Perhaps a break from this thread would be wise.
I am not convinced that
JESUS THE CHRIST
HAS
A MOTHER per se currently.
He HAD a mother as an earthly human being.
That period is past.
Jesus The Christ existed before Mary was more than an awareness in some conceptualized something in God’s mind or knowing before the foundation of the world like all the rest of us.
Jesus was God long before Adam, much less Mary existed in human form.
In that sense, Mary was NOT his ‘originating’ mother in any way shape or form.
She ‘merely’ birthed His human form for His human form’s 33 years on this earth.
Job done.
Fini.
One can fantasize until the cows come home about some super miraculous super God-like relationship with SUPER MARY for all eternity.
However, such is NOT Biblical.
In FACT, Scripture records Christ’s indicating quite starkly that the typical affection and relationship between Him
AND ALL HIS BLOOD RELATIVES—was SUPERCEDED BY, encompassed by, subsumed in THOSE WHO DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER.
Roman Catholics et al love to slippery step by that passage. However, it is there FOR A PURPOSE. And that purpose is clearly NOT to assign to Mary nor His blood brothers and sisters
THE LEAST BIT OF A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
That’s plain Scripture.
The Vatican edifice spends a LOT of time, money ink and wood pulp disagreeing with the wording, the context and the import of that passage.
To the dreadful misdirection of millions of folks in the pews.
Well said.
“In the beginning was the Word...”
The problem seems to consist of the fact that there was an insurmountable primary asymmetry at the very foundation of Creation. That asymmetry particularly relates to the problem of time. For God, there is no time. For He is eternal. For us, human beings, everything we experience is necessarily in time — for we have, by God's decision, been manifested into a divinely created reality that has spatial and temporal — "this world" — dimensions, manifesting in the famous 4D block of Newtonian observation.
Perhaps I digress. If so, sum up the digression and move on: I just try to remember all the above, and prayerfully receive whatever graces the Lord may bestow on me so to enlighten the subject under scrutiny, before I start shooting off my mouth.
Folks have been working on problems like this, centuries, nay millennia, before John Calvin or Martin Luther were born. Is it asking too much, to ask whether YOU appreciate that?
“I am not convinced that JESUS THE CHRIST HAS A MOTHER per se currently. He HAD a mother as an earthly human being. That period is past.”
The Apostle Paul, in describing the current dispensation and our relationship to Christ in it, says, . . .
“Wherefore, HENCEFORTH know we no man after the FLESH: though we HAVE known Christ after the flesh, yet NOW HENCEFORTH know we him (Jesus Christ) NO MORE.” (2 Corinthians 5:16)
Our bond is to the Man at God’s Right Hand, and “old things are passed away.” (v. 17)
I am not, and cannot even be, convinced that there was any mandate during his earthly ministry -— “in the days of his flesh” (Hebrews 5:7 [interesting correlary between the two fifth chapters, Hebrews and 2 Corinthians]), that Mary was given the homage the Vatican wants her to be given. There is just no evidence nor example seen of it whatsoever in the gospel accounts (that is, Matthew through John).
And “NOW HENCEFORTH” (Epistles) even less!