Catholics think that Mary was the mother of God.Then who were Mary's parents?..God's Grandma and Grandpa?

Question

Also in Genesis..Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve(making 4 people on earth) Cain killed Abel(down to 3).Cain went out and found himself a wife...where did she come from and who were her parents/grandparents?This is why I can't take the Bible LITERALLY although I accept it as a symbolic representation.

Melvin C ..have you not heard them praying" Mary,mother of God.....'
YOU get your facts right.

So Joaquin and Anne were God's grandparents then?

Answer 1

+ Mary, the Mother of God +

Christians including Catholics believe that God, the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and Holy Spirit, has always existed.

As part of God's plan of salvation, Jesus Christ, God the Son, became a human being, born of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In accrodance to God's plan He was eventually crucified and rose from the dead.

Because Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, God the Son, she is called the mother of God.

+ Adam and Eve +

The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

The religious truth is that God created everything and declared all was good.

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 2

>>Catholics think that Mary was the mother of God.<<

Yes. Jesus is God, and Mary is His mother. When Mary visits Elizabeth, Elizabeth calls Mary "the mother of my Lord" (Luke 1:43).

>>Then who were Mary's parents?..God's Grandma and Grandpa?<<

Jesus got His divinity from His daddy. That doesn't make Mary any less His mother, though. Just as a boy gets his maleness, his Y chromosome, from his father, yet his mother is still the mother of his entire person, not half his person, so Mary is mother of the Divine Child. According to the Protoevangelium of James, Mary's parents were Joachim and Anna/e, and yes, they were His grandparents.

>>Also in Genesis..Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve(making 4 people on earth) Cain killed Abel(down to 3).Cain went out and found himself a wife...where did she come from and who were her parents/grandparents?<<

"The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years; and he had other sons and daughters." -- Genesis 5:4. Cain married either one of his sisters or one of his nieces.

Answer 3

Yes, Mary's parents would be Jesus' grandparents, whether you believe him to be the son of god, or not.

"Though few commentators adhere to this view of St. Luke's genealogy, the name of Mary's father, Heli, agrees with the name given to Our Lady's father in a tradition founded upon the report of the Protoevangelium of James, an apocryphal Gospel which dates from the end of the second century. According to this document the parents of Mary are Joachim and Anna. Now, the name Joachim is only a variation of Heli or Eliachim, substituting one Divine name (Yahweh) for the other (Eli, Elohim). The tradition as to the parents of Mary, found in the Gospel of James, is reproduced by St. John Damascene [24], St. Gregory of Nyssa [25], St. Germanus of Constantinople [26], pseudo-Epiphanius [27], pseudo-Hilarius [28], and St. Fulbert of Chartres [29]. Some of these writers add that the birth of Mary was obtained by the fervent prayers of Joachim and Anna in their advanced age. As Joachim belonged to the royal family of David, so Anna is supposed to have been a descendant of the priestly family of Aaron; thus Christ the Eternal King and Priest sprang from both a royal and priestly family [30]. "

And to the poster above - back then, everyone was just Christian - not Catholic, not Protestant, just Christian.

I must say, I just love how, at every turn, the anti-Catholic brigade come leaping out of nowhere to start spouting their bigotry and hatred. You're all supposed to be Christians - let's see some of that 'love' your saviour preached, eh??

Answer 4

in the Holy Quran it tells us that the parents of Mary were a Prophet called Imraan and her mother was a Noble lady called Hannah. Hannah wanted a child to serve in the way of God, when she gave birth to a girl she was shocked because she thought the a girl/women could do no service to God. However Mary was a pious and holy woman who spent most of her time in worshipping the ONE God. An angel was sent to her by God and told her that she will have a child, even though she had not been touched by a man. This child will be special and become a great Prophet.

Answer 5

just another minor detail altered by the catholics iit`s not important ,their was no trinity either till they put it in .
the fact is the catholics wanted to force a lot of other religions into converting but the problem was that these people where used to having a godess so to make it easier for them to accept they raised mary from being the mother of Jesus humble woman to holy Mary mother of God
the same with Christmas they knew the general rabble wouldn`t go for giving up their winter celebration so they slyly renamed it and fitted it in you see (every one wins )
the whole Bible is choc a block with things they changed and then when the king James Bible was written the catholic translations were used

Answer 6

1 there are two genealogies in the new testament concerning Jesus ancestry

Matthew 1 and Luke 3 - one deals with that of Joseph and the other with that of Mary

2 In genesis chapter 5 we have the answer that

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

note the part HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS bit

so Cain married his sister - as did most of Adam's sons including Seth

that wasn't uncommon in those days - Pharaohs were well known to 'keep it in the family' - Abraham married his half sister Sarai too (biblical account)

the reason that was permitted in those days was that the DNA has far less corruptions to begin with so children were not submitted to congenital disorders as would be seen today when close relatives marry.

it wasn't until the law of moses (many centuries later) that the marriage of close relatives was banned and that taboo remains till this day

Answer 7

Peace!
Let me just add something to what has already been said. The Bible is the word of God in the words of men. The stories there should not be taken literally. Many stories in the Bible are not meant to teach. They are there for historical, cultural, geographic, poetic or other reasons. My suggestion is read the Bible in the same level that it was written - spiritual. If you do this, God will speak to you.

Answer 8

I'm not sure I understand the Mary phenomenon myself.
Unless God is showing He wants us to have respect for the Feminine principle of Creation.
There have been many visions of Mary, and I myself
saw a video of one in Egypt. An apparition of a woman
in a head covering and robe was on top of a building
with her arms outstretched. Therefore, we should
show respect.

Answer 9

Catholics use Mary since the Gothic period. They had preached for years of hell and God's wrath to scare people. So in this new era they thought it might be better to add a female figure to give the religion a softer, delicate touch. After all, all the Notre-Dame churches are built for this purpose.

Answer 10

wasn't mary, jesuss' mum, having been brought up a catholic myself we all know that mary was a virgin, although im wondering if god was having a bit on the side with mary and because she hadnt had intercourse with joseph they had to cook up a story and because it was such an impressive adulterous cover up, some creative writer thought he could make a killing on this and thus journalism was born by way of the bible. I say beleive and have faith in yourself he's dead, just let it go.