"Obliged to believe"? God doesn't have a mother. The human side of Jesus had a mother. There is no manuscript that shows Him ever calling her "mother'. Mary was a virgin only up until Jesus first half brother was conceived. Where is the manuscript and eyewitness evidence of the assumption of Mary?
@Hupernike45 and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? "Mother of my Lord" in scripture Luke 1:39. Now do you believe?
Dear Hupernike, thank you for your comment. Yes, those who belong to the Church Jesus Christ founded and acknowledge its teaching authority are obliged to believe. Those who belong to man-made denominations, of course, decide for themselves not to believe. They trust in their own scholarship rather than divine authority. God as God obviously does not have a mother but the Divine Person of the Word - Jesus Christ - does. There are numerous references in divinely-inspired Scripture that call Mary the Mother of Jesus: Matt 2:11; Matt 2:13, 14, 20, 21; Matt 12:46 & 47; Matt 13:55; Mark 3:31; Luke 2:33-34, 43, 48, 51; Luke 8:19; John 2:5, 12. Plenty of manuscript evidence in all this. Mary remained a perpetual virgin. Matt 1:25 really means that Joseph did not know her till the birth of Christ. Matthew's intention was to defend the conception of Christ by the Holy Spirit. Even Luther and Calvin hold this view, as well as Zwingli. The "brothers" of Jesus are his first cousins, the children of the "other Mary" married to Alphaeus (or Clopas). I can supply the Scripture references if you wish. The Scriptures mention nothing of Mary's end on earth. All the historical and patristic evidence contained in the manuscripts we possess speak of Mary's assumption, or dormition. I can quote various Church Fathers if you like. May I ask, which denomination do you belong to? Was it founded by Christ? Does it have teaching authority from God? Does it have infallible authority to interpret Scripture? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then I refuse to belong to it. I will belong to the Church that can show a direct link back to Christ and the apostles and has been visibly active and teaching ever since. That, sadly, excludes the entirety of Protestantism.
God Bless you too , Robert
Salve Regina ❤
Hi Robert, is the day of obligation for Maronites also?
Yes.
"Obliged to believe"? God doesn't have a mother. The human side of Jesus had a mother. There is no manuscript that shows Him ever calling her "mother'. Mary was a virgin only up until Jesus first half brother was conceived. Where is the manuscript and eyewitness evidence of the assumption of Mary?
@Hupernike45 and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
"Mother of my Lord" in scripture Luke 1:39. Now do you believe?
Dear Hupernike, thank you for your comment. Yes, those who belong to the Church Jesus Christ founded and acknowledge its teaching authority are obliged to believe. Those who belong to man-made denominations, of course, decide for themselves not to believe. They trust in their own scholarship rather than divine authority. God as God obviously does not have a mother but the Divine Person of the Word - Jesus Christ - does. There are numerous references in divinely-inspired Scripture that call Mary the Mother of Jesus: Matt 2:11; Matt 2:13, 14, 20, 21; Matt 12:46 & 47; Matt 13:55; Mark 3:31; Luke 2:33-34, 43, 48, 51; Luke 8:19; John 2:5, 12. Plenty of manuscript evidence in all this. Mary remained a perpetual virgin. Matt 1:25 really means that Joseph did not know her till the birth of Christ. Matthew's intention was to defend the conception of Christ by the Holy Spirit. Even Luther and Calvin hold this view, as well as Zwingli. The "brothers" of Jesus are his first cousins, the children of the "other Mary" married to Alphaeus (or Clopas). I can supply the Scripture references if you wish. The Scriptures mention nothing of Mary's end on earth. All the historical and patristic evidence contained in the manuscripts we possess speak of Mary's assumption, or dormition. I can quote various Church Fathers if you like.
May I ask, which denomination do you belong to? Was it founded by Christ? Does it have teaching authority from God? Does it have infallible authority to interpret Scripture? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then I refuse to belong to it. I will belong to the Church that can show a direct link back to Christ and the apostles and has been visibly active and teaching ever since. That, sadly, excludes the entirety of Protestantism.