:Isaiah ch 7 v 13Then Isaiah said, “Listen well, you royal family of David! You aren’t satisfied to exhaust my patience. You exhaust the patience of God as well! 14All right then, the Lord himself will choose the sign. Look! The virgin£ will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel—‘God is with us.’ 15By the time this child is old enough to eat curds and honey, he will know enough to choose what is right and reject what is wrong. 16But before he knows right from wrong, the two kings you fear so much—the kings of Israel and Aram—will both be dead.
Was Mary without sin? Let's read what Paul says about it.
Romans ch 3 23For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24Yet now God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. 25For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. God was being entirely fair and just when he did not punish those who sinned in former times. 26And he is entirely fair and just in this present time when he declares sinners to be right in his sight because they believe in Jesus. 27Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith. 28So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
The importance of Mary in relation to The Gospel? In other words her position in the church? This seems pretty straight forward on the issue. Now that is not to say Jesus didn't love and look after Mary. He very obviously did love and care for her. He would even when on the cross.
Matt ch 12 v 46As Jesus was speaking to the crowd, his mother and brothers were outside, wanting to talk with him. 47Someone told Jesus, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, and they want to speak to you.” 48Jesus asked, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” 49Then he pointed to his disciples and said, “These are my mother and brothers. 50Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!”
At the cross Jesus looking down at His mother and disciples does a final act of compassion and then fulfills all righteousness. He made certain His mother was to be cared for and accepted by his disciples. In those time women especially widows did not fair well without someone to support them. As such they were at the mercy of others. The passage states plainly intent. Now if Mary was as exalted as the RCC claims would she not have authority over their first Pope Simon Peter as well? Hum! Mary was blessed in the sense she was chosen to conceive our and her Lord and Savior. Mary's place in heaven is not known as these things are not to be known by man this side of heaven. No doubt she has many, many rewards.
John ch 19 V Standing near the cross were Jesus’ mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he said to her, “Woman, he is your son.” 27And he said to this disciple, “She is your mother.” And from then on this disciple took her into his home.
John took care of Mary as he would his own mother. How some of these basic verses get so twisted into scenarios some churches make them it out to be absolutely amazes me.
Who's wife was Mary? She was Josephs because an angel of GOD told him to take her as his wife. Children after the birth of Christ? IMO not an impossibility if there were siblings they could have rejected him and abandoned Mary thus His concerns asking John to take her in. Scripture doesn't say one way or the other because the focus of Christ and the disciples was not on Mary but on salvation through Jesus Christ as it should be.
Which is confirmatory of what i said. Thanks.