@Sacred_Panda_@smurphyftw@LilScoob23@Truth_matters20 The correct response is only what you think and not what others think. St Peter has the keys to the gates of heaven that gives him authority and to the throne of the institution which he governed.
@Sacred_Panda_@smurphyftw@LilScoob23@Truth_matters20 By that logic, everyone is free to interpret the Bible in their own understanding and we know how it is going. Of course you have no problem rejecting it like so many heretics in the past have.
@Sacred_Panda_@smurphyftw@LilScoob23@Truth_matters20 God always trusts people with responsibilities from the old testament to the new. This doesn't make those people immune from errors. St Paul did correct him and after all, we know who he was and what he did.
@FancyABQ@Catholicizm1 That's what we are doing. When Jesus said that the one who does the will of the father is blessed, it elevated mother Mary even more because she heard the word of God and obeyed it. We venerate her for that. Nowhere does Jesus say not to acknowledge his mother.
@FancyABQ@Catholicizm1 Were ordinary people before meeting Jesus. Once you meet the creator, you are no longer ordinary. St Peter was also given the keys of heaven.
@FancyABQ@Catholicizm1 I still have to come across someone ordinary who carried God for 9 months. Blessed Mary doesn't have any innate holiness or self achieved glory. All was through God. She bore God and that makes her special, better, higher and elevated than any creature on this earth.
@FancyABQ@Catholicizm1 And It's actually a case of a poor translation. Take a look at the Greek version side by side and you see the text actually states that Jesus is affirming what the woman says. "Moreso he replied" is what is said. https://t.co/mVOIenmvV8
@FancyABQ@Catholicizm1 her honor. But instead, because of her great faith, her sinlessness, her ever doing the will of God, her obedience to the Father in all times even when it was hard...
I think in this passage Jesus is clarifying that our devotion must be based on *who* Mary is, not *what* Mary is.