Question:  You say many teachings in the Catholic Church are unbiblical.  For example, the adoration of Mary, mother of Jesus.  Surely recent Marian apparitions and bleeding/weeping statues of Mary and Jesus in various parts of the world (like Madugorje, and Naju) are signs from God and cannot be dismissed as false off-hand.  What about Fatima and Lourdes?  Rosary praying is always encouraged, repentance urged by the Blessed Virgin at these places, through the Visionaries.  Surely God won’t use an unbiblical (un-Christian) means to reach to the world.

            Your views, please.

            Lydia

Answer:  Dear Lydia,

            When we use the term “unbiblical” we do not necessarily equate it with un-Christian.  We answer questions based upon the Bible.  We do our best to confine our comments to the Bible.  Indeed, the practice you mention below are without biblical authority or proof.  What God does or does not do, how He does it, what His will for us individually can be, etc., can be highly subjective interpretations.  We try to remain within biblical revelation in the answers we give.

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht