CHRISTIANS - No one comes to the Father except through me?

Question

Ok, so if Jesus said, "No one comes to the Father except through me." My question is how do we get to the Mother? And before you say there isn't one, Jesus himself was born of a mother. So if there isn't a Mother, then why didn't God just send Jesus to this earth and bypass the whole Mother/birth process? Jesus himself said you must be born of water and spirit. With the whole foundation of our existence based on a process of conception between a male and female and then a physical birth, then why do Christians deny we have a Mother?

Answer 1

Before a body was made of earth, Adam was created in God's image as a spiritual being a little lower then the angels. As a spiritual being he had, as does God, both the male and female aspects within himself.

The female, mother, was separated out of Adam to form Eve; not just a rib and a hank of hair.

One of the seven compound names of Jehovah God means "The breasted one" and certainly all creation shows that God has both aspects. Further the plan of salvation shows that he has the care and compassion of a true mother. Christ looking over Jerusalem said --- ....how often would I have gathered thy children together; even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

If that is not enough, you have a mother by sex and seduction. Her name is Eve.

Answer 2

The Father is God...the mother is Mary...

There is a difference between father and Father(look at the first letter). The only way to get into heaven is by Jesus.

As far as bypassing the mother birth...if he did that than Jesus wouldn't be man, he wouldn't sacrifice himself, and therefore the prophecies wouldn't have been fulfilled.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word = Jesus. In the old testament(not sure where) it says God's Word would be flesh. Jesus is the Word and Jesus was made flesh by having a human birth.

"You must be born of water and spirit." Your spirit must be born that way. That's talking about baptism, where you accept the Holy Spirit into your body.

We deny we have a Mother because, unless the Holy Spirit is female, we don't. We have mothers(in the church), mothers in our families, but not in Heaven.

Answer 3

I don't deny that we have a mother, but Mary isn't my mother, not the mother of my body or my spirit. She was a vessel that God picked to bring about the birth of the savior. She was a wonderful woman who lived up to the promises she made with God. That doesn't make her holy, or an intercessor to God.

Christ said that the only way to the Father is Him. That means that there is no other person, or being, that can bring us closer to the Father. There isn't a reason to pray to Mary, or to think she is anything other then a blessed woman who should be respected for what she did.

In my opinion, the one who should be called our Mother is Eve. She was the one who brought about the ability for us to be born, to receive a body, and to live a mortal life. Without her, Mary would never have been born.

Being born of water and spirit means that you have two births: The births of our bodies, and the spirit that enters our bodies; and baptism (conversion) and the gift of the Holy Spirit. We must have both to be truely converted.

Answer 4

Jesus was created by God himself alone. Later, God sent Jesus through the virgin mary to be born in physicall form here on earth. You must be born of water and spirit : Thats when someone gets baptized in water and with the spirit of God just like Jesus himself got baptized.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Jesus made it clear that it is through Him to the Father, not Jesus' mother. Mary was blessed by God for her work in carrying and nurturing Jesus, but was also a sinner in need of grace. She ended up joining the band of disciples after Jesus' crucifixion. (Acts 1:14)

Answer 7

Jesus had a heavenly Father and an earthly mother to fulfill the requirement of the Messiah's sacrifice. He was all man and all God. There are many earthly mothers, but only One heavenly father. The bible says, "There is one mediator between man and God, the man Jesus Christ." We don't pray to Mary, only God.

Answer 8

Father or Abba in the Hebrew language is meant as a metaphor, meaning the head of all creation, we humans are the children of God metaphorically speaking.

The Christians on the other hand take it as physical, Barabbas as we know is a person freed by the Jews on Passover 2000 years ago instead of Jesus.

Barabbas means "son of the father" so the question is were there two Christs walking in the times of Jesus?

Answer 9

Because it is only through Christ that we can by faith approach God...

Hebrews 4:14-16 (New International Version)
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Answer 10

You are totally mixing apples & oranges.
"Coming to the Father through me" refers to our reconciliation.
Mary is revered as the "Mother of God" because she bore Jesus.
But she is only human, not divine, Christians do not deny her.
God chose to enter human existance in the 'normal' way;
so that we would accept Jesus as one of us.
"Being born of water & the Spirit" refers to our baptism.