The gospels begin by recording the genealogy of Joseph from Abraham to the time of Christ. God announced to Joseph that he had made his promised wife Mary to have a son by his own Spirit. Mary, then a virgin, was called ‘favored one’ and it was announced to her by the angel Gabriel that she would bear a holy son who would reign forever over his Hebrew people. After the birth of Christ to the entire credit of God, Mary sang an inspired song to magnify the Lord in Luke chapter one with these words: ‘My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.’ As Jesus began his teaching ministry at a wedding feast, his mother appeared to suggest he do a miracle to demonstrate his greatness. But Jesus rebuffed her and would not follow her lead.
Do we not see the singular majesty of Jesus in such passages as 1 Peter 2:24 ‘He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness…’ and 1 John 2:2 ‘He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world?’
During his ministry of teaching about unclean spirits, a woman rose to interrupt him, saying ‘Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed.’ But he responded ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it.’ By saying ‘rather’ he corrected her in a clear rebuke of her adulation of Mary. He added nothing to approve or endorse the adoration of Mary. The Bible here declares ‘As he said these things…’which points to a suspicious connection between the subject at hand of unclean spirits and the seed raised by the woman of the erroneous doctrine of the exaltation of Mary. There is then found no biblical basis to defend the eventual title of Co-Redemptrix for her. Such a great doctrine would call for much clarity and attention. Another serious question would be how we are to understand Isaiah 42:8 and 48:11 where God declares ‘My glory I give to no other.’ Nor can we concur with the woman’s opinion in view of the highest exaltation of John the Baptist in Luke 7:28. With any Bible doctrine much careful research is in order.
