[Iscool]

Of course those who do not so worship her, can fully accept her having been fully blessed by God to be the mother of Christ Jesus and still be a woman married to Joseph who later bore him many children.

So true...Where's the miracle of the incarnation if Mary was some rogue, sinless creature who was not one of us???

[BenKenobi]

Well I’m not sure. Somewhere in that whole address of the Angel where they say, “all generations will call you blessed.”

I don’t see *that* said about anyone else in the bible other than Christ.

The miracle of the incarnation is that God took upon himself, all the frailties of man, that he literally entered his creation at a time and place of his choosing, by being born, just as any of us. That he spent nine months in his mothers womb, was raised by Mary and Joseph, and that he would go on to minister publicly to the Jews to call them to repent.

That he would suffer, and die, all to expiate our sins. To be the perfect man for which our blood debt could finally be paid.

Why do you believe that loving Mary somehow detracts from Christ? You seem to believe that if Christ were the one who uplifted Mary, that acknowledging the blessings he bestowed upon her, somehow deminishes Christ himself.