A Protestant view of the Mother of God

[Ite_ad_Ioseph]

Getting this thread back on track, I have thought about the question, and I remember this:
‘Hail full of grace, the Lord is with thee’

The people in the video claimed Mary had no yes-if she would have said no she would have become pregnant anyway. But when we hear the words of this greeting, Jonah was not full of grace, the Lord was not necessarily ‘with him’ as He was with the Theotokos. So I am justified now with my logic that the Protestants in the video were wrong.
In Christo, Ioseph

 

[Good_Fella]

It’s easy to speculate about what if’s, but the reality is that God chose her to be His mother. She is the Immaculate Conception, God’s greatest creation. God prepared her in particular to be the Theotokos from her conception, and granted her a singular grace that preserved her from sin so she was a fitting vessel for Jesus. God did not intend for that singular grace to be granted to anybody but her… period. Our salvation absolutely hinged on her fiat.

“I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants shall take possession of the gates of your enemies, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth shall find blessing - all this because you obeyed my command.”
Genesis 22, 17-18

“Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
Luke 1, 45

“Wherefore also Luke, commencing with the genealogy with the Lord, carried it back to Adam, indicating that it was He who regenerated them into the Gospel of life, and not they Him. And thus also it was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith.”
*St. Irenaeus (A.D. 180) *

If Mary’s Fiat were unimportant in the divine order of redemption, the Annunciation narrative would have been written differently. God could have become incarnate without Mary’s free consent to be the mother of our Lord, but He willed this path since a woman had freely contributed to the fall of man (Adam).

Pax Christu :harp: