stfassisi wrote:
“Why don’t you try understanding the importance of typology through historical Christianity on the Blessed Mother and various other teachings and the Bible will make more sense.”
Sigh ... If Jesus had said of the OT Scriptures, “They are they that testify of her,” I would be sympathetic to your suggestion. But He didn’t. The OT Scriptures are quite full of typology, as well as rectilinear messianic prophecy and plainly stated heaven-sent doctrine. And all of it revolves around Christ. All of it glorifies Him. All of it points to Him. All that the Holy Spirit says and does is to bring glory to One only: “He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:14-15)
“I will not give My glory to another.” (Isaiah 48:11)
So, stfassisi, thanks, I’m sure you are well-intentioned ... but you know what they say of good intentions. So, no thanks. I have all I need in Christ.
“”All of it glorifies Him. All of it points to Him””
...and so does the typology of Mary point to Him and you see the fullness of the Holy family,dear friend.In fact, everything about Our Blessed Mother glorifies her Son.
Ignorance of Mary is ignorance of Christ ,if you really think deeply enough you cannot separate them.
As GK Chesterton once said...
“When I was a boy a more Puritan generation objected to a statue upon my parish church representing the Virgin and Child. After much controversy, they compromised by taking away the Child. One would think that this was even more corrupted with Mariolatry, unless the mother was counted less dangerous when deprived of a sort of weapon. But the practical difficulty is also a parable. You cannot chip away the statue of a mother from all round that of a newborn child. You cannot suspend the new-born child in mid-air; indeed you cannot really have a statue of a newborn child at all. Similarly, you cannot suspend the idea of a newborn child in the void or think of him without thinking of his mother. You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother, you cannot in common human life approach the child except through the mother. If we are to think of Christ in this aspect at all, the other idea follows I as it is followed in history. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross. -GK Chesterton
I wish you a Blessed evening!