Mary

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Mary

• Intercession
• Four Dogmas

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Why not go straight to Jesus?

• Only one mediator?
• 1 Tim 25
• Subordinate
• Humans
• Angels
• Saints
• Unique to Christ yet demands participation
• Grace
• Sonship
• Priesthood

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Theotokos

• God-bearer
• Mary is the Mother of God.
• Objection Nestorian Heresy (431)
• There are two persons in Jesus Christ. Human
  Divine
• Christotokos she did not bare God, she only
  bore the humanity of Christ.
• Response
• Jesus Christ is God.
• Mary is the mother of Jesus.
• Mary is the mother of God.

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Theotokos

• Scriptural Foundations
• Luke 135 the child to be born will be called
  holy, the Son of God.
• Gal 44 when the time had fully come, God sent
  forth his Son, born of a woman
• Theological Defense
• Two concepts necessary to understand this
• Motherhood
• What does Mary bring to this union?
• Conclusion
• Mary gave birth to a Son who is truly God.
• Mary is rightfully called the Mother of God.

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Immaculate Conception

• Understanding
• From the moment of conception, by the grace of
  God, Mary was preserved from Original Sin and all
  of its effects.
• Original Sin
• Natural
• Body / Soul
• Intellect and Will
• Preternatural
• Immortality of the Body
• Infused knowledge
• Integrity
• Supernatural
• Life of Grace

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Immaculate Conception

• Understanding
• From the moment of conception, by the grace of
  God, Mary was preserved from Original Sin and all
  of its effects.
• Original Sin
• Natural
• Body / Soul
• Intellect and Will
• Preternatural
• Immortality of the Body disease and death enter
  the body.
• Infused knowledge obscurity of mind.
• Integrity concupiscence
• Supernatural
• Life of Grace loss of grace

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Immaculate Conception

• Scriptural Foundations
• Gen 315 I will put enmity between you and the
  woman, between your seed and her seed. He shall
  bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

Serpent(Satan)
Woman(Mary)
enmity
Seed(Sin)
Seed(Jesus)

• Rationale
• If Mary had any sin, she would not have enmity
  with Satan.
• In the text, Marys relationship with Satan is
  parallel with Jesus relationship with sin.

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Immaculate Conception

• Luke 12
• And the angel Gabriel came to her and said,
  Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!
• Greek word kecharitomene
• It is an action completed in the past.
• It is an action that is relevant to the present.
• Development of Doctrine? (1854)
• 373 St. Ephraim refers to Mary to being created
  utterly equal as Eve before the fall.
• 379 St. Ambose says that she is free from all
  stain of sin.
• 538 The Bishop of Antioch, Seferus, was the
  first to use the word immaculate for her meaning
  sine macula (without sin)
• 740 St. Andrew of Crete speaks of Mary as the
  entirely immaculate virgin.
• 1477 Pope Sixtus IV approves the Mass and
  Office for the feast of the Immaculate
  Conception.

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Assumption

• Definition
• Pope Pius XII the Immaculate Mother of God,
  the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course
  of her earthly life was consumed body and soul
  into heavenly glory.
• Scriptural Foundations
• Gen 315 There are two effects from the seed of
  the serpent.
• Sin and Death Mary is victorious over sin and
  death.
• Luke 128 The Assumption is the effect of
  being, full of grace.
• Exodus 4034-38 The Pillar of Cloud and the Ark
• Exodus / Mt. Sinai / The Ark / The Temple / 586BC
• 2 Macc 24-8 The people long for the Ark - it
  is the holy of holies.
• Rev 1119 121 John has a vision of heaven -
  he sees the temple and the ark.

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The Ark

• Ark of the Covenant contained
• Manna - bread from heaven.
• Tablets - Ten Commandments (words of God)
• Staff of Aaron - High Priest

• Marys womb contained Jesus
• True bread from heaven.
• The Word of God in flesh.
• The true High Priest

• Where does John see the New Ark?
• In heaven!

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Perpetual Virginity

• Mary is a virgin
• Before the birth of Christ
• Is 714 prophesy that a virgin will conceive
  and bear a son.
• Lk 126-27 Angel Gabriel visits a virgin
  betrothed to a man.
• During the birth of Christ
• The second verb above (bear) signifies a virginal
  bearing.
• Analogy
• After the birth of Christ
• Mary never had marital relations.
• Thus Mary never had any other children beyond her
  firstborn.
• Major Objections
• Words before and till are used.
• Brethren of the Lord

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before and till

• Mt 118 and 125
• Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this
  way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to
  Joseph, before they came together she was found
  to be with child.
• When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel
  of the Lord commanded him he took his wife, but
  knew her not until she had borne a son.
• Response
• Words before and till what has not yet
  taken place.
• 2 Sam 623
• Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no children
  till the day of her death.
• Psalm 109
• Sit thou at my right hand until I put your
  enemies at your footstool.

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Brethren of the Lord

• Mk 63
• Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and
  the brother of James and Joses and Judas and
  Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?
• Response
• Greek word for brother used here is adelphor
  (brethren)
• It is not limited to a mere blood-brother.
• It can also mean cousin, near relative, or even
  kinsmen.
• Gen 2910-15
• Jacob is referred to as the adelphor (brother) of
  Laban, although we know that the relationship is
  uncle and nephew.
• Gen 138
• Lot is the adelphor of Abraham, but they are
  cousins.
• John 1926
• Jesus commands John to take Mary into his home.

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