mediation/synonyms '''mediation synonyms''' - Power Thesaurus (powerthesaurus.org)] and [https://www.powerthesaurus.org/intercession/synonyms '''intercession synonyms''' - Power Thesaurus (powerthesaurus.org)].</ref>. In the Bible St. Paul says{{cquote|I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, ''and'' giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and ''for'' all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this ''is'' good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour. <br>(1 Timothy 2:1-3 KJV <ref>See also Jeremiah 7:16; 36:25; Romans 8:26-27; 11:2</ref>)}}

'''[[Mediation]]''' is frequently confused with '''[[Intercession of the saints|intercession]]''', and the two terms are often erroneously regarded as [[synonym]]s in standard [[thesaurus]]es<ref>See [https://www.powerthesaurus.org/mediation/synonyms '''mediation synonyms''' - Power Thesaurus (powerthesaurus.org)] and [https://www.powerthesaurus.org/intercession/synonyms '''intercession synonyms''' - Power Thesaurus (powerthesaurus.org)].</ref>. In the Bible St. Paul says{{cquote|I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, ''and'' giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and ''for'' all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this ''is'' good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour. <br>(1 Timothy 2:1-3 KJV <ref>See also Jeremiah 7:16; 36:25; Romans 8:26-27; 11:2</ref>)}}

St. Paul says in the same place{{cquote|For ''there is'' one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. <br>(1 Timothy 2:5-6 KJV <ref>See also Isaiah 53:12; Romans 8:34 Galatians 3:19-20; Hebrews 7:25; 8:6; 9:15; 12:24</ref>)}} [[Protestant]] [[Christian]]s, [[Evangelical Christianity|Evangelicals]], [[Fundamentalism|Fundamentalists]] and others object to the [[Catholic]] and [[Orthodox]] doctrine of the '''[[intercession of the saints]]''' because they take intercession to be the same as mediation. Catholics doctrinally understand the mediatory ministry of Mary to be subordinate to Christ's mediation, her intercession for us on our behalf to Jesus her son and Lord.<ref>[http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/2005/04/mary-mediatrix-ii/ Mary, Mediatrix, Published on April 9, 2005 by Saint John Paul II in Papal Excerpts - Mother of All Peoples de Maria Numquam Satis Amoris (motherofallpeoples.com)] "''Mary’s maternal mediation does not obscure the unique and perfect mediation of Christ. ''"</ref>

St. Paul says in the same place{{cquote|For ''there is'' one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. <br>(1 Timothy 2:5-6 KJV <ref>See also Isaiah 53:12; Romans 8:34 Galatians 3:19-20; Hebrews 7:25; 8:6; 9:15; 12:24</ref>)}}Romans says{{cquote|the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what ''is'' the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to ''the will'' of God.... Who ''is'' he that condemneth? ''It is'' Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.<ref>Romans 8:26-27 and 34</ref>}}Hebrews says{{cquote|Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. <ref>Hebrews 7:25</ref>}}There is no contradiction here with Paul's exhorting of others to make intercession for all men. Clearly, their intercession does not imply rejection of Christ as intercessor and mediator between God and men. And "God is not God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him." Luke 20:38. All this is taken as scriptural support of the doctrine that Mary is alive in heaven intercessing as a mediator with and in Jesus to God.

 

[[Protestant]] [[Christian]]s, [[Evangelical Christianity|Evangelicals]], [[Fundamentalism|Fundamentalists]] and others object to the [[Catholic]] and [[Orthodox]] doctrine of the '''[[intercession of the saints]]''' because they take intercession to be the same as mediation. Catholics doctrinally understand the mediatory ministry of Mary to be subordinate to Christ's mediation, her intercession for us on our behalf to Jesus her son and Lord.<ref>[http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/2005/04/mary-mediatrix-ii/ Mary, Mediatrix, Published on April 9, 2005 by Saint John Paul II in Papal Excerpts - Mother of All Peoples de Maria Numquam Satis Amoris (motherofallpeoples.com)] "''Mary’s maternal mediation does not obscure the unique and perfect mediation of Christ. ''"</ref>

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