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To: RnMomof7

Seriously uninformed commentary!

Of course Mary is the Mother of God.
The doctrine that Christ was simultaneously God and Man is well established in Christianity.
To attempt to assert that Mary is only the mother of only “the Man Part” is ludicrous.
Just as the Trinity is a mystery we accept on faith and cannot explain in human terms, the same is true of the simultaneity of Christ being both God and Man, and Mary’s role as mother of that same Christ.


13 posted on 01/11/2012 7:55:21 PM PST by G Larry ("I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his Character.")
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To: G Larry
Just as the Trinity is a mystery we accept on faith and cannot explain in human terms, the same is true of the simultaneity of Christ being both God and Man, and Mary’s role as mother of that same Christ.

Well said. While you're at it, we might as well attempt to straighten out the flock on the difference between the "Virgin Birth," and the "Immaculate Conception."

The "Virgin Birth" refers to the Birth of Christ.

The "Immaculate Conception" refers to the doctrine that The Virgin Mary, although conceived in the normal way,was born without Original Sin.

Mariolatry, including The Assumption of Mary into Heaven, and her Immaculate Conception, troubles many modern Protestants. However, these doctrines were not a problem for Martin Luther, nor were they for Henry VIII!

43 posted on 01/11/2012 8:19:21 PM PST by Kenny Bunk ((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
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To: G Larry
Just as the Trinity is a mystery we accept on faith and cannot explain in human terms, the same is true of the simultaneity of Christ being both God and Man, and Mary’s role as mother of that same Christ.

Then why not call her the more accurate term of *Mother of Christ*?

If people are going to have issues with who Christ is, that's their problem and the church is responsible for correcting any misconceptions amongst its membership.

59 posted on 01/11/2012 8:27:25 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: G Larry

As I understand it, there are no Biblical references to the “mystery” of the Trinity, and most especially no mention of it by Jesus in the Gospels. It was a “doctrine” invented centuries later.


129 posted on 01/11/2012 9:07:07 PM PST by dagogo redux (`)
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