sge was only a surrogate mother.
2007-10-27 08:12:13 · 21 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they are mislead.
2007-10-27 08:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Well, that's maybe the way you see it -- a "surrogate mother" with a convenient uterus -- but she certainly seemed to think Jesus was her son. You know, fed him and raised him and worried about him and all. Surrogates rarely hang around long enough to do that, or care.
Mary's obedient assent to God's plan -- "let it be done to me according to Your Word" -- and the fact that Christ's human nature derived from her made her rather unique among human beings. And so we honor her. If you have a problem with that, fine; continue to relegate the mother of our Redeemer to whatever status you wish.
At least you didn't ask why we "worship" Mary, I'll give you that.
2007-10-27 16:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
*cough* Not surrogate mother. *Actual* mother.
Are you claiming that some woman other than Mary was the real mother? Or maybe that He doesn't have a human parent at all, which would make Him not really human?
2007-10-27 17:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous Lutheran 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mary was chosen to be His Mother, she was perfect with no stain of sin, yet she was still asked, this creature of God, to be His host. She was the first tabernacle that held within her the Holy Child.
When she passed away her body was never corrupted,because she endured so many sorrows and was so accepting of her vocation, she did what God had asked her to do. She is now in Heaven and crowned Queen of Heaven. This was always accepted as truth from the time of the Apostles and was declared so many times during the centuries. She is honored as a Mediatrix for all here on earth. Though there are many Marian devotions.. her love always points us to her Son.
2007-10-27 15:22:15 · answer #4 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because God honoured her.
She carried Jesus, the Son of God in her womb, so she can be called the Mother of God, inasmuch as she is the mother of God made man.
As for the Bible, this is the book compiled by the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church decided what is in it. So if something is not in it, it doesn't mean that we cannot believe it. Jesus founded a Church to decide what we should believe, He didn't say "here is a book to tell you", because the New Testament was not even written when He founded His Church.
The Church did not put everything into the Bible, there were many beliefs of early Christianity which were common knowledge by tradition and word of mouth. These have been preserved by the Catholic Church, even though they were not written it the Bible.
2007-10-27 15:17:50 · answer #5 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Many reasons,Jesus loved and honored His Mother so this is reason enough, Jesus gave Mary to us through John from the cross as our Mother, Mary`s `Fiat` enabled the Son to leap down from Heaven and become one of us to save us,I could go on and on.
2007-10-27 15:16:26 · answer #6 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
The Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ who founded Christainty. So why not? That and its someone for Christian women to look up to. I mean, what woman wants to confine everything to guys? Certain things not even their God wants to know about.
2007-10-27 15:17:28 · answer #7 · answered by Buffy 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
....Mary was not literally Jesus's Mother. Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ but Jesus Christ is God so how can someone who is mortal give birth to an immortal?
Mary was simply a vessel used by God so he can come in the "shape of man" to tell them about the good news, to offer mankind a path for salvation. Thus Mary was chosen because she submitted to the will of the Holy Spirit when the angel appeared to her to tell her what God planned for her.
catholics are not only devoted to mary.
2007-10-27 15:16:41 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Orthodox Catholics simply do not worship Mary as God -- and it gets a little tiring being accused of worshipping Mary as God when you don't.
It amounts to being called a liar and is quite rude.
We Catholics would be the ones to know Whom we consider God and whom we don't.
I love my biological Mother, too, but don't mistake her for the Lord!
I honor her, keep in touch with her, look after her, celebrate her special days, would get mad if someone were to insult her -- and I do the same for Jesus's Mother.
My love for my Mother doesn't mean I don't love my Father, too.
It just strikes me as evil, this not uncommon attempt to diminish Mary's status and the unceasing accusations against Catholics of trying to raise her status to that of God's. There's something very sinister and ugly in it, and I find it offensive.
We Catholics take great care in pointing out that "worship" in the sense of latria is GOD'S alone -- even to the point of having separate terms for the honor and adoration due to God as opposed to the honor and veneration of the Saints -- including His greatest Saint, Mary.
They are:
latria: the honor due to God alone
dulia: the honor due to human creatures worthy of respect
hyperdulia: the honor due to Mary as God's greatest creation and our Queen Mother
When we love Christ, does that prevent us from loving each other? No! Love is infinite because God, Who is Love, is infinite! We can love and adore Jesus, love and venerate Mary, love the other Saints, and love each other without depriving anyone (or Anyone) of anything.
How many children can you have without running out of love? How many friends?
What we "spend" in love is replaced many times over; love for Christ can only bring the fruits of more love to give.
To love Mary takes nothing at all from Christ, but honors our Blessed Lord by Whose grace she is who she is: His greatest creation, the greatest of Saints, the Queen of Heaven, the Immaculate Conception, the spotless Virgin, the Ark of the Covenant, the New Eve, the mother of God, and the mother of Israel -- our mother who wants nothing more for us than to pray for us and show us her Son.
...And ask yourself why the heck we'd lie about not worshipping Mary as some sort of divine being if we actually did. Do you think we are ashamed? Afraid of what you might think? Do you think that we actually do worship Mary but don't tell converts until some secret ceremony held after they've been in the Church a few years and can be trusted?
I mean, really! Satanists have no qualms telling people they worship Satan, pagans have no problem informing the world that they worship the earth, Hindus are not uneager to reveal that they chant to Krishna -- but Catholics are "afraid" to "admit" whom they consider God?
Please! We are not afraid to tell you we believe in Purgatory, indulgences, the Communion of Saints, the efficacy of piously using sacramentals, the true grace of the Sacraments, the infallibility of the Pope when he uses his Extraordinary or Universal Magisterium, etc.
Trust me; if we thought Mary is a godess, we'd let you know.
As the obedient, infinitely holy Son of God, the Lord Jesus was a very firm believer in the commandment to honor one's father and mother. Now, what most people don't know about that commandment is that in Hebrew it literally reads, "Glorify your father and mother."We are to bring glory to our parents, and that includes not only our earthly, physical mother but our heavenly, spiritual mother as well. We are to imitate Christ, and just as he brought glory to his mother, we are to bring glory to her as well.
St. Luke's gospel (1:48) - "Behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed."
Her soul magnifies the Lord (Luke 1:46-55)!
2007-10-27 20:55:14 · answer #9 · answered by Isabella 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This belief was adopted from ancient beliefs when Emperor Constantine, on approximately 325 AD, united Paganism with Christianity.
2007-10-27 15:17:18 · answer #10 · answered by Aeon Enigma 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Anyway you want to present it, she was her Mother
2007-10-27 16:48:54 · answer #11 · answered by Ludd Zarko 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋