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To: Gamecock
The Saints in the OT did not say the Magnificat or reference to Christ in the same way Mary did in the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) when she is bearing Jesus Christ -- NOTE: Jesus has not been born yet, He has not yet (in our space-time) been the sacrifice on the Cross she says my spirit rejoices in God, my right NOW Saviour

If you read my following points, they elaborate further
1. We Christians here in Christ's Church, the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church believe that Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Our God saved Mary, His created being, His mother.

2. We believe that Mary being a daughter of Adam and Eve would have been faithed to have the same "stain" from Original Sin. you believe in that "stain", too, correct?

3. Mary in the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) when she is bearing Jesus Christ -- NOTE: Jesus has not been born yet, He has not yet (in our space-time) been the sacrifice on the Cross she says my spirit rejoices in God, my right NOW Saviour

4. Note: Mary does not say "my spirit rejoices in God, my future Saviour", but she says "in Deo salvatore meo,", "my current Saviour",

5. Mary clearly indicates that God (Jesus Christ) has already saved her. How is that possible if he has not yet been on the Cross or even been born yet?

6. This very clearly indicates that Mary needed a savior too and her Savior saved Her somehow even before He was born

7. The only conclusion is that somehow before His work on the Cross, Christ already saved his created being, His mother, mary.

8. The logical conclusion is He protected her from sin and in fact "saved" her from sin even before He was born.

237 posted on 12/16/2010 8:22:50 AM PST by Cronos (Et Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis (W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie))
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To: Cronos

Cronos wrote in response to Gamecock:
“7. The only conclusion is that somehow before His work on the Cross, Christ already saved his created being, His mother, mary.”

Cronos, there is another conclusion possible. It is that the Roman Catholic Church’s understanding of the content and purpose of the Old Testament and how it is related to the New is simply, profoundly wrong.

Just so we are not talking past each other, what I am asserting is that Rome’s understanding of the Old Testament is colored by its understanding of the Judaism of the first century A.D., specifically, Pharisaical Judaism, which is the Judaism that has survived to this day. What they fail to grasp is that that Judaism is not the faith of the Old Testament fathers, not at all.

This was, of course, the very foundation of the Pharisees’ (or as John says, “the Jews,” for that is chiefly who he means) rejection of Jesus. Many of the Jewish people themselves noted this right from the beginning: “And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.” (Matthew 7:29) In other words, the Beatitudes, and the whole of the Sermon on the Mount that follows them, is not a New Law (which is really what Rome means when it says “Gospel”) but Old Testament doctrine, Law and Gospel, now being fulfilled in and by the Christ, in whom all who are in heaven or ever will be in heaven have trusted, both those of the Old and those of the New Testament. The faith is one. The doctrine is one. The Lord is one. Not one jot or tittle of the Law (the Torah, the teaching, the doctrine, i.e. the content of the OT) would pass away until all of it was - not contravened! - fulfilled. Here the word “until” is to be understood as it is in Matthew 1:25. Just as there it cannot be said to mean that Mary for sure would know a man thereafter, so here it cannot be said to mean that the Old Testament’s truth would be abolished and done away with by the new and different truth of the New. On this point you don’t have a grammatical leg to stand on.

Thereafter the truth of the Old Testament Scriptures would continue to stand, side by side with that of the New Testament, neither contradicting the other, with the former distinguished from the latter only by the incarnation itself. This is the foundation of the apostles and prophets, of which Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone. The prophets believed in Him who was to come and ransom Israel (simply another word for the church) from his sins. The apostles believed in Him who had come in fulfillment of those same prophecies and their promises. That is why the church of the New Testament is grafted into the olive tree that is Israel, i.e., the Messiah believing and for His sake justified church of the Old Testament.

In other words, again, the faith of Mary, expressed in the Magnificat, is the saving faith grounded in Him who now was about to come into the world. This faith she shared with Elizabeth and Zechariah, with Simeon and Anna, and with Eve, and all the faithful in between.

On these points, Rome is, as I said above, simply and profoundly wrong. This is not even another possible conclusion in addition to your point number seven. It is truly the only conclusion. Dear, Cronos, if offered a choice of fellowship with the church of Rome or the church of the Old Testament, I choose the latter, for it is the faith once handed down to the saints. Israel, Jerusalem, Zion, the holy mountain of the Lord, His chosen people, all expressions used many times in the Old Testament to mean the same thing, and the church of the New Testament are one. What God Himself has put together, let no one put asunder.


266 posted on 12/16/2010 10:21:14 AM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: Cronos; Gamecock
7. The only conclusion is that somehow before His work on the Cross, Christ already saved his created being, His mother, mary.

8. The logical conclusion is He protected her from sin and in fact "saved" her from sin even before He was born.

I’m not sure where you learned logic, but that’s nothing like real logic in the “He protected her from sin” comment. There is no absolutely logical connection between what precedes and item 8.

As far as step 7 goes, this is true for all the saints like Abraham who lived prior to Christ’s crucifixion

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."
It was also, no doubt, true for Zacharias and Elizabeth, Simeon, John the Baptist and other who may have died prior.
294 posted on 12/16/2010 11:34:42 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- like crack for the eschatologically naive.")
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