First lets back up the truck a bit {BEEP, BEEP, BEEP}. I think you are attributing perhaps arguments from others and 'thinking' them to me. So let's examine your claims.
Are you saying Mary did not do the will of God when she said, "
Be it done unto me according to thy word"???
Luke 1:38.
I never made that statement so please stop putting words in my mouth. What you quote above has nothing to do with the passage in Matthew where the crowd tells Jesus His kin are present and want to speak with Him. The quote from Luke 1:38 is of a contrite and faithful Blessed Mary who surrenders to the will to God. Indeed that is to be emulated and followed.
We are all like Mary when we do the will of God as she did.
Of course where the Blessed Mary of the Bible is concerned. Not the demi-goddess status some proclaim her to be. And I will note, we have a laundry list of examples of Great Faith recorded for us to follow, unfortunately, in these verses Blessed Mary is not mentioned:
Hebrews 11
Jesus is not denigrating His mother by dragging her down to the level of those who so not do the will of God.
The text nor I made that claim. You projected it upon me. Jesus claimed those who do the Father's will are His brothers and mother. There is nothing more to read into the text. However, you did read into the text and attributed Jesus as pointing out His earthly family were examples He was uplifting. The text makes no mention of this, nor does the text allude to this. So we have to take it at face value Jesus was comparing the spiritual relationship above the earthly bonds we have. Which support His other teachings as well (Luke 14:26; Luke 18:28-30).
No. He is building up all those who do the will of God, using His mother (and brothers) as an example. That's the point of Marian devotion you refuse to understand.
Again, Jesus does not make this point at all. In fact, He is making the point about what He was teaching (Parable of the soils, Parable of Revealed Light). To make the leap that Jesus was pointing out to the crowd His entire earthly family was the example of what He spoke of is reading into the text. As I already pointed out His own earthly brothers did not believe in Him (John 7:5).
Marian devotion is nowhere to be found in the New Testament. At least the type of Marian devotion as seen in the
two self proclaimed One True Churches (West and East). If you mean the people who walked the earth with Blessed Mary and respected her, loved her and looked after her when Jesus ascended into Heaven, that is found in the NT.
Everything else from "co-redemptrix, mediatrix and advocate" were terms added well after the 6th century and some as recent as the 19th-20th century and are doctrinal developments of the Roman magisterium.
Your "brothers" argument to prove Jesus had siblings has been refuted 50 times on this thread. Jesus is not talking about non-existing siblings but YOU, ME, AND CERTAIN CLOSE RELATIVES as "brothers". If you are a "brother in the Lord" does that make you a biological brother of Jesus? The question is as absurd as your phony evidence.
Well I did not even turn over this rock. However, as I pointed out in John 7:5, Jesus' own earthly brothers did not believe in Him, therefore He would not be pointing them out as 'spiritual brothers.' Let's look at Mark's account of the encounter with family:
Mark 3: NKJV
31 Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. 32 And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are outside seeking You.”
33 But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” 34 And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! 35 For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother.”
Notice the
bolded blue underlined. In Mark's Gospel account, Jesus points to those sitting 'about Him.' Not His earthly family 'outside seeking' Him.
The term “brother” is used in the Gospels because these particular men were known
BY THIS TITLE in the early Church. I give you:
1 Corinthians 9:4-5, in which Paul is defending his right to be called an apostle:
“Do we not have the right to take along a Christian wife, as do the rest of the apostles,
AND THE BROTHERS OF THE LORD, and Kephas (i.e., Peter)?”
Since Paul is writing to Corinthians: citizens of a city in far off Greece, it is obvious that the distinguishing
TITLE of “brother” was well known to the universal Church, a Church which also knew very well what the title meant.
As I pointed out, the men referred to as 'brothers' in the "Jesus’ Mother and Brothers Send for Him" Gospel accounts are also referred to not believing in Him (John 7:5). So the 'brother in Christ' reference to post resurrection NT church use is not the context here. And as I note above, Jesus is pointing out those who are around Him listening to Him preach (Mark 3:34). Not His earthly family still outside wanting to come in and see Him.
With that option (Jesus' stated 'brothers' in Mark 3 as 'spiritual brothers') removed what you have left is wresting the Greek to make 'brother' mean just 'kin' or 'cousin' even though the Latin Vulgate translates the Greek as
"fratres." Seems Jerome got it right.
I refuse to wrest the Holy Scriptures to conform to a much later doctrinal development.