If I may be more specific, do you believe Mary is “the mother of God” in the sense that Jesus was and is God, that Mary is His mother, and that through her, God entered the world in human form?
I ask this because it was your statement that “Mary is NOT the mother of God” that first drew me into this discussion. I could not understand how a Christian who believes in the Trinity and the dual nature of Jesus could not believe that Mary was the mother of God in the person of Jesus.
It was when I read John Calvin’s views on Mary that I think I understand why some say Mary should not be called the mother of God. What Faith Presses On wrote is very similar to what many believe are Calvin’s views. That while it is true that Mary is in a limited sense the mother of God in the person of Jesus, such language is not right, or becoming, or suitable.
Is this in line with what you believe?
That way, I KNOW I can't be wrong.
The Holy Spirit is clear in Scripture in calling Mary *the mother of Jesus*.
John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
John 2:3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
Acts 1:14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
And that confusion is precisely why these catholic apologists keep trying to force all of us to conform to the specious title catholiciism has draped upon the Mother of Jesus.
The problem underlying all these notions is when the Diety of The Trinity entered Jesus. It should surprise no one that the same religion which claims its priests bring Jesus Christ down from Heaven at EVERY MASS, to be sacrificed continually on the catholic altar and eaten by the adherents to that religion, eating the body, blood, soul, and DIVINITY of Jesus in every mass their earthy priests conduct. It matters not a whit to these adherent apologists that the Bible gives not one verse to tell us when God came to occupy the body He prepared for His advent to be God with us.
We have clear passages which tell us Jesus IS God with us, such as the teaching Jesus gave to the disciples in John 14, and specifically to Philip. But we have not one verse which tells us when The God of the Universe took up residence in the body He prepared for Himself in Mary's willing womb. Yet these of this catholic religion insist Mary, a created being is 'the mother of God, as if from the first moment, with the body God prepared for Himself to occupy, Mary was superior to one third of the Trinity because she was gestating Jesus in her womb. If she were the Mother of God, she would be gestating all three of the ONE GOD, but she was not. She was gestating the body of her son Jesus, who we know later as The Son of God, as spoken BY GOD when He inspired the writing of 'Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee ... and that wasn't said by the Angel when the Angel visited Mary and she conceived in her womb.
I got 'drawn in' when FR Catholics (the mouthy ones) keep boasting and bragging and insisting that ROME's way is the ONLY way to Heaven.
I just LOVE posting Scripture that SHOWs this to be incorrect.
I just LOVE when the 'non'-idols that they do 'not' worship get dragged thru the mud.
1 Samuel 5:1-3