marshmallow Exactly.
Which is why Catholics esteem her so highly and call her the second Eve. For what Eve destroyed with her disobedience, Mary helped to repair with her "yes", freely given.
WOW!
The Creator of all. The almighty, omnipotent God. He who brought all into being with just His will and words! Who would have thought His immutable will could be thwarted by a young Jewish Virgin.
You know what?
The Roman Catholic god is really quite small...
Gamecock:
Actually, the letter to the Phillipans [cf 2:5-11] points to the humility of God that he would send his Son into the human condition and become incarnate of the Virgin Mary and then suffer on the Cross.
So the reality is not that without Mary there would be no savior, the reality is that it was through Mary that the Word became incarnate and dwelt among us [cf. John 1:14].
So it was the Divine Will of God that Christ would become incarnate of Mary so that he could experience the entire Human condition and be one totally like us, save sin [cf. Hebrews 14:15].
So Christ being Incarnate of the Virgin Mary means the 2nd Person of the Holy Trinity was incarnate of Mary. Thus, the the Son of God and the Son of Mary are one and the same Person - Christ is God, and Mary is the Mother of God [as allude to in the Gospel of Luke 1:43 and dogmatically defined at the Council of Ephesus in 431AD].
Since Mary’s role was unique in Salvation History, both teh Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church recogniz Mary as the greatest saint of the New Testament because no one was so intimately associated with the Incarnation as she. She voluntarily conceived, gave birth to, and nourished Christ. Our Lord derived from her the very flesh and blood of His body.
It was that flesh and blood that suffered, died and was buried, the flesh that Christ got from Mary his Mother.
That post blew me away.. because they really believe that Mary in fact is the savior
It would be interesting to know what they believe Eve actually "destroyed" in their minds, that they need a female savior