Posted on 01/01/2013 12:39:19 PM PST by Salvation
How can question be a non-sequitur?
Sorry: I thought you said I was philatelist.
When it is asked in response to a question
and it is neither germane nor apropos.
[scratches chin] I never would have taken you for a lover of the Lateran councils.
But as a question, it does not, IMHO, have to be obviously related to what was being discussed. It could be a change of subject or it could be a query the questioner thinks the current discussion has prompted.
Here, think that the problem is about the reality, the esse of motherhood. I think any mother carries and delivers a child of whom she is no more than partial source. Any mother (among higher primates, at least) mothers that of which she is only partially the source. Something exogenous to her is required, and that something is part of what the child she mothers is.
My mother was my mother. But she was not the source of my maleness or of the shape of my head and nose. She was partially the source of my colorblindness, but that required an exogenous Y chromosome if it was to express itself.
So it seems to me that one can say that Mary was not the source of IHS's divinity, but yet was the mother of it.
If one accepts that premise, then Mary can logically be called the Mother of God.
How do you know what Christians believe??? What you have failed to point out is that Catholics falsely teach that those two natures are joined together...
One would be wise to study the two natures of a born again Christian to understand how all that works...The old nature and the new nature are not joined together...
Wrong question...The question should be, 'is a Christian's mother the mother of the 'new man' within him/her...And just like Mary, the answer is NO...
But even after I had the earth-shaking encounter, I though my mother was my mother.
You disagree with Chalcedon? Interesting.
To be precise, the language of Chalcedon is that the two natures are distinct, but united in one person. I THINK it's right (by our lights) to say that IHS had a divine will and a human will, which obeyed the divine will.
How would you describe him?
-— How do you know what Christians believe -—
Of self identifying Christians, Catholics (50% of all Christians), Orthodox (25% of all Christians) and most Protestants believe it.
Bump
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