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To: keepinitreal; Hermann the Cherusker
**There are only three members of the Godhead. God the eternal Father, Jesus Christ his Son, and the Holy Ghost. Mary was instrumental in bringing forth the Saviour and was a great woman with much faith, highly favored of God, in no way was she a member of the Godhead, period.**

I totally agree with you. This article does not propose that Mary IS a part of the Trinity, only that she had extremely close relationship with the Trinity.

Is that what you get out of this?

127 posted on 06/17/2003 10:46:20 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
**There are only three members of the Godhead. God the eternal Father, Jesus Christ his Son, and the Holy Ghost. Mary was instrumental in bringing forth the Saviour and was a great woman with much faith, highly favored of God, in no way was she a member of the Godhead, period.**


You mentioned the Godhead. Surely you know that:

the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
(Rom 1:20)

Do you see many things in nature with three heads?

No? Well, God doesn't have three heads either. Our God is ONE God.

As Paul made quite clear, Jesus had a head over him:

1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Don't believe Paul, just ask Jesus:

Joh 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

Jesus also told us who to worship:

Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

In fact, in angel form Jesus (or if you are contentious, some other holy angel) summed up his testimony:

Re 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

It's appropriate that "Worship God" is one of the final instructions in the Bible because this is the message from the beginning. It's also the one that Jesus stated first and foremost when asked about the greatest commandment:

Mr 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

This is the first tenet of fatih in God and the key to all else. We must first know who to worship!
130 posted on 06/18/2003 5:16:10 AM PDT by stranger and pilgrim
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