why do cathlics belive in the virgin mary?

Question

I ask my self this beacuase well.. yes she did give birth to jessus but thats it!! she should be respected but she shouldnt be worshipped i as a cristian think cathlics dont have a point in their religion so please give me a answer to my question besides GOD AND JESSUS CREATED THE EARTH AND MARRY . CATHLICS BELIVE THE VIRGEN MARY CREATED THE WORLD AND GOD WAT THE HECK?
sorry for my tone i yust dont get it... please some one give me a answer!!!!!

Answer 1

We Catholics don't worship the Virgin Mary, despite what you may have been told by someone else. Worship is reserved strictly for God and no one else.

We honor and respect her for a number of reasons. To begin with, she agreed to bring Jesus into this world at great risk to herself. She could have been stoned to death for being pregnant out of wedlock, but she still said "Yes" to God.

Secondly, she is one of the most beautiful Christian role models of all time. She was humble, loving, loyal, and caring. She was a carpenter's wife, and she lived in modest circumstances, taking care of her husband and Son.

When the wedding couple at Cana was faced with the great social shame of running out of wine, Mary was the one who asked Jesus to help them. She stood by her Son as He died on the Cross, even when His own disciples had abandoned Him. And God considered her worthy to be praying with the disciples when they received the Holy Spirit.

Mary is a beautiful example of what it means to be a Christian. She is a member of the Communion of Saints -- that is, the Body of Christ in Heaven and on earth. We know she is alive to God because Jesus said that all live unto Him.

Luke 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Because Mary is alive in Heaven, we can ask for her intercession, just as we could ask a friend or family member to pray for us. I hope this answers your questions, but if you need more information, edit your post and I'll try to help if I can.

Answer 2

It is Catholics. Spell it correctly or use spellcheck if you are going to post question. Catholics give honor to the Virgin Mary because without her, Christ would not have been born. And where did you get the idea that we think Mary created the world? The world was created long before Mary was even born, so why would you think we think that? We believe God created the heavens and earth and every living thing. I think you need to read a book about it.

Answer 3

Do Catholics worship the Mary? No!!! To worship someone is to acknowledge that the one who is worshiped is divine, is God. Sometimes we can confuse cultural gestures of reverence for gestures of worship. In doing so, we often judge not as God does, by what is in the heart, but rather by appearances (see Jn 8:15, Is 11:3).
Mary is the first saint, and holds high honor today, as she did in the early Church. Over the course of history, devotion to Mary has taken many forms, and even has been confused with worship. Church teaching has consistently placed Mary in the company of the saints, however.
God honored her above all creatures by making her the mother of His Son. In honoring Mary, we are following the example of God Himself. Mary's special privileges were given to her by God, not man.
Catholics do not believe that Mary created the earth. I can't help but wonder where people get this stuff!

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 4

1) Mary is not worshiped in the Catholic Church. The only being to be worshiped is God.

2) Catholics do NOT believe that Mary created the world.

Please go to a source for answers to this type of question. The chat rooms, talk radio and news mags don't have it correct frequently. God bless.

Answer 5

No one on earth ever said Mary created the earth.All Christians including Catholics believe in The Blessed
Virgin Mary as does Islam.

Answer 6

its so funny how people are trying to put on blast for mistakes in your writing but then they dont read it correctly and started saying stuff like "mary didnt create the world..." look if you are going to put some one on blast do it correctly. the girl said God and Jesus created the Earth (and here is the key word) Mary. no where does it say mary created the world. if you are going to be a prick do it correctly and dont make yourself look like more of an a$$ please.

as for the rest of it. Catholics are something else. they have their own rules and regulations. they dont even believe in half the stuff the preach anyways. how is a man going to say... uhh yeah by the way no more limbo... that religion has issues they need to work out.

Answer 7

A. It is Spelled as Catholics

B. It is spelled as Believed

C. It Is Spelled as Because

D. It is Spelled as Jesus

E. It is Spelled as Christian

F. Virgin Mary is Spelled as Mary not Marry.

G....... Let me get this straight, where on Earth did you get the idea of your idea? From your fellow "cristian"? Catholics do not worship Virgin Mary, they respects her as Jesus mother. Jesus followed the 10 commandments, one of them "Honor thy parents." or had you never read that part? Throughout their Mass they did not mentioned about anything regarding Mary created the world, get your facts right.

The Catholics are basically the ones that pieces the whole bible together and the Protestants just basically used the Catholics' bible and changed it to suit their needs. Then they go around spreading rumors.

By the way, other then the bible, where is the logical and clear proof this god and this man-god created Earth?

Answer 8

I think you may be confusing the Virgin birth of Jesus and Mary's perpetual virginity.

All Christians believe that Jesus was conceived in Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit and that Mary was a virgin at this time. In addition, all Christian faiths believe that Mary was a virgin at the time of Jesus' birth.

Protestants differ from Catholics, Orthodox, Coptics and all other Christian groups in believing that she did not remain a virgin after Jesus' birth. They make this claim on the basis of other verses in the bible that name Jesus' brothers. The Catholics, Orthodox and others, just say that those verses are referring to relatives of Jesus. They point to ancient writtings that say that Joseph was married and widowed before he met Mary and that Joseph had other children from his first marriage. So the bible's reference to Jesus' brothers are actually half brothers.

Answer 9

All Christian denominations have self assurance interior the existence of Mary the mummy of Jesus. Her divination is appeared upon in any different case looking on which Christian prepare you maintain on with. Catholics to illustrate view Mary as a Saint, in line with probability the holiest of all of them.

Answer 10

Catholic belief is that all of us, Mary included, need a Redeemer because of our fallen nature and that no one can attain Heaven without His Blood. We are saved from our fallen nature by His grace alone through faith that worketh in charity. Mary, though, because God knew how she would use the free will He gave to her, was saved, by His grace, from having a fallen nature at the moment of her conception. She was redeemed from her mother's womb, an act planned from Genesis 3 so that she could act as the New Eve and so that Christ could be born of vessel even more pure than the Ark of the Covenant. Christ would not have been born from that which is impure! God knew of Mary's will to serve even before she was conceived. He knew she would say yes to Him, and He saved her at her first moment.

Three things in the Bible lead some Protestants to believe that Mary was not ever-virgin: the reference to Jesus' "brothers", the use of the word "until" in Matthew 1:25, and the reference to Jesus as Mary's "firstborn."

Jesus could well have had step-brothers, as Church Tradition and early Church writings tell us that Joseph was an older man when Mary, a consecrated virgin, was betrothed to him so that he could act as her protector when she got to be of age enough to "defile the Temple" (though she could not, in fact defile the Temple). Please read the Protoevangelium of St. James, dated to ca A.D. 125, which, in chapter 9, clearly states that St. Joseph had other children from a former marriage. Though this document was rejected by the Church as being a part of infallible Scripture, it is very early evidence of the belief, held as possisble from the beginning of the Church, that Jesus had "brothers" because his earthly father, Joseph, had children when he married Mary, a consecrated virgin. Also see the apocryphal document, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, yet another early source which proves that many of the earliest Christians believed in Mary's consecrated virginity, that Joseph was an aged man when he married her, and that she was kept free from sin.


Yet another poser: why, in the name of all that's Holy, would Jesus give Mary to John to care for if He had all these brothers and sisters around? John 19:26-27 reads, "When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, He saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith He to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home."

Some Protestants say that the use of the word "firstborn" indicates that Mary had other children, but they are simply being ignorant of Jewish law, Pidyon ha-Ben in particular. Pidyon ha-Ben is the "Redemption of the Firstborn," who were to have been consecrated to God and serve as priests and Temple workers. The "firstborn" is the male child that "opens the womb". If the child that "opens the womb" is a female child, there is no "firstborn" for the family because the child that "opened the womb" is not a masculine child. If no more children are born after the firstborn, the firstborn still has the status and title of "firstborn."

Mary remained both sinless and a virgin her entire life.