Is St. Mary the new Eve?

Question

I do believe that the Scriptures teach that St. Mary is the new Eve. This is the earliest of St. Mary’s titles in the Scriptures. This was the first prophesy when God said to the serpent:

(Gen 3:15 DRB) I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall cursh thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

This is the first prophecy that in the beginning was Eve .......... http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-S6YMuFYyaa9ESBoW5DFwEjL_HhqA?p=111

Shinigami, you are exactly right.

Swindled,

Gen 3:15 is not misquoted and I gave the Scriptural references that support my statements.

Answer 1

Yes, she is.

Early in the history of Christianity the Fathers of Church spoke of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the New Eve. St. Irenaeus (d. after 193 A.D.), the most eloquent proponent of Mary as the New Eve among the Fathers wrote, "It was right and necessary that Adam be restored in Christ...that Eve be restored in Mary, so that a Virgin, become advocate of a virgin, might erase and abolish the disobedience of a virgin by her obedience as Virgin."

St. Paul, in several passages of his Epistles, identifies Christ as the New Adam and contrasts Him with the old Adam. While the first sin of the old Adam brought forth sin and death, the salvific action of Jesus Christ the New Adam, the head and father of the human race, redeemed mankind and offers to us the grace of eternal life. Yet Adam did not act alone, for Eve cooperated substantially in the Fall of man. So too, Jesus Christ, who alone purchased our redemption by the price of His Blood, willed to associate His Immaculate Mother in a real and profound way with His salvific work.

The Fathers stressed in writing on the Blessed Mother as the New Eve the idea of Mary's obedience to the will of God as an integral part of the economy of salvation. Mary's obedience in uttering her fiat repaired the disobedience of Eve and, because of God's eternal design, became a necessary element of our redemption from the bondage of sin. As St. Jerome succinctly wrote: "Death through Eve, life through Mary."

"The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living" (Gen 3:20). Eve was the mother of the living; similarly, Mary as the New Eve is the Mother of the living in the order of grace. Mary proved her faithful obedience not only at the Annunciation but also through her entire earthly life, especially when she gave her silent, heart-wrenching fiat as she stood under the bloody Cross of Calvary watching her Son, who is her God, die the most excruciating of deaths.

God puts the destiny of all mankind in a young woman's hands. Mary's "yes" is the premise for fulfilling the plan which God in his love had prepared for the world's salvation.

Answer 2

I know those scriptures are a prophecy that the messiah would come through the seed of a woman and that it was fulfilled in Mary having Jesus. Never-the-less it does not quite say that Mary is the new Eve. Indeed the Bible does not even say anything about the new Eve. If I am wrong then show me where in the New Testament there is anything about the new Eve, or even the term new Eve.

It a sad reflection on the critic when he/she gives a thumb down when something is true.

Answer 3

just a minor issue, Mother Mary is not referred to as "Saint Mary".

Saint Mary is the sister of Saint Martha, or the wife of Cleopas and the mother of the Apostle James. Saint Mary is also mentioned in the Gospel as among the women who were present at the Crucifixion.

Saint Mary Magdalene is yet another Saint Mary.

Mother Mary, the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, is the Queen of Angels and the Queen of All Saints.

To answer your question, Mother Mary is indeed the New Eve, just as her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ is the new Adam and the firstborn of the new Creation.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Definitely.
Mary is the mother of all the redeemed
and the mother of all humanity

Our Lady is the New Sarah ,the new Deborah,the New Esther,the New Judith, the New Miriam

Answer 6

I do not see anything in scripture that supports such a statement. And you misquoted Gen 3:15.
All bibles I have read says that " HE " shall not "SHE" shall.
This makes all your documentation suspect. What is DBR

Answer 7

Or maybe the Bride of Christ, i.e the Church (i.e all genuine believers in Christ.) Since he is the New Adam and like the original wants a bride.

Answer 8

yes, she is, this is why Jesus calls her "woman" to bring attention to the fact that she is the woman talked about in Genesis because anything different would not be honoring his Mother and he certainly did that.

Answer 9

Isn't Eve simply meaning "woman"?
(Doesn't that tie in so wonderfully with how Jesus addressed her?)

Answer 10

Yes... Mary (Jesus' Mother) is the New Eve