I understand it sounds nice and all, but the apostles or Jesus did not teach us to do this. Actually nobody asked for prayer from anyone who had passed in the new or old testament.
@@GodSoLoved.Yeshua So you don't believe that those in heaven are part of the Body of Christ? Because Scripture clearly tells us to pray for each other.
Oh I don't Know Maybe Because She Is the Mother Of My lord Mary is the only person that can say Jesus, flesh of my flesh. Bone of my bone. And that is VERY special👍👍
Yes, but, that's not the greatest reason: And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it. Our Lord was directly complimenting His mother, for who else among the race of men can say that they perfectly heard the Word of God and kept it?
@ngeli147 Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it well that would be Mary Mary as the first Person To say Yes to Gods plan for redemption Mary Was the First person to say thy will Be done Mary thru who the WORD was made Flesh Who was Blessed All generations will call her blessed for she is blessed among women. Of all women, our Lord chose her holy womb, full of grace, as His own dwelling. The power of the Most High overshadowed the mother of our Redeemer and she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit. Our Lord Himself honoured her as His own mother and we must honour whom the Lord honours. Blessed be her name, Mary, and blessed be the name of the fruit of her womb, Jesus. The Lord will honour His own mother, blessed Mary, for all eternity & we cannot but follow His example and honour her as He does: hail, Mary, the Lord is with thee! He is flesh of her flesh & bone of her bone. We are born of Him & He is born of Her and of the Father. The blood which was poured out for us was blood of her blood. A spear pierced His side & a sword pierced her heart. Unless we eat His flesh, which is of her flesh, we have no life within us. Hail Mary, who gave birth to incarnate Love and Salvation and who raised for us sinners the Hope of Israel. The Lord is with her. With her is Redemption, with her is Forgiveness for all iniquities. Blessed be her name by all generations! ”🤣🤣
For protestants, it is not neccesarily about her being the mother of God. Many protestants attest to that. The main issue for 'mainstream' protestants is her veneration and certain catholic marian doctrines like her not having other children, and the immacualate conception. (I'm just mentioning what I notice, not here to discuss or fight)
That's interesting. Scripture doesn't say much about Mary. It says she is blessed, and highly favoured by God. Scripture doesn't say she is the queen of heaven or the queen mother. Scripture does call her the "handmaiden of the Lord."
Thank you so much for this video. It rly helped me out a lot. Even as a cradle Catholic, I had a hard time with this even when I was young. Worship to me was always due to God and I thought Catholics were idolizing Mary, but I couldn't get myself to leave bc there's this holiness about the Catholic church that i couldn't find in the many churches I attended. Mainly the eucharist, but I still struggled with Mary, but I accepted it bc of the role she played in salvation and bc the church was founded by Christ (yes I believe that wholeheartedly) so it had authority. I defended Mary even though I still had a problem, but I still looked for videos that could help me eliminate the discomfort bc I felt like I was betraying my faith. And this video did that. So again, thank you, and may God bless you in everything that you do.
Thank you for these last two episodes. I think you’ve done excellently in both. As a recent revert who has had to ask these questions (and arrived at the compelling conclusions you draw here), I think a keystone in my understanding of Mary (and even ecclesiology), is how the earliest Christians (including St. Paul, eg Galatians, 1 Corinthians 10, not to mention the hermeneutical lens of the author of Hebrews, all following Jesus, particularly in Luke 24, and the “Acts of the 40 days” between his resurrection and ascension) are capturing the New Covenant TYPOLOGICAL fulfillment of the Old. Typology does not only apply to Jesus Messiah, but also to Mary, the Church, the Apostles, etc. Perhaps you’ve done it, but I wonder if it might be helpful to do a series of videos on the hermeneutics/exegesis of the early Church? As an example of how it could be fruitful even in this episode: the woman can be both Eve AND Mary AND the Church (here I’m thinking of Revelation 12 // John 19) and that does not detract from either. Both can be fulfilled, “filled up” with each and the other. Like how you said about the paintbrush and painter. Agency, instrumentality, can be shared - especially as we consider Eve, Mary’s, and the Church’s mystical union as the Body with Christ the Head. Thank you for your ministry!!
To follow up: maybe an historical overview of the changes in biblical interpretation throughout history. For example, more Protestants are having to wrestle with these questions due to what has been called “the theological interpretation of Scripture” movement in the evangelical world. I got my MA at Wheaton when this was burgeoning and it was fascinating to see the kind of tensions (sadly) between exegesis departments and theology departments in this point. It was as if the historical sense and spiritual sense (including typology) were rent asunder unnaturally. But it was clear that that rupture was being healed too and I think the healing of that is one reason many Protestants are taking more interest in Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
Just goes to show how quickly the post-Apostolic fathers went off the rails with some of their ideas. Mary, a finite created being, was LUCKY to be be given the _privilege_ of bearing the incarnation of God the Son. Any female that God chose would have sufficed. Get over her.
Interesting that God said the serpent's head will be crushed by the seed of the woman...and in abortion the seed of a woman has it's head crushed. Not that there's a direct connection but I know Satan likely loves abortion and I heard "head crushing" so many times during this video I couldn't help but think of abortion 😕 Great video, very informative 👍🏻
actually, the one I like is Judith 11 verse 17, where we see Mary's answer the way Judith did, but as far as I know we see how holy Mary really is . Judith responds "Your handmaid (same word Mary responds the angel) is indeed a God-fearing woman, serving the God of heaven night and day". Judith was chosen exactly because she was the handmaid of God. Judith later says "I will lead you through the heart of Judea until you come to Jerusalem, and there in its center I will set up your throne." Who in the new testament is the handmaid of the lord, and will set up a throne?"
I tried explaining this to my mom and she said “well, I agree with you, but I don’t know what to do with this information.” She is de facto Jewish, only reads the first half of the Bible. So many people have a mental block on accepting Mary as their loving mother. It makes me saf
"Through Eve yet virgin came death; through a virgin, or rather from a virgin, must the Life appear: that as the serpent beguiled the one, so to the other Gabriel might bring good tidings." Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Letter 12, 15.
Joe ,you have a wonderful gift . Thank you for sharing. Also. Our blessed mother is the only human that could say while pregnant or nursing. "Take eat this my body given up for you. "
So interesting-and I never thought about it-but the comment about Lucifer not being willing or even able to rebel if he'd had the beatific vision... that's quite near the doctrine of irresistible grace.
WHY MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS IS SO VERY SPECIAL TO US WHO LOVED OUR LORD JESUS VERY VERY MUCH ❤❤❤ THE MOTHER OF JESUS OUR LORD......IS ALSO OUR SPIRITUAL MOTHER TOO ON EARTH ❤❤❤ TO THOSE WHO ARE BORN WITHOUT A REAL BIOLOGICAL MOTHER TO TAKE CARE OF US ON EARTH.....WE CAN TURN TO THE MOTHER OF JESUS AS OUR MOTHER TOO ❗️❗️❗️❗️ SHE IS SUCH A PERFECT MOTHER FOR US WHO LOVED HER VERY MUCH AS SHE GUIDED US TRU DIFFICULT TIMES .....GOOD TIME AND BAD TIME TOO❤❤❤ ENOUGH OF PEOPLE PROTESTING AGAINST HER WHICH TRULY INDICATED HOW REALLY NAIVE, SOULESS HUMAN BEINGS THEY REALLY ARE ❗️❗️❗️❗️ THESE ARE THE VERY INSANE PEOPLE WHO DONT LOVED THEIR OWN MOTHERS .....ANYWAY ❗️❗️❗️❗️
the prayer for Mary was made by people. Yes, by people. Pray to Mary, She will hear you. Mary is together with Jesus. I saw them both in my deep sleep. Mary always answer my prayer wanting for a help; While i am fighting the evil in my deep sleep. While i saw myself sleeping for many times. While i tried to go back to enter to my body for many times. Mother Mary, is always there waiting for a prayer.
You used the word pray to her that’s the only thing I guess I find hard to understand. When I ask someone to pray for me I’m not praying to that person I’m asking for intercession. When I ask Mary to pray for me I’m not praying to her I am asking her to pray for me. Wonder if you did a video on that use of that word “pray” when it comes to asking for intercession of the saints and maybe give examples from the church fathers and an assortment of early Christian sources of how they understood prayer
The oldest Marian prayer found is "Sub Tuum Praesidium". Dated around 250 AD “Sub Tuum Praesidium” 250 A.D. Under your mercy we take refuge, Mother of God!(Theotokos) Do not despise our prayers in necessities, but from danger deliver us, only pure, only blessed one. Today we have a similar prayer called the "Memorare" REMEMBER, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly to thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother; to thee do I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
Prayer is to ask. Intercession is asking, it's the same thing. We are asking them to ask for us. Worshipping involves giving sacrifice. We pray to Mary and the Saints, we don't offer sacrifice to them. It's that simple. That's all that needs to be said, anyone confused about this simply doesn't understand the difference between prayer and worship.
We pray to Her, not only for Her intercession, but also Her direct help and protection for us. As you know, we pray to our guardian angles to protect and help us. And we pray for the same purpose to Saint Michael Archangel and saints in Heaven. God has ordained that all angels and saints help and protect souls on earth (through the communion of saints) so that they may be safely brought to His Kingdom. We have to ask their help and protection, otherwise they may not be able to help us, for God does not compel anyone to be saved, but leaves everyone free to choose Life or Death on their own free will (Sirach 15:17). That's why we have to pray all the time.
Interestingly enough, there are two Jewish interpretations, of He will bruise your head, David Falk told about this. The fist is that the seed of the woman is Messiah, the second is Israel. And in a similar way to what you say about Mary it’s both true. Israel brought the Messiah forth, therefore Israel crushed the Devils head. And Mary was Jesustokos and so, Mary destroyed Satans head too.
One key issue: there is no neuter in hebrew. We have ancient textual evidence for "they" (mpl) being used and "he" (msg) being used, but "she" (fsg) is absent in all the manuscripts I have been able to see. If you do a follow up video, spend more time elaborating on how the concept of neuter is to be found in an otherwise universally gendered language.
Well, in good faith, let me articulate a few disagreements... 1. The antecedent to the neuter pronoun in Genesis 3:15 is not a mute point, it is crucial. It determines who is doing the crushing, and clearly, it is the seed, not the woman. You're argument for why this is a mute point is because Philistines did not make a distinction between God and the ark of God. Also, that Jesus in John 4 "made disciple and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not". These two points, for me, fall significantly short for establishing why it is okay to think of the woman as being the head crusher. Michealangelo painted the Sistine chapel, the paint brushes did not. There is absolutely a distinction between instrument and Creator. A big one. If someone came up to you and said "those paint brushes did a great job in that painting" it would not make sense. 2. With that said, the I would disagree that Mary is even the instrument whereby the head of Satan is crushed. Colossians 2:9-15 and specifically 14-15 speak of Jesus making a show over principalities and powers, triumphing over them. This happens at his death, burial and resurrection. The instrument in which God uses to crush the serpents head is not Mary, rather it is the atonement of sin by the death of His Only Begotten Son. This crushing has already taken place. 3. Furthermore, "enmity" is not necessarily analogous to war. You frame the enmity as a war with two sides, Mary's side and Satan's side. The word means hatred, strife, division. Notice God curses the serpent first, then the woman, then Adam. The serpents curse is division, enmity, strife with the woman because He had won her over to his side. He has gained an ally in his rebellion against God. The woman is specifically mentioned because the serpent never talks to the man, he specifically goes after and deceives the Woman. We see the devil talked about as the "god of this world" as "prince of the power of the air," we see him having dominion (limited, yes, but dominion nonetheless) over the kingdoms of the earth as he offers control of them to Jesus in his temptation of him. God is promising the devil that his dominion, his union (so to speak) with mankind will one day be severed. And who is the one to do that? Jesus, at his passion, as previously stated. 4. At the end you make a passing comment about this is "deeply a part of the early belief of the earliest Christians." I've read "the earliest Christians" and what was said in this video is no where to be found in them. Have I read every piece of literature no, but I don't think that it is up for much debate that these dogmas and titles of Mary develop over time, much time! To jump from Justin or Irenaeus making a passing comment about Mary being the new Eve, to she is head-crusher, she is the Queen of Heaven, your mother and you should pray to her and venerate her is such a large logical jump. 5. The interpretation of Revelation 12 I don't feel qualified to touch. I remember Gavin Ortlund saying that that interpretation, of Mary being the woman, does not have much historical support. I just need to study it before I can comment on it. 6. I am still stuck on this "Creator/Creature" distinction. I just do not see why I should give any devotion to a creature. The Creator deserves all of my devotion. Any devotion I give to a creature just simply detracts from the devotion I can give to the Creator. the "You can never love Mary more than Jesus" also falls short. Sure, I can never love Mary more than Jesus loves Mary but it is entirely possible for me to love Mary more than I love Jesus. God bless. Excuse any typos.
Martin Luther wrote the veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart September 1522.The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart." [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.] "Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing." [Martin Luther...👏👏
@@bibleman8010 If Martin Luther were my infallible, unerring authority that would present a big problem for me and most of modern Protestantism. But, he is not. He was a good man, but a fallible man. Veneration of Saints and Mary is very clearly an accretion that developed over time and was not in the apostolic deposit. Nonetheless, I am fine with Mary being called Theotokus, Mother of God. Its an important distinction for the deity of Christ. I am fine with honoring her. God said All generations will call her blessed. Thank you Mary, for obeying God and living in humility and submission, what a great example to us all.
@@JamesClark-le7hu "Veneration of Saints and Mary is very clearly an accretion that developed over time and was not in the apostolic deposit." Since we have evidence of the veneration of Mary and the Saints before the Bible was compiled, at what point do you believe the Holy Spirit left the Church and the accretion began?
@@lellachu1682 I don't know what evidence from the first three centuries you are referring to. A drawing of Mary on a cave with an incomplete sentence on it? Sincerely, point me to other evidence. From what I can tell, there's actually quite widespread teaching against the practice. You are clearly begging the question, assuming that the Holy Spirit had to leave in order for the accretion to begin.
I am a Protestant and am often met with condescension and rudeness when I ask questions about Mary. Thank you for taking the time to refer to scripture and answer in an informed and logical way.
If Jesus told Saul to stop abusing his body, and made him blind to change his heart …. How do you think he will treat people who attack his mother that then say the love him and only him even though Mary’s unquestioning obedience was necessary for God’s plan … would God see those who disrespect the body as being people who love him?
@@Davidjune1970 quote----If Jesus told Saul to stop abusing his body, and made him blind to change his heart ….. unquote No one was abusing Jesus' body. Saul was killing Jews, and Christians ---quote---How do you think he will treat people who attack his mother that then say the love him and only him even though Mary’s unquestioning obedience was necessary for God’s plan … would God see those who disrespect the body as being people who love him?.. unquote Who is doing that??? Is it the ones that state facts ??? Or ask questions?
@@mitchellosmer1293 you clearly didn’t read the bible because that’s exactly what Jesus said to Paul. This is why Paul in his epistles related to the church as the body of Christ where each person had a role in the body. Jesus taught the apostles that we were all part of his body. The fact you thumbs up your own posts is hilariously pathetic
Well, the rudeness really would be of profoundly poor taste; but the proper image of her is that of an adoptive stepmom. The foundation thereof is derived from the Nativity Gospels and the first two words of the Lord's Prayer... put them together and those teachings, and you'll understand the foundation of Marian Devotion, and how that practice is really profoundly Christocentric in nature!
Father Mike Schmitz had an episode where he talked about how, when he was younger and dating, his girlfriend wanted him to meet her mother. Why was that important? Because to know the mother is to know the daughter more intimately. How much more, then, should we strive to know Mother Mary?
''Because to know the mother is to know the daughter more intimately. How much more, then, should we strive to know Mother Mary?'' No need for Mary to know Christ intimately. I can know Christ through the Word of God.
"The hand cannot say to the arm I have no need for you." You need Mary, the saints, your shepherd, and your brethren to know the Lord. "For what you have done to the least of these, you have done for me." You can't know the head without knowing the body and the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the more important parts.
@@canibezeroun1988 You need Mary, the saints, your shepherd, and your brethren to know the Lord.'' No, I need the bible to know the Lord. It tells me where I came from, who God is, how we got in this mess, what He likes, what His plan is, how it works, who my Savior is, how I can be saved and what the future entails. That's pretty exhaustive. What more is there to know?
Because Mary is the mother of our Lord Jesus. As a former protestant, I was guilty of being hypocrite when I acknowledged that I love Jesus but despised his mother. Another reason is because Jesus himself reminded us that Mary is our mother too... John 19:26-27: Jesus said, "Woman, here is your son," to his mother and, "Here is your mother," to the disciple (John) who was standing next to her at the foot of the cross in Calvary.
It was almost 20 years ago when I began my journey out of protestantism and learning about these scriptural references, seeing the dots which I had somehow never been able to connect, were what helped propel me along. Protestant doctrine began to hold less and less water to more I learned Catholic doctrine.
''...seeing the dots which I had somehow never been able to connect'' There's a reason you weren't able to ''connect the dots''. The dots are not connectable unless you suspend all logic and common sense and turn your mind into a papal pretzel.
@@danielcristancho3524 you don't want to connect the dots Daniel, that is why you can't see the Truth. You have grown accustomed to the wide, easy road of Protestantism. I get it. But your faith will only ever be half-baked without the Sacraments and everything else Catholicism has to offer.
“We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.” -St. Louis de Montfort
We go to [Mary] only as a way leading to the goal we seek." Jesus' Father is "the only true God." (John 17:3) Also, Jesus is the Mediator between God and humans, not Mary. As 1 Tim 2:5 says: "For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus."
Christ is the only mediator between us and the Father, but we all (including the saints) mediated for each other between us and Christ. Also, The one true God is a triune God. Saying only the Father is the true God and not the son, nor the Holy Spirit, misses divine revelation entirely and is textbook heresy. If you actually believe God is only the Father, go to a Unitarian “church” and be Christian in literally name only
Well we respect her but Jesus is the one we should give more respect and honor because suppose if one of your family member or someone you love, will you not attend give them respect for what they did in life and Jesus should be given respect.
Protestants, I pray to God that all of you will be converted back to our Catholic church, the universal church that Jesus Christ built from beginning. I also pray to God that all Jews will converted to Catholic Church because of Jesus Christ and Mary are Jews themselves.
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." Isaiah 7:14 (we just have to pay attention to the sign...)
Yeah, the worst thing I've done as a husband is getting close to my wife's mother and the rest of her family. Sheesh. Getting to know the Theotokos and the saints dramatically improved my understanding and relationship with our Lord. As a Protestant for much of my life (now EO), my view of Mary was more about being as non-Catholic as possible.
''Getting to know the Theotokos and the saints dramatically improved my understanding and relationship with our Lord.'' If you really want to get to know God, I suggest the Word of God. Those reflect the thoughts and character of God.
@@geoffjs ''always leads souls to her son!'' Really? Cause what I sense is that Mary leads many Catholics to Mary. More prayers are written to Mary. More pilgrimages are made to Marian sites, there are more images of Mary than of Christ. You can see them in the front yards of papists' homes with NO IMAGES OF CHRIST nearby. Have you read the prayers of Popes to Mary? There are books out there that have them compiled. Not fanatical Marian cults but Popes! You should read them. I have. You'd think Mary was the 4th person of the Godhead, the prayers are so blasphemous. Whatever.
@@danielcristancho3524 Why do you assume he doesn't? I don't understand why this is always beyond Protestant comprehension but it is not an either or. One does not take away from the other. Original Christianity is the fullness of the faith. I wish you knew how much you are giving up by following Luther.
@@lukejohnson1274 I wish you knew how much you are giving up by following Luther.'' I don't follow Luther except when he's in line with scripture, Mr. Luke. It's not about following Luther, it's about following scripture. One does not take away from the other.'' Actually, one does take away from the other. Mary is way more popular than Christ. In fact, having read many prayers of Popes to Mary, it seems Christ is left in the background and Mary becomes center to grace and salvation. That's an abomination. The bible barely mentions Mary outside of the gospels and Acts 2. Peter and Paul never ascribe the kind of importance to Mary that the Roman church does.
Catholics do not worship our Heavenly Mother, we do love, honor and respect her as God does. We could never love her more than He does. She’s the epitome of who He wants everyone to be, pure, holy and completely consecrated to Him. God especially heeds her prayers as they prevail over many things. She prays for us and with us, interceding for us with her Son, Jesus Christ, as she did at the Wedding in Cana. He performed His first public miracle at her request. Exodus 20:12, Rev 12:17, Pro 15:29, Jm5:16, Rev 4:10, 5:8, 6:9-11, 7:11-15, 8:3-4, Acts 1:14, Jn2:1-11
It always impresses me how Protestants, but mostly Protestant pastors, who presumably have some theological and exegetical training, don’t understand (or refuse to do so) the typological connection between Our Most Blessed Mother, the redeemed Israel and the Church triumphant. If one misses Mary as what bridges the other two in the history of salvation, he entirely misses the operativeness of God’s promises to Israel and he misses that redemption is not the mere overcoming of the ruptured order of sin, but the reversal of it (Genesis 3, 15), or the biblical story would come to lack a lot of connection dots, because God’s “Logos”, which is God himself, willed so from all eternity. As we know from St Gregory Nazianzen, “quod non est assumptum, non est sanatum” (cf. S. Gregorii Nazianzeni “Ep. 101 ad Cledon”), therefore God assumed a human nature - in that very womb - to redeem it. Whatever was not assumed, was not redeemed. And he did it with and to that woman. In this particular exegetical and theological field, the reason Protestants invariably get this connection wrong is because, for ecclesiological motives (built into the revolution’s pretexts), their understandings concerning Israel and its history of battles and struggles with sin is excessively “carnal” and their understandings concerning the Church is excessively “spiritual” - or Gnostic (the ecclesiology of “invisibility” defended by Luther, Calvin and tutti quanti). The antidote for it is accepting the Marian dogmas with docility, which can and will “spiritualize” Israel in the biblical sense and make truly meaningful the descriptive binomial “Heavenly Jerusalem”, and to “incarnate” or “make it truly Incarnational” the Church to all of its consequences - not to a mere cherry picking of some. In other words: “de-Gnostify” Protestant theology is the way to get there. For me the greatest biblical parallel reference for Our Mother is as the “Daughter of Zion”, which is the epithet for the city of Jerusalem, which is over Mount Zion. “Hail” is to greet with enthusiasm and joy. It is the translation from the original Greek word “Χαῖρε”, which means literally to greet with both joy and respect. It is EXACTLY the same word used in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament of ancient times that the Apostles and early Christians used) in a lot of passages in which God salutes the “Daughter of Zion”. In Latin this greeting was translated to “Ave” as we see in the Vulgate of St Jerome, the first Bible (OT and NT) ever translated from their originals. What impresses is the core parallels (I am so sorry that many non-Catholics simply miss those) just starting with the word “Hail” that can be made between the first chapter of St Luke’s Gospel and a prophecy in the book Zephaniah: it reveals, in one of the many typologies applied to her, the “Daughter of Zion” is a type of Mary (type-antitype is the theme for typology, obviously) from which Our Savior would come to us. She is not strictly associated with the earthly city of Jerusalem (situated on Mount Zion in Israel) since the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, but to the Heavenly Jerusalem (!), which was the promise for Zion. Mary, among many other mysteries linked to her, is a kind of prototype of the Church Triumphant. Once one gets to that then it comes clearer the true meanings of Revelation 12, identifying that pregnant woman with the crown from whom came to birth the One eternal king, a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter, she who is the mother of all those who give testimony to her Son, Jesus (Revelation 12, 17). Then you see the interpolation of the titles “Mater Dei” (Mother of God) and “Mater Ecclesiae” (Mother of the Church). Mary is therefore the inter-testamentary point of connection; she is the bridge that connects Israel (OT) and the Church (NT) in indissolubility. So Israel recovered from its infidelity (1), Mary (2) and the Church realized in celestial joy (3): the three are intertwined necessarily. Throw away one of the three and the story of our salvation wouldn’t be shown at its fullness. Just take a look at these 3 (three) parallels I would make with that word “Hail”/ “Rejoice” (Χαῖρε) between the Gospel of Luke (1, 28-31) and the book of Zephaniah (3, 14-17). Please check the Greek Bible all you want: ______________________ *1)* _“Rejoice (Χαῖρε), daughter of Zion! (…) Be glad (…)! The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst”_ (Zephaniah 3, 14-15) _“Hail (Χαῖρε), favored one, The LORD is with you”_ (Luke 1, 28). Commentary: Mary and the Daugher of Zion are greeted exactly with the same word of joy and respect (= ‘hail’ or rejoice). The reason for this specific joy is the Lord being with/in the midst of them. _____________________ *2)* _“(…) Do not fear, Zion, do not be discouraged”_ (Zepheniah 3, 16) “(…) _Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God”_ (Luke 1, 30) Commentary: Both Mary and Zion are called for a mission and must not be afraid to face it. ______________________ *3)* _“The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior (…)”_ (Zephaniah 3, 17) _“Behold, you will conceive in your womb (…) and you shall name him Jesus”_ (Luke 1, 31). Commentary: Jesus is announced to be prophetically in the ‘midst’/in the womb of the Daughter of Zion/Mary. Literally, the name “Jesus” (Yəhôšua in Hebrew) means “Yahweh saves”; He is nothing but the promised savior. ______________________ I really hope this is more for food for spiritual thoughts. God bless you all!
@masterchief8179 This gives a lot of food for thought as a Protestant! I wish you tube had a way for me to save such insightful comments! One thing I still have great concerns over are the Marian apparitions. The real Mary would never seek honor or glory for herself, yet these apparitions command people to do things that only fuel further devotion to her. Even if Mary is to have a greater role in our lives, and we are to honor her, many, (though not all) apparitions still stand in direct contrast to the biblical Mary who proclaims: "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." All Christ's servants point to Him. The real Mary points to Jesus. Demonic spirits, on the other hand, seek to rob Christ of His glory and point us away from Him towards other things and people. Please pray for a discerning spirit regarding this matter. Blessings to you!
@@wonderingpilgrim Hum, I guess you implicitly assume a Protestant framework in your considerations: that if anyone receives honor and veneration under a pretext of faith, then it means it robs from God’s honor. That’s clearly to misunderstand what veneration means, which is almost co-existential to the Protestant “ethos”. Also, it expresses the Protestant version of the zero-sum game theory. It’s not necessary to say that, according to Catholics, Assyrians, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox (that means all apostolic churches with historical heritage of apostolic succession), that is gravely anti-biblical and counter-apostolic, my friend. God exults in the exaltation of His blessed sons and daughters, like He did throughout all Old Testament in many core passages I couldn’t even try to pick one. And a similar spiritual dynamics happens among ourselves: in the mystical Body of Christ, which is the Church, whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with him; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with him (1 Co 12, 26). In a sense, Protestantism gets to be one of the pieces that ignited Philosophical Modernity (skepticism and individualism being two of the core expressions of it). That doesn’t mean some popular devotions are not out of measure/ proportion or that uneducated people should be better catechized. I understand it and, as a faithful Catholic, accept some criticism as having valid points. Particular revelation is not required to be believed; some are obscure and either unapproved or proscribed by the Church. But some apparitions are massively documented as miraculous events, like Guadalupe/Mexico as one example, which was followed by a massive conversion of the most vicious pagan child-sacrificing people to Christianity those days. Curiously enough, their highest divinity was… a serpent (!). If one accuses that as coming from the devil, which is blasphemous and calumnious, then someone is deceived by the accuser himself, like the Pharisees that accused Jesus of driving out demons “on the power of Beelzebul” (Lk 11, 14-26). Pray that God helps you see truth in front of your eyes, my friend. For that to happen, one needs to open his/her heart. “And you will know truth, and truth will set you free” (John 8, 32). God bless your journey! From 🇧🇷 Brazil with love.
Catholics tend to view themselves as the offspring of Mary, since she is the mother of the church. Yet, in Revelations, the dragon went off to make war of the rest of her offspring who "keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus." This is pretty much the same as saying Protestants, who often have disdain for Mary, are not her offspring and od not keep God's commandments nor bear testimony to Jesus --- especially where the Eucharist is concerned. How far the protestants keep falling away, especially when one considers that Luther, Calvin and Zwingli had strong love and devotion to Mary.
I can't help but think of Catholics as David and Protestants as Michal when I read II Sam 6. "As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal, daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart." "David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over thanks LORD's people Israel ---- I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor." "And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death."
@@po18guy - Can't your quote apply to Protestants? They have multiplied bibles, translations, interpretations and denominations almost endlessly. "His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Seems to fit the ever-changing Protestants much more than the Catholics.
Protestants do not disdain the Mary of the Bible, just the Catholic version of Mary with all its lies about her. We call her blessed but not a co-redeemer. Only Jesus saves.
Protestants don't disdain Mary. We consider her blessed for having been chosen as the mother of Jesus. However, we don't carry it beyond that. We do not venerate her or pray to her. We have no example of that in the Bible and so reject it.
Many times I see in Protestant arguments a kind of zero-sum thinking, in which if we involve works of faith, we take away from the grace of God, if we ask for intercession from the Virgin and the saints, then we take away from Jesus, if We make comments on tradition and teaching, we take away from the written word of the Bible, the Catholic vision is not antagonistic, it does not speak of adding to one and subtracting another, but rather incorporating faith with logic and foundations into a whole, there is not always exclusions or false dichotomies. I understand and admire all the love and zeal that Protestants have for God, that makes them think in those terms of one adds, the other subtracts, but arguments like that are not the answer to everything that happens in the Catholic position.
1 THESSALONIANS 4 .. tells us very clearly that mary , paul, the others cannot possibly be alive in heaven , like the 1st saints, who were asleep in death ,who were resurrected the very hour jesus died. Since mary and paul etc were ALIVE ON EARTH for decades after the 1st resurection, they have to wait , asleep in death, like everyone else , until the 2nd resurection. Unless...you want to blaspheme and say paul is lying?
Probably because Mary and the Holy Spirit had a baby together Who happens to be God in human flesh. He got that human body from Mary. Nobody can claim to be that Blessed before or since.
Mary and the Holy Spirit did not have a baby together. Mary and the Father had a baby together, through the instrumentality of the Spirit (i.e. love). Jesus explicitly refers to "the Father" as "my Father" many times in the Gospels (Matt 11:27 is a great example, where the use of both makes it clear that "my Father" does not refer to the Spirit). That is to say, the Father does not simply bear the relation of Father to Son as between two Persons of the Trinity, but also as Father to Son between the Father and the incarnate Christ. So, if you really want to appreciate Mary's holiness/blessedness, consider that she was, in some real sense, God's chosen bride--not in every sense, because the husband-wife relation is a product of the corporeal world only. But looking at it from the corporeal, human perspective, that was the relation that existed: the Father, through the Spirit, was the source of the seed--whether corporeal or virtual--that impregnated Mary, having chosen her from among all other women to be the mother of his son.
@jimnewl Wow. That was deep. I had in mind something simpler: The Holy Theotokos is the daughter of the Father, the mother of the Son, and the spouse of the Holy Spirit. In this sense, Mary was overshadowed by the Spirit even as the Ark was overshadowed by the Spirit in the OT. I may not have said it well. Your nuances are brilliant. No argument here. #GraciousBow
Christ NEVER taught that Peter is a pope. Christ NEVER taught that Mary will go to heaven. Christ NEVER taught that Mary is a mediator/intecessor. Christ NEVER taught that Mary never sinned. Christ NEVER taught that Mary remained virgin. Christ NEVER Taught that a mere man is head of His church. Christ NEVER taught about a church named Catholic. Christ NEVER taught that we can pray to the dead. Christ NEVER taught that the dead can hear our prayers. Christ NEVER taught that anyone can change the day of worship.
Humility crushes pride. Mary crushes satan. Humility pleases Our Lord. He detests pride. Mary is the ideal instrument of His will. Joe thank you for instructing us in our beautiful faith. God reveals Himself in so many thoughtful and surprising ways. We truly benefit from your scholarship.
Mary crusehd Satans heat...through HER SON JESUS CHRIST. is this sooo difficult to understand? Why do you Potestants can't think and feel in relationships? MARY wanted to give birth to this very speciall SON for a reason. She knew, that this SON WILL CONECT us humans again with our Creator. For this reason she was even ready, to become this SON, WITHOUT beeing married. She was a very clecer lady also and knew, that in her jewish culture, she could have been killed for becoming pregnant. Still, she agreed immediatly even without asking her fiance, Joseph. How enger and bold she was, to serve GOD in this way. And...please go through her MAGNIFICAT. You will find a youngh woman, who wanted to see the POOR uplifted and the rich coming down from there opresssing positions. What a lady ? She was willig and able to bring thks SON for many different reasons into this world. Don't tell me, I made somthing up. What I tell you is all written in the BIBLE. ONLY for this reasons, you as Protestants should feel ashame, to sisturbe us catholkcs sins years and years with your shameless respectlessness against the MOTHER OF JESUS. Its shocking to understand, how stupid stubbern you can be against the MOTHER, who gave Barth also to your Salvator. Please lern to think and to okay and to respect MARY the way, she deserve all our respect. Please stopp this endless time consuming Diskussions. PLEASE !
@@danielcristancho3524do yu even read your Bible? The very first prophecy in the Bible is about that. That there will be enmity between the 'Woman and the serpent'. God has made Mary the instrument of Satan's demise
@@sherwindsouza6599 do yu even read your Bible? '' In scripture, the church is represented as a chaste woman and an unfaithful church as a whore. The woman in Genesis 3:15 is not Mary. It's the church of God and yes, the church does have a war like relationship with the evil one. And the woman DOES NOT CRUSH THE SERPENTS HEAD, LIKE THE DOUHY RHEIMS BIBLE STATES, it is THE SEED OF THE WOMAN THAT CRUSHES THE SERPENT'S HEAD, AND THE SERPENT BRUISES HIS HEEL. Christ is the one that will destroy the devil. That the bible CLEARLY STATES. If you need a text, I will be glad to provide it. No where in scripture does the bible EVER TELL US MARY WILL DESTROY THE DEVIL. That's a papist fable.
The Blessed Virgin Mary Is Full Of Grace, Eternal Virgin, Without sin, The Mother of God, Bearer Of Light, Co-Redemptoress, Mediatrix, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Ark Of The Covenant.
💙🙏🏽💙🙏🏻💙 Pray the rosary , it tells the story of Jesus from His conception till His resurrection . God has given us tools to help us defeat the devil and Mary (mother of the Lamb and adopted mother to all ) and the Saints are those tools. And if you pray it devoutly and daily you will gain that peace that defies understanding.
No Mary, the son of God wouldn’t been born. There would be no salvation for man. Jesus gave us his mother before he passed away in the cross. Mary is mother to all humanity.
You wrote "about Mary’s centrality in Catholicism." You just pinpointed why the Roman Catholic Church is in deep doctrinal doo-doo. You see, GOD is central to Christianity, but MARY is central to Catholicism! 😛Christianity follows God the Son and communicates the Gospel of Jesus Christ's propitiation for our sins, but Catholicism follows His earthly mother Mary (a created, finite being) and wastes time on their false gospel of Mary, the RC co-Mediatrix and co-Redemptrix.
When pregnant Microchimerism. ( new word for me) Microchimerism is defined by the presence of circulating cells, bidirectionally transferred from one genetically distinct individual to another. It can occur either physiologically during pregnancy or iatrogenically after blood transfusion and organ transplants. Just think what this means for Mary and Jesus ! ❤️ “When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”. For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too. Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream. Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart. The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby. How cool is that? This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant. It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive. Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave? Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?” If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them. I find this to be so very beautiful. This research is belongs to Hina Chaudhry and her team. Here is the resent article about her and team: 1. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313246 2. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-science-motherhood-180977456/
It's pretty clear that in Revelation the 'Woman' who gives birth to the Child is Mary and NOT "the Church" as protestants say. How can the Church give birth to Jesus? That's a blasphemy. If you believe in Jesus, whether you like it or not, Mary is your mother (Revelation 12:17: "the dragon went off to wage war against THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, THOSE WHO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS AND BEAR WITNESS TO JESUS". It's so clear. Even Jesus dying on the Cross said we should accept Mary as our mother (John 19:27: "THEN HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLE 'BEHOLD YOUR MOTHER') even though John's real mother, Salome, was at the cricifiction (Mark 15:40). Protestant pastors act like Pharisees, denying what is clear about the scriptures. They create churches by picking and chosing what they like about the bible and rejecting fundamentals like refusing to hear Jesus when He insists the bread and wine is His real body and His real blood, NOT a symbol (John 6:48-58).
Another great and in-depth video, Joe. Love your content, especially for someone new to Catholicism. Are there any books you recommend for someone new like me? I have no opposition nor disagreement towards anything of the Catholic faith, just falling more in love with it. Thank you.
Logically speaking... when we say MOTHER OF DONKEY... therefore, the Mother is also a Donkey... "MOTHER OF GOD"... is Blessed Mary also a God?... if NOT... then, the grammar is wrong, it should have an ARTICLE "a, an, or the"... it should be "Mother of a/the God." Analogy...For example, "Mother of a/the President" (with article)... therefore, the Mother is not the President... while ... "Mother of President" (w/o Article)... therefore, the Mother is among the President or the Head of the President... the same analogy... Amen.
We, True Christian "WORSHIPPERS" who worship God in SPIRIT and in TRUTH" (w/o Religious IDOLS, IMAGES, STATUES, etc.), also Honor and Respect Blessed Mary the Biblical (Scriptural) WAY... not the R.C.C. Dogmas... There was NO FAVORITISM from the Heart and Mind of Christ Jesus... (ref. Galatian 3:28). Facts and Truth of the Matters, Biblically and Logically speaking... Praise be to God in Christ Jesus... Amen.
Late Pope Benedict XVI tried to do just that before his death, but his efforts were thwarted by freemason-ruled Vatican. I believe this will surface again and become official after the Scheme expected to occur very soon.
In Christ we are all aligned perfectly with God. His love plan worked perfectly 💓 all we need to do is believe Him and receive Him💯🫶🥀 He is the Lamb without spot or blemish.
@@lolybird77 That is not all. To be saved, one MUST do what He taught, practicing them in all our actions. Without doing what He taught us to do, believing in Him is a sham and will be no avail, for we all will be judged based on, not by faith, but what we did during our early life (Rev 20:13).
WOW WOW WOW!!! The more I learn of the Bible the more I am in awe of our God! No man could have possibly thought of such a powerful, holy and true story made of stories! We are blessed to have the Blessed Mother Mary, and for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I sincerely appreciate you for this video! I have been raised Protestant, but have started learning so much MORE and deeply by Catholics teaching. My soul has always felt a lack by the way I have been taught about the Bible. It has always seemed like a show with dramatics and flare. I would often be left always confused or conflicted. I have really struggled reading and understanding the Bible, my adhd brain just gets so confused. That’s what I love about catholic teachings. You guys have a way of teaching with no dramatics or “fluff”, just clearly and powerfully sharing the word of God in ways my brain can grasp and my soul can feel the power and meaning behind those words. I am very close to deciding to become Catholic, I only have a bit more to find out and search for. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! for helping me to see and feel the power of God’s word and taking the time to show your references and connections I would have never made on my own ❤❤❤ I love and am honored by the Blessed Mother
@@VivatChristusRex99 FACTS: Christ NEVER taught that Peter is a pope. Christ NEVER taught that Mary will go to heaven. Christ NEVER taught that Mary is a mediator/intercessor. Christ NEVER taught that Mary never sinned. Christ NEVER taught that Mary remained virgin. Christ NEVER Taught that a mere man is head of His church. Christ NEVER taught about a church named Catholic. Christ NEVER taught that we can pray to the dead. Christ NEVER taught that the dead can hear our prayers. Christ NEVER taught that anyone can change the day of worship. Christ NEVER taught to confess to a "priest" Christ NEVER Taught a priest can forgive your sins. Christ NEVER taught salvation is through a church. >>>> CHRISTIAN The Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning "follower of Christ", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning "anointed one", >>> A Christian (/ˈkrɪstʃən, -tiən/) is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Father God/YHWH is seeking the TRUE (Christian) WORSHIPPERS who could WORSHIP GOD/YHWH in SPIRIT and in TRUTH... (without Spiritual/Religious IDOLS, ICONS, IMAGES, and STUTUES/SCUPTURES)... (ref. John 4:23)... These are the MATURED/ADULT/ELDER FAITH in Christ that God is SEEKING for to Worship HIM and not merely the INFANT FAITH R.C.C. who still eat and drink baby/soft foods and can not chew SOLID food... (ref. 1 Corin. 3:1-2)... Facts and Truth of the Matters, Biblically and Logically speaking... Amen.
Joe, I’m really glad I found your channel. I love how you approach topics. I particularity like how you elucidate the conflicts before describing the sides, which you do before prosecuting your case. Keep it up, brother!
Precisely why "Scripture alone" is a foolish doctrine. Expecting any common layman to figure out on his own what the Church has done over thousands of years is outlandish
@@eddardgreybeardsola scriptura is about infallibility, that only Scripture is infallible and as such church authority is subject to the text. It does not mean “figure it out for yourself”. This is a common misconception among Catholics and Orthodox, at least in your lay apologetics.
@@KingdomInterest *sola scriptura is about infallibility, that only Scripture is infallible and as such church authority is subject to the text.* You're missing the loophole so wide an aircraft carrier can sail through: Who determines the correct authority of the interpretation of scripture? Nobody is going to disagree that the bible is inerrant (I would never use infallible since books are inanimate objects and cannot speak) so the entire "AcKsHuAlLy" discussion around sola scriptura is, above all things, a red herring: It all comes down to the interpretation of scripture and who has the correct interpretation. There is only one. It isn't a subjective experience where there's multiple valid interpretations and all of them can be correct at the same time. *It does not mean “figure it out for yourself”* Not even what I was trying to say. What I'm saying is the idea that any common layman can read scripture with the same insight and understanding as the Church of whom has thousands of years of tradition and teaching is absolutely laughable.
Yes. And this man is contriving analogy from the text and declaring his analogy to be infallible and the foundation of doctrine. But other analogies can be drawn from these same scriptures. And for many scriptures, no analogy is intended. It is a doctrine of the Catholic Church that doctrine cannot be drawn from analogy, but only be confirmed by it. The Medieval exegetes taught that the Ark of the Covenant is the Incarnation of Christ by analogy. If it were Mary, Christ need not be born. It is Christ who contains in Himself the law and the priesthood, and is Himself the manna. To hand this off to Mary is ridiculous. It is in fact saying that the human race in Mary is to be given credit for the salvation of the world, because without a human, Christ could not come to us. Outrageous!!!!!!! He also says the early church believed Mary is the new Eve. This is absurd. In the huge volume Against Heresies, written by Irenaeus in only one paragraph does he make an analogy of Mary with Eve and Christ with Adam. This hardly represents the devotion of the early Church. The Marian obsession entered the Church as Gnostic revelations, and these were condemned by the Pope Gelasius. Over many centuries these gained ground until now in our lifetime we have two popes who have consecrated the Holy Catholic Church to Mary. Wha does this mean?So much more could be said on this catastrophe. @@eddardgreybeard
@@andrewharmon2157 This is not simply Catholic Church doctrine, this is all of pre reformation Christianity. All of pre reformation Christianity teaches this about Mary. And your point is "I'm capable of seeing it differently and beholden of the capacity to disagree." Yeah, I suppose you are. So what?
I choose Team Mary 😊. Queen of the Angels 😇. My mother and my Queen. Queen of Heaven and earth, by order of God our Father and Creator of the Universe. If she is good for Him, She's good for us ! Thank you Joe for this teaching. May Mary keep you under Her Mantle ❤
When my mother died I pulled out an old rosary I'd bought "ironically" in my rebellious youth And started praying unironically. Pray for us now and at the hour of our death
Maybe I’m delusional, but it seems that Genesis 3:15 is the backdrop of Revelation 12. The woman is at once Mary and the Church inasmuch as she is the mother of Jesus and his mystical body.
Quite right! When Revelation 12:9 refers to the devil as "the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent," that's a pretty explicit reference to Genesis 3.
There is a Big Difference between the Phrase, "MOTHER of GOD"... and ... "Mother of a/the GOD" ( with articles "a," "an" or "the")... How can that be in the English Language?... Without the English Article, "Mother of God" which means the Blessed Mary is also God herself or God in nature and not a created being... but with English Article. "Mother of a/the God," means she is not a God herself, she just gave birth to a God (Christ Jesus)... we can not also say, "Mother of Christ" for she is not a savior herself, but "Mother of the Christ." For example w/o the Articles... "Mother of Donkey," means the mother is also a donkey herself... Mother of Apes, which means the mother is also an Apes herself... "Mother of Nurses," means the mother or the founder of nurses is also a Nurse herself... For example with the Articles... "Mother of the President," means she is the president's mother but not necessarily a president herself... "Mother of a Doctor," means she is the doctor's mother but not necessarily a doctor herself... Facts and Truth of the Matters, Grammatically speaking... Amen...
Because Jesus is the bridegroom and the church is his bride. The mother of the bridegroom is also the mother of the bride. If you love your husband, you also love his mother. That is why the relationship between Naomi and Ruth was so beautiful. They truly loved each other despite being only in-laws. Even if you don't care about the book of Judith because it's deuterocanonical, you can't ignore the book of Ruth. It's in the bible for a reason. Even if you reject the idea that Mary is the Ark of the Covenant, or even the new Eve, you can't reject the fact that she is your mother if you truly accept Jesus as your bridegroom who brings you security and bread of life. The more you read and learn about the entire history and heritage of Jews, the more many uniquely Catholic doctrines make sense.
This is how important Mary is. No Mary? The son of God is not born into the world and we're still in our sins. You may argue that God could have chosen any woman. Not so. Why? Because she would have to be a worthy vessel, in other words, Holy, full of grace, blessed among women. Holy people are worthy of Holy honour, and none are holier or more blessed among women than Mary. The bible says it.
1 Timothy 2:5 KJV - For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; mary is DEAD and in the grave!!! She CAN NOT hear you
The Church has always understood the narrative in Genesis to say it is the foot of the Woman who will crush the devil's head. This was taught by Pope Pius IX in his infallible teaching on the Immaculate Conception. This is also exemplified by the thousands of statutes made over the centuries depicting Mary with the serpent under her foot. Why we suddenly adopted the Protestant mistranslation of those verses I will leave it to you to ponder upon.
Wow! Thanks for the great explanation for how we should understand The Blessed Mother's place in our faith. Thank GOD for the well educated Catholic apologists that are helping us know and understand our faith so that we can share why we should believe what we believe and also to defend JESUS's true church.
In all the OT head crushing incidents, the pronunciation of blessedness happens after the head crushing. So, does the same follow with Mary? I'd say yes, just based on the pattern, but also recognizing that Mary's defeat of Satan better parallels Satan's victory over mankind in the Garden of Eden. When Satan murders Adam and Eve, he does so through the temptation, and the death was not immediate although the blow was. When Mary said "yes" to the angel, that was the death blow to the serpent, even though the death would not come until later. It's both by Mary that God crushed the serpent and by the seed that Mary enacts the woman's victory.
Never thought of it this way. You are right. God is showing not just Satan but all creation that the humble will lead the way. Mary is so great but in her own eyes she is lowly. Imagine that! All the proud people who scorn her should be very careful.
Every time you mock the mother of Jesus, you commit a grave sin. There is a Comandment that says we must honor our mothers and fathers. Now listen up. All Christians become adopted sons of God, brothers of Jesus, and as a brother of Jesus Mary is our mother, and she comes under the umbrella of the commandment that says honor, your mother and your father. Well that is the only commandment that says if you do not follow it, you will be cursed down to the fourth generation. So your choice is the curse or honor your mother Mary, the mother of Jesus, your brother, according to God in the Bible. It’s your choice heaven or hell.
@oved.Yeshua Martin Luther wrote the veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart September 1522.The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart." [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.] "Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing." [Martin Luther...🤣🤣
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Blessed Mother Mary, please pray for the Protestants.
I understand it sounds nice and all,
but the apostles or Jesus did not teach us to do this. Actually nobody asked for prayer from anyone who had passed in the new or old testament.
@GodSoLoved.Yeshua The apostles are alive and well. And yeah, they teach us that's a good thing to do.
@@GodSoLoved.Yeshua But one thing definitely not taught: sola scriptura
Again, the apostles or Jesus did not teach us to do this. Actually nobody asked for prayer from anyone who had passed in the new or old testament.
@@GodSoLoved.Yeshua So you don't believe that those in heaven are part of the Body of Christ? Because Scripture clearly tells us to pray for each other.
Oh I don't Know Maybe Because She Is the Mother Of My lord Mary is the only person that can say Jesus, flesh of my flesh. Bone of my bone. And that is VERY special👍👍
Yes, but, that's not the greatest reason:
And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.
Our Lord was directly complimenting His mother, for who else among the race of men can say that they perfectly heard the Word of God and kept it?
@ngeli147 Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it well that would be Mary
Mary as the first Person To say Yes to Gods plan for redemption
Mary Was the First person to say thy will Be done
Mary thru who the WORD was made Flesh
Who was Blessed
All generations will call her blessed for she is blessed among women. Of all women, our Lord chose her holy womb, full of grace, as His own dwelling. The power of the Most High overshadowed the mother of our Redeemer and she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit. Our Lord Himself honoured her as His own mother and we must honour whom the Lord honours. Blessed be her name, Mary, and blessed be the name of the fruit of her womb, Jesus.
The Lord will honour His own mother, blessed Mary, for all eternity & we cannot but follow His example and honour her as He does: hail, Mary, the Lord is with thee! He is flesh of her flesh & bone of her bone. We are born of Him & He is born of Her and of the Father. The blood which was poured out for us was blood of her blood. A spear pierced His side & a sword pierced her heart. Unless we eat His flesh, which is of her flesh, we have no life within us.
Hail Mary, who gave birth to incarnate Love and Salvation and who raised for us sinners the Hope of Israel. The Lord is with her. With her is Redemption, with her is Forgiveness for all iniquities. Blessed be her name by all generations!
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For protestants, it is not neccesarily about her being the mother of God. Many protestants attest to that. The main issue for 'mainstream' protestants is her veneration and certain catholic marian doctrines like her not having other children, and the immacualate conception.
(I'm just mentioning what I notice, not here to discuss or fight)
Nailed it! #MicDrop
That's interesting. Scripture doesn't say much about Mary. It says she is blessed, and highly favoured by God. Scripture doesn't say she is the queen of heaven or the queen mother. Scripture does call her the "handmaiden of the Lord."
Thank you so much for this video. It rly helped me out a lot. Even as a cradle Catholic, I had a hard time with this even when I was young. Worship to me was always due to God and I thought Catholics were idolizing Mary, but I couldn't get myself to leave bc there's this holiness about the Catholic church that i couldn't find in the many churches I attended. Mainly the eucharist, but I still struggled with Mary, but I accepted it bc of the role she played in salvation and bc the church was founded by Christ (yes I believe that wholeheartedly) so it had authority. I defended Mary even though I still had a problem, but I still looked for videos that could help me eliminate the discomfort bc I felt like I was betraying my faith. And this video did that. So again, thank you, and may God bless you in everything that you do.
Thank you, Jo.
That was awesome.
Thank you for these last two episodes. I think you’ve done excellently in both. As a recent revert who has had to ask these questions (and arrived at the compelling conclusions you draw here), I think a keystone in my understanding of Mary (and even ecclesiology), is how the earliest Christians (including St. Paul, eg Galatians, 1 Corinthians 10, not to mention the hermeneutical lens of the author of Hebrews, all following Jesus, particularly in Luke 24, and the “Acts of the 40 days” between his resurrection and ascension) are capturing the New Covenant TYPOLOGICAL fulfillment of the Old.
Typology does not only apply to Jesus Messiah, but also to Mary, the Church, the Apostles, etc.
Perhaps you’ve done it, but I wonder if it might be helpful to do a series of videos on the hermeneutics/exegesis of the early Church? As an example of how it could be fruitful even in this episode: the woman can be both Eve AND Mary AND the Church (here I’m thinking of Revelation 12 // John 19) and that does not detract from either. Both can be fulfilled, “filled up” with each and the other. Like how you said about the paintbrush and painter. Agency, instrumentality, can be shared - especially as we consider Eve, Mary’s, and the Church’s mystical union as the Body with Christ the Head. Thank you for your ministry!!
To follow up: maybe an historical overview of the changes in biblical interpretation throughout history. For example, more Protestants are having to wrestle with these questions due to what has been called “the theological interpretation of Scripture” movement in the evangelical world. I got my MA at Wheaton when this was burgeoning and it was fascinating to see the kind of tensions (sadly) between exegesis departments and theology departments in this point. It was as if the historical sense and spiritual sense (including typology) were rent asunder unnaturally. But it was clear that that rupture was being healed too and I think the healing of that is one reason many Protestants are taking more interest in Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
Just goes to show how quickly the post-Apostolic fathers went off the rails with some of their ideas. Mary, a finite created being, was LUCKY to be be given the _privilege_ of bearing the incarnation of God the Son. Any female that God chose would have sufficed. Get over her.
THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TO SEE THIS VIDEO 🙏🏻
Interesting that God said the serpent's head will be crushed by the seed of the woman...and in abortion the seed of a woman has it's head crushed. Not that there's a direct connection but I know Satan likely loves abortion and I heard "head crushing" so many times during this video I couldn't help but think of abortion 😕 Great video, very informative 👍🏻
Let us pray for the murdered babies
Oh, that's a really good connection. He has been a murderer from the beginning
actually, the one I like is Judith 11 verse 17, where we see Mary's answer the way Judith did, but as far as I know we see how holy Mary really is . Judith responds "Your handmaid (same word Mary responds the angel) is indeed a God-fearing woman, serving the God of heaven night and day". Judith was chosen exactly because she was the handmaid of God. Judith later says "I will lead you through the heart of Judea until you come to Jerusalem, and there in its center I will set up your throne." Who in the new testament is the handmaid of the lord, and will set up a throne?"
Question? Is your mother special? Jesus mother is our mother and she is special.
I tried explaining this to my mom and she said “well, I agree with you, but I don’t know what to do with this information.” She is de facto Jewish, only reads the first half of the Bible. So many people have a mental block on accepting Mary as their loving mother. It makes me saf
I mean, she's the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God. People make a big deal about the British royal family and all they rule is England!
"Through Eve yet virgin came death; through a virgin, or rather from a virgin, must the Life appear: that as the serpent beguiled the one, so to the other Gabriel might bring good tidings." Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Letter 12, 15.
Joe ,you have a wonderful gift . Thank you for sharing. Also. Our blessed mother is the only human that could say while pregnant or nursing. "Take eat this my body given up for you. "
wow - great point!
Thank you Joe!!🙏
Thank you
This is excellent 👌
So interesting-and I never thought about it-but the comment about Lucifer not being willing or even able to rebel if he'd had the beatific vision... that's quite near the doctrine of irresistible grace.
WHY MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS IS SO VERY SPECIAL TO US WHO LOVED OUR LORD JESUS VERY VERY MUCH ❤❤❤
THE MOTHER OF JESUS OUR LORD......IS ALSO OUR SPIRITUAL MOTHER TOO ON EARTH ❤❤❤
TO THOSE WHO ARE BORN WITHOUT A REAL BIOLOGICAL MOTHER TO TAKE CARE OF US ON EARTH.....WE CAN TURN TO THE MOTHER OF JESUS AS OUR MOTHER TOO ❗️❗️❗️❗️
SHE IS SUCH A PERFECT MOTHER FOR US WHO LOVED HER VERY MUCH AS SHE GUIDED US TRU DIFFICULT TIMES .....GOOD TIME AND BAD TIME TOO❤❤❤
ENOUGH OF PEOPLE PROTESTING AGAINST HER WHICH TRULY INDICATED HOW REALLY NAIVE, SOULESS HUMAN BEINGS THEY REALLY ARE ❗️❗️❗️❗️
THESE ARE THE VERY INSANE PEOPLE WHO DONT LOVED THEIR OWN MOTHERS .....ANYWAY ❗️❗️❗️❗️
the prayer for Mary was made by people. Yes, by people.
Pray to Mary, She will hear you.
Mary is together with Jesus.
I saw them both in my deep sleep.
Mary always answer my prayer wanting for a help;
While i am fighting the evil in my deep sleep.
While i saw myself sleeping for many times.
While i tried to go back to enter to my body for many times.
Mother Mary, is always there waiting for a prayer.
It is talking about seeds not the person carrying the seed.
You used the word pray to her that’s the only thing I guess I find hard to understand. When I ask someone to pray for me I’m not praying to that person I’m asking for intercession. When I ask Mary to pray for me I’m not praying to her I am asking her to pray for me. Wonder if you did a video on that use of that word “pray” when it comes to asking for intercession of the saints and maybe give examples from the church fathers and an assortment of early Christian sources of how they understood prayer
In English (Shakespeare) the word "pray" means "to ask" or "to beg" when you ask others to pray for you, you are praying that they might pray for you.
The oldest Marian prayer found is "Sub Tuum Praesidium". Dated around 250 AD
“Sub Tuum Praesidium” 250 A.D.
Under your mercy we take refuge,
Mother of God!(Theotokos)
Do not despise our prayers in necessities,
but from danger deliver us,
only pure, only blessed one.
Today we have a similar prayer called the "Memorare"
REMEMBER, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly to thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother; to thee do I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
Prayer is to ask. Intercession is asking, it's the same thing. We are asking them to ask for us. Worshipping involves giving sacrifice. We pray to Mary and the Saints, we don't offer sacrifice to them. It's that simple. That's all that needs to be said, anyone confused about this simply doesn't understand the difference between prayer and worship.
We pray to Her, not only for Her intercession, but also Her direct help and protection for us. As you know, we pray to our guardian angles to protect and help us. And we pray for the same purpose to Saint Michael Archangel and saints in Heaven. God has ordained that all angels and saints help and protect souls on earth (through the communion of saints) so that they may be safely brought to His Kingdom. We have to ask their help and protection, otherwise they may not be able to help us, for God does not compel anyone to be saved, but leaves everyone free to choose Life or Death on their own free will (Sirach 15:17). That's why we have to pray all the time.
Because Jesus and Scripture made such a big deal about her.
Interestingly enough, there are two Jewish interpretations, of He will bruise your head, David Falk told about this. The fist is that the seed of the woman is Messiah, the second is Israel. And in a similar way to what you say about Mary it’s both true. Israel brought the Messiah forth, therefore Israel crushed the Devils head. And Mary was Jesustokos and so, Mary destroyed Satans head too.
The Blessed Mother is our general.
One key issue: there is no neuter in hebrew. We have ancient textual evidence for "they" (mpl) being used and "he" (msg) being used, but "she" (fsg) is absent in all the manuscripts I have been able to see. If you do a follow up video, spend more time elaborating on how the concept of neuter is to be found in an otherwise universally gendered language.
Well, in good faith, let me articulate a few disagreements...
1. The antecedent to the neuter pronoun in Genesis 3:15 is not a mute point, it is crucial. It determines who is doing the crushing, and clearly, it is the seed, not the woman. You're argument for why this is a mute point is because Philistines did not make a distinction between God and the ark of God. Also, that Jesus in John 4 "made disciple and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not". These two points, for me, fall significantly short for establishing why it is okay to think of the woman as being the head crusher. Michealangelo painted the Sistine chapel, the paint brushes did not. There is absolutely a distinction between instrument and Creator. A big one. If someone came up to you and said "those paint brushes did a great job in that painting" it would not make sense.
2. With that said, the I would disagree that Mary is even the instrument whereby the head of Satan is crushed. Colossians 2:9-15 and specifically 14-15 speak of Jesus making a show over principalities and powers, triumphing over them. This happens at his death, burial and resurrection. The instrument in which God uses to crush the serpents head is not Mary, rather it is the atonement of sin by the death of His Only Begotten Son. This crushing has already taken place.
3. Furthermore, "enmity" is not necessarily analogous to war. You frame the enmity as a war with two sides, Mary's side and Satan's side. The word means hatred, strife, division. Notice God curses the serpent first, then the woman, then Adam. The serpents curse is division, enmity, strife with the woman because He had won her over to his side. He has gained an ally in his rebellion against God. The woman is specifically mentioned because the serpent never talks to the man, he specifically goes after and deceives the Woman. We see the devil talked about as the "god of this world" as "prince of the power of the air," we see him having dominion (limited, yes, but dominion nonetheless) over the kingdoms of the earth as he offers control of them to Jesus in his temptation of him. God is promising the devil that his dominion, his union (so to speak) with mankind will one day be severed. And who is the one to do that? Jesus, at his passion, as previously stated.
4. At the end you make a passing comment about this is "deeply a part of the early belief of the earliest Christians." I've read "the earliest Christians" and what was said in this video is no where to be found in them. Have I read every piece of literature no, but I don't think that it is up for much debate that these dogmas and titles of Mary develop over time, much time! To jump from Justin or Irenaeus making a passing comment about Mary being the new Eve, to she is head-crusher, she is the Queen of Heaven, your mother and you should pray to her and venerate her is such a large logical jump.
5. The interpretation of Revelation 12 I don't feel qualified to touch. I remember Gavin Ortlund saying that that interpretation, of Mary being the woman, does not have much historical support. I just need to study it before I can comment on it.
6. I am still stuck on this "Creator/Creature" distinction. I just do not see why I should give any devotion to a creature. The Creator deserves all of my devotion. Any devotion I give to a creature just simply detracts from the devotion I can give to the Creator. the "You can never love Mary more than Jesus" also falls short. Sure, I can never love Mary more than Jesus loves Mary but it is entirely possible for me to love Mary more than I love Jesus.
God bless. Excuse any typos.
Martin Luther wrote the veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart
September 1522.The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart." [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.]
"Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing." [Martin Luther...👏👏
@@po18guy It doesn't have to be a master thesis on linguistics in order to use proper linguistics...
@@bibleman8010 If Martin Luther were my infallible, unerring authority that would present a big problem for me and most of modern Protestantism. But, he is not. He was a good man, but a fallible man. Veneration of Saints and Mary is very clearly an accretion that developed over time and was not in the apostolic deposit.
Nonetheless, I am fine with Mary being called Theotokus, Mother of God. Its an important distinction for the deity of Christ. I am fine with honoring her. God said All generations will call her blessed. Thank you Mary, for obeying God and living in humility and submission, what a great example to us all.
@@JamesClark-le7hu "Veneration of Saints and Mary is very clearly an accretion that developed over time and was not in the apostolic deposit."
Since we have evidence of the veneration of Mary and the Saints before the Bible was compiled, at what point do you believe the Holy Spirit left the Church and the accretion began?
@@lellachu1682 I don't know what evidence from the first three centuries you are referring to. A drawing of Mary on a cave with an incomplete sentence on it? Sincerely, point me to other evidence. From what I can tell, there's actually quite widespread teaching against the practice.
You are clearly begging the question, assuming that the Holy Spirit had to leave in order for the accretion to begin.
Wasn’t that verse mistranslated to
Her when it should be His or Their?
Yes but it doesn’t change the fact that there is a conflict or enmity between her and Satan
Also it continues explaining like the videos explains
@@Scb30476 yup lol I realized that
“All generations will call me blessed.” Luke 1:48
It’s right there in the Bible. We’re doing as we’re told to do.
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or WHATEVER you do,
DO EVERYTHING FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31
Lots of people are called blessed in the Bible
I am a Protestant and am often met with condescension and rudeness when I ask questions about Mary. Thank you for taking the time to refer to scripture and answer in an informed and logical way.
I'm sorry you've had that experience, and glad I could be of some help!
If Jesus told Saul to stop abusing his body, and made him blind to change his heart …. How do you think he will treat people who attack his mother that then say the love him and only him even though Mary’s unquestioning obedience was necessary for God’s plan … would God see those who disrespect the body as being people who love him?
@@Davidjune1970 quote----If Jesus told Saul to stop abusing his body, and made him blind to change his heart ….. unquote
No one was abusing Jesus' body. Saul was killing Jews, and Christians
---quote---How do you think he will treat people who attack his mother that then say the love him and only him even though Mary’s unquestioning obedience was necessary for God’s plan … would God see those who disrespect the body as being people who love him?.. unquote
Who is doing that???
Is it the ones that state facts ??? Or ask questions?
@@mitchellosmer1293 you clearly didn’t read the bible because that’s exactly what Jesus said to Paul. This is why Paul in his epistles related to the church as the body of Christ where each person had a role in the body. Jesus taught the apostles that we were all part of his body.
The fact you thumbs up your own posts is hilariously pathetic
Well, the rudeness really would be of profoundly poor taste; but the proper image of her is that of an adoptive stepmom. The foundation thereof is derived from the Nativity Gospels and the first two words of the Lord's Prayer... put them together and those teachings, and you'll understand the foundation of Marian Devotion, and how that practice is really profoundly Christocentric in nature!
Father Mike Schmitz had an episode where he talked about how, when he was younger and dating, his girlfriend wanted him to meet her mother. Why was that important? Because to know the mother is to know the daughter more intimately. How much more, then, should we strive to know Mother Mary?
But Jesus isn’t a woman
@@get_answered5157 no. But we should know Mary to know Jesus better.
''Because to know the mother is to know the daughter more intimately. How much more, then, should we strive to know Mother Mary?''
No need for Mary to know Christ intimately. I can know Christ through the Word of God.
"The hand cannot say to the arm I have no need for you." You need Mary, the saints, your shepherd, and your brethren to know the Lord. "For what you have done to the least of these, you have done for me." You can't know the head without knowing the body and the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the more important parts.
@@canibezeroun1988 You need Mary, the saints, your shepherd, and your brethren to know the Lord.''
No, I need the bible to know the Lord. It tells me where I came from, who God is, how we got in this mess, what He likes, what His plan is, how it works, who my Savior is, how I can be saved and what the future entails. That's pretty exhaustive. What more is there to know?
Catholics: BOTH/AND
Protestants: EITHER/OR
Learning this dichotomy was critical to getting people to understand "muh inconsistencies" in Scripture.
yes, very smart thoughts!
Thank You !
Because Mary is the mother of our Lord Jesus. As a former protestant, I was guilty of being hypocrite when I acknowledged that I love Jesus but despised his mother. Another reason is because Jesus himself reminded us that Mary is our mother too... John 19:26-27: Jesus said, "Woman, here is your son," to his mother and, "Here is your mother," to the disciple (John) who was standing next to her at the foot of the cross in Calvary.
You despised Mary? That's bizzare. Protestants do not despise Mary. Clearly you weren't born again.
Why? Because I think she's pretty neat!
- Chad
Because John the Baptist leaped in Elizabeth's womb at the sound of Mary's voice, and God Incarnate was obedient to her. Good enough reasons for me!
It was almost 20 years ago when I began my journey out of protestantism and learning about these scriptural references, seeing the dots which I had somehow never been able to connect, were what helped propel me along. Protestant doctrine began to hold less and less water to more I learned Catholic doctrine.
Praise God! Welcome home 😊
I had the opposite effect. The more I learned about Catholicism, the more I saw how pagan it was
@@get_answered5157 the narrow road puts many off, it is understandable.
''...seeing the dots which I had somehow never been able to connect''
There's a reason you weren't able to ''connect the dots''. The dots are not connectable unless you suspend all logic and common sense and turn your mind into a papal pretzel.
@@danielcristancho3524 you don't want to connect the dots Daniel, that is why you can't see the Truth.
You have grown accustomed to the wide, easy road of Protestantism. I get it. But your faith will only ever be half-baked without the Sacraments and everything else Catholicism has to offer.
Without Mary there is no salvation because God (Jesus) came only through a perfect and holy womb of Virgin Mary, the new Ark of Covenant..
“We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.” -St. Louis de Montfort
We go to [Mary] only as a way leading to the goal we seek."
Jesus' Father is "the only true God." (John 17:3) Also, Jesus is the Mediator between God and humans, not Mary. As 1 Tim 2:5 says: "For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus."
Christ is the only mediator between us and the Father, but we all (including the saints) mediated for each other between us and Christ.
Also, The one true God is a triune God.
Saying only the Father is the true God and not the son, nor the Holy Spirit, misses divine revelation entirely and is textbook heresy.
If you actually believe God is only the Father, go to a Unitarian “church” and be Christian in literally name only
@@cbooth151 prayers of a righteous man availeth much. No one is more righteous. All generations will call her blessed - that's not just hopeful talk
Well we respect her but Jesus is the one we should give more respect and honor because suppose if one of your family member or someone you love, will you not attend give them respect for what they did in life and Jesus should be given respect.
@@josephsabu4355:
We respect Our Lady, Mary.
We adore and worship Our Lord, Jesus.
Protestants, I pray to God that all of you will be converted back to our Catholic church, the universal church that Jesus Christ built from beginning.
I also pray to God that all Jews will converted to Catholic Church because of Jesus Christ and Mary are Jews themselves.
May God bless you with profound wisdom of God to unravel the truth about the divisions in the world today.
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." Isaiah 7:14 (we just have to pay attention to the sign...)
Yeah, the worst thing I've done as a husband is getting close to my wife's mother and the rest of her family. Sheesh. Getting to know the Theotokos and the saints dramatically improved my understanding and relationship with our Lord. As a Protestant for much of my life (now EO), my view of Mary was more about being as non-Catholic as possible.
''Getting to know the Theotokos and the saints dramatically improved my understanding and relationship with our Lord.''
If you really want to get to know God, I suggest the Word of God. Those reflect the thoughts and character of God.
Mary always leads souls to her son!
@@geoffjs ''always leads souls to her son!''
Really? Cause what I sense is that Mary leads many Catholics to Mary. More prayers are written to Mary. More pilgrimages are made to Marian sites, there are more images of Mary than of Christ. You can see them in the front yards of papists' homes with NO IMAGES OF CHRIST nearby. Have you read the prayers of Popes to Mary? There are books out there that have them compiled. Not fanatical Marian cults but Popes! You should read them. I have. You'd think Mary was the 4th person of the Godhead, the prayers are so blasphemous. Whatever.
@@danielcristancho3524 Why do you assume he doesn't? I don't understand why this is always beyond Protestant comprehension but it is not an either or. One does not take away from the other. Original Christianity is the fullness of the faith. I wish you knew how much you are giving up by following Luther.
@@lukejohnson1274 I wish you knew how much you are giving up by following Luther.''
I don't follow Luther except when he's in line with scripture, Mr. Luke. It's not about following Luther, it's about following scripture.
One does not take away from the other.''
Actually, one does take away from the other. Mary is way more popular than Christ. In fact, having read many prayers of Popes to Mary, it seems Christ is left in the background and Mary becomes center to grace and salvation. That's an abomination. The bible barely mentions Mary outside of the gospels and Acts 2. Peter and Paul never ascribe the kind of importance to Mary that the Roman church does.
I enjoy these videos there easy to understand and im very interested in these subjects thank you
Catholics do not worship our Heavenly Mother, we do love, honor and respect her as God does. We could never love her more than He does. She’s the epitome of who He wants everyone to be, pure, holy and completely consecrated to Him. God especially heeds her prayers as they prevail over many things. She prays for us and with us, interceding for us with her Son, Jesus Christ, as she did at the Wedding in Cana. He performed His first public miracle at her request.
Exodus 20:12, Rev 12:17, Pro 15:29, Jm5:16, Rev 4:10, 5:8, 6:9-11, 7:11-15, 8:3-4, Acts 1:14, Jn2:1-11
It always impresses me how Protestants, but mostly Protestant pastors, who presumably have some theological and exegetical training, don’t understand (or refuse to do so) the typological connection between Our Most Blessed Mother, the redeemed Israel and the Church triumphant. If one misses Mary as what bridges the other two in the history of salvation, he entirely misses the operativeness of God’s promises to Israel and he misses that redemption is not the mere overcoming of the ruptured order of sin, but the reversal of it (Genesis 3, 15), or the biblical story would come to lack a lot of connection dots, because God’s “Logos”, which is God himself, willed so from all eternity. As we know from St Gregory Nazianzen, “quod non est assumptum, non est sanatum” (cf. S. Gregorii Nazianzeni “Ep. 101 ad Cledon”), therefore God assumed a human nature - in that very womb - to redeem it. Whatever was not assumed, was not redeemed. And he did it with and to that woman. In this particular exegetical and theological field, the reason Protestants invariably get this connection wrong is because, for ecclesiological motives (built into the revolution’s pretexts), their understandings concerning Israel and its history of battles and struggles with sin is excessively “carnal” and their understandings concerning the Church is excessively “spiritual” - or Gnostic (the ecclesiology of “invisibility” defended by Luther, Calvin and tutti quanti). The antidote for it is accepting the Marian dogmas with docility, which can and will “spiritualize” Israel in the biblical sense and make truly meaningful the descriptive binomial “Heavenly Jerusalem”, and to “incarnate” or “make it truly Incarnational” the Church to all of its consequences - not to a mere cherry picking of some. In other words: “de-Gnostify” Protestant theology is the way to get there.
For me the greatest biblical parallel reference for Our Mother is as the “Daughter of Zion”, which is the epithet for the city of Jerusalem, which is over Mount Zion.
“Hail” is to greet with enthusiasm and joy. It is the translation from the original Greek word “Χαῖρε”, which means literally to greet with both joy and respect. It is EXACTLY the same word used in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament of ancient times that the Apostles and early Christians used) in a lot of passages in which God salutes the “Daughter of Zion”. In Latin this greeting was translated to “Ave” as we see in the Vulgate of St Jerome, the first Bible (OT and NT) ever translated from their originals.
What impresses is the core parallels (I am so sorry that many non-Catholics simply miss those) just starting with the word “Hail” that can be made between the first chapter of St Luke’s Gospel and a prophecy in the book Zephaniah: it reveals, in one of the many typologies applied to her, the “Daughter of Zion” is a type of Mary (type-antitype is the theme for typology, obviously) from which Our Savior would come to us. She is not strictly associated with the earthly city of Jerusalem (situated on Mount Zion in Israel) since the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, but to the Heavenly Jerusalem (!), which was the promise for Zion.
Mary, among many other mysteries linked to her, is a kind of prototype of the Church Triumphant. Once one gets to that then it comes clearer the true meanings of Revelation 12, identifying that pregnant woman with the crown from whom came to birth the One eternal king, a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter, she who is the mother of all those who give testimony to her Son, Jesus (Revelation 12, 17). Then you see the interpolation of the titles “Mater Dei” (Mother of God) and “Mater Ecclesiae” (Mother of the Church). Mary is therefore the inter-testamentary point of connection; she is the bridge that connects Israel (OT) and the Church (NT) in indissolubility. So Israel recovered from its infidelity (1), Mary (2) and the Church realized in celestial joy (3): the three are intertwined necessarily. Throw away one of the three and the story of our salvation wouldn’t be shown at its fullness.
Just take a look at these 3 (three) parallels I would make with that word “Hail”/ “Rejoice” (Χαῖρε) between the Gospel of Luke (1, 28-31) and the book of Zephaniah (3, 14-17).
Please check the Greek Bible all you want:
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*1)* _“Rejoice (Χαῖρε), daughter of Zion! (…) Be glad (…)! The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst”_ (Zephaniah 3, 14-15)
_“Hail (Χαῖρε), favored one, The LORD is with you”_ (Luke 1, 28).
Commentary: Mary and the Daugher of Zion are greeted exactly with the same word of joy and respect (= ‘hail’ or rejoice). The reason for this specific joy is the Lord being with/in the midst of them.
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*2)* _“(…) Do not fear, Zion, do not be discouraged”_ (Zepheniah 3, 16)
“(…) _Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God”_ (Luke 1, 30)
Commentary: Both Mary and Zion are called for a mission and must not be afraid to face it.
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*3)* _“The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior (…)”_ (Zephaniah 3, 17)
_“Behold, you will conceive in your womb (…) and you shall name him Jesus”_ (Luke 1, 31).
Commentary: Jesus is announced to be prophetically in the ‘midst’/in the womb of the Daughter of Zion/Mary. Literally, the name “Jesus” (Yəhôšua in Hebrew) means “Yahweh saves”; He is nothing but the promised savior.
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I really hope this is more for food for spiritual thoughts. God bless you all!
@masterchief8179
This gives a lot of food for thought as a Protestant!
I wish you tube had a way for me to save such insightful comments!
One thing I still have great concerns over are the Marian apparitions. The real Mary would never seek honor or glory for herself, yet these apparitions command people to do things that only fuel further devotion to her.
Even if Mary is to have a greater role in our lives, and we are to honor her, many, (though not all) apparitions still stand in direct contrast to the biblical Mary who proclaims:
"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
All Christ's servants point to Him. The real Mary points to Jesus.
Demonic spirits, on the other hand, seek to rob Christ of His glory and point us away from Him towards other things and people.
Please pray for a discerning spirit regarding this matter.
Blessings to you!
Marian apparitions are not about Mary. They are about bringing people to her son.
She doesn't show up unless she is sent by Jesus.
@@wonderingpilgrimi think the church does not require belief in any marian apparition.
@@wonderingpilgrim Hum, I guess you implicitly assume a Protestant framework in your considerations: that if anyone receives honor and veneration under a pretext of faith, then it means it robs from God’s honor. That’s clearly to misunderstand what veneration means, which is almost co-existential to the Protestant “ethos”. Also, it expresses the Protestant version of the zero-sum game theory. It’s not necessary to say that, according to Catholics, Assyrians, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox (that means all apostolic churches with historical heritage of apostolic succession), that is gravely anti-biblical and counter-apostolic, my friend. God exults in the exaltation of His blessed sons and daughters, like He did throughout all Old Testament in many core passages I couldn’t even try to pick one. And a similar spiritual dynamics happens among ourselves: in the mystical Body of Christ, which is the Church, whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with him; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with him (1 Co 12, 26). In a sense, Protestantism gets to be one of the pieces that ignited Philosophical Modernity (skepticism and individualism being two of the core expressions of it). That doesn’t mean some popular devotions are not out of measure/ proportion or that uneducated people should be better catechized. I understand it and, as a faithful Catholic, accept some criticism as having valid points. Particular revelation is not required to be believed; some are obscure and either unapproved or proscribed by the Church. But some apparitions are massively documented as miraculous events, like Guadalupe/Mexico as one example, which was followed by a massive conversion of the most vicious pagan child-sacrificing people to Christianity those days. Curiously enough, their highest divinity was… a serpent (!). If one accuses that as coming from the devil, which is blasphemous and calumnious, then someone is deceived by the accuser himself, like the Pharisees that accused Jesus of driving out demons “on the power of Beelzebul” (Lk 11, 14-26).
Pray that God helps you see truth in front of your eyes, my friend. For that to happen, one needs to open his/her heart. “And you will know truth, and truth will set you free” (John 8, 32).
God bless your journey! From 🇧🇷 Brazil with love.
@@masterchief8179Master Chief your comments are fire. Screenshotting this completely
Huge fan of this! Great work, Joe!
Catholics tend to view themselves as the offspring of Mary, since she is the mother of the church. Yet, in Revelations, the dragon went off to make war of the rest of her offspring who "keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus." This is pretty much the same as saying Protestants, who often have disdain for Mary, are not her offspring and od not keep God's commandments nor bear testimony to Jesus --- especially where the Eucharist is concerned. How far the protestants keep falling away, especially when one considers that Luther, Calvin and Zwingli had strong love and devotion to Mary.
I can't help but think of Catholics as David and Protestants as Michal when I read II Sam 6.
"As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal, daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart."
"David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over thanks LORD's people Israel ---- I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor."
"And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death."
@@po18guy - Can't your quote apply to Protestants? They have multiplied bibles, translations, interpretations and denominations almost endlessly. "His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Seems to fit the ever-changing Protestants much more than the Catholics.
Protestants do not disdain the Mary of the Bible, just the Catholic version of Mary with all its lies about her. We call her blessed but not a co-redeemer. Only Jesus saves.
Protestants don't disdain Mary. We consider her blessed for having been chosen as the mother of Jesus. However, we don't carry it beyond that. We do not venerate her or pray to her. We have no example of that in the Bible and so reject it.
@@JGeMcL Exactly.
Very helpful Joe. Many thanks.
Because she is the mother of OUR Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! 🤍✨✝️🤍
Many times I see in Protestant arguments a kind of zero-sum thinking, in which if we involve works of faith, we take away from the grace of God, if we ask for intercession from the Virgin and the saints, then we take away from Jesus, if We make comments on tradition and teaching, we take away from the written word of the Bible, the Catholic vision is not antagonistic, it does not speak of adding to one and subtracting another, but rather incorporating faith with logic and foundations into a whole, there is not always exclusions or false dichotomies. I understand and admire all the love and zeal that Protestants have for God, that makes them think in those terms of one adds, the other subtracts, but arguments like that are not the answer to everything that happens in the Catholic position.
Mariology detracts from the Gospel. No way around it.
@@gideondavid30 How does Mariology detract from 1 Cor 15:1-11? How does your view of Mariology enhance the events of 1 Cor 15:1-11?
@gideondavid30 Mariology is part of the Gospel. There's no way around it!
1 THESSALONIANS 4 ..
tells us very clearly that mary , paul, the others cannot possibly be alive in heaven , like the 1st saints, who were asleep in death ,who were resurrected the very hour jesus died.
Since mary and paul etc were ALIVE ON EARTH for decades after the 1st resurection, they have to wait , asleep in death, like everyone else , until the 2nd resurection.
Unless...you want to blaspheme and say paul is lying?
You have eyes, but you will not see.
Probably because Mary and the Holy Spirit had a baby together Who happens to be God in human flesh. He got that human body from Mary. Nobody can claim to be that Blessed before or since.
Yeah, it always seems silly when there is a great downplaying of the woman who Bore the God-man.
Mary and the Holy Spirit did not have a baby together. Mary and the Father had a baby together, through the instrumentality of the Spirit (i.e. love). Jesus explicitly refers to "the Father" as "my Father" many times in the Gospels (Matt 11:27 is a great example, where the use of both makes it clear that "my Father" does not refer to the Spirit). That is to say, the Father does not simply bear the relation of Father to Son as between two Persons of the Trinity, but also as Father to Son between the Father and the incarnate Christ. So, if you really want to appreciate Mary's holiness/blessedness, consider that she was, in some real sense, God's chosen bride--not in every sense, because the husband-wife relation is a product of the corporeal world only. But looking at it from the corporeal, human perspective, that was the relation that existed: the Father, through the Spirit, was the source of the seed--whether corporeal or virtual--that impregnated Mary, having chosen her from among all other women to be the mother of his son.
@jimnewl Wow. That was deep. I had in mind something simpler: The Holy Theotokos is the daughter of the Father, the mother of the Son, and the spouse of the Holy Spirit. In this sense, Mary was overshadowed by the Spirit even as the Ark was overshadowed by the Spirit in the OT. I may not have said it well. Your nuances are brilliant. No argument here. #GraciousBow
How can someone question that the Mother of Christ is the woman in Genesis 3,15? Please!
This video is one of the best teachings on Mary. Definitely worth watching again and again! Blessings to you.
Christ NEVER taught that Peter is a pope.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary will go to heaven.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary is a mediator/intecessor.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary never sinned.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary remained virgin.
Christ NEVER Taught that a mere man is head of His church.
Christ NEVER taught about a church named Catholic.
Christ NEVER taught that we can pray to the dead.
Christ NEVER taught that the dead can hear our prayers.
Christ NEVER taught that anyone can change the day of worship.
@@mitchellosmer1293 I hold you in prayer. God Bless.
@@mitchellosmer1293Insane arguments ! Could you justify your prosa ! No ! So please silent ! Are you satanist , or not ?
@@mitchellosmer1293Hail Mary
Fundamentalist protestants have beliefs about salvation that if kept prevent them from getting close to Mary.
@@po18guy You wrote: "Two words: EGO."
"Ego" is ONE word, o bright one. I hope you learn how to count to 2 someday. 😁
I wonder which of the two teams they belong.
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Humility crushes pride. Mary crushes satan.
Humility pleases Our Lord. He detests pride. Mary is the ideal instrument of His will.
Joe thank you for instructing us in our beautiful faith. God reveals Himself in so many thoughtful and surprising ways. We truly benefit from your scholarship.
Mary does not crush Satan! Jesus crushes Satan. Read your Bible and stop swallowing RC lies
Mary crushes satan.''
You've been misinformed, friend. Mary doesn't crush the serpent's head, Christ does. Mary is not your savior. Christ is.
Mary crusehd Satans heat...through HER SON JESUS CHRIST. is this sooo difficult to understand?
Why do you Potestants can't think and feel in relationships? MARY wanted to give birth to this very speciall SON for a reason. She knew, that this SON WILL CONECT us humans again with our Creator.
For this reason she was even ready, to become this SON, WITHOUT beeing married. She was a very clecer lady also and knew, that in her jewish culture, she could have been killed for becoming pregnant.
Still, she agreed immediatly even without asking her fiance, Joseph.
How enger and bold she was, to serve GOD in this way.
And...please go through her MAGNIFICAT. You will find a youngh woman, who wanted to see the POOR uplifted and the rich coming down from there opresssing positions. What a lady ?
She was willig and able to bring thks SON for many different reasons into this world.
Don't tell me, I made somthing up. What I tell you is all written in the BIBLE.
ONLY for this reasons, you as Protestants should feel ashame, to sisturbe us catholkcs sins years and years with your shameless respectlessness against the MOTHER OF JESUS.
Its shocking to understand, how stupid stubbern you can be against the MOTHER, who gave Barth also to your Salvator.
Please lern to think and to okay and to respect MARY the way, she deserve all our respect.
Please stopp this endless time consuming Diskussions. PLEASE !
@@danielcristancho3524do yu even read your Bible? The very first prophecy in the Bible is about that. That there will be enmity between the 'Woman and the serpent'.
God has made Mary the instrument of Satan's demise
@@sherwindsouza6599 do yu even read your Bible? ''
In scripture, the church is represented as a chaste woman and an unfaithful church as a whore. The woman in Genesis 3:15 is not Mary. It's the church of God and yes, the church does have a war like relationship with the evil one. And the woman DOES NOT CRUSH THE SERPENTS HEAD, LIKE THE DOUHY RHEIMS BIBLE STATES, it is THE SEED OF THE WOMAN THAT CRUSHES THE SERPENT'S HEAD, AND THE SERPENT BRUISES HIS HEEL. Christ is the one that will destroy the devil. That the bible CLEARLY STATES. If you need a text, I will be glad to provide it. No where in scripture does the bible EVER TELL US MARY WILL DESTROY THE DEVIL. That's a papist fable.
I really enjoyed leaning more points on why I hold her in my heart. ❤
The Blessed Virgin Mary Is Full Of Grace, Eternal Virgin, Without sin, The Mother of God, Bearer Of Light, Co-Redemptoress, Mediatrix, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Ark Of The Covenant.
the devil specifically committed scde because he refused to Kneel Before and Serve The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Very good. The catholic churches are closing in Québec. We could need your book on the Eucharist in french.
Wow, thany you so much, this is just such an awesome and powerful explanation of the role of Mary, our Mother and Queen🙏🙏👐
#TeamMary
💙🙏🏽💙🙏🏻💙 Pray the rosary , it tells the story of Jesus from His conception till His resurrection . God has given us tools to help us defeat the devil and Mary (mother of the Lamb and adopted mother to all ) and the Saints are those tools. And if you pray it devoutly and daily you will gain that peace that defies understanding.
No Mary, the son of God wouldn’t been born. There would be no salvation for man. Jesus gave us his mother before he passed away in the cross. Mary is mother to all humanity.
This was a fantastic video. Thank you Joe!❤
This is fascinating, very well explained
This was the best, most succinct explanation about Mary’s centrality in Catholicism. Outstanding work, Joe!
You wrote "about Mary’s centrality in Catholicism." You just pinpointed why the Roman Catholic Church is in deep doctrinal doo-doo. You see, GOD is central to Christianity, but MARY is central to Catholicism! 😛Christianity follows God the Son and communicates the Gospel of Jesus Christ's propitiation for our sins, but Catholicism follows His earthly mother Mary (a created, finite being) and wastes time on their false gospel of Mary, the RC co-Mediatrix and co-Redemptrix.
When pregnant
Microchimerism. ( new word for me)
Microchimerism is defined by the presence of circulating cells, bidirectionally transferred from one genetically distinct individual to another. It can occur either physiologically during pregnancy or iatrogenically after blood transfusion and organ transplants.
Just think what this means for Mary and Jesus ! ❤️
“When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.
For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too.
Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.
Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart.
The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.
How cool is that?
This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.
It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive.
Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?
Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?”
If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.
I find this to be so very beautiful.
This research is belongs to Hina Chaudhry and her team. Here is the resent article about her and team: 1. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313246
2. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-science-motherhood-180977456/
It's pretty clear that in Revelation the 'Woman' who gives birth to the Child is Mary and NOT "the Church" as protestants say. How can the Church give birth to Jesus? That's a blasphemy. If you believe in Jesus, whether you like it or not, Mary is your mother (Revelation 12:17: "the dragon went off to wage war against THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, THOSE WHO KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS AND BEAR WITNESS TO JESUS". It's so clear. Even Jesus dying on the Cross said we should accept Mary as our mother (John 19:27: "THEN HE SAID TO HIS DISCIPLE 'BEHOLD YOUR MOTHER') even though John's real mother, Salome, was at the cricifiction (Mark 15:40). Protestant pastors act like Pharisees, denying what is clear about the scriptures. They create churches by picking and chosing what they like about the bible and rejecting fundamentals like refusing to hear Jesus when He insists the bread and wine is His real body and His real blood, NOT a symbol (John 6:48-58).
We honor Mary for what she did shouldn’t we all. Everything that is said about her is a reflection of her son Jesus Christ.
Another great and in-depth video, Joe. Love your content, especially for someone new to Catholicism. Are there any books you recommend for someone new like me? I have no opposition nor disagreement towards anything of the Catholic faith, just falling more in love with it. Thank you.
What an excellent explanation Joe! How I wish your subscribers will multiply a hundredfold so that more people can watch your great videos.
Logically speaking... when we say MOTHER OF DONKEY... therefore, the Mother is also a Donkey... "MOTHER OF GOD"... is Blessed Mary also a God?... if NOT... then, the grammar is wrong, it should have an ARTICLE "a, an, or the"... it should be "Mother of a/the God."
Analogy...For example, "Mother of a/the President" (with article)... therefore, the Mother is not the President... while ... "Mother of President" (w/o Article)... therefore, the Mother is among the President or the Head of the President... the same analogy... Amen.
We, True Christian "WORSHIPPERS" who worship God in SPIRIT and in TRUTH" (w/o Religious IDOLS, IMAGES, STATUES, etc.), also Honor and Respect Blessed Mary the Biblical (Scriptural) WAY... not the R.C.C. Dogmas... There was NO FAVORITISM from the Heart and Mind of Christ Jesus... (ref. Galatian 3:28).
Facts and Truth of the Matters, Biblically and Logically speaking... Praise be to God in Christ Jesus... Amen.
Have to rewatch ❤
Enjoyed so much!
Our Church needs the 5th Marian Dogma: Our Lady, Mediatrix and CoRedemptrix. A human perfectly united to God and conduit of all graces!
Late Pope Benedict XVI tried to do just that before his death, but his efforts were thwarted by freemason-ruled Vatican. I believe this will surface again and become official after the Scheme expected to occur very soon.
In Christ we are all aligned perfectly with God. His love plan worked perfectly 💓 all we need to do is believe Him and receive Him💯🫶🥀
He is the Lamb without spot or blemish.
@@lolybird77 That is not all. To be saved, one MUST do what He taught, practicing them in all our actions. Without doing what He taught us to do, believing in Him is a sham and will be no avail, for we all will be judged based on, not by faith, but what we did during our early life (Rev 20:13).
@@hyeminkwun9523 when you truly believe and receive you go and sin no more..
WOW WOW WOW!!! The more I learn of the Bible the more I am in awe of our God! No man could have possibly thought of such a powerful, holy and true story made of stories! We are blessed to have the Blessed Mother Mary, and for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I sincerely appreciate you for this video! I have been raised Protestant, but have started learning so much MORE and deeply by Catholics teaching. My soul has always felt a lack by the way I have been taught about the Bible. It has always seemed like a show with dramatics and flare. I would often be left always confused or conflicted. I have really struggled reading and understanding the Bible, my adhd brain just gets so confused. That’s what I love about catholic teachings. You guys have a way of teaching with no dramatics or “fluff”, just clearly and powerfully sharing the word of God in ways my brain can grasp and my soul can feel the power and meaning behind those words. I am very close to deciding to become Catholic, I only have a bit more to find out and search for. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! for helping me to see and feel the power of God’s word and taking the time to show your references and connections I would have never made on my own ❤❤❤ I love and am honored by the Blessed Mother
If all what you said is true, then WHY can NO Catholic answer my questions about Catholicism????
All I get is condemnation for even asking!!!
@@mitchellosmer1293sorry about your experience but I as a Catholic get condemnation just for saying I am Catholic lol
@@VivatChristusRex99 FACTS:
Christ NEVER taught that Peter is a pope.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary will go to heaven.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary is a mediator/intercessor.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary never sinned.
Christ NEVER taught that Mary remained virgin.
Christ NEVER Taught that a mere man is head of His church.
Christ NEVER taught about a church named Catholic.
Christ NEVER taught that we can pray to the dead.
Christ NEVER taught that the dead can hear our prayers.
Christ NEVER taught that anyone can change the day of worship.
Christ NEVER taught to confess to a "priest"
Christ NEVER Taught a priest can forgive your sins.
Christ NEVER taught salvation is through a church.
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CHRISTIAN
The Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning "follower of Christ", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning "anointed one",
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A Christian (/ˈkrɪstʃən, -tiən/) is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
@@mitchellosmer1293 okay bro 🫡. I’ll still remain catholic
Father God/YHWH is seeking the TRUE (Christian) WORSHIPPERS who could WORSHIP GOD/YHWH in SPIRIT and in TRUTH... (without Spiritual/Religious IDOLS, ICONS, IMAGES, and STUTUES/SCUPTURES)... (ref. John 4:23)...
These are the MATURED/ADULT/ELDER FAITH in Christ that God is SEEKING for to Worship HIM and not merely the INFANT FAITH R.C.C. who still eat and drink baby/soft foods and can not chew SOLID food... (ref. 1 Corin. 3:1-2)...
Facts and Truth of the Matters, Biblically and Logically speaking... Amen.
Joe, I’m really glad I found your channel. I love how you approach topics. I particularity like how you elucidate the conflicts before describing the sides, which you do before prosecuting your case. Keep it up, brother!
Connecting the biblical doctrine weaving is one of the hardest things. Thanks for helping connecting the dots, what a blessing.
Precisely why "Scripture alone" is a foolish doctrine.
Expecting any common layman to figure out on his own what the Church has done over thousands of years is outlandish
@@eddardgreybeardsola scriptura is about infallibility, that only Scripture is infallible and as such church authority is subject to the text. It does not mean “figure it out for yourself”. This is a common misconception among Catholics and Orthodox, at least in your lay apologetics.
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*sola scriptura is about infallibility, that only Scripture is infallible and as such church authority is subject to the text.*
You're missing the loophole so wide an aircraft carrier can sail through: Who determines the correct authority of the interpretation of scripture?
Nobody is going to disagree that the bible is inerrant (I would never use infallible since books are inanimate objects and cannot speak) so the entire "AcKsHuAlLy" discussion around sola scriptura is, above all things, a red herring: It all comes down to the interpretation of scripture and who has the correct interpretation.
There is only one. It isn't a subjective experience where there's multiple valid interpretations and all of them can be correct at the same time.
*It does not mean “figure it out for yourself”*
Not even what I was trying to say. What I'm saying is the idea that any common layman can read scripture with the same insight and understanding as the Church of whom has thousands of years of tradition and teaching is absolutely laughable.
Yes. And this man is contriving analogy from the text and declaring his analogy to be infallible and the foundation of doctrine. But other analogies can be drawn from these same scriptures. And for many scriptures, no analogy is intended. It is a doctrine of the Catholic Church that doctrine cannot be drawn from analogy, but only be confirmed by it. The Medieval exegetes taught that the Ark of the Covenant is the Incarnation of Christ by analogy. If it were Mary, Christ need not be born. It is Christ who contains in Himself the law and the priesthood, and is Himself the manna. To hand this off to Mary is ridiculous. It is in fact saying that the human race in Mary is to be given credit for the salvation of the world, because without a human, Christ could not come to us. Outrageous!!!!!!! He also says the early church believed Mary is the new Eve. This is absurd. In the huge volume Against Heresies, written by Irenaeus in only one paragraph does he make an analogy of Mary with Eve and Christ with Adam. This hardly represents the devotion of the early Church. The Marian obsession entered the Church as Gnostic revelations, and these were condemned by the Pope Gelasius. Over many centuries these gained ground until now in our lifetime we have two popes who have consecrated the Holy Catholic Church to Mary. Wha does this mean?So much more could be said on this catastrophe. @@eddardgreybeard
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This is not simply Catholic Church doctrine, this is all of pre reformation Christianity.
All of pre reformation Christianity teaches this about Mary.
And your point is "I'm capable of seeing it differently and beholden of the capacity to disagree."
Yeah, I suppose you are.
So what?
I choose Team Mary 😊. Queen of the Angels 😇. My mother and my Queen. Queen of Heaven and earth, by order of God our Father and Creator of the Universe. If she is good for Him, She's good for us ! Thank you Joe for this teaching. May Mary keep you under Her Mantle ❤
None of those titles come from the Bible.
Big thank you for this video and sharing your ideas. I get your point and I coudn't agree more.
We DO NOT Worship MARY Because SHE is Not GOD But We VENERATE/ RESPECT HER Because SHE is the MOTHER of the SON of ABBA FATHER. Amen.
When my mother died I pulled out an old rosary I'd bought "ironically" in my rebellious youth
And started praying unironically.
Pray for us now and at the hour of our death
WOW my friend AMAZING VIDEO SO SMART geeeeez this was amazing thank youuuu
Go team Mary!!
quote---Go team Mary!!.. unquote
A false team!!! A man made team!!!
Go Team Semiramis and Tammuz!
Maybe I’m delusional, but it seems that Genesis 3:15 is the backdrop of Revelation 12. The woman is at once Mary and the Church inasmuch as she is the mother of Jesus and his mystical body.
Quite right! When Revelation 12:9 refers to the devil as "the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent," that's a pretty explicit reference to Genesis 3.
Nope you are 100% correct
There is a Big Difference between the Phrase, "MOTHER of GOD"... and ... "Mother of a/the GOD" ( with articles "a," "an" or "the")... How can that be in the English Language?...
Without the English Article, "Mother of God" which means the Blessed Mary is also God herself or God in nature and not a created being... but with English Article. "Mother of a/the God," means she is not a God herself, she just gave birth to a God (Christ Jesus)... we can not also say, "Mother of Christ" for she is not a savior herself, but "Mother of the Christ."
For example w/o the Articles... "Mother of Donkey," means the mother is also a donkey herself... Mother of Apes, which means the mother is also an Apes herself... "Mother of Nurses," means the mother or the founder of nurses is also a Nurse herself...
For example with the Articles... "Mother of the President," means she is the president's mother but not necessarily a president herself... "Mother of a Doctor," means she is the doctor's mother but not necessarily a doctor herself...
Facts and Truth of the Matters, Grammatically speaking... Amen...
Joe is amazing!
Excellently concise!
Orthodox honour Mother Mary too.
So do Muslims.
Because Jesus is the bridegroom and the church is his bride. The mother of the bridegroom is also the mother of the bride. If you love your husband, you also love his mother.
That is why the relationship between Naomi and Ruth was so beautiful. They truly loved each other despite being only in-laws. Even if you don't care about the book of Judith because it's deuterocanonical, you can't ignore the book of Ruth. It's in the bible for a reason.
Even if you reject the idea that Mary is the Ark of the Covenant, or even the new Eve, you can't reject the fact that she is your mother if you truly accept Jesus as your bridegroom who brings you security and bread of life.
The more you read and learn about the entire history and heritage of Jews, the more many uniquely Catholic doctrines make sense.
This is how important Mary is. No Mary? The son of God is not born into the world and we're still in our sins.
You may argue that God could have chosen any woman. Not so. Why? Because she would have to be a worthy vessel, in other words, Holy, full of grace, blessed among women.
Holy people are worthy of Holy honour, and none are holier or more blessed among women than Mary. The bible says it.
Incredible!! Hail Holy Queen. Great explanation.
Such a fantastic video. God is so good.
Excellent video and well presented ❤ Mother Mary, please intercede for us
Thank you Lord for giving us our Mother. Praise the Lord!!
1 Timothy 2:5 KJV -
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
mary is DEAD and in the grave!!! She CAN NOT hear you
The Church has always understood the narrative in Genesis to say it is the foot of the Woman who will crush the devil's head. This was taught by Pope Pius IX in his infallible teaching on the Immaculate Conception. This is also exemplified by the thousands of statutes made over the centuries depicting Mary with the serpent under her foot. Why we suddenly adopted the Protestant mistranslation of those verses I will leave it to you to ponder upon.
Wow! Thanks for the great explanation for how we should understand The Blessed Mother's place in our faith. Thank GOD for the well educated Catholic apologists that are helping us know and understand our faith so that we can share why we should believe what we believe and also to defend JESUS's true church.
Just listened to this on Spotify. Gotta go back now and take notes. Awesome study of Marian typology!
This video deepens my understanding about Marian doctrine!
In all the OT head crushing incidents, the pronunciation of blessedness happens after the head crushing. So, does the same follow with Mary?
I'd say yes, just based on the pattern, but also recognizing that Mary's defeat of Satan better parallels Satan's victory over mankind in the Garden of Eden. When Satan murders Adam and Eve, he does so through the temptation, and the death was not immediate although the blow was. When Mary said "yes" to the angel, that was the death blow to the serpent, even though the death would not come until later. It's both by Mary that God crushed the serpent and by the seed that Mary enacts the woman's victory.
Every video of yours I watch, I become fortified in faith. Thank you!!
Never thought of it this way. You are right. God is showing not just Satan but all creation that the humble will lead the way. Mary is so great but in her own eyes she is lowly. Imagine that!
All the proud people who scorn her should be very careful.
Every time you mock the mother of Jesus, you commit a grave sin. There is a Comandment that says we must honor our mothers and fathers. Now listen up. All Christians become adopted sons of God, brothers of Jesus, and as a brother of Jesus Mary is our mother, and she comes under the umbrella of the commandment that says honor, your mother and your father. Well that is the only commandment that says if you do not follow it, you will be cursed down to the fourth generation. So your choice is the curse or honor your mother Mary, the mother of Jesus, your brother, according to God in the Bible. It’s your choice heaven or hell.
I understand where you are coming from, but it's not biblical.
@oved.Yeshua Martin Luther wrote the veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart
September 1522.The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart." [Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.]
"Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing." [Martin Luther...🤣🤣
Neither reply makes sense.
Again,
I understand where you are coming from, but it's not biblical.