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The Catholic Church has a uniquely developed perspective on this question. It is a dogma of the Catholic faith that Mary was immaculately conceived -- or in the words of Pope Pius IX: We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and ...

Reason 1 According to reformed theology, the Bible is about the Glory of God. Jesus is God. Thus, the Bible is about Jesus. More concretely, some would go so far as to state that the Elect is the father's gift to the Son (I'm not sure if this can be scripturally verified). That would be further reason for the Bible focusing on Christ. Reason 2 Without ...

Calling Jesus the "son of God" implies that he is God. This may not be a persuasive argument if it were not for Jesus being the only-begotten son of God. Angels, although sons of God, are not begotten. Christians, although sons of God, are begotten via regeneration, not generation. Only Jesus, the only-begotten son of God, is begotten via generation. He ...

Luke 2 tells the story of Jesus as a boy in the Temple. His parents had taken Him to a feast there and had left Him behind on their return trip. When they returned to Jerusalem to find Him, Jesus asks His mother a question--"Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" Now, the Temple was not where Joseph lived, but was the House of God. So, ...

Your questions and observations seem quite contrary to the Protestant faith. I am not sure from what faith you are deriving these ideas. However I can say from the Protestant faith that Mary and Joseph were sinners and all are born into sin. Therefore Mary and Joseph did not need to posses the holiness of God; rather they needed the Christ to die for their ...

The classic Bible verse to clearly declare that Jesus was the only-begotten son of God before the incarnation is John 1:1-2, declaring Jesus to be fully God, eternally with his Father. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. (John 1:1-2). From this eternity: 14The Word ...

Trinitarian Christians most often refer to Jesus by name or by the title of "The Son of God" to distinguish between the Three Persons of the Godhead. (The title of "The Son of Man" is a specific reference to a prophecy in Ezekiel with which Jesus identifies Himself.) The Doctrine of the Trinity can be explained as such: Jesus is God The Father is God The ...

I would like to suggest another layer of meaning on Affable Geek's answer. This requires a little set up, so bear with me. In Exodus 20, God thunders from Mount Sinai and begins the Ten Words (or Commandments) with, "I am Yahweh (Jehovah) your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." Thus introducing Himself as Yahweh, ...

The name "Jesus" has an explicit meaning defined in the New Testament itself, as we see here: Mathew 1:21 “She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins” Elsewhere, we learn that Jesus is the name by which there is salvation for humanity. We find it innumerable times in Bible, specifically ...

We know almost nothing for sure about the life of Jesus before starting his public ministry. From the Gospels we have only the birth narratives and "boy Jesus in the temple", which are really very little to go on. From those we can deduce a couple of things: Mary knew quite a lot about the destiny of her son, that he would "redeem his people". It's not ...

Jesus is not God the Father's only son, but he is God the Father's only-begotten Son. And, μονογενής means "only-born" (or "only-begotten") not "one of a kind." The the suffix —γενής is found in many Greek words, including εὐηγενής ("well born"), ἀγενής ("low born"), ἀλλογενής ("other born"), πατρογενής ("father born"), πυριγενής/ πυρογενής ("fire born"), ...

The Greek word /monogenes/ is the key here. I did a word study on this a number of years back. The word actually appears in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrews Scriptures). Here it is actually used in reference to Isaac as the /monogenes/ son of Abraham. Interestingly enough, Isaac was not the only son of Abraham and not even the first. ...

The evolved and gradual revealing of the deity starts out with the concept of 'God' based on original words that imply power. God was a word secular society also used. It seems to mean the divine being, regardless of wether he is the true God or not. The Bible defines this divine being as actually only One, that is in contrast to all the many gods of the ...

One of the best Biblical Scholars on the gospels that I know of implies that Christ was in many ways like a normal baby. Not only would he have not known that he was the Messiah when he was two, but he may not have been potty trained yet. As far as I know his visit to the temple is seen as a potential place Jesus began to really become conscious that he was ...

I believe that the Catholic Church exalts Mary above her true status. first, she is not the mother of God; she is the mother of the earthly incarnation of God, which is a very different thing. God Almighty has always existed, and created all things. (Maybe a small point, but an important one) Second, Jesus Himself did not give her special status; in Luke ...