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To: CynicalBear; Iscool; Resettozero; HossB86; metmom; Elsie; af_vet_1981; Legatus; NYer; Salvation; ...

You have posted verses that you think say what you want per your understanding of the nature of the man who is Jesus.


This is a good point. What is the nature of the man who is Jesus.

My understanding of the nature of the man who is Jesus is this. God lowered Himself to become a human being in the person of Jesus Christ. And like any other human being, Jesus was made up of that which came from His mother and that which came from His Father. Like any other mother, Mary did not contribute what came from the Father. But also like any other mother, Mary was the mother of the whole person of Jesus, of both what came from her and what came from the Father.

This is how Scripture reveals to me that Mary is the mother of God incarnate. Not that His divinity is from her, but that she is His mother in His divinity as well as His humanity.

I can understand how you would disagree with the other Marian beliefs of the Catholic Church. But Mary as the mother of God incarnate is so Scriptural, that I cannot grasp how it could be understood any other way. That’s why I keep referencing the infancy narratives.

For those of you who don’t agree with this, please explain how Scripture could be interpreted differently. What is your understanding of the nature of the man who is Jesus? How in your mind could Mary be the mother of Jesus without being the mother of all that He was?


896 posted on 03/30/2015 6:29:14 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: rwa265
Great comment! Though I think you were responding to someone else. You and I are in 100% agreement that Mary is truly the Mother of God.

495 Called in the Gospels "the mother of Jesus", Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as "the mother of my Lord".144 In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos).

898 posted on 03/30/2015 6:58:21 AM PDT by edwinland
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