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Thank you for sharing your views, dear brothers and sisters in Christ!

Dr. Eckleburg, I just wanted to comment briefly on the post you highlighted which said:

At the very least, pay her the homage she is due for without Mary, there would not have been a Savior.

No one and no thing can thwart the will of God.

And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. - Luke 19:40

Fulfilled prophesy recorded in Scripture stands as proof that the will of God is irresistible.

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it. - Isaiah 46:10-11

And is always irresistible,

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. - Revelation 4:11

To God be the glory!

The suggestion was made that you should honour Mary. I'm pretty sure NYer did not mean to suggest that God couldn't have saved us some other way.

But He chose to save us this way. That is why you should honour Mary. Because He chose to make his plan contingent on her "yes." He chose to be born through a woman. This woman. You should honor that woman.

Jesus could have saved us without the Cross. He could have done it without being born at all. But that is the way He chose to do it. We honor the Cross. We honor the woman who gave birth to Jesus.

No one and no thing can thwart the will of God

AMEN! I hadn't read your posting of Isaiah 46 until now. Truly, as you remind us, God's will is irresistible because He is God, and God gets what He wants, one way or another.

Sometimes I think it must be difficult to comprehend the New Testament if we do not have a solid understanding of who God revealed Himself to be in the Old Testament. It is the same God. And the same salvation -- all by grace alone through faith alone in "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." -- Colossians 1:16-17