It is playing "gotcha" when one says "Mary is the Mother of Jesus" and some yahoo replies: "Why do you deny the divinity of Jesus?"
It's unhelpful and it's just playing games.
It makes as much sense to claim they deny the divinity of the Father.
They are only playing on the broadness of the word "God" in a Trinitarian system.
Dear xzins,
It isn't "gotcha" if one insists on saying that Mary is the Mother of Jesus, but ought not be called the Mother of God.
And the fact is, there seems to be some opposition here on this thread to calling Mary the Mother of God. Period. Full stop.
That is precisely what the early Church was getting at with the title "Mother of God."
Part of the difficulty in my view, is that to the Catholic and the Orthodox (perhaps to redgolum's Lutheran) eye, the title "Mother of God" isn't as much about Mary as about Jesus. It's an issue of Christology. When we say, "Mary, Mother of God," we're focused on Who Jesus is, not so much who Mary is. Our focus is on Jesus.
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