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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Nowhere in the Bible is Mary called the “mother of God,” despite the author’s uses of the term “orthodoxy.”

Mary was a human being, and she found favor with God—God is a triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit and is self-existent, has always existed, but not in the flesh until the Holy Spirit came upon her, and the power of the Most High overshadowed her; “and for that reason the holy offspring was called the Son of God, and the Son of the Most High.” (Luke 1:26-35)


10 posted on 09/07/2020 12:26:35 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: TurkeyLurkey
Elizabeth calls Mary "mother of my Lord, which is pretty close to "mother of God".

The title "Theotokos" (literally "God-bearer," but rendered into English, via Latin, as "mother of God") was part of the early church's grappling with the question of what precisely it meant to say thst Jesus is truly human and truly divine, yet only one divine Person.

To not do violence to Jesus' humanity, you have to admit that that Person is Mary's son and that she is his mother. To not do violence to Jesus' divinity, you have to admit that Mary's son is the incarnate Second Person of the Trinity ... God.

34 posted on 09/07/2020 1:54:02 PM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: TurkeyLurkey
Nowhere in the Bible is Mary called the “mother of God,” despite the author’s uses of the term “orthodoxy.”

Is this one close enough for you? Luke 1

41] And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

[42] And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

[43] And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

63 posted on 09/07/2020 11:27:18 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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