Mary, What's the deal with Catholics?

Mary, Mother of Jesus is probably the single most objectionable thing about the christian catholic Religion and has polarized Christians a great deal, mostly because there is a lot of misunderstanding on the topic.

Let's give it a shot to clear up some things.

Most devout Protestants find the Church’s teachings
about and devotions to Mary the single most objectionable
thing about the Catholic religion.
Because they worry that the Catholic Church, in raising
Mary so high, obscures the uniqueness and all-sufficiency
of Christ. Catholics find this objection strange, for
Mary can no more rival Christ than the reflection of a face
in a mirror can rival that face. How could Mary obscure
Christ? All her beauty is his. She is only his obedient, humble
handmaid: that is precisely why she is so highly
revered. Mary’s greatness, and Catholics’ devotion to her, is
totally dependent on her total dependence on him, beginning
at the Annunciation, when her submission to the
Word of God made his incarnation and our salvation possible

When we look at the realm of scripture as a whole, what is the big picture?

Lets' start at the begining.

Why Adam and Eve?
The Creation Story highpoint, are Adam and Eve. They are the epitomy of God's perfect design.
In and of themselves they represent a michrocosm of the universe. (Material make up of our Body)
ADAM AND EVE WERE PERFECT. They were supposed to be the most perfect image of everything and anything there is to know about God, until something terrible happened.... THEY FAILED MISERABLY at the sneakiness of the serpent.

God with his everlasting LOVE and mercy promised something to Eve and adam vis-avis the serpent that no human could ever dream of, VICTORY! Through their descendants (seeds)!

As Dr Peter Kreeft puts it best than i could ever do.
Mary as the “New Eve”
This is the earliest of her titles, going back to the first Church Fathers, who see both her and her Son foretold in Genesis 3:15. After Adam and Eve have fallen, God says to the serpent:
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

“At the very beginning there was Eve; despite her disobedience,she receives the promise of a posterity that will be victorious over the evil one . . .128” (C 489).“This passage in Genesis [3:15] is called the Protoevangelium (‘first gospel’): the first announcement of the Messiah and Redeemer, of a battle between the serpent and the Woman . . . . [M]any Fathers and Doctors of the Church
have seen the woman announced in the Protoevangelium as Mary, the Mother of Christ, the ‘new Eve’”(C 410-11).For Mary reverses Eve’s disobedience with her obedience, in cooperation with Christ the New Adam (1 Cor 15:21-22,45), who reverses Adam’s disobedience by his obedience “unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:8). Where Eve said No, Mary said Yes. Where Eve’s faith failed, Mary’s stood firm. “At the announcement that she would give birth to ‘the Son of the Most High’ without
knowing man, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary responded with the obedience of faith . . . ‘Behold,I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word’139 (Lk 1:28-38)

“As St. Irenaeus says,‘Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.’141 Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert . . .:‘The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith.’142 .
4. Mary as Virgin Mother The point of the Virgin Birth is not something negative but something positive: Christ’s divinity and humanity and her being a mother. “The Fathers see in the virginal conception the sign that it truly was the Son of God who came in a humanity like our own” (C 496). “The gospel
accounts understand the virginal conception of Jesus as a divine work . . .‘conceived . . . of the Holy Spirit’149”(C 497), spiritually and supernaturally, instead of by Joseph, physically and naturally. Christ had no human father because he has a divine Father, and he has his divine nature from his Father in eternity. He received his human nature from his mother Mary in time, and from her alone.

Christ is No more a Man than he is a God and he is no more a God than he is a Man. That is the mystery of the Christian faith. Many have questionned the hypostatic union (fully man and fully God, not one over the other), but as soon as one questions this pillar of our faith, Christian theology crumbles.


One may say well it was written, so it was bound to happen. That would be denying Mary of her freewill, saying she was "programmed" to give birth to the savior. This does in fact go against what we know of God, because it denies a human person of what constitutes their human personna, their Free Will, the most risky yet rewarding asset God granted us to maximize his glory.

But i must end with this, in Search for TRUTH, i have come to the conclusion Christianity covers all spectrum of understanding ;From being as INTRICATE AND COMPLEX as quantum physics to also being at the same time as SIMPLE AND LOVING as hearing a bed timestory.