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"Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all."
Christ means Messiah.
Mary, mother of Jesus was not some angelic being. She was a devout Christian, which we are all called to be. She didn't practice "Christianity" the way that Christians do today, but she believed the words of God, to the best of her ability, which is all God requires of us. To believe them and act accordingly. The sufficiency of scripture can be exaggerated like it's literally EVERYTHING a person needs, which is true if you don't want to live on this earth another day. If you want a chance of survival on Earth, you need, for starters, God Himself, His sustaining power, not just words written that speak ABOUT His power. But if you're believing things about God that aren't in The Bible, then how do you distinguish truth from lies?! You may as well believe what the Quran says about God.