God is eternal. He cannot be "born" -- God is not created. Christ is the Second Person of the Godhead -- "very God of very God" -- not created or made... Jesus was indeed born of Mary. His physical body was born of Mary. She is the mother of Jesus. She cannot be the Mother of God, because God must imply the Trinity -- when you say "God" you DO mean the Triune God, right? Because God IS a Triune God. So, if you claim Mary bore GOD, she would have to have borne the Godhead. She couldn't. She didn't. She bore Jesus. Unless you're claiming that God the Son is a different God than God the Father or God the Holy Spirit.
You're not saying that, are you?
Hoss
If God is not three distinct persons he is not a Triune God But a Modalistic God. You're really not a modalist are you? In which the case Jesus is God the Father, God the Son And God the Holy Spirit in the same definition. There are not three distinct persons but one in reality.
Mary is the Mother of the Second Person of the Trinity. The persons are differentiated, but the essence is not. The Being of God is one, but the individuals remain.
if you claim Mary bore GOD, she would have to have borne the Godhead. She couldn't.
She did bear the Godhead of the Second Person. Note that to be a Mother is only to supply half. Half of what makes the incarnation. But it also means to carry, to Carry the God of Humanity in her womb. It also means to give birth to the incarnation. And to have raised Him.
These facts are sufficient truths based in scripture to insist that Mary is the Mother of God.
It's fruitless to debate with those firmly embedded in Catholicism.
Which believes that Mary gave birth to the eternal God,
that she was always sinless,
that she remained sinless and a virgin--(God approved of her marriage to Joseph so denying him the marriage bed world have been a sin if she did so as Catholicism teaches, therefore admitting she sinned)--
every creature must be subject to the pope,
Jesus was a Catholic,
Catholicism started when Jesus walked the earth,
a priest can turn a wafer into the actual body of Jesus, even a priest who just came from the back of the church where he molested a child (proclaimed by a Catholic here,)
Salvation can come from Mary with out Jesus involved etc etc.
If members of a belief system can accept all of that it's going to be difficult for them to break free.
We just have to keep praying that the Holy Spirit will open their eyes.
Knock them off of their high horse like Jesus did to Saul/Paul.