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Originally Posted by Ohio
Growing up Catholic, I heard all this same stuff about Marble Mary, "assumed into heaven, enthroned in glory, given the highest name, yada. Never happened. Why? Not just because Mary, though chaste, was a sinner like the rest of us, but because she too was a creature. Creatures are never to be worshiped or prayed to. Only God!
Jesus, however, was on the throne "with God, and was God," as the "eternal Only Begotten God," (John 1.1,18) long before becoming a man, born of the virgin. Just because Jesus as a man, as the slain Lamb of God, was enthroned with glory and honor, given the name above every name, does not mean that was a status He never once held in eternity past.
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1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood; 6and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father;
14And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
12He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
21He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.
3And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
Good old “John” sometimes had a problem keepin his story straight, keeping to the script, so that later men had to develop a Theo to match his deviations, and out came the great doctrine of the trinity, so that now, in reading scripture, we put on those glasses with the correct template so that we don’t wander too far off. So now, those who don’t wear the trinitarian glasses and point out the discrepancies are labeled as heretics and dismissed by those who wear the glasses. Such is the state of Christiandom. Now what was it Paul was trying to convey in 1 Cor 15? Oh yes, that the God was above the position He gave Christ our Lord