To: aruanan
Mary had NOTHING to do with Christ’s divinity.
Mary was the human vessel God chose to bring Christ into the world. She was blessed to be Jesus’ mother. She fulfilled her duty.
There is hardly any mention of Mary after Christ begins His ministry. She is unimportant. At least of no more importance than any believer, as Christ told us.
Heed the words of Christ and ignore the idolatry pushed by Rome.
1,390 posted on
12/21/2010 1:02:38 AM PST by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Mary had NOTHING to do with Christs divinity.
Mary was the human vessel God chose to bring Christ into the world. She was blessed to be Jesus mother. She fulfilled her duty.
I notice you chose to overlook the clear teaching of scripture and how the wife of a Jewish priest saw the relation of Mary to the Lord of Israel in preference to an unbiblical and mistaken notion of the origination and derivation of being.
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Judith Anne
Mary had NOTHING to do with Christs divinity.
Obviously you either do not bother to read or don't understand what you read or you wouldn't even be able to think that anyone is claiming that Mary was the source of Jesus's divine nature. The Catholic Church doesn't teach this. I'll say it again, and this is exactly what the Catholic Church teaches (though I'm not Catholic): from the moment of conception, that "holy thing" in Mary's womb was God incarnate (this is not the same thing as a "vessel" containing the substance of divinity, as though Jesus Christ was a mason jar (Jesus) containing a mess of divine golden peaches (the Christ), Mary being "merely" the bottle manufacturing and canning plant), and the same throughout gestation, birth, nursing, and throughout childhood. Mary was the mother of the Lord God of Israel in as fully a way as anyone could be anyone's mother.
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