Posted on 07/31/2015 5:03:48 PM PDT by NRx
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Cool, I hadn't thought of that.
What always puzzles me is people claiming Luke 11:28 means Mary was nobody special. It is so obvious, in the context of Luke 1:38. that in Luke 11:28 Jesus is telling us to look to Mary!
God has a mother ?
We read this passage in the Catholic lectionary fairly recently, and I particularly noticed this last line, "Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance ...?" I wonder what her sin was, and why she thought it was reasonable to expect that her son would die because of it.
If you believe that Jesus Christ was both human and divine, yes.
“In Orthodoxy, these doctrines are living realities. It is of little importance to acknowledge that someone is, in fact, my mother. It is of the utmost importance that I honor my mother (by Divine command) and love her. We do not think doctrine. Doctrine is a description of the realities by which we live. We venerate the Theotokos because, knowing what we know, we cannot do otherwise.”
I don’t like Fr. Freeman at all. But I must admit that the foregoing, in manner of speaking, describes Orthodoxy, “In Orthodoxy, these doctrines are living realities” and “We do not think doctrine. Doctrine is a description of the realities by which we live.” Orthodoxy is everything about us. It defines us. My mother, of blessed memory, always said, “In Greece people walk Orthodox!”
It’s different.
Yes, it’s definitely different!
I should have expected that if something made sense to me, you probably didn’t like it ;-).
And ancestors going all the way back to David, Abraham, Noah, Adam.
Because--- we're talking about Jesus, right? My Lord and my God!
And He created them all!
Well-said, Kolo. Food for profound thought.
I really don't think so. Paul says of Jesus in Colossians 2:9 "For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form". I hardly think Paul's description of the incarnation would be 'diminished and inadequate' because he didn't mention Mary.
Why does God need a spaceship?
Comments? Corrections?
**If you believe that Jesus Christ was both human**
...the part that Mary had something to do with.....
**and divine**
...the part that Mary had absolutely nothing to do with.
The Son of God declared that EVERY single divine quality he displayed was his Father that dwells in him. God the Father is a Spirit (John 4:24,25), and not a man; but dwells in Christ reconciling the world unto himself (2Cor. 5:19).
Further proof: Neither Jesus Christ, nor his apostles and writers of the NT, EVER used the phrase “God the Son”.
In the Evangelical Church, we honor Mary because we understand that without her, Jesus would not have been able to walk on the earth as a human and deity. But, in order for Jesus to suffer and die on the cross for all mankind, Jesus had to be a human like us (the ones he was dying for).
Mary was a precious, virgin girl. She believed in GOD and was willing to birth Jesus, even though she did not understand what GOD was really doing.
Joseph, on the other hand, died before Jesus. That means Joseph was in Paradise (because his faith was accounted to him as Righteousness), and Joseph was able to greet Jesus when He entered into Paradise, and then Jesus led all the saints into Heaven with Him. I’ve always wondered if Joseph had any idea this event was going to happen?
IMHO Mother Mary was a vessel for our lord and savior. She did provide any chromosomes to Jesus, God indwell ed in her.
Hmmmm ..?? Did you say Mary didn’t provide any human matter to Jesus ..??
If that’s what you’re saying; then NOBODY COULD GET SAVED BECAUSE JESUS DIDN’T HAVE ANY HUMAN COMPONENTS - MEANING HE COULD NOT DIE FOR US TO PARDON US .. BECAUSE HE HAD NO PART OF US (through Mary).
And .. maybe you should go to the library and read some of the books about conception .. and what takes place.
Isn't Orthodox Christianity split on this matter? With Eastern going one way and Oriental the other?
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