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To: aMorePerfectUnion
[Original:]“God is our Father (Matthew 6:9; cf. John 1:12-13); Jesus is the Son of God; Mary is Jesus’ mother; therefore, Mary is our Mother.”

[Reply:]This doesn’t pass any logic test at all.

Feel free to identify which logical fallacies you identified. I can rewrite it as a syllogism or in symbolic logic if you prefer.

474 posted on 05/07/2017 4:24:48 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Feel free to identify which logical fallacies you identified. I can rewrite it as a syllogism or in symbolic logic if you prefer.

Here is where you had the breakdown: Mary is Jesus’ mother; therefore, Mary is our Mother.”

It does not follow that since Mary is Jesus mother, that she is the mother of every Christian.

475 posted on 05/07/2017 4:49:28 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Fedora; aMorePerfectUnion

Easy.

Mary is not God’s wife. She is not deity.


487 posted on 05/07/2017 10:53:03 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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