With Scripture and Reason's Response
with a tad of common sense
with a tad of common sense
Stan Williams, Ph.D.
Objection 1
Mary was just a regular girl with nothing special about her.
Don't make more of her than God did.
Mary is not the only person in Christ's lineage.
She shouldn't be considered more important THAN say the incestuous Judah,
the prostitute Rahab, or the adulterer David.
In Scripture, Mary is proclaimed as part of God's salvation plan before the world was created.
Rev. 12:1-6; 13-19
In Scripture, Mary is found as the only human being consistently mentioned and associated with the incarnation and the eternal plan of salvation from Genesis to Revelation.
n Rev: 12 (what we just read) - the woman is part of God's plan. 21 references to the woman.
n Gen 3;15 - the woman is not a spur of the moment concept. God sees time as we see space, all at once.
n Note: These two references are perhaps not coincidence to Jesus' use of the term to his mother in John 2
n Is 7:14
n Micah 5:2-3
n Matt (Mark?) Luke, John
n John 19:26-27 - Mary the mother of the church
n Galatians 4:4 - fullness of time - born of a woman
Objection 2
Mary was born in sin and she sinned throughout her life
just like everyone else.
This objection uses Romans 3:23 that says "all have sinned." and 1 John 1:8 says "If we say, 'We are without sin,' we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." "ALL" means just what it says "ALL, everyone, without exception…except Jesus of course."
The problem we face here is that there are other Scriptures that imply the opposite and
