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To: annalex
The Gospels had to do with the birth of Christ and His teachings. Mary is rarely mentioned as He taught, and twice Jesus was clear that she was no more important to Him than the multitudes that followed Him.

Nowhere does His disciples, or Paul, have anything to say about any supposed divinity of the woman. What you follow is made up from whole cloth by men.

549 posted on 07/25/2007 5:50:36 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell
Nowhere does His disciples, or Paul, have anything to say about any supposed divinity of the woman.

The Church doesn't teach she is divine. She is a creature.

550 posted on 07/25/2007 6:11:57 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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To: William Terrell

“twice Jesus was clear that she was no more important to Him than the multitudes who followed Him”.

This is a classic example of private and personal interpretation of Scripture.

So many times this very concept has come up on threads about Catholic beliefs and Mary in the Scriptures, and even though Catholic FReepers come on to explain these Scripture passages with clarity and in a wholly different way than you have expressed here, it hasn’t made a bit of difference.

The charge remains that Mary was no different than the rest of us and making that claim from an interpretation of the Lord’s words.

This is in contrast to the first chapter of Luke: “Blessed are you among women” and “all generations will call you blessed”. So that is also to be interpreted as Mary being the same as everyone else? God did not ordain from all eternity that the one He created to bear and nurse and then live with Jesus for 30 years was just an ordinary person, no more important to Him than any one else? God thought that as He created her for this incredible and irrepeatable destiny as the Mother of His Son?

I think not.


552 posted on 07/25/2007 6:36:24 PM PDT by Running On Empty (The three sorriest words: "It's too late")
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