Mother of God is NOT accurate because GOD did not have a mother or beginning.
Jesus was born here on earth, therefore Mary is the mother of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit chose to use the term *mother of Jesus*. HIS choice, not Protestants choice. The Catholic church is the one who thought the work of the Holy Spirit was wanting and it it on itself to change it.
That takes a lot of chutzpah to sit in judgment of God and tell Him He’s wrong or could have done a better job.
Uh, what?
I’ve been told that the Catholic church changed the title of Mary from *mother of Jesus* to *mother of God* to address errors about who Jesus was that were cropping up in the early church.
But there are some problems with that, really.
One is that it never really was a title as much as an identifier of which Mary was being referred to out of the several Mary’s mentioned in Scripture. It’s not about identifying Jesus or His nature. It was about identifying Mary.
The Holy Spirit is the One who inspired the term, *mother of Jesus* thus by claiming that’s not good enough, the church decided that the Holy Spirit did not do an adequate job in inspiring Scripture, that they can do a better job.
When people hear the word *God* and the word*Jesus*, different things come to mind. *Jesus* causes people to think of the Incarnated second person of the Trinity. God causes people to think of the Godhead, the Trinity itself. Saying *mother of God* says something different than *mother of Jesus*.
Going from a more specific term to a more general term is never any way to clear up confusion about anything.
When you look at what has happened in regard to Mary, the characteristics they’ve assigned to her, the abilities they claim she has, etc, you can easily see all the error that changing the term and calling her *mother of God* has led to.