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Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ

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elijah23

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A person who remains a virgin until marriage has done a great thing. Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, did this great thing. However, God decided to have Mary give birth to Jesus Christ. Because of this, many certainly didn’t believe that Mary had remained a virgin until she and Joseph married. Mary isn’t the mother of God, as some maintain, but she earned all of our respect for this sacrifice she made.
 
A person who remains a virgin until marriage has done a great thing. Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, did this great thing. However, God decided to have Mary give birth to Jesus Christ. Because of this, many certainly didn’t believe that Mary had remained a virgin until she and Joseph married. Mary isn’t the mother of God, as some maintain, but she earned all of our respect for this sacrifice she made.

Quite a bold claim. Care to back this up with scripture?
 
Mary was only blessed above all other women as God chose her as a vessel to that which Christ was born through. It's like all of us that allow the light of Christ shine through us and work through us as His vessel that brings honor to His name. I believe through the faith that is Christ that God brought him into this world through that of a virgin vessel for the purpose of teaching us the grace of God to help all of us reconcile ourselves back to the Father by His unmerited grace and then was crucified, dead and buried and then on the third day God raised Him from the dead and was witnessed of many people that he was alive then God took him up to sit at His right hand to be our mediator before the Father thus sending down that very Spirit of God once again in the form of Gods Spirit (Holy Spirit) that will teach us all truths of Gods spoken word.

Luke 1:
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Mark 3:
31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.

32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.

33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?

34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.


Mary was in Gods will to be used of God to bring forth the Christ child as being a pure undefiled vessel by which the Holy Spirit overshadowed her causing her to become impregnated not by natural intercourse, but by the supernatural of God creating life in her. She was blessed more than the other women in that place and soon delivered the Christ child being His earthly mother who bore him and raised him until the time he left his earthly mother to start out on his ministry. Mary was Jesus mother not by the natural, but by the supernatural of God, and only a vessel used of God to bring His word to earth in flesh form of a man. God is Spirit without no form, but it is God manifested in different forms for us to hear Him speak to us. IE: burning bush, jaw bone of an ass, Jesus in the form of man. Jesus being before creation was with God and was God, but it was Gods form of himself that was saved for an appointed purpose in Gods timing.
 
A person who remains a virgin until marriage has done a great thing. Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, did this great thing. However, God decided to have Mary give birth to Jesus Christ. Because of this, many certainly didn’t believe that Mary had remained a virgin until she and Joseph married. Mary isn’t the mother of God, as some maintain, but she earned all of our respect for this sacrifice she made.

Since the "Christmas" season is coming, many people like to discuss the genealogy of Yashua (Christ) at this time, and debate the virgin birth.

However, I'm not sure your point is clearly presented, i.e. I'm not sure what you are trying to convey. It sounds as if you are making the point that some do not believe Mary was a virgin simply because of the birth of Christ. Then, in the next sentence she isn't the mother of God. I can't relate the two points and what you are trying to say.
 
no she didnt birth God she gave birth to the flesh that tabernacled around jesus. sheesh its a miracle.she was the vessel god place his son in and she carried him until birth.
 
A person who remains a virgin until marriage has done a great thing. Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, did this great thing. However, God decided to have Mary give birth to Jesus Christ. Because of this, many certainly didn’t believe that Mary had remained a virgin until she and Joseph married. Mary isn’t the mother of God, as some maintain, but she earned all of our respect for this sacrifice she made.
Today it is a unique and wondrous accomplishment. In Mary's time, it was commonplace.
 
The phrase 'mother of God' isn't found in Scripture, but the common understanding among Bible believing Christians is that the Lord Jesus' conception was by the Holy Ghost (not Joseph), but his birth was natural. Mary was His real mother.

The mystery of the Incarnation is clearly revealed in Scripture ('the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us' - John 1.14), but for the believer there is always a wondrous aspect to it, in relation to the way the Savior came into the world.
 
Good morning,

I think what elijah23 is referring to is the eternal nature of Jesus. Jesus didn't come into existence when Mary gave birth to Him. Before Abraham was, Jesus said, "I AM." Knowing the eternal nature of Jesus, who can't miss the humility of God when He submitted himself under Joseph and Mary's authority, authority granted by God no less.

- Davies
 
Davies: Yes, it is sometimes said that at the Incarnation He became what He never had been before, while continuing to be what He had always been.
 
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