The Truth About Mary

This clip is taken from the sermon "Jesus' Birth Prophesied ," preached by Pastor Mark Driscoll at the Mars Hill Church Ballard campus in Seattle, Washington, on October 04, 2009. It is the 3rd sermon in our sermon series, "Luke's Gospel: Investigating the Man Who Is God."

To watch the full sermon, visit: http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke/jesus-birth-prophesied

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[stpaulphillip]

I don't offer worship to Mary. I don't even pray to Mary. I'm not Roman Catholic. Just kind of tired of people feeling that it is necessary to belittle the one who brought Jesus into the world. 

[paulomi123]

catholics dont worship mary, i dont understand why do protestants make up things they dont and cannot understand as long as the are protestant, if there is any protestant who thinks catholics worship mother mary, he is certainly mistaken, and ignorant about both catholicism and the history of the church,

[cheesypasta]

I agree, protestants don't understand how the Catholics see saints and Mary. Does it not say in hebrews that we run our race before 'a great cloud of witnesses'? I dont think though that Mark is bashing this view of her really, he is just getting a bit of history to sink into us protestants :)

[brennan2185]

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I The Lord thy God am a jealous God."

Problem solved. When it comes to crucifixes and statues irregardless of who they portray, the Lord plainly states it's a sin.

[Eliz279009]

It's art. If you only want to see historically accurate images you've got a lot of art to ignore.

[akdoc11]

@gilbert4321 Did you remove your own comment? Either way, if I don't know my church's history, please enlighten me. I'm waiting.

[gilbert4321]

@Jerkwad152 Life is easy for only 10% of the world.

[akdoc11]

You may have been a Catholic, but you have no clue what Catholics believe. Just read the Catechism which says what Catholics believe. Maybe even check out the quoted Bible verses or the references to those verses. I don't know, just a thought. If you want to make a point, make a good, substantiated one. You say you love Catholics, but you like to find ways to poke at them, is that not true?

[akdoc11]

Wow, Mark, how superficial an argument! If you want to argue against Catholic views of Mary by talking about one particular statue. You have to understand what that statue symbolizes. No piece of art is simply a picture. There are meanings in it, in the color, the strokes, the style, etc. Oh how horrible and unsubstantiated your argument is!

[alniea]

@Jerkwad152 Back then? This is still the way around the world, life is still hard outside of the West!