Posted on 12/14/2019 2:22:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Love the song. Written by Mark Lowry of The Gaithers. My son has sung the solo for two Christmas Eve’s.
Never in a million years would I have come up with this author’s take. I always assumed they were rhetorical questions for us to appreciate the miracles.
I also cringed when I heard the Cuban Seminarians sing A Little Bit of Jesus in the Bread and Wine back when JPII visited Cuba.
Also, can't stand On Eagles' Wings
The arrangement our choir sings is beautiful, but yes. Mary did know.
It’s a pretty melody, but not Scriptural. Yes; Mary knew.
“Mary, Did You Know” is one of my favorite Christmas songs and I think this article is utterly ridiculous.
The lyrics are simply contemplating how much of the magnitude of who Christ is as the second Person of the triune God, did Mary really comprehended at the time.
She certainly understood that she had been chosen to bring Israel’s promised Messiah and Savior into the world, however, His being being the word by which the universe was created and his being King over Israel some day, are two vastly different things.
Remember, Israeli girls married young and even Mary, like the disciples, had to be given light gradually.
“Mary, Did You Know” has more of the gospel and the stunning truth that God Himself came into the world and paid our sin debt, then most of the Christmas carols that we sing every year.
People need to stop overthinking a song about mere speculation, because many of us have wondered the same things, and that isn’t a sin.
“There is nothing in the Gospels that says Mary knew, at the time of Jesus’s birth, the details of His future public ministry.”
But, going on logic, Mary knew what the scriptures said will happen to Christ.
Psalm 22:16–18 (ESV)
16 For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they have pierced my hands and feet—
17 I can count all my bones—
they stare and gloat over me;
18 they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
In the song, the singers are asking “Mary Did You Know?” and like you, I take them as rhetorical questions not literal questions to Mary implying she didn’t know, but as a device to list all the reasons Jesus is the Messiah and of all the miracles. And nowhere in the song are there lyrics of Mary responding: “Say What? You’re joshing me. Nope, didn’t have a clue. It was all a complete surprise to me!”
I think Holly Scheer should go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! “Chill Holly, Chill!”
There’s nothing there or in the Prophets about walking on water, calming storms, etc. Nor can we assume that Mary associated all the Messianic prophecies of the Psalms and Isaiah with her son.
The Gospels do not say, so it is a matter of one’s opinion. If it’s important for a person to believe that Mary had full advance knowledge of everything, he can make a case for it, although he would have to ignore the Gospel episodes I mentioned above.
Obey the mediots or be mocked. Love the song.
Thank you.
“Have Yourself a Mary Little Christmas”
How little are we talking here?
A welcome post... Amazing all the important facts that tend to get lost, forgotten, or cast aside in the fog of the endless war against Christianity...
I Agee.
I like the song and I don’t like to read why I shouldn’t like it every year.
I guess the author of this stupid screed has no idea of what a Rhetorical Question is.
Of course Mary knew. The message is for the listener.
Frankly I love the song.
The author needs to attack Jimgle Bells.
Hmm. There must be a book missing from every single "new testament" I've ever had access to. I've never read in it about you "you shall have a day of rest on December 25 and have either three masses or a tree."
It is a pretty song with great Penantonix harmonies.
Always saw the question part of the song as a musical rhetorical flourish — to me the song could be restated as a series of STATEMENTS that confirm what we all know.
There is always someone, somewhere who wants to criticize something.
And it is nice when someone creates a new Christmas song if it is good (as opposed the AWFUL “Santa Baby”).
You are exactly right. It is a rhetorical question. The song is excellent.
So much of Luke sounds like the personal perspective of Mary.
As for music...it’s merely part of the pop culture, why overthink it? That said, I prefer the older songs.
Little is a relative term..
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