How can Protestant justify Luke 1:48, since they don't honor her

[Mannyfit75]

How do Protestants justify this passage in the Bible?

“Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.” Luke 1:48

Since Protestants don’t asked Mary for intecessory prayer, and they put little attention to her as Catholics do, they aren’t part of the generations that will call her blessed. I rarely hear them call Mary blessed compared to Catholics.

Isn’t it sad, that Protestants are not part of the generation that call her blessed since they give her no honor at all.

 

[puzzleannie]

Isn’t it sad, that Protestants are not part of the generation that call her blessed since they give her no honor at all.

do you have some basis for making such a global statement? I am surrounded by Protestants of various denominations, have been all my life, and for the most part all of them honor Mary as the Mother of Jesus. They do not necessarily accept, probably because they do not or choose not to understand, all of Catholic doctrine on Mary but I never heard any of the people I know actually dishonoring her. There is a whole army of saints whom I seldom or never pray to. does that mean I dishonor them?

 

[Mannyfit75]

do you have some basis for making such a global statement? I am surrounded by Protestants of various denominations, have been all my life, and for the most part all of them honor Mary as the Mother of Jesus. They do not necessarily accept, probably because they do not or choose not to understand, all of Catholic doctrine on Mary but I never heard any of the people I know actually dishonoring her. There is a whole army of saints whom I seldom or never pray to. does that mean I dishonor them?

Most of them don’t venerate the saints, or Mary, and yes I am making a generation statement. As for you, so you seldom pray to saints, or Mary. I cannot make a judgement call. However, you have to ask yourself that question. Have you dishonor a saint?

 

[starrs0]

I have met Protestants that outright dishoner by calling her “just a vessel” SHE IS NOT JUST SOME RANDOM CHICK GOD PICKED TO BRING CHRIST INTO THE WORLD!

 

[johnbres2]

What Protestants are good for is holding up a mirror for us in which to see the beauty of our own faith. By their error, we better can see the Truth.

 

[Zooey]

May your Friendly Neighborhood Methodist please request that you all not paint with so broad a brush?
After all, said Methodist not only prays the rosary every day, I actually:yup: make them!!

Seriously, I really do think that Catholics might be surprised by the number of non-Catholic Christians who honor the Virgin Mother. (And who are as puzzled & dismayed as the OP, by those who do not!)

 

[mdgspencer]

Until I was a junior in college, I was a Protestant, and in fact intended becoming a Protestant minister. I don’t recall any Protestants honoring Mary. It is possible that a few do, though, for which I would be grateful.

 

[Le_Cracquere]

I’ve always honoured Mary, and the same for the other Protestants I was raised among. If merely failing to regard someone in the way that Catholics regard Mary counts as “failure to honour,” then you’ve given the word a sense too rarefied to be any use.

Granted, I think many Protestants would feel rather more comfortable with voicing and displaying their genuine love and respect toward the Virgin if they didn’t look at the history of popular Marian devotion and get the impression that such devotion can easily run off the rails into heterodoxy (or what looks to them like it). Another complicating factor: Catholics and Protestants, like many other competitors, lapse into a tendency to define themselves against each other and emphasise their differences: “if they like X, then we shouldn’t be seen to be that keen on X.” Both sides have been known to do it, I’m afraid.