Your failing to realize where God is at, open your mind to the possibility that this is the Church that Christ established.
Grace is Gods love, and God choose to make a perfectly sinless vessel to carry his son. Is that so hard to understand, or are you just so stubborn to not believe that Jesus loved his mother that much? What are you going to say on the final day, when you did not have enough oil in your lantern.
+My bible says , “For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden” LOW ESTATE ! Being perfect is NOT low estate .Being sinless is not low estate Being the new Eve , better than the first, is not low estate. Blessed are the poor in spirit. She was poor in spirit .Jesus chose her, and chose not just a handmaiden of low estate, but chose to be born in a manger, and grow in inconsequential Nazareth, and put on flesh with no comeliness.
Patavium…as I mentioned, Mary was ‘full of grace’ or ‘favored’ because out of all the women in Israel, God could have chosen, He picked Mary to fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy & bring our Lord miraculously into the world, proving that it wasn’t a normal human birth, but a Divine one!
I know .Luther was wrong along with many other Catholic monks of his time .Thankfully there were other monks who supported the opposite.
One sinned, the other did not. Both are saints, but one was assumed to heaven.
Do you know what is meant by poor in spirit? Humble.
God loves sinners even more. He died for them . So what would be the big deal if one of those sinners , whom He would die for, bore Him ?
The assumption is “needed” ,for the soul that sinneth shall surely die.Which CC says dying is complete when flesh begins to decay .If her body decayed ,then perhaps she sinned, hence assumption ,to avoid decay process. Actually don’t know CC stand on this ,but some Catholics have inferred this.One sinned, the other did not. Both are saints, but one was assumed to heaven.
God bless.
It is big deal with God as he does not want to be part of sin. Yes, he died for sinners and came for people such as us; and how grateful we are. But God is the ultimate perfection and one thing that he is not part of, is sin.
"O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together.: - Psalm 34:3
They both sinned & neither were ‘assumed’ to Heaven. The ‘woman’ in Revelation 12:1 is Israel, NOT Mary. Compare Revelation 12:1 to Genesis 37:5-10.One sinned, the other did not. Both are saints, but one was assumed to heaven.
God bless.
No real correlation at all.
It refer to Mary, because in Revelation 12:1, the ‘Woman’ is in Heaven (assumed to be 'Assumed"
yes, ‘play on words’). while LATER in v.6 & again in v. 14, the ‘Woman’ is fleeing into the wilderness. If this is Mary, then the events are backwards (being Assumed in Heaven - v.1, THEN LATER being driven into the wilderness by the dragon - v.6 & 14). THEN, the ‘Woman’ is being chased by ‘the serpent’ (v.15), which is identified as ‘the devil, Satan, the SERPENT of old,’ (v.9), NOT Herod.I would not put all my eggs in one basket of an apocalyptic book. Characteristically, there is an exuberant use of symbolic images (women, animals, monsters, trumpets, vessels) and numbers (four, seven, twelve, etc.). The same set of events or characters may be described over again or recapitulated under a succession of different images. This warns us against assuming logical sequences from one scene to another and too quickly assigning unique significance when we turn to the symbolism of Revelation 12.
Even in the present form of Revelation it is clearly Christ who accomplishes the ultimate defeat of the dragon in 21:7-10.It refer to Mary, because in Revelation 12:1, the ‘Woman’ is in Heaven (assumed to be 'Assumed"
The belief that the ‘Woman’ is Israel is supported by Scripture - compare Revelation 12:1 to Genesis 37:5-10, which the belief that it’s Mary is not. In fact, it doesn’t make sense.