freeborn | ελεύθερος on Nostr: Well, because Mary does not save us through judgment (as Christ did and does); we do ...

Well, because Mary does not save us through judgment (as Christ did and does); we do not hide ourselves within her (as we do Christ, Col 3); she is not the fulfillment of the propitiation-making mercy-seat (as Christ is); she is not the firstborn over a new creation (as Christ is); she is not without sin (as Christ is); nowhere are we told that we are "in Mary" (as we are "in Christ"); nowhere is the redemptive work of Mary contrasted to the failure of Adam (unlike Christ, Rom. 5); nowhere are we promised that Mary will be "with us, even until the end of the age" (as we are promised Christ will be); etc. Christ Jesus--not Mary--is the true, and better, "[Mercy Seat](https://learn.ligonier.org/articles/jesus-christ-our-true-mercy-seat)."

Indeed: she is worthy of honor, "most blessed of all woman," yet not because of who she was in herself, but because of who she birthed...