[metmom]

Mary the Mother of God was at the Cross along with Mary Cleophas and Mary Magdalene. Mary the Mother of God was not among the women bringing myrrh to the tomb.

Mother of God. She must be really old.

Um, where is the term *Mother of God* found in Scripture?

[bkaycee]

Mother of God. She must be really old. Um, where is the term *Mother of God* found in Scripture?

It's sad to see all the hoops RC's jump thru to escape the obvious that Mary had other children. She was actually married to a husband, not a room mate.

All this fuss over a theologically irrelevant doctrine too boot.

Me thinks that the early church might have framed Mary in this way to attract the goddess worship crowd like in Ephesus.

[Cronos]

Mother of God. She must be really old. Um, where is the term *Mother of God* found in Scripture?

ummm... don't you believe that Jesus is God?

Don't you believe that He was born of a woman, Mary?
Don't you believe that if you were born of your mother, she isn't your mother?

Don't you think that someone giving birth to you and God creating you are two different things?

[Cronos]

Mother of God. She must be really old. Um, where is the term *Mother of God* found in Scripture?

ummm... where is the term 'sola scriptura' found in Scripture?

Where is the term 'Trinity' found in Scripture?

Where is the term 'sola fide' found in scripture (trick question :-)

[annalex]

Mother of God is an honorific not a "term". Elizabeth calls her "Mother of my Lord", but there is no direct usage like that in the scripture.

The title reminds us that Jesus, Whose mother is Mary, is God. It arose during the Nestorian controversy where it was belhpemously suggested that she is mother of Christ but not mother of God. There were two sides to that heresy: that Christ is not God (Arainism) or that Christ has both divine and human nature and Mary gave birth to His human nature only (as if it were possible to give birth to a nature but not to the whole person).

Christians who know their faith know that the fact that the Virgin Mary is mother of God does not mean that she preexisted her Son.