Mary the mother of my Lord (Heresy?)

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Is your God is the god of the dead?

Mine is the God of the living. As you can see in...

Luke 9:30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias

They where talking with Jesus, and in Revelations the saints are offering their prayers...

Revelations 5:8 ...which are the prayers of saints.

It is clearly written in the bible. You can read it but do you get it?

Where is that in the bible? I just answered!
That does NOT say the these people are listening to the prayers of people. and making intercession by praying to God for them. ALL it says is they are praying. They probably know what is going on at that time, and I would expect them to pray.

But to say ONE of them is in paradise, And can KNOW you and me, Can HEAR both of us praying at the exact time. Can understand what we are saying, and what we are praying about. And know the people we are praying about. Let alone (as in the case of Mary) can hear hundreds or maybe thousands of people around the world ALL AT ONCE and distinguish between all of them. Now your talking fairy tales.

Only God has the power and the ability to do what you are saying. Thus, if you are saying Mary or anyone else can do this. You are claiming them as being equal with God.
 
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For those reading this thread I would like to apologize if any of you are offended. We are simply debating a believe and there is nothing wrong with it. But if any of you feel offended by some of us discussing the issue I offer my apologies.

Now back to the subject, the old testament is all about the new testament, for you to understand this with ought writing a very long explanation you might like to hear Dr. Scott Hahn who was a bible only christian and have become a catholic theologian.

If you would like to hear an explanation here is the link and click in Hail Holy Queen --http://www.salvationhistory.com/audio-resources---

I hope this helps understand the subject I am trying to explain. But you do not have to believe like I do, I am just bringing resources to the subject.
 
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Mary was already selected by God But Jesus was of course first and there is no doubt Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But if you think with human rationality, a mother is needed first for a child to be born. Not the case with God. He was first then the rest came to be.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

---> Between the (satan) and the Woman (Mary) Between your (satan) seed (sin) and Her (Mary) seed (Jesus)

Jesus is the New Adam.

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
---> "Figure of Him (Adam) who was to come (Jesus who already came)

Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
---> Adam then Jesus

1 Corinth 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
---> Adam then Jesus

1 Corinth 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
---> Adam then Jesus

When you understand this, you will understand Mary also.
 
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Some of us went round and round with this a few weeks back in a thread. A lot depends on how you think about God. Hebrew has no word for God, only for God the Father, God the Creator, and the gods (of pagans). Jesus is different from all of those, as you point out. That's why in the Bible, He is called the "Son of God". Greek has only one word, very like our word "God", and NT Greek has no capitalization. They use that word for everything from God the Father, to Zeus and Minerva. So, once the Jewish Christians left the historical record, the Greek and Latin speaking Christians said correctly in their language and thought patterns "Jesus is God". The longer you know Jesus and the Father personally, the more conscious you become of the differences.

Personally, I would never deny either expression, since it depends on the point of view.
I love what you have just said.

'For God separated the firmament from firmament'.

Divided into the tribes and nations.

It most definitely is down to how one perceives God. Personally I feel that there is a method to the creation of man in this.

That God allows us all these differences to say 'Na, only I am RIGHT, whole, and complete'. Beginning and end.

I heard a saying the other day, and it struck a chord. 'There is neither real nor fake, truth nor lies. For all depends on the colour of the glass we look through'.

That feels, for me, like something God would inspire a man to say. But perhaps not for you!

Case in point.
 
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I love what you have just said.

'For God separated the firmament from firmament'.

Divided into the tribes and nations.

It most definitely is down to how one perceives God. Personally I feel that there is a method to the creation of man in this.

That God allows us all these differences to say 'Na, only I am RIGHT, whole, and complete'. Beginning and end.

I heard a saying the other day, and it struck a chord. 'There is neither real nor fake, truth nor lies. For all depends on the colour of the glass we look through'.

That feels, for me, like something God would inspire a man to say. But perhaps not for you!

Case in point.
There is a masterful purpose to it all, too. God needs us to be different in how we see Him. We cannot fill the earth if we are all standing in the same place.
 
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Ahhh exactly!!

Choosing the wickedness to shine out the good!

Makes you wonder though, were some people created solely for THIS purpose? .. Hmmm. Adn if so, wouldn't they just be 'doing their job?' Think the picture is bigger than we see.

Also makes me wonder about the function of Satan. He has to ask permission from God to test Job.

And it also makes me wonder about who 'they' are. As in, 'the enemy'.

I always say the enemy is a lot closer to home than most people think.
 
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Choosing the wickedness to shine out the good!

Makes you wonder though, were some people created solely for THIS purpose? .. Hmmm. Adn if so, wouldn't they just be 'doing their job?' Think the picture is bigger than we see.

Also makes me wonder about the function of Satan. He has to ask permission from God to test Job.

And it also makes me wonder about who 'they' are. As in, 'the enemy'.

I always say the enemy is a lot closer to home than most people think.
If you were meaning this as response to my post above it, I did not mean that at all. There are many non-wicked ways to see God. He is bigger than any one of us can contain. That's why He wants us to be a Body.

No one ever needs to choose wickedness. God works around those who do, as He continues to work with them, hoping love and grace will change them. He is big enough to have a plan that does that.

The "enemy" is all the demons that wish to prove to God that we are not good enough for Him. Satan would love to have us keep thinking the enemy is each other. That way, he keeps us from using the power of united prayer. And yes, they are close. It's only the name of Jesus in your life-intention that keeps them away.

Satan always has to ask permission. God allows him to show up our weaknesses, so He and we can work on correcting them together. Satan thinks he is proving to God that we are no good. God keeps proving to Satan that He loves us anyway. We get the blessing of seeing God's love over and over, in spite of everything Satan wants to condemn us for.
 
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Yes I understand you didnt mean that. Of course.

You meant that God's plan encompasses even the evil, and it gets used, in a manner of speaking, to some degree but.not that God WANTS any of us to be evil intentionally.

I know that. I was just thinking out loud.
 

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Mary was already selected by God But Jesus was of course first and there is no doubt Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But if you think with human rationality, a mother is needed first for a child to be born. Not the case with God. He was first then the rest came to be.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

---> Between the (satan) and the Woman (Mary) Between your (satan) seed (sin) and Her (Mary) seed (Jesus)

Jesus is the New Adam.

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
---> "Figure of Him (Adam) who was to come (Jesus who already came)

Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
---> Adam then Jesus

1 Corinth 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
---> Adam then Jesus

1 Corinth 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
---> Adam then Jesus

When you understand this, you will understand Mary also.
Hi Rock I must say, this is typical Catholic error: reading Mary into everything, and adding Mary to everything.

It's a funny thing that the apostles did no such thing. In fact, in all of the plain, simple, non-figurative letters and epistles in the New Testament (which form the core of Christian doctrine), there's not one single mention of her name. Look at the list of letters and epistles in the New Testament:

Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemen
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude

Notice that in all of this plain straightforward non-figurative clear doctrine and instruction from the apostles and New Testament writers, the word "Jesus" is used literally HUNDREDS of times, whereas the word "Mary" is used ZERO times. Not a single "hail Mary!" or "[Mary] pray for us" or any such thing. It's all JESUS.

I think I'm gonna follow the example of the apostles.

Jesus is Lord!

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men ...
(1 Timothy 2)

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. 16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
(Hebrews 4)


 
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In You O,Mother Of God,all my hope i set,guard me under your protection.

FROM APOSTOLIC TIMES and to our days all who truly love Christ give veneration to Her Who gave birth to Him, raised Him and protected Him in the days of His youth. If God the Father chose Her, God the Holy Spirit descended upon Her, and God the Son dwelt in Her, submitted to Her in the days of His youth, was concerned for Her when hanging on the Cross - then should not everyone who confesses the Holy Trinity venerate Her?
Still in the days of Her earthly life, the friends of Christ, the Apostles, manifested a great concern and devotion for the Mother of the Lord, especially the Evangelist John the Theologian, who, fulfilling the will of Her Divine Son, took Her to himself and took care for Her as for a mother from the time when the Lord uttered to him from the Cross the words: “Behold thy mother.”
The Evangelist Luke painted a number of images of Her, some together with the Pre-eternal Child, others without Him. When, he brought them and showed them to the Most Holy Virgin, She approved them and said: “The grace of My Son shall be with them,” and repeated the hymn She had once sung in the house of Elizabeth: “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and My spirit hath rejoiced in God My Saviour.”
However, the Virgin Mary during Her earthly life avoided the glory which belonged to Her as the Mother of the Lord. She preferred to live in quiet and prepare Herself for the departure into eternal life. To the last day of Her earthly life She took care to prove worthy of the Kingdom of Her Son, and before death She prayed that He might deliver Her soul from the malicious spirits that meet human souls on the way to heaven and strive to seize them so as to take them away with them to Hades. The Lord fulfilled the prayer of His Mother and in the hour of Her death Himself came from heaven with a multitude of angels to receive Her soul.
Since the Mother of God had also prayed that She might bid farewell to the Apostles, the Lord gathered for Her death all the Apostles, except Thomas, and they were brought by an invisible power on that day to Jerusalem from all the ends of the inhabited world, where they were preaching, and they were present at Her blessed translation into eternal life.
The Apostles gave Her most pure body over to burial with sacred hymns, and on the third day they opened the tomb so as once more to venerate the remains of the Mother of God together with the Apostle Thomas, who had arrived then in Jerusalem. But they did not find the body in the tomb and in perplexity they returned to their own place; and then, during their meal, the Mother of God Herself appeared to them in the air, shining with heavenly light, and informed them that Her Son had glorified Her body also, and She, resurrected, stood before His Throne. At the same time She promised to be with them always.
The Apostles greeted the Mother of God with great joy and began to venerate Her not only as the Mother of their beloved Teacher and Lord, but also as their heavenly helper, as a protector of Christians and intercessor for the whole human race before the Righteous Judge. And everywhere the Gospel of Christ was preached, His Most Pure Mother also began to be glorified.

From book:
The Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God

By St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco



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The First Enemies of the Veneration of the Mother of God.

THE MORE the faith of Christ spread and the Name of the Saviour of the world was glorified on earth, and together with Him also She Who was vouchsafed to be the Mother of the God-man, - the more did the hatred of the enemies of Christ increase towards Her. Mary was the Mother of Jesus. She manifested a hitherto unheard-of example of purity and righteousness, and furthermore, now departed from this life, She was a mighty support for Christians, even though invisible to bodily eyes. Therefore all who hated Jesus Christ and did not believe in Him, who did not understand his teaching, or to be more precise, did not wish to understand as the Church understood, who wished to replace the preaching of Christ with their own human reasoning all of these transferred their hatred for Christ, for the Gospel and the Church, to the Most Pure Virgin Mary. They wished to belittle the Mother, so as thereby to destroy faith also in Her Son, to create a false picture of Her among men in order to have the opportunity to rebuild the whole Christian teaching on a different foundation. In the womb of Mary, God and man were joined. She was the One Who served as it were as the ladder for the Son of God, Who descended from heaven. To strike a blow at Her veneration means to strike Christianity at the root, to destroy it in its very foundation.


And the very beginning of Her heavenly glory was marked on earth by an outburst of malice and hatred toward Her by unbelievers. When, after Her holy repose, the Apostles were carrying Her body for burial in Gethsemane, to the place chosen by Her, John the Theologian went ahead carrying the branch from paradise which the Archangel Gabriel had brought to the Holy Virgin three days before this when he came from heaven to announce to Her approaching departure to the heavenly mansions.


“When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from among a barbarous people,” Peter began Psalm 113; “Alleluia,” sang the whole assembly of the Apostles together with their disciples, as for example, Dionysius the Areopagite, who likewise had been miraculously transported at that time to Jerusalem. And while this sacred hymn was being sung, which was tallied by the Jews the “Great Alleluia,” that is, the great “Praise ye the Lord,” one Jewish priest, Athonius, leaped up to the bier and wished to overturn it and throw to the ground the body of the Mother of God.


The brazenness of Athonius was immediately punished: the Archangel Michael with an invisible sword cut off his hand, which remained hanging on the bier. The thunderstruck Athonius, experiencing a tormenting pain, in awareness of his sin turned in prayer to the Jesus Whom he had hated up to then, and he was immediately healed. He did not delay in accepting Christianity and confessing it before his former co-religionists, for which he received from them a martyr’s death. Thus, the attempt to offend the honor of the Mother of God served for Her greater glorification.



The enemies of Christ resolved not to manifest their lack of veneration for the body of the Most Pure One further at that time by crude violence, but their malice did not cease. Seeing that Christianity was spreading everywhere, they began to spread various vile slanders about Christians. They did not spare the name of the Mother of Christ either, and they invented the story that Jesus of Nazareth had come from a base and immoral environment, and that His Mother had associated with a certain Roman soldier.


But here the lie was too evident for this fiction to attract serious attention. The whole family of Joseph the Betrothed and Mary Herself were known well by the inhabitants of Nazareth and the surrounding countryside in their time. Whence bath this man this wisdom and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren! James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with: us? (Matt. 13:54-55; Mark 6:3; Luke 4:22.) So said His fellow-countrymen in Nazareth when Christ revealed before them in the Synagogue His otherworldly wisdom. In small towns the family matters of everyone are well known; very strict watch was kept then over the purity of married life.


Would people really have behaved with respect towards Jesus, called Him to preach in the synagogue, if He had been born of illegitimate cohabitation? To Mary the law of Moses would have been applied, which commanded that such persons be stoned to death; and the Pharisees would have taken the opportunity many times to reproach Christ for the conduct of His Mother. But just the contrary was the case. Mary enjoyed great respect; at Cana She was an honored guest at the wedding, and even when Her Son was condemned, no one allowed himself to ridicule or censure His Mother.


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I bring fourt to you today a new belief

For today I am Cheesus the king of cheese .

All my cheese is holy from nibbles and so i have blessed thee to eat thy holy cheese.

For today is thy first day of thy rest thy life .

I have had my eyes on thy my most sacred cheese also for thy dutch edam And Bavarian thy cheesey friends .

Thy will not forget thy camenbest a.nd for I am filled with the bueatifulness of cheese thy wensleydale for I am Cheesus .

A new comandment thee give to thy that thee stuff thy face with cheese as i have . Thankyou Cheesus
 
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I will like to point out:

I believe people that go to heaven live, they can hear us and pray for us.

And no one has power but God and God only.

Placing the Blessed Virgin Mary above or equal to God is heresy.

And I also believe the Blessed Virgin Mary has a very special place in heaven.
 
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I would also like to point out that my last post may not be understood by none speaking english friends lol.

But I am sorry I am chedary by name and chedary by nature thankyou Cheesus
 
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I bring fourt to you today a new belief

For today I am Cheesus the king of cheese .

All my cheese is holy from nibbles and so i have blessed thee to eat thy holy cheese.

For today is thy first day of thy rest thy life .

I have had my eyes on thy my most sacred cheese also for thy dutch edam And Bavarian thy cheesey friends .

Thy will not forget thy camenbest a.nd for I am filled with the bueatifulness of cheese thy wensleydale for I am Cheesus .

A new comandment thee give to thy that thee stuff thy face with cheese as i have . Thankyou Cheesus
I hope Jesus Christ has an extremely good sense of humor =)
 
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Yer can not make an omlet with out cracking a few eggs.

I belive Jesús Does have an extremly good Sense of humour
After all he gaveth life to us scousers

He did doe . Doe didnt he doe lar
 
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Well, I have been telling jokes to Him in my head, and I have not heard Him laugh once =.= I mean, they were pretty good jokes too! Maybe He heard them all before? but I try so hard to find the best jokes...
 
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I laughed, Jesus lives in me. Does that count?

Just to keep the record straight, I prefer Swiss cheese, because it is so holey.
 
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U all have to know what is happening with the soul after death.What mistery is happening,what is the way of soul until it come infront of the Heavenly Throne to be judged.
I will post it here or in a new thread.