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To: jo kus

"Would you then have Jesus as breaking the commandment to honor His mother?"

He wasn't, He was about His Father's business according to His Father's timing, not His earthly mother's, just like He was as a little boy in the temple. Honor means to hold in high esteem. Glorify belongs to God.

"WHO was the FIRST to follow the Word of God in the New Testament?"

That would be Anna and Simeon I suppose. They were aged and waiting for the promised Messiah.

"Do you think she had anything to do with herself being born without original sin?"

Where is it written in scripture that she was born without original sin? You have a unique interpretation of the work of Jesus, the Savior. He came to pay the penalty for our sin, the second Adam, that is why He is the Savior. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to keep us from sin.


4,794 posted on 04/19/2006 6:15:48 AM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan
Honor means to hold in high esteem. Glorify belongs to God. The Hebrew word "kabad" can also mean to "glorify" - which is ALSO given to men...

"And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small." Jer 30:19.

"All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory." Is 60:7

Note WHO is glorifying WHOM... God can CHOOSE to glorify whom He will. I would say that His mother would be a prime target for His glorifying.

That would be Anna and Simeon I suppose. They were aged and waiting for the promised Messiah.

They don't appear in the Scriptures until AFTER Jesus' conception in the womb of Mary. Go to Luke Chapter One.

Where is it written in scripture that she was born without original sin?

Where is it written that everything that Christians are to do and believe is written in Scriptures?

You have a unique interpretation of the work of Jesus, the Savior.

How so?

He came to pay the penalty for our sin, the second Adam, that is why He is the Savior. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to keep us from sin.

God is one. Where Jesus is, there is the Spirit and the Father. They do not work separately - unless you believe in three gods... When man "assigns" a particular work to one of the Persons of the Trinity, this does not preclude the Other Two's participation. The Blessed Trinity is active TOGETHER in the sanctification of man.

Regards

4,797 posted on 04/19/2006 7:20:09 AM PDT by jo kus (Stand fast in the liberty of Christ...Do not be entangled AGAIN with a yoke of bondage... Gal 5:1b)
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