The Virgin Mary
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A distinctive feature of the Roman Catholic Church is its view of Mary. Today, R.C. Sproul considers how the mother of Jesus has grown in prominence over the centuries and has even become enshrined by several dangerous errors.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:02.5 | The vast majority of Protestants would certainly raise objections to viewing Mary as one who |
| 0:08.7 | intercedes for us either now or at our death and appealing to Mary because in this sense, |
| 0:14.3 | this makes Mary a kind of mediator of our redemption. |
| 0:19.4 | And Protestantism insists, generally speaking, on the sole unique mediatorial function of Jesus Christ. |
| 0:32.7 | But the Roman Catholics actually worship Mary. |
| 0:35.5 | It certainly seemed to revere her, but how far does that reverence go? |
| 0:40.5 | Today, R.C. Sproul will help us sort out what the Roman Catholic Church teaches them |
| 0:44.8 | about the Mother of Jesus and help us come to a biblical understanding of her role in redemption. |
| 0:53.0 | Right in this session, I will be dealing with the Roman Catholic view of Mary, which of course has been the subject of much controversy and debate, |
| 1:01.9 | not only between Protestants and Roman Catholics, but also there is an ongoing debate which we shall see shortly within the Roman Catholic Church concerning the role and the nature of Mary. |
| 1:14.7 | So we'll do that after we open with prayer. |
| 1:17.4 | Let's pray. |
| 1:19.4 | Our Father, Nurgut, again, we come with praise and thanksgiving before your throne, asking that our investigation into these matters that divide us, |
| 1:30.9 | maybe honorable to the that we may deal with these questions with integrity. |
| 1:38.2 | We pray now that you will grant us understanding of the historical development of the doctrine of Mary, for we ask these things in the name of Christ. |
| 1:46.9 | Amen. |
| 1:48.9 | So many of the issues that are of debate and those issues that serve to divide Protestant communities from the Roman Catholic Church in this day and age, |
| 2:00.3 | are issues that did not receive the formal sanction and formal expressed definition by the church until after the Reformation. |
| 2:09.6 | We've seen that as the case in the Roman Catholic Declaration of the Canons on Justification that took place as part of the Conor Reformation, |
| 2:17.4 | the notion of papal infallibility, which took place only in the latter part of the 19th century. |
| 2:23.0 | And now we come to that area of controversy that deals with maryology, that is the dimension of theology of Mary, |
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