If Mary is the mother of God, and she is the one who birthed Jesus, does that make her equal or superior...?

Question

To the Father?

Hm...

Does that make Jesus inferior to Mary?
He is her child after all.

Seriously.
http://scripturecatholic.com/saints.html.

Jesus is God. The Blessed Mother provided the flesh. So, she is the Mother of God.

Really? So she created God?

Straight from the mouth of a Catholic, I swear.

That Catholic being my mother.

Answer 1

Wait. I thought Jesus was God's greatest creation. So according to the chick above me, Mary is greater than Jesus.

No disrespect, but whoever is perpetuating such lies in the Catholic church will answer for it one day.

He didn't say you worship Mary, he was inquiring about her place in the hierarchy of God. I swear, it's like everytime someone points out a flaw in logic, it's interepreted as an attack! That's insane! Just answer the question!

Mary was a vessel for the christ to be born. She was a pure, chaste loyal servant of God. She fulfilled her duty to God by allowing her body to be the vessel for the birth of Christ. That's all. When Christ was born, she becam a wife, a mother again. She is worthy of veneration, but she is not in anyway an intercessory. None come unto the father except through him. That means prayers and salvation. No other way. Period!

Christopher, wach the Mists of Avalon. There is something highly ironic in it. At the end of the movie when Avalon vanishes into the mists, Morgain is narrating the story,a nd she talks of a time when the goddess will have her rightful place again.

**disclaimer** I am not implying that mary is worshipped as Goddess, but consider the scene.

Morgain is spending her time in a convent, she is provided safety as a former priestess. She walks into a room where they have a statue of mary, and little girls placing flowers at her feet. And she says perhaps the Goddess has found her place after all.

There is so much pagan symbolism in all of Christianity, but you also have to consider the time of when Christianity was first sprung up. Rome was in a state of crisis when it cam to worship between the pagans and Christians. So the ruler at the time decided to unite Rome under one religion: Christianity. But to make it more appealing, they embellished on the divinity of jesus and made him equal to Heavenly father as well. Then they created a way to make "sub gods" by calling them saints, but oh no, we don't worship them! Pray to these saints.

Roman pagans, and I took a class in high school that was heavy on roman history, had a god for everything. God of the cows, God of the wine, god of the Kitchen pantry. Pray to those Gods and don't trouble Jupiter with matters less trivial. Well, Catholics have patrons saints...a little different, but they had to make it different enough so the Christians were kept happy too.

That way, everyone in rome was happy. And the pagans on the outside? Not so much, because after that hapened we had crap like the crusades and such. Extermination of the pagans. And the ones who didn't go along strictly with the Roman church.

Sadly, many Catholics are ignorant of this history, and many wish to remain so. But it's true, and while I'm not saying all other churches are perfect, they are the only one's I have seen so far that spread such blasphemies with the very bible we all claim to be following. I mean, at least mormons have another book to blame it on.

Answer 2

Mary was the vessel that gave birth to Jesus Christ to closely follow the normal course of Jesus becoming a human without having Jesus materialize into one. Mary was just a human being. Jesus is God's first creation in Heaven and the only begotten son here on Earth. Therefore, the chain of command is God, Jesus, Angels, Humans to include Mary and all of the Holy Ones that ever lived.

Answer 3

Mary is not the Mother of God...She is the mother of the human part of Jesus. Although God did bless her by choosing her to be the Mother of his Son, she was not divine in any way and had no special place in the Kingdom...She was there in the upper room that day to receive the Holy Spirit,,,just as all his followers must do. When she died, her body went to the grave, her spirit to God,,,just as all of us will, who die in Christ.

That Catholic Church will have a lot to answer for on this teaching that Mary ascended into Heaven like Jesus did...but they have so much to answer for,,what is one more lie....I wish the people in that church would read their own bible....they would not find all these things, they think is there......and we do it just because of tradition is just so wrong...you don't keep a lie going because of tradition or because the Pope says so...he's just a man,,,just like any preacher in a church....only most preachers don't have their flock kiss their ring,,or forgive them their sins. They leave being God...up to God....

Answer 4

Mary gave birth to Jesus, a man who did miracles by the
anointing of God, as any other prophet.

so Mary is not even of equal high standing as a prophet, or any of the apostles who spread the gospel.

she gave birth to the long awaited, much prophesied Messiah. in that she has a blessing. but her spiritual standing in heaven is no higher than any other ordinary saint who believed the gospel and got saved.
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the whole matter of elevating the mother of the Messiah to be equal to or co-equal to the Son of God... comes from historical pagan religions who have the "mother and child" idols.

and from the time that the catholics connected themselves to the pagan constantine.. they incorporated those pagan beliefs into christianity.

there's no Biblical text that venerates Mary to any equality or superior position with Jesus or the Father.

there is no Biblical text that requires anyone to pray to Mary or any saint.

but Jesus Himself said, pray to the Father using His (Jesus') name.
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Answer 5

Mary was chosen to carry Jesus, she is very lucky in that way. I don't think we can call any human equal to God. We were all born into sin, but then baptised into perfectness, the only thing is that sin is all around us, and God has given us a mind to make our own decisions, so there is a constant struggle with it, but wiht the help of the Holy Spirit, we can conquer sin

Answer 6

St Mary is the mother of God (T- theo- tokos)
because the two nature united together in her womb.
but not equal the Father of him before all ages

Answer 7

Jesus has two natures: God & man.

The Blessed Virgin co-operated in providing Him the flesh to sacrifice on the cross.

http://www.call2holiness.org/sacredheart/AMCMAII.html

Answer 8

I would have to say that Mary is up there with Jesus, but down a step or two from God. I don't think it makes Jesus inferior, I'm not inferior to my mom. I think they are equal, yet differently so.

Answer 9

Neither. This non-issue keeps getting raised, over and over. The Son was, is, and always has been superior to the Theotokos. Her invaluable service in the Incarnation must be honored--she is the mother of God, but God is STILL GOD, even if that can't be grasped by the tinier of minds among us.

The Father, also being God, is superior to the Theotokos.

Answer 10

Mary is the mother of Jesus, the Son only. She isn't superior to anybody, she was just as human as the rest of us. She didn't give birth to ALL of God, just to the human aspect of Him.