Marian Doctrines Are in Essence

Christological Doctrines

Contrary to the contention that Marian doctrines detract attention and honor from Jesus, they are in fact intrinsically linked to Christological doctrines, and in fact support and buttress the Christological doctrines.

The doctrine of Mary’s Immaculate Conception is a sign of God's special favor in preserving her from sin from the first moment of conception in her mother's womb in order to be a spotless vessel by God's saving grace, highlighting that Jesus, who was undefiled in his divinity, would also be the spotless and undefiled Lamb of God in his humanity. For all things are possible for God. The fact that God's prevenient, preserving, saving and sanctifying grace in Mary should precede his appearance in the flesh should be no more difficult to accept than the retroactive saving and sanctifying grace applied to the patriarchs and holy men and women of the Old Testament. God and his grace operate in the realm of eternity, beyond the restrictions of time.

The doctrine of Mary's Perpetual Virginity is a sign of total dedication to God and her being set apart as a special vessel for her divine Son in service to will of the Father and the indwelling Holy Spirit. This doctrine affirms of the doctrine of the Virgin Birth and Divinity of Jesus as the Son of God in the strongest possible way.

The doctrine of Mary the Mother of God, says as much about Jesus as about Mary, and it was brought forth to defend the Christological doctrine that Jesus was one Divine Person, but that He also had taken upon himself a true human nature through his earthly human mother by the Father's plan and the power of the Holy Spirit.

The doctrine of the Assumption of Mary is nothing less than an affirmation of God's promise of the Resurrection to all the faithful in Christ. For those who believe that at the second coming of Christ, the dead shall be raised and the living faithful be caught up into the clouds to be with Jesus, and believe in the assumptions of Enoch and Elijah in scripture, this can hardly be a difficult doctrine to accept.

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