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To: Mad Dawg
[Well, He never calls her His mother in scripture!]

As has been said, that' shows ZIP>

Why does it show ZIP-because you say it does?

I would think the fact that Christ made it a point never to call her 'mother' and in fact always redirected attention away from her would prove the point that Christ was making an issue of His words, not His family relationships, even with Mary.

And He makes everyone who follows Him equal to her (Mk.3:34-35),It can be argues that that is misreading, over-application, and sloppy thinking about "equal" v. "same".

And you can 'argue' anything you want, the fact is that nowhere in scripture does Christ make Mary anyone special.

That is a Roman Catholic myth built on the traditions of men, not the words of God.

925 posted on 04/07/2008 2:42:24 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Why does it show ZIP-because you say it does?

Works for me.

Why does it NOT show ZIP - — because you say it doesn't? (Do we have enough negatives going here?)

I think that the very few accounts of Jesus talking to Mary, we do not have enough data to form a conclusion about how He generally addressed her.

The Bible itself suggests that it does not have everything in it. John says what is in his gospel (Oh, please, it's a document; let's not tangle about how many gospels there are) is written so that you may believe, not so that you may have a compendium of all data necessary to determine every aspect of your theological or devotional thought and practices.

You make two statements:
(A)And you can 'argue' anything you want, the fact is that nowhere in scripture does Christ make Mary anyone special.
and
(B) That is a Roman Catholic myth built on the traditions of men, not the words of God.

The second does not follow from the first. Even if the first were true, it would not show the second. Other assumptions have to be made, other facts adduced.

941 posted on 04/07/2008 6:00:38 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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