Becoming the mother of God: Did Mary have a choice?

[Michie]

Earlier this month, the pro-abortion group “Catholics for Choice” stirred controversy online when it wrote in a tweet: “This holiday season, remember that Mary had a choice, and you should, too.”

The explicit pro-abortion message is meant to equate Mary’s choice to be the mother of God with a mother’s “choice” to have an abortion. “By explicitly seeking definitive consent from Mary to conceive of Christ, God empowered and uplifted her bodily autonomy,” the group claims on its website. “It’s clear that reproductive choice is God’s will.”

The Catholic Church, of course, has since its ancient beginnings forbidden abortion on the grounds that it constitutes homicide.

Continued below.

Becoming the mother of God: Did Mary have a choice?

Did Mary have free will, or did she have to consent to being Jesus’ mother? Two theologians weigh in.

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[fide]

Earlier this month, the pro-abortion group “Catholics for Choice” stirred controversy online when it wrote in a tweet: “This holiday season, remember that Mary had a choice, and you should, too.”

The explicit pro-abortion message is meant to equate Mary’s choice to be the mother of God with a mother’s “choice” to have an abortion. “By explicitly seeking definitive consent from Mary to conceive of Christ, God empowered and uplifted her bodily autonomy,” the group claims on its website. “It’s clear that reproductive choice is God’s will.”

The Catholic Church, of course, has since its ancient beginnings forbidden abortion on the grounds that it constitutes homicide.

Continued below.

Becoming the mother of God: Did Mary have a choice?

Did Mary have free will, or did she have to consent to being Jesus’ mother? Two theologians weigh in.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

A human person enters very dangerous territory when entering conversation with reasoning straight out of hell. This was Eve's big mistake, and Adam's as well in not stopping her before she opened her mouth or even her ears or most certainly her heart, to the father of lies, satan. Any and every sin - that is, every act against God's will - is addictive, leading toward moral enslavement and possibly, if not reversed, to eventual and eternal moral death. Yes God allows choices to exist in this creation because holy love must be a choice in order to be love. And God seeks fellowship with human persons in an eternal communion of holy love.
A pregnant woman has within herself another a human person not herself: a person entrusted to her care by God who designed in the human nature of man and woman, creative fruitfulness in the act proper to holy love, conjugal sexual union. The pregnant woman has a choice set before her, this is true. The choice is to love and care for - to mother - this other person now completely dependent on her, or to reject and cast away - to hate, even to kill - this innocent one. Yes this is a choice: one fitting for the family of God, for heaven; the other fitting for the slaves of satan, for hell.
"Catholics for Choice" sounds like a recruiting team for the Army of satan. There are two and only two final destinations; we alive on earth need to choose, and the choice must be made and lived now, while the choice still exists.

 

[timothyu]

Mary had a choice but what made her righteous in the eyes of God, is she didn't exercise it.
God has been asking that of us since the Garden, and it will be the foundation of His Kingdom, His will first.

 

[RileyG]

Well, yes, but she cooperated with the grace of God.

Those who kill their children in the womb ARE NOT cooperating with God. They kill their own child for their own selfish, evil "choices."