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NASB | Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders from Tekoa, which he envisioned in visions concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa, which he saw [in a divine revelation] concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. [Zech 14:5] |
Bible Question:
Catholics say that Mary was the mother of God and that she is the queen of heaven. You may agree you may not. If someone could show me in the bible, where it say she is the mother of God. We do know that Jesus was known as the Son of God, meaning God being His Father. He was also known as Son of man, which I maybe wrong aplies to mary, being that she was a woMAN or huMAN. Also when we accept Christ in our life,we to recieve His Holy Spirit, But the man Jesus you see is you and me. For example if you have a bottle of red wine and you pour some into a glass and some into a mug is it not the same wine. Just like Jesus we become a temple for the Holy Spirit. |
Bible Answer: Crossman, See Luke 1:43. Who is the "Lord" spoken of in this text? Is Jesus God? Is Mary his mother? Jesus is a Divine Person, the second Person of the Trinity, who took on a human nature in additon to his divine nature. But women give birth to persons not natures. Mary is the mother of God, but not his creator, since she is his creature and creation. If you don't like what Luke had to say and don't want to take my word for it, here is what Martin Luther had to say on the subject. "Men have crowded all her glory into a single phrase: The Mother of God. No one can say anything greater of her, though he had as many tongues as there are leaves on the trees." From the Commentary (of Luther)on the Magnificat. ". . . she is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God. . . . it is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God." Ref: Sermon on John 14. 16: Luther's Works ( St. Louis, ed. Jaroslav, Pelican, Concordia. vol. 24. p. 107 "Christ our Savior was the real and natural fruit of Mary's virginal womb. . . . This was without the cooperation of a man, and she remained a virgin after that." REf: On the Gospel of St. John: Luther's Works, vol. 22. p. 23, ed. Jaroslav Pelican, Concordia, 1957 ". . . she is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin. . . . God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. . . . God is with her, meaning that all she did or left undone is divine and the action of God in her. Moreover, God guarded and protected her from all that might be hurtful to her." Ref: Luther's Works, American edition, vol. 43, p. 40 , ed. H. Lehmann, Fortress, 1968 Commentaries on Luther ". . . in the resolutions of the 95 theses Luther rejects every blasphemy against the Virgin, and thinks that one should ask for pardon for any evil said or thought against her." Ref: Wm. J. Cole, "Was Luther a Devotee of Mary?" in Marian Studies 1970, p. 116: "In Luther's Explanation of the Magnificat in 1521, he begins and ends with an invocation to Mary, which Wright feels compelled to call "surprising"". David F. Wright, Chosen by God: Mary in Evangelical Perspecive (London: Marshall Pickering, 1989, p. 178, Cited from Faith and Reason, Spring 1994, p. 6. "Most interesting of all, perhaps, is the realization that his burial chamber in the Wittenberg church, on whose door he had posted his 95 Theses, was adorned with the 1521 Peter Vischer sculpture of the Coronation of the Virgin, with the inscription containing these lines: "Ad summum Regina thronum defertur in altum: Angelicis praelata choris, cui festus et ipse Filius occurrens Matrem super aethera ponit." Ref: P. Stravinskas in Faith and Reason, Spring, 1994, p. 8: Emmaus |