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She was His mother wasn't she? Therefore she is the Mother of God.

For claity: Mary was the mother of Jesus who was the Son of God. The births of her subsequent children were not virgin births and were ordinary children.

Elevating Mary in this way is falsely devotional and susceptible to the rise of superstitions. But most importantly, it robs Jesus of His fully human nature. The elevation of Mary over other obedient and godly women diminishes the glory of Christ, God and man in one flesh.

Again: when Mary exceeds by one iota the merit of any other godly woman whom the Father might have chosen to bear His Son's flesh, Jesus becomes less than fully human.

A great sermon I once read pointed out how dearly Jesus loved the title Son Of Man. Yes, He was the Son of God. But He gloried in being fully human at the same time. It seems it was something of a wonder to Him how gloriously the Father had incarnated Him in such a humble way.

Please don't rob our Savior of His full and essential humanity.

Elevating Mary in this way is falsely devotional and susceptible to the rise of superstitions. But most importantly, it robs Jesus of His fully human nature. The elevation of Mary over other obedient and godly women diminishes the glory of Christ, God and man in one flesh.

HUH?? Excuse me here, but Mary is ELEVATED over other women. Who else was chosen to bear the Son of God? I despise it when people put themselves on the same level as Jesus' Holy Mother. It's an ego trip that is amazing to watch. Is that a Baptist trait or something because I've talked to lots of Baptist women who think they are just as good or as holy as Mary. Are you a woman?

It doesn't rob Jesus of His human nature to say that His Mother is the Mother of God. Was He or was He not GOD manifested in the flesh? Truly God and Truly man. You are making Him, IMO, only truly man and taking away from His Divinity with that line of thinking.

>> But most importantly, it robs Jesus of His fully human nature. <<

Quite to the contrary; it forces the issue that Jesus was God, and nonetheless that Jesus also had a mother.

Various heretical groups claimed that Jesus was either fully God, or fully human, or that he was human, then became God, and was no longer human, heresies which were incompatible with the notion that Mary was the mother of God.