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"Psalm 45:9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir."

If you read this Christologically, as the Church always has, you realize that if Christ is the King, his mother is ---- ta-daah! --- the Queen Mother.

Now I'll admit I always wondered --- as a properly democratic American girl with no real connection to monarchy on any level ----whether Mary was just a festival figure like the Northwest Pennsylvania Strawberry Queen, or whether she was a ceremonial regent like Queen Victoria, or whether she was a figure with more personal power like Elizabeth I. However, I have no problem with the insight that if Christ is King the whole family is royal.

Don't we tell our kids they're Sons and Daughters of the King?

Besides, it's God's delight to humble the exalted and exalt the humble. And it would be hard to find anybody more humble than Mary of Galilee. "Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it done unto me according to thy word."

Yay! You go, girl.

"Psalm 45:9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir."
If you read this Christologically, as the Church always has, you realize that if Christ is the King, his mother is ---- ta-daah! --- the Queen Mother."

Obviously this is your church's teaching. Your church encourages you to pray to her and elevates her status to that of a equal of GOD. Look at the title this church uses, a variation of it is not uncommon.

Pagans use to have the "Queen of Babylon" that they prayed to. I'm not sure but I suspect that this where all this began in your church, when pagans were incorporated into the church during Constantine's era they brought some of their beliefs with them. Whatever caused this misplaced worship doesn't really matter, its wrong.
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"Besides, it's God's delight to humble the exalted and exalt the humble. And it would be hard to find anybody more humble than Mary of Galilee."

I certainly can't disagree. Mary was truly blessed and was a noble servant of GOD. She is not a co-redemptress.

However, I have no problem with the insight that if Christ is King the whole family is royal.

Of course we are. But not through genetics.

Only through faith.

Luke 8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.