To all Christians?

Question

I want to ask this question:

1) Mary is the biological mother of Lord Jesus Christ

2) Mary was only used as a vessel - for Jesus to come into this world...

1) or 2????

Answer 1

Mary IS the biological mother of Lord Jesus Christ.

I am surprised you didn't ask for the reason why we chose one or the other.

EDIT...to the poster above.Mary was not a sinner.Do some research before telling lies.

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

According to orthodox Christian belief both are true. Mary was the biological mother of Jesus, but she conceived via the Holy Spirit (in a biologically inexplicable manner) so she was a vessel of God's purpose. This went along with the ancient belief that a man planted his "seed" in a woman, who then bore the child. There was no real contribution from the mother to the child.

We now know that humans get 1/2 of their genetic material from the mother and half from the father. I wonder where Jesus got his fatherly half from? And if he got half from Mary, that makes him half divine? Or perhaps the laws of genetics and heritability were suspended.

The myth of the Virgin Birth was grafted on to the later gospels in order for the birth of Jesus to meet the prophesies in the Old Testament.

Answer 4

1) Jesus is God. Therefore, Mary is no less than the "Theotokos" ... the "God-bearer" ... the authentic "Mother of God".

Any lesser title denies the divinity of Jesus Christ, and demeans our Savior, who is fully God and fully man, and who chose to be born into this world ... body, blood, soul, and divinity ... via the blessed womb of the Virgin Mary.

2) The Blessed Virgin Mary is a sacred and holy vessel, the "Ark of the New Covenant", much holier than the old Ark ever could be, full of grace, and created in that way for the benefit of, and due to the presence of her divine son. And like all sacred vessels, once consecrated to God, she remains so forever.

We know that anyone who even touched the old Ark would likely die. For this and other good reasons, the Catholic church can teach with certainty that Mary was a virgin before she gave birth to Jesus, after she gave birth to Jesus, and that she remained so forever.

God doesn't just "use" people and then discard them ... especially one who is his first, best, most faithful and most constant disciple.

3) We can count on Jesus to keep at least the "spirit" of his own 4th commandment: Honor your mother and your father.

4) If the Blessed Virgin Mary is good enough for Jesus, she's certainly good enough for us.

Muslims have more respect and regard for the Blessed Virgin Mary than do the majority of modern day protestants.

How are they going to explain that to Jesus?

Answer 5

Both

Mary is not the Mother of God in the sense that God, the created the universe, had a mom. This would be far too close to Mormon theology. Rather, Mary is the mother of the human nature of Jesus, not the mother of the divine nature.
However, it can be said in some sense that she is the Mother of God if what is meant is that her womb carried the incarnate Word. This incredible privilege does not mean that God, the holy and infinite being, was nursing at her breast after his birth. But, it does mean that the person of Jesus was. It was the human nature that nursed, not the divine.

Answer 6

1 and 2 both.

Jesus was born from a human mother. And yes, she was used by God to bring Jesus into the world.

Answer 7

2. Mary was indeed the instrument God used to bring the Savior into the world, but basically she was a sinner like everyone else, and needed to depend upon Christ as her Savior.

Consider Matthew 2:

11 And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”
14 When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
20 saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.” 21 Then he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.

NOTE THAT IN ALL THESE VERSES "THE YOUNG CHILD" OR JESUS IS MENTIONED BEFORE MARY, AND ONLY "CHILD" IS CAPITALIZED.

Uh hello Robert P: According to Romans 3:23, we are ALL sinners without Christ. Read your bible. You must be one of those who believes that Mary was somehow the "Mother of God." That's not biblical. Understand that to imply she or anyone else was a sinner does not necessarily mean she was "wicked," just that she needed to depend on Christ for her salvation, as does everyone else. That includes you, because you evidently don't have Jesus in your heart, or even take time to read Scripture, or else you would know what you're talking about.

Answer 8

Both
Mary was Jesus's human mother and she was also used by God to carry out his purpose for Jesus on earth.

Answer 9

Latria is a Greek term used in Catholic theology to mean adoration, which is the highest form of worship or reverence and is directed only to the Holy Trinity.

Latria is sacrificial in character, and may be offered only to God. Catholics offer other degrees of reverence to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Saints; these non-sacrificial types of reverence are called Hyperdulia and Dulia, respectively. Hyperdulia is essentially a heightened degree of dulia provided only to the Blessed Virgin.

In Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglo Catholic theology, veneration is a type of honor distinct from the worship due to God alone. Church theologians have long adopted the terms latria for the sacrificial worship due to God alone, and dulia for the veneration given to saints and icons. Catholic theology also includes the term hyperdulia for the type of veneration specifically paid to Mary, mother of Jesus, in Catholic tradition. This distinction is spelled out in the dogmatic conclusions of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787), which also decreed that iconoclasm (forbidding icons and their veneration) is a heresy that amounts to a denial of the incarnation of Jesus.

Veneration is a religious symbolic act giving honor to someone by honoring an image of that person, particularly applied to saints.

The Blessed Virgin, as manifesting in a sublimer manner than any other creature the goodness of God, deserves from us a higher recognition and deeper veneration than any other of the saints; and this peculiar cultus due to her because of her unique position in the Divine economy, is designated in theology hyperdulia, that is dulia in an eminent degree. It is unfortunate that neither our own language nor the Latin possesses in its terminology the precision of the Greek. The word latria is never applied in any other sense than that of the incommunicable adoration which is due to God alone. But in English the words adore and worship are still sometimes used, and in the past were commonly so used, to mean also inferior species of religious veneration and even to express admiration or affection for persons living upon the earth. So David "adored" Jonathan. In like manner Miphiboseth "fell on his face and worshipped" David (2 Samuel 9:6).

Answer 10

Essentially both are correct, but he does have her blood line because she was in the Lineage of David. That is why she was choosen to be the virgin mother of Jesus.