"Theology" Isn't it what or who God is about?

“Theology”  Isn’t it what or who God is about?

With the modern attitude towards the God we believe in, it is what this Woke generation has decided  to make up what or who God is in their eyes.  Is this something new since the 21st century has placed a no-choice referendum before us?  Then, at the end of forty days and forty nights, when the Lord had given me the two stone tablets of the covenant, he said to me, “Go down from here now, quickly, for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have become depraved:  they have already turned aside from the way I pointed out to them and have made for themselves a molten idol.  I have seen how stiff-necked this people is, “the Lord said to me,”  " Let me be, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens.  I will then make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”  (Dt 9: 11 - 14).

This scenario began with human beings growing tired of his commandments and God has constantly had to deal with the disgruntled attitudes that man has decided to change just enough to satisfy their empty period of waiting on God.  Again, we have come to a crossroads in life where God no longer has credibility in our eyes.  A scenario that has repeated itself since Adam sided with his wife in the Garden and established a trend to take God for granted.  

I believe we, as a human race, have fully deceived ourselves by picking up the ball in a game that has no obvious ending without God.  One must look back and see how often believers have come out on top when prayer allowed us the upper hand in specific battles throughout history.  What was it that the Blessed Mother told the children at Fatima, “Pray the rosary daily and the World War would end.”  Without that, God would not see fit to bring peace to World War I.  

There are far too many people who have put the faith in Mary, the Mother of God, as a stand-by and have ignored the many times she would’ve spoken to her Son, Jesus Christ, and he listened as a Son of God in respect for her.   It isn’t that Mary is divine and part of the Trinity, but if God saw fit to use her in the deeper plan of human redemption; “Therefore the Lord himself will give this sign; the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.”  (IS 7: 14).  

She was not an after-thought, but part of his plan to save us from eternal death by using the human designation in the Incarnation and bringing together both worlds, creation and eternity as one final answer to the loss of Satan in his rebuke towards Almighty God.  From the created entity of humanity God would complete the downfall of the devil through mankind.  Mary would then become the vehicle to satisfy God’s mystery of welcoming human beings into his never-ending reality of eternal bliss.  Mary also is not the Redemporist, only Christ is that.  But without Mary as a human part of redeeming sinners, Christ could not have been within her womb to take on humanity.  This again was all pre-planned by God when creation was more than a thought; it was already happening as the world and all of its attributes were forming.

Prayer, whether to the Holy Trinity, Mary, the Mother of God (Jesus Christ), or any other avenue of reaching the ears of God, they all will be answered in his time, but with total discrimination of the eternal entity of Almighty God.  This is a theological premise that is certain with God.

“The Nestorian heresy regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God’s Son.  Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council at Ephesus in 431 confessed that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man.  Christ’s humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from his conception.  For this reason the Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the Mother of God by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb.  Mother of God, not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word of God united himself according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born according to the flesh.”  CCC 466.

To use Mary, the Mother of God, as a way to reach her Son, Jesus Christ, is not a far out manner that some will say that makes her divine is incorrect.  But, to use her motherly position to seek blessings from her Son is the same as using one another to ask God’s blessings on those we love.  We are following the words of Jesus; “Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”  (Mt 7: 7).

Ralph B. Hathaway