No it doesn't...And that elevates Mary way, way, way, above that which was written about...
Not that she had any other role in the ministry of Jesus, just “providing the body for Jesus to grow in and be born from...”
Yah, right...Because of that false claim that Mary is God's mother your religion has churches named after her, altars and statues made of her and you worship her by praying to her...You have elevated the mother of Jesus above God...
God's purpose was to take on the form of a human to learn and understand the temptations we go thru and to overcome those temptations...To draw people to him and become the Jewish Messiah...
Never was it intended that attention would be given to and magnified in the woman who carried him around for 9 months as your religion has done...
Mary had nothing to do with the 'divine' arriving in her body...It was placed there by God...It was placed there by God and put into a human fetus/Jesus...
Just as with us, the physical body of Jesus was just a shell for Jesus to live in...
The 'Mary' that Catholics bow down to is foreign to the scriptures...That is not the mother of Jesus portrayed in the bible...It is some other female entity that sits on a throne above God...
Can you elaborate on your use of the words "form", "learn", and "understand"?
Yah, right...Because of that false claim that Mary is God’s mother
God’s purpose was to take on the form of a human to learn and understand the temptations we go thru and to overcome those temptations...To draw people to him and become the Jewish Messiah...
Mary had nothing to do with the ‘divine’ arriving in her body...It was placed there by God...It was placed there by God and put into a human fetus/Jesus...
Just as with us, the physical body of Jesus was just a shell for Jesus to live in...
I know it’s been a while since you posted this, but we have had family from out of town visiting us, so I am just now responding.
Set aside for the moment what the Catholic Church says about Mary and let’s look at what the Holy Spirit reveals in Sacred Scripture. In Matthew 2:1-15, which tells about the wise men who were looking for the King of the Jews, it is written: “when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him”.
The first thing to note is that it says the wise men worshipped him, not Mary, not him and Mary, just Him. So to say that Mary is his mother is not to say she is to be worshipped. But in calling Mary the mother of this young child who is being worshipped, isn’t the Holy Spirit telling us that Mary is the mother of God in human form, the Jewish Messiah?
If not, why?