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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
>" “her immaculate conception, perpetual virginity, assumption into heaven, her Queenship, and her role in God’s plan of salvation as Co-redemptrix” "<

None of these are the properties of a goddess in the Christian context because none of it was granted her by or for her own merit. God alone granted and grants Mary her role in His plan of salvation.

Yet Mary still plays no role in our salvation. NONE.

"I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me." John 14:6

It is only in Christ do we have salvation. It is only through Christ that we have forgiveness of sins. There is zero mention of any Mary playing any role in our salvation in the New Testament. None.

Mary plays absolutely no part in any of this. Yet, if catholics have their way there will be a fifth marian dogma elevating her to an even higher degree of false worship than she has been accorded.

How sad that Satan has used the mother of Christ to distract so many in the rcc.

58 posted on 01/24/2015 6:01:41 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
There is zero mention of any Mary playing any role in our salvation in the New Testament.

So Christ didn't save us by taking on a human nature from and through Mary, and then dying on the cross -- something that would only be possible if he had taken on a human nature (since a divine nature cannot die)?

If Mary played no role in our salvation, then the cross played no role in our salvation either. No Mary means no human Jesus, means no dying on the cross, means no "saved by the blood of Christ" (because no human nature, therefore no blood).

Doesn't sound anything like any kind of Christianity I recognize.

77 posted on 01/24/2015 8:11:39 PM PST by Campion
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To: ealgeone
"Yet Mary still plays no role in our salvation. NONE."

Not in Jesus's perfect salvific act, the salvation of humanity being due to Christ alone and unassisted. But she fulfilled a role in God's plan that began with her consent to bear The Christ.

95 posted on 01/24/2015 9:20:16 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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