Posted on 12/07/2007 1:41:57 PM PST by NYer
Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Ping!
Excellent. Thank you for the post! Happy Friday!
I loved everything except the bride and groom part.
Mary does NOT represent Israel. That’s a fig newton of somebody’s imagination. The bride of Christ is His church - which is comprised of saved Jews and the gentiles He has grafted into the new Israel.
*BUMP* !
What nonsense...And people just lap this up...
Mary didn't invite anyone to do any thing...This author is having another bad dream...
Mary put ALL of the focus on Jesus Christ, the Savior whose time had not come yet...
This church is constantly trying to make Mary, the Mother of the King, the wife of the King as the heathen religions do that pre-dated Christianity that God warned against thru out the scriptures...
The Queen of heaven is not something Christians want to be involved with...
Huh? You make absolutely no sense. First, you say Mary does NOT represent Israel. Then, you say the bride of Christ is His church comprised of saved Jews, etc. Tell me, you would classify Mary as a 'saved Jew,' wouldn't you?
If so, then obviously she is part of the Church -which you correctly note is the bride of Christ- and, thus, obviously part of the new Israel. Hence, it's perfectly legitimate to view her words and actions as representative of Israel.
Sheesh, follow your own logic at least!
Uh, hello? Mary is Jesus' mother. Jesus is the king. Ergo, Mary is the mother of the king. And it was God who pretty much made her so. Not the Catholic Church. We just recognize simple logic.
Ever notice how just mentioning Jesus’ mom seems to drive some people buggy?
For all those who have wondered why Yah'shua changed water into wine
when He could have just gone poof; the answer lies in NUMBERS 19.The water that Yah'shua changed was not the water we think of,
it was not drinking water. It was the water of purification as detailed in NUMBERS 19.The water of purification was used to remove sin under the old covenant.
By the act of changing the water of purification into wine, Yah'shua
ended the OT means of removing sin.
This is the beginning of the New covenant as outlined inf JEREMIAH 31:31Yah'shua by this miracle pointed to His power to remove sin.
Yah'shua demonstrated that He was greater than the ashes of the Red Heifer.
Later He would become the Pesach Lamb,
removing sin forever to all who would look to Him for salvation.b'Shem Yah'shua
**”Do whatever he tells you” (Jn. 2:5) **
BTTT!
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Agreed - if she is saved, she is PART of the church. She is not, by herself, the bride of Christ. You make so sense - being a part of a thing does not make you the thing.
You are not following their scenario...Mary is the daughter of God...Mary is the Mother of God...Mary is the wife (bride) of God...Mary has her own throne...
No where in the article does it say she is the bride of Christ. Rather, it says she symbolizes the bride of Christ -the Church. Being a part of a thing -you are right- does not make you the thing. But, again, no one said she was 'the thing.' Rather, she symbolizes the thing in, say, the same way the Statue of Liberty represents the United States of America or Rosa Parks symbolizes the civil rights movement.
And this makes perfect sense.
Mary was merely the mother of the male child who was God. She is NOT the mother of God - God is “I AM” and has no parents. When Jesus came to Earth, He humbled Himself and took on the form a servant. Mary is a child of God if she is saved (which is reasonable to presume), same as all other Christians. No Saint (which is what the Bible calls Christians) have a throne in heaven. None other than the Lord has a throne.
It’s the Bible, not any man called priest or pope by other men.
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