scham said:
If i remember correctly Jesus snubbed his mother and brothers when he went back to his home town and said that those who follow Him are his mother and brothers so He can't of held her up that high in terms of spiritual role
I know the passage you are referring to . .
But your understanding of it is fundamentaly flawed,
for if it were true, then we have
an even bigger problem than what we are discussing in this thread!!
Jesus is without sin . . He obeyed the Old Testament Law to perfection.
The Law says "Honor your father and YOUR MOTHER"
If Jesus had actually snubbed His mother as you are suggesting above, then He would have BROKEN this commandment, and in doing so, would have commited GRAVE SIN . .
Then He would no longer have been sinless . .
Then He could not have died for our sins . .
And THEN, if what you say is true, Christianity is a sham . . .
But, we know all of the above is not true, Jesus could have NEVER snubbed His mother and remained sinless . .
So, it follows, we know that Jesus did not, in His words or actions to which you are referring to, snub His Miother in any way, shape or form.
Look again . .
Luk 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
Who in the audience more perfectly heard the word of God (the annunciation of Christ's birth) and did it (accepted God's call on her life completely and fully and was entirely faithful to God in it) than Mary?
Mary is His Mother on ALL accounts!
You know it is interesting, I have always been bothered by the interpretation of those who would make this passage say that Mary tried to interrupt her Son . .. It never made sense to me, even as a Protetant, that Mary would ever try to do that.
So looking at it more closely, I find that it
never says, in that passage, that Mary was
trying to interrupt Him . . it says that
others tried to draw His attention to the fact that Mary was there, seemingy with the expectation that He should stop what He as doing to attend to her , . . .
Many try to read here that Mary herself was the one who was trying to interrupt Him,
but the text does not say that . .
If we understand Mary's character, I think we would come to the realization that such an action would not fit what we know about her . .
But
others who did
NOT understand who Jesus was, could easily think that Jesus should stop what He was doing and pay attention to His mother . .
So Jesus took the opportunity
to teach . . but never, as you and others have suggested, to sin by snubbing His own Mother!
If He was being corrective to anyone, it was to those
who would use His Mother to interrupt His teaching . .
Peace in Him!
