There seems to be an implication in your post that Mary contributed nothing to Jesus' gestation other than a place to grow. Even thinking that she was some sort of surrogate to Jesus' fetus and contributed no DNA to the fetus, she would still have to provide nourishment for it to live. I am probably reading too much into your post, so I ask for you to clarify your position on this to dispel my confusion.
God be with us both.
She did indeed contribute what her body was created to provide by the very One who filled that flesh she had within her. Sounds like a dichotomy, but interesting nonetheless. Can you imagine what it's like having a baby growing within you that has no contributed, human, male chromosomes, which is to be filled with the One who created you?
Mary chose to be a willing vessel to bear forth that vessel that would contain the Spirit of the Most High. She functioned in accordance with how He made her, and then once born, she fulfilled her motherly duties along with Joseph until he was no longer in the picture. She continued in her duties as a mother, even to the cross.
Now, if you ask me if I'm willing to attribute to her what many religionists teach, no. I don't go in for all that veneration stuff, and praying to her.
1 Tim 2: I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority;
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who
gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Mary was/is not a co-redeemer. Her part was to be the bearer and a parent to the young boy until He grew into a man. She counted herself blessed among women to have been chosen for that task, and all the extra stuff men have added to that over the centuries, although called "theology," I simply don't buy it. I admire the woman for her courage, faith and steadfastness, and as a sister in the faith, but all the other hooptiloo beyond that, which is all man-made, I leave to those who wish to bow their knee to such, for it has no meaningful value to me nor to anyone's salvation. We have direct access to Christ Jesus, who is the very One who stated that He would never leave us nor forsake us. That wasn't a promise. It was a statement of fact. Those dudes out there who wear funny robes telling us otherwise are speaking from their own authority, not from any authority originating from the Lord.
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