If the virgin Mary was chosen to be the mother of Jesus why is there so little about her in the Bible?

Answer 1

As the Scriptures themselves tell us, not everything is written down, and the New Testament was not written until many years after Our Blessed Lord's assumption into heaven, nor formed, as we have it today, until centuries later. The Bible, specifically the New Testament, was written as a preaching tool, NOT as a compedium of Christian doctrine. No dogma may contradict Scripture, but it is not all contained in Scripture, that is a protestant heresy.

Answer:

Because the central or key character in the entire Bible is Jesus Christ - from the Creation in Genesis to the return establishing the Kingdom of God on Earth in Revelation. He is the God Family member who is putting God's Plan to re-create Himself in a family of sons and daughters in action. No other individual from Adam to the last person born of men is as vital as Jesus Christ. Indeed, the Scripture tells us numerous times that the only path of Salvation is through Him - our only intercessor. As Scripture was completed before the end of the 1st Century AD via John's last Book of Revelation, we read in Jude 3 of our common salvation via Jesus Christ alone as '...that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.'

Answer 2

There is indeed surprisingly little in the Bible about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first gospel to be written was Mark's Gospel, and this barely mentions her. Matthew and Luke are now known to have been based on Mark's Gospel, rather than written independently by separate apostles as previously supposed, and they each add sparse information about Mary in their nativity accounts. One of the problems with these accounts is that much of what Matthew says is contradicted by Luke, whose author was unaware of the existence of Matthew's Gospel. Luke's Gospel does add the important information that Mary was the cousin of Elizabeth, who was, according to this gospel, the mother of John the Baptist.

The early Church clearly wanted to know more about Mary, but could find nothing in the scriptures. A tradition grew up that her parents were called Joachim and Anne, with information about these figures. Another tradition arose, that Mary was born without original sin, the 'Immaculate Conception', and yet another that she was assumed up into heaven. Clearly, she was developing a significance that she never had during the apostolic era. In fact, Mariology reached a cult status that caused concern in some parts of the Church, where the appearance of monotheism was considered paramount. Yet nothing in these latter-day traditions seems to have any scriptural support.

Answer 3

Mary is mentioned in the Bible