Do you really not understand how many pagan religions worship the mother and son, queen of heaven concept?
Surely you have read in scripture about the evil of Nimrod, his wife Semiramus, and her “son incarnate” Tammuz. If not you can read glimpses in Jeremiah of the women weeping for Tammuz.
Here’s just a short list of the mother and “incarnate” son who have been worshiped.
Babylon: Ishtar (Semiramus) and Tammuz
Pheonicia: Ashtoreth and Baal
Egypt: Isis and Horus
India: Isi and Iswara
China: Shing-moo and son
Greece: Irene and Plutus
Italy: Fortuna and Jupitor
Itally: Venus and Adurnis
“which is what separates us”? I think not.
>>All of this and more is inherent to the Incarnation which is what separates us from all other revealed religions.<<
Actually, what separates true Christianity from all other revealed religions is its message of forgiveness and salvation by grace through faith in Christ. All other religions are man working their way to God, trying to appease His wrath or the wrath of the myriad of gods they serve.
THAT’s what sets true Christianity apart.
Other religions teach of beings who have a god as a father and human as a mother. Christianity is not unique in that regard.
Any religion which demands adherence to membership, rituals, and works to earn forgiveness or favor from God is a dead end and does not work. Grace is not grace if it is earned. A gift is not a gift if there are qualifications and conditions attached to it.
We come to Him as we are, He meets us where we are and as we are and THEN changes us, by His grace through faith, only through the finished work of Christ on the cross. The only thing we have to do is acknowledge our need of Him (and by implication our inability to do anything to help ourselves) and throw ourselves on the mercy of the court.
Then and only then do we find mercy and forgiveness and it is ours.
What do you mean by that post? That Christ Incarnate and His Mother are another pagan pair?
My! What a long block of text of opinion of a fallible man.
Sorry. Your rule invoked.