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Date Posted: 12:56:07 08/06/07 Mon
Author: Joan
Author Host/IP: ip68-0-253-131.ri.ri.cox.net / 68.0.253.131
Subject: No respecter of persons
In reply to: Catie 's message, "Re: More on Mary" on 11:15:57 08/05/07 Sun

" St.Paul I think it is, who says God is no respector of persons."

Refresh my memory. Wasn't he, Paul, talking about earthly status--rich vs poor, politically powerful vs impotent, Master vs slave. Wasn't he saying that all of that doesn't matter to God, but how you conduct yourself does. He tells everyone to act honorably. If you are a slave, respect and obey your master. If you are the master, treat your slave well.

Mary was chosen above all other women-blessed among wome--she wasn't "merely" a vessel. I don't think that God would forget this service freely undertaken by Mary. He doesn't forget the Martyrs. In fact, martyrs are rewarded by going directly to Heaven. We know for sure that anyone who dies for his faith is in Heaven. The apostles who were killed for the faith are saints in Heaven. Surely Mary was rewarded for her service to God.

But again, this doesn't have anything to do w/ God's not being "respecter of persons". That, I think, refers to earthly status. God will not care if you were an emperor or slave. How you lived is what counts. If both beleived in Jesus and didn't deny him w/ their actions until the very end, they will be rewarded in Heaven. And there, God will not care that one was "higher" than the other on Earth.

The verse I was talking about--Hang on. I have to get the old fart's (large type) Bible.--It's Luke 1:43. It starts earlier.

"when Elizbeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?...Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."

Refresh my memory again, if it's failing me. Doesn't the Bible say that the savior will be born of a virgin? If the virgin were mother only to a human, how could she give birth to the savior? She must have given birth to both natures of Jesus--human and divine. If Jesus is divided into two persons, and only the human person was born of the virgin, then the savior is not born of the virgin, because the human person alone couldn't be the savior.

Joan

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