Since Jesus is the Messiah, he is a king.

[traillius]

When, in the OT jewish kingdom, from saul, all the way to the last king( hezekiah? ), did the people need to have a ‘personal relationship’ with the king, or accept him as their ‘personal king and protector ’ for them to be able to be considered part of the kingdom? It was their birthright. Since Jesus sits on the throne of David, it would illogical, and anti-biblical to assume the rules are different, just because the person that holds the throne is different. He is also the high priest in the order of melchizidek( sp). In both of these roles, the citizens, or believers, don’t need a ’ personal relationship ’ to be collectively blessed by the king or priest. Also the mother of the king, in ancient israel, was honored. She was the ‘vessel’ for the new king, until he was born. Thereafter, she was honored. Mary fits this role. So I can’t understand where these " personal lord and savior’ and ’ mary is just another person’ ideas come from. I don’t even want to go there about mary ‘being dead’ I will save that for another time.

 

[nhylan]

You can probably stop your veiled attempts to disprove other peoples faiths. In everyone one of these entries you’ve had over the last few days you JUST CAN’T understand some aspect of certain denominations. If you don’t even “want to go there” as you proclaim, I suggest you don’t.