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To: rwa265
>>What I am asking is how can you deny that Mary is the mother of God<<

I have answered that multiple times already. The Holy Spirit did NOT use the term "mother of God". I have no doubt He knew what He was doing. For man to change the words the Holy Spirit used is beyond audacious.

>>What is your logic if not Nestorianism?<<

Ah yes! There we have one of those coined terms of some men who thought they could understand fully the natures of Christ and it's implications and workings. Preposterous!

Going beyond what the Holy Spirit inspired to be written is akin to playing God. Claiming knowledge not clearly revealed in scripture is blasphemous and anyone engaging in it risks the wrath of God.

414 posted on 03/25/2015 5:37:44 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear; Elsie

The Holy Spirit did NOT use the term “mother of God”.

How is it you appear to want to AVOID accepting the FACT that the phrase ‘Mother of GOD’ is NOT found in Scripture?


Very well. The phrase ‘mother of God’ is not found anywhere in Scripture. But does the fact that a specific phrase is not mentioned make it not so? Does that mean that the Son of God is not the “Second Person of the Trinity” because that specific phrase is not found in the Bible?

More importantly, is the concept or the essential truth of Mary as Mother of God found in Scripture? Does Scripture contradict the teaching that Mary is the Mother of God?

There are many verses that support the teaching that Mary is the mother of God. One such verse is:

“And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”

This supports the concept that the child that “shall be born” was fully human and fully divine at the time of His birth. And by conceiving in her womb and bringing forth “that holy thing that shall be called the Son of God,” Mary did become the mother of this child in His humanity and in His divinity; that is, the mother of God incarnate.

I have not found anything in Scripture that contradicts this. It would be Scripture contradicting itself.


487 posted on 03/25/2015 8:49:21 AM PDT by rwa265
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