Is Mary, the Mother of Jesus, Historically Insignificant?

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

Yancey's take is that Mary is a central figure to the incarnation, that she was highly favored of God for SOME reason, and that she stands alone as a human who housed God before the rest of us ever could. In a sense, her pregnancy prefigured the Christian experience - specifically the infilling, and eventual outpouring, of the Holy Ghost.Mary accepted Him when everyone else, including her betrothed, was rejecting her. She accepted God's will, and the angel's words, without fully knowing the consequences of her decision. She fully trusted the angel.

Remarkable.

She believed something that had never happened before was possible.

Would anyone care to address this post?