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To: adiaireton8; Blogger; Alamo-Girl

That is a change from your response in #1677 when you said it meant that I was denying that Jesus is God.

You appear now to be agreeing that it's best to be specific about which person of the trinity we are referring to.


1,732 posted on 12/17/2006 9:32:23 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins

If your not you could get into some real theological messes such as Mary was the mother of God and was impregnated by God. Not a nice picture.


Mary as mother of Jesus, like the BIBLE says (Who cares what Nestorius later said) will suffice and cause a WHOLE LOT LESS CONFUSION!

God had no beginning so had no need for a mother in His divine self. The incarnate Christ did indeed have an earthly mother but only for His humanity, not His divinity which needed no mother nor could it have a mother since it had no beginning.


1,737 posted on 12/17/2006 9:40:00 PM PST by Blogger
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To: xzins
That is a change from your response in #1677 when you said it meant that I was denying that Jesus is God.

I haven't changed. If you say that God cannot die, then either Christ did not die (that's Docetism), or Christ was not God (that's Arianism). Both are heresies.

You appear now to be agreeing that it's best to be specific about which person of the trinity we are referring to.

No, it is best to state the truth. And the truth is that Mary is the mother of God, because she is the mother of the Second Person of the Trinity, and the Second Person of the Trinity is God.

-A8

1,741 posted on 12/17/2006 9:46:44 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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