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Posted on 05/10/2025 12:46:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Isn’t honoring Mary a Roman Catholic thing? This general ethos can cause Evangelicals to get particularly squeamish around the language of “theotokos” the Mother of God…
In the garden of Eden, after Adam had disobeyed God and before he was forced out of the garden, God promised in Genesis 3:15 that a seed would come from the woman, who would crush the head of the Serpent, thereby turning back the curse and putting an end to the enmity between man and God. This Seed, therefore, would need to be a new Adam—a new head of a new human race, since the first head of the first human race had fallen. This, in part, is why the seed would come from woman, even though “seed” naturally comes from man. All men, and heads of all households, are fallen in Adam. Therefore, for a New Human race to begin, a New Head would have to be provided—one that had not received the sin-pollution of the first head. Paul tells us plainly that this Seed—this Second Adam—is Christ—in Romans 5:12-21, and 1 Corinthians 15:20-28.
Mary, therefore, is “the” woman promised in Genesis 3:15. Just think about the honor thereby bestowed on her: in God’s providence, she is used to fulfill the oldest divine prophecy ever uttered. Her son is the promised Seed. All of Christ’s humanity comes from Mary. It is the flesh that she gave him that redeems the universe…
…On the one hand, what grew inside Mary’s womb was of human nature—not a super human or a demigod. And yet, on the other hand, the identity of that human nature—the “who” of the embryonic human nature from conception on—was God the Son. This is what the designation “mother of God” safeguards.
Mary is the mother of God the Son…
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She’s the earthly mother of Jesus and she’s now dead, awaiting the return of Christ.
Er, no.
The Bible never explicitly calls her that, so my belief is that it is not appropriate.
I just call her Mary. I saw a passage where he called her woman.
No she's not. This comes from a bad translation of Genesis 3:15 from the Vulgate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia notes this regarding the translation:
The translation "she" of the Vulgate is interpretative; it originated after the fourth century, and cannot be defended critically.
However, this has not deterred Rome from compounding the error of a bad translation with a bad dogma.
Newer translations approved for Roman Catholics render the passages follows:
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; They will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel. New American Bible
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head,[a] and you shall bruise his heel.” Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Theotokos is more correctly translated as “God bearer”.
You should call her on Mothers Day
I’ll pray to her and ask her if she’s the Mother of God.
/sarc
Yet, Luke recorded Elizabeth as saying "mother of my Lord"....not mother of God.
There is no Biblical justification for this unless one tries to force back into the passage Roman Catholic theology.
And before Christ was the perfect sinless man, their was Mary.
Who also committed no sin.
So they say.
When one closely examines what Rome says about Mary one learns they attribute many things of Christ to her as well.
To deny one or both of the two premises is heresy as both are plainly taught in the Bible. Unless you add something not in the Bible to this, it is the one and only conclusion.
End of argument.
And the Bible DOES say not to call anyone father except God, and yet....
We should all stick with the truth of the Word of God and nothing else.
Proverbs 14:12.
There is no “Mother of God”.
“Mother of my Lord” and “Mother of God” are not really different. “Lord” is the usual translation of “Adonai” which was the usual way Jews of that time referred to God.
NO, it is not quite that simple.
God is eternal, he has no beginning or end. God has no mother or father.
The creature cannot give birth to the creator.
So, it is very much a mystery, not your simple logic.
The Bible also never calls Jesus anyone’s “personal savior”.
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