Ping!
I wish Catholics would make up their minds. Did Mary need a savior or didn’t she? (Hint: She called God “my savior.”)
“Now, those lines make sense if Mary is another sinner just like us, who needs to be delivered from sin.”
Yup. Otherwise Christ was born to someone who neither needed a savior nor could pass on the reality of being fully human. The whole POINT of incarnation was that He be “one of us”, and not some perfect being utterly unable to relate to the human condition, who would _not_ be subject to temptation nor original sin.
Mary did you know that your baby boy will some day walk on water?
Mary did you know that your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered, will soon deliver you.
Mary did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Mary did you know that your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand?
Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
And when you kiss your little baby, you have kissed the face of God.
Oh Mary did you know
The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again.
The lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the praises of the lamb
Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day rule the nations?
Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding is the great I am
>> But if Mary is a sinner in need of a savior, then she cannot be the worthy vessel in whom the All-Holy God takes on human nature as the Word-Made-Flesh.
Oh yes she could — because sovereign Almighty GOD chose Mary, of sinful flesh like you and I, to aid in implementing His perfect Plan for our salvation.
There is absolutely zero scriptural evidence that Mary is not without sin. That’s a roman catholic fantasy, nothing more. You, mortal catholic, are placing yourself in the position of dictating on behalf of the Almighty what He is able and what He is not able to do. That’s dangerous ground to occupy.
Ayup, this is a Protestant song. So don’t sing it if you don’t want it, Catholics. Simple enough?
Jesus was the only sinless person because he didn't inherit man's sin nature which is passed on through one's earthly father. Mary had a father which meant she had a sin nature. She obviously was found worthy by God to find his favor, but no where does the Bible say that she had to be sinless.
Romans 3:23
Acts 4:9-12, particularly verse 12
Oh, not this again.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
“My soul praises the Lord; my heart rejoices in God my Savior, because he has shown his concern for...”
Mary called him “God my Savior,” in her song because she recognized her need of a savior as well.
“the lyrics depend upon the dogma of the Immaculate Conception being false”
Yep! Good song.
The Kenny Rogers version of “Mary Did You Know” was popular 30 years ago. It is also lovely.
I far prefer it over Aiken, because all I can see of the man is his male “partner” and baby, the opposite of the mother-father family even the divinely created Jesus was raised in.
“But if Mary is a sinner in need of a savior, then she cannot be the worthy vessel in whom the All-Holy God takes on human nature as the Word-Made-Flesh.”
The truth: Mary is a sinner.
The truth: God chose a sinner to be the month of His Son, Jesus Christ.
The truth: If Mary was sinless (as Catholicism teaches), then would not her entire lineage have to be sinless? All the way back to Adam and Eve, who we know were not sinless?
The teachings of Catholicism are very strange.
On this point, my Catholic friends and I disagree.
I like the song. A lot.
Tossing out a big chunk of red meat to us poor protestants. I hope no one takes the bait.
What is wrong with asking the questions? what if they are rhetorical? Or could they just have been written in the form a question for people find the truth?
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Christmas is unreal.
Yeshua was born in September of 3 BC.
December 25 does have significance though. It is the day that the babies born to the virgins that were raped by the sun god priests the Easter previous are placed in the arms of the bronze idol of Ashtor, in the center of the bonfire.
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Got to remember that the song is for the general Christian community.
Jimmy Durante has the best Christmas songs. When I want to go classical, I go Nutcracker Suite.