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To: Running On Empty

And yet Jesus never referred to Mary as "mother," but only as "woman."

Any woman graced by God to carry the Christ child to term would be exactly like Mary. She was interchangeable.

Christ is not. Christ is God. And Jesus Christ is the ONLY mediator between God and men.

769 posted on 05/02/2010 1:24:36 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)

To: Dr. Eckleburg

Any woman graced by God to carry the Christ child to term would be exactly like Mary. She was interchangeable.

Christ is not. Christ is God. And Jesus Christ is the ONLY mediator between God and men.

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INDEED.

It’s clear from Scripture that God COULD have raised up a rock as a virgin from the lineage of David.

It’s interesting that no one has commented on that.

Oh, right, that would have undermined the caricatured pseudo-Mary goddess figure’s EXCLUSIVE ROLE in Salvation, interloping into the God-head etc.

Can’t have that!

Sigh.

906 posted on 05/02/2010 9:30:33 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)

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