You: St. Luke's gospel (1:48), when she prophesied under the Holy Spirit, "Behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed."
You: You quoted scripture out of context.
I am quoting scripture out of context.!!!??? How does your verse answer the question that I asked about Mary which was that Mary is still alive. Being blessed does not in any way mean she is still alive. Don't get me wrong I believe Mary was a blessed women, I'm sure all christians would agree with that. But Mary was still a sinner. She needed a savior as did the rest of us. She died, and went to heaven, no doubt. But she died.
Becky
I think so. The verse you quoted about Jesus saying "Call no man your Father", was better understood by bringing up the other verses by Paul and Timothy. Oh well, maybe we have different definition of context. Anyway I think we have exhausted that one. Now on to Mary...
"How does your verse answer the question that I asked about Mary which was that Mary is still alive. Being blessed does not in any way mean she is still alive. Don't get me wrong I believe Mary was a blessed women, I'm sure all christians would agree with that. But Mary was still a sinner. She needed a savior as did the rest of us. She died, and went to heaven, no doubt. But she died.
Mary died. She went to heaven. Now she has eternal life. I think we both agree on that. (I am sorry if my other answers confused you.) But I am so used to thinking of Mary as being in heaven and alive up there that I don't think of her as dead. I don't think of the Apostles as dead either.
Well it is getting late. As to Mary being a sinner, needing a Saviour and so on...I am sure you know Catholics and Protestants have different views on that. But Becky this thread already has 375 posts and if we get into all that it grow to 500. How bout we rest a little bit?