"See how the prots always gang up to attack Mary as the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God?"
The first part is a typical Ebb Tide tactic: He starts with a FALSE ACCUSATION "See how...gang up to attack Mary..."
In the later part of his (ebb tide) post, we find his change of mind regarding Mary's identity...
(With "Thanks!" to Ken Regis for first identifying Ebb Tide's significant shift away from long-held and flawed RCC doctrine- embedded in their very own "Hail! Mary" prayer with its "empty phrases" - used both as penance for sins [as if the payment was not already made] ... or driven by the many repetitious beads -- as a fruitless ritual -- murmured into the wind.)
To demonstrate Ebb Tide's shift away from RCC doctrine and toward the truth of the identity of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, here is a grammatical breakdown of Ebb Tide's statement (where he reassesses his long-held, false identification that Mary is the "Mother of God"
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[Main Clause]
Subject: (You) (implied)
Predicate: See
Direct Object (Noun Clause): how the prots always gang up to attack Mary as the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God?
[Noun Clause breakdown]
Subordinating conjunction: how
Subject: the prots
Adverb (frequency): always
Predicate: gang up
Infinitive phrase (purpose): to attack Mary
Object of Infinitive: Mary
Appositive (explaining Mary): as the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God
[Appositive phrase breakdown]
Preposition: as
Object: the Mother
Prepositional phrase modifying “Mother”: of Jesus Christ
Appositive modifying “Jesus Christ”: the Son of God
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Despite damning evidence to the contrary, in response, Ebb Tide writes the following:
Despite all the lies, I have repeatedly declared that Mary is the Mother of God.
I have never said she is not.
With all of this laid out and clearly demonstrated, you should decide if the response from Ebb Tide is TRUE or FALSE.
In fairness, Ebb Tide could have retracted his declaration that Mary is the "Mother" (sic) of Jesus Christ who is the Son of God but as yet, he (Ebb Tide) has not. He has been notified of his apparent shift away from his oft-repeated, unbiblical position but as of yet he has not recanted.
Furthermore, Jesus Himself issued a mild rebuke to a woman who cried out to Him, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you" (Luke 11:27), replying to her, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." By doing so, He curtailed any tendency to elevate Mary as an object of worship. He could certainly have said, “Yes, blessed be the Queen of Heaven!” But He did not. He was affirming the same truth that the Bible affirms—there is no queen of heaven, and the only biblical references to the “queen of heaven” refer to the goddess of an idolatrous, false religion.
Watch how he responds!
Prots aren't the ones posting all the Mary threads going outside Scripture by touting her as something she isn't.
Pointing out the Catholic errors is not *ganging up to attack Mary.*
The Holy Spirit saw fit to identify her as *mother of Jesus*. Catholics think what the Holy Spirit choose to use isn't good enough so they assigned a new identifier to her.
It is the height of arrogance to think to improve on the work of God when He inspired Scripture, all their rationalization for such action aside. There's simply no justification in the world for telling people God dropped the ball when He gave us His God breathed, Holy Spirit inspired word.