edwinG:
Hi, mrS4ntA,
I still cant find your answer in your reply. Christ is the Head of the Church. I am confident we agree on this. Now as Mary is the mother of God, where is she in the church, Christ’s body of which we are all members, being brothers and sisters of Christ. As Mary is not a brother or sister and not the head, where is she?
Mary is the mother of Christ.
We are all members of Christ’s body.
Thus, since Mary is the mother of Christ, and since we are members of Chirst’s body (the Church),
then Mary is the Mother of the Church, because Mary is the mother of Christ, whose body makes up the Church. .
That is why when Jesus was dying on the cross, only one apostle was there, the apostle John. He represented the Church, since Jesus made the apostles the leaders of the Church. Then Jesus told John, who represented the Church, “behold your mother” (refering to Mary). Thus, Jesus made Mary Mother of the Church.
Also, by baptism we have become adopted sons of God. Since Jesus is the Son of God, by baptism (adoption) we have beome His brother . Thus, since we are the sons of God by adoption, brothers of Jesus by adoption, and since Mary is the Mother of Jesus, then she has to be our Mother also. In other words, if Jesus is our brother by adoption, then we must have the same mother by adoption, Mary.
Again the Holy Spirit inspired the following:
---------- Revelation 12:17 ----------
17 Then the dragon was angry with
the woman, and went off to make war
on the rest of her offspring, on
those who keep the commandments of
God and bear testimony to Jesus. And
he stood on the sand of the sea.
Notice that the offspring of the woman (Mary) who gave birth to the savior, were those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus. Thus again, the Holy Spirit inspired inscripture which says that Mary is our mother, the mother of Christians who keep the commandments and bear testimony to Jesus.
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