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To: OpusatFR; HossB86

Mary isn’t the mother of God. That would make her a god as well.

Since Mary was a human, she could not have birthed God.


1,264 posted on 12/20/2010 6:17:51 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

“Mary isn’t the mother of God. “

Clearly not a Christian point of view.


1,269 posted on 12/20/2010 6:22:19 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.

(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)

My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen

Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.

Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.

Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.

Amen.


1,273 posted on 12/20/2010 6:27:33 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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To: metmom; narses; Judith Anne
“Mary isn’t the mother of God. That would make her a god as well.

Since Mary was a human, she could not have birthed God.”

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This issue has been discussed in literally thousands of posts on hundreds of threads, most of which I've seen you posting on, and now you come here with this ridiculous misunderstanding?

There was a thread a few months ago with over 10,000 posts on which you were quite active, and I recall this question was exhaustively covered.

Mary is NOT the mother of the Trinity.

Mary IS the Mother of Jesus, Who is the Son of God made man. He has two natures, Divine and human, united in one Person, so it is fitting to call Mary the Mother of God. She is the mother of the Divine Person Jesus. It is obvious that she was not His mother until He was conceived in her womb. He did not have a human nature until that moment. Nobody is arguing the absurdity that she existed eternally.

She DID give birth to God, to the Second Person of the Trinity made man. He is God as much as the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Where have you been during all those hundreds of threads???

1,279 posted on 12/20/2010 6:43:37 PM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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