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To: Arthur McGowan
Your premise is faulty. The term mother of God implies God has a beginning which most of us know He doesn't. Hence Mary cannot be the mother of the Eternal God of Heaven. It's why the bible never uses the term mother of God.

I'm not sure what's so hard for Catholics to understand about that.

90 posted on 11/20/2016 8:47:57 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

No, the term mother implies a maternal relationship. Jesus is God. Mary is his mother. Mary is the Mother of God. Anything else that you think is implied by the term is denied by the definition that the Church gives to it.


92 posted on 11/20/2016 9:53:46 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: ealgeone

Catholics can’t “get” your objection because you persist in GROSSLY DISTORTING the meaning of “Mother of God.”

Since your distortion is not what Catholics believe, your constant repetition of that objection is 100%, absolutely, totally irrelevant.

When you can ACCURATELY STATE WHAT CATHOLICS BELIEVE, then any objection you may have might be interesting.

As long as you continue DISTORTING the meaning of the title “Mother of God,” then your objections to it are misdirected, pointless, and uninteresting.

It is exactly as though you stubbornly kept saying, “Catholics believe the Pope is a flying monkey. I keep EXPLAINING to them, OVER AND OVER, why the Pope isn’t a flying monkey. But they just don’t listen to me!”


93 posted on 11/20/2016 10:18:16 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: ealgeone

BTW: It does not matter whether any of my premises are “faulty.” My questions to you:

Is the first syllogism FORMALLY valid or invalid.

Is the second syllogism FORMALLY valid or invalid.

Answer the questions before griping about what Catholics do or don’t do, or say or don’t say.


94 posted on 11/20/2016 10:20:12 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: ealgeone
The term mother of God implies God has a beginning which most of us know He doesn't.

This is your own fantasy. It is not what Catholics believe, and it is not what they mean by the title "Mother of God."

As long as you keep railing against something Catholics don't believe, they will just laugh at you.

The title "Mother of God" means that Mary BEGAN to be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, when he BEGAN to be God Incarnate, in her womb.

So you see, the title "Mother of God" does NOT mean or imply that Mary pre-existed God, and does NOT mean or imply that God had a beginning.

As long as you insist on distorting the meaning of "Mother of God," and railing against your fantasy version, Catholics will continue to laugh at you.

99 posted on 11/21/2016 3:10:27 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: ealgeone

A simple category mistake of logic! What do they teach in Catholic seminaries these days??


114 posted on 11/21/2016 10:50:41 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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