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Uhhhhh . . . that’s a grossly misleading assertion.
ESSENTIALLY, IT IS NOT = THE BIBLE.
IT IS CERTAINLY FAR FROM THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD IN SCRIPTURE ON THE MATTERS RELATED THERETO.
It’s a relatively obscure
PHRASE
in the Bible.
. . . taken horrifically out of context and embellished far worse than the 2 feet thick curtain hiding the Holy of Holies that rent when Christ was on the Cross.
How is it taken out of context? It is far from the only evidence for the importance of Mary in the Bible, but it is certainly clear enough.
Why will all generations call her blessed?
“For he that is mighty hath magnified me: and holy is his Name.”
She will be remembered and blessed because God Himself has chosen her as His vessel so that His Son can become both God and Man.
Luther and Calvin didn’t have any problems calling Mary blessed, or giving her other titles. It was a later development in Protestantism, which seems to have emerged arbitrarily as the result of blind hatred of Rome.
I have to leave now. But I would suggest separating study of the Bible from the desire to demonize whatever the Church teaches. Mary is NOT to be worshipped. Only God may be worshipped. But she is to be honored as the Mother of Jesus.
So, too, in a different way we honor the Apostles, because Jesus chose them from among many others to be the leaders of the Church in His day.