I saved that for next time I run into the Mary is the mother of God argument.

Needless to say Jesus is the presence of God in my life and without his intercession God would, well did I think, have to turn his face away from me and my life for quite some time.

I think the power of God is such that, God himself, who spoke this world into existence, would speak or think us all pretty much to the edges of the universe because of sin, insolence, whatever, call it what you will... whereas Jesus, not having quite the full power of God almighty, can intercede for us on our behalf with God. But if Jesus is just an inkling of God, that is opretty awesome.

One wierd experience I had while I was in the throes of first being truly saved for instance that might help explain what i am trying to get at... there was this day and I had this office in the back of my house and I was in there working... and I had the stereo playing. I was in there talking to God who I could not see but had faith that he heard me... I had done that for years and years while working... working alone all by my lonesome and stuff would crop up in my mind so I would just sort of talk to God about it... never really got an answer back then, yet I did this a lot, just talk to God about my problems, dreams, plans what have you, I was working on it... anyway one day I am in my office i am playing some music and I had sort of begun to sense that maybe just maybe the Lord was nearby... certain little things that had gone on in my life recently... and the music I am playing was an old U2 cd, and on that cd was this song titled 'car crash' or something like that but in the song there's this one part where the singer actaully says amidst his other rambling, he says 'car craaassh'.... so I am playing that and it was weird, at the very instant bono sings 'car craaaash' I hear a great big kaboom around the corner and down the street a bit... yep a car crashed and i think a couple people got killed... and there were a few other incidents of that nature during that time also. Just to be safe I threw that cd out, and a good number of others.

I think it's kind of along the lines of what some preachers teach of speaking good things and prosperity into your life... well we have to be careful about doing the reverse also. In the presence of God to us it may become reality if he is close to us. In regard to sin that he wants no part of and doesn't even want to know about.. well I am sure that is why we cannot approach God directly lest we be removed to become part of the ionosphere at his thought of it and that is why Jesus intercedes for us.

Just my personal perspective on that, in plain english.