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To: Mrs. Don-o
I see you never call her Blessed.

Mary was amazingly blessed by God to bear Messiah.

Scripture never says she is blessed to a place above other woman, but "blessed among women."

Of all women, she alone was selected to bear Messiah.

She isn't above anyone else. Scripture doesn't say this.

As to "calling her Blessed," literally the Greek says...

"For He has had regard for the humble state of His bondslave;
For behold, from this time on all generations will count me blessed."

It doesn't say everyone is to call her "Blessed Mary."

60 posted on 01/04/2018 9:39:09 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; Mrs. Don-o; metmom
Same root verb is used in James 5:11 to describe those believers who'd endured.

11We count blessed those who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful. (NASB)

It's use is not unique to Mary.

The verb, μακαρίζω (makarizó) conveys the meaning of: pronounce blessed, as the result of enjoying the benefits (privileges) that (literally) extend from God. See 3107 (makarios).http://biblehub.com/greek/3106.htm

61 posted on 01/04/2018 10:07:58 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
The Bible does not, of course, say everybody "must" call Mary Blessed. It says all generations "will" call Mary Blessed.

We like to fulfill this prophecy with joy, because Scripture says she's our mother: precisely in that section about the Mother of the Messiah, the "Woman Clothed with the Sun" which says we are "the rest of her offspring":

Revelation 12:17
Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring --- those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

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65 posted on 01/04/2018 11:12:34 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (O Mary, He whom the whole Universe cannot contain, enclosed Himself in your womb and was made man.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Matthew 11:11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Luke 7:28 I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

67 posted on 01/04/2018 11:32:53 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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