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MuttleyLaff:
Right now, I may not be the candle to illuminate the room, but my spark can be the beginning of a source of illumination, lmso.

Bro, I only can open the door, he/she must enter by himself/herself. By the way, sometimes it’s enough, to just plant the seed and walk away. Leave the seed to the elements and for it, to grow on its own and/or in time, lmso.

DEUTERONOMY (33:2) And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

KINDLY EXPLAIN THIS VERSE AND WHERE EXACTLY IS THIS MOUNT PARAN

Acehart:
Mary, the blessed.

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In the reading of many journal papers, one thing common to all of them is the use of the term “keywords”. The term is used to draw the reader’s attention to the focus or essence of the paper. They are important words or concepts found in one’s research question. Keywords make one’s paper searchable. Therefore, it is important to include the most relevant keywords that will help other authors or researchers find your paper.

Keywords are always listed after the abstract of a journal paper or thesis, the first section the paper as they are drawn from the abstract.

Matthew chapter 1 has all the resemblance of an abstract: it begins with a context or background information. At the heart of an abstract is the main reason(s), the exigency, the rationale behind the research; here, the goal of this book is to tell many that Jesus Christ is the Messiah King. The main argument is the birthing of the Messiah by a virgin, a reference to a previous work done by Isaiah (Isa.7:14).

The keywords one can extract from the abstract includes (not limited to): Messiah, Conceive, Holy Spirit, Sins, Son, Virgin, and favor (from Luke 1:28).

We were told that Mary, the virgin mother, was favored. The word “favor“, charitoō (in Greek), means: specially honor due to one’s character, manner or act as a result of divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in one’s life. It is a mouthful; in simple terms, Mary was not a sinner; her manner of life was pleasing to God. The angel said to her: “Blessed are you among women”; Mary was the most righteous among all women that walked on the face of the earth.

The word “favor” was first used in the Book of Genesis to describe God’s mercy towards Noah. Like Mary, Noah was the only righteous person of all men and women that walked on the face of the earth. He was described as a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5). Before one preaches about God’s act, we know that someone preached to them to believe in God (Romans 10:14); In the times of Noah, Methuselah was the preacher.

Methuselah, a name meaning “when he dies, it shall be sent”. We do know now that in the year he died, the great flood was sent. Methuselah's name may be a prophecy that on the day of his death "his death will send" the flood. For a better part of one thousand years, one man preached that it would rain on an earth covered by mist; no one believed except Noah. Thereafter, his life was pleasing to God and he was favored with the ark - a type of Christ.

It is the believing of a preposterous message that endeared Noah and Mary to God. The scripture says: without faith (in the word of God) it is impossible to please God and be satisfactory to Him (Heb. 11:6). Mary believed God’s word, perhaps in the reading of the prophetic texts at the Jerusalem temple, that a virgin would conceive a child - her being the virgin. She believed and it was accounted to her as righteousness (in conformity to God’s will in her thoughts and acts).

Today, the preposterous message to us is this: God came down to earth (through the womb of a virgin), died on a tree for men‘s sin, was buried in a tomb and resurrected three days later. We must believe this message to be favored by God. God will not favor a sinner because He would not give that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast His pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.


Merry Christmas everybody,

Acehart


Cc: MuttleyLaff, Goshen360, bodydiialect57

Unlike simepeople , she doesn't use cucumber

I thought it was because Joseph was from the lineage of David plus Mary being favored

Acehart:
Mary, the blessed.

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In the reading of many journal papers, one thing common to all of them is the use of the term “keywords”. The term is used to draw the reader’s attention to the focus or essence of the paper. They are important words or concepts found in one’s research question. Keywords make one’s paper searchable. Therefore, it is important to include the most relevant keywords that will help other authors or researchers find your paper.

Keywords are always listed after the abstract of a journal paper or thesis, the first section the paper as they are drawn from the abstract.

Matthew chapter 1 has all the resemblance of an abstract: it begins with a context or background information. At the heart of an abstract is the main reason(s), the exigency, the rationale behind the research; here, the goal of this book is to tell many that Jesus Christ is the Messiah King. The main argument is the birthing of the Messiah by a virgin, a reference to a previous work done by Isaiah (Isa.7:14).

The keywords one can extract from the abstract includes (not limited to): Messiah, Conceive, Holy Spirit, Sins, Son, Virgin, and favor (from Luke 1:28).

We were told that Mary, the virgin mother, was favored. The word “favor“, charitoō (in Greek), means: specially honor due to one’s character, manner or act as a result of divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in one’s life. It is a mouthful; in simple terms, Mary was not a sinner; her manner of life was pleasing to God. The angel said to her: “Blessed are you among women”; Mary was the most righteous among all women that walked on the face of the earth.

The word “favor” was first used in the Book of Genesis to describe God’s mercy towards Noah. Like Mary, Noah was the only righteous person of all men and women that walked on the face of the earth. He was described as a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5). Before one preaches about God’s act, we know that someone preached to them to believe in God (Romans 10:14); In the times of Noah, Methuselah was the preacher.

Methuselah, a name meaning “when he dies, it shall be sent”. We do know now that in the year he died, the great flood was sent. Methuselah's name may be a prophecy that on the day of his death "his death will send" the flood. For a better part of one thousand years, one man preached that it would rain on an earth covered by mist; no one believed except Noah. Thereafter, his life was pleasing to God and he was favored with the ark - a type of Christ.

It is the believing of a preposterous message that endeared Noah and Mary to God. The scripture says: without faith (in the word of God) it is impossible to please God and be satisfactory to Him (Heb. 11:6). Mary believed God’s word, perhaps in the reading of the prophetic texts at the Jerusalem temple, that a virgin would conceive a child - her being the virgin. She believed and it was accounted to her as righteousness (in conformity to God’s will in her thoughts and acts).

Today, the preposterous message to us is this: God came down to earth (through the womb of a virgin), died on a tree for men‘s sin, was buried in a tomb and resurrected three days later. We must believe this message to be favored by God. God will not favor a sinner because He would not give that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast His pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.


Merry Christmas everybody,

Acehart


Cc: MuttleyLaff, Goshen360, bodydiialect57

if she's not a sinner then why would she need a 'SAVOUR'...
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour...Luke1:47.

Trustedpro:
She is a virgin And from the linage of David

Yes, she was a virgin and also from the lineage of David. Joseph was of the line of David but no virgin from his line was chosen; perhaps they was one or there wasn’t one. If there was one, she was disqualified because concerning one of Joseph’s ancestors, the scriptures shows:

Jechonias (Matthew 1:11-12), called Coniah in Jeremiah 22:24-30, was so evil God cursed him and his descendants, saying, "Write this man down as childless, . . . for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah" (verse 30). Jeconiah, as his name is spelled in the Old Testament, had children (I Chronicles 3:17), but he was childless insofar as none of his descendants ruled as king over Judah.

So when you say the lineage of David, being specific would be helpful.

ichuka:
if she's not a sinner then why would she need a 'SAVOUR'...
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour...Luke1:47.

Hi,

We usually make a significant error when the word “sinner” is only seen from only one perspective. I’d like to use the Cross of Calvary as the reference point: all are counted as sinners before coming to the Cross; but after the Cross, one is no longer tagged a sinner but a righteous one. No sinner has his disposition towards the gospel; but after they believe, their faith is accounted for as righteousness.

When I said Mary wasn’t a sinner, I used it in respect to her disposition- she believed in God’s gospel and it was accounted to her as righteousness.

jeff1607:
I thought it was because Joseph was from the lineage of David plus Mary being favored

Yes, she was a virgin and also from the lineage of David. Joseph was of the line of David but no virgin from his line was chosen; perhaps they was one or there wasn’t one. If there was one, she was disqualified because concerning one of Joseph’s ancestors, the scriptures shows:

Jechonias (Matthew 1:11-12), called Coniah in Jeremiah 22:24-30, was so evil God cursed him and his descendants, saying, "Write this man down as childless, . . . for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah" (verse 30). Jeconiah, as his name is spelled in the Old Testament, had children (I Chronicles 3:17), but he was childless insofar as none of his descendants ruled as king over Judah.

So when you say the lineage of David, being specific would be helpful.

If Jesus was from the lineage of Joseph, then the scriptures would be inconsistent (please see above). If Jesus came through the lineage of Joseph, He would be conceived of a man rather than Holy Ghost.

However, there was another descendant of David in the picture- Mary herself.

Mary's descent from David comes through his son Nathan, not Solomon or one of David's other children (Luke 3:31). To fulfill His promise to establish David's throne forever, God honored Nathan by making him the ancestor of the promised King who would sit on David's throne forever (Luke 1:31-33).

olisaEze:
Well merry Christmas to you too.

Thank you for your kind words

Acehart:
Mary, the blessed.

---

In the reading of many journal papers, one thing common to all of them is the use of the term “keywords”. The term is used to draw the reader’s attention to the focus or essence of the paper. They are important words or concepts found in one’s research question. Keywords make one’s paper searchable. Therefore, it is important to include the most relevant keywords that will help other authors or researchers find your paper.

Keywords are always listed after the abstract of a journal paper or thesis, the first section the paper as they are drawn from the abstract.

Matthew chapter 1 has all the resemblance of an abstract: it begins with a context or background information. At the heart of an abstract is the main reason(s), the exigency, the rationale behind the research; here, the goal of this book is to tell many that Jesus Christ is the Messiah King. The main argument is the birthing of the Messiah by a virgin, a reference to a previous work done by Isaiah (Isa.7:14).

The keywords one can extract from the abstract includes (not limited to): Messiah, Conceive, Holy Spirit, Sins, Son, Virgin, and favor (from Luke 1:28).

We were told that Mary, the virgin mother, was favored. The word “favor“, charitoō (in Greek), means: specially honor due to one’s character, manner or act as a result of divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in one’s life. It is a mouthful; in simple terms, Mary was not a sinner; her manner of life was pleasing to God. The angel said to her: “Blessed are you among women”; Mary was the most righteous among all women that walked on the face of the earth.

The word “favor” was first used in the Book of Genesis to describe God’s mercy towards Noah. Like Mary, Noah was the only righteous person of all men and women that walked on the face of the earth. He was described as a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5). Before one preaches about God’s act, we know that someone preached to them to believe in God (Romans 10:14); In the times of Noah, Methuselah was the preacher.

Methuselah, a name meaning “when he dies, it shall be sent”. We do know now that in the year he died, the great flood was sent. Methuselah's name may be a prophecy that on the day of his death "his death will send" the flood. For a better part of one thousand years, one man preached that it would rain on an earth covered by mist; no one believed except Noah. Thereafter, his life was pleasing to God and he was favored with the ark - a type of Christ.

It is the believing of a preposterous message that endeared Noah and Mary to God. The scripture says: without faith (in the word of God) it is impossible to please God and be satisfactory to Him (Heb. 11:6). Mary believed God’s word, perhaps in the reading of the prophetic texts at the Jerusalem temple, that a virgin would conceive a child - her being the virgin. She believed and it was accounted to her as righteousness (in conformity to God’s will in her thoughts and acts).

Today, the preposterous message to us is this: God came down to earth (through the womb of a virgin), died on a tree for men‘s sin, was buried in a tomb and resurrected three days later. We must believe this message to be favored by God. God will not favor a sinner because He would not give that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast His pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.


Merry Christmas everybody,

Acehart


Cc: MuttleyLaff, Goshen360, bodydiialect57

stop using the word preposterous here, it doesn't align with your message. It seems you don't even know the meaning of preposterous. It contradicts everything you wrote

leksite120:
The Qur'an explained the reason.
According to the Qur'an, Mary's mother, Hannan prayed for a child until Allah answered her with a daughter, she was somehow disappointed as Son was the pride then. Her mother , Hannan was Pious, so she prayed to Allah to help him make her daughter(Mary) one of the purest and pious which Allah made.

“So when she brought forth, she said, My Lord! Surely I have brought forth a female- and Allah knows best what she brought forth- and the male is not like the female, and I have named it Maryam, and I command her and her offspring into Thy protection from the accused Satan.” (3:36) .

The purification of Mary isn't just that she's a virgin.
According to prophet Muhammad, she's never been touched by any Man. Yes, the physical touch.

Your Quran is a fraud. Hannah is Samuel's mother not Mary's

First, Mary was a virgin. But then she was not the only virgin in town.

Second, Mary was favoured. This one was an act of God. No one can explain it.

ThePlainTruth:
You have no answer to the scriptures I have quoted below from the same Bible. All your response shows that you are the one veering on to the edge of a slippery slope by rejecting the scriptures I have quoted from the same Bible.

The angel said: Luke 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.
And then Jesus turned it down here:
John 18:36 "Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”"
John 6:15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

Luke 1:
"31And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.
32He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.
33And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”

Jesus did not turn it down. A simple Google search of the relationship between David and Jesus would have helped you in your dangerous unbelief.
The Bible records three covenants made directly between God and man. They are: the Abrahamic, Davidic and Jesuit covenants.
They are all related as to God's elaborate plan of salvation for mankind.
Jesus by being declared heir to the Davidic covenant of kingship became King of all kings. But yes. He's Kingdom is not of this world which is fading away. Rather, it's an everlasting one which has no end.
Stay blessed.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Your Quran is a fraud. Hannah is Samuel's mother not Mary's

Is it only one person that's bearing Hannan in the whole of Israel, try to have sense na. They're both not even in the same generation, the fact that your Bible didn't record that doesn't mean it isn't correct

Rolexjerry:
Because she was a virgin

Yes, she was a virgin and also from the lineage of David. Joseph was of the line of David but no virgin from his line was chosen; perhaps they was one or there wasn’t one. If there was one, she was disqualified because concerning one of Joseph’s ancestors, the scriptures shows:

Jechonias (Matthew 1:11-12), called Coniah in Jeremiah 22:24-30, was so evil God cursed him and his descendants, saying, "Write this man down as childless, . . . for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah" (verse 30). Jeconiah, as his name is spelled in the Old Testament, had children (I Chronicles 3:17), but he was childless insofar as none of his descendants ruled as king over Judah.

[quote]So when you say the lineage of David, being specific would be helpful.

If Jesus was from the lineage of Joseph, then the scriptures would be inconsistent (please see above). If Jesus came through the lineage of Joseph, He would be conceived of a man rather than Holy Ghost.

However, there was another descendant of David in the picture- Mary herself.

Mary's descent from David comes through his son Nathan, not Solomon or one of David's other children (Luke 3:31). To fulfill His promise to establish David's throne forever, God honored Nathan by making him the ancestor of the promised King who would sit on David's throne forever (Luke 1:31-33).

Is there a dilemma of Mary’s inability to transmit David's royal inheritance—the right to the throne—to her Son, since all inheritances had to pass through the male line? According to Israel's law, when a daughter is the only heir, she can inherit her father's possessions and rights if she marries within her own tribe (Numbers 27:1-8; 36:6-. There is no record in the Bible showing that Mary had any brothers (we know Elizabeth) to inherit her father's possessions and rights. Thus, Joseph became Heli's heir by marriage to Mary, inheriting the right to rule on David's throne, even over Judah. This right was then transmitted to her son.

Acehart:
Mary, the blessed.

---

In the reading of many journal papers, one thing common to all of them is the use of the term “keywords”. The term is used to draw the reader’s attention to the focus or essence of the paper. They are important words or concepts found in one’s research question. Keywords make one’s paper searchable. Therefore, it is important to include the most relevant keywords that will help other authors or researchers find your paper.

Keywords are always listed after the abstract of a journal paper or thesis, the first section the paper as they are drawn from the abstract.

Matthew chapter 1 has all the resemblance of an abstract: it begins with a context or background information. At the heart of an abstract is the main reason(s), the exigency, the rationale behind the research; here, the goal of this book is to tell many that Jesus Christ is the Messiah King. The main argument is the birthing of the Messiah by a virgin, a reference to a previous work done by Isaiah (Isa.7:14).

The keywords one can extract from the abstract includes (not limited to): Messiah, Conceive, Holy Spirit, Sins, Son, Virgin, and favor (from Luke 1:28).

We were told that Mary, the virgin mother, was favored. The word “favor“, charitoō (in Greek), means: specially honor due to one’s character, manner or act as a result of divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in one’s life. It is a mouthful; in simple terms, Mary was not a sinner; her manner of life was pleasing to God. The angel said to her: “Blessed are you among women”; Mary was the most righteous among all women that walked on the face of the earth.

The word “favor” was first used in the Book of Genesis to describe God’s mercy towards Noah. Like Mary, Noah was the only righteous person of all men and women that walked on the face of the earth. He was described as a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5). Before one preaches about God’s act, we know that someone preached to them to believe in God (Romans 10:14); In the times of Noah, Methuselah was the preacher.

Methuselah, a name meaning “when he dies, it shall be sent”. We do know now that in the year he died, the great flood was sent. Methuselah's name may be a prophecy that on the day of his death "his death will send" the flood. For a better part of one thousand years, one man preached that it would rain on an earth covered by mist; no one believed except Noah. Thereafter, his life was pleasing to God and he was favored with the ark - a type of Christ.

It is the believing of a preposterous message that endeared Noah and Mary to God. The scripture says: without faith (in the word of God) it is impossible to please God and be satisfactory to Him (Heb. 11:6). Mary believed God’s word, perhaps in the reading of the prophetic texts at the Jerusalem temple, that a virgin would conceive a child - her being the virgin. She believed and it was accounted to her as righteousness (in conformity to God’s will in her thoughts and acts).

Today, the preposterous message to us is this: God came down to earth (through the womb of a virgin), died on a tree for men‘s sin, was buried in a tomb and resurrected three days later. We must believe this message to be favored by God. God will not favor a sinner because He would not give that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast His pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.


Merry Christmas everybody,

Acehart


Cc: MuttleyLaff, Goshen360, bodydiialect57

Mary was chosen to bear the saviour for two reasons: her gender and her chastity. Since the fall of man came through the interaction of the serpent with Eve, it became clear that the salvation of man needed to come through same means. Also, note that Eve Was a Virgin as at the time she fell to the serpent. She birthed death at the end of that encounter. So also a Virgin Mary birthed life in Jesus Christ after her encounter with the Angel.

smartkester:
stop using the word preposterous here, it doesn't align with your message. It seems you don't even know the meaning of preposterous. It contradicts everything you wrote

Not so. The message of Christ is preposterous to the unbeliever. The message of a virgin conceiving without insemination is foolish to the hearing of any man. The message of a Man resurrected after three days in the tomb was foolish to the Corinthians. In the times of Noah, the message of rainfall was strange to a people who only knew mist.

When I said preposterous to a sinner circa 2020 years later, it is those things I listed: to wit were: A virgin conceived, a man was crucified for your sins, He went to Hell for you, and He resurrected after three days. What is foolish to many is the power of God unto salvation. Those who read should believe like Mary.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Mary was chosen to bear the saviour for two reasons: her gender and her chastity. Since the fall of man came through the interaction of the serpent with Eve, it became clear that the salvation of man needed to come through same means. Also, note that Eve Was a Virgin as at the time she fell to the serpent. She birthed death at the end of that encounter. So also a Virgin Mary birthed life in Jesus Christ after her encounter with the Angel.

Thank you very much for your addition. Happy Holidays

leksite120:
Is it only one person that's bearing Hannan in the whole of Israel, try to have sense na. They're both not even in the same generation, the fact that your Bible didn't record that doesn't mean it isn't correct

And it's a coincidence your Anna was also childless and promised to consecrate her supposed male child to the temple just like Hannah?
You should be smart enough to see the obvious plagiarism from your Quran and how easily it distorted events to arrive at a determined end.
Shawnee

femi4:
She was only favored. There were many virgins that were godly from the descendants of David at that time

“There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!” (Prov.31:29)

Yes, she was a virgin and also from the lineage of David. Joseph was of the line of David but no virgin from his line was chosen; perhaps they was one or there wasn’t one. If there was one, she was disqualified because concerning one of Joseph’s ancestors, the scriptures shows:

Jechonias (Matthew 1:11-12), called Coniah in Jeremiah 22:24-30, was so evil God cursed him and his descendants, saying, "Write this man down as childless, . . . for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah" (verse 30). Jeconiah, as his name is spelled in the Old Testament, had children (I Chronicles 3:17), but he was childless insofar as none of his descendants ruled as king over Judah.

[quote]So when you say the lineage of David, being specific would be helpful.

If Jesus was from the lineage of Joseph, then the scriptures would be inconsistent (please see above). If Jesus came through the lineage of Joseph, He would be conceived of a man rather than Holy Ghost.

However, there was another descendant of David in the picture- Mary herself.

Mary's descent from David comes through his son Nathan, not Solomon or one of David's other children (Luke 3:31). To fulfill His promise to establish David's throne forever, God honored Nathan by making him the ancestor of the promised King who would sit on David's throne forever (Luke 1:31-33).

Is there a dilemma of Mary’s inability to transmit David's royal inheritance—the right to the throne—to her Son, since all inheritances had to pass through the male line? According to Israel's law, when a daughter is the only heir, she can inherit her father's possessions and rights if she marries within her own tribe (Numbers 27:1-8; 36:6-. There is no record in the Bible showing that Mary had any brothers (we know Elizabeth) to inherit her father's possessions and rights. Thus, Joseph became Heli's heir by marriage to Mary, inheriting the right to rule on David's throne, even over Judah. This right was then transmitted to her son.

Acehart:
“There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!” (Prov.31:29)

Proverbs 31 referred to a Family woman with husband and kids

That's for attributes of a good wife not Mary. Mary wasn't a wife yet when she was chosen.

Angel Gabriel said it emphatically that she was HIGHLY FAVOURED.

Please stop quoting the Bible wrongly

SocialJustice:
I hate when people like you write long stupid essays when the answers are prophecy, favour and grace. Easy!

Na una dey waste people time for church so.

My writeup was those in poor clothes. Why don’t you give those who have no knowledge (as high as you have) an opportunity to know just as you know?

femi4:
Proverbs 31 referred to a Family woman with husband and kids

That's for attributes of a good wife not Mary. Mary wasn't a wife yet when she was chosen.

Angel Gabriel said it emphatically that she was HIGHLY FAVOURED.

Please stop quoting the Bible wrongly

Thanks for your submission.

Agbegbaorogboye:
And it's a coincidence your Anna was also childless and promised to consecrate her supposed male child to the temple just like Hannah?
You should be smart enough to see the obvious plagiarism from your Quran and how easily it distorted events to arrive at a determined end.
Shawnee

I'll be glad if u can provide me the name of the mother of Mary, if u dont know, u can ask from your people. Since u don't know her name for now, I think it'll be better u keep shut

Acehart:
My writeup was those in poor clothes. Why don’t you give those who have no knowledge (as high as you have) an opportunity to know just as you know?

Abeg shift.

chipower:
Acehart, If God forces people to do his will in the way you are putting it, why would some people go to hell?

God forces people to do His will? On the contrary. Do you remember when He called Israel saying: “Come now let us reason together”? If you read a bit of the exchanges I had in the first two pages and the penultimate paragraph of my writeup, you’d see that Mary had already conceived in her heart the idea of birthing the Messiah - she was a descendant of David, wasn’t she? Even before Satan had entered Judas, His heart was set on selling Jesus. So the idea of forcing is excluded.

I usually have this approach that helped me to understand that God doesn’t force anyone; with Pharaoh as example. The Bible sometimes describes the human heart as wax, and God as fire. We know fire melts wax when it is brought in close proximity; and wax hardens when fire is removed from its vicinity. So when God said: “I will harden Pharoah’s heart”, He just meant that He would detach His presence from Pharoah; therefore hardening as wax is Pharoah’s resulting condition. No where in the Exodus account did Pharaoh express an interest in letting Israel have independence; so no amount of force from God would succeed. But we know when God tried to prevail upon Pharaoh, it was with reasoning first -we can see this in the exchange between the angel and Mary.

SLIMSNAZZY:
Brother thanks for the text, but you won't tell us that Mary wasn't a dinner sinner, the Bible says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. So she was favour and her faith plays important role there.

Hi,

We usually make a significant error when the word “sinner” is only seen from only one perspective. I’d like to use the Cross of Calvary as the reference point: all are counted as sinners before coming to the Cross; but after the Cross, one is no longer tagged a sinner but a righteous one. No sinner has his disposition towards the gospel; but after they believe, their faith is accounted for as righteousness.

When I said Mary wasn’t a sinner, I used it in respect to her disposition- she believed in God’s gospel and it was accounted to her as righteousness.

“All have sinned” - In Paul’s analysis of God’s equity towards the Jews and Gentiles, all sinner because for what God had laid down down justification, all men stumbled- the Jews did not keep the Law and the Gentiles killed the witness of their conscience. So, a man was justified by faith alone. Then he later speaks of Abraham’s justification by faith in the Gospel of the sacrifice. If this qualified Abraham as righteousness, it is the pattern which God has chosen. Mary believed like Abraham. So, to him who overcomes sin, a hidden manna, a white stone and a new name is to be given. For Mary, that manna was Christ -this is a favor exclusive for God’s children- a gift that showed how their lives are influenced by Him.

Before coming to the knowledge of Christ, all have sinned; after the Cross, all are righteous.

SocialJustice:
Abeg shift.

Social injustice - a ‘justice’ against the poor.

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One cannot really say why God chooses his people.But Mary case is different i guess that's why you are trying to research why she was chosen to be the mother of his son.This is because the bible says of all women she is the most blessed it further says that all generations would call her blessed.As the mother of Jesus she gave the world a savior,she is holy becuase Something unclean cannot give birth to something that is clean. The source of the blood of Jesus,the word made fleash.But why God choose Mary for this special role in mans salvation is what i don't know.

leksite120:
I'll be glad if u can provide me the name of the mother of Mary, if u dont know, u can ask from your people. Since u don't know her name for now, I think it'll be better u keep shut

You should take ur own advice instead.
So unfortunate your Mohamed was tutored by Coptic Christians and he also extended the fable for you his followers. There's nothing more unfortunate than someone deceiving over a billion people.
Sad