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!
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."
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.
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
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.
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?
“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.
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.
: Christ NEVER taught that everything He taught was written down in the Holy Bible. But He did REVEAL all those doctrines that you are fighting against
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
@johnbrowne2170 ....PROTESTANTS DO DESPISED MARY , MOTHER OF JESUS ❗️❗️❗️ THEY CANNOT ACCEPT MARY TO BE CALLED MOTHER OF GOD JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE JESUS HIMSELF IS GOD TOO ❗️❗️❗️ ARE YOU LIVING ON THIS PLANET ❗️❗️❓️❓️ PROTESTANT ARE ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO PROTEST EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN ❗️❗️❗️❗️ EVEN TO RESPECT MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS AND HER TITLE AS MOTHER OF GOD ARE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY PROTESTANTS ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️
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?
quote---“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....unquote LOL--NOPE!!! How about praying to ALL those that were blessed?? Moses, David, Abraham, Jacob, Job, John the Baprist, etc, etc????
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.
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.
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.
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 👍🏻
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. "
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.
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
God chose Himself a Mother. God made sure that Jewish Mother who taught Him all His Jewish Faith, would sit with Him in Heaven interceding for us her children! ❤️
Very astute Mr. Heschmeyer! When talking about Mary and/or Jesus crushing the head of Satan, and using the various analogies you did, eg. Jesus or the servants turning the water into wine, Michaelangelo or his paintbrushes, the fundamental categories are God (uncreated) and a created being (servants, paintbrushes, Mary). Excellent, and thank you!
The Hail Mary Prayer The Hail Mary prayer came together slowly. It took more than a thousand years. The earliest version simply added Mary’s name to the message delivered by the angel Gabriel to Mary: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee” (Luke 1:28). Around 1050 AD, the words Elizabeth used to greet Mary during the Visitation were added: “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb” (Luke 1:42). In 1261, Pope Urban IV added the name of Jesus to the end of Elizabeth’s words. St. Peter Canisius published the Hail Mary in his 1555 Catechism with almost the entire final petition: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.” Eleven years later, the Catechism of the Council of Trent (a work that Canisius was instrumental in creating) included, for the first time, the entire final petition, concluding with the words “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” The version of the Hail Mary we pray today was given official approval in 1568. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women; and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Approved in 1568!! Why did it take so long if it is biblical??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is praying the rosary biblical? Biblical Basis for the Rosary A: As you know the bible does "not" tell us to pray the Rosary because this form of prayer originated only during the middle ages. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What is Mariology? GotQuestions.org www.gotquestions.org - It was not until 1950 that Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of “Mary's bodily assumption into heaven.” . ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Home - Mariology: A Research Guide ... Duquesne University guides.library.duq.edu According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, "Since the 17th century, Mariology has designated the part of dogmatic theology that concerns the . >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When was the Theotokos created? Theotokos - Wikipedia 431 The use of Theotokos was formally affirmed at the Third Ecumenical Council held at Ephesus in 431. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When was the Assumption of Mary invented? Assumption of Mary - Wikipedia Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated as early as the 5th century and having been established in the East by Emperor Maurice around AD 600. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When did Mary first appear? In the year 40 A.D., while praying one night on the Ebro bank, the Virgin appeared with the Child Jesus standing on a pillar and asked Saint James and his eight disciples to build a church on the site, promising that “it will stand from that moment until the end of time in order that God may work miracles and wonders .. Build a church to honor her!!!! Our honor is to God!!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is the Assumption of Mary biblical? A: Like the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception, the dogma of the Assumption is not explicitly stated in the Bible. The teaching that 'at the end of her earthly course, Mary was assumed into heavenly glory, body and soul' was dogmatically defined by Pius XII in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus. FACT: LAST mention of Mary is in Acts 1:14, in the upper room with about 120 People!! NEVER AGAIN is she mentioned!!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When was Mary first prayed to? 3rd century The earliest known prayer to Mary, the Sub tuum praesidium, ("Under your protection") dates from about the 3rd century. The artistic depictions of the Virgin of Mercy portray the role of Mary as the protector of Christians, as she shelters them under her mantle. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How old was the Theotokos? sixty years of age It is not exactly known how old the Theotokos was at the time of her Falling Asleep but the overwhelming opinion is that she was over sixty years of age. >>>> Who is our salvation from? According to the Bible, Jesus Christ is the source of salvation for humanity:
Sacrifice Christians believe that Jesus' death on the cross was a once-for-all sacrifice that atoned for the sins of humanity.
Authority Jesus has power over sin and evil, and through him people can live victorious lives.
Process Salvation is a process that begins when people accept Jesus' sacrifice for their sins. This involves a life of change and growth, becoming more like Jesus.
Assurance The Holy Spirit gives believers an inward witness of their salvation.
How to Be Sure of Your Salvation Aug 2, 2010 - Pillar 3: The Great Convincer Third, assurance comes through the inward witness of the Holy Spirit. A divinely produced... Billy Graham Evangelistic Association What Is Salvation? - Life, Hope & Truth Salvation is a process that begins when we accept Jesus Christ's sacrifice for our sins. We are saved, or delivered, from our past... Life, Hope & Truth Salvation - Basics of Christianity - Going Farther Jesus provides the only path to salvation. So what do I do? Jesus has all power and authority over sin and evil (Matthew 28:18; He... >>>quote---and Queen...unquote The ONLY queen of heaven mentioned in the bible is a pagan goddess!!!! In the years leading up to the Babylonian Exile, the prophet Jeremiah argued that Yahweh was angry at the people of Judah for worshipping foreign gods. These foreign gods included the mysterious “Queen of Heaven” (7:18; 44:15- >> Who is the queen in the Bible? Athaliah: Bible | Jewish Women's Archive Queen Athaliah is the only woman in the Hebrew Bible reported as having reigned as a monarch within Israel/Judah. After her son's brief rule, she kills the remaining members of the dynasty and reigns for six years, when she is overthrown.
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.
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
You wrote: "I adore our Lady" You also adore the Eucharist. In other words, you worship the object enclosed in the monstrance as Almighty God, and you worship Mary. There are your problems. You are not supposed to worship creations.
@@rexlion4510 Well that's your opinion,i have mine too. Whatever she is the mother of God. And her intercessions are powerful, like in the wedding feast of cana . I can tell you many miracles through her intercessions, so in my own life.peace to you
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/
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?"
Wow, using Mary to defeat the devil is definatly a way to humiliate him. I had never thought about that aspect of it before, wow, that's very profound. I love it!
Dear Joe This was an amazing lecture! First of all, I love our dearest Mother, and it always amazes me to hear about her typographies throughout scripture. But the words at the end also helped me put my situation in perspective. There is a huge battle at my parish going on, and to my surprise, God seems to place me in this battle and even removes people so I can get in position. This really confused me, since I'm really just a woman with a wounded heart, that is actually very bad at fighting and conflict. But now it makes sense. If He defeats schemers through a weak individual like me, the humiliation is enormous. And that is... that is amazing and wonderful. And it gives me hope! Thankjyou for all you do!
"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...)
Love these recent episodes! I’d caution not to bring up new concepts. Before the conclusion you didn’t really articulate the Queenship of Mary, but I’m just being cautious for our Protestant viewers. This was fantastic.
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.
What is the synonym for venerate? Some common synonyms of venerate are adore, reverence, revere, and worship. While all these words mean "to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully," venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age. >>> CCC #2679 Mary is the perfect Orans (pray-er), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father, who sends his Son to save all men. Like the beloved disciple we welcome Jesus' mother into our homes, for she has become the mother of all the living. We can pray with and to her. The prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary and united with it in hope. Yet, Catholics insist they do not pray to Mary!!! >> The Hail Mary Prayer The Hail Mary prayer came together slowly. It took more than a thousand years. The earliest version simply added Mary’s name to the message delivered by the angel Gabriel to Mary: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee” (Luke 1:28). Around 1050 AD, the words Elizabeth used to greet Mary during the Visitation were added: “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb” (Luke 1:42). In 1261, Pope Urban IV added the name of Jesus to the end of Elizabeth’s words. St. Peter Canisius published the Hail Mary in his 1555 Catechism with almost the entire final petition: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.” Eleven years later, the Catechism of the Council of Trent (a work that Canisius was instrumental in creating) included, for the first time, the entire final petition, concluding with the words “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” The version of the Hail Mary we pray today was given official approval in 1568. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women; and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Approved in 1568!! Why did it take so long if it is biblical??? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is praying the rosary biblical? Biblical Basis for the Rosary A: As you know the bible does "not" tell us to pray the Rosary because this form of prayer originated only during the middle ages. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What is Mariology? GotQuestions.org www.gotquestions.org - It was not until 1950 that Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of “Mary's bodily assumption into heaven.” . ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Home - Mariology: A Research Guide ... Duquesne University guides.library.duq.edu According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, "Since the 17th century, Mariology has designated the part of dogmatic theology that concerns the . >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When was the Theotokos created? Theotokos - Wikipedia 431 The use of Theotokos was formally affirmed at the Third Ecumenical Council held at Ephesus in 431. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When was the Assumption of Mary invented? Assumption of Mary - Wikipedia Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated as early as the 5th century and having been established in the East by Emperor Maurice around AD 600. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When did Mary first appear? In the year 40 A.D., while praying one night on the Ebro bank, the Virgin appeared with the Child Jesus standing on a pillar and asked Saint James and his eight disciples to build a church on the site, promising that “it will stand from that moment until the end of time in order that God may work miracles and wonders .. Build a church to honor her!!!! Our honor is to God!!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is the Assumption of Mary biblical? A: Like the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception, the dogma of the Assumption is not explicitly stated in the Bible. The teaching that 'at the end of her earthly course, Mary was assumed into heavenly glory, body and soul' was dogmatically defined by Pius XII in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus. FACT: LAST mention of Mary is in Acts 1:14, in the upper room with about 120 People!! NEVER AGAIN is she mentioned!!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When was Mary first prayed to? 3rd century The earliest known prayer to Mary, the Sub tuum praesidium, ("Under your protection") dates from about the 3rd century. The artistic depictions of the Virgin of Mercy portray the role of Mary as the protector of Christians, as she shelters them under her mantle. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How old was the Theotokos? sixty years of age It is not exactly known how old the Theotokos was at the time of her Falling Asleep but the overwhelming opinion is that she was over sixty years of age. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"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.
"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Douay-Rheims Gen. 3:15
Genesis 3:15 GNBUK I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.” This is the correct verse
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).
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.
Who is the queen in the Bible? Athaliah: Bible | Jewish Women's Archive Queen Athaliah is the only woman in the Hebrew Bible reported as having reigned as a monarch within Israel/Judah. After her son's brief rule, she kills the remaining members of the dynasty and reigns for six years, when she is overthrown.
@@jamesmonahan9408 ---quote---Queen of heaven. The mother of the king of kings....unquote She is NEVER mentioned in the Bible as the queen of heaven!!! The ONLY queen of heaven in the bible is a pagan goddess!!! By your comment, that is what you are implying that Mary is a pagan goddess!! ---Lk. 1:48 2- But She calls herself "the servant of the Lord": ----Mary gives to herself the other similar title: the humble servant of the Lord: "For he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed", (Lk.1:48). And these are the only titles Virgin Mary gives to herself in the Bible. -----The Church gives Virgin Mary the titles of Queen of angels, Queen of patriarchs, Queen of prophets, Queen of apostles, Queen of martyrs, Queen of confessors, Queen of virgins, Queen of all saints, Queen of peace ... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord". 9- Mother of the Church, Mother of divine grace, Mother most pure: The Church calls her Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church, Mother of divine grace, Mother most pure, Mother most chaste, Mother inviolate, Mother undefiled, Mother most amiable, Mother most admirable, Mother of good counsel, Mother of our Creator, Mother of our Saviour... but she calls herself only the "humble servant of the Lord" 10- Virgin most venerable, Virgin most renowned, Virgin most powerful, Virgin most merciful: The Church gives her the titles of Virgin most prudent, Virgin most venerable, Virgin most renowned, Virgin most powerful, Virgin most merciful, Virgin most faithful... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord". 11- Seat of wisdom, Cause of our joy, Vessel of honour, Mystical rose: The Church calls her Mirror of justice, Seat of wisdom, Cause of our joy, Spiritual vessel, Vessel of honour, Singular vessel of devotion, Mystical rose... but she calls herself only the "humble servant of the Lord" 12- Tower of David, Ark of the Covenant, Gate of Heaven: The Church gives her the titles of Tower of David, Tower of ivory, House of gold, Ark of the Covenant, Gate of Heaven, Morning star... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord". 13- Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, Help of Christians: The Church entitles Virgin Mary as Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, Help of Christians... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord". READ #9---#13 again--THE CHURCH!! Not the Bible!!! FACT: She never claims to have remained a virgin!!! FACT: She NEVER claims to have been sinless!!!
@@jamesmonahan9408 quote----better do your research....unquote Oh, but I have,, For OVER 40 years!!! By your comment implies the verses I QUOTED are lies!!! That implies the gospels are lies, Implies Jesus lied, Since you all claim Jesus is God, that means God is a liar to!!! Otherwise , all you have to offer is an order!!!
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 ❤
quote---. Queen of the Angels 😇. My mother and my Queen. Queen of Heaven and earth,...unquote Al worthless opinions!!! Where are those titles used about Mary IN the Bible????
The most comprehensive study of Our Lady is the 4-volume work called "The Mystical City of God" by St. Mary of Agreda. This book contains the most astonishing data and clears up a thousand difficulties in Scripture. The Blessed Mother mentions the war that Lucifer and his demons wage against humans and the many thousands of years that Lucifer diligently searched the surface of the earth seeking the birth of Christ. He was always deceived and was uncertain until the very moment of the crucifixion. She mentions the unmeasured and indescribable torments of hell, of the hidden warfare against souls, the hatred that he has against Mary since she is a creature yet given such power over him and the other demons, his horrible blasphemies against God at the end of the 24 hour long probation in heaven prior to the fall, his damnation and the long reign of sin, the ordering of the demons into squadrons to bring some order in this chaos of hate. She mentions that she loved St. John more than the other apostles because of his dove like humility and virginity, also the wonderful character of St. Joseph. She describes the desperate effort she made to save the soul of Judas, who actually excelled in the beginning of his calling some of the other apostles, the reason for his gradual fall from grace, the despair of this most unfortunate man and his horrible perdition. She gives the exact dates of the gospels, of the exact number of years that had elapsed since the creation of the world when Christ was born, and many other details. She gives the most excellent advice on the spiritual life. It is the only spiritual book I read. She is Our Lady and, after Christ, the glory of the human race, the one that God chose from all eternity to His mother and who He loves above all creatures. And if God wishes to honor Our Lady, I can only say against those who take issue with it, the words that St. Michael spoke long ago "who is like unto God?"
This book series is the result of private revelation, which no Catholic is required to adhere to, and which no Protestant on the planet is going to believe. I don't mean to be dismissive, but as a convert to Catholicism, it gets tiresome when people who have spent decades or their entire life as a Catholic knows every jot and tittle ever written pertaining to Marian revelations and apparitions, yet are completely ignorant of scripture. If you want to reason with Protestants on these types of beliefs, you need to do so from scripture because that is our common language.
@@RenegadeCatholicYour comment sounds presumptuous to me. Plenty of Catholics read a lot, and read both Scripture and books about private revelation, along with many other books. These things aren’t mutually exclusive. It sounds to me like the person who posted the comment reads Scripture because he explained that reading these private revelations helped him to understand Scripture better.
@@HumanDignity10 my comment wasn't presumptuous, as I was referring to a specific group of Catholics that actually exists, not the Catholics who study both scripture and revelations. I realize there are plenty who fall into the latter group, like you mentioned. We shouldn't study scripture through the lens of private non-binding revelations. Rather, we should do the complete opposite.
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.
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!
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."
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.
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
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.
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?
May God bless you with profound wisdom of God to unravel the truth about the divisions in the world today.
“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.
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
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Christ NEVER taught that everything He taught was written down in the Holy Bible.
But He did REVEAL all those doctrines that you are fighting against
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
@@mitchellosmer1293:
FACT:
Christ NEVER taught that all His doctrines would be written down and published in a Bible.
Every video of yours I watch, I become fortified in faith. Thank you!!
Huge fan of this! Great work, Joe!
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.
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!
Wow , praise be to God and God bless you Joe. You have an amazing gift.
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.
Big thank you for this video and sharing your ideas. I get your point and I coudn't agree more.
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.
Thanks. This is one of the best explanations i have ever heard
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.
@@vanzealotbush2244..... EXACTLY❤️❤️❤️
@johnbrowne2170 ....PROTESTANTS DO DESPISED MARY , MOTHER OF JESUS ❗️❗️❗️ THEY CANNOT ACCEPT MARY TO BE CALLED MOTHER OF GOD JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE JESUS HIMSELF IS GOD TOO ❗️❗️❗️
ARE YOU LIVING ON THIS PLANET ❗️❗️❓️❓️
PROTESTANT ARE ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO PROTEST EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN ❗️❗️❗️❗️
EVEN TO RESPECT MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS AND HER TITLE AS MOTHER OF GOD ARE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY PROTESTANTS ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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.
@@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?
What an excellent explanation Joe! How I wish your subscribers will multiply a hundredfold so that more people can watch your great videos.
Because she is the mother of OUR Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! 🤍✨✝️🤍
The Blessed Mother deserves our love as well , for how can we say we love Jesus if we don't love his mother...
Beautifully done, thank you Joe.
Amazing unfolding of Mary's role in human salvation. Thank you Mama Mary. Lead us Jesus your devine. Amen Amen
Such a fantastic video. God is so good.
“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
@@Pablo-gl9dj:
But only one is called the mother of my Lord!
@@alhilford2345 and Joseph was his father.
quote---“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....unquote
LOL--NOPE!!!
How about praying to ALL those that were blessed?? Moses, David, Abraham, Jacob, Job, John the Baprist, etc, etc????
WOW my friend AMAZING VIDEO SO SMART geeeeez this was amazing thank youuuu
excellent exposition as always!
That is profound wisdom you just ushered out. Blessed be God.
This was a fantastic video. Thank you Joe!❤
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.
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.
Thank you Joe!!🙏
Loving this! Thanks Joe🎉
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
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
Thank you, Jo.
That was awesome.
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!
❤Wonderful light into Mother Mary in the history of Salvation.
Joe is amazing!
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.
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
Thanks for this wonderful, comprehensive Mariology video.
Keep it up!! God bless your work!
Very good. The catholic churches are closing in Québec. We could need your book on the Eucharist in french.
THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TO SEE THIS VIDEO 🙏🏻
God chose Himself a Mother. God made sure that Jewish Mother who taught Him all His Jewish Faith, would sit with Him in Heaven interceding for us her children! ❤️
Have to rewatch ❤
Enjoyed so much!
Excellent biblical exposition.
Amazing content as usual!
Very helpful Joe. Many thanks.
This is fascinating, very well explained
This video deepens my understanding about Marian doctrine!
This is powerful!!
Very astute Mr. Heschmeyer! When talking about Mary and/or Jesus crushing the head of Satan, and using the various analogies you did, eg. Jesus or the servants turning the water into wine, Michaelangelo or his paintbrushes, the fundamental categories are God (uncreated) and a created being (servants, paintbrushes, Mary).
Excellent, and thank you!
Wow, thany you so much, this is just such an awesome and powerful explanation of the role of Mary, our Mother and Queen🙏🙏👐
The Hail Mary Prayer
The Hail Mary prayer came together slowly. It took more than a thousand years. The earliest version simply added Mary’s name to the message delivered by the angel Gabriel to Mary: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee” (Luke 1:28).
Around 1050 AD, the words Elizabeth used to greet Mary during the Visitation were added: “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb” (Luke 1:42). In 1261, Pope Urban IV added the name of Jesus to the end of Elizabeth’s words.
St. Peter Canisius published the Hail Mary in his 1555 Catechism with almost the entire final petition: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.”
Eleven years later, the Catechism of the Council of Trent (a work that Canisius was instrumental in creating) included, for the first time, the entire final petition, concluding with the words “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”
The version of the Hail Mary we pray today was given official approval in 1568.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women; and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Approved in 1568!! Why did it take so long if it is biblical???
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Is praying the rosary biblical?
Biblical Basis for the Rosary
A: As you know the bible does "not" tell us to pray the Rosary because this form of prayer originated only during the middle ages.
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What is Mariology?
GotQuestions.org
www.gotquestions.org
- It was not until 1950 that Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of “Mary's bodily assumption into heaven.” .
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Home - Mariology: A Research Guide ...
Duquesne University
guides.library.duq.edu
According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, "Since the 17th century, Mariology has designated the part of dogmatic theology that concerns the .
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When was the Theotokos created?
Theotokos - Wikipedia
431
The use of Theotokos was formally affirmed at the Third Ecumenical Council held at Ephesus in 431.
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When was the Assumption of Mary invented?
Assumption of Mary - Wikipedia
Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated as early as the 5th century and having been established in the East by Emperor Maurice around AD 600.
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When did Mary first appear?
In the year 40 A.D., while praying one night on the Ebro bank, the Virgin appeared with the Child Jesus standing on a pillar and asked Saint James and his eight disciples to build a church on the site, promising that “it will stand from that moment until the end of time in order that God may work miracles and wonders ..
Build a church to honor her!!!! Our honor is to God!!!
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Is the Assumption of Mary biblical?
A: Like the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception, the dogma of the Assumption is not explicitly stated in the Bible. The teaching that 'at the end of her earthly course, Mary was assumed into heavenly glory, body and soul' was dogmatically defined by Pius XII in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus.
FACT: LAST mention of Mary is in Acts 1:14, in the upper room with about 120 People!! NEVER AGAIN is she mentioned!!!
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When was Mary first prayed to?
3rd century
The earliest known prayer to Mary, the Sub tuum praesidium, ("Under your protection") dates from about the 3rd century. The artistic depictions of the Virgin of Mercy portray the role of Mary as the protector of Christians, as she shelters them under her mantle.
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How old was the Theotokos?
sixty years of age
It is not exactly known how old the Theotokos was at the time of her Falling Asleep but the overwhelming opinion is that she was over sixty years of age.
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Who is our salvation from?
According to the Bible, Jesus Christ is the source of salvation for humanity:
Sacrifice
Christians believe that Jesus' death on the cross was a once-for-all sacrifice that atoned for the sins of humanity.
Authority
Jesus has power over sin and evil, and through him people can live victorious lives.
Process
Salvation is a process that begins when people accept Jesus' sacrifice for their sins. This involves a life of change and growth, becoming more like Jesus.
Assurance
The Holy Spirit gives believers an inward witness of their salvation.
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>>>quote---and Queen...unquote
The ONLY queen of heaven mentioned in the bible is a pagan goddess!!!!
In the years leading up to the Babylonian Exile, the prophet Jeremiah argued that Yahweh was angry at the people of Judah for worshipping foreign gods. These foreign gods included the mysterious “Queen of Heaven” (7:18; 44:15-
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Who is the queen in the Bible?
Athaliah: Bible | Jewish Women's Archive
Queen Athaliah is the only woman in the Hebrew Bible reported as having reigned as a monarch within Israel/Judah. After her son's brief rule, she kills the remaining members of the dynasty and reigns for six years, when she is overthrown.
This is excellent 👌
Just listened to this on Spotify. Gotta go back now and take notes. Awesome study of Marian typology!
So profound. Thank you!
Love it! Thank you!
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.
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 !
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
Because she is the mother of Lord Jesus Christ & she is without any sin,pure . ❤ I adore our Lady 💐
You wrote: "I adore our Lady"
You also adore the Eucharist. In other words, you worship the object enclosed in the monstrance as Almighty God, and you worship Mary. There are your problems. You are not supposed to worship creations.
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Well that's your opinion,i have mine too. Whatever she is the mother of God. And her intercessions are powerful, like in the wedding feast of cana . I can tell you many miracles through her intercessions, so in my own life.peace to you
The picture is by Velázquez. It is incredibly beauty.
A joy to watch in the Prado museum.
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/
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 enjoy these videos there easy to understand and im very interested in these subjects thank you
Great video! I wish you did more on the typology of the ark, Jesus being the word of God and stuff, but this is great stuff
Wow, using Mary to defeat the devil is definatly a way to humiliate him. I had never thought about that aspect of it before, wow, that's very profound. I love it!
Why? Because I think she's pretty neat!
- Chad
Excellently concise!
Dear Joe
This was an amazing lecture! First of all, I love our dearest Mother, and it always amazes me to hear about her typographies throughout scripture.
But the words at the end also helped me put my situation in perspective. There is a huge battle at my parish going on, and to my surprise, God seems to place me in this battle and even removes people so I can get in position.
This really confused me, since I'm really just a woman with a wounded heart, that is actually very bad at fighting and conflict.
But now it makes sense. If He defeats schemers through a weak individual like me, the humiliation is enormous. And that is... that is amazing and wonderful. And it gives me hope!
Thankjyou for all you do!
"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...)
Love these recent episodes! I’d caution not to bring up new concepts. Before the conclusion you didn’t really articulate the Queenship of Mary, but I’m just being cautious for our Protestant viewers. This was fantastic.
Go team Mary!!
quote---Go team Mary!!.. unquote
A false team!!! A man made team!!!
Go Team Semiramis and Tammuz!
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.
What is the synonym for venerate?
Some common synonyms of venerate are adore, reverence, revere, and worship. While all these words mean "to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully," venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age.
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CCC #2679 Mary is the perfect Orans (pray-er), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father, who sends his Son to save all men. Like the beloved disciple we welcome Jesus' mother into our homes, for she has become the mother of all the living. We can pray with and to her. The prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary and united with it in hope.
Yet, Catholics insist they do not pray to Mary!!!
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The Hail Mary Prayer
The Hail Mary prayer came together slowly. It took more than a thousand years. The earliest version simply added Mary’s name to the message delivered by the angel Gabriel to Mary: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee” (Luke 1:28).
Around 1050 AD, the words Elizabeth used to greet Mary during the Visitation were added: “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb” (Luke 1:42). In 1261, Pope Urban IV added the name of Jesus to the end of Elizabeth’s words.
St. Peter Canisius published the Hail Mary in his 1555 Catechism with almost the entire final petition: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.”
Eleven years later, the Catechism of the Council of Trent (a work that Canisius was instrumental in creating) included, for the first time, the entire final petition, concluding with the words “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”
The version of the Hail Mary we pray today was given official approval in 1568.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women; and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Approved in 1568!!
Why did it take so long if it is biblical???
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Is praying the rosary biblical?
Biblical Basis for the Rosary
A: As you know the bible does "not" tell us to pray the Rosary because this form of prayer originated only during the middle ages.
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What is Mariology?
GotQuestions.org
www.gotquestions.org
- It was not until 1950 that Pope Pius XII defined the doctrine of “Mary's bodily assumption into heaven.” .
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Home - Mariology: A Research Guide ...
Duquesne University
guides.library.duq.edu
According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, "Since the 17th century, Mariology has designated the part of dogmatic theology that concerns the .
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When was the Theotokos created?
Theotokos - Wikipedia
431
The use of Theotokos was formally affirmed at the Third Ecumenical Council held at Ephesus in 431.
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When was the Assumption of Mary invented?
Assumption of Mary - Wikipedia
Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated as early as the 5th century and having been established in the East by Emperor Maurice around AD 600.
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When did Mary first appear?
In the year 40 A.D., while praying one night on the Ebro bank, the Virgin appeared with the Child Jesus standing on a pillar and asked Saint James and his eight disciples to build a church on the site, promising that “it will stand from that moment until the end of time in order that God may work miracles and wonders ..
Build a church to honor her!!!! Our honor is to God!!!
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Is the Assumption of Mary biblical?
A: Like the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception, the dogma of the Assumption is not explicitly stated in the Bible. The teaching that 'at the end of her earthly course, Mary was assumed into heavenly glory, body and soul' was dogmatically defined by Pius XII in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus.
FACT: LAST mention of Mary is in Acts 1:14, in the upper room with about 120 People!! NEVER AGAIN is she mentioned!!!
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When was Mary first prayed to?
3rd century
The earliest known prayer to Mary, the Sub tuum praesidium, ("Under your protection") dates from about the 3rd century. The artistic depictions of the Virgin of Mercy portray the role of Mary as the protector of Christians, as she shelters them under her mantle.
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How old was the Theotokos?
sixty years of age
It is not exactly known how old the Theotokos was at the time of her Falling Asleep but the overwhelming opinion is that she was over sixty years of age.
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@@mitchellosmer1293 Thank you for the info. It helped a lot 😊
@@reeseleau63729 happy to have helped!!!
"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.
Brilliant explanation! Thank you!
Well said.
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!
I really enjoyed leaning more points on why I hold her in my heart. ❤
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.
@@rexlion4510Error in RUclips comment tracking.
Love it!
How can someone question that the Mother of Christ is the woman in Genesis 3,15? Please!
"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Douay-Rheims Gen. 3:15
Where is Mary in this?
The women is Mary
@@gideondavid30 That's why Jesus always refers to Mary as 'woman'. He's telling us who she is.
Genesis 3:15 GNBUK
I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.”
This is the correct verse
@@CassInChrist The only correct verse is the Douay-Rheims, all others are as babble.
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..
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.
Simply amazed❤
100%. Nailed it.
Orthodox honour Mother Mary too.
So do Muslims.
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
#TeamMary
TEAM JESUS
@@TriciaPerry-mz7tc same team
Excellent
You nailed it!!!!!
Incredible!! Hail Holy Queen. Great explanation.
Who is the queen in the Bible?
Athaliah: Bible | Jewish Women's Archive
Queen Athaliah is the only woman in the Hebrew Bible reported as having reigned as a monarch within Israel/Judah. After her son's brief rule, she kills the remaining members of the dynasty and reigns for six years, when she is overthrown.
@@mitchellosmer1293 Queen of heaven. The mother of the king of kings.
@@jamesmonahan9408 ---quote---Queen of heaven. The mother of the king of kings....unquote
She is NEVER mentioned in the Bible as the queen of heaven!!!
The ONLY queen of heaven in the bible is a pagan goddess!!!
By your comment, that is what you are implying that Mary is a pagan goddess!!
---Lk. 1:48
2- But She calls herself "the servant of the Lord":
----Mary gives to herself the other similar title: the humble servant of the Lord:
"For he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed", (Lk.1:48).
And these are the only titles Virgin Mary gives to herself in the Bible.
-----The Church gives Virgin Mary the titles of Queen of angels, Queen of patriarchs, Queen of prophets, Queen of apostles, Queen of martyrs, Queen of confessors, Queen of virgins, Queen of all saints, Queen of peace ... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord".
9- Mother of the Church, Mother of divine grace, Mother most pure:
The Church calls her Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church, Mother of divine grace, Mother most pure, Mother most chaste, Mother inviolate, Mother undefiled, Mother most amiable, Mother most admirable, Mother of good counsel, Mother of our Creator, Mother of our Saviour... but she calls herself only the "humble servant of the Lord"
10- Virgin most venerable, Virgin most renowned, Virgin most powerful, Virgin most merciful:
The Church gives her the titles of Virgin most prudent, Virgin most venerable, Virgin most renowned, Virgin most powerful, Virgin most merciful, Virgin most faithful... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord".
11- Seat of wisdom, Cause of our joy, Vessel of honour, Mystical rose:
The Church calls her Mirror of justice, Seat of wisdom, Cause of our joy, Spiritual vessel, Vessel of honour, Singular vessel of devotion, Mystical rose... but she calls herself only the "humble servant of the Lord"
12- Tower of David, Ark of the Covenant, Gate of Heaven:
The Church gives her the titles of Tower of David, Tower of ivory, House of gold, Ark of the Covenant, Gate of Heaven, Morning star... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord".
13- Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, Help of Christians:
The Church entitles Virgin Mary as Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, Help of Christians... but the only title she gives to herself in the Bible is the "humble servant of the Lord".
READ #9---#13 again--THE CHURCH!! Not the Bible!!!
FACT: She never claims to have remained a virgin!!!
FACT: She NEVER claims to have been sinless!!!
@@mitchellosmer1293 better do your research.
@@jamesmonahan9408 quote----better do your research....unquote
Oh, but I have,, For OVER 40 years!!!
By your comment implies the verses I QUOTED are lies!!! That implies the gospels are lies, Implies Jesus lied, Since you all claim Jesus is God, that means God is a liar to!!!
Otherwise , all you have to offer is an order!!!
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.
quote---. Queen of the Angels 😇. My mother and my Queen. Queen of Heaven and earth,...unquote Al worthless opinions!!! Where are those titles used about Mary IN the Bible????
The most comprehensive study of Our Lady is the 4-volume work called "The Mystical City of God" by St. Mary of Agreda. This book contains the most astonishing data and clears up a thousand difficulties in Scripture. The Blessed Mother mentions the war that Lucifer and his demons wage against humans and the many thousands of years that Lucifer diligently searched the surface of the earth seeking the birth of Christ. He was always deceived and was uncertain until the very moment of the crucifixion. She mentions the unmeasured and indescribable torments of hell, of the hidden warfare against souls, the hatred that he has against Mary since she is a creature yet given such power over him and the other demons, his horrible blasphemies against God at the end of the 24 hour long probation in heaven prior to the fall, his damnation and the long reign of sin, the ordering of the demons into squadrons to bring some order in this chaos of hate. She mentions that she loved St. John more than the other apostles because of his dove like humility and virginity, also the wonderful character of St. Joseph. She describes the desperate effort she made to save the soul of Judas, who actually excelled in the beginning of his calling some of the other apostles, the reason for his gradual fall from grace, the despair of this most unfortunate man and his horrible perdition. She gives the exact dates of the gospels, of the exact number of years that had elapsed since the creation of the world when Christ was born, and many other details. She gives the most excellent advice on the spiritual life. It is the only spiritual book I read. She is Our Lady and, after Christ, the glory of the human race, the one that God chose from all eternity to His mother and who He loves above all creatures. And if God wishes to honor Our Lady, I can only say against those who take issue with it, the words that St. Michael spoke long ago "who is like unto God?"
How are we able to reasonably trust the book?
This sounds very interesting. Just not sure how only Mary of Agreda was given this information in the 17th century
This book series is the result of private revelation, which no Catholic is required to adhere to, and which no Protestant on the planet is going to believe.
I don't mean to be dismissive, but as a convert to Catholicism, it gets tiresome when people who have spent decades or their entire life as a Catholic knows every jot and tittle ever written pertaining to Marian revelations and apparitions, yet are completely ignorant of scripture.
If you want to reason with Protestants on these types of beliefs, you need to do so from scripture because that is our common language.
@@RenegadeCatholicYour comment sounds presumptuous to me. Plenty of Catholics read a lot, and read both Scripture and books about private revelation, along with many other books. These things aren’t mutually exclusive. It sounds to me like the person who posted the comment reads Scripture because he explained that reading these private revelations helped him to understand Scripture better.
@@HumanDignity10 my comment wasn't presumptuous, as I was referring to a specific group of Catholics that actually exists, not the Catholics who study both scripture and revelations. I realize there are plenty who fall into the latter group, like you mentioned.
We shouldn't study scripture through the lens of private non-binding revelations. Rather, we should do the complete opposite.
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.
She’s special because JESUS is special.🕯️🙏🏼💙🌹