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To: Salvation
I’m disappointed that you do not believe in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ

I made no such statement. However, this article borders on putting Mary above God.

24 posted on 01/01/2009 4:39:01 PM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Always Right
Mary is not above God, because it is God who raised her to her noble estate.

God humbled Himself to be born of a human being, and so humbled Himself that when the Angel Gabriel announced God's will to the Virgin, she still had the option of saying, "No." That is the free will that makes us sons not slaves, as St. Paul's letter in the lectionary today makes clear.

So while Mary is a very great lady, the pattern of a Christian, the Mother of God, conceived without sin, it is the will of God that puts her in that high place. But without Mary's free cooperation in saying, "Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum" - "Let it be done to me according to thy word" - the Incarnation would not have occurred. But that also is God's will.

Makes you dizzy, but praise God for His great mercy!

34 posted on 01/01/2009 4:51:27 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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To: Always Right

These articles always do. Sadly.


87 posted on 01/01/2009 8:06:19 PM PST by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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