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To: Morgana

Christ did have a number of women that played significant roles in his life.

After Jesus, his mother Mary is #2.


2 posted on 03/29/2024 8:34:25 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Az Joe

when Jesus died on the cross there were three women named Mary there at the foot. Mary his mother, Mary of Magdalene, and Mary of Cleofas.


11 posted on 03/29/2024 8:44:31 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Az Joe

All Mary did was give birth to Jesus. He treated her just as he did with everyone else.


76 posted on 03/30/2024 1:41:41 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Az Joe
After Jesus, his mother Mary is #2.

In what sense?

Mary is to be greatly honored. The Father considered her to be worthy of the honor of bearing the God-Man and caring for Him during his youth.

She was a righteous woman, although by her own lips (Luke 1:47) not sinless. She is not the Mediatrix because we are told in 1 Timothy 2:5, there is only one mediator between God and man and that person is Jesus Christ.

In Matthew 11:11, Jesus implied that John the Baptist was greater than Mary (and all others born of woman).

Mary seemed to have a limited role in the early Church based on her absence of mention following the Resurrection. Acts 1:14 is the last chronological mention of Mary.

It seems that Scripture paints important but limited roles in God's redemptive plan for several people during the time of the Incarnation. Mary and John the Baptist were two of them. Mary was given the honor of being the birth mother of the God-Man and raising Jesus to adulthood. John the Baptist was given the honor of being the last prophet in the line of prophets proclaiming the coming Messiah. He had the honor among those prophets of being the one able to say "there is your Messiah!" We have John's words recorded of needing to fade from the scene so the spotlight shines on Jesus (John 3:30). Scripture doesn't record such a clear statement of Mary recognizing her limited role although it could be implied in her last recorded words in Scripture "Whatever He says to you, do it.” (John 2:5)

90 posted on 03/30/2024 8:12:55 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: Az Joe
I believe her!

I've SEEN the actual, original TEXT in Greek!!



103 posted on 03/30/2024 8:08:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Az Joe

Nonsense.


116 posted on 04/01/2024 7:17:41 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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