Here’s what I don’t understand about Protestants.
If you invited a friend to your home for dinner, and this person said, “Well, you know, I don’t really like your mother.” Are you sure you would take this person to your home?
I like Mary.
She’s the mother of my Savior and Lord. She raised him well and probably taught him very much of the Scriptures, since he had emptied himself, so that he had to learn as a human, just like us.
I just asked: “Should Mary be classed as the Co-Redemptrix?”
I did not say anything against Mary, so please don’t put words in my mouth or thoughts in my heart.
That’s really not fair.
If you invited a friend to your home for dinner, and this person said, “Well, you know, I don’t really like your mother.” Are you sure you would take this person to your home?
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I don’t believe the discussion is that people “Don’t like Mary”.
I do believe what you just said was ignorant.
With all due respect, I must disagree. Let me say up front that I also disagree with the stream of Protestantism that routinely insult Jesus' mom, because a) it's rude and b) it's pointless.
Having said that, your analogy isn't quite accurate. For most of us (excluding the above-mentioned weirdos who get some odd kick of going around insulting dead people), the analogy is more like going over to your friend's house for dinner and finding 12x17 pictures of his mother framed on every wall, life-size posters of his mom behind every door, and cute little "What Would Mother Do?" cross-stitches stuffed in every possible corner. You'd wonder if your friend had an unhealthy attachment to his mom.
That's what it's like for most Protestants (again, above mentioned people excluded). We don't think there's anything *wrong* with Mary, we just find the amount of devotion and adoration heaped upon her to be, well, a little creepy.
Jesus the man has a mother; The Logos has no mother.
Now WHO here has said one word against liking Mary? That’s a falsehood. We respect her as Jesus’ mother. We do NOT feel she is co’redemtrix nor has any of the attributes many Catholics try to pin on her.
Here’s what I don’t understand about Protestants.
If you invited a friend to your home for dinner, and this person said, “Well, you know, I don’t really like your mother.” Are you sure you would take this person to your home?
Who doesn’t “like” Mary?