why in the catholicism Mary is a virgin? and she is most important than jesus?

Question

why mary only speak through the people never we see jesus speaking?

Answer 1

What? You've been reading from some anti-catholic preacher manual stop that and put it down or better yet burn it. Please see any of my previous question/answers especially the best answer on the eternal virginity of Mary -- http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhzlM28nUJXhzgeQT20R9jD44gt.?qid=20061207122053AAwuDmA&show=7#profile-info-df7d9c71d0e64ebc9642d34cd776c726aa .

Since the Holy Trinity One God doctrine is a Catholic one borrowed by non-Catholic Christians clearly one can quickly understand Catholicism does not teach Mary is more important.

From the Gospel of Luke it is written "all generations shall call me [Mary] blessed" Hmmm looks like only the Catholics are doing that so much for all those so-called bible Christians who aren't also Catholic.

The eternal virginity of Mary was taught and believed by all first Protestants including Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and even John Wesley (that one really surprises people as Wesley from time to time was very anti-Catholic).

goto http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/download
and download the audio file on Mary

Edit: Brad seems to miss the point completely, Mary is in God's plan not apart from it.

Answer 2

Can't answer for Catholicism, but Mary was only a virgin until after she gave birth to Jesus. She was married to Joseph and they had other children, she wasn't a virgin her whole life long!

And NO she is NOT more important than Jesus. Jesus is the Saviour, she is the "vessel" that God chose to give birth to His son. She must have been a very godly, wonderful woman although not much more than a few chapters in the Bible talk about her - compared to the whole New Testament about Jesus. I think if some Catholics call her divine that is going way overboard and putting her on a par with Jesus... no disrespect intended but there is no back-up for this doctrine in the Bible whatsoever. If someone thinks there is, I'd love to see it!

Good honest question! Thanks.

Answer 3

Mary wasn't just a virgin in Catholicism. She was also a virgin in the Bible. Read Luke 1.

In Catholicism, Mary is not more important than Jesus. A lot of people have that stereotype about Catholicism, but it's not true.

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Answer 4

This is a common misconception of Mary that happens sometimes unintentionally in Catholicism.
Jesus is the focal point of Christianity.

Mary was just a servant, a woman obedient to God. You'll notice as the new testament goes on, Jesus distances Himself from His biological family, not to be disobedient, but because He is of God.
Mary is a virgin, because she was not impregnated through biological means, but the Holy Spirit caused her to become pregnant

Praying to Mary is not right either, nor praying to the saints to intercede with God. God created all and is most Holy and Almighty. The saints were just men.

Apologies to other Christians if I misquote the gospel and such help me out here

Answer 5

It is not just Roman Catholics who elevate Mary's virgin birth. In many Protestant churches, the Apostle's creed is recited which contains the phrase, "Born of the Virgin Mary". It is crucial to faith to believe that God could bring forth a baby from a virgin's womb. I don't mean that one cannot be saved unless one believes this, I'm only saying that, with time, one can come to believe things that don't make sense in human terms.
And no, NOTHING and NO-ONE is more important than Jesus. It is He that lived as a human in order that we might know what true humanity is. And it is He that willingly laid aside HIS life that we might have eternal life with the Father, out of His unbelievable love for us.

Answer 6

Catholicism pretends that Mary was 'forever virgin', seemingly ignoring the fact that she had other sons and daughters after Jesus was born.

The bible teaches quite clearly that Jesus had literal brothers and sisters in connection with his human mother Mary. There is no reason to think that these ordinary men and women were also the result of divine conception, rather than from normal marital relations between Mary and Joseph.

(Matthew 13:54-56) And after coming into his home territory [Jesus] began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said: "Where did this man get this wisdom and these powerful works? 55 Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where, then, did this man get all these things?"

While some Catholics pretend that the terms "brothers" and "sisters" do not mean literal siblings, the plain meaning of this Scripture is actually acknowledged by Catholic authorities.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967, Vol. IX, p. 337) admits regarding the Greek words "adelphoi" ["brothers"] and "adelphai" ["sisters"], used at Matthew 13:55, 56, that these "have the meaning of full blood brother and sister in the Greek-speaking world of the Evangelist's time and would naturally be taken by his Greek reader in this sense. Toward the end of the 4th century (c. 380) Helvidius in a work now lost pressed this fact in order to attribute to Mary other children besides Jesus so as to make her a model for mothers of larger families. St. Jerome, motivated by the Church's traditional faith in Mary's perpetual virginity, wrote a tract against Helvidius (A.D. 383) in which he developed an explanation . . . that is still in vogue among Catholic scholars."


In addition, Bible students note that Jesus himself made a clear distinction between his literal brothers and sisters and his spiritual brothers and sisters:

(Mark 3:31-35) Now his mother and his brothers came, and, as they were standing on the outside, they sent in to [Jesus] to call him. 32 As it was, a crowd was sitting around him, so they said to him: "Look! Your mother and your brothers outside are seeking you." 33 But in reply he said to them: "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 34 And having looked about upon those sitting around him in a circle, he said: "See, my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does the will of God, this one is my brother and sister and mother."


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20050908a/
http://watchtower.org/e/20031215/

Answer 7

Mary isn't a virgin "in Catholicism". She is ever virgin, de facto. Catholics recognize this Christian truth. Many others who call themselves Christian reject this Christian truth, along with many others. But Mary is NOT more important, or nearly as important as our Lord and Savior. Catholics worship God in the person of Jesus Christ. They do NOT worship Mary or any other saint. That would constitute idolatry, which the Catholic Church absolutely condemns in all of its forms - a fact you could have learned for yourself by looking it up in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, available at any bookstore.
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Answer 8

it relatively is totally complicated. initially, the coaching of the Catholic Church is that Mary is to no longer be worshiped. yet she has been given a place of surprising veneration, yet she isn't considered a goddess. yet what you're saying appropriate to the prestige of female in the Catholic Church is actual, and it has no longer continually been the case. Sigmund Freud became a psychoanalyst, no longer a theologian, so his opinion isn't theologically valid. yet he has a element. There are tricks in the gospels (from Jesus's egalitarian therapy of females) and in the Acts and letters of the hot testomony, that early Christianity became lots extra equivalent. There are deaconesses in the hot testomony, and probably bishops besides. Paul himself suggested, "In Christ there is not any male or female." yet it slow after the legalization of Christianity in the Fourth Century, Roman Paternalism took over the Church, and a marketing campaign became carried out to erase the history female participation in the artwork and administration of the Church. (It commonly succeeded, yet no longer thoroughly.) on the grounds that then it has commonly been an previous boys community, the two in the Church and in secular way of life. in simple terms in the final century has the equality began to be regarded. Traditionalists are terrified and ferocious, yet their time may be slowly fading.

Answer 9

First, she is not more important than Jesus nor is she venerated as being more important. Jesus is the son of God made man, She was a virgin as the prophicys of how the redeemer was to be born fortold. "a virgin shall give birth"
Catholics offer prayers to Mary believing that, as the mother of Jesus Christ, she might have some influence on her son, just as many mothers have with their children.

Answer 10

I'm not quite familiar the Catholic religion but I do know that Mary is a virgin because she didn't have to have sex to conceive Jesus. She's veiwed the most important to catholics because she's the mother of the Saviour.