If the Church is the Living Body of Christ, isn't Mary the spiritual Mother of all of Christianity/?

Answer 1

No, not to me
She was a spacial woman to be sure, for God picked her amongst all women to bare the Christ child, but other than that, she is just another woman
I will not say no prayers to her or bow to her pics

Answer 2

You bet.

When we are baptized, we die to sin through the waters of baptism and are raised with Christ. We are then made part of God's family. Jesus is our Lord, our Brother. God is our Father. Mary, as Jesus' Mother, becomes our spiritual Mother. And we, her children. For this reason, she is called the "Mother of all Christians." Catholic and Orthodox Christians do not believe that death is the end of a Christians' journey, and there are some people who led exemplary lives on earth, whom the Church is 99.9% sure is in Heaven. The Church calls these people "saints." Jesus' Mother, according to the Church, is most certainly in Heaven. Mary, being the first Christian, is the foremost among all the Saints. Because God is a God of the living, not the dead, we can ask the saints in Heaven to pray for us, just like we can ask someone on earth to pray for us.


These people are so SCARED of us that they ignore us when we say what we believe, and instead TELL us what we believe. They miss out on so much!

Answer 3

No. Mary was the physical mother of Christ. I don't know of anything in the Bible talking about her as a "spiritual mother".

God the Father, on the other hand is the one who caused Mary to become pregnant. His action caused Jesus' physical birth. (Mary did not have sexual relations with a man.) In this sense, therefore, God could be considered as the only "physical" father of Christ (even though God is a spirit and not a physical being - John 4:24). Because God caused his physical birth Jesus is called "the Son of God". (Luke 1:35)

Answer 4

The church is not of the flesh but the Spirit. Jesus said:John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Just like the first Adam, that God took his bride from his side,
She was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, God took a bride for Jesus, the second Adam while he slept on the cross. She came forth out of his side straight from his heart as water and Blood, The heart, water and blood all represent spirit. The new covenant in Christ and the kingdom of God is all of the Spirit.
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Romans 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Mary is not the Mother of Christianity, but Jesus alone
Christians are birthed by the Holy Spirit, It is called being Born Again.

Answer 5

Following this logic, Mary would *not* be the "spiritual mother". Your logic reads something like this
A) Jesus is physical Christ
B) Church is "living body of Christ"
C) Mary is physical mother of Christ
therefore, Mary is spiritual mother of Christianity

the conclusion should be
'X is the "living body of Mary" ' - if there were such a thing.

In other words, Mary is the *physical* mother of Christianity. The spiritual mother would, presumably, be something else.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 6

no. Christ is the father of Christianity. Mary was used by God to fullfill God purpose for Christ on earth. Christ needed to come to this world in form of a man, therefore he needed to be born from a woman. Thats when God chose Mary, again proving the impossible to be possible. Notice that the word 'christianity' comes from 'christians' which was the name given to the followers of Christ back on the day. We should respect Mary and all but she did not begin a "christian" revolution and all. It's all through Christ.

Hey, look into teh Bible for more details. It should help. It helped me out a lot! "i once was blind but now i see"
:)

Answer 7

The term " living body of Christ" refers to all the believers or followers of Christ, not his physical body. Mary is also among those in the "living body of Christ."

Answer 8

First, Mary was never "spiritual" she was flesh and held sin just like the rest of us. Throughout the ages of time the Catholic Vatican's main job was to turn everyone away from the word of God by brainwashing you into believing that they are the only Christians upon the face of this earth, but in truth, they are Satan's true children. "And I am not talking about the Catholic people themselves who are good and kind people." Them and people just like them are really deceived by their own Pope. But anyone who worships anyone or anything other than Yahweh, the Lord Almighty, will have to be accountable come the judgment day.

Answer 9

Ofourse. WE are all "brothers and sisters" in Christ, that would make the Blessed Virgin Mary our spiritual Mother and God our Father. God bless!

Christ honors and loves all those who honor and love his Holy Mother since it was God who said through the angel Gabriel "Hail, Full of Grace!" Luke 1:28

Answer 10

Christ made Mary the mother of all Christians when he was dying on the cross. In John 19 we read:

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

This disciple whom he loved represents all Christians, and in one of his last acts before he died on the cross Jesus gives him (us) Mary as his mother.

Answer 11

Yes, I believe she is the Holy Mother. If she was the Mother of Jesus, and He is our Brother, then she is also our Mother. I don't believe she can perform miracles or anything, but that she loves us, and that Christ holds her in a special place and listens to her requests.