Pardon my simplicity here, but if Mary was the Mother of God, wouldn’t that mean that Mary had actually generated a member of the Trinity? And that He was a created being?
no.
it means what Christians have always believed, Jesus Christ is God.
*Mother of God* says that God had a mother,
*Mother of Christ* says that Christ had a mother.
Sheesh, arguing over a title given to a human being that has no warrant. Mary should be, *Oh yeah. That Jewish girl who had the privilege of carrying the Messiah.* Nobody needs any more titles than that considering that we’re not to be respecters of persons.
It more than implies that Mary generated His divinity.
She gave flesh to Jesus The Word. And The Word became flesh. And The Word was with God from the beginning - so she didn’t give birth to God. And name Him, Jesus, is who she birth.
Who could take credit for giving LIFE to our born again spirit?
Pardon my simplicity here, but if Mary was the Mother of God, wouldnt that mean that Mary had actually generated a member of the Trinity? And that He was a created being?
>>No. She birthed Jesus’s humanity, which was inseparable from his divinity. He had a human soul that was united indivisibly, without alteration, co-mixture, or division.
The dogma of Mary as Theotokos affirms that she gave birth to God the Son and that he was full God and full Man from the moment of his conception by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Why this is so hard for you to accept baffles me.
I learned this dogma when I was a Lutheran. Every one of the first generation Protestant Reformers believed in this teaching.
John Calvin’s arguments about Mary’s role are indistinguishable from those employed by St. Cyril of Alexandria and the Council of Ephesus against Nestorius.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom31.ix.viii.html#ix.viii-p22
The Lutheran Book of Concord says:
For how could the man, the son of Mary, in truth be called or be God, or the Son of God the Most High, if His humanity were not personally united with the Son of God, and He thus had realiter, that is, in deed and truth, nothing in common with Him except only the name of God?
12] 7. Hence we believe, teach, and confess that Mary conceived and bore not a mere man and no more, but the true Son of God; therefore she also is rightly called and truly is the mother of God.
http://bookofconcord.org/fc-ep.php
And the decree of the Council of Chalcedon, as cited by Evagrius, lib. 2, cap 4, reads thus: Following, then, the holy fathers, we confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and we all set forth with one voice that the same is perfect in deity and the same perfect in humanity; that the same is truly God and truly man, consisting of a rational soul and a body; that He is consubstantial with the Father as regards the deity, and that the same is consubstantial with us according to the humanity; that He is in all respects like us, excepting sin; that He was begotten before the world out of the Father according to the deity, but that the same person was in the last days born for us and for our salvation of Mary, the virgin and mother of God, according to the humanity; that one and the same Jesus Christ,
http://bookofconcord.org/testimonies.php
Martin Luther
11. At last they so exalted the indulgence as to teach that if one had even committed a sin of lust with the Mother of God, it would be forgiven him through the indulgence.
http://bookofconcord.org/exhortation.php
The Reformed Tetrapolitan Confession of 1530 refers to Mary as the Mother of God.
http://bit.ly/y78Ge6
And John Calvin reproves a Calvinist Church in England for refusing to call Mary Mother of God as ignorance. Found on page 346 in the following link.
http://bit.ly/yFVhuc
Similarly, Mary, a created being could not and did not create or generate her son, Jesus Christ. She was His mother, no doubt about that and she was also His creation.