He came to save, but he also came to suffer. How were both possible? Mere man had no power to save. One who was solely God could not suffer. What happened then? He who was God became man. By what he was, he saved; by what he became, he suffered. ... he both wore the crown of thorns and undid the sentence of the thorns.
For the same one was in the "Father's bosom" and in the Virgin's womb, in his mother's arms and on the "wings of the wind", adored by angels and "dining with tax collectors". The seraphims would not look at him [cf. Is. vi, 2], and Pilate interrogated him. A "servant struck him" and creation trembled. While nailed on the cross, he did not depart from his throne. While shut in the tomb, he was "stretching out the heavens like a curtain". While numbered with the dead, he was plundering Hell.
Below, he was accused as a "deceiver", above he was glorified as the Holy One. What a mystery: beholding his miracles, I extol his divinity; seeing his sufferings, I cannot deny his humanity. As man, Emmanuel opened the gates of human nature; as God, he left the bars of virginity unbroken. ... His entering in was altogether without passion, and his coming out was altogether beyond understanding -- as the Prophet Ezechiel said, "the Lord brought me back to the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it was shut. And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut".
There you have a clear testimony to the Blessed Mary Mother of God. Let all contradiction now cease, and let us be enlightened by the teaching of the Scriptures, so that we may reach the kingdom of heaven in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
2007-02-22 21:25:09 · 5 answers · asked by carl 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good job!
2007-02-22 21:32:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Except for one thing mate:
Not everyone descends from Adam and Eve, and thus not everyone even NEEDS saving.
Oh yes, I know some of you will give me the thumbs down. But the Bible says that many people dwelled in Nod before Adam and Eve were ever created. You yourselves have wondered how the human race could have thrived if there were only Cain and his sister to reproduce.
God gave you a mind. Think on it. And Meg, if what you say is true, I wouldn't exist right now. Adam had his descendants: So did Cain. So did Nod.
One such biblical reference is posted below. Nod existed. It was there. And if it was outside of Eden, and there were three, maybe four people tops in all the world, and they were all INSIDE Eden, why did the Land of Nod even have a name?
And I quote... "Genesis 5 repeatedly tells us that these early humans lived for hundreds of years. If each of the 10 patriarchs named there only had 4 sons, who then had 4 sons of their own, etc, there would have been well over 1 million inhabitants of Earth by the time of the Great Flood. It's likely that the actual population was 3-4 times that many."
Hmmmmm......
2007-02-23 05:28:48 · answer #2 · answered by Khalin Ironcrow 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yes, Khalin, I gave you a thumbs down because the Bible DOESN'T say that "many people dwelled in Nod before Adam and Eve were ever created." Also, Adam and Eve did have other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4).
2007-02-23 05:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You want to be enlightened by the teaching of the scripture? Where does the "scripture" teach us about the "Mother of God"??? Give us a reference out of the Bible or quit teaching heresy.
2007-02-23 05:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
great, but how does the mother come in?
2007-02-23 05:30:04 · answer #5 · answered by ekduin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋