All Mary needed was the right lineage and to be a virgin.
That was ALL that qualified her for the job.
Listen to you. How do you KNOW this?
Finally the blinders have fallen off my eyes. After 54 years as a cradle Roman Catholic I know that I have followed false teachings. Please help me to the one and only true Christian church. I need to know. I do not trust my prayers to find the true church, since I have the heretical teachings of 54 years that block the truth to my heart and mind. I found a list of thousands of Christian churches who do not believe in the teachings of the harlot of Rome. Which is the true and only Christian church do you attend?
As many times as this has been discussed, I would have thought protestants would have learned at least one thing by now....
No Catholic believes that Mary is responsible for her own state of grace. She is what she is because He is who He is.
It’s that simple and that profound all at the same time.
The passage of Scripture quoted in this thread, post number 13 does not in any way serve as a rebuke of Mary by Jesus, though many try to use it to prove such.
If you care to give it some honest consideration, you would understand that Mary was chosen because she lived as Jesus said those who would be His mother, His brother and His sister live.
Mary is the first and most perfect disciple, Jesus is telling us to be like her and if we live His Word the way Mary does, we too are blessed.
Mary’s qualification to be the bearer of the Savior?
Absolute devotion and submission to God, a heart, mind, body and soul that never once deviated from that love and submission. Can you say the same for yourself? Can anyone?