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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Thoughtful response -- thanks. You say:

None of which means she couldn’t fulfill a godly marriage that involved sex or other children.
Mary was blessed among women as chosen bearer of Messiah. We agree on that.

She qualified for, and fulfilled, her role in the right place (Nazareth) in the fullness of time. Subsequent to His birth, He of course was not in her, but I suppose being privileged with His care was probably instructive. As to the presence of the Holy Ghost, most probably she also gained spiritual rebirth with others of the group of 120 gathered in accord on the first moment of the birth of the church age. But really, after Acts 1:14 nothing more is said of distinguished service above that of others in the propagation of The Faith, nor any special recognition of her on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirut became an Indwelling Presence of every believer-disciple.

Why would she, though specially blessed for a mundane task of child-bearing, be considered to subsequently be idolized by her contemporaries, who were given equally critical tasks in the propagation of The Faith?

I say that he revered Mary has no greater standing before The Father than the newest spiritually reborn babe in Christ, in whom resides God Himself, and to whom the righteousness of Christ is imputed at the moment of exercising a saving confession/repentance/faith; whose sins are not merely covered, by completely washed away through the Blood of Christ applied; and written in the Book of Life. How can she be more holy than this, eh?

How could bearing other children after her vows of marriage were consummated make her less holy? Eh?

139 posted on 01/02/2014 11:20:46 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1

“I say that he revered Mary has no greater standing before The Father than the newest spiritually reborn babe in Christ, in whom resides God Himself, and to whom the righteousness of Christ is imputed at the moment of exercising a saving confession/repentance/faith; whose sins are not merely covered, by completely washed away through the Blood of Christ applied; and written in the Book of Life. “

I believe God will reward her service in heaven. How, He doesn’t reveal.
True, she has no greater standing before the Father than every believer who will stand there in the righteousness of Christ.


141 posted on 01/02/2014 12:56:43 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Truth is hate to those who hate the Truth)
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