Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Pyro7480
You act like the Bible explains itself.

I am acting like the Bible is sufficient for our faith without jumping up and down and getting hot and bothered about extra-Biblical details like whether or not Mary had pain when giving birth.

46 posted on 12/04/2006 10:06:33 PM PST by L.N. Smithee (Rats don't abandon a sinking ship, those who abandon a sinking ship become 'Rats.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies ]


To: L.N. Smithee; Pyro7480
I am acting like the Bible is sufficient for our faith without jumping up and down and getting hot and bothered about extra-Biblical details like whether or not Mary had pain when giving birth

Depicting Theotokos as giving a "natural" Birth, is a specualtion and very much extra-Biblical, because the Bible says nothing about it.

The Church has reason to believe what we believe about BEV Mary. We do not claim it as dogma. We only claim that she is the Mother of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, her Motherhood not being a "natural" one, from the Incarnation through the His Birth.

We Orthodox and Catholics do not believe that she suffered in her Virginal Birth any pains because the Birth, like the Incarnation itself, was a supernatural act of Divine intervention and not of carnal relationship subject to physiological consequences and corruption.

Just as the incarnation itself was nothing "natural" it is only consistent to consider the Virginal Birth as nothing "natural."

80 posted on 12/05/2006 6:01:05 AM PST by kosta50 (Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson